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  Friendship and Happiness: And the Connection Between the Two

  Tim Delaney and Timothy J. Madigan

  This philosophical and sociological look at friendship and happiness begins with a review of Aristotle's three categories of friendship--friends of utility, friends of pleasure and friends of the good. Modern variations--casual friends, close friends, best friends--are described, along with the growing phenomena of virtual friendships and cyber socialization in the Internet age. Inspired in part by Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness, the authors propose that conquering unhappiness is key to achieving the self-satisfaction Russell called zest and Aristotle called eudaimonia or thriving by our own efforts.

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  This Thirst

  M.J. Iuppa

  This Thirst is a stroll down a country lane one thinks they know, yet there are surprises at every turn. These poems are grounded in wind, in water, and in landscape, and then take flight into the sublime. Iuppa’s keen eye overturns every stone to look, unflinchingly, at what is revealed. Her deeply introspective verse examines the intricacies of life—and beyond—asking only that we “relish all that waits patiently to be noticed before darkness comes.” And relish we do, as Iuppa has composed an array of imagery that compels us to confront the beauty, mystery, joy, and regret that comprise our unquenchable thirst for this life.

  ~ Carol McMahon, teacher and poet, has work published in various journals (IthacaLit, The Wild Word, The Ekphrastic Review, Prodigal, Claudius Speaks, Clockhouse) and a chapbook, On Any Given Day, published by FootHills Publishing.

  This Thirst offers entry into a vibrant world that is personal, exquisitely observed, and universal in its significance. M.J. Iuppa is a poet of the intimate—meaning that which is closest to her, the near and the small that might not otherwise catch our attention, but on which our inner lives are built. What is more valuable than what you see, hear, touch and feel—what you live with daily, internally as well as in the external world? Iuppa’s distinct gift is to trace the line which runs between these realms. These wonderful lyric poems surprise and delight again and again with their delicate understanding of the depth of the transient. Their scope inverts and connects the largest and smallest things, as in “Delta,” when the poet walks an icy Lake Ontario shore, her home country, declaring: “O quiet industry of weather/here pyramids are built in a day,” and ends: “If I knew what happens next, / I could give up.” This Thirst is ultimately a buoyant collection. It’s about survival. It humanizes time. It will renew your own sense of what life is in its very passing.

  ~Stan Sanvel Rubin, founding Director, The Rainier Writing Workshop low residency MFA, author of four full length collections, including the Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize-winning Hidden Sequel (2006) and There. Here. (Lost Horse Press 2013).

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  Community Media and Identity in Ireland (Routledge Focus on Media and Cultural Studies)

  Jack Rosenberry

  This book explores how Ireland’s community media outlets reflect and shape identity at the local level. While aspects of its culture date back centuries, the nation-state of Ireland is less than one hundred years old. Because of this and other elements of the island’s history, Irish identity is a contested topic and the island is a place where culture, identity and geography are tightly intertwined. By addressing how community media serve as agents for community building, the book examines how they in turn influence the way individuals connect with their communities.

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  Applied Mass Communication Theory: A Guide for Media Practitioners - 2nd Edition

  Jack Rosenberry and Lauren A. Vicker

  Applied Mass Communication Theory: A Guide for Media Practitioners, Second Edition bridges a review of theory to the contemporary work of media professionals. The text provides a framework for constructing an undergraduate research project. It also presents vital chronological information on the progression of theory in mass communication, including a model that integrates mass communication theories and shows how they relate to one another. It concludes with information on media law, ethics, economics, and mass media careers, establishing a critical framework for students as they leave college and begin their first jobs.

  This Second Edition discusses mass communication theory and its applications in both traditional print and broadcast applications. By exploring advertising and public relations in this new digital multi-media environment, this text remains relevant, and in fact necessary, for students in the field.

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  Small Worlds Floating

  M.J. Iuppa

  The small things of the world become worldly themselves under M.J. Iuppa's tender gaze in SMALL WORLDS FLOATING.

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  Lessons learned from popular culture

  Tim Madigan and Tim Delaney

  As the “culture of the people,” popular culture provides a sense of identity that binds individuals to the greater society and unites the masses on ideals of acceptable forms of behavior. Lessons Learned from Popular Culture offers an informative and entertaining look at the social relevance of popular culture. Focusing on a wide range of topics, including film, television, social media, music, radio, cartoons and comics, books, fashion, celebrities, sports, and virtual reality, Tim Delaney and Tim Madigan demonstrate how popular culture, in contrast to folk or high culture, gives individuals an opportunity to impact, modify, or even change prevailing sentiments and norms of behavior. For each topic, they include six engaging and accessible stories that conclude with short life lessons. Whether you’re a fan of The Big Bang Theory or Seinfeld, the Beatles or Beyoncé, Charlie Brown or Superman, there’s something for everyone.

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  Bertrand Russell : Public Intellectual

  Tim Madigan and Peter Stone

  The essays in this volume treat topics from education to publishing, from academic freedom to political activism, from Russell's possible adoption of new communication modes (were he alive today) to the representation of his life and ideas in fiction. They reflect the engagement of Bertrand Russell in public affairs over three quarters of a century. They also reflect the diverse interestes that bring scholars together in the Russell Society to study his manifold works. The consistently first-rate papers in this collection serve as a powerful reminder of the breadth and depth of the contributions from one of the leading philosophers of the Twentieth Century. Those of us familiar with Russell's writings have always been impressed by the range of topics that concerned Bertie. His commitment to the examined life, with all its foibles, shines bright in this set of essays. This text is an invaluable resource for students of Russell's life and thought (Kenneth Blackwell and Alan Schwerin).

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  El archivo Torremediada

  Francisco Plata

  Spring 1933. Ángela Salazar, a young woman from Madrid who recently graduated in Literature, accepts the commission to organize and open to the public a small library in Granada. But Angela's enthusiasm, which reflects that of so many young people in the amazing cultural effervescence of the moment, clashes with the apathy and incomprehension of a provincial city that is not very enterprising and suspicious of the social transformations that are beginning to take place in Spain. The year of the first Madrid Book Fair, the first summer courses in Santander and the first elections in which women have the right to vote, is also a year of growing ideological extremism that, without a decided desire for harmony, motivates an alarming deterioration of civility and public life, with violent altercations in the streets and serious government crises. Trapped by increasingly contradictory circumstances, Ángela comes into contact with a group of enthusiastic young people who will also collaborate in the opening of the Torremediada archive and library, a symbol for them of the ideals of a society that aspires to be, once and for all, modern and democratic. However, the personal conflicts of her new friendships and the progressive social tension will converge in unexpected events that will definitively disrupt Angela's life.

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  Leadership in Nursing Professional Development: An Organizational and System Focus

  Charlene M. Smith and Mary G. Harper

  This text is the first leadership text designed specifically for nursing professional development. It is designed for the NPD department leader and covers general leadership principles, legal/ethical considerations and operational components of departmental management such as human resources management and fiscal responsibility.

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  Teaching across Cultures: Building Pedagogical Relationships in Diverse Contexts

  Chinwe Ikpeze

  Teaching across Cultures: Building Pedagogical Relationships in Diverse Contexts captures the tensions, complexities as well as the transformational potentials of teaching across multiple cultural contexts. The book evolved from cumulative self-studies that examined one teacher educator's teaching practice, the cultural impact on this practice, and how she facilitated transformative teaching and learning. While every act of teaching occurs across cultures such as institutional culture, invisible cultures, classroom cultures, among others, educators who teach as cultural outsiders have to navigate the tensions, complexities and contradictory realities of cross-cultural teaching. The tensions can be reduced or managed through responsive pedagogy, relationship building and teaching in the third space. These transformational approaches not only help to identify and close the perpetual gaps in teaching and learning but also position effective teaching within a pedagogical common ground that values student voices, facilitates pedagogical flexibility and uses diversity as a teaching tool. In a world of ubiquitous and interactive learning environments, both the physical and virtual spaces play a vital role in teaching and teacher-student relationships. The book points to the necessity of teacher educators' learning through diverse professional networks but more importantly through self-study. It is only through this introspective examination of one's teaching and students' learning as well as taking an ontological attitude to teaching that educators can achieve success in diverse contexts.

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  Common Core: Passing the Test?

  Kim VanDerLinden

  The supposed decay in public education, whereby the United States is declining rapidly and falling behind other industrial nations, has been blamed on bad teaching and the lack of common and consistent standards. The solution to this supposed decay in public education is not only a common set of standards, but common tests that align with those standards. These tests are positioned as next generation assessments. Common Core: Passing the test? describes the development of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the accompanying next generation assessments. It questions whether America’s public school classrooms will be able to focus on enhancing student learning and authentic assessment or whether the classrooms will become even more focused on teaching to the test. Chapter 1 provides a brief review of the pathway and arrival of the CCSS on the nation’s agenda. It also details the initial development of the two primary assessment consortia through the federal government’s Race to the Top Assessment Program. Chapter 2 delves into the two assessment consortia, the “winners” of the Race to the Top Assessment Program, and reviews their articulated objectives and their means to achieve those objectives. The chapter also explores the role of for-profit entities lurking underneath the surface of all aspects of education reform. Chapter 3 provides an overview of the promises of the CCSS next generation assessments and explores the necessary conditions for schools to be able to implement next generation assessments, such as technology integration and professional development of teachers. Chapter 4 reviews the ways in which assessment in classrooms can truly become next generation by utilizing authentic and formative assessment methods. Chapter 5 explores the winners and losers of the Race to the Top. And the book concludes with a summation of the possible consequences of the continuation of the current path of education reform. Common Core: Passing the test? posits that the CCSS assessments and this next generation of school reform will perpetuate the engine of inequity and the existing social hierarchy. The audience for this book includes educators, policy-makers, decision-makers, and individuals concerned about the privatization of higher education and the continuation of policies and reforms that perpetuate social inequities in education.

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  Narratives of Cyprus: Modern Travel Writing and Cultural Encounters since Lawrence Durrell

  Jim Bowman

  Unease has marked relations between modern travel writers and the people of Cyprus. Visitors like Lawrence Durrell, Colin Thubron, Christopher Hitchens and Sebastian Junger have registered the effects of political strife on both the people of the island and those who visit from abroad. Their accounts demonstrate how geopolitical realities-such as colonization, insurgency, inter-communal warfare, and now decades of militarized 'peace'-shape the narrating self and its relations to others. Here, Jim Bowman assesses the effects of Cypriot history on writings about the island through an analysis of memoirs, travelogues, political journalism, guide books and ethnographies. Through this examination of popular texts, Bowman shows how a western and politicized image of Cyprus has been created, increasingly divorced from the realities experienced by the local population. Narratives of Cyprus is an important reassessment of Cyprus' place in British culture, and will be of interest to scholars and students of Anthropology, English Literature and Ethnographic Studies.

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  Nursing Rural America: Perspectives From the Early 20th Century

  John Kirchgessner

  Tracing the history of nursing in rural America during the first half of the 20th century, this well-researched book describes how nurses shaped health care delivery in remote, isolated rural settings, and analyzes how insights from their remarkable achievements in the face of formidable barriers can be applied to health care today. The book examines the multiple factors that influenced how and why nurses responded to the health care needs of rural residents, with coverage of rural nursing from the advent of the American Red Cross to Mary Breckinridge and her legendary Frontier Nursing Service; from rural Maine to the Navajo reservation in the Four Corners region. Through case histories, it depicts how nurses, working in the hinterlands of place, race, class, and ethnicity, broke geographic, cultural, and economic barriers to provide quality care.

  Based on nine actual case histories throughout America, the book identifies how nursing care was delivered to rural communities during the first five decades of the 20th century (before the advent of Medicare and Medicaid), and analyzes the impact of gender, class, race, policy, and place on rural health care delivery. It describes how nurses used ingenuity and self-reliance in order to practice to the full extent of their education, and explains how they provided access to care and health education in the face of many barriers. By documenting the reality of rural nursing in several different areas of the country and within multiethnic populations, the book also fills a gap in health care history. It provides historical primary source data that supports concepts, theory, and practice in rural nursing today. The book also highlights nurses’ advocacy for their often disenfranchised patients, and examines how we can learn from their achievements to provide quality health care today.

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  Cohabitation and Conflicting Politics in French Policymaking

  Sébastien Lazardeux

  The victory of the conservative coalition in the 1986 French parliamentary elections led the way to a sharing of executive powers between a conservative prime minister and socialist President Mitterrand. This situation of cohabitation led many to wonder if this experience would mark the end of the Fifth Republic. Yet cohabitation seemed to function, which reinforced the idea that the French institutions were efficient and adaptable to changing political situations. France would experience cohabitation on two other occasions (1993-1995 and 1997-2002), with seemingly the same effects. This study presents a radically different assessment of French cohabitations. Based on a theory that emphasizes the strategic aspects of law-making, and based on more than 40 years of law-making in France, it shows that cohabitation can lead to heightened partisan conflict and policy paralysis and discusses the conditions under which it is likely to do so. The findings cast doubt on the desirability of using the French institutional blueprint for new democracies in search of efficiency in producing political, economic and social reforms.

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  Popular Fiction in the Age of Bismarck: E. Marlitt and her Narrative Strategies

  Terrill John May

  E. Marlitt was a bestselling author of the late nineteenth century whose romance novels dominated the German literary market between 1865 and 1888. Her novels appeared in thirty languages, with as many as five different English translations circulating simultaneously in the United States alone. While her name is virtually absent from histories of German literature, recent scholarly studies of individual novels suggest the need to reassess her contributions.
  This study is the first in English to examine E. Marlitt’s complete fiction. It situates her prose against the backdrop of women’s discourse and nineteenth-century historical developments in the German Empire. It synthesizes findings of both American and German scholarship to show how her social constructs advanced a liberal political agenda while resisting the conventional view of «natural» gender roles. The book provides a context for recognizing Marlitt’s clever use of the conventionality and acceptability of the romance genre to reposition the image of middle-class women. Her emphasis on personal autonomy, educational opportunities and new fields of professional engagement for women advanced altered images of family, class and national identity. Ultimately, this study of a popular author illuminates domestic, middle-class issues that underwent significant transformations equal to the Empire’s public developments under Bismarck’s politics.

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  Tolkien and the Modernists: Literary Responses to the Dark New Days of the 20th Century

  Theresa Freda Nicolay

  The Lord of the Rings rarely makes an appearance in college courses that aim to examine modern British and American literature. Only in recent years have the fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien and his friend, C.S. Lewis, made their way into college syllabi alongside T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land or F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. This volume aims to situate Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings within the literary period whose sensibility grew out of the 19th-century rise of secularism and industrialism, which culminated in the cataclysm of world war. During a pivotal moment in the history of Western culture, both Tolkien and his contemporaries--the literary modernists--engaged with the past in order to make sense of the present world, especially in the wake of World War I. While Tolkien and the modernists share many of the same concerns, their responses to the crisis of modernity are often antithetical. While the work of the modernists emphasizes alienation and despair, Tolkien's work underscores the value of fellowship and hope.

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  Universal Design for Learning in Action: 100 Ways to Teach All Learners

  Whitney Rapp

  Need creative ideas for moving UDL from theory to practice? Get this must-have quick guide, ready for any teacher to pick up and start using now. Whitney Rapp, co-author of the acclaimed Teaching Everyone, walks you step by step through 100 UDL strategies that strengthen student engagement, learning, and assessment. Based on the latest research (but still practical and fun!), these highly effective ideas will help you address diverse learning needs and increase all students' access to the general curriculum. Essential for every educator who wants to know what UDL really looks like, sounds like, and feels like—and how to use this proven approach to teach and reach all learners.

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  Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands: Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines

  Mark Rice

  Informed by contemporary theories of colonial photography and the history of U.S. imperialism, Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands--a product of intensive archival research at the University of Michigan and elsewhere--is narrative in its approach, tracing Worcester's emergence both as a colonial administrator and a photographer and analyzing the intersections between his personal desires and his political agenda as they shaped his photography in the Philippines. Author Mark Rice discusses the controversies that surrounded Worcester's use of evocative photography and demonstrates his lasting influence on dominant modes of ethnographic photography as seen in the pages of National Geographic and elsewhere

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  The Importance of Ethical Leadership

  Mary Kay Copeland

  This research has provided evidence that leaders who are ethical and transformational are more effective, and each of these behaviors can incrementally contribute to explaining and predicting the effectiveness of a leader. The research has not supported the theory that (a) subordinates’ preferences and expectations for ethical leadership or (b) the perceived ethical climate of an organization moderated the relationship between a leader’s ethical leadership behaviors and the perceived leader’s effectiveness. Additional research is encouraged that assists academics and practitioners in determining how these combined leadership qualities may be further developed in leaders to add to their overall effectiveness. Further research, specifically in the accounting profession, is encouraged to restore a profession tarnished with accusations of unethical behavior to one that regains its original prominence based on moral, ethical, and effective leaders.

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  Reprocessing Race, Language and Ability: African-Born Educators and Students in Transnational America

  Chinwe Ikpeze, Immaculée Harushimana, and Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers

  This book explores the unique experiences of African-born educators and students in North American K-12 classrooms, as well as those of education faculty and administrators. It identifies the conflicting attributes that African-born educators and students bring into American schools and the challenges of working in linguistically, racially and culturally regulated educational spaces. The collected essays examine how attributes assigned to immigrant teachers by the host community of students, colleagues and administrators can serve both as conduits and deterrents for effective teaching. In all, Reprocessing Race, Language and Ability uncovers the existence of unavoidable - though not insurmountable - racial, cultural and linguistic dissonance when African and western cultures come in contact.

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  Frontiers in Suicide Risk: Research, Treatment and Prevention (Public Health in the 21st Century) 1st Edition

  Jill Lavigne

  This book features 17 chapters from scientists and clinicians around the world using methods at the bench, bedside and at the population level to prevent suicide.

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  Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies

  Matthew Wappett and Katrina Arndt

  Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies brings together up-and-coming scholars whose works expand disability studies into new interdisciplinary contexts. This includes new perspectives on disability identity; historical constructions of (dis)ability; the geography of disability; the spiritual nature of disability; governmentality and disability rights; neurodiversity and challenges to medicalized constructions of autism; and questions of citizenship and participation in political and sexual economies. In sum, this volume uses disability studies as an innovative framework for its investigation into what it means to be human.

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  Foundations of Disability Studies

  Matthew Wappett and Katrina Arndt

  A collection of eight essays by scholars who have published extensively within the disability studies literature, and who have helped build the field to its current state. Includes contributions from Robert Bogdan, Doug Biklen, Susan Schweik, and more.

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  Teaching Everyone: An Introduction to Inclusive Education

  Katrina Arndt and Whitney Rapp

  The new generation of teachers needs a new kind of special education textbook one that focuses on children, not labels. That's why Whitney Rapp & Katrina Arndt developed Teaching Everyone, the first text that fully prepares teachers to see past disability labels and work with all students' individual needs and strengths.

  Accessible and forward-thinking, this introductory text will get K 12 teachers ready to work effectively within today's educational system and meet the learning needs of a wide range of students. Educators will:

  Align their teaching with the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Initial Content Standards. Each chapter clearly explains how the content helps students meet specific standards.

  Discover a truly progressive, inclusive approach to education. Breaking free of a categorical approach to disability, this text reveals how to stop relying on labels to access supports for students and work with each child as an individual instead.

  Get comprehensive information in one volume. Ideal for use as a primary text, this book covers all the critical topics teachers need to know about (see box), for a fraction of the cost of similar textbooks.

  Learn effective teaching strategies for major academic content areas. Educators will get clear, research-backed strategies for teaching reading, writing, science, math, and social studies including guidance on keeping students engaged and assessing their progress.

  Get a deep and personal understanding of student and teacher perspectives. With the case studies and narratives from teachers and people with disabilities, educators will have keen first-hand insights that will inform their teaching for years to come. A foundational text for tomorrow's teachers and a valuable reference for inservice teachers who want to sharpen and update their skills this important volume will help usher in an era of truly inclusive classrooms where all children learn and thrive.
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  Conceptual foundations of social research methods

  David Baronov

  One of the common frustrations for students trying to make sense of the various debates and concepts that inform contemporary educational and social science research methods such as structuralism, postpositivism, hermeneutics, and postmodernism is that most books introducing these topics are written at a level that assumes the reader comes to this material with a basic grasp of the underlying ideas. Too often, fundamental concepts and theories are presented without adequate preparation and without providing practical examples to illustrate key elements. When the first edition of Conceptual Foundations of Social Research Methods was published, it represented a sharp contrast with these other approaches and received much praise. In this revised and expanded second edition, David Baronov further develops his critically acclaimed treatment of the core conceptual tools of social research informing education and the social sciences, updating his discussion of the current literature, and adding a new chapter that explores the role of pragmatism. The book is organized around concepts and real-world examples that are drawn from, and relate to, a range of disciplines, including education, sociology, anthropology, political science, history, media studies, and women s studies. Indeed, an essential feature of this text is the author s judicious use of concrete examples from various disciplines to help walk the reader through complex ideas that are too often presented in overly abstract or theoretical language in other texts. The second edition is built around chapters addressing the topics of positivism, structuralism, hermeneutics, pragmatism, and postmodernism and is written in the same nontechnical, jargon-free style as the earlier edition. In addition, Conceptual Foundations of Social Research Methods provides readers with an expanded guide to the secondary literature for those who wish to pursue particular topics in greater depth. Already widely adopted by instructors across a range of disciplines, this second edition remains faithful to the earlier accessible and engaging style, while incorporating updated examples and a new chapter on pragmatism.
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