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  • Science Methods for Elementary Teachers by Ron Browne and David Kimori

    Science Methods for Elementary Teachers

    Ron Browne and David Kimori

    Complete Digitized Text of Science Methods for Elementary Teachers by Ron Browne and David Kimori, Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2022.

  • Undergraduate Research Projects: Step-by-Step by Elizabeth J. Sandell

    Undergraduate Research Projects: Step-by-Step

    Elizabeth J. Sandell

    This book is in a workbook format, intended to complement any individual or group of undergraduate researchers in their social science investigations. The step-by-step approach provides understanding and experience with scholarly inquiry. Students discover content and practice skills related to scholarly inquiry and their academic subjects.

  • Donde las nubes se unen al mar = Where the Clouds Meet the Water by Kimberly E. Contag

    Donde las nubes se unen al mar = Where the Clouds Meet the Water

    Kimberly E. Contag

    Donde las nubes se unen al mar (2021) es la traducción de la narrativa histórica Where the Clouds Meet the Water (2004), un libro que explica la saga de Ernesto Contag Ziehe y su familia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ernesto y su familia fueron deportados de su patria ecuatoriana a la Alemania de los Nazis en 1942. La narrativa histórica que se lee casi como novela se basa en la investigación en bibliotecas, hemerotecas

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  • Antología de la literatura española del Romanticismo: desde sus precedentes en la poesía trovadoresca provenzal hasta el Posromanticismo by Enrique Torner

    Antología de la literatura española del Romanticismo: desde sus precedentes en la poesía trovadoresca provenzal hasta el Posromanticismo

    Enrique Torner

    This is a digital interactive anthology of texts devoted to Spanish Romanticism especially designed for university non-Spanish speakers that are enrolled in Spanish majors or minors and are at least in their third year of study. This anthology may be used as textbook for any course by any instructor who might desire to use it without any written permission from the author. It may be used as a whole for a course on Spanish Romanticism

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  • Fantasy and Realism in Contemporary Ecuadorian Literature (1976-2006) by Kimberly E. Contag

    Fantasy and Realism in Contemporary Ecuadorian Literature (1976-2006)

    Kimberly E. Contag

    My purpose in this book is not to assess how well Ecuadorian literature fits into the broad Latin American literary scene or the global scene in particular, but instead to read and analyze how Ecuadorian writers communicate ideas about the world they live in through realism and fantasy. It is the nature of Ecuadorians to express their experience in these terms to portray a unique and multifaceted voice. To that end, I propose a model

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  • Los inicios del género detectivesco en España y sus antecedentes anglo-americanos: una antología bilingüe by Enrique Torner

    Los inicios del género detectivesco en España y sus antecedentes anglo-americanos: una antología bilingüe

    Enrique Torner

    A bilingual anthology of detective writing in Spain and the UK/US, with a preliminary study by Enrique Torner.

    This work was originally first available online through the World Association of International Studies at https://waisworld.org/en/wais/publications/books.

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  • Out of Chaos: Reflections of a University President and His Contemporaries on Vietnam-Era Unrest in Mankato and Its Relevance Today by James F. Nickerson

    Out of Chaos: Reflections of a University President and His Contemporaries on Vietnam-Era Unrest in Mankato and Its Relevance Today

    James F. Nickerson

    Out of Chaos: Reflections of a University President and his Contemporaries on Vietnam-era Unrest in Mankato and its Relevance Today is a collection of personal reminiscences that provide a glimpse into what Mankato was like during the 1960s and 1970s. The book was created by Dr. James F. Nickerson, former Mankato State College president, with input from a variety of graduates, faculty, administrators and citizens who were witnesses to these local events. It is by

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  • The Collective Works of Lloyd Burgess Sharp: Pioneer of the Outdoor Education Movement in the United States by Julie A. Carlson

    The Collective Works of Lloyd Burgess Sharp: Pioneer of the Outdoor Education Movement in the United States

    Julie A. Carlson

    Dr. Lloyd Burgess Sharp, pre-eminent pioneer of outdoor education, was a prolific writer, speechmaker, poet, interviewee, radio guest, and tenacious advocate of outdoor education. This edited volume, The Collective Works of Lloyd Burgess Sharp, contains dozens of his publications and transcripts from his many speaking appearances. These works span the years throughout his career, from the completion of his doctoral dissertation in 1929 through to his unexpected passing in 1963. The Collective Works eBook is

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  • Combating Violence & Abuse of People with Disabilities: A Call to Action by Nancy M. Fitzsimons

    Combating Violence & Abuse of People with Disabilities: A Call to Action

    Nancy M. Fitzsimons

    Violence and abuse of people with disabilities is a widespread problem. This is the one book that empowers everyone - professionals, families, and self-advocates alike - to stop abuse before it starts and empower people with disabilities to fight back. In clear and straightforward language, abuse prevention educator Nancy Fitzsimons calls readers to action and gives them the no-nonsense guidance they need to help people with a wide range of disabilities learn concrete ways to

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  • Where the Clouds Meet the Water by Kimberly E. Contag and James A. (Jim) Grabowska

    Where the Clouds Meet the Water

    Kimberly E. Contag and James A. (Jim) Grabowska

    Where the Clouds Meet the Water follows the historical journey of the German Ecuadorian widower, Ernst Contag, and his four young children from their home in the South American Andes to Nazi Germany in 1942. Blacklisted as an enemy alien, Ernst Contag and his children are forcibly repatriated to the country of Ernst's grandparents as part of a diplomatic exchange arranged by the United States' State Department and cooperating countries. In Nazi Germany, Ernst and

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  • Mankato State University: The Second Century: The First Twenty-Five Years, 1968-1992: An Interpretative Essay by Claire E. Faust

    Mankato State University: The Second Century: The First Twenty-Five Years, 1968-1992: An Interpretative Essay

    Claire E. Faust

    Donald Youel, in Mankato State College - An Interpretative Essay, commented on the development of this institution for its first one hundred years. He did not chronicle each event, but rather provided the reader with an understanding of what happened and what it meant for the College and for society. He organized this essay from different perspectives: "the developing program, the enrollment, students, the state governing board, administration and faculty." He made the point well

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  • Those Barracks Babies by Marcia Baer

    Those Barracks Babies

    Marcia Baer

    This is a book about how a group of folks, in a time long ago, living in a small Minnesota college town, celebrated life. It is a story of reflection. Reflection into the past when times and people were - shall we say - different. The people were veterans returning from the war, the time was the middle of the century-1947 through 1964. The place was Mankato State College in Southern Minnesota. This is the

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  • Mankato State College: An Interpretative Essay by Donald B. Youel

    Mankato State College: An Interpretative Essay

    Donald B. Youel

    The account of Mankato State College which follows is not a chronicle of events. It is rather a seeking for understanding of what happened: what led up to, what was part of, what followed, of what this part and that meant - for the College and for society. It is thus an essay. The tactic has been to look at the account from different perspectives: the developing program, the enrollment, students, the state governing board,

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