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  The CIDER Method: A Human Resource Approach to Handling Employee Complaints

  Jon Gallop

  "Sexual harassment and discrimination complaints can result in toxic work environments and huge plaintiff verdicts. This book teaches a novel, systematic method for addressing all employee complaints in a style that utilizes humor and case studies to help business students and human resource personnel comprehend the law, recognize issues and respond appropriately. The method employs the acronym CIDER--Communicate, Investigate, Document, Evaluate and Respond--as the cornerstone for properly handling employee complaints. This innovative approach takes a

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  Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Literature and Art

  Danielle Haque

  Interrogating Secularism is a call to rethink binary categories of “religion” and “secularism” in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. While most studies that explore the traffic between literature and issues of secularism emphasize how canonical texts naturalize and reinforce secular values, Interrogating Secularism approaches this nexus through novels written by and about ethnic and religious minorities. Haque juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Rabih

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  Cracking the Bell

  Geoff Herbach

  While recovering from a game-related concussion, football star Isaiah wonders what his life would be like without the game.

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  Essential Learning Theories: Applications to Authentic Teaching Situations

  Andrew P. Johnson

  Research-based theories provide the basis for good decision-making in education. As well, teacher effectiveness and student learning are enhanced when research-based theories are used to design curriculum and daily lessons. This book examines human learning in the context of four types of research-based learning theories: neurological learning theories, behavioral learning theories, cognitive learning theories, and transformative learning theories. With each theory, the basic elements are described along with specific classroom applications. The writing style makes

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  The Development and Challenges of Russian Corporate Governance I: The Roles and Functions of Boards of Directors

  Oksana Kim

  Despite increasing attention toward Russia’s economy and capital market, corporate governance norms of Russian public firms are rarely analyzed. This project presents and interprets evidence regarding various governance practices followed by Russian firms covering almost the entire period of the existence of the Russian stock market. Its findings run counter to some widely held beliefs according to which Russia is a country with high resistance to corporate innovations due to socialist legacies.
  
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  Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains

  Lori Ann Lahlum and Molly Patrick Rozum

  On 10 December 1869, the governor of Wyoming Territory signed the first full woman suffrage bill in the history of the United States. Suffragists in the neighboring territories of Montana and Dakota believed their prospects were similarly bright. Over the next twenty years, however, organizers' efforts to secure votes for women met only limited success. While suffragists hoped the territories' respective bids for statehood in 1889 and 1890 would change their fortunes, only Wyoming enshrined

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  Guide to Analysis of Language Transcripts

  Kristine S. Retherford, Linda R. Schreiber, and Rebecca L. Jarzynski

  Guide to Analysis of Language Transcripts is now in its fourth edition! This updated text includes access to a companion online program to give students additional analysis practice.

  Through the use of this comprehensive text readers learn classic semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic analysis. The opening chapter thoroughly explains the collection and transcription of conversation speech samples. The GALT presents hundreds of helpful example utterances (with full explanations) plus four transcriptions for analysis. The accompanying online

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  Undergraduate Research: Step-by-Step

  Elizabeth J. Sandell

  To view the first two chapters of the book, use an "incognito browser” to go to this link: https://app.tophat.com/e/119052

  Select "enter as a guest."

  Click on the "Assigned" tab.

  "I am excited to announce the 2019 publication of my electronic textbook, Undergraduate Research Projects: Step-by-Step by TopHat Publishers, Toronto, Canada. It's in a workbook format, intended to complement any

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  Vestige of Eden, Image of Eternity: Common Experience, the Hierarchy of Being, and Modern Science

  Daniel Toma

  Three great cosmological worldviews―of the Latin West, ancient Greece, and the Hebrew/Syriac world―arose from a union of ancient and medieval thought. Each had origins in the ancient world and reached a synthesis under scholastic medieval thinkers. This synthesis was incorporated into Catholic tradition, becoming identified as a cosmological worldview of the Catholic Church. This worldview maintains a correspondence to and connection between the structure of the universe and the divine plan of creation, whereby creation

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  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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  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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  Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx

  Matt Vidal, Tony Smith, Tomás Rotta, and Paul Prew

  Karl Marx is one of the most influential writers in history. Despite repeated obituaries proclaiming the death of Marxism, in the 21st century Marx's ideas and theories continue to guide vibrant research traditions in sociology, economics, political science, philosophy, history, anthropology, management, economic geography, ecology, literary criticism, and media studies.

  Due to the exceptionally wide influence and reach of Marxist theory, including over 150 years of historical debates and traditions within Marxism, finding a point

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  Empowering Our Students For the Future: Encouraging Self-Direction and Life-Long Learning

  Scott D. Wurdinger, Cynthia McDermott, Kiel Harell, and Hilton Smith

  Educators of every kind such as school superintendents, principals, teachers, higher education practitioners, community organizers and even students will gain essential skills, resources and examples to encourage and support individual as well as collective empowerment from early childhood education through college in both traditional classrooms and in the broader community. Working toward the goal of empowering young people as active citizens, this collection of chapters presents voices from across the broad community of educators who

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  Two Weeks In May: Revisiting Minnesota State University, Mankato's Past [Film Showing]

  Monika Antonelli

  Two Weeks in May, Film Showing and Panel Discussion held on October 2, 2018 at the Centennial Student Union at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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  Those Three Words: A Birth Mother's Story of Choice, Chance & Motherhood

  Christine M. Bauer

  "''You are pregnant.'' Those three words uttered together pack a powerful emotional punch. For many women, hearing them elicits tremendous joy and excitement. They are the start of a dream come true. But those same words said together also cause the opposite reaction--one of panic and despair. The first time Chris Bauer heard those words, she was just 18 years old, a few weeks into her freshman year of college. She was devastated. She was

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  How Steve Became Ralph: A Cancer/Stem Cell Odyssey (with Jokes)

  Steve Buechler

  Steve Buechler began telling his story within a week of his diagnosis with an email to his neighbors. Over the ensuing months, he composed over sixty such reports for an ever-expanding group of recipients. With the addition of a preface on lessons learned and an epilogue on identity changes, this compelling account documents and reflects upon his diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, including a detailed account of the stem cell transplant that saved his life.

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  Myth of the Queer Criminal

  Jeffery P. Dennis

  The Myth of the Queer Criminal documents over a century of writings by sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, and forensic scientists, in Europe and the United States, who asserted that LGBT persons were innately and uniquely criminal.

  Applying the tools of narratology and queer theory, Jeffery P. Dennis examines the ten types of queer criminal that have appeared in seminal texts, both literary and scientific, over the past 140 years - beginning with Lombroso's Criminal Man (1876)

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  Hooper

  Geoff Herbach

  For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.

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  Minnesota State University, Mankato 1868-2018: A Sesquicentennial History

  William E. Lass

  Follows the development of the university from its first 27 students pursuing two-year diplomas in 1868 to the almost 15,000 students pursing undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees in 2018.

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  Navigating Visual Culture: Theoretical Perspectives on Visual Media

  Amy Mattson Lauters

  Navigating Visual Culture: Theoretical Perspectives on Visual Media brings together an eclectic collection of theory-driven readings to help students understand and navigate the visual culture in which they live.
  
  The selections in Section I explore the nature of the visual and how people identify what they see around them, ranging from basic color to visual codes translated by the brain. Section II features readings that address the way people interpret, explain, and understand visual culture, while

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  Culturally Proficient Inclusive Schools: All Means All!

  Delores B. Lindsey, Jacqueline S. Thousand, Cynthia L. Jew, and Lori R. Piowlski

  Create inclusive educational environments that benefit ALL learners!

  As schools become more diverse with students of differing abilities and needs, this self-reflective and action-oriented guide helps you create and support more inclusive schools and classrooms that intentionally educate all students. Using the Five Essential Elements of Cultural Proficiency as a roadmap, this book presents:

  • Students’ learning differences as just that – differences rather than deficits
  • Strategies that show you how to break though the

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  Human Factors in the Built Environment

  Linda L. Nussbaumer

  Human Factors in the Built Environment, Second Edition explains the relationship of the human body and space planning to the design process so that you can plan and detail interiors. Key topics include proxemics, anthropometrics, ergonomics, sensory components, diversity, global concerns, health and safety, environmental considerations, special populations, and universal (inclusive) design. Recipient of the American Society of Interior Designers Joel Polsky Prize, this book has all the information you need in a quick reference

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  Broken Signals: (Trials of Disconnect)

  Tracy Ross

  Poems confronting the problems and paradoxes inherent in communication.

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  Certainty of One: A Tale of Education Automation

  Tracy Ross

  An autobiographical fictional memoir about a psychiatrist, a patient, and the journey of five friends who find unity through shared experiences.

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  Introspective Meditations for Complete Contentment (Santosha)

  Manoj Sharma

  “Introspective meditation” entails delving deeper into one’s own consciousness to find the answers. The book is divided into 25 chapters so that the reader can read one chapter every day and master transformed introspective thinking in a month’s time or so. These meditations are based on collective intelligence of modern and traditional thoughts and analyses. The book links these introspective meditations with scientific advancements in the fields of medical, behavioral and social sciences.

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