Collection preserves books by current and former faculty and staff.
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An Invitation to the Rogers–Ramanujan Identities
Andrew V. Sills, Georgia Southern University
10-12-2017
Book Summary: The Rogers--Ramanujan identities are a pair of infinite series—infinite product identities that were first discovered in 1894. Over the past several decades these identities, and identities of similar type, have found applications in number theory, combinatorics, Lie algebra and vertex operator algebra theory, physics (especially statistical mechanics), and computer science (especially algorithmic proof theory). Presented in a coherant and clear way, this will be the first book entirely devoted to the Rogers—Ramanujan identities and will include related historical material that is unavailable elsewhere.
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- The first book entirely devoted to the Rogers—Ramanujan identities.
- Prerequisites kept to a ... Read more
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Cecil Brown: The Murrow Boy Who Became Broadcasting’s Crusader for Truth
Reed W. Smith, Georgia Southern University
12-5-2017
Book Summary: The son of Jewish immigrants, war correspondent Cecil Brown (1907–1987) was a member of CBS’ esteemed Murrow Boys. Expelled from Italy and Singapore for reporting the facts, he witnessed the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia and the war in North Africa, and survived the sinking of the British battleship HMS Repulse by a Japanese submarine. Back in the U.S., he became an influential commentator during the years when Americans sought a dispassionate voice to make sense of complex developments. He was one of the first journalists to champion civil rights, to condemn Senator McCarthy’s tactics (and President Eisenhower’s reticence), ... Read more
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Professional Issues in Therapeutic Recreation: On Competence and Outcomes
Norma J. Stumbo; Brent Wolfe, Georgia Southern University; and Shane Alexander Pegg
2017
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Plant Invasion Alters Canopy Ecohydrology
John T. Van Stan II, Georgia Southern University; Seyed Mohammad M. Sadeghi, University of Tehran; Jan Friesen, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung; and Thomas G. Pypker, Thompson Rivers University
2-2017
Graphic novella by artist Bagus Seta (Tyasseta) based on the scientific story told in Sadeghi et al. (2017), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 240, 10.
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Listening, Looking, Living: Qualitative Research, the Study of Politics, and Understanding the World in Which We Live, 2nd Edition
Darin H. Van Tassell and Patrick Novotny, Georgia Southern University
2017
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Differential Equations with Mathematica
Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University
9-13-2016
Differential Equations with Mathematica, Fourth Edition is a supplementing reference which uses the fundamental concepts of the popular platform to solve (analytically, numerically, and/or graphically) differential equations of interest to students, instructors, and scientists.
Mathematica’s diversity makes it particularly well suited to performing calculations encountered when solving many ordinary and partial differential equations. In some cases, Mathematica’s built-in functions can immediately solve a differential equation by providing an explicit, implicit, or numerical solution. In other cases, mathematica can be used to perform the calculations encountered when solving a differential equation.
Because one goal of elementary differential equations courses is to ... Read more
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Practicing Critical Pedagogy: The Influences of Joe L. Kincheloe
Mary Francis Agnello, Akita International University and William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University
2016
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-edited Practicing Critical Pedagogy The Influences of Joe L. Kincheloe.
Part of Critical Studies of Education Series.This edited text recaptures many of Joe L. Kincheloe’s national and international influences. An advocate and a scholar in the social, historical, and philosophical foundations of education, he dedicated his professional life to his vision of critical pedagogy. The authors in this volume found mentorship, as well as kinship, in Joe and express the many ways in which he and his work made profound differences in their work and lives. Joe’s research always pushed the limits ... Read more
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Proceedings of the 2016 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
1-1-2016
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Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532-1621
Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University
10-13-2016
Book Summary: Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532-1621 focuses on the cooperation between two new foundations, the last Medici state and the Society of Jesus, spanning nearly a century, concentrating on the Jesuit foundations in Florence, Siena, and Montepulciano. As the Medici built and centralized their power in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, they sought to control both the civic and religious behavior of their citizens. They found partners in the Jesuits, whose educational program helped establish social order and maintain religious orthodoxy. Via a detailed investigation of both minor and major Italian Jesuit colleges, and of multiple Medici rulers, ... Read more
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The Integrity of American Governmental Institutions: The Role of Ethics in Public Service
Jose de Arimateia da Cruz, Georgia Southern University and Becky Kohler da Cruz
2016
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Teaching with Disney
Julie C. Garlen, Georgia Southern Unversity and Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University
4-27-2016
Teaching with Disney, the first comprehensive volume on Disney as cultural pedagogy and classroom praxis, explores what it means to teach, learn, and live in a world where many familiar discourses are dominated by The Walt Disney Company. The book analyzes the ways in which the powerful messages of Disney shape the way we teach and learn. Featuring scholars from a wide range of educational contexts, including educational foundations, art education, higher education, K-12 contexts, adult education, media literacy, critical pedagogy, and curriculum studies, this book is accessible and interesting to a global audience of educational researchers and practitioners as ... Read more
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State Fragility Around the World: Fractured Justice and Fierce Reprisal
Laurie Gould, Georgia Southern University and Matthew Pate, University of Albany
1-1-2016
Book Summary: Failed and fragile states often govern through the criminalization of otherwise inconsequential or tolerated acts. These weak states also frequently use kidnapping, murder, and other violent or oppressive tactics to maintain order and stay in power. State Fragility Around the World: Fractured Justice and Fierce Reprisal analyzes the path to state failure, one manifestation of which appears through the fragility and dysfunction of its criminal justice system. This book examines what happens when a government loses the ability, or will, to provide basic goods and services to its constituents.
Acknowledging the tremendous variability of failed and fragile states, ... Read more
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Cybercrime in Progress: Theory and Prevention of Technology-Enabled Offenses
Thomas J. Holt, Michigan State University and Adam Bossler, Georgia Southern University
2016
The emergence of the World Wide Web, smartphones, and computers has transformed the world and enabled individuals to engage in crimes in a multitude of new ways. Criminological scholarship on these issues has increased dramatically over the last decade, as have studies on ways to prevent and police these offenses. This book is one of the first texts to provide a comprehensive review of research regarding cybercrime, policing and enforcing these offenses, and the prevention of various offenses as global change and technology adoption increases the risk of victimization around the world.
Drawing on a wide range of literature, Holt ... Read more
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Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Justice, and Fairness for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education
Brenda Marina, Georgia Southern University and Sabrina N. Ross, Georgia Southern University
4-1-2016
This book addresses the continued underrepresentation of women faculty of color at predominantly White colleges and universities. This text will be of interest to scholars interested in curriculum topics of race, gender, sexuality, and place.
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Introduction to Numerical Methods
Aniruddha Mitra, Georgia Southern University and Aditi Mitri, Georgia Southern University
7-29-2016
Book Summary: Written for sophomore-level students in mechanical engineering programs and designed to give them the math preparation they need to succeed in higher level mechanical engineering courses, Introduction to Numerical Methods incorporates theory and worked-out engineering-related problems that apply that theory, as well as relevant laboratory exercises.
Ideally suited to one-semester, three-credit, problem solving session-based courses, the book covers errors in computation, rounding and chopping, solving equations with numerical techniques, matrixes and vectors, and complex numbers. The material also includes an introduction to optimization, linear programming problems, and instruction in probability and statistics.
It should be noted that many ... Read more
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Curriculum Studies Guidebooks: Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks
Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University
2016
Book Summary: Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The literature reviewed in this volume reflects current issues and discussions taking place in education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies and aesthetics; spirituality; cosmopolitanism; ecology; cultural studies; postcolonialism; poststructuralism; and psychoanalytic theory. These theoretical frameworks will provide students in the field of education with the tools that they need to theorize around the concept of curriculum. This is an interdisciplinary book that will be of interest to students outside the field of education who are studying aesthetics, spirituality, cosmopolitanism, ecology, cultural studies, postcolonialism, poststructuralism, and ... Read more
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Curriculum Studies Guidebooks: Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks
Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University
2016
Book Summary: Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The huge corpus of literature reviewed in this volume reflect current issues and discussions dealing with education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies, history, politics, multiculturalism, gender studies and literary studies. These theoretical frameworks will provide students in the field of education with the tools that they need to theorize around the concept of curriculum. This is an interdisciplinary book and might be of interest to students outside the field of education as well who are studying history, politics, multiculturalism, gender and literary studies. It could ... Read more
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Coverage of Recreational Therapy: Rules and Regulations (3rd Edition)
Tim Passmore, Oklahoma State University; Dawn De Vries, Grand Valley State University; Thea Kavanaugh; and Kristen Fedesco
2016
This text has been developed to assist the recreational therapist in developing a recreational therapy program which is compliant with all current Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Joint Commission, Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities International, and Public School regulations at the time of publication.The text has also been specifically structured to aid the RT in communicating with administrators and other allied health professions and professionals regarding the appropriateness of the presences of recreational therapy in the various treatment and residential settings.
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Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Complex Analysis, Banach Spaces, and Operator Theory: Celebrating Cora Sadosky's Life (Vol.1)
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
2016
Book Summary: Covering a range of subjects from operator theory and classical harmonic analysis to Banach space theory, this book contains survey and expository articles by leading experts in their corresponding fields, and features fully-refereed, high-quality papers exploring new results and trends in spectral theory, mathematical physics, geometric function theory, and partial differential equations. 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. Another shared research interest of the contributors of this volume lies in the area of applied harmonic analysis, where ... Read more
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The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime
Nicole Rafter, Northeastern University; Chad Posick, Georgia Southern University; and Michael Rocque, Bates College
8-30-2016
What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender’s brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists have begun to speak of a tantalizing but disturbing possibility: that criminality may be inherited as a set of genetic deficits that place one at risk to commit theft, violence, or acts of sexual deviance. But what do these new theories really assert? Are they as dangerous as their forerunners, which the Nazis and other eugenicists used to sterilize, incarcerate, and even ... Read more
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Expanding Curriculum Theory: Dis/positions and Lines of Flight
William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University and Julie Webber, Illinois State University
5-12-2016
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-edited Expanding Curriculum Theory Dis/positions and Lines of Flight.
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Rating the Presidents: A Ranking of U.S. Leaders from the Great and Honorable to the Dishonest and Incompetent
William Ridings Jr; Stuart B. McIver; and Christopher M. Brown, Georgia Southern University
2016
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The South China Sea Disputes: Past, Present, and Future
Nalanda Roy, Georgia Southern University
12-2-2016
Book Summary: The South China Sea has long been regarded as one of the most complex and challenging ocean-related maritime disputes in East Asia. Recently it has become the locus of disputes that have the potential of escalating into serious international conflicts. Historical mistrust, enduring territorial disputes, and competing maritime claims have combined to weaken an at least partially successful regional security structure. Issues of concern include territorial sovereignty; disputed claims to islands, rocks, and reefs; jurisdiction over territorial waters, exclusive economic zones, and the seabed; regional and international rights to use the seas for military purposes; maritime security; rapid ... Read more
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Disney, Culture, and Curriculum
Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University and Julie C. Garlen, Georgia Southern Unversity
3-21-2016
A presence for decades in individuals’ everyday life practices and identity formation, the Walt Disney Company has more recently also become an influential element within the "big" curriculum of public and private spaces outside of yet in proximity to formal educational institutions. Disney, Culture, and Curriculum explores the myriad ways that Disney’s curricula and pedagogies manifest in public consciousness, cultural discourses, and the education system. Examining Disney’s historical development and contemporary manifestations, this book critiques and deconstructs its products and perspectives while providing insight into Disney’s operations within popular culture and everyday life in the United States and beyond.
The ... Read more
