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  American Public Memory and the Holocaust: Performing Gender, Shifting Orientations

  Lisa A. Costello, Georgia Southern University

  10-2019
  

  The recent rise of global antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and American white nationalism has created a dangerous challenge to Holocaust public memory on an unprecedented scale. This book is a timely exploration of the ways in which next-generation Holocaust survivors combine old and new media to bring newer generations of audiences into active engagement with Holocaust histories. Readers have been socialized to expect memorialization artifacts about the Holocaust to come in the form of diaries, memoirs, photos, or documentaries in which gender is often absent or marginalized. This book shows a complex process of remembering the past that can positively shift ... Read more

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  Savannah's Midnight Hour: Boosterism, Growth, and Commerce in a Nineteenth-Century American City

  Lisa L. Denmark, Georgia Southern University

  2019
  

  Savannah's Midnight Hour argues that Savannah's development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation. In providing such context, Lisa Denmark adds constructive complexity to the conventional Old South/New South dichotomous narrative, in which the politics of slavery, secession, Civil War, and Reconstruction dominate the analysis of economic development. Denmark shows us that Savannah's fiscal experience in the antebellum and postbellum years, while exhibiting some distinctively southern characteristics, also echoes a larger national experience. Her broad account of municipal decision making about improvement investment throughout the nineteenth century offers ... Read more

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  Security in Smart Cities: Models, Applications, and Challenges

  Aboul Ella Hassanien; Mohamed Elhoseny; Syed Hassan Ahmed, Georgia Southern University; and Amit Kumar Singh

  2019
  

  This book offers an essential guide to IoT Security, Smart Cities, IoT Applications, etc. In addition, it presents a structured introduction to the subject of destination marketing and an exhaustive review on the challenges of information security in smart and intelligent applications, especially for IoT and big data contexts. Highlighting the latest research on security in smart cities, it addresses essential models, applications, and challenges.
  Written in plain and straightforward language, the book offers a self-contained resource for readers with no prior background in the field. Primarily intended for students in Information Security and IoT applications (including smart cities systems and ... Read more

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  Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe

  Amanda Konkle, Georgia Southern University

  2-4-2019
  

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  Although she remains one of the all-time most recognizable Hollywood icons, Marilyn Monroe has seldom been ranked among the greatest actors of her generation. Critics have typically viewed her film roles as mere extensions of her sexpot star persona. Yet this ignores both the subtle variations between these roles and the acting skill that went into the creation of Monroe’s public persona.
  
  Some Kind of Mirror offers the first extended scholarly analysis of Marilyn Monroe’s film performances, examining how they united the contradictory discourses about women’s roles in 1950s America. Amanda Konkle suggests that Monroe’s star persona resonated ... Read more

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  Revel™ Introduction to Python Programming and Data Structures

  Y. Daniel Liang, Georgia Southern University

  2019
  

  Revel™ Introduction to Python Programming and Data Structures introduces students to basic programming concepts using a fundamentals-first approach that prepares students to learn object-oriented programming and advanced Python programming. This approach presents programming concepts and techniques that include control statements, loops, functions, and arrays before designing custom classes. Students learn basic logic and programming concepts prior to moving into object-oriented and GUI programming. The content incorporates a wide variety of problems with various levels of difficulty and covers many application areas to engage and motivate students.

  Revel is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly ... Read more

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  The Last Mastodon

  Christina Olson, Georgia Southern University

  2019
  

  In summer of 2017, Christina Olson was invited to serve as poet-in-residence for apaleontology conference and exhibition (“The Valley of the Mastodons”) at the Western Science Center in Hemet, California. These poems, exploring the nature of history, assembly, and ownership, were inspired by that time spent among the paleontologists as well as Olson’s observations of the museum’s collections of fossils, particularly Max the Mastodon.

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  Internet and Health in Brazil: Challenges and Trends

  Andre Pereira Neto, Escola Nacional De Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca and Matthew B. Flynn, Georgia Southern University

  2019
  

  The popularization of the Internet, due in larger part to the advent of multifunctional cell phones, poses new challenges for health professionals, patients, and caregivers as well as creates new possibilities for all of us. This comprehensive volume analyzes how this social phenomenon is transforming long-established healthcare practices and perceptions in a country with one of the highest numbers of Internet users: Brazil.

  The authors establish a critical and creative debate with international scholarship on the subject. This book is written in a direct and comprehensible way for professionals, researchers, students of communication and health, as well as for stakeholders ... Read more

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  Defense Policies of East-Central European Countries after 1989: Creating Stability in a Time of Uncertainty

  James Peterson, Valdosta State University and Jacek Lubecki, Georgia Southern University

  1-2-2019
  

  Book Summary: The 2014 Ukrainian-Crimean crisis has raised serious questions in the West about Russian motivations and future policy directions. Now more than ever, it is imperative to explore the defensive perceptions, reactions, and preparations of neighbouring countries, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Is there a convergence of their approaches along similar paths, or do their different cultures and historical experiences prefigure a divergence of their defense policies? While Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic all seem to have little concern about Russia's policies in Ukraine, the Polish response has been uniquely strong and militarized. This book will explore ... Read more

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  Conditionally Accepted: Christians’ Perspectives on Homosexuality & Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights

  Baker A. Rogers, Georgia Southern University

  12-13-2019
  

  This book explores Mississippi Christians’ beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian civil rights and whether having a gay or lesbian friend or family member influences those beliefs. Beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian rights vary widely based on religious affiliation. Despite having gay or lesbian friends or family members, evangelical Protestants believe homosexuality is sinful and oppose gay and lesbian rights. Mainline Protestants are largely supportive of gay and lesbian rights and become more supportive after getting to know gay and lesbian people. Catholics describe a greater degree of uncertainty and a conditional acceptance of gay and lesbian ... Read more

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  L’Isola del Silenzio

  Laura Valeri, Georgia Southern University

  2019
  

  Non occorre spostarsi troppo per viaggiare molto. Sette miglia, appena, nelle acque verdeazzurre del Golfo del Messico, a bordo di un traghetto che fa la spola tra il villaggio costiero di Carrabelle e la sottile striscia di terra di Dog Island. In questo lembo quasi intatto della Florida meridionale, battuto da ricorrenti uragani, privo di negozi, refrattario a connessioni internet e abitato da un centinaio di coraggiosi residenti, approdano una scrittrice americana di antica stirpe mediterranea e il suo compagno fotografo. È il contesto ideale per lasciarsi alle spalle l’esasperato efficientismo del Sogno Americano e ascoltare il silenzio, scoprendo quel ... Read more

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  Prejudice in the Press? Investigating Bias in Coverage of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Religion

  George Yancey, Baylor University and Alicia Brunson, Georgia Southern University

  11-13-2019
  

  Charges of “fake news” tend to be politically motivated whether made by Republicans or Democrats. Yet the potential for media bias is real and deserves an honest assessment.
  Using an audit technique—providing journalists with similar scenarios but altering key details—the authors evaluate whether reporters and editors write different narratives depending on the characteristics of the principle issues in the story. The results indicate that race, gender, sexuality and religion have little effect on whether a story will be covered, but do color the story that is written.
  Data suggest that news personnel may be operating in ways that promote progressive political leanings. ... Read more

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  J.G. Farrell’s Empire Novels: The Decline and Fall of the Human Condition

  Rebecca Ziegler, Georgia Southern University

  2-1-2019
  

  Despite its name, the real subject of J.G. Farrell’s three-and-a-half-book Empire Series is not the British empire, but the human condition, a state characterized by ‘fall’ – like the empire, like the human race itself according to the biblical story of the Fall from Eden. Farrell lets us know that this is his primary interest by giving one of his major characters a dog named The Human Condition. He actually uses the falling empire as an overarching metaphor, as well as a rich source of imagery and incidents, to illustrate the worsening human situation. In Farrell’s darkly funny books, all ... Read more

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  Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering

  Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia; Ray R. Hashemi, Georgia Southern University; Fernando G. Tinetti, National University of La Plata, Argentina; and Cheng-Ying Yang

  2018
  

  This book contains the proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'18).IKE is an international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, students, and academicians who are looking to both foster working relationships and gain access to the latest research results.

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  Modern American Extremism and Domestic Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Extremists and Extremist Groups

  Barry J. Balleck, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  
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  Information and Enterprise Systems in Today’s Business

  Thomas L. Case, Georgia Southern University and Michael J. Cuellar, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  
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  A History of the Muslim World Since 1260

  Vernon O. Egger, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  A History of the Muslim World since 1260 continues the narrative begun by A History of the Muslim World to 1750 by tracing the development of Muslim societies, institutions, and doctrines from the time of the Mongol conquests through to the present day. It offers students a balanced coverage of Muslim societies that extend from Western Europe to Southeast Asia. Whereas it presents a multifaceted examination of Muslim cultures, it focuses on analysing the interaction between the expression of faith and contemporary social conditions.

  This extensively updated second edition is now in full colour, and the chronology of the book ... Read more

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  Advanced Applications for Artificial Neural Networks

  Adel El-Shahat, Georgia Southern University

  2-28-2018
  

  Book Summary: In this book, highly qualified multidisciplinary scientists grasp their recent researches motivated by the importance of artificial neural networks. It addresses advanced applications and innovative case studies for the next-generation optical networks based on modulation recognition using artificial neural networks, hardware ANN for gait generation of multi-legged robots, production of high-resolution soil property ANN maps, ANN and dynamic factor models to combine forecasts, ANN parameter recognition of engineering constants in Civil Engineering, ANN electricity consumption and generation forecasting, ANN for advanced process control, ANN breast cancer detection, ANN applications in biofuels, ANN modeling for manufacturing process optimization, spectral ... Read more

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  Self-Efficacy in Instructional Technology Contexts

  Charles B. Hodges, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  Book Summary: This edited volume contains reports of current research, and literature reviews of research, involving self-efficacy in various instructional technology contexts. Chapter represent international perspectives across the broad areas of K-12 education, higher education, teacher self-efficacy, and learner self-efficacy to capture a diverse cross section of research on these topics. The book includes reviews of existing literature and reports of new research, thus creating a comprehensive resource for researchers and designers interested in this general topic. A system of peer review was implemented to select the work that appears in the book from a collection of author-submitted chapter proposals. ... Read more

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  Cybercrime and Digital Forensics: An Introduction

  Thomas J. Holt, Michigan State University; Adam Bossler, Georgia Southern University; and Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, The University of Alabama

  2018
  
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  Chivalry in Westeros: The Knightly Code of A Song of Ice and Fire

  Carol Parrish Jamison, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has sparked a renewed interest in things medieval. The pseudo-historical world of Westeros delights casual fans while offering a rich new perspective for medievalists and scholars. This study explores how Martin crafts a chivalric code that intersects with and illuminates well known medieval texts, including both romance and heroic epics. Through characters such as Brienne of Tarth, Sandor Clegane and Jaime Lannister, Martin variously challenges, upholds and deconstructs chivalry as depicted in the literature of the Middle Ages.

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  Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications

  Gerald R. Ledlow, Georgia Southern University and James H. Stephens, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  Book Summary: Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications, Third Edition is the first textbook of its kind to apply classical knowledge of leadership theory and time-honored best practices of industry leaders to a health organization context. This comprehensive and well-organized text is grounded in real-world applications of theoretical concepts, and focuses on practical examples of leadership in actual healthcare scenarios.

  Themes of leadership principles, applications and constructs such as organizational culture, cultural competency, ethical frameworks and moral practice, scientific methodology, leader competencies, external and internal assessment and evaluation, communication, planning, decision-making, employee enhancement, and knowledge management are woven ... Read more

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  Assessment Across Online Language Education

  Stephanie Link, Oklahoma State University and Jinrong Li, Georgia Southern University

  2-26-2018
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member Jinrong Li co-authored Assessment Across Online Language Education.

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  U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition

  Banks Miller, University of Texas at Dallas and Brett W. Curry, Georgia Southern University

  12-2018
  

  United States Attorneys (USAs), the chief federal prosecutors in each judicial district, are key in determining how the federal government uses coercive force against its citizens. How much control do national political actors exert over the prosecutorial decisions of USAs? In this book, the authors investigate this question using a unique data set of federal criminal prosecutions between 1986 and 2015 that captures both decisions by USAs to file cases as well as the sentences that result. Utilizing intuitions from principal-agent theory, work on the career ambition of bureaucrats and politicians, and selected case studies, they develop and advance a ... Read more

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  Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 3rd ed.

  Gary Mullen, Auburn University and Lance A. Durden, Georgia Southern University

  10-2-2018
  

  The first and second editions of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, edited by Gary R. Mullen and Lance A. Durden, published in 2002 and 2009, respectively, have been highly praised and become widely used as a textbook for classroom instruction. This fully revised third edition continues the focus on the diversity of arthropods affecting human and animal health, with separate chapters devoted to each of the taxonomic groups of insects and arachnids of medical or veterinary concern, including spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. Each chapter includes sections on taxonomy, morphology, life history, and behavior and ecology, with separate sections on those ... Read more

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  Medical and Veterinary Entomology

  Gary R. Mullen, Gettysburg College and Lance A, Durden, Georgia Southern University

  10-16-2018
  

  The first and second editions of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, edited by Gary R. Mullen and Lance A. Durden, published in 2002 and 2009, respectively, have been highly praised and become widely used as a textbook for classroom instruction. This fully revised third edition continues the focus on the diversity of arthropods affecting human and animal health, with separate chapters devoted to each of the taxonomic groups of insects and arachnids of medical or veterinary concern, including spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. Each chapter includes sections on taxonomy, morphology, life history, and behavior and ecology, with separate sections on those ... Read more