St. John Fisher University is proud to showcase the work of our faculty and staff in the Fisher Bookshelf, a gallery within our institutional repository, Fisher Digital Publications. The Bookshelf features books written and contributed to by current and former faculty and professionals at St. John Fisher University.
Users at SJF may check these books out at Lavery Library. Otherwise, please use your library's Interlibrary Loan program to request them from us.
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Reading Families: The Literate Lives of Urban Children
Catherine Compton-Lilly
This dynamic text offers a rare glimpse into the literacy development of urban children and their families' role in it. Based on the author's candid interviews with her first-grade students, their parents and grandparents, this book challenges the stereotypical view that urban parents don't care about their children's education. By listening closely to the voices of her students and their families, the author helps us to move beyond negative assumptions, revealing complexities that have previously been undocumented. -- Amazon Description
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Critical Thinking in Consumer Behavior: Cases and Experiential Exercises
Judy Graham
In the business world, the importance of what is known as "customer focus" cannot be overstated. It is widely recognized as a key to success in the marketplace. Governmental agencies utilize it as a primary criterion when assessing organizations that apply for sought-after awards that recognize excellence in business. The world's largest companies use it as a vital dimension in employees' performance evaluations. These same companies attempt to assess candidates on the "customer focus" standard as they apply for a job. Customer focus has become, in effect, a crucial doctrine in the world of business. And more than any other course in a business curriculum, a course in consumer behavior offers this essential knowledge.
In the study of business, most learning objectives involve the attainment of two types of knowledge—understanding and competency. An understanding of the concepts and theories of consumer behavior is typically attained through the textbook and assigned readings as well as classroom discussions. Competency with these concepts, or the ability to effectively use and apply these concepts to unfamiliar situations, is traditionally more difficult for students to attain. The cases and exercises included in this book are designed to give students the opportunity to critically analyze the fundamental principles of consumer behavior, and experience some of the complexities inherent in the application of these principles within realistic business contexts.
As you complete these cases and exercises, there will be times when you feel confident in your ability to apply the consumer behavior concepts you are learning to the task at hand, and there will be other times when it seems that you could not possibly have enough knowledge to complete the task successfully. Although you may sometimes feel that you are being "thrown to the wolves," remember that it is when the wolves are nipping at your heels that you discover how fast you can run. When you are working on those cases that seem particularly challenging, remember to review the relevant concepts in your class notes and your textbook, then trust your creativity and resourcefulness—this is what great business people are made of.
Lastly, have some fun with the cases. The study of consumer behavior is not quite like the study of any other topic in business. Enjoy these opportunities to gain a true customer focus. After all, this is what business is all about. -- Amazon Description
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Understanding the Contemporary Caribbean
Richard S. Hillman and Thomas J. D'Agostino
No description available.
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Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America
Richard S. Hillman, John A. Peeler, and Elsa Cardozo de Da Silva
Questions about democracy and human rights have emerged in the advent of the 21st century, a time in which the prospects for progress in these areas have never been greater. This book is designed to respond to some of these questions with reference to Latin America, where democratic regimes have alternated with authoritarian governments and the human rights record is inconsistent at best. Taken together, these essays reveal the complexity of democratic transitions, the importance of support for human rights, and the way in which democracy and human rights are linked in Latin America.
The first part of the book includes chapters that cast a critical eye on democracy and human rights trends in Chile, Venezuela, Columbia, and Brazil. Part two gauges the impact and prospects of foreign initiatives promoting democracy and human rights in the region, focusing especially on those efforts made by the United States in Haiti and Cuba. Each chapter reaffirms the essential linkages between procedural democracy and substantive human rights, and argues that states with authoritarian pasts must reorient their political cultures, and that these initiatives must come from both domestic and international agents. Students and scholars interested in the problems and prospects inherent in democratic transitions in contemporary Latin America will find this collection enlightening. -- Amazon Description
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Patent Process: Intellectual Property in the Information Age
Craig Hovey
A simple, straightforward guide to the ins and outs of the modern patent process
In the information age, intellectual property is often as valuable as-- if not more valuable than-- any physical asset a company or an entrepreneur can possess. But protecting your intellectual property is vitally important to your future success, no matter how brilliant your idea.
Large businesses and corporations typically have their own patent attorneys to deal with intellectual property issues-- a luxury most small businesses and entrepreneurs can't afford. If you have intellectual property to protect, but you lack the resources of a major company, then The Patent Process is for you. Written for individuals, entrepreneurs, and small companies, it provides readers with a solid introduction to patents and other forms of intellectual property, without becoming exhaustive and overly complicated. It clearly and concisely explains the things you need to know to understand the patent process and make it work for you. It features an overview of the history and the primary issues in intellectual property, as well as a section that answers common questions about the patent process. Illustrative case studies are included to highlight important issues, such as:
* Patents, copyrights, and trademarks-- what they are, what they do, and which one you need to protect your intellectual property
* The application process for patents, trademarks, and copyrights
* Foreign patents-- protecting your intellectual property abroad
* The financing, licensing, and sale of patents
* Trade secrets and how they differ from patents
Creators of intellectual property want to focus on what they do best-- create and innovate -- rather than deal with the technicalities of patents and copyrights. The Patent Process offers an in-depth treatment of the core issues in intellectual property designed to help individuals protect their ideas and navigate the system to best effect. -
Appropriate Use Policies for Computers in College and University Libraries
Karen Junker and Jane H. Tuten
"CLIP #31 is the latest publication in ACRL's popular CLIP Note series. Survey responses from 135 college and small university libraries have been compiled, analyzed, and summarized to reveal not only the commonalities, but also the variety in appropriate use policies (AUP) and in the processes used to create them. This volume includes 27 library-specific AUPs and 26 institutional policies. Respondents generously authorized the inclusion of their library or institutional documents, allowing the reader to fully appreciate the style, tone, and format as well as the content of policies from public and private institutions from all parts of the country. An added and useful resource is a list of URLs provided by respondents with library and institutional policies, effectively increasing the number of sample policies available for review. Any college or university revising or creating its policies on appropriate use of computers will find in this CLIP Note a wealth of practical information. -- Abstract from Worldcat
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Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James, and Edith Warton
Jill Kress
Through analysis of metaphors of consciousness in the philosophy and fiction of William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton, this work traces the significance of representations of knowledge, gender and social class, revealing how writers conceived of the self in modern literature. -- Amazon Description
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Inquire Within: Implementing Inquiry-Based Science Standards
Douglas Llewellyn
The author teaches a method of learning in science that is inquiry-based and that involves a process of asking questions, exploring, and making the connections that lead to understanding and discovery. -- Amazon Description
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The abolition of slavery in Brazil : the "liberation" of Africans through the emancipation of capital
David Baronov
The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can trace this to nineteenth-century abolition movements across the Americas which did not lead to (and were not intended to result in) a transition from race-based slave labor to race-neutral wage labor for former slaves. Rather, the abolition of slavery led to the emergence of multi-racial societies wherein capital/labor relations were characterized by new forms of extra-market coercion that were explicitly linked to racial categories. Post-slavery Brazilian society is a classic example of this pattern.
Working within the context of the origin of the wage labor category in classical political economy, Baronov begins by questioning the central role of wage-labor within capitalist production through an examination of key works by Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, as well as the historical conditions informing their analyses. The study then turns to the specific case of Brazil between 1850-1888, comparing the abolition of slavery in three Brazilian regions: the northeast sugar region, the Paraiba Valley, and Western Sao Paulo. Through this analysis, Baronov provides a critique of the dominant interpretation of abolition (as a transition from slave labor to wage labor) and suggests an alternative interpretation that places a greater emphasis on the role of non-wage labor forms and extra-market factors in the shaping of the post-slavery social order. -- Amazon Description
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Governing Middle-sized Cities: Studies in Mayoral Leadership
James R. Bowers and Wilber C. Rich
No description available.
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Church as Counterculture
Robert W. Brimlow and Michael L. Budde
The question, "What does it mean to be 'the church'?" has always been among the most controversial and of vital concern to political, economic, and ecclesial leaders alike. How it is answered influences whether Christianity will be a force for legitimating or subverting existing secular relations of power, influence, and privilege. The Church as Counterculture enters the debates on Christian identity, purpose, and organization by calling for the churches to reclaim their roles as "communities of disciples"-distinct and distinctive groups formed by the priorities and practices of Jesus-to constitute a countercultural reality and challenge to secular society and existing power relations. The notion of the church as a countercultural community of disciples confounds many conventional divides within the Christian family (liberal and conservative, church and sect), while forcing redefinition of commonplace categories like religion and politics, sacred and secular. The contributors to this book-theologians, social theorists, philosophers, historians, Catholics and Protestants of various backgrounds-reflect this shifting of categories and divisions. The book provides thought-provoking Christian perspectives on war and genocide, racism and nationalism, the legitimacy of liberalism and capitalism, and more. "This book challenges both the mind and the conscience. It tests contemporary theology against the radical values of the Sermon on the Mount. And although it provides more questions than answers, those questions cut to the quick of what it means to be a Christian in today's world-challenging our complacencies, questioning our assumptions, and confronting us with the frightening possibility that we may, in fact, be so mesmerized by the idols of the marketplace, the media, and the state, that we simply no longer know what it means to honor God above all other things or what it means to truly love our neighbors as ourselves." - Robert Inchausti, author of Thomas Merton's American Prophecy -- Amazon Description
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Democracy for the Privileged: Crisis and Transition in Venezuela
Richard Hillman
This work looks at the process of democratisation in Venezuela, examining the conditions that support or inhibit the consolidation of democracy and explaining the significance of critical events. It shows how the patron/client system has failed to respond to mass aspirations sufficiently.
--Publisher description.
