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  Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the United States

  Alan Leventhal

  This publication is a source book that brings together a series of articles written by various Native and non-Native American scholars that addresses the critical issue of Federal recognition and the historic processes that have disenfranchised many of the historic tribes throughout the United States. College of Social Sciences

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  Epidemiology Kept Simple

  B. Burt Gerstman

  Epidemiology Kept Simple introduces the epidemiological principles and methods that are increasingly important in the practice of medicine and public health. Topics include disease causality, epidemiologic measures, descriptive epidemiology, study design, clinical and primary prevention trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, and the consideration of random and systematic error in studies of causal factors. Chapters on the infectious disease process, outbreak investigation, and screening for disease are also included. Department of Health Science and Recreation

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  Daydreaming in Kyoto

  Daniel Brook

  Kyoto is one of the world's most historical and beautiful cities. As Japan's capital city for nearly one thousand years, Kyoto is rich in all sorts of cultural ways. In "Daydreaming in Kyoto", one perfect day is detailed in this magical city through evocative and provocative haiku and photographs. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a haiku may be worth a thousand pictures. The possibilities are endless. Department of Sociology

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  Religion, Science and Democracy: A Disputational Friendship

  Lisa Stenmark

  This book uses Hannah Arendt’s work to understand the paradoxical role of religion and science in public life and to develop a model for the science and religion discourse which does not focus on truth claims, but rather promotes public discourse and judgment. It advocates the position of the storyteller, who never tells a definitive story but instead seeks more stories, and promotes a disputational friendship in which we seek out points of disagreement in order to expand the conversation and incorporate more stories. Department of Humanities

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  Python for Everyone

  Cay Horstmann

  This book is an adaptation of the popular "Java for Everyone" and "C++ for Everyone" introductory computer science textbooks to the Python language, combining Cay Horstmann's pedagogy and Rance Necaise's expertise in teaching Python. Department of Computer Science

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  Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy

  Anne T. Lawrence

  Market-leading textbook in the field of business and society, coauthored with James Weber of Dusquesne University. Department of Organization & Management

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  Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers

  Persis Karim

  Tremors is the first anthology of Iranian American fiction and gathers together the work of 27 writers and includes stories set in Iran before and after the revolution, as well as stories set in the United States that depict the lives and experiences of Iranian immigrants. Taken together, these stories provide a nuanced and thoughtful perspective on Iran and Iranian Americans at a time when most Americans are exposed to a steady diet of negative media representations of Iranian culture and people in both Iran and the United States. Department of English and Comparative Literature

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  Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development 13/14

  Ellen N. Junn

  Annual Editions: Child Growth & Development is a compilation of current and provocative articles on a large range of issues in child growth and development that is used nationwide as a supplementary reader in child development and psychology courses. Office of the Provost

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  Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments

  Jo Farb Hernandez

  A ground-breaking survey of 45 self-taught Spanish artists and their monumental art environments, this book includes a CD with full photographic documentation, text descriptions, and site plans, altogether comprising over 1100 pages. Detailed case studies of the artists and their works--most of which have never before been fully documented, let alone published or exhibited--are contextualized with historical and theoretical references to art history, anthropology, architecture, Spanish area studies, and folklore. Department of Art & Art History

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  Core Java, Volume I -- Fundamentals

  Cay S. Horstmann

  This is the 9th edition of the two-volume comprehensive coverage of the Java language and its core libraries, updated for Java 7. Core Java has been in print since 1995 and has been translated into over 20 languages. Department of Computer Science

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  Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology

  Stephen Morewitz

  This landmark publication is the first ever book on the topic of forensic sociology. The Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology offers comprehensive coverage of the impact of social science on the spectrum of civil, criminal, and immigration law issues. Department of Sociology

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  Father Junípero's Confessor

  Nicholas Taylor

  A historical novel re-imagining the story of the California missions. The novel’s publication coincides with the 300th anniversary of Junípero Serra’s birth. Department of English and Comparative Literature

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  Facilitative Leadership in Social Work Practice

  Roger Volker

  Facilitative Leadership is an empowerment process that helps social workers live their professional and personal ethics in one of the arenas where they spend much of their time - working in groups. In the form of a training manual, this text helps social work students and practitioners become more effective agents of change through understanding the meaning, principles, and characteristics of facilitative leadership. Department of Health Science and Recreation

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  The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticities

  Elizabeth Carroll Consavari

  Adopting a broad chronological framework and expanding the regional scope beyond Florence and Venice to include domestic interiors from less studied centers such as Urbino, Ferrrara and Bologna, this collection offers new perspectives on the home in early modern Italy. The volume's dual emphasis is on reconstructing the material culture of specific residences, and on how particular domestic objects reflect, shape, and mediate family values and relationships within the home. Department of Art & Art History

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  A Student's Guide to Lagrangians and Hamiltonians

  Patrick Hamill

  This physics textbook will be released by Cambridge University Press in January, 2014. It is intended as a study aid for physics graduate students taking a course in advanced mechanics. Department of Physics and Astronomy

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  Champion of Choice: The Life and Legacy of Women's Advocate Nafis Sadik

  Cathleen Miller

  Not many women in modern history can claim to have changed the world. But during her thirty years at the United Nations Population Fund, Nafis Sadik’s perseverance in supplying access to contraception cut the global birth rate in half—prompting the London Times to call her one of “the most powerful women in the world.” Written in a dramatic narrative style, her biography tells the true story of a character who defies all stereotypes—an obstetrician, a dedicated wife and mother, a Pakistani, a devout Muslim—who becomes the first female director of the U.N. Department of English and Comparative Literature

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  Teaching and Learning Patterns in School Mathematics: Psychological and Pedagogical Considerations

  Ferdinand Rivera

  This book draws on research findings on patterns in the last twenty years or so in order to argue for a theory of graded representations in pattern generalization.The alternative view of pattern generalization processing is not about permanent shifts or transition phases but graded and multimodal depending on individual learners’ experiences with patterns. Department of Mathematics

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  Records and Information Management

  Patricia Franks

  Franks presents complete coverage of the records and information lifecycle model from creation through preservation and introduces the records continuum. This work encompasses paper, electronic (databases, office suites, email), and new media records (blogs, wikis), as well as records residing in "the cloud" (software as a service). It covers a full range of topics, including the origins and development of records and information, the discipline of information governance, and electronic records and electronic records management systems. School of Library and Information Science

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  Harmony of Babel: Profiles of Famous Polyglots of Europe

  Scott Alkire and Tani Mitsch

  In the late 1980s the Hungarian interpreter Kató Lomb researched historical and contemporary polyglots in an effort to understand their linguistic achievements. Her resulting work, "Bábeli harmónia (Interjúk Európa híres soknyelvű embereivel)," was published in Budapest in 1988. Her book was translated and edited by Adam Szegi and Scott Alkire ("Harmony of Babel: Profiles of Famous Polyglots of Europe") and published by TESL-EJ in September. Book design by Tani Mitsch. Department of Linguistics & Language Development

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  Constructive Engagement of Analytic and Continental Approaches in Philosophy

  Bo Mou and Richard Tieszen

  From the vantage point of comparative philosophy and with the goal of cross-tradition constructive engagement, this anthology explores how analytic and "Continental" approaches in philosophy, as understood broadly and presented in the Western and other traditions, can learn from each other and jointly contribute to the contemporary development of philosophy on a range of issues. Philosophy Department

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  Core Java, Volume II -- Advanced Features

  Cay S. Horstmann

  This is the 9th edition of the two-volume comprehensive coverage of the Java language and its core libraries, updated for Java 7. Core Java has been in print since 1995 and has been translated into over 20 languages. Department of Computer Science

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  Panama and the United States: The End of the Alliance.

  Michael Conniff

  Panama and the United States chronicles over 180 years of relations between the two countries, following the former’s independence from Spain in 1821. It covers major projects, like the Panama railroad, the French canal episode, the U.S. canal, as well as principal treaties and their negotiations. It goes beyond diplomacy, however, to survey the breadth of relations, including economic, political, cultural, demographic, and intellectual. The Panama Canal dominates the narrative, to be sure, spanning the 20th century, yet since 1999 that waterway has been managed successfully by Panama, as detailed in a new concluding chapter. This has been called one of the best surveys of Panama’s history in English.

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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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  The Forgotten Gothic: Short Stories from the British Literary Annuals, 1823-1831

  Katherine D. Harris

  This collection of gothic short stories takes us further than perhaps eighteenth or nineteenth-century scholars are comfortable with – to extend our discussions about the Gothic in such a way that the tradition does not die at 1820, as is purported by Robert Mayo. We will, however, move past the deaths of Shelley, Keats and Byron – the spokespersons for the second wave of traditional Romanticism. Queen Victoria won’t ascend to the throne for another six years, and Tennyson has not yet become the powerhouse poet who will eventually rise to Poet Laureate of England. Scholars touted 1820-1830 as a “dead zone” – without any literary guiding light. However, many studies have shown that the magazines were filled with literary fodder, more specifically, the Gothic short story.

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  Introduction to Transportation Security

  Frances Edwards and Daniel C. Goodrich

  An overview of homeland security and emergency management is followed by information on the federal structures and security layers used in transportation systems. Six chapters each cover one mode of transportation, such as road, rail, maritime and air, ending with a chapter on global supply chain security and continuity of operations.