Collection preserves books by current and former faculty and staff.
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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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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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Smart Homes Systems Technology
Adel El-Shahat, Georgia Southern University
3-2-2015
Book Summary: This Book proposes Smart Homes Technology as promising and future systems. It covers the following topics for Future Homes: Smart Homes & Smart Grids Technology; Micro-Grids Distributed Generation Topologies; Wind Energy Appraisals for Future Homes; Photovoltaic Module Optimum Operation Modelling; High Speed Generator Design for Smart Grids; Wind Turbines and Photovoltaic Panels Simulations; Optimum Modelling of Capacitive Deionization; Power Electronics Apparatuses Synopses; Storage Unit Parameters Estimation; Storage Devices for Green Energy Overview; Electric Drives Performance Improvements for Renewable Energy and Automotive Applications; Microturbine Operation Overview; and NanoGrids.
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Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America: State, Society, and Industry in Brazil’s AIDS Program
Matthew Flynn, Georgia Southern University
2015
Brazil has occupied a central role in the access to medicines movement, especially with respect to drugs used to treat those with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). How and why Brazil succeeded in overcoming powerful political and economic interests, both at home and abroad, to roll-out and sustain treatment represents an intellectual puzzle.
In this book, Matthew Flynn traces the numerous challenges Brazil faced in its efforts to provide essential medicines to all of its citizens. Using dependency theory, state theory, and moral underpinnings of markets, Flynn delves deeper into the salient ... Read more
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Library Expansion/Renovation Checklist: Creating Today’s ARC Takes More Than Forty Days and Forty Nights
Ann Hamilton, Georgia Southern University
6-2015
E-Book/Webcast package published by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) – a division of the American Library Association.
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Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies
Stephen P. Hanna, University of Mary Washington; Amy E. Potter, Georgia Southern University; E. Arnold Modlin, Norfolk State University; Perry Carter, Texas Tech University; and David L. Butler, University of Southern Mississippi
2-11-2015
Potter also co-authored "Introduction" alongside non-faculty member E. Arnold Modlin and "The Commons as a Tourist Commodity: Mapping Memories and Changing Sense of Place on the Island of Barbuda" in Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies.
Book Summary: The examination of social memory and heritage tourism has grown considerably over the past few decades as scholars have critically re-examined the relationships between past memories and present actions at international, national, and local scales. Methodological innovation and reflection have accompanied theoretical advances as researchers strive to understand representations, experiences, thoughts, emotions and identities of the various actors involved in the reproduction ... 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
2015
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Policing Cybercrime and Cyberterror
Thomas J. Holt, Michigan State University; George Burruss, University of South Florida; and Adam Bossler, Georgia Southern University
4-29-2015
The purpose of Policing Cybercrime and Cyberterror is to provide an in-depth discussion of the perceptions and responses of U.S. law enforcement agencies at all levels in dealing with cybercrime and cyberterror. The themes for this book include the challenges that cybercrime and digital evidence handling pose for local and state agencies, the jurisdictional and investigative hurdles that hinder the response capabilities of police agencies, and the complexities of the actual investigation of these offenses and their impact on officers.
This text analyzes data collected from local law enforcement agencies in the U.S., in order to understand officer perceptions of and ... Read more -
Therapeutic Physical Activities for People with Disability
Li Li, Georgia Southern University and Shuqi Zhang, Georgia Southern University
7-31-2015
Georgia Southern University faculty members Jody L. Langdon and Robert J. Schlote co-authored “Therapeutic Physical Activity for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder” in the publication Therapeutic Physical Activities for People with Disability.
Book Summary: Physical inactivity has been recognized as one of the common modifiable risk factors for non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes. Increased level of physical activity is very effective for health maintenance. In this book, experts from all over the world present evidence for therapeutic physical activities illustrated by different cases.
Physical activity can serve as both a preventive measure ... Read more
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Understanding Curriculum as Phenomenological and Deconstructed Text (Critical Issues in Curriculum)
William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University and William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University
10-1-2015
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-edited Understanding Curriculum as Phenomenological and Deconstructed Text (Critical Issues in Curriculum) .
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Cyber Physical Systems: From Theory to Practice
Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University; Joel Rodriques, University of Beira Interior; and Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa
10-22-2015
Book Summary: Although comprehensive knowledge of cyber-physical systems (CPS) is becoming a must for researchers, practitioners, system designers, policy makers, system managers, and administrators, there has been a need for a comprehensive and up-to-date source of research and information on cyber-physical systems. This book fills that need.
Cyber-Physical Systems: From Theory to Practice provides state-of-the-art research results and reports on emerging trends related to the science, technology, and engineering of CPS, including system architecture, development, modeling, simulation, security, privacy, trust, and energy efficiency. It presents the research results of esteemed professionals on cutting-edge advances in cyber-physical systems that include communications, ... Read more
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Living Together, Living Apart Mixed Status Families and US Immigration Policy
April M. Schueths, Georgia Southern University and Jodie Lawston, California State University, San Marcos
11-2015
Immigration reform remains one of the most contentious issues in the United States today. For mixed status families-families that include both citizens and noncitizens-this is more than a political issue: it's a deeply personal one. Undocumented family members and legal residents lack the rights and benefits of their family members who are US citizens, while family members and legal residents sometimes have their rights compromised by punitive immigration policies based on a strict "citizen/noncitizen" dichotomy.
This collection of personal narratives and academic essays is the first to focus on the daily lives and experiences, as well as the broader social ... Read more
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Posthumanism and Educational Research
Nathan Snaza, University of Richmond and John A. Weaver, Georgia Southern University
2015
Focusing on the interdependence between human, animal, and machine, posthumanism redefines the meaning of the human being previously assumed in knowledge production. This movement challenges some of the most foundational concepts in educational theory and has implications within educational research, curriculum design and pedagogical interactions. In this volume, a group of international contributors use posthumanist theory to present new modes of institutional collaboration and pedagogical practice. They position posthumanism as a comprehensive theoretical project with connections to philosophy, animal studies, environmentalism, feminism, biology, queer theory and cognition. Researchers and scholars in curriculum studies and philosophy of education will benefit from ... Read more
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Introductory Differential Equations
Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University
2014
Book Summary:
This text is for courses that are typically called (Introductory) Differential Equations, (Introductory) Partial Differential Equations, Applied Mathematics, and Fourier Series. Differential Equations is a text that follows a traditional approach and is appropriate for a first course in ordinary differential equations (including Laplace transforms) and a second course in Fourier series and boundary value problems.
Some schools might prefer to move the Laplace transform material to the second course, which is why we have placed the chapter on Laplace transforms in its location in the text. Ancillaries like Differential Equations with Mathematica and/or Differential Equations with Maple ... Read more
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Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering
Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia; Ray R. Hashemi, Georgia Southern University; and Fernando G. Tinetti, National University of La Plata, Argentina
1-1-2014
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London: The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1687
Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University
1-6-2014
Book Summary: If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trades. It almost certainly would not have been London, an unassuming hub of the wool and cloth trade with a population of around 75,000, still trying to recover from the onslaught of the Black Plague. But by 1700 London’s population had reached a staggering 575,000—and it had developed its first global corporations, as well ... Read more
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Implications of Social Media Use in Personal and Professional Settings
Vladlena Benson and Stephanie Morgan
12-31-2014
Book Summary: The use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) has become an integral part of daily life, particularly for adolescents. The chapter examines the negative impact of social networking sites and how they may expose alcohol-related consumption and behavior to young adults, especially college students. In particular, the focus is on the use of two specific social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter, and their association with alcohol use. The review of existing literature reveals that the depiction of alcohol use on social networking sites has a deleterious effect on alcohol use through the creation of positive social norms toward use ... Read more
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Computing for Engineers: Course Notes
Shonda Bernadin and Rami J. Haddad, Georgia Southern University
8-12-2014
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Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History
Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University and Ulrich L. Lehner, Marquette University
5-30-2014
Book Summary: In recent years, historians have rediscovered the religious dimensions of the Enlightenment. This volume offers a thorough reappraisal of the so-called “Catholic Enlightenment” as a transnational Enlightenment movement. This Catholic Enlightenment was at once ultramontane and conciliarist, sometimes moderate but often surprisingly radical, with participants active throughout Europe in universities, seminaries, salons, and the periodical press.
In Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History, the contributors, primarily European scholars, provide intellectual biographies of twenty Catholic Enlightenment figures across eighteenth-century Europe, many of them little known in English-language scholarship on the Enlightenment and pre-revolutionary eras. These figures represent ... Read more
