Collection preserves books by current and former faculty and staff.
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Geographies of Plague Pandemics: The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day
Mark R. Welford, Georgia Southern University
3-13-2018
Book Summary: Geographies of Plague Pandemics synthesizes our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient Greece to the modern day are examined. Chapters explore the identity of plague DNA, its human mortality, and the source of ancient and modern plagues. This book also discusses the role plague has played in shifting power from Mediterranean Europe to north-western Europe during the 500 years that plague has raged across the continent. The book demonstrates how recent colonial structures influenced the spread and mortality of plague ... Read more
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Mathematica By Example
Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University
6-15-2017
Mathematica by Example, Fifth Edition is an essential desk reference for the beginning Mathematica user, providing step-by-step instructions on achieving results from this powerful software tool. The book fully accounts for the dramatic changes to functionality and visualization capabilities in the most recent version of Mathematica (10.4). It accommodates the full array of new extensions in the types of data and problems that Mathematica can immediately handle, including cloud services and systems, geographic and geometric computation, dynamic visualization, interactive applications and other improvements. It is an ideal text for scientific students, researchers and aspiring programmers seeking further understanding of Mathematica.
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Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering
Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia; Leonidas Deligiannidis; Ray R. Hashemi, Georgia Southern University; and Fernando G. Tinetti, National University of La Plata, Argentina
1-1-2017
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Constructing International Studies
Christopher M. Brown, Georgia Southern University
2017
Constructing International Studies is a collection of writings that explores the most progressive edge of the discipline. Through diverse perspectives and issues, the book gives students a thorough understanding of how the field is developing presently. By incorporating the conceptual thinking that will frame the next generation of international studies, it provides students an understanding of the contemporary discussions and prepares them for meaningful future engagement in the field.
The book opens with a foreword by Nicholas Greenwood Onuf. The first thematic section is devoted to addressing the meaning of international studies and its place in academia. Subsequent sections discuss ... Read more -
Clinical Trial Data Analysis Using R and SAS
Ding-Geng Chen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Karl E. Peace, Georgia Southern University; and Pinggao Zhang
5-3-2017
Book Summary: Clinical Trial Data Analysis Using R and SAS, Second Edition provides a thorough presentation of biostatistical analyses of clinical trial data with step-by-step implementations using R and SAS. The book’s practical, detailed approach draws on the authors’ 30 years’ experience in biostatistical research and clinical development. The authors develop step-by-step analysis code using appropriate R packages and functions and SAS PROCS, which enables readers to gain an understanding of the analysis methods and R and SAS implementation so that they can use these two popular software packages to analyze their own clinical trial data.
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From Rome to Zurich, from Ignatius to Vermigli: Essays in Honor of John Patrick Donnelly, S.J.
Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University; Gary W. Jenkins, Eastern University; and Torrance Kirby, McGill University
2-20-2017
Book Summary: From Rome to Zurich, between Ignatius and Vermigli brings notable scholars from the fields of Reformation and Early Modern studies to honor their friend, mentor, and colleague, John Patrick Donnelly with essays commensurate with his own broad interests and scholarship. Touching Protestant scholasticism, Reformation era life writing, Reformation polemics – both Protestant and Catholic – and with several on theology proper, inter alia, the essays collected here by a group of international scholars break new ground in Reformation history, thought, and theology, providing fresh insights into current scholarship in both Reformation and Catholic Reformation studies. The essays take ... Read more
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Justice Leah Ward Sears: Seizing Serendipity
Rebecca Davis, Georgia Southern University
9-2017
This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. In 1992 Sears became the first woman and youngest justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia. In 2005 she became the first African American woman to serve as chief justice of any state supreme court in the country. This book explores her childhood in a career military family; her education; her early work as an attorney; her rise through Georgia's city, county, and state court systems; and her various pursuits after leaving the supreme court in 2009, when she transitioned into a life that was no less ... Read more
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Raising Our Voices, Communicating Our Existence
Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas, Georgia Southern University
5-25-2017
Book Summary: Raising Our Voices provides complete and thorough coverage of the study and practice of public speaking, the seventh edition offers students theory and practical skills, presenting public speaking as an art form for transactional communication between speaker and audience.
The goal of this text is to make it one that will prepare students to become effective public speakers in any of the various speaking situations they may encounter in their lives. Whether they are presenting in a professional capacity, speaking as a community leader, offering a tribute to a retiring colleague, eulogizing a friend, delivering a commencement address, ... Read more
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A History of the Muslim World to 1750: The Making of a Civilization
Vernon O. Egger, Georgia Southern University
2017
A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Encompassing a wide range of significant events within the period, its coverage includes the creation of the Dar al-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims), the fragmentation of society into various religious and political groups including the Shi'ites and Sunnis, the series of catastrophes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that threatened to destroy the civilization, and the rise of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires.
Including the latest research from the last ten years, this ... Read more
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Electrical Resistivity and Conductivity
Adel El-Shahat, Georgia Southern University
5-31-2017
Book Summary: Motivated by the importance of electrical resistivity and conductivity, important experts in this field grasp most recent researches in this book. It addresses recent advances in electrical resistivity and conductivity modelling, measurement, estimation and sensing methods and implications. This book introduces innovative case studies for "Electrical Resistivity Sensing Methods and Implications", "Resistivity Model of Frozen Soil and High-Density Resistivity Method for Exploration of Discontinuous Permafrost", "Measurement of Electrical Resistivity for Unconventional Structures", "Estimation of Hydrological Parameters from Geoelectric Measurements" and "Assessment of Cryoprotectant Concentration by Electrical Conductivity Measurement and Its Applications in Cryopreservation". These recent advances are well ... Read more
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Nano-Grids: Future of Power Systems Grids - Notes
Adel El-Shahat, Georgia Southern University
2-10-2017
Book Summary: Nano-Grids is the promising future power grid to make your home into a small-scale grid. It is a building cell of a micro-grid, which is a building block of a smart grid. Nano-grid existing technology, Nano-grids technology enhancement, DC Nano-grid energy storage, Nanogrid Challenges, Nanogrid Characteristics, Nanogrid Research Benefits and Research Topics to be addressed are all presented and illustrated in the book. The book introduces Nano-Grids’ Basic and detailed fundamentals Concepts. PV Module's Modelling for Nano-Grids and the impact of 3D Printing Technology on PV Cells are presented. Nano- Hydropower Generation System Design and Small-Scale Wind Energy ... Read more
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Challenging Immigration Detention- Academic, Activists, and Policy-makers
Michael J. Flynn, Global Detention Project and Matthew B. Flynn, Georgia Southern University
2017
Immigration detention is an important global phenomenon increasingly practiced by states across the world in which human rights violations are commonplace. Challenging Immigration Detention introduces readers to various disciplines that have addressed immigration detention in recent years and how these experts have sought to challenge underlying causes and justifications for detention regimes. Contributors provide an overview of the key issues addressed in their disciplines, discuss key points of contention, and seek out linkages and interactions with experts from other fields.
Edited by Michael J. Flynn, Global Detention Project, Switzerland and Matthew B. Flynn, Georgia Southern University, US
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New Dimensions in Community Well-Being (Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being)
Patricia B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University; Scott Cloutier, Arizona State University; and Craig Talmage, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
6-15-2017
This volume addresses new innovations in quality of life and well-being from the perspectives of the individual, society and community. It aggregates the perspectives, research questions, methods and results that consider how quality of life is influenced in our modern society. Chapters in this volume present theoretical and practical examples on different aspects of quality of life and community well-being representing American, European, Native American and African perspectives. This volume is of interest to scholars in sociology, psychology, economy, philosophy, health research as well as practitioners across the social sciences.
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Introduction to Java Programming: AP Edition
Y. Daniel Liang, Georgia Southern University
2017
Written for AP students, Introduction to Java Programming: AP Edition covers all Java programming material and concepts required as part of the AP Computer Science A curriculum. Daniel Liang teaches concepts of problem-solving and object-oriented programming using a fundamentals-first approach and effectively communicates critical problem-solving techniques to beginning programmers.
The text focuses on problem solving through Java programming and emphasizes both imperative and object-oriented problem solving and design. It is divided into two parts: in the first, students learn the fundamental concepts and techniques of selection statements, loops, methods, and arrays, before building on this foundation in the second part, ... Read more
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Promoting Social Justice Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Delores D. Liston, Georgia Southern University and Regina Rahimi, Armstrong State University
10-3-2017
Georgia Southern University faculty members Robert L. Lake and Kent Rittschof co-authored "Using Attitude Measures and Student Narratives about Diversity to Enhance Multicultural Teaching Effectiveness " in Promoting Social Justice Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Book Summary: How can education become a transformative experience for all learners and teachers? The contributors to this volume contend that the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can provide a strong foundation for the role of education in promoting social justice. The collection features contributions by an array of educators and scholars, highlighting the various ways that learners and teachers can prepare ... Read more
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Evolution Education in the American South: Culture, Politics, and Resources in and around Alabama
Christopher D. Lynn, University of Alabama; Amanda L. Glaze, Georgia Southern University; William A. Evans, University of Alabama; and Laura K. Reed, University of Alabama
3-1-2017
Book Summary: This volume reaches beyond the controversy surrounding the teaching and learning of evolution in the United States, specifically in regard to the culture, politics, and beliefs found in the Southeast. The editors argue that despite a deep history of conflict in the region surrounding evolution, there is a wealth of evolution research taking place—from biodiversity in species to cultural evolution and human development. In fact, scientists, educators, and researchers from around the United States have found their niche in the South, where biodiversity is high, culture runs deep, and the pace is just a little bit slower.
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A Student's Introduction to Political Analysis
Patrick J. Novotny, Georgia Southern University
12-8-2017
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HIV/AIDS in Rural Communities: Research, Education, and Advocacy
Fayth M. Parks, Georgia Southern University; Gregory S. Felzien MD AAHIVS, Georgia Department of Public Health; and Sally Jue, Chin Toy Consulting
2017
This wide-ranging volume reviews the experience and treatment of HIV/AIDS in rural America at the clinical, care system, community, and individual levels. Rural HIV-related phenomena are explored within healthcare contexts (physician shortages, treatment disparities) and the social environment (stigma, the opioid epidemic), and contrasted with urban frames of reference. Contributors present latest findings on HIV medications, best practices, and innovative opportunities for improving care and care settings, plus invaluable first-person perspective on the intersectionality of patient subpopulations. These chapters offer both seasoned and training practitioners a thorough grounding in the unique challenges of providing appropriate and effective services in the ... Read more
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Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Complex Analysis, Banach Spaces, and Operator Theory: Celebrating Cora Sadosky's Life (Vol. 2)
Maria Cristina Pereyra, University of New Mexico; Stefania Marcantognini, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research; Alexander M. Stokolos, Georgia Southern University; and Wilfredo Urbina Romero, Roosevelt University
2017
Book Summary: This book is the second of a two volume series. Covering a range of subjects from operator theory and classical harmonic analysis to Banach space theory, this book features fully-refereed, high-quality papers exploring new results and trends in weighted norm inequalities, Schur-Agler class functions, complex analysis, dynamical systems, and dyadic harmonic analysis. Graduate students and researchers in analysis will find inspiration in the articles collected in this volume, which emphasize the remarkable connections between harmonic analysis and operator theory. A survey of the two weight problem for the Hilbert transform and an expository article on the Clark model ... Read more
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Motherhood, Fatherland, and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in His Auschwitz Writings
Robert Pirro, Georgia Southern University
9-5-2017
Motherhood, Fatherland and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in his Auschwitz Writings offers major new insights into the political dimensions of Levi’s thought by using those texts conventionally thought to be marginal to his oeuvre (i.e., his short works of science fiction and fantasy and his World War Two partisan novel) to deepen our understanding of the lessons he offered in his more well-known and celebrated texts, Survival in Auschwitz and The Drowned and the Saved. Typically cast as one of the most profound theorists of what human beings at their worst can do to one another, Levi ... Read more
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Environmental Geology 3rd Edition
James Reichard, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2017
Book Summary: Environmental Geology is an exciting new entry for introductory geology courses. This text skillfully weaves the important themes of energy, human interactions, and global climate systems into a readable and contemporary view of geologic processes within the environmental framework. In addition, the author has utilized specific learning aids to pique student interest and to enhance the learning experience.
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Forgotten Places: Critical Studies in Rural Education
William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University
2017
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds edited Forgotten Places: Critical Studies in Rural Education.
Part of Counterpoints Series, Volume 494.
Forgotten Places: Critical Studies in Rural Education critically investigates and informs the construction of the rural, rural identity and the understanding of the rural internationally. This book promotes and expands the notion of critical understandings of rural education, particularly in the areas of race, class, gender, and LGBTQ, with conceptualizations of social justice. While there have been many volumes written on critical issues in urban education, only a small number have been produced on rural education, and the majority ... Read more
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Emerging Research, Practice, and Policy on Computational Thinking
Peter J. Rich, Brigham Young University - Provo and Charles B. Hodges, Georgia Southern University
2017
Book Summary: This book reports on research and practice on computational thinking and the effect it is having on education worldwide, both inside and outside of formal schooling. With coding becoming a required skill in an increasing number of national curricula (e.g., the United Kingdom, Israel, Estonia, Finland), the ability to think computationally is quickly becoming a primary 21st century "basic" domain of knowledge. The authors of this book investigate how this skill can be taught and its resultant effects on learning throughout a student's education, from elementary school to adult learning.
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Negotiating Membership in the WTO and EU: The Politics of Accession
Jamie E. Scalera, Georgia Southern University
2017
Book Summary: With the accession of Afghanistan in 2016, the World Trade Organization (WTO) numbered 164 members with nineteen other states in line to join. The WTO is certainly not alone in its growth though; the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the European Union (EU) are all expanding with dozens of states continuing to negotiate their potential membership. What impact does membership in international organizations really have? Why do some states have a seemingly easy path to joining international organizations while others find the process nearly impossible? What implications do these ... Read more
