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  Understanding Communication Research Methods: A Theoretical and Practical Approach

  Stephen Michael Croucher and Daniel Cronn-Mills

  Using an engaging how-to approach that draws from scholarship, real life, and popular culture, this textbook, now in its third edition, offers students practical reasons why they should care about research methods and offers a practical guide to actually conducting research themselves.

  Examining quantitative, qualitative, and critical research methods, this new edition helps undergraduate students better grasp the theoretical and practical uses of method by clearly illustrating practical applications. The book features all the main

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  Technical Communication Essentials: Foundational Communication Strategies for Everyday Writing

  Ashley N. Flitter

  The strategies provided in this book build the foundational skills necessary to be both efficient and effective, the ultimate achievement in technical communication. The text covers why it is important to build your timelines in a way that allows for time away from you are working on, and why it is important review and revise everything, even emails. It also digs into strategies and tools that can help build a space to gain clarity during

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  Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Path from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army

  Rachael Hanel

  The mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States

  During this time of mounting unrest and violence, Camilla Hall’s story is of urgent interest for what it reveals about the forces of radicalization. But as Rachael Hanel ventures further into Camilla’s past, searching out the critical points where character and cause intersect, her book becomes an intriguing, disturbing, and deeply moving

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  MLK 11.12.61 [Film]

  Jameel Haque

  On Nov. 12, 1961, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Mankato, Minnesota. While here, he gave two sermons at Centenary United Methodist Church and a speech at Mankato High School. To explore this history, the Kessel Peace Institute of Minnesota State University, Mankato and True Façade Pictures collaborated to make a 40-minute documentary. The film explores the history, context and legacy of Dr. King’s visit to Mankato and reflects on where we have

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  Losing Sleep: Risk, Responsibility and Infant Sleep Safety

  Laura Harrison

  New parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of “co-sleeping,” or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing Sleep, Laura Harrison uncovers the origins of the infant sleep safety debate, providing a window into the unprecedented anxieties of modern parenthood.
  
  Exploring widespread rhetoric from doctors, public health experts, and the media, Harrison explains why our panic has reached an all-time

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  The Social Science of Same-Sex Marriage: LGBT People and Their Relationships in the Era of Marriage Equality

  Aaron Hoy

  Showcasing research from across the social sciences, this edited volume seeks to provide readers with an empirically grounded sense of how many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people marry in the US and Canada, what their marriages look like, and how LGBT people themselves are impacted by marriage and marriage equality.

  Prior to marriage equality, lawmakers and activists across the political spectrum debated whether same-sex couples should have the legal right to marry, and

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  Mothers, Families or Children? Family Policy in Poland, Hungary and Romania, 1945-2020

  Tomasz Inglot, Dorottya Szikra, and Cristina Raț

  Mothers, Families, or Children? is the first comparative-historical study of family policies in Poland, Hungary, and Romania from 1945 until the eve of the global pandemic in 2020. The book highlights the emergence, consolidation, and perseverance of three types of family policies based on “mother-orientation” in Poland, “family orientation” in Hungary, and “child-orientation” in Romania. It uses a new theoretical framework to identify core and contingent clusters of benefits and services in each country and

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  The Human Dimension in Education: Essential Learning Theories and Their Impact on Teaching and Learning

  Andrew P. Johnson

  This is an educational psychology book that focuses on human development, the human being, teaching, and learning. It is appropriate for preservice teachers who are seeking to comprehend essential theories and concepts in educational psychology. It is also appropriate for practicing teachers who want to understand and apply these theories and concepts at increasingly higher levels. As well, it can be used by decision-makers or anybody else who wants to better understand human development, human

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  Mujer y naturaleza: Una colección de textos para el debate

  Ana M. López-Aguilera and Adriana Gordillo

  Una compilación de textos escritos por autoras (latinoamericanas, españolas y latinas) que manifiestan un interés especial por la cuestión medioambiental. Estos textos y las actividades de comprensión y reflexión que los acompañan contribuyen: i) a familiarizarse con varias categorías relevantes del feminismo y del ecofeminismo y ii) a explorar, desde una perspectiva ecofeminista, algunos temas recurrentes en la literatura escrita por mujeres.

  A compilation of texts written by Latin American, Spanish, and Latina authors with

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  Libraries and Sustainability: Programs and Practices for Community Impact

  René Tanner, Adrian K. Ho, Monika Antonelli, and Rebekkah Smith Aldrich

  Library workers at all types of organizations, as well as LIS students learning about this newest Core Value of Librarianship, will find this book an easy-to-digest introduction to what staff at a range of libraries have accomplished in incorporating sustainability into their decision making and professional practices. In addition, a discussion about the role of economics and sustainability will challenge readers to stretch in new ways to positively impact their communities.

  As a core value

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  Essentially: Essays

  Richard Terrill

  "Here's the thing," Richard Terrill writes. "There's always the thing, isn't there, and most often, not just one?" Terrill, an award-winning poet and memoirist, asks through this series of wide-ranging, funny, and sometimes gut-punchingly vulnerable essays, what "is" essential? Maybe trout fishing, the music of Bill Evans, or the whys of dog ownership. Maybe Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, We Chat, a musician's early hearing loss, and spying on the neighbors. Or maybe the coming apocalypse,

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  The Great Reboot: Succeeding in a Complex Digital World Under Attack from Systemic Risk

  Bob Zukis, Paul Ferrillo, and Christophe Veltsos

  War, Covid and systemic cyber risk is actively threatening the digital future.

  Over 60% of the global economy is already powered by digital systems. However, this reality and the digital future are at risk from the systemic risks facing the complex digital systems powering businesses and world economies.

  As with the first edition, the heart of this story remains the complex digital business systems powering much of the global economy. The second edition brings an

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  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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  Maverick Learning and Educational Applied Research Nexus

  Elizabeth Harsma, Michael Manderfeld, and Carrie Lewis Miller

  MavLEARN is the Maverick Learning and Educational Applied Research Nexus. Learn research-based strategies for student engagement, teaching practice, assessment and feedback, learning theories, course design, and more.

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  Transformations: Change Work across Writing Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices

  Holly Hassel and Kirsti Cole

  As teaching practices adapt to changing technologies, budgetary constraints, new student populations, and changing employment practices, writing programs remain full of people dedicated to helping students improve their writing. This edited volume offers strategies for implementing large- and small-scale changes in writing programs by focusing on transformations­—the institutional, programmatic, curricular, and labor practices that work together to shape our teaching and learning experiences of writing and rhetoric in higher education.

  The collection includes chapters from

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  Designing Meaning-Based Interventions for Struggling Readers

  Andrew P. Johnson

  This highly practical book helps K–8 teachers implement effective reading interventions that support meaningful comprehension and engage students with interesting, age-appropriate texts. Andrew P. Johnson presents a range of strategies for addressing difficulties in the core areas of word identification, fluency, and comprehension. Packed with illustrative figures, the book provides guidance and tools for assessing reading problems, combining and adapting interventions for particular students, planning writing activities to enhance reading, aligning efforts within a response-to-intervention

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  Policing and Human Behavior

  Carl Lafata

  Recognizing that peace officers have become this nation’s first responders for calls involving those experiencing mental health crises, Policing and Human Behavior provides readers with information that will help them gain a better understanding of those living with mental illness, and people in general. The textbook uses theoretical concepts in sociology, social psychology, psychology, and criminology to explain the factors that influence human behavior in a variety of situations. It also uses those same concepts

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  Psychological Myths, Mistruths, and Misconceptions: Curriculum-Based Strategies for Knowledge Change

  Karla A. Lassonde and Melissa Birkett

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  Faster than Speed

  JP Mackey

  Getting a job done quickly is important, but not as important as getting it done right. Join Emberly and his flurf, Fuzzball, on their quest to save their village. Is Emberly fast enough to make it home before the first frost? Or will his concern for a helpless baby sonde slow him down and seal the fate of his family?

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  Game-Based and Adaptive Learning Strategies

  Carrie Lewis Miller and Odbayar Batsaikhan

  This book is designed to accompany a graduate-level instructional design course: Game-Based and Adaptive Learning, but could also be used for undergraduate teacher education or instructional design courses.

  The original texts and material for this book came from the development of a course for Brandeis University as part of their MS in Learner Experience Design program. This material can be used to teach pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and instructional designers about game-based and adaptive learning.

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  Just Work for All: The American Dream in the 21st Century

  Joshua Preiss

  This is a book about the American Dream: how to understand this central principle of American public philosophy, the ways in which it is threatened by a number of winner-take-all economic trends, and how to make it a reality for workers and their families in the 21st century. Integrating political philosophy and the history of political thought with recent work in economics, political science, and sociology, this book calls for renewed political and policy commitment

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  Crow's Reveal: A Near Future Technothriller

  Patrick Tebbe

  For the first time since the Sylph appeared, humanity cautiously shares the skies around Earth with the alien spheres. Cassie and her team have successfully given a rebirth to flight. Now they must reluctantly take on the burden of finding a way to get humanity off the planet before the Sylph finish their slow destruction of the world. An uneasy alliance of nations is supporting their efforts at Starlifter Command, but few of them know

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  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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  The Political Economy of Uneven Rural Development: Case of the Nonfarm Sector in Kerala, India

  Sudarshana Bordoloi

  The book shows how class relations develop and is a consequence of capitalist development of the rural nonagricultural/nonfarm sector (RNFS)---seen as the dialectical relation between the forces and relations of production---as mediated by the state, which produces uneven social and spatial outcomes. Central to the framework for this book are four interrelated conceptual building blocks or themes: social relations of production, productive forces, role of the state and concrete development outcomes of capitalist production in

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  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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