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Lee de Forest: King of Radio, Television, and Film
Mike Adams
Yale Ph.D. Lee de Forest took 19th Century science and turned it into the electronic entertainment media of the 20th Century. In 1907 he patented his signature invention, the vacuum tube, to be a transmitter, receiver and amplifier of sound. He experimented with the broadcast of music and started several radio stations. Beginning in 1918 he patented a system of writing sound on motion picture film for synchronized talking pictures. His tube was the key as it allowed amplification of sound using loudspeakers and made it possible for audiences to experience both radio and talking pictures. He supplied the missing voice to the motion picture for which he received an Oscar.
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Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach
V. Gregory Payne and Larry D. Isaacs
This is a leading text in Human Motor Development. It describes the normal changes in human movement progressions (e.g., infant reflexes, crawling, walking, hand writing, skilled movement) across the lifespan, as well as the issues related to these changes. The book was originally published in 1987, and is now in its 8th edition. It has been used throughout the world, and has been translated into other languages.
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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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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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Global Leadership: Research, Practice and Development
Joyce Osland, Mark E. Mendenhall, Allan Bird, Gary R. Oddou, Martha L. Maznevski, Michael Stevens, and Günter K. Stahl
This book is the only overview and compendium of research published to date in the nascent field of global leadership. It describes the global context in which leaders of multinational enterprises work, the difference between domestic and global leaders, and the multidisciplinary roots of this field. In addition to reviewing the literature and practical recommendations on global leadership competencies, assessment, process models and development methods, the book also discusses global teams, knowledge creation and transfer, and change.
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Mentorship of Special Educators
Jennifer C. Booker Madigan and Georganne S. Schroth-Cavataio
The national shortage and exceptionally high attrition rate of special education teachers are barriers to effectively serving students with disabilities. Given that only 64 percent of special education teachers have access to a mentor compared with 86 percent of general education teachers, Mentorship of Special Educators meets an essential need for attracting, retaining, and supporting special educators. This book provides research-based tools for professional developers to use in multiple settings, including schools with culturally and linguistically diverse students.
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Versos Sencillos
José Martí, Anne Fountain, and Lisa Vollendorf
A introduction and notes in both English and Spanish along with a bilingual presentation of the poems of José Martí. "One of the best works of translation...of Cuba's most universal and most-admired hero" - Hispania
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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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Forensic Engineering Sciences: American Academy of Forensic Sciences Reference Series - A Decade of Research and Case Study Proceedings
Anastasia Micheals, Laura L. Liptai, Sonya R. Bynoe, and Anne Warren
The American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Reference Series is the largest collection of forensic case studies and research abstracts worldwide spanning eleven fields of forensic science. Established in 1948, the AAFS represents over 6,260 members from all fifty US states, all ten Canadian provinces and 62 other countries worldwide. This first of its kind twelve volume collection contains a decade of proceedings from many of the most prominent forensic scientists worldwide.
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Structural Concrete: Theory and Design
Akthem Al-Manaseer and M. Nadim Hassoun
Structural Concrete, Fifth Edition provides complete guidance to the analysis and design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. This new edition brings all material up to date while maintaining the book's practical, logical, easy-to-follow approach.
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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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