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  Economic Development and GIS

  J M. Pogodzinski and Richard Kos

  Economic Development and GIS shows why geographic information system (GIS) software is an essential tool for economic development planning and analysis. The book describes policy problems in economic development then presents methods and techniques to solve them with GIS. Economic Development and GIS uses examples from Esri Business Analyst and ArcGIS software to explain the value of GIS in economic development decision making.

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  Benchmarking and Organizational Change

  Mohammad H. Qayoumi

  Benchmarking & Organizational Change will assist in integrating the technical, human, and economic aspects of an organization in order to optimize your business and planning results. Benchmarking will achieve the following for your organization: stimulate creativity across the enterprise minimize or eliminate complacency and the superficial mindset expand horizons beyond your industry enhance sensitivity to external factors align your business strategies to action plans create an ongoing sense of urgency to remain competitive and, possibly, outpace your competition

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  Navaye Nai (Sound of Reed)

  Najia Karim Qayoumi

  A native of Afghanistan and a registered dietitian, Najia Karim is also a Persian poet whose work has been published in several Afghan and Iranian magazines in the US. She is a regular guest with the on one of the local Afghan Satellite television stations.

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  Bean Bags to Bod Pods: A History of 150 years of San José State University's Department of Kinesiology

  Shirley Reekie

  This book chronicles the development of what started as the first public system of physical activity (now typically housed in departments of Kinesiology) in higher education in the west and one of the earliest in the entire US. In common with most programs, it began as a physical education teacher education program but in the last 50 years has diversified into preparing students for many careers including personal training, sport management, athletic training, adapted physical activity, cardiac rehabilitation, physical therapy, exercise physiology, coaching, and sport psychology. It is not a history of athletics but this does form a strand in the narrative, which is set in the context of the major social and political movements of the times.

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  Towards Equity in Mathematics Education: Gender, Culture, and Diversity

  Ferdinand Rivera and Helen Forgasz

  The volume gathers together twenty major chapters that tackle a variety of issues associated with equity in mathematics education along the dimensions of gender, culture, curriculum diversity, and matters of a biological nature. The research studies that are reported and discussed in the volume have been drawn from an international group of distinguished scholars whose impressive, forward-looking, and thought- provoking perspectives on relevant issues incite, broaden, and expand complicated conversations on how we might effectively achieve equity in mathematics education at the local, institutional, and systemic levels. Further, the up-to-date research knowledge in the field that is reflected in this volume provides conceptual and practical outlines for mechanisms of change, including models, examples, and usable theories that can inform the development of powerful equitable practices and the mobilization of meaningful equity interventions in different contexts of mathematics education. (Rivera also has a chapter in this book.)

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  Global Rights and Perceptions

  Avantika Rohatgi

  In Global Rights and Perceptions students read from a wide variety of original sources—foreign policy journals, non-fiction books, medical journals, and current affairs magazines on how human rights are currently being violated through practices such as human trafficking, female genital mutilation, organ trade, and female feticide. This varied exposure gives students several gateways through which to approach complex social issues, think and write about them with awareness and engagement. Based on the premise that students must be pulled away from a highly commercial, digitally perfect present, and encouraged to intelligently and passionately examine an imperfect world with a view to changing it, the book provides a well-rounded education on global rights, and the lack thereof, in our modern world.

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  Wicked Hill

  Edwin Sams

  Wicked Hill is an American Gothic tale of suspicion and superstition set in the Smoky Mountains of the Eastern United States.

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  Pedretti’s Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction

  Winifred Schultz-Krohn and Heidi McHugh Pendleton

  This comprehensive textbook addresses the provision of occupational therapy services for those with physical disabling conditions and is widely used throughout the United States and internationally, being translated in several languages. In the 7th edition the editors, who also authored several of the chapters, sought to infuse clinical reasoning, analysis and practical intervention methods throughout the textbook with case presentations to help the reader apply the information to clinical practice. Over 50 expert occupational therapist were sought as contributors to this textbook providing the most contemporary and well researched methods for occupational therapy intervention. This textbook has received wide acclaim as being the “OT Bible” for occupational therapists working with individuals with physical disabilities.

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  The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups.

  Randall Stross

  For the project, I took a two-semester DIP leave and acted as an ethnographer, closely observing a group of software entrepreneurs as they were selected for seed funding and then worked on their products under the supervision of partners at Y Combinator, a seed fund in Mountain View. The resulting narrative presents an inside view of the process of angel investing on a large scale---there were 64 startups that were funded simultaneously----and of startup creation at the heart of Silicon Valley.

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  Food and Culture

  Kathryn P. Sucher

  Research based coverage of health culture, food and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic, religious, and regional groups living the United States. Chapters include information on traditional and acculturated health beliefs and practices, food and religion, and intercultural communication. The book is widely used in nutrition and dietetic education programs, as well as by other allied health professionals.

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  The LinkedIn Essentials: Leveraging LinkedIn to Grow Your Business

  Peter F. Young and Asia Bird

  The LinkedIn Essentials shows you proven techniques for attracting quality clients using LinkedIn, and provides you with the essential elements for successfully marketing your business on LinkedIn, the largest PROFESSIONAL social network in the world, and the perfect place to target B2B customers.

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  Assault on Kids: Hyper-accountability, Corporatization, Deficit Ideologies and Ruby Payne are Destroying our Schools

  Roberta Ahlquist, Paul Gorski, and Theresa Montaño

  This book critiques the conservative neoliberal educational reform agenda; a remaking of U.S. public schooling into a private and corporate enterprise. This agenda is an assault on students and teachers. It includes high stakes standardization of both curriculum and testing, and threatens teacher efficacy and student engagement. The book is a social justice call to action to save public schools, and push back against this regressive agenda.

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  Deus Ex Machina

  Andrew Foster Altschul

  Set behind the scenes of a reality television show, Deus Ex Machina explores the lives of players and crew as they compete, manipulate, and betray one another. In the wake of personal tragedies, the show's producer has come to question the value of his creation, and his attempts to inject something "real" into "reality" meet with resistance from the all-powerful network and wreak havoc on the deserted island where the show is being taped. When true catastrophe strikes, he finds it harder and harder to navigate this surreal landscape, where boundaries of the real, imagined, and orchestrated have blurred beyond recognition. The Wall Street Journal described Deus Ex Machina as "a heady, fast-paced novel" and NPR called it "brilliant... one of the best novels about American culture in years."

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  Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the US

  William T. Armaline

  "An accessible and highly readable collection that pulls together a wide range of information and analyzes it through the lens of sociology. The book makes a significant contribution to emerging literature that applies human rights principles to U.S. policy and practice."—Martha F. Davis, Northeastern University

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  They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill: The Psychological Meaning of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction

  Joni Richards Bodart

  Teen readers have always been fascinated by monsters, but lately it seems like every other young adult (YA) book is about vampires, zombies, or werewolves. These works are controversial because they look at aspects of life and human nature that adults prefer to keep hidden from teenagers. But this is also why they are so important: they provide a literal example of how ignoring life’s hazards won’t make them go away, and demonstrate that ignorance of danger puts one at greater risk. Bodart examines six different monsters in YA fiction (vampires, shapeshifters, zombies, unicorns, angels, and demons), discusses the meaning of these monsters in cultures all over the world, and explores their history and most important incarnations in teen fiction.

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  Some Same but Different: Unlearning the Concept of Disability

  Bettina Brockmann

  The book exemplifies how working with leads to a product that can help create an inclusive academic environment. The author worked with 7 students with disabilities to better understand their successes and struggles within higher education. Together, they explore the social construct of disability and offer ways on how to unlearn this learned concept. Guiding exercises and thought-provoking ideas challenge the reader to investigate his/her own attitudes and beliefs. In addition, the book offers guidelines on how students and instructors can engage one another in constructive dialogue across difference. This book is applicable across a broad array of courses and disciplines.

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  Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City during the Revolution

  Ruma Chopra

  Thousands of British Americans in the thirteen colonies rejected the War for American Independence. Shunning rebel violence as unnecessary, unlawful, and unnatural, they emphasized the natural ties of blood, kinship, language, and religion that united the colonies to Britain. This is a story of how a cross-section of colonists flocked to the British headquarters of New York City to support their ideal of reunion. These loyal Americans did not surrender their vision but creatively adapted their rhetoric and accommodated military governance to protect their long-standing bond with the mother country. They never imagined that allegiance to Britain would mean a permanent exile from their homes.

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  T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the Idea of Europe

  Paul Douglass

  T. S. Eliot’s response to Dante includes aesthetic, philosophical, and religious convictions, his formative influence upon literary modernism’s “classicism,” and his desire to promote European unity. The book’s deals with Eliot’s engagement through Dante with concepts of immediate experience, primary consciousness, and “unified sensibility,” as well as with Hindu-Buddhist and Christian themes and motifs. The book also deals with Eliot as a modernist writer, asking how Dante influenced Eliot, and through Eliot many other writers. Dante’s importance to Eliot’s promotion of an “idea of Europe” is related to his notion of “tradition.

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  Dante and Italy in British Romanticism

  Paul Douglass and Frederick Burwick

  This volume, which brings together several of the most authoritative scholars in the field, represents a landmark in the study of Anglo-Italian literary and cultural relations in the Romantic period. It succeeds brilliantly … and throws much-needed light on a crucial period of political and social transformation in Italy, as seen from the critical but sympathetic viewpoint of contemporary British intellectuals, reaffirming the centrality of Dante’s role in the formation and interpretation of Italy’s late and contradictory identity as a nation.

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  Coordinating the Communication Course: A Guidebook

  Deanna Fassett and John T. Warren

  Written by two experienced course directors and graduate teaching associate supervisors, this book is designed to help both novice and experienced course coordinators effectively manage the challenges associated with large, multi-section communication courses. Topics range from selection, training and evaluation of faculty to assessment and advocacy.

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  Child Growth and Development

  Ellen Junn and Chris J. Boyatzis

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  Cognitive Communication Disorders

  Michael Kimbarow

  This innovative book is the definitive core text for graduate courses covering cognitively based communicative disorders. Instructors now have a resource that provides current knowledge on the normal cognitive processes that support communication, along with current knowledge on the impact deficits in these cognitive domains may have on language and communication. The textbook provides a comprehensive review of theoretical and applied research on the cognitive processes of attention, memory and executive function; and, Identifies the unique cognitive communication deficits associated with right hemisphere damage, the dementias, and traumatic brain injury. Demonstrates the synergy among cognitive supports for communication and the impact of cognitive deficits on communication

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  Canadian Perspectives on Men and Masculinities

  Jason Laker

  This new interdisciplinary reader is one of the only texts that explores men and masculinity issues within a distinctly Canadian context. Featuring sixteen original essays by leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this fascinating volume analyzes the many ways in which men and masculine gender roles have been constructed and depicted within Canadian society. Organized into three thematic sections, the text examines topics such as popular culture, sports, immigration, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, and other dimensions of identity, while considering whether 'Canadian masculinity' is particularly unique.

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  Masculinities in Higher Education: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

  Jason Laker

  Masculinities in Higher Education provides empirical evidence, theoretical support, and developmental interventions for educators working with college men both in and out of the classroom. The critical philosophical perspective of the text challenges the status-quo and offers theoretically sound educational strategies to successfully promote men’s learning and development. Contesting dominant discourses about men and masculinities and binary notions of privilege and oppression, the contributors examine the development and identity of men in higher education today. This edited collection analyzes the nuances of lived identities, intersections between identities, ways in which individuals participate in co-constructing identities, and in turn how these identities influence culture.

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  Revolution of Forms, Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools

  John Loomis

  This book examines the convergence and collision of architecture, ideology, and culture in 1960s Cuba through the architectural design for the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte. The attention that his book brought to these works of architecture prodded the Cuban government to commit to their restoration, and to declare them national monuments in November 2010. In addition, the book has provided the inspiration for a documentary film, Unfinished Spaces by Alysa Nahmias, an art installation Utopía Posible at the 2009 Gwangju Biennial by Felipe Dulzaides, and an opera, Revolution of Forms, being developed with Robert Wilson as director.