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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 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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  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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  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.

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  I Am the Oil of the Engine of the World

  Jared Yates Sexton, Georgia Southern University

  2-23-2016
  

  Narcissism. Sexism. Consumerism and technological fetishism. The cult of media and the rot of war. In his third collection of stories, Jared Yates Sexton turns his eye to the ravages of the American Disease with twenty-five of his wildest and most experimental pieces. Told in raving mad prose fit for these savage times, Sexton skewers every sacred cow in an attempt to diagnose the sickness of Now.

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  Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives

  Keri Duncan Valentine, West Virginia University and Lucas J. Jensen, Georgia Southern University

  6-2016
  

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  With complex stories and stunning visuals eliciting intense emotional responses, coupled with opportunities for self-expression and problem solving, video games are a powerful medium to foster empathy, critical thinking, and creativity in players. As these games grow in popularity, ambition, and technological prowess, they become a legitimate art form, shedding old attitudes and misconceptions along the way.

  Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives asks whether videogames have the power to transform a player and his or her beliefs from a sociopolitical perspective. Unlike traditional forms of storytelling, videogames allow users to ... Read more

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  Key Determinants of National Development: Historical Perspectives and Implications for Developing Economies

  Kwaku Appiah-Adu, Central University Business School; Charles Blankson, University of North Texas; and Kwabena G. Boakye, Georgia Southern University

  8-28-2015
  

  Book Summary: For those wishing to acquire knowledge on national development issues, this comprehensive compendium traverses a spectrum of subjects that the audience ought to be well acquainted with. The Editors provide instructive findings regarding national development, economic growth and their determinants, but they also offer historical perspectives on the subject and the implications for developing countries. The book addresses a suite of critical themes regarded by development experts to be germane in considering the pertinence of policies and their effective execution. These seven general thematic areas are explored: ¢ Leadership, governance, policy and strategy ¢ Public sector and public ... Read more

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  Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering

  Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia; Leonidas Deligiannidis; Ray R. Hashemi, Georgia Southern University; George Jandieri; Ashu M. G. Solo; and Fernando G. Tinetti, National University of La Plata, Argentina

  1-1-2015
  
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  Allegiance to Liberty: The Changing Face of Patriots, Militias, and Political Violence in America

  Barry J. Balleck, Georgia Southern University

  2015
  
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  Eighteenth-Century Thought, 5

  Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University

  2-28-2015
  

  Book Summary: Eighteenth-Century Thought is aninternational, interdisciplinary annual founded for the purpose of advancing the study of the long eighteenth century from c. 1650 to the end of the Atlantic and European Revolutionary Era (c. 1750–1850). The annual publishes research pertinent to the fields of Revolutionary Europe, the history of the Atlantic world, the Enlightenment, the globalization of thought and culture between c. 1650–1850, the history of political thought and philosophy, eighteenth-century cultural and literary studies, history of science, legal history, the intersection of Enlightenment and religion, as well as economic thought and the human sciences as they were conceived ... Read more

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  Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 2012

  Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University; Karl Roider; Suzanne Marchand; and Alexander Mikaberidze

  2015
  
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  The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, and Consequences

  Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University and Jonathan Wright, University of Oxford

  10-29-2015
  

  Book Summary: In 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus, a dramatic, puzzling act that had a profound impact. This volume traces the causes of the attack on the Jesuits, the national expulsions that preceded universal suppression, and the consequences of these extraordinary developments. The Suppression occurred at a unique historical juncture, at the high-water mark of the Enlightenment and on the cusp of global imperial crises and the Age of Revolution. After more than two centuries, answers to how and why it took place remain unclear. A diverse selection of essays - covering France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, ... Read more

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  WOVENText: Georgia Tech’s Custom Bedford Book of Genres

  Lisa Dusenberry, Georgia Southern University

  8-2015