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Learning From Cyber-Savvy Students : how Internet-Age Kids Impact Classroom Teaching
Anne Hird
As the Internet has become a common household utility, more and more students are coming to school with Internet experience.
How do students' and teachers' roles, and schools as institutions, change when these Internet-Age kids enter classrooms that are fully equipped with networked computers?
This book offers a unique analysis of the issues and challenges teachers face as their classrooms become fully connected to the Internet.
Anne Hird spent six months observing a class in a school with fully connected classrooms. She presents a vivid and insightful account–often reported through the students' own words--of how young teens use computers in and out of school; how they perceive the world shaped by the Internet; and how these factors shape their expectations for classroom learning.
She observes and reflects on the paradox which confronts teachers in this environment. They are expected to guide students in learning with a cognitive tool that was not part of the teachers' experience as students, while students' familiarity with the Internet calls into question the authority of the teacher on which the traditional teacher-student relationship is based. She offers a strategy for professional development which recognizes and builds on this inevitable shift in the teacher-student relationship.
This is an absorbing, thought-provoking and practical book for all educators--individual teachers and administrators alike–concerned about the integration of computer technology into elementary and secondary school classrooms.
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A Sense of Their Duty : Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns
Andrew C. Holman
What did it mean to be middle class in late nineteenth-century Ontario? How did the members of the middle class define themselves? Though simple, these questions have escaped the attention of social historians in recent writing about Canada. The Victorian middle class, referred to as the backbone of economic change, the motor of political reform, and the source of one set of moral standards, has eluded systematic study. A Sense of Their Duty corrects this and reconstructs the identities that middle-class Victorians made for themselves in an era of economic change. Using the towns of Galt and Goderich as case studies, Andrew Holman shows how middle-class identities were formed at work. He shows how businessmen, professionals, and white-collar workers developed a new sense of authority that extended beyond the workplace. As local electors, members of voluntary associations and reform societies, and breadwinners, middle-class men set standards of proper and expected behavior for themselves and others, standards for respectable behaviour that continued to enjoy currency and relevance throughout the twentieth century.
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Social Problems: Causes, Consequences, Interventions
Jack Levin, Kim MacInnis, Walter F. Carroll, Richard Bourne, and Patricia J. Fanning
This compact and affordable text serves as an introduction to a wide range of social problems. Social Problems, Second Edition, is unique in that all chapters are organized in a consistent format, beginning with the definition and prevalence of the social problem covered, followed by levels of causation, consequences, and interventions. Each chapter includes a discussion of the future of each social problem covered and a summary of its substantive issues. All chapters conclude with discussion questions, references, and a list of relevant websites.
This lively, readable volume introduces students to a variety of sociological viewpoints on social problems. Every topic is analyzed from individual, cultural, and structural perspectives. This diversity allows instructors to compare explanations that incorporate such structural factors as social class and economic structure to explanations that focus on cultural factors or on biological and psychological characteristics of the individual. Social Problems, Second Edition, emphasizes the importance of gender, race, and class for understanding social problems. The text focuses on the U.S., but incorporates comparative, cross-cultural material when appropriate.
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Haan of Minjung Theology and Han of Han Philosophy: in the Paradigm of Process Philisophy and Metaphysics of Relatedness
Chang-Hee Son
Korean history and experience testify to the depth of human suffering, 'haan.' Those who are familiar with the 'han' from minjung theology may question the word 'haan' since the spelling, han, is more commonly known among Koreans and Westerners. Although they are two distinct concepts, haan and han, minjung theologians use the spelling 'han' indiscriminately for both and so foster a confusion, particularly for English speaking readers. This study delineates the nature of han and differentiates it from haan.
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The Challenges of Women's Activism and Human Rights in Africa
Diana Fox and Naima Hasci
This study contains essays written by activists and scholars from a wide range of fields who have conducted research or been involved on a grassroots level in an effort to advance women’s human rights.
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The Seven Story Tower : a Mythic Journey Through Space and Time
Curtiss Hoffman
From the white stag to the green knight, The Seven Story Tower examines how myth colors our perception of history, nature, and ourselves. Organized around seven key myths-representing the Irish, Greek, Sumerian, Indonesian, Amazonian, and Inuit cultures, as well as the fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien-this book is the perfect intro-duction to the common themes found in world mythology. Curtiss Hoffman, a noted archaeologist and anthropologist, takes us beyond the entertaining stories and uses insights from cultural anthropology and analytical psychology to analyze the many common themes found throughout. In particular, he examines the significance of names, numbers, plants, animals, the heavenly bodies, and the human body. The Seven Story Tower will enhance the reader's appreciation of myth's power today over our lives and cultures.
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Evil--freedom--and the road to perfection in Clement of Alexandria
Peter Karavites
This text deals with Clement of Alexandria's interpretation of evil and free will in the context of the rising Christianity, the influences of Near Eastern and Greek thought on him, his differences from St Augustine, and how his interpretation affected the rise of the Eastern Christian thought. The book also traces briefly the subject of man's personal aim in life, perceived by Clement as the suppression of his nature. Failure to realize this personal aim in life leads to alienation from God, and death. The moral dilemma of Clement's interpretation of evil as failure of life's aim is not a conventional explanation of good and evil, but something much more: the option between real life and death. Consquently, Clement's idea of evil refers to existential problems and ontological realities.
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Angry, Bored, Confused : a Citizen Handbook of American Politics
Michael Kryzanek
Angry, bored, and confused—three words that aptly describe the typical American’s view toward the world of politics. But it doesn’t have to stay this way, argues Michael Kryzanek, in Angry, Bored, Confused. Kryzanek discusses issues central to American politics—citizenship, power, leadership, problem solving, initiating change—through a series of straightforward questions, with sometimes surprising answers. Angry, Bored, and Confused examines American politics from the perspective of an anxious consumer seeking to understand the political world, and to change it for the better.
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Political Philosophy : Essential Selections
Aeon J. Skoble and Tibor R. Machan
This book is a comprehensive anthology in the history of political philosophy. It presents important selections from the ancient, medieval, and modern periods along with many contemporary selections. The material is presented historically with brief biographical sketches of each author as well as introductions to each period. Political Philosophy: Essential Selections offers the most comprehensive selection of readings in Western political philosophy, ranging from the ancient to the contemporary. From Plato and Aristotle to today’s disputes about liberalism, anarchism, feminism, and socialism. Selections are presented as they were originally written with minimal editorial intrusion.The book includes important thinkers rarely featured in similar anthologies, such as Marsilius of Padua, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mikail Bakunin, plus more familiar names. It also presents key developments in the history of political philosophy and provides good coverage of contemporary theories. This allows readers to trace the historical development of these important concepts and themes. An important resource for every reader interested in the development of political thought regarding contemporary issues.
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Thomas R. Turner
This study strips away the myths and legends which have long surrounded the Lincoln assassination. As the author demonstrates, Booth was hardly a madman but rather a Southern patriot who believed that in killing Lincoln, he was removing a tyrant. While the assassin died in Garrett's barn (despite many unfounded claims to the contrary), new controversies were generated when his alleged co-conspirators were tried before a Military Commission. The cases of Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd have created particular sympathy, although recent research indicates that they were both involved in attempts to capture Lincoln. The book concludes with an examination of how historians have dealt with the president's death, including claims that Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was involved, as well as recent charges that Jefferson Davis concocted plots which led to Lincoln's death.
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Quick Reference Guide for Sports Injury Management
Marcia K. Anderson and Malissa Martin
This handy pocket reference helps readers quickly assess and evaluate sports injuries. An excellent on-field resource, it covers all injuries listed in the NATA competencies, including signs, symptoms, and management guidelines. The outline format makes it easy to use, and the compact size means it fits in the pocket of the athletic training bag. Helpful appendices include information on drugs, special tests such as ROM and reflexes, and a suggested reading list.
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Encounters in Education
Robert E. Fitzgibbons and Raymond J. ZuWallack
While many educational texts possess a decidedly ideological slant, Encounters in Education employs an informal, pro-con format to assist students in developing a more comprehensive understanding of the diversity of opinions. The selections lead the reader directly into the excitement and drama of timely, central educational debates and provide the college instructor with a flexible vehicle for stimulating class discussion.
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An Ethnography of Four Non-Governmental Development Organizations : Oxfam America, Grassroots International, ACCION International, and Cultural Survival, Inc.
Diana Fox
This is a detailed study of the ways in which four non-governmental organizations are carving out approaches to international development in the 1990s. The text points to significant areas of reform and underscores the complexity and diversity of the development idea.
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Fundamentals of Sports Injury Management
Marcia K. Anderson and Susan J. Hall
Geared towards the needs of students in a basic athletic training class who have interest in athletic training, coaching, health education and fitness, PT, recreation, phys.ed, and youth sports. Encouraging application of the material in a clinical setting, each section of the book begins with an injury scenario, with clues toward diagnosis of the injury presented throughout the section.
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Understanding Violence
Elizabeth Englander
What impels human beings to harm others - family members or strangers? And how can these impulses and actions be prevented or contolled? Heightened public awareness of, and concern about, what is widely perceived as a recent explosion of violence - on a spectrum from domestic abuse to street crimes - has motivated behavioural and social scientists to cast new light on old questions. Many hypotheses have been offered. This volume sorts, structures and evaluates them. The author draws on contemporary research and theory in varied fields - sociology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, social work, neuropsychology, behavioural genetics, child development and education - to present an integrated summary of what we currently know about the causes and effects of violence. Throughout, she emphasizes the necessity of distinguishing between different types of violent behaviour and of realizing that nature and nurture interact in human development. There are no simple answers and many well-accepted "facts" must be challenged. Controversial issues such as physical punishment and violent television programming receive special attention. The volume is intended as a resource for all those concerned with violent offenders and their victims - and for their students and trainees.
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Choctaws at the Crossroads : The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region
Sandra Faiman-Silva
Choctaws at the Crossroads examines the political economy of the Choctaws at the end of the twentieth century. Forcibly relocated in the 1830s from the lower Mississippi Valley to the southeastern corner of Indian Territory, the Choctaws today are a dynamic and complex rural ethnic community in Oklahoma. Many work as nonunionized laborers for large corporations, yet they seek to maintain some aspects of their traditional way of life. Combining fieldwork and archival research, Sandra Faiman-Silva uncovers the processes by which the local economic and social practices of the Choctaws have become intertwined with and, in some respects, dependent on corporate and global economic forces. Low wages and often temporary work force the Choctaws to supplement their income through tribal economic assistance and through traditional practices of horticulture, fishing, craft production, canning, and residence sharing. Faiman-Silva finds a troubling paradox in this strategy. Such traditional economic activities are central to Choctaw identity and way of life and are outside the non-Indian controlled, capitalist system; at the same time, these practices help sustain the power and profits of corporations. This sensitive and theoretically informed study makes an important contribution to understanding the historic, economic, and social conditions of contemporary Native Americas.
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The Many Faces of Lincoln : Selected Articles from the Lincoln Herald
Charles M. Hubbard, Thomas R. Turner, and Steven K. Rogstad
The Many Faces of Lincoln is comprised of the best articles from the critically acclaimed journal, the Lincoln Herald, authored by a list of who's who among Lincoln historians. Each article includes an introduction written especially for the book.
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Revitalizing General Education in a Time of Scarcity : a Navigational Chart for Administrators and Faculty
Sandra L. Kanter, Zelda F. Gamson, and Howard London
In recent years more and more colleges and universities have been changing their curriculum to embrace the concept of General Education and these same institutions are encountering increased pressure to turn out graduates with career-ready skills. Their study gave special attention to the implementation of the changes, and this book is the outcome of the study. Realistic and practical, the book explores the many forces that affect an institution's efforts to provide students with the fundamentals of a liberal arts education. They profile colleges and universities that are not famous, elite, or wealthy, with the intention that their experiences will be helpful to others attempting change in the face of limited resources. And they breathe life into their discussion with fifteen detailed case studies and a wealth of stories and quotes from faculty members and administrators about their struggles to change the curriculum.
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Messages From the Underground : Transnational Radio in Resistance and in Solidarity
Nancy Street and Marilyn J. Matelski
Examining the role of transnational radio broadcasting in the 20th century, this study compares and contrasts the goals and objectives of six broadcast networks: the BBC, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, Radio Marti, Radio Free Asia, and Vatican Radio. The work traces the evolution—technical and programmatic—at each institution through world events such as World War II, the Cold War, the Solidarity Movement, the democratization of the Eastern bloc, and Tiananmen Square. Utilizing a series of case studies provided by selected authorities, the study demonstrates the effect of radio upon differing societies. Also, it explores options for alternative programming for each network, emphasizing their relationships to the evolving international political and media community in the late 20th century. The work will be of interest to scholars and students of mass media and international relations.
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U.S.-Latin American Relations
Michael Kryzanek
This revised and updated third edition of Kryzanek's text includes new data and analysis on the key events and controversies that have shaped US-Latin American relations through the first half of the Clinton administration. New and updated material addresses NAFTA, the recent Mexican political and financial crisis, Haiti, and other headline events since the last edition in 1990. In addition, the work includes a new chapter examining current issues of US hemispheric relations including NAFTA, the drug wars, immigration, the impact of the global economy and multilateral solutions to regional problems. This should be a valuable text for scholars and students in Latin American studies and international relations.
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Geography : Focus on Economics
George G. Watson, Vernon Domingo, Margaret Landman, Glenn Miller, and Carlyjane D. Watson
Two geographical perspectives-spatial and ecological-give students an understanding of patterns, processes, and the interrelationships of living and nonliving elements.
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Sports Injury Management
Marcia K. Anderson and Susan J. Hall
This text integrates basic concepts and relative scientific information to provide a foundation in all aspects of sports injury. It covers: prevention; recognition; assessment; management; disposition; and rehabilitation of a range of injuries from life threatening to minor.
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Latin America : Change and Challenge
Michael Kryzanek
An interdisciplinary introduction that explores the dynamic forces responsible for rising market economies and liberal democracies.
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Sociodrama: an interpretive theory for the practice of public relations
Thomas Mickey
In this unique book, Thomas Mickey looks at public relations from a humanistic definition that is focused on understanding publics rather than controlling them or predicting their behavior. Most public relations books assume several theories, which are more positivist in their approach, because they view public relations as a science. Sociodrama moves beyond that assumption to take public relations as a form of interaction. In this application of the theory of Sociodrama to public relations, Mickey describes Sociodrama's focus on language as the way to constitute the organization rather than as a tool to get something done. The author explains how the theory of Sociodrama proposes elements and levels of a drama present in our language. His study makes use of 2 qualitative research methodologies: focus groups and Q sorting, with a whole chapter of the book devoted to case studies. Mickey's study allows students to obtain a different view of public relations and makes the reader aware of the drama in the language of the organizations and the language of the public. The practitioner can use the knowledge gained from this book to interact in a way which builds a relationship with the publics, talking with them, and not to them.
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Victorian vistas: Fall River, 1901-1911, as viewed through its newspaper accounts
Philip T. Silvia Jr.
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People of the fresh water lake: a prehistory of Westborough, Massachusetts
Curtiss Hoffman
People of the Fresh Water Lake presents evidence obtained from archaeological research about the lifeways of the prehistoric peoples of the town of Westborough, Massachusetts over the past 9000 years. More than this, it is an expression, by the professional archaeologist most familiar with the Westborough evidence, of the way in which New England archaeologists work to reconstruct that region's prehistoric past. Chapters on specific phases of Westborough's prehistory are interspersed with essays on the craft of archaeology, which are designed to engage the interest of the reader and to prepare him/her more fully to understand the evidence. The book is geared to the level of the educated reader who has an interest in the past, but not necessarily specific knowledge of either the methods used, or the results obtained, in the New England region.
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U.S.-Latin American Relations
Michael Kryzanek
Second edition of this work on the critical relationship between the USA and its Latin neighbours, detailing new developments such as the Iran-"Contra" scandal along with an historical survey of inter-American relations from the Monroe Doctrine to the present.
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Victorian vistas: Fall River, 1886-1900, as viewed through its newspaper accounts
Philip T. Silvia Jr.
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Victorian vistas: Fall River, 1865-1885: as viewed through its newspaper accounts
Philip T. Silvia Jr.
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