Collection preserves books by current and former faculty and staff.
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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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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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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
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Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Series, Volume 1: Design Considerations in Clinical Trials
Karl E. Peace, Georgia Southern University; Ding-Geng Chen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Sandeep Menon, Boston University
2018
Book Summary: TThis BASS book Series publishes selected high-quality papers reflecting recent advances in the design and biostatistical analysis of biopharmaceutical experiments – particularly biopharmaceutical clinical trials. The papers were selected from invited presentations at the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS), which was founded by the first Editor in 1994 and has since become the premier international conference in biopharmaceutical statistics. The primary aims of the BASS are: 1) to raise funding to support graduate students in biostatistics programs, and 2) to provide an opportunity for professionals engaged in pharmaceutical drug research and development to share insights into solving the ... Read more
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Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Series, Volume 2: Statistical Analysis Considerations of Clinical Trials
Karl E. Peace, Georgia Southern University; Ding-Geng Chen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Sandeep Menon, Boston University
2018
Book Summary: This BASS book Series publishes selected high-quality papers reflecting recent advances in the design and biostatistical analysis of biopharmaceutical experiments – particularly biopharmaceutical clinical trials. The papers were selected from invited presentations at the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS), which was founded by the first Editor in 1994 and has since become the premier international conference in biopharmaceutical statistics. The primary aims of the BASS are: 1) to raise funding to support graduate students in biostatistics programs, and 2) to provide an opportunity for professionals engaged in pharmaceutical drug research and development to share insights into solving the ... Read more
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Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Series, Volume 3: Novel Application in Clinical Trials
Karl E. Peace, Georgia Southern University; Ding-Geng Chen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Sandeep Menon, Boston University
2018
Book Summary: This BASS book Series publishes selected high-quality papers reflecting recent advances in the design and biostatistical analysis of biopharmaceutical experiments – particularly biopharmaceutical clinical trials. The papers were selected from invited presentations at the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS), which was founded by the first Editor in 1994 and has since become the premier international conference in biopharmaceutical statistics. The primary aims of the BASS are: 1) to raise funding to support graduate students in biostatistics programs, and 2) to provide an opportunity for professionals engaged in pharmaceutical drug research and development to share insights into solving the ... Read more
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Community Planning and Development: Critical Concepts in Built Environment, Vol. 2
Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University and Patricia B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University
2018
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Community Planning and Development: Critical Concepts in Built Environment, Vol. 3
Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University and Patricia B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University
2018
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Community Planning and Development: Critical Concepts in Built Environment, Vol 4
Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University and Patricia B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University
2018
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Community Planning and Development: Critical Concepts in Built Environment Vol. 1
Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University and Patsy B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University
2018
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Memory in a Time of Prose: Studies in Epistemology, Hebrew Scribalism, and the Biblical Past
Daniel Pioske, Georgia Southern University
9-2018
Memory in a Time of Prose investigates a deceptively straightforward question: what did the biblical scribes know about times previous to their own? To address this question, the following study focuses on matters pertaining to epistemology, or the sources, limits, and conditions of knowing that would have shaped biblical stories told about a past that preceded the composition of these writings by a generation or more. The investigation that unfolds with these interests in mind consists of a series of case studies that compare biblical references to an early Iron Age world (ca. 1175–830 BCE) with a wider constellation ... Read more
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The Development of Criminological Thought
Chad Posick, Georgia Southern University
5-4-2018
This book focuses on the history and development of criminological thought from the pre-Enlightenment period to the present and offers a detailed and chronological overview of competing theoretical perspectives in criminology in their social and political context.
This book covers:
- A discussion of how major theorists came to espouse their ideas and how the social context of the time influenced the development criminological thought;
- An exploration of the scientific method and the way in which theories are tested;
- Details of the origins of each theory as well as their recent ... Read more
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Great Debates in Criminology
Chad Posick, Georgia Southern University and Michael Rocque, Bates College
6-23-2018
This book explores the role of theory and research in criminology. Adopting a unique and refreshing approach to criminological theory, it focuses on the great debates in criminology from its inception as a field to the present day. It explores the debates that have motivated criminological thought, that have represented turning points in theoretical and empirical trajectories, that have offered mini-paradigm shifts, and that have moved the field forward. Coverage includes:
- Classical debates, including the work of Lombroso, Durkheim, and Sutherland;
- Sociological vs. psychological debates in criminology;
- Control theory and cultural deviance theory;
- Criminal career and trait-based theory;
- Theory ... Read more
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Three Dashes Bitters
Jack Simmons, Georgia Southern University
7-13-2018
When Tim Schmidt returns to New Orleans to attend his sister’s debutante ball, he finds that nothing has changed during his three-year hiatus in Boston.
He is still in love with Jane, a hard-drinking iconoclast, too well bred to join the ranks of the Generation X slackers, yet unable to accept the standards of her high society upbringing. Happily, it seems Jane might still harbor feelings for him.
But over drinks at The Columns Hotel, things get messy, and Tim’s grand return to the city of his birth soon unravels—the very sort of thing that inspired Tim to leave NOLA ... Read more
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The Echo of Odin: Norse Mythology and Human Consciousness
Edward W. L. Smith, Georgia Southern University
2018
Book Description: The pagan mythology of the Vikings offers a rich metaphor for consciousness. This book presents the cosmography of Norse mythology as a landscape of human inner life. Each of the nine worlds of this cosmography is viewed as a symbol of a distinct type of consciousness that is emblematic of a particular perspective or way of relating to others. Individual gods and goddesses are considered nuanced personifications of their worlds. The philosophy of pagan mythology is explored by comparing and contrasting the Sayings of Odin from the Norse Edda with the Christian Ten Commandments.
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Urban Forestry - Taming Precipita
John T. Van Stan II, Georgia Southern University; Jan Friesen, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung; Tyasetta, Graphic Artist; and Siloy, Graphic Artist
7-2018
Since the beginning of human settlement, people have observed water in its many forms, recording the ways that water supports and subverts life... like a cunning and capricious witch. This is the story of Precipita, the waterwitch of Leipzig Germany, and the critical roles that urban forests play in protecting the city from her hydrological whims! This science comic was based on a book chapter "Urban Forestry: An Underutilized Tool in Water Management" in "Advanced Tools for Integrated Water Resources Management" by Van Stan, Underwood, and Friesen (Elsevier). Supported by NSF 11518726.
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Science, Democracy and Curriculum Studies: Why (Not) Science Matters
John A. Weaver, Goergia Southern University
8-30-2018
In this book John A. Weaver suggests curriculum studies scholars need to engage more in science matters. It offers a review of science studies writing from Ludwick Fleck and Thomas Kuhn to Philip Mirowski. The volume includes chapters on the rhetoric of science with a focus on the history of rhetoric and economics then on the rhetoric of models, statistics, and data, a critique of neoliberalism and its impact on science policy and the foundations of democracy, Harry Collin’s and Robert Evans’ theory of expertise followed by chapters on feminism with a focus on the work of Sharon Traweek, Karen ... Read more
