The books contributed to this Digital Commons@Georgia Southern collection are authored or edited by the faculty of Georgia Southern University.
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Faculty bookshelves include content attributed to Georgia Southern faculty. For a complete list of their works, view their SelectedWorks profiles.
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A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization: An Imaginative Dialogue With Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire
Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University
3-1-2013
Book Summary: A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization In A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization: An Imaginative Dialogue with Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire, a volume in Landscapes of Education [Series Editors: William H. Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago & Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University], Robert Lake explores with the reader what is meant by imagination in the work of Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire and their relevance in an era of increasingly standardized and highly scripted practices in the field of education. The author explores how imagination permeates every aspect of ... Read more
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Constructing a Community of Thought: Letters on the Scholarship, Teaching and Mentoring of Vera John-Steiner
Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University and M. Cathrene Connery, Ithaca College
6-20-2013
Lake also co-authored "Constructing a Community of Thought: Access through Epistolary Understanding" alongside non-faculty member M. Catherene Connery and "Bridges are Made for Movement" in Constructing a Community of Thought: Letters on the Scholarship, Teaching, and Mentoring of Vera John-Steiner.
Book Summary: This book validates the prolific contribution of Dr. Vera John-Steiner to the social sciences and extends her scholarship, teaching, and mentoring to a new generation of thinkers. Compiled as a companion volume to her Selected Works, the text highlights this scholar’s gifts to psychology, education, linguistics, and the arts through a collection of letters composed by students, colleagues, ... Read more
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Paulo Freire’s Intellectual Roots: Toward Historicity in Praxis
Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University and Tricia M. Kress, University of Massachusetts Boston
4-11-2013
Lake also co-authored "A Dialogue Between Marx and Freire" alongside non-faculty member Tricia M. Kress and "Converging Self/Other Awareness: Erich Fromm and Paulo Freire on Transcending the Fear of Freedom" alongside non-faculty member Vicki Dagostino in Paulo Freire’s Intellectual Roots: Toward Historicity in Praxis.
Book Summary: Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy has had a profound influence on contemporary progressive educators around the globe as they endeavor to rethink education for liberation and the creation of more humane global society. For Freire, maintaining a sense of historicity, that is, the origins from which our thinking and practice emerges, is essential to understanding ... Read more
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Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills and Applications
Gerald R. Ledlow, Georgia Southern University and Nicholas M. Coppola
5-23-2013
Book Summary: Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications, Second Edition is the first textbook of its kind to apply classical knowledge of leadership theory and time-honored best practices of industry leaders to a health organization context. This comprehensive and well-organized text is grounded in real-world applications of theoretical concepts, and focuses on practical examples of leadership practice in actual healthcare scenarios. The text’s innovative and dynamic pedagogical structure cycles and expands key concepts throughout the text, allowing for enhanced learning and information retention. The material supports and engages students, pushing them to synthesize solutions and develop leadership strategies ... Read more
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Gait Biometrics: Basic Patterns, Role of Neurological Disorders and Effects of Physical Activity
Li Li, Georgia Southern University and Matthew Holmes, Georgia Southern University
12-20-2013
Book Summary: This book discusses gait, the control of gait and how different pathological conditions may affect gait, with a unique application of a gait study reviewed at the end. We first discuss methodology issues related to gait quantification and interpretations of different gait-related measures and their theoretical relevancy and clinical applications. The effects of different pathological conditions on gait were then discussed, using diabetic peripheral neuropathy, Parkinson’s disease, concussions and lower back pain as examples. A current understanding of how anatomical alternation, central nervous system lesions or the loss of a limb affects gait have been reviewed in two ... Read more
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Quantitative Reasoning in Mathematics and Science Education: Papers from an International STEM Research Symposium
Robert L. Mayes, Georgia Southern University and Larry Hatfield, University of Wyoming
5-1-2013
Quantitative Reasoning in Mathematics and Science Education: Papers from an International STEM Research Symposium is Monograph 3 in the WISDOMe series. The papers in this volume discuss the value of quantitative reasoning and its impact on future research and practice.
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A Youtube Calculus Workbook (Part 1)
Frédéric D. Mynard, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2013
Book Summary: This book is a guide through a playlist of Calculus instructional videos. The format, level of details and rigor, and progression of topics are consistent with a semester long college level first Calculus course, or equivalently an AP Calculus AB course. The book further provides simple summary of videos, written definitions and statements, worked out examples--even though fully step-by-step solutions are to be found in the videos-- and an index. The playlist and the book are divided into 15 thematic learning modules. At the end of each learning module, one or more quiz with full solutions is provided. ... Read more
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Listening, Looking, Living: Qualitative Research, the Study of Politics, and Understanding the World in Which We Live, 1st edition
Patrick Novotny, Georgia Southern University and Darin H. Van Tassell
2013
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The Norton Mix: Sociology
Nathan Palmer, Georgia Southern University; Tanya Gladney, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota; Erica Hunter, University at Albany, State University of New York; and Fernando I. Rivera, University of Central Florida
1-1-2013
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Toward an American Conservatism: Constitutional Conservatism during the Progressive Era
Joseph W. Postell and Jonathan O'Neill, Georgia Southern University
11-12-2013
During the Progressive Era (1880-1920), leading thinkers and politicians transformed American politics. Historians and political scientists have given a great deal of attention to the progressives who effected this transformation. Yet relatively little is known about the conservatives who opposed these progressive innovations, despite the fact that they played a major role in the debates and outcomes of this period of American history. These early conservatives represent a now-forgotten source of inspiration for modern American conservatism. This volume gives these constitutional conservatives their first full explanation and demonstrates their ongoing relevance to contemporary American conservatism.
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Security, Privacy, Trust, and Resource Management in Mobile and Wireless Communications
Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University; Bhed B. Bista, Iwate Prefectural University; and Gongjun Yan, University of Southern Indiana
10-1-2013
Book Summary: While security is of vital importance to ensure the integrity of communications in wireless and mobile networks, most businesses which rely on these networks expect a high level of security and privacy to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of communications among terminals, networks, applications, and services.
Security, Privacy, Trust, and Resource Management in Mobile and Wireless Communications examines the current scope of theoretical and practical applications on the security of mobile and wireless communications. This book covers fundamental concepts of current issues, challenges, and solutions in wireless and mobile networks and will serve as a reference for graduate ... Read more
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Environmental Geology, 2nd Edition
James Reichard, Georgia Southern University
2013
Reichard's Environmental Geology second edition continues to emphasize how humans interact with the environment within a geological context. The writing style holds the interest of nonmajor students and includes recent geologic events they can relate to. Each chapter incorporates student activities and discussion questions designed to give students a personal connection to the topic
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A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist
William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University
2013
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds edited A Curriculum of Place Understandings Emerging Through the Southern Mist.
Part of Counterpoints Series, Volume 412.
Since the United States has gone South in a number of respects, it is crucial to our understandings of ourselves and our current milieu to peer through the mist that covers the intricacies of the culture and history of the South. A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist presents new and provocative insights into the study of curriculum and place focusing on the South. The essays emphasize understanding the importance of Southern place ... Read more
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Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader
William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University
9-2013
Georgia Southern University faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader.
Part of Counterpoints Series, Volume 434.
Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader critically investigates and informs the construction of Southernness, Southern identity, and the South past and present. It promotes and expands the notion of a Southern epistemology. Authors from across the South write about such diverse topics as Southern working-class culture; LGBT issues in the South; Southern music; Southern reality television; race and ethnicity in the South; religion in the South; sports in the South; and Southernness. How do these multiple interpretations ... Read more
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Business Data Communications- Infrastructure, Networking and Security
William Stallings and Thomas Louis Case, Georgia Southern University
2013
Business Data Communications: Infrastructure, Networking and Security covers the fundamentals of data communications, networking, distributed applications, and network management and security. These concepts are presented in a way that relates specifically to the business environment and the concerns of business management and staff. While making liberal use of real-world case studies and charts and graphs to provide a business perspective, the book also provides the student with a solid grasp of the technical foundation of business data communications.
The diverse set of projects and student exercises enables the instructor to use the book as a component in a rich and ... Read more -
Safe in Your Head
Laura E. Valeri, Georgia Southern University
8-2-2013
Book Summary: A middle class Italian family finds reason to immigrate to America when Italy is threatened by the Red Brigades’ terrorist movement of the 1970s. The family patriarch manages a transfer to the United States, certain of better prospects and of a more secure future for his family, but each of the family members experiences a deeper kind of upheaval, negotiating personal losses and estrangement. A grandmother, a mother, and a granddaughter each discovers the many insidious ways in which war warps and defines life, even at a distance of decades.
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My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War
William T. Allison, Georgia Southern University
7-16-2012
Book Summary: On March 16, 1968, American soldiers killed as many as five hundred Vietnamese men, women, and children in a village near the South China Sea. In My Lai William Thomas Allison explores and evaluates the significance of this horrific event. How could such a thing have happened? Who (or what) should be held accountable? How do we remember this atrocity and try to apply its lessons, if any?
My Lai has fixed the attention of Americans of various political stripes for more than forty years. The breadth of writing on the massacre, from news reports to scholarly accounts, ... Read more
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The Gulf War, 1990-1991
William T. Allison, Georgia Southern University
10-2-2012
Book Summary: In August 1990, Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces boldly invaded and occupied neighboring Kuwait. It was a move that shocked the world and threatened the interests of those countries, such as the USA and the nations of Europe, dependent on oil from the Middle East. The ensuing Gulf War signaled, for many, a new dawn in warfare: one based upon lethal technology, low casualties, and quick decisive victory.
Incorporating the latest scholarship, William Thomas Allison provides a concise overview of the origins, key events and legacy of the first Gulf War, as well as the major issues and debates. ... Read more
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American Military History: A Survey from Colonial Times to the Present
William T. Allison, Georgia Southern University; Jeffrey G. Grey, Australian Defence Force Academy; and Janet G. Valentine, US Army Command and General Staff College
7-12-2012
Book Summary: American Military History is uniquely tailored to American military history courses. Organized chronologically, the text begins at the point of European conflict with Native Americans and concludes with military affairs in the early 21st century.
The content and style will appeal to history majors and non-majors and is designed to allow instructors flexibility in the structure of their course.
Companion Website: http://www.routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780205898503/
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Proceedings of the 2012 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
1-1-2012
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Interval-Censored Time-to-Event Data: Methods and Applications
Ding-Geng Chen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri; and Karl E. Peace, Georgia Southern University
7-19-2012
Book Summary: Interval-Censored Time-to-Event Data: Methods and Applications collects the most recent techniques, models, and computational tools for interval-censored time-to-event data. Top biostatisticians from academia, biopharmaceutical industries, and government agencies discuss how these advances are impacting clinical trials and biomedical research.
Divided into three parts, the book begins with an overview of interval-censored data modeling, including nonparametric estimation, survival functions, regression analysis, multivariate data analysis, competing risks analysis, and other models for interval-censored data. The next part presents interval-censored methods for current status data, Bayesian semiparametric regression analysis of interval-censored data with monotone splines, Bayesian inferential models for interval-censored data, ... Read more
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We Saved the Best for You: Letters of Hope, Imagination and Wisdom for 21st Century Educators
Tricia M. Kress, University of Massachusetts Boston and Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University
12-7-2012
Lake also authored "Reigniting Radical Hope and Social Imagination in 'Dark Times'" alongside non-faculty member Tricia M. Kress and "Imagination, Play and Becoming the Text" in We Saved the Best for You: Letters of Hope, Imagination and Wisdom for 21st Century Educators.
Book Summary: As standardization and “accountability” have continued to increase in the 21st century, educators and scholars of education have become increasingly frustrated. Yet as frustrated as we are, it is essential that we not send to our our students, children, grandchildren the message that the past was better and they “should have been there.” Instead, we must ... Read more
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Dear Nel: Opening the Circles of Care (Letters to Nel Noddings)
Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University
3-9-2012
Book Summary: This collection is a moving tribute to Nel Noddings, a fascinating and influential scholar who has contributed greatly to numerous fields, including education, feminism, ethics, and the study of social justice and equity. Dear Nel: Opening the Circles of Care presents contributions from renowned teachers, educators, and activists, such as David Berliner, Jim Garrison, Madeline Grumet, Denis Phillips, William H. Schubert, Barbara Thayer-Bacon, Cristina Igoa, Eva Feder Kittay, Riane Eisler, and Sara Ruddick. Each provides a personal tribute to Noddings, highlighting stories of her lived experience and drawing on her writing and teaching. This unique volume includes an ... Read more
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Vygotsky on Education Primer
Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University
3-31-2012
Book Summary: The Vygotsky on Education Primer serves as an introduction to the life and work of the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Even though he died almost eighty years ago, his life’s work remains both relevant and significant to the field of education today. This book examines Vygotsky’s emphasis on the role of cultural and historical context in learning, while challenging theories that emphasize a universalistic view of learning through fixed, biologically determined stages of development. Given our current preoccupation with standardized outcomes and the corporatization of schooling, Vygotsky’s most important ideas about education need to be reconsidered. The primer ... Read more
