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  Introduction to Theory of Flight

  Nihad E. Daidzic

  Introduction to Theory of Flight equips students with critical and foundational knowledge in fundamental science principles that make flight possible.
  
  The book is organized into three main parts: fundamental science, advanced science, and expert knowledge covering specific flight physics areas. Dedicated chapters and appendices cover atmospheric and space flight, various categories and classes of aircraft, terrestrial atmosphere, and many special topics. Readers learn about air properties and measurements; the basic laws of classical mechanics, including rigid-body

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  EFL Writing Teacher Education and Professional Development: Voices from Under-Represented Contexts

  Estela Ene, Betsy Gilliland, Sarah Henderson Lee, Tanita Saenkhum, and Lisya Seloni

  This book explores how EFL writing teacher education is theoretically, pedagogically, methodologically and sociopolitically shaped, given teachers' unique local contexts and circumstances. It showcases practitioners and researchers teaching in, or studying, geographic areas that have as yet been under-represented in international publications, and it focuses on ways that specific contexts create unique opportunities and constraints on what developing teachers know and do in their work. The chapters prioritize local voices and materials to build a

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  The Sociology of Families Reader: Issues, Perspectives, and Debates

  Aaron Hoy and Emily M. Boyd

  Through a carefully curated selection of readings highlighting important empirical research on family life in the U.S., The Sociology of Families Reader: Issues, Perspectives, and Debates introduces students to the major questions, influential findings, and contested interpretations that animate the sociology of families today.
  
  The volume is organized into nine units, each dedicated to a unique aspect of family life. Units begin with a brief introduction, which situates the readings for that unit within broader patterns

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  Being and Becoming Teachers of Writing: A Meaning-Based Approach to Authentic Writing Instruction

  Andrew P. Johnson

  This engaging, inviting textbook from a renowned expert in writing education provides all the knowledge, pedagogical strategies, and tools needed to enable any teacher to be an effective teacher of writing.

  Using the five-step writing process as a foundation, the text describes how to teach the necessary skills related to grammar, spelling, punctuation, and other writing mechanics, and addresses all major genres and stages of writing. Written in an authentic voice that exemplifies good writing,

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  The LEARN Method: An Interactive Guide for Effective Learning

  Karla Lassonde

  The LEARN Method is a program designed to teach students strategies to improve learning.

  NOTE: Some of the interactive elements are not available in the PDF version. Please visit https://minnstate.pressbooks.pub/learnmethod/ to view the online version with full H5P elements.

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  DIY: The Wonderfully Weird History and Science of Masturbation

  Eric Sprankle

  An approachable and humorous deep dive into the history, culture, and science behind masturbation.

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  Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology

  Kirsti Cole and Valerie Renegar

  This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal care-givers beyond the biological definitions of motherhood.

  This diverse collection is at the cutting-edge of rhetoric, feminism, and motherhood studies, and the chapters challenge the confines of biological parenting as heteronormative within the neo-liberal nuclear family. The contributors examine, how despite the diversity of parental

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  Implementing Tootling Interventions: A Practitioner’s Guide to Increasing Peer Prosocial Behaviors

  Alexandra Hilt-Panahon and Kennedi J. Alstead

  This book is a comprehensive guide to the history and implementation of the tootling intervention that was designed to increase prosocial behaviors in school-aged children.

  Implementing Tootling Interventions provides practitioners with the resources and information needed to implement tootling effectively and successfully in their desired setting to increase prosocial behavior, decrease disruptive behavior, and increase academic engaged time for students. To address individuals of all abilities and ages, modifications are provided for early childhood education,

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  Leadership in Star Trek: Lessons from the Captain's Chair

  Jason A. Kaufman and Aaron M. Peterson

  What are the skills necessary for effective leadership? How can we learn to lead toward a better tomorrow? For six decades, the captains of Star Trek have demonstrated the potential for leaders to leverage reason and compassion in the service of others. Grounded in science yet focused on practical application, this book uses case studies from more than 40 episodes and films to explore how Captains Archer, Burnham, Pike, Kirk, Picard, Sisko, and Janeway relied

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  Bridging Leadership and School Improvement: Advice from the Field

  Leslie Ann Locke and Sonya D. Hayes

  Principals wear many hats, but the most significant role they have is improving teaching and learning so all students are successful. Bridging Leadership and School Improvement: Advice from the Field features narratives of successful principals across multiple states in the US, who have not only improved their schools but have created supportive and inclusive learning communities for both teachers and students. Each practitioner-author discusses an improvement practice that they successfully implemented in their school and

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  The Thompson Twins: The Minnesota Mysteries

  Michael David MacBride and Heidi Wall Burns

  Who are the Thompson Twins? Tina and Tony preteens from Minnesota who are known for being friendly, clever, and particularly good at solving puzzles. They are also very good at solving mysteries, which means people often turn to them for help when something is missing.
  
  When people first meet Tony and Tina, they often ask, “How are you twins? You look nothing alike!” Depending on whose turn it is, Tony or Tina explains about fraternal twins

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  Ichabod Strange Bounces Back

  JP Mackey

  Owls! Space aliens! Contractural obligations! Ichabod Strange returns as a custodian who lives in a creepy old mansion with his cat, Wheelbarrow. These eight short stories tell the tales of his day-to-day adventures.

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  The Viking Battalion: Norwegian American Ski Troops in World War II

  Olaf Minge, Kyle Ward, and Erik Brun

  Hidden in the crevasses of World War II history is the story of the 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate). A small unit that rarely gets any attention, it is part of a fascinating story. Alongside battalions of Austrian, Greek, Filipino and Japanese Americans, the Army decided to create an all Norwegian American battalion, originally trained at Camp Hale, Colorado, along with the 10th Mountain Division, with the original mission of liberating Norway. Their exploits during training

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  TOCCA: Task-Oriented Community Centered Acquisition: A Guidebook for Use in World Language Courses

  Sarah Tahtinen-Pacheco, Matthew Hanson, and Becky Skogen

  The TOCCA guidebook will introduce you to the best new way to learn a language. Using current research from the fields of Linguistics, World Languages, and Education, this new method was created for teachers to increase language acquisition and retention while honoring the rich cultural perspectives of native speakers. The TOCCA method shifts learning away from pre-created, text-centered curriculum to co-created, student-centered experiences within the classroom, local community, and beyond. We have found this to

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  Songs, Blood Deep

  Gwen Nell Westerman

  As graceful and intricately rooted as prairie grass, Gwen Nell Westerman’s poetry honors and nourishes traditional ways of being, 'the sustained symmetry of songs,' a lifeblood that runs through generations of women, from grandmothers of long ago to granddaughters of a yet-to-be-seen future as real as the present and past. Songs, Blood Deep weaves English and Dakota language and spirit with personal memories and tribal histories in a collection that is lyrical and profound, a

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  Insatiable: A Nation's Unappeasable Hunger

  David Bissonnette

  Insatiable: A Nation’s Unappeasable Hunger is a book that dives into the struggle between nutrition and man’s medical, psychological, and spiritual values. The book broadly reviews the obesity epidemic, but it also delves deeply into its origins, empowering the reader with a social, cultural, and spiritual understanding of the true origins of this epidemic, but also defining, in the process, life’s purpose, and its profound meaning. From poor nutrition to weight loss struggles, this book

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  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.

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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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