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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

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  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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  Bitter Moments: The Story of Indonesian Fragmentation

  Nalanda Roy, Georgia Southern University

  2015
  
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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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  Bring Me The Head of Yorkie Goodman

  Jared Yates Sexton, Georgia Southern University

  2-19-2015
  

  “Who’s Yorkie Goodman?” asks Wallace, an enforcer for an East Coast drug cartel. “Just a fella” says his boss, who goes by the name Boss. Just a fella … but Boss wants Yorkie Goodman taken out. He wants it so badly, he’ll risk sending Wallace into Wallace’s own past where a beautiful woman he abandoned years before still holds a bewitching power over him like some ancient siren song. He wants it so badly, he's sending along his deadliest assassin, Carp, to make sure the job is done right. And he wants proof … proof in the form of Goodman’s ... Read more

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  The Hook and The Haymaker

  Jared Yates Sexton, Georgia Southern University

  1-5-2015
  

  In the follow-up to his critically lauded debut An End To All Things, Jared Yates Sexton presents twenty-three new stories that pick up where his first book left off. Whether they're set in a sweat-saturated sparring ring, the backroom of a gas station speakeasy, or in the kitchen of the house down the street, these are glimpses into an America that too-often goes unseen. Witness here the untold tales of the losers and the should've-beens, the dreamers and the hustlers, all of them just spoiling for their turn at glory or the inevitable one-two punch that puts them down for ... 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

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  Principles of Biology II Laboratory Manual

  Gwendolyn Carroll, Georgia Southern University

  2014
  
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  Research Methods for Environmental Health Science Professionals

  Simone M. Charles, Georgia Southern University

  1-1-2014
  
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  Politics, Gender, and Belief. The Long-Term Impact of the Reformation: Essays in Memory of Robert M. Kingdon

  Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University; Amy Nelson-Burnett, University of Nebraska; and Karin Maag, Calvin College

  11-13-2014
  

  She also authored “Cosimo I dei Medici’s Cooperation with the Jesuits in Creating a Christian Realm in His Expanding State” in the publication.

  Book Summary: This volume is a posthumous festschrift honoring the memory and research of the late Robert M. Kingdon. The ten contributions in this work are authored by several of his former students and fellow scholars. The contributions are divided into three main themes, all of which Kingdon explored in his own writings: Calvinism and its impact; church and state; and gender, family, and marriage. Topics cover a geographical range from Spain to Poland-Lithuania and Hungary, and ... Read more

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  New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education Series, Vol. 143

  C. Amelia Davis, Georgia Southern University and Joann S. Olson

  10-8-2014
  
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  Marching as to War: Personal Narratives of African American Women’s Experiences in the Gulf Wars

  Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Georgia Southern University

  5-22-2014
  

  Book Summary:Since the American Revolution, African American women have served in every U.S. military conflict. Despite this dedicated service to their country, very little empirical research has been published regarding African American servicewomen, including those who have served in the Gulf Wars. Seen through the eyes of eleven African American servicewomen, this book explores issues such as health care, child care, sexism/sexual harassment, racism, religion, military promotions/career advancement, and serving in combat zones. Their stories illuminate the types of professional, sociological, and interpersonal experiences black servicewomen have encountered during their time in the Gulf Wars.

  To learn more about Marching ... Read more