Promotions - Title Listings - "Technical & Reference, April 29, 2013"

Here is a practical, research-based guide to facilitating positive educational outcomes for racial, ethnic, and language minority students.

The author invites faculty to recall stories from their own biographies, demonstrates how to view these stories as critical incidents instead of mere reminiscences, and introduces an approach faculty can undertake to analyze then interpret these stories for the benefit of professional growth in teaching.

In this richly illustrated and carefully written survey, encompassing works from c. 700 BC to the end of antiquity, Nigel Spivey expounds not only the social function of Greek sculpture but also its aesthetic and technical achievement.

Ranging across twentieth-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis.

A. Bernard Knapp examines the archeological and documentary records of prehistoric Cyprus within their regional context, paying special attention to the Levant and the Aegean.

This book presents a cutting-edge quantitative approach to understanding hydromechanical processes across variably saturated hillslope environments and to the study and prediction of rainfall-induced landslides.

Paul A. Gilje, one of the most prominent historians of the Early American Republic, offers this fascinating work and argues that the War of 1812 was the moment in which the legacy of the American Revolution became tangible to multitudes of working-class Americans.

Kennesaw Mountain tells the story of an important phase of the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War. It explains how this battle severely tried the patience and endurance of the common soldier and why Joseph E. Johnston's strategy might have been the Confederates' best chance to halt the Federal drive toward Atlanta.

In this first biography of Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. in more than thirty years, Chuck McFadden explores the unique persona of one of the most idiosyncratic politicians in California history.

This book surveys the complicated history of U.S.-Chinese relations. After two brief chapters providing historical context, the focus shifts to the mid-twentieth century, the wartime alliance, the war's bitter aftermath, and the decades since World War II.

Packed with forgotten characters and texts, with the roar of the burlesque-stage and the mud of the battlefield, this book offers a rich insight into nineteenth-century culture and society. It explores just how difficult it is to stake a claim on the past.

Adrian Vickers' book traces the history of Indonesia, comprising some 240 million people, from the colonial period through revolution and independence to the present.

This book, which is based on the author's extensive fieldwork in Syria's mosques and schools and on interviews with local Muslim scholars, is the first comprehensive study of the country's little-known religious scene and its most influential actors, the ulama.

Drawing on their own extensive research, as well as other key literature, the authors argue that the connections between language and gender are deep yet fluid, and arise in social practice.

Drawing on findings from a broad range of disciplines including linguistics, experimental psychology, neuroscience, and comparative animal studies, Iris Berent proposes a new hypothesis about the architecture of the phonolgocial mind.

This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of science--Victorian scientists who wrote poetry.

This collection covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works and their social and intellectual contexts, providing a comprehensive introduction to Hardy's life and times.

This book makes an important and timely contribution to the study of contemporary Israeli society, as new alliances are being forged in the political arena.

This book is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in Britain and beyond in the late twentieth century.

Taking a relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication, this text helps students better understand their relationships with romantic partners, friends, and family members.

In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon.

This volume of original essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars ranges over all six of the meditations and explores issues such as skepticism, judgment, causation, the nature of meditation and the meditator's relation to God.

Since the early nineteenth century, mesmerist, mediums and psychics have exhibited extraordinary phenomena. These have been demonstrated, reported and disputed by every modern generation. Extraordinary Beliefs takes a historical approach to an ongoing psychological problem: why do people believe in extraordinary phenomena?

This text introduces readers to the interrelationship of politics and economics in American public policymaking: how economic concerns have been legislated into law since Franklin Roosevelt's time and how politics affects the economy and the making of public policy.

Designed for both students and practitioners, the new edition of this popular text has been thoroughly revised. It incorporates the latest thinking in public administration and nonprofit management, and integrates both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research.

In this book, Ofer Gal and Raz D. Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the study of early modern science.

This text introduces a wealth of analytical results and techniques. It is largely self-contained and will be useful to graduate students and researchers in both pure and applied analysis.

Asymmetry of the brain and behavior (lateralization) has traditionally been considered unique to humans. However, research has shown that this phenomenon is widespread throughout the vertebrate kingdom and found even in some invertebrate species. Summarizing the evidence and highlighting research from the last twenty years, the authors discuss lateralization from four perspectives covering a wide range of animals, including humans.

The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond.

This fully revised new edition offers the most comprehensive coverage of modern geometry currently available at an introductory level. The book strikes a welcome balance between academic rigor and accessibility, providing a complete and cohesive picture of the science with an unparalleled range of topics.

In this well-illustrated text, Kenneth R. Lang explains the life cycle of stars, from the dense molecular clouds that are stellar nurseries to the enigmatic nebulae some stars leave behind in their violent ends.

This book provides an updated tutorial on perinatal stem cells, including stem cells harvested from amniotic fluid, placenta, maternal blood supply, umbilical cord and Wharton's Jelly.

This book provides a comprehensive, research-oriented overview of how the media impacts the lives of children and adolescents in modern society.

This clear and engaging book explains the basic psychological concepts of group dynamics with a focus on their application with teams in the workplace.

This unique collection of essays covers many of the important facets of law enforcement ethics, including the selection, training, and supervision of officers.

In this award-winning book, Michalle E. Mor Barak argues that exclusion is among the most critical and pressing problems faced by today's heterogeneous workforce. Offering an original model for creating a globally inclusive workplace, she outlines unique strategies for unleashing the embedded potential in a multicultural and diverse global workforce.

Filled with real-life stories and examples, Own the Room demystifies the concept of presence and gives you the tools you need to identify and embrace your unique leadership voice and have a greater impact on the world around you.

The eagerly anticipated Fourth Edition of the title that pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design is here. This edition includes extensively revised mixed methods coverage, increased coverage of ethical issues in research, and an expanded emphasis on worldview perspectives.

This book provides an introduction to the theories, methods, and applications that constitute the social network perspective.

Proteins in solution and at interfaces increasingly serve as the starting point for exciting new applications, from biomimetic materials to nanoparticle patterning. This book surveys the state of the science in the field, offering investigators a current understanding of the characteristics of proteins in solution and at interfaces as well as the techniques used to study these characteristics.