tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134186930488130272024-03-13T07:36:28.638-04:00Recent Faculty Publications at UNCGCheck out this blog for information on new faculty-authored works available in the University Libraries of UNCG.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12950139188797728334noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-37015796819860546602014-10-28T08:00:00.000-04:002014-10-28T08:00:08.424-04:00The Americans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"<i>The Americans</i> pledges its allegiance to dirt. And to laptops. And to swimming pools, the Kennedys, a flower in a lapel, plastic stars hanging from the ceiling of a child’s room, churning locusts, a jar of blood, a gleam of sun on the wing of a plane. His poems swarm with life. They also ask an unanswerable question: What does it mean to be an American? Restless against the borders we build—between countries, between each other—Roderick roams from place to place in order to dig into the messy, political, idealistic and ultimately inexplicable idea of American-ness. His rangy, inquisitive lyrics stitch together a patchwork flag, which he stakes alongside all the noise of our construction, our obsessive building and making, while he imagines the fate of a nation built on desire." (<a href="http://www.davidroderick.net/">davidroderick.net</a>)<br />
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“<i>The Americans</i> is a compelling meditation on the ways we go about our lives at this cultural moment, often unmoored from the facts of history though we drift along its shores. Part complicated love letter to suburbia, these poems demand that we consider not only what we are drawn to but also what we fail to see, how the apocryphal feeds our cultural amnesia. The poet asks: Must nostalgia/walk like a prince through all our rooms? This lovely collection shows us a way to confront that question within ourselves.” (<a href="http://www.davidroderick.net/theamericans/">Natasha Trethewey</a>, Former U.S. Poet Laurette<br />
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“Like Robert Frank in his great photo essay of the same name, Roderick has some news for us: not only do we not know where we’ve come from, we don’t know where we are. With care and a restorative watchfulness, he has made terrific poetry out of our drifting in the fog.” (<a href="http://www.davidroderick.net/theamericans/">David Rivard</a>, American Poet)<br />
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“The mindfulness and torque of this beautiful collection may be judged by the double drift of its epigraph: Nous sommes tous Américains. Words of solidarity, words of aspiration, words (too often) of chagrin or shame. De Toqueville to Moose Lodge to Trail of Tears: the whole rich mix of it is here, in poems exquisitely conceived and rendered.” (<a href="http://www.davidroderick.net/theamericans/">Linda Gregerson</a>, Professor of English and Literature at The University of Michigan, American Poet)<br />
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“It’s sort of remarkable the way David Roderick makes such gorgeous music of the deep and abiding loneliness of which our lives—and our nations and dreams—sometimes, often, are made. It’s the music, the beauty, after all, that’s balm to all this sorrow. The Americans reminds me of this.” (<a href="http://www.davidroderick.net/theamericans/">Ross Gay</a>, Creative Writing Professor at Indiana University Bloomington, American Poet)<br />
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David Roderick teaches creative writing and poetry in the MFA Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Part empathetic portrait of troubled souls and part
Springsteenian ode to the promise and heartbreak of the highway... told with...
emotional complexity and subtlety.”<br />(<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/books/tessa-hadleys-clever-girl-and-more.html">The
New York Times</a>)</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />“Two strangers meet on a windswept car lot in West Texas. Marcus is fleeing the
disastrous fallout of chasing a lifelong dream; Maria is returning to the
hometown she fled years ago, to make amends. They begin to argue over the car
that they both desperately want—a low-slung sky-blue twenty-year-old Buick
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The car, too, has seen its share of mistakes and failures.
Every dent and seam has witnessed pivotal moments in the lives of others, from
the boy who assembled it at the Cleveland factory to all the owners who were to
follow: a God-fearing man who sells it when he sees a sexy girl sprawled across
it; a doctor who can’t dissociate it from his son’s fate; and a rancher’s wife
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hour, decide to buy the old car together. And as this surprising novel follows
the rocky paths of the Electra and its owners—both past and present—these two
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to reconcile past mistakes, and the ways we must learn to forgive others, and
perhaps even ourselves, if we are ever to move on.” (<a href="http://algonquin.com/book/all-i-have-in-this-world/">Algonquin</a>)</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />“But what makes "All I Have in this World"
memorable is this: While any number of disasters can (and do) take place along
the way, and while some are heartbreaking, the watershed moments happen not
with sadness or blood or pain, but with cascades of laughter. It's through
moments of unabashed humor, when Marcus and Maria let go and laugh, that his
characters finally, and completely, connect.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Which feels a lot like real life." (</span><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/books/ci_25290886/review-all-i-have-this-world-by-michael" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Pre-literate children, it’s told, favor above
all else the following narrative: a person (princess, stuffed toy, Matchbox
car), wandering the dark woods alone, meets The True Friend (dinosaur, dwarf,
dog), and is, whew, rescued. The End. Michael Parker’s All I Have in this World
performs a deeply satisfying, non-fantastical yet still magical, hard-won,
grown-up version of that child’s confounding and abiding tale. This is a very
funny, very moving novel about being lost and then found, about that rarest gift
shared sensibility, and about being saved, and surprised, by the arrival of The
True Friend. I love this book.”</span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://michaelfparker.com/all-i-have-in-this-world/">Antonya Nelson</a>)</span></div>
LibraryLianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18143485528982866586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-59058626440403706502014-09-30T08:00:00.000-04:002014-10-07T09:53:52.738-04:00Playing with Religion in Digital Games<span id="docs-internal-guid-a6e01457-84e9-4635-096a-bc1853efb7ab"></span><br />
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and design of some of today’s massively multiplayer online role-playing games
(mmorpg), the presence of religion in digital gaming has been present in some
fashion. The Legend of Zelda, God of War, Okami, World of Warcraft, to name a
few, are all video games that incorporate some form of religion in their
narratives. And with the proliferation of games in the last few decades, played
by innumerable amounts of people daily, its effect may be more evident than we
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Digital Games, UNCG Religious Studies professor Gregory Price Grieve and Texas
A&M University Professor of Communication Heidi Campbell have compiled a
unique collection of essays that examine the ways in which religious motifs are
present in modern digital games and the ways in which they could be used to understand
various cultures and cultural identities. As Grieve says himself, "<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">There is a notion that games and religion have nothing to do with each other. This book provides evidence that they do actually have a lot of similarities, and these similarities offer insights into aspect of how religion is performed."(<a href="http://www.gpgrieve.org/?page_id=839">gpgrieve.org</a>)</span></span></div>
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expressing, “the essayists analyze
digital games' depictions of religious imagery and theology and consider the
implications of how different cultural groups receive and project these ideas.
Many of the essayists examine the relationship between the historical and
symbolic importance of sacred games/spaces and play as a meaning-making
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pieces here take fresh approaches to the topics and add valuable insight. The
collection distinguishes itself most in its section on gaming as implicit
religion—where authors discuss the ways in which some games imbue nonreligious
activity with religious meaning. In these games, players experience
"emotions and processes" that match religious emotions and processes,
an area of gaming studies ripe for exploration." (Stenis, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Nick McCollisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13549773344619807736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-58999680811254411892014-09-16T15:24:00.000-04:002014-10-07T13:22:45.747-04:00Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ballpark<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://bullcitysummer.org/">Bull City Summer: A
Season at the Ballpark</a> brings together a team of artists and documentarians
around a season of minor league baseball to find stories and images on the
field and behind the scenes that collectively present a microcosm of
contemporary American culture engaged around a favorite pastime. The Durham
Bulls are one of the most popular and successful minor league baseball teams in
the country, with more players being sent to the Majors than any other minor
league team. To diversify the documentation of the 2013 season, guest artists
Alex Harris, Frank Hunter, Kate Joyce, Elizabeth Matheson, Leah Sobsey, Alec
Soth, Hank Willis Thomas and Hiroshi Watanabe were invited to photograph the
team in Durham. "The opportunity to photograph spring baseball in North
Carolina was a no-brainer," Soth says. "The pacing of baseball
arouses a kind of leisurely attentiveness that is analogous to photographic
seeing. You look and look and then every once in a while, snap, you get a
hit." (Publisher’s Website - <a href="https://daylightbooks.org/store/bull-city-summer">Daylight</a>)<br />
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Baseball is unique in the sports world. Unlike other team
sports, which often constitute a battle over territory relying on brute force,
baseball is typically quiet and understated. It can even be lonely. The project
“Bull City Summer,”… explores these qualities of the game… “I think there's
more poetry in baseball than any other sport,” said Sam Stephenson, the
project’s director. “Baseball is more subtle,” he said. (Jordan G. Teicher, <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/03/04/bull_city_summer_documents_a_season_at_the_ballpark_with_the_durham_bulls.html">Slate</a>)</div>
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[Essayists] introduce us to a familiar cast of characters:
the elderly couple who've missed just 50 games in 30-plus years; the aging
veteran playing out the string in Triple-A, four years removed from a World
Series appearance with the Yankees; the Duke philosophy professor who, before
succumbing to colon cancer in 2013, would "adopt" a player every
year, bringing him cookies and the occasional CD filled with classical music;
the Cuban first baseman whose league MVP award will get him no closer to the
big leagues; the general manager who helped revitalize the club in 1980 and who
claims at the start of one essay, "I'm a gifted salesman. I hate it, but I
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Meanwhile, the photos highlight the play between the sort of
regional authenticity that clubs sell to local fans and the generic ballpark
experience found in dozens of baseball towns—Corpus Christi, Rancho Cucamonga,
New Britain, wherever—around the country.<br />
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Jones</a>)<br />
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Stephenson intentionally chose photographers with no sports
or journalism background to work on the project, and he didn't give them any
specific assignments when he sent them to the ballpark to take photos…The
results represent a variety of photographic technologies and artistic
approaches. Alec Soth used an 8-by-10 film camera. Hiroshi Watanabe shot in
black and white with a medium-format camera. Leah Sobsey, meanwhile, created
tintypes using 19<sup>th</sup>-century technology. “Baseball is extraordinary
for the dedication to craft required and the repetition of routines. I think
that's related to art. Great art is achieved through the same dedication to
craft and trial and error and just plain work,” Stephenson said.<br />
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Teicher, <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/03/04/bull_city_summer_documents_a_season_at_the_ballpark_with_the_durham_bulls.html">Slate</a>)<br />
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Stephenson described [Kate] Joyce’s work ethic as
“relentless,” and she attended about 60 games during the project. She captured
some idiosyncratically poetic images that only a non-baseball fan would have
even noticed, such as a mosaic of bubblegum wrappers that bullpen pitchers had
turned into makeshift lawn darts.<br />
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As for Hunter, he approached Durham Bulls Athletic Park as
if it were a natural landscape, creating stunning photos of the surrounding
skies.<br />
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“It took Frank Hunter a long time to find himself in the
stadium,” Stephenson said. “He’s really a landscape photographer, so he treated
the stadium like a lake, valley or river. Frank is almost like a painter,
seeing landscapes nobody else sees and revealing them with his camera. It took
him most of the season to figure out. But that’s how art works. It takes a
tremendous amount of effort and repetition to reach that higher level, just
like baseball.” (David Menconi, <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/06/21/3951560_bull-city-summer-tells-story-of.html?rh=1">News
& Observer Online</a>)</div>
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Since the dawn of humans, there has been a link between masculinity and violence, and this macho ideal is perpetuated today through culturally accepted gender norms and roles. Thomas Page McBee wrote in <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/11/the-end-of-violent-simplistic-macho-masculinity/265585/" target="_blank"><i>The Atlantic Magazine</i></a> about a new and growing trend of eschewing traditional definitions of what it means to be a man and embracing a contemporary "healthy masculinity," advocating compassion, respect, and cooperation. Despite McBee's assertions, we are clearly living in a culture which glorifies aggression, violence, and domination while minimizing the importance of traditionally feminine characteristics. This is not a recent turn of events, and <a href="http://www.uncg.edu/eng/people/faculty/feather.html" target="_blank">Jennifer Feather</a>, Assistant Professor of English at UNCG, and Catherine E. Thomas, Associate Professor of English at The College of Charleston, recently explored the issue as it relates to the Renaissance Man.<br />
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Feather and Thomas co-edited <i>Violent Masculinities: Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Culture</i>, a collection of original essays that, as the publisher writes, explores the changing social expectations of men in early modern England "as the armed knight went into decline and humanism appeared". The essays "analyze a wide-range of violent acts in early modern literature and
culture – everything from civic violence to chivalric combat; from
verbal attacks to masochistic suffering; from political assassination to
personal retaliation; and from brawls to battles. In so doing, they
interrogate the seemingly inevitable connection between masculinity and
aggression, placing it in a specific historical context and showing how
differences of status, ethnicity, and sexual identity inform masculine
ideals"(<a href="http://us.macmillan.com/violentmasculinities/JenniferFeather" target="_blank">Macmillan</a>).<br />
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The collection is "a strong contribution to emerging scholarship on early modern
masculinities... show[ing] how the achievement of
normative manhood depended on the performance of violence. In the
turbulent social world of early modern Europe, these essays suggest male
aggression signified differently according to distinctions of age,
status, and sexuality. These compelling historicist readings of male
aggression and suffering illuminate forms of violence ranging from duels
to brawls to military campaigns" (Mario DiGangi, Professor of English, Lehman College and Graduate Center, CUNY, USA).</div>
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Masculinities</i> challenges the easy association between masculinity and
violence, opening up crucial new channels in early modern masculinity
studies. The articles here go beyond a simple equation of fictional and
historical practice to demonstrate the importance of the place of
violence in the early modern mind. With a range of critical approaches,
from rhetorical analysis to historical contextualization to the framing
of philosophical assumptions, these essays emphasize the textuality of a
broad array of critical and historical writings, and give us new
insights into what constituted Renaissance manhood" (Jennifer A. Low,
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iMinervahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10578716488222116399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-51362225986918390052014-05-05T09:30:00.000-04:002014-05-07T12:40:27.431-04:00Congratulations UNCG Authors!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Tuesday, April 30th, we gathered in the Hodges Reading Room in Jackson Library to celebrate the many faculty authors who have published books during the past academic year. If you published a book recently, please let us know. We would be happy to include you in next year's celebration!<br />
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Naurice Frank Woods, Jr., <em>A History of African Americans in the Segregated United States Military: From America's War of Independence to the Korean War</em></div>
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Naurice Frank Woods, Jr., <em>Rooted in the Soul: An Introduction to African American Studies and the African American </em>Experience</div>
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Naurice Frank Woods, Jr., <em>African American Pioneers in Art, Film & Music</em> </div>
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Susan L. Andreatta, <em>Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective</em></div>
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Elizabeth Perrill, <em>Ukucwebezela: To Shine - South Africa</em></div>
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Christopher Thomas and Barbara Campbell, <em>Exquisite History; A Visionary Workbook </em></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Stuart J. Schleien, <em>OnStage and InFocus: The Story</em></span></div>
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Todd F. Lewis, <em>Substance Abuse and Addiction Treatment: Practical Application of Counseling Theory</em></div>
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Albert N. Link, <em>Handbook on the Theory and Practice of Program Evaluation</em></div>
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Albert N. Link, <em>Bending the Arc of Innovation</em></div>
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Albert N. Link, <em>Recent Developments in the Economics of Science and Innovation</em></div>
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Albert N. Link, <em>Public Support of Innovation in Entrepreneurial Firms</em></div>
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Kenneth Snowden, Jr., <em>Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership</em></div>
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K.K. Hewitt, <em>Postcards from the Schoolhouse: Practitioner scholars examine contemporary issues in instructional leadership</em> </div>
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Jennifer Feather, <em>Violent Masculinities: Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Culture</em></div>
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Terry L. Kennedy, <em>New River Breakdown</em></div>
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Karen L. Kilcup, <em>Fallen Forests</em></div>
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Karen L. Kilcup, <em>Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry</em></div>
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<em></em> Noelle Morrissette, <em>James Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes</em></div>
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Craig Nova, <em>All the Dead Yale Men</em></div>
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Karen A. Weyler, <em>Empowering Words: Outsider & Authorship in Early America</em></div>
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Corey Johnson and Susan M. Walcott,<em> Eurasian Corridors of Interconnection: From the South China to the Caspian Sea</em></div>
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Susan M. Walcott, <em>A Profile of the Furniture Manufacturing Industry: Global Restructuring</em> </div>
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Chuck Bolton, <em>William F. Winter and the New Mississippi: A Biography</em> </div>
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Emily J. Levine, <em>Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School</em></div>
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Edna Chun, <em>The New Talent Acquisition Frontier: Integrating HR and Diversity Strategy in the Private and Public Sectors and Higher Education</em></div>
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Shirl J. Hoffman, <em>Introduction to Kinesiology</em></div>
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David A. Fein, <em>The Danse Macabre: Printed by Guyot Marchant, 1485</em></div>
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Mark Smith-Soto, <em>Splices</em></div>
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Nora Bird and Michael Crumpton, <em>Handbook for Community College Librarians</em></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Mathematics and Statistics</span></h3>
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Jan Rychtar, <em>Game-Theoretical Models in Biology</em></div>
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David Teachout, <em>The Journey from Music Student to Teacher: A Professional Approach</em></div>
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Kay J. Cowen, <em>Child Health Nursing</em></div>
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Kay J. Cowen, <em>Maternal & Child Health Nursing</em></div>
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Laurie Kennedy-Malone, <em>Advanced Practice Nursing in the Care of Older Adults</em></div>
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Tom Matyok, <em>Peace on Earth</em></div>
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Eugene F. Rogers, Jr., <em>Aquinas and the Supreme Court</em></div>
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Karen Wixson,<em>Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts: PreK-2</em></div>
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Karen Wixson, <em>Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts: Grades 3-5</em></div>
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Wayne Journell, <em>Online Learning: Strategies for K-12 Teachers</em></div>
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Ye He, <em>The Appreciative Advising Revolution Training Workbook: Translating Theory to Practice</em></div>
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Deborah Taub, <em>Preventing College Student Suicide</em></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.uncg.edu/eng/people/faculty/kennedy.html" target="_blank">Terry Kennedy</a>, Associate Director of the MFA writing program at UNCG, editor of the online journal <i>storySouth</i>, and associate editor of The Greensboro Review, recently published a collection of prose poetry titled <i>New River Breakdown</i>. The collection, published by Greensboro's own Unicorn Press, includes 44 of Kennedy's poems, and also features five original cover designs by area artists. Each hand-stitched cover presents a visual interpretation of Kennedy's poems and provides an additional creative element to the book. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DIPxeq8sJ_s/U1fi2LwbfGI/AAAAAAAAAVs/M_ennKif6D0/s1600/Tristin-Miller_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DIPxeq8sJ_s/U1fi2LwbfGI/AAAAAAAAAVs/M_ennKif6D0/s1600/Tristin-Miller_2.jpg" height="200" width="136" /></a>"Beautiful and moving, Terry L. Kennedy's debut poetry collection
describes an elusive and haunting narrative of loss, love, and recovery.
His prose poems bring us so close to the narrator that we share in our
bones his predicament of wanting to go forward while fearing what may be
ahead. 'It's neither the end nor the
beginning of all we hope for,' he discovers. Lyricism and considered
thought are here, and lines that strike sparks from these passionate
poems" (Kelly Cherry, VA Poet Laureate Emerita).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eyJIeKJTjqQ/U1fjED3zlHI/AAAAAAAAAV0/1YDJBLkUk5o/s1600/Matthew-Brinkley_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eyJIeKJTjqQ/U1fjED3zlHI/AAAAAAAAAV0/1YDJBLkUk5o/s1600/Matthew-Brinkley_2.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a>“The bright, swiftly kinetic surfaces of Terry Kennedy’s poems
whisper as they pass a wistful but passionate love story. He has an
Impressionist’s purpose and deftness of touch. I think of Renoir, of the
etudes of Debussy. Yet his strophes stand firmly on their ground and
are as strong as the seasons they portray. His every image bears the
nuances of a remembrance. <i>New River Breakdown</i> is a rare treasure"
(Fred Chappell, winner of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Prepare to be haunted by the poems...
their shifting imagery, tones, and shadings. Prepare to be mystified by
how these poems flow so effortlessly beyond the description of 'prose
poem' into a genre that defies any label whatsoever, poems that eddy
into dreamtime" (Kathryn Stripling Byer, NC Poet Laureate Emerita).</span></span><br />
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volume of prose poems, but it’s also a canny primer on that genre—a
many-headed, oft-misunderstood hybrid. [Kennedy's] querulous, introspective
speaker resists his own breakdown by breaking down his universe into
parcels of incremental wonder in which “fear and love [are] one and the
same.” The result is poem after poem of fabulous imagery and infinite
possibility" (Joseph Bathanti, NC Poet Laureate<i>).</i></span></span> </div>
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Librarians today must be creative managers of their time and resources, in order to maintain some semblance of sanity in this world of increasing demands coupled with significant budget cuts. The logical (and who, if not librarians, are logical?) response to this environment might seem to be something like, we can only do so much with so little; however, as librarians strive, on a fundamental level, to serve their patrons, this seems to be an impossibility. Instead, professionals in the field endeavor, through sundry means, to increase their level of productivity in an effort to effectively fulfill their ever increasing obligations.<br />
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In response to this, Carol Smallwood, Jason Kuhl, and Lisa Fraser have assembled over 30 essays in their book <i>Time and Project Management Strategies for Librarians</i>, which address various aspects of time management and organizational skills. The essays offer insights from practicing librarians who are currently navigating the wilds of the profession on such topics as management strategies, staffing issues, uses of technology in time management, tips on how to stay organized, work/life balance, and professional development. UNCG's own <a href="http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/reference/staff/jenny_dale.aspx" target="_blank">Jenny Dale</a> and <a href="http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/reference/staff/lynda_kellam.aspx" target="_blank">Lynda Kellam</a> of University Libraries co-authored an essay for the compilation titled, Productive to the core : core competencies and the productive librarian.<br />
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"This anthology is certain to become an essential
resource for librarians everywhere as they attempt to maximize
efficiency and productivity with limited resources". (Jeffrey A. Franks,
Associate Professor and Head of Reference at Bierce Library, University
of Akron, Ohio)<br />
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It "is a great addition to any librarian’s professional bookshelf". (Heather
Payne, Corporate Liaison to the Libraries, City College, Fort
Lauderdale, Florida) <br />
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"The editors' formula... is one drop
theory to four or five drops of practical advice. What it creates is an
elixir for librarians who struggle to accomplish their goals while
negotiating changing technology, shrinking, budgets, and depleted
staffs". (Carol Luers Eyman, Outreach and Community Services Coordinator, Nashua Public Library, Nashua, New Hampshire) iMinervahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10578716488222116399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-15073225946345648192014-03-24T11:39:00.000-04:002014-03-27T14:24:41.191-04:00Game-Theoretical Models in Biology<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"A stag might fight to death over a territory or concede it uncontested
to another. Neighboring trees invest varying amounts
of energy into growth, with the tallest blocking
sunlight to others. Viruses infecting a common cell can either make all
proteins
required for their reproduction or free ride on
those made by others. How does evolution shape the strategic phenotype
of
organisms in life-and-death contests?"
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For all of you mathematics and biology laymen out there (and I most certainly include myself in this category), evolutionary game theory applies the mathematical framework of games to the evolutionary processes of biological lifeforms. The concept, as it relates to it's original purpose, was introduced to a wide audience in 1973 by John Maynard Smith and George R. Price, but it has since captured the interest of academics from varying disciplines, including economists, anthropologists, sociologists, and philosophers.<br />
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<a href="http://www.uncg.edu/mat/faculty/rychtar/index.html" target="_blank">Jan Rycht<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">ář</span></a>
, Professor in UNCG's Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Mark Broom's new book, <i>Game-Theoretical Models in Biology</i>, "covers the major topics of evolutionary game theory<b> </b>[and]
presents both abstract and practical mathematical models of real
biological situations. It discusses the static aspects of game theory in
a mathematically rigorous way that is appealing to mathematicians. In
addition, the authors explore many applications of game theory to
biology, making the text useful to biologists as well" (<a href="http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439853214" target="_blank">CRC Press</a>).<br />
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"Broom and Rychtár lead their readers all the way from the rudiments of evolutionary game theory to the research frontier... Their coverage is remarkably wide-ranging, from old standards like the
Hawk-Dove game to newer applications such as epidemiology. The authors
strike an excellent compromise between breadth and depth by limiting the
generality of some theoretical treatments, choosing good examples, and
using up-to-date references to round out their coverage" (Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, Florida State University).<br />
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As Wilfrid Laurier University's Ross Cressman notes, "the book will serve both as an important resource for researchers in the
field and as a valuable text for students at a graduate or senior
undergraduate level."<br />
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"This engaging primer demonstrates that there is no tension between mathematical elegance
and biological fidelity: both are needed to further our understanding of evolution" (Allen). </div>
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References:<br />
Allen, B. A. (2013). 0 Brave New World with Such Games. <i>Science</i>, <i>341</i>(6148), 844. doi:10.1126/science.1241750<br />
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Cybercrime has become one of the fastest growing areas of criminal activity throughout the world. The increasingly global nature of the internet and the availability of relatively inexpensive mobile technologies has broadened the scope and capabilities of cyber criminals, providing an international network for the perpetration of their crimes. In the past, cybercrime was typically committed by individuals or small groups; however, alarmingly, organized crime groups have recently begun to engage in this type of criminal activity as well.<br />
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In his recently published book, <i>Cybercrime and Cybersecurity in the Global South</i>,<a href="http://bae.uncg.edu/directory/management/kshetri-nir-b/" target="_blank"> Nir Kshetri</a>, Professor in the Bryan School of Business and Economics, "documents and compares the patterns, characteristics and processes of
cybercrime activities in major regions and economies in the Global South" (<a href="http://us.macmillan.com/cybercrimeandcybersecurityintheglobalsouth/NirKshetri" target="_blank">Macmillan</a>).<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Kshetri "divides the Global South into distinct regions,
devoting a chapter each to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,
China, India, the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the
Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, and the developing nations of the Pacific
Islands" (Peter, Grabosky, <a href="http://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/cybercrime-and-cybersecurity.html" target="_blank">Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books</a>). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"> "interesting aspect of the book is its comparison of offender
characteristics, crime types, and victims from one region to another.
The author explains these differences in terms of political economy.
They reflect the level of economic development, state capacity,
information technology skill sets, availability of legitimate
employment, cultural factors and political influences from country to
country" (Peter Grabosky, <a href="http://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/cybercrime-and-cybersecurity.html" target="_blank">Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books</a>).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Kshetri's "book [also]contributes to bridge the gap in understanding the role of
cybersecurity in international political economy and related areas. Indeed,
it explains the complexities and mechanisms involved in this new war, the
reconfiguration of existing organized crime, the emergence of new
international organized crimes groups and the changing nature of constraints
facing the states."
(Pupillo, Lorenzo, <i>Communications and Strategies</i>, April 2013).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><i>Cybercrime and Cybersecurity in the Global South</i> "provides an interesting perspective on cybercrime in non-western
countries. Its breathtaking range of coverage provides a lens into
locations and settings that might otherwise be overlooked by cybercrime
researchers from the Global North" (Peter Grabosky, <a href="http://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/cybercrime-and-cybersecurity.html" target="_blank">Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books</a>)<i>.</i></span></span></span>iMinervahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10578716488222116399noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-57689713041492381142014-02-20T17:30:00.001-05:002014-02-20T17:39:49.438-05:00Aquinas and the Supreme Court: Race, Gender, and the Failure of Natural Law in Thomas's Biblical Commentaries<br />
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"In court opinions, blogs, public debates, and theological arguments,
the concept of what is 'natural' to us remains a highly debated concept,
with Thomas Aquinas one of the most frequently cited figures." In his recently published
book, <i>Aquinas and the Supreme Court: Race, Gender, and the Failure of Natural Law in Thomas's Biblical Commentaries</i>, <a href="http://www.uncg.edu/rel/faculty/rogers.html" target="_blank">Eugene Rogers</a>, professor of Religious Studies, "makes the breathtaking argument that Thomas Aquinas does
not, in fact, say what you think he says on the topic of natural law,
nature, and what is appropriate to humans as natural" (<a href="http://erb.kingdomnow.org/eugene-f-rogers-aquinas-and-the-supreme-court-feature-review/" target="_blank">Myles Werntz, Baylor University</a>).<br />
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"Eight centuries after he lectured on the Bible, both advocates and
critics agree that Aquinas remains the most influential “natural law”
philosopher. Lawmakers, judges, pundits, and clergy deploy natural-law
reasoning on all manner of public issues, from gender roles to just war;
the US Supreme Court still cites Aquinas on abortion and homosexuality" (Wiley).<br />
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"Rogers critiques turn-of-the-21<sup>st</sup>
century natural law theory by its founding text, using Aquinas's own
commentaries on the bible. Exploring newly translated, or untranslated
commentaries, Rogers compares the passages where Aquinas’s systematic
works quote the Bible with the biblical commentaries on the passages
which are cited. A very different understanding of natural law emerges
in which Aquinas embeds all law, even natural law, not in a particular <i>logic</i>, but in a particular <i>story.</i> The commentaries describe a nature that differs by ethnicity, varies
over time, and changes sexuality by God’s decree. This challenges
current understandings and uses of Aquinas’s natural law from both sides
of the debate, both liberal and conservative" (Wiley). <br />
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In the book, "Rogers uses Aquinas's biblical commentary to argue that Aquinas's sense of the natural law is deeply theological, known only to humans who participate in it via the grace of the Triune God, as conceived of by Christianity. Rogers shows that legal and political uses of natural law are not faithful to Thomas's theological teachings unless they are set within the theological context" (Choice, November 2013).<br />
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"Issues of the naturalness of gender and sexuality are
woven through Rogers’ reflections, complicating both Thomas’ use within
the legal system and within Christian arguments about what is natural.
Too often, as Rogers points out, Christian reflections upon ‘nature’
repeat the errors of natural lawyers in assuming that 1) nature is
self-evident and 2) nature is unchanging. If what is ‘natural’,
according to Thomas (following Paul) is a work of the Spirit, then
nature is neither one. Rather, our discussions of natural life—while
learning from our observations and from reason—cannot be ultimately
governed by reason, but led by the Spirit’s revealing and restoring
work" (<a href="http://erb.kingdomnow.org/eugene-f-rogers-aquinas-and-the-supreme-court-feature-review/" target="_blank">Myles Werntz, Baylor University</a>). <br />
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“In this well documented and lucidly argued book we discover that what
might seem purely arcane medieval scholarship cuts decisively into
matters of currently great human concern" (Fergus Kerr, University of Edinburgh).<br />
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philosophy and theology. Summing Up: Recommended" (Choice, November 2013).iMinervahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10578716488222116399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-72908911622604938672014-02-06T16:29:00.001-05:002014-02-06T17:00:08.068-05:00All the Dead Yale Men<div style="text-align: center;">
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Craig Nova, Class of 1949 Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at UNCG and one of "the best American novelists" according to John Irving, recently published <i>All the Dead Yale Men</i>, the greatly anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1982 novel <i>The Good Son</i>. His earlier novel recounts the story of World War II veteran Chip Mckinnon and his tenuous relationship with his socially ambitious father. "Pop" Mckinnon compels his son to forsake his true love in order to marry well and persuades him to pursue an Ivy League education and a career in law.<br />
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<i>All the Dead Yale Men </i>rejoins the Mckinnon clan a generation later, with Frank Mckinnon, Chip's son, and his brilliant daughter Pia. Frank is a happily married criminal prosecutor in Boston, and his daughter Pia is poised to enter Harvard law school, following in both her grandfather and her father's footsteps. However, Frank's vision for his daughter's life (and his own by association) is jeopardized when Pia contemplates abandoning her career aspirations for a local ne'er do well. Both novels examine parental expectations and ambitions for their children and the lengths that a parent will go in order to preserve them. <br />
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<i>All the Dead Yale Men</i> is a "gripping and intelligent chronicle of love, legacy, and betrayal
(the title may suggest a genre mystery, which this surely isn’t). [It]
captures a complex clan entangled in a questionable moral universe.
Nova’s Mackinnons, both here and in The Good Son, leave their edgy mark
on the modern American literary landscape" (Mark Levine, Booklist).<br />
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“Craig Nova is a fine writer, one of our best. If you haven’t read him, the loss is yours." (Jonathan Yardley, book critic for the <i>Washington Post)</i> <br />
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Nova's writing has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New York
Times Magazine, and Men's Journal, among others. He has received an
Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and
Letters and is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2005 he was
named Class of 1949 Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the
University of North Carolina, Greensboro. iMinervahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10578716488222116399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-49882914502575202732014-01-20T17:03:00.003-05:002014-01-20T17:32:36.330-05:00Preventing College Student Suicide<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #072950; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Dr. Deborah Taub, Professor in UNCG's
Teacher Education and Higher Education Department, recently co-edited
Preventing College Student Suicide: New Directions for Student Services, Number
141. She is also a co-author of several of the chapters included in the
book, which focuses on the growing problem of student suicide on college
campuses across the country and preventative measures that can be implemented
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<span style="color: #072950; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">"The book begins with a general
overview of the problem, reviews possible approaches to the issue, then looks
more closely at specific target populations, before ending with a discussion of
post-suicide intervention options" (<a href="http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Resources/Journal/Current-Past-Book-Reviews/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/2111/Preventing-College-Student-Suicide.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #317dad; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dr. Christine R. Cook</span></a>). "Chapter topics include gatekeeper training, peer
education, diversity, LGBT issues, postvention, college student suicide, and
the public health approach to suicide prevention" (<a href="http://www.sprc.org/content/new-book" target="_blank"><span style="color: #317dad; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)</span></a>). "One of the most beneficial aspects of the book
is the reference to various suicide prevention materials. There is a helpful
table of resources in chapter 2, a web link for a multicultural suicide
prevention kit in chapter 6, and an example of a post-suicide intervention
protocol in chapter 7. The final chapter ends with a list of website resources
including the Jed Foundation and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, which
are referenced throughout the book" (Dr. Christine R. Cook).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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universities have received funding under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act to
develop and implement campus suicide prevention programs" (<a href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111869483X.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #317dad; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Wiley/Jossey-Bass</span></a>).
Each chapter in the book was written by Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) grantee
authors, and both Deborah Taub and her co-editor, Jason Robertson are also GLS
grantees. "This volume highlights successful strategies implemented
by grantee campuses, [and] these approaches can serve as models to address
student suicide and prevention on other campuses" (Wiley/Jossey-Bass).</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i> </i>Associate Professor of African American literature, <a href="http://www.uncg.edu/eng/people/faculty/morrissette.html" target="_blank">Dr. Noelle Morrissette,</a> recently published <i>James Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes</i>, which "provides an evocative
and meticulously researched study of one of the best known and yet least
understood authors of the New Negro Renaissance era" (<a href="http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2013-spring/james-weldon-johnsons-modern-soundscapes.htm" target="_blank">University of Iowa Press</a>).</div>
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"Johnson, familiar
to many as an early civil rights leader active in the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People and an intentionally
controversial writer on the subject of the significance of race in
America, was one of the most prolific, wide-ranging, and yet elusive
authors of twentieth-century African American literature. Drawing on archival materials such as early manuscript notes and drafts
of Johnson’s unpublished and published work, Morrissette explores the
author’s complex aesthetic of sound, based on black expressive culture
and cosmopolitan interracial experiences" (University of Iowa Press).<br />
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"Johnson realized early in his writing career that he could draw
attention to the struggles of African Americans by using unconventional
literary methods such as the incorporation of sound into his texts. In
this groundbreaking work, literary critic Noelle Morrissette examines
how his literary representation of the extremes of sonic
experience—functioning as either cultural violence or creative
force—draws attention to the mutual contingencies and the
interdependence of American and African American cultures. Moreover,
Morrissette argues, Johnson represented these “American sounds” as a
source of multiplicity and diversity, often developing a framework for
the interracial transfer of sound. The lyricist and civil rights leader
used sound as a formal aesthetic practice in and between his works,
presenting it as an unbounded cultural practice that is as much an
interracial as it is a racially distinct cultural history" (University of Iowa Press).</div>
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"The result is an innovative new interpretation of the works of one of
the early twentieth century’s most important and controversial writers
and civil rights leaders" (<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781609381592" target="_blank">Project Muse</a>). “Noelle Morrissette brings to the forefront an undervalued aspect of
Johnson’s amazing career—his attempt to bridge the separation between
black political activism and black popular culture. Impressively
informed but quite accessible and engaging, <i>James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes </i>is
an authoritative reconsideration of critical approaches to Johnson. I
expect it to be quickly established as one of the essential books for
anyone interested in Johnson, and an important methodological model for
any scholar working in this period of American cultural history" (John
Ernest, University of Delaware).<br />
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Miriam Thaggert, Associate Professor of English at The University of Iowa, declares it “an engaging, thought-provoking book... [and] an important work in
African American literary studies, American studies, and the growing
field of sound studies.”<br />
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asserted, 'Man's warfare on the trees is terrible.' Like Sigourney, many
American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainability,
resource wars, globalization, voluntary simplicity, Christian ecology,
and environmental justice" (UGA Press).</span></span></div>
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In her recently published book, Fallen Forests, English Professor <a href="http://www.uncg.edu/eng/people/faculty/kilcup.html" target="_blank">Karen Kilcup</a> examines nineteenth century American women's environmental writing "to show how women writers have drawn on their
literary emotional intelligence to raise readers' consciousness about
social and environmental issues" (UGA Press). Kilcup's extensive research on the subject encompasses a wide range of female voices, including those from marginalized communities, such as Native American, African American, Mexican American, working class, and non-Protestant. Her analysis extends beyond traditional texts to incorporate Native American speeches, travel writing, slave narratives, and diaries and illustrates their influence on environmental debates of the time.</div>
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"Beautifully written, meticulously researched, and brilliantly argued, <i>Fallen Forests </i>is
a major contribution to ecocriticism and to the study of
nineteenth century American women writers more broadly. [It is] a remarkably dexterous and insightful work of ecocritical
scholarship" (Michael P. Branch).<br />
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<a href="http://www.uncg.edu/eng/people/faculty/weyler.html" target="_blank">Karen A. Weyler</a>, Associate Professor of American Literature in the English Department, recently published, <i>Empowering Words: Outsiders & Authorship in Early America</i>. In her book, Dr. Weyler "explores how outsiders used
ephemeral formats such as broadsides, pamphlets, and newspapers to
publish poetry, captivity narratives, formal addresses, and other genres
with wide appeal in early America" (<a href="http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/empowering_words" target="_blank">University of Georgia Press</a>)<br />
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Marginalized and repressed populations from this time period understood the social power and influence of the written word and sought outlets for self expression as a means of communication and connection. "To gain access to print, outsiders collaborated with amanuenses and
editors, inserted their stories into popular genres and cheap media,
tapped into existing social and religious networks, and sought sponsors
and patrons" (University of Georgia Press).<span class="textbody"> "<i>Empowering Words</i> compels us to expand our definitions of agency,
authorship, literacy, and literature to encompass the unlikely men and
women who populated the world of print in early America" (Vincent Carretta, author of <i>Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage).</i></span><br />
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<span class="textbody">"Using an innovative and persuasive approach, as well as much new material, Empowering Words
reveals that slaves, women, and other marginalized groups shrewdly
manipulated mainstream culture and not only wrote but published
themselves into being during the early national period. The book will be
an invaluable resource for scholars interested in class, gender,
identity, race, and print culture."—Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola,
author of <i>The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature </i></span><br />
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<span class="textbody">Click <a href="http://uncg.worldcat.org/oclc/819717583" target="_blank">here</a> to see Jackson Library's catalog record of the book. The library has both a print edition as well as an ebook available!<i> </i></span><br />
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iMinervahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10578716488222116399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-37072696193113017662013-10-08T09:47:00.000-04:002013-12-08T16:17:26.134-05:00Critical Essays on Colombian Cinema and Culture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Spanish Professor Laura Chesak provided the translation for Juana Suarez's <i>Critical Essays on Colombian Cinema and Culture: Cinembargo Colombia</i>, which was published in August 2012. Suarez is a Latin American cinema, visual culture, and literature scholar, whose recent research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of Colombian film through historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives.<br />
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Through her examination of Colombian films, particularly those produced as a result of the 2003 Law of Cinema, Suarez addresses the issues of pervasive violence, race and gender relations, class, and power in the nation and their portrayal in Colombian cinema. She places her analysis in its proper political and social context, and argues for the use of this artistic medium as a means of national reflection. Colombian cinema has historically played a minimal role in the international film market, with only a limited number receiving international awards or accolades, and Suarez considers its future possibilities in this arena.<br />
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She "undertakes to examine with critical insight the most important
texts of Colombian film making. Her work is geared toward those films
that have become part of a Latin American and international canon, those
texts that have attracted significant critical attention and that are
most likely to be used in courses on Latin American film or in courses
in which Latin American film is part of a larger thematic or modular
focus. Focusing on key texts, Suarez examines them in interpretive
depth, with full attention to theoretical issues they raise in
filmmaking and in cultural studies. Her coverage is a judicious balance
between historical considerations and actual textual analyses, between a
discussion of questions relevant to the film industry in Colombia and
the cultural contexts of specific texts." David William Foster, Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University <br />
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"Dense but fascination reading, this [is] a book for specialists in film studies, Latin American studies, and cultural studies. Suarez writes with solid theoretical grounding regarding both feature films and documentaries by Colombian cineasts. Summing Up: Highly recommended." CHOICEiMinervahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10578716488222116399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-68160460612374777522013-09-10T13:35:00.003-04:002013-09-10T13:35:55.703-04:00The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent<br />
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Professor<a href="http://www.uncg.edu/llc/faculty/rinner.html"> Susanne Rinner</a>, Languages, Literature, and Culture, recently published <i>The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent</i>. The book has been praised as "a thoughtful study of the current discourse surrounding the important role of literature in shaping cultural memory…The case of the literary representation of the German ‘1968’ is particularly interesting as it reveals a continuing preoccupation with the traumatic effects of Germany’s past” (Ingo Cornils, University of Leeds).<br />
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Looking specifically at novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, Professor Rinner's book, as the <a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=RinnerGerman">publisher</a> describes, "traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. These novels engage this contestation by constructing a palimpsest of memories that reshape readers’ understanding of the 1960s with respect to the end of the Cold War, the legacy of the Third Reich, and the Holocaust."<br />
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<i>The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination </i>is the ninth volume in Berghahn's <a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/series.php?pg=prot_cult">Protest, Culture & Society series</a>. <br />
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English professor <a href="http://www.uncg.edu/eng/englishfaculty/facultybios/goddardjones.html">Holly Goddard Jones</a> published her first novel, <i>The Next Time You See Me</i>, in February, 2013. <br />
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<i>Booklist</i>'s Leah Strauss praised the novel, noting "Jones’ debut novel, following her short story collection Girl
Trouble (2009), follows the intersecting effects of one woman’s
disappearance on residents of a small Kentucky town. Middle-school
teacher Susanna becomes concerned when she finds her older sister,
Ronnie, is missing. The two share a complicated relationship—Ronnie is a
hard-partying factory worker while Susanna is a mild-mannered wife and
mother. When Susanna launches a widespread search, it unexpectedly
connects the lives of other townsfolk. Such as Emily, a tragic
13-year-old outcast whose daydreams may well reveal a dangerous secret,
and downtrodden Wyatt, a fiftysomething blue-collar worker who begins to
confront a lifelong emotional void after meeting and falling in love
with a local nurse. Meanwhile, there’s Tony, the failed athlete who has
returned to his hometown as the detective assigned to Ronnie’s case. As
the search for Ronnie intensifies, Susanna begins to question the
stagnancy in her own life, while other characters confront their
perceptions of self-worth. Jones’ well-crafted tale captures small-town
nuances while exploring the individual psychologies of her characters
and their struggles." --Leah Strauss
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-20022272314797479752013-08-21T16:35:00.002-04:002013-08-21T16:35:52.644-04:00Is your book in the University Libraries? Is your article in NC Docks?Faculty--welcome back to campus! This blog was on hiatus over the summer, but now we would like to help you get the word out about your publications. The University Libraries actively collect faculty books, films, scores, and more. If you have recently published, edited, or translated a scholarly monograph, work of fiction, book of poetry, or collection of essays, please let us know--send an email to Kimberly Lutz at kdlutz2@uncg.edu. Each Spring we hold an event to celebrate the book publications of our faculty, and we feature many on this blog throughout the year. <br />
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We also want to make sure we are collecting, preserving, indexing, and distributing your scholarly articles. Please contact Beth Bernhardt, Assistant Dean for Collection Management and
Scholarly Communications, at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/brbernha@uncg.edu">brbernha@uncg.edu</a>, to learn how you can contribute your work to our institutional repository, <a href="http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/">NC Docks</a>.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-33259378648699806282013-05-15T13:23:00.001-04:002013-05-15T13:25:47.388-04:00Celebration!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Thursday, May 2, we gathered in the Hodges Reading Room of Jackson Library to celebrate the many faculty authors whose books the University Libraries acquired over the past year. If you published a book recently, please let us know! We will be happy to include it in next year's celebration.<br />
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Books Written, Edited, or Translated by UNCG Faculty Acquired by the University Libraries in 2012/13</h3>
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African American Studies </h4>
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Tara Green, <i>Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature</i></div>
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Art </h4>
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Elizabeth Perrill, <i>Zulu Potter</i></div>
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Classical Studies </h4>
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Susan Shelmerdine, <i>Introduction to Latin</i></div>
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Jeffrey Soles, <i>Mochlos IIC, Period IV: The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery, The Human </i> </div>
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Communication Sciences and Disorders </h4>
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Alan G. Kamhi, <i>Language and Reading Disabilities, 3rd Edition</i></div>
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Communication Studies </h4>
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Spoma Jovanovic, <i>Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action: Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro</i> </div>
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Loreen Olson, <i>The Dark Side of Family Communications</i></div>
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Counseling & Educational Development </h4>
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Todd Lewis<i>, Substance Abuse and Addiction Treatment, Practical Application of Counseling Theory</i> </div>
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Christine Murray, <i>Responding to Family Violence: A Comprehensive Research-Based Guide for Therapists</i></div>
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Economics </h4>
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Albert N. Link<i>, Public Investments in Energy Technology</i><br />
Albert N. Link, <i>Technology Transfer in a Global Economy</i></div>
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Educational Leadership & Cultural Foundations </h4>
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Carol Mullen, <i>From Student to Professor: Translating a Graduate Degree into a Career in Academia</i></div>
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Carol Mullen, <i>Educational Leadership at 2050: Conjectures, Challenges and Promises</i></div>
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English </h4>
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Ben Clarke<b>, </b><i>Understanding Richard Hoggart </i><br />
Michelle Dowd, <i>Early Modern Women on the Fall, An Anthology </i> </div>
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Christopher Hodgkins, <i>The Digital Temple: A Documentary Edition of George Herbert's English Verse </i><br />
<i> </i>Holly Goddard Jones, <i>The Next Time You See Me</i></div>
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Craig Nova, <i>The Constant Heart </i><br />
Mark Rifkin, <i>The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination </i></div>
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Kelly Ritter, <i>Exploring Composition Studies: Sites, Issues and Perspectives</i> </div>
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Health and Human Sciences </h4>
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Paige Hall Smith, <i>Beyond Health, Beyond Choice: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities</i><br />
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History </h4>
James Anderson, <i>The Tongking Gulf Through History</i><br />
Cheryl Logan <i>, Hormones, Heredity, and Race: Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna </i><br />
Linda M. Rupert, <i>Creolization and Contraband: Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World</i><br />
Stephen Ruzicka, <i>Trouble in the West: Egypt and the Persian Empire 525-332 BCE</i><br />
Loren Schweninger, <i>Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, & the Law</i><br />
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Human Development & Family Studies </h4>
Karen M. LaParo, <i>Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) Manual: Toddler</i><br />
Mark Fine, <i>Handbook of Family Theories </i><br />
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Human Resource Services </h4>
Edna Chun, <i>Creating a Tipping Point: Strategic Human Resources in Higher Education</i><br />
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Information Systems and Supply Chain Management </h4>
Hamid Nemati, <i>Privacy Solutions and Security Frameworks in Information Protection</i><br />
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Languages, Literatures, and Cultures </h4>
Laura Chesak, <i>Critical Essays on Colombian Cinema and Culture: Cinembargo Colombia</i><br />
Arndt Niebisch , <i>Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication</i><br />
Susanne Rinner, <i>The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent</i><br />
Mark Smith-Soto, <i>Berkeley Prelude</i><br />
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Library & Information Studies </h4>
Sandra Andrews, <i>The Power of Data: An Introduction to Using Local, State, and National Data to Support School Library Programs</i><br />
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Media Studies </h4>
Geoffrey Baym, <i>News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe</i><br />
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Music </h4>
Guy Capuzzo, <i>Elliott Carter's 'What Next?': Communication, Cooperation, and SeparationHeal</i><br />
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Political Science </h4>
Fabrice Lehoucq, <i>The Politics of Modern Central America: Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment</i><br />
Jerry Pubantz, <i>Is There a Global Right to Democracy?</i></div>
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Public Health Education </h4>
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William Myles Evans, <i>Virgin Snow: A Book of Poetry</i><br />
Mike Perko, <i>Sheldon's Adventure</i><br />
Mike Perko, <i>Sheldon's Adventure: Cornered!</i></div>
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Religious Studies </h4>
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Ellen Haskell, <i>Suckling at My Mother's Breasts: The Image of a Nursing God in Jewish Mysticism</i></div>
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Sociology </h4>
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Saundra Westervelt, <i>Life after Death Row: Exonerees' Search for Community and Identity</i></div>
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Specialized Education Services </h4>
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Joseph Hill, <i>The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure</i><br />
Joseph Hill,<i> Language Attitudes in the American Deaf Community </i></div>
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Teacher Education & Higher Education </h4>
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Barbara Levin<i>, Evidence-Based Strategies for Leading 21st Century Schools</i><br />
Barbara Levin, <i>Leading Technology-Rich Schools: Award-Winning Models for Success</i> <br />
Dale H. Schunk, <i>Motivation in Education: Theory, Research, and Applications</i><br />
Dale Schunk, <i>Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective </i> <br />
Edna Tan, <i>Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Schools</i></div>
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Women's and Gender Studies </h4>
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Danielle Bouchard, <i>A Community of Disagreement: Feminism in the University</i></div>
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Professor Edna Tan (Teacher Education and Higher Education) recently received the Division B Outstanding Book Award for 2012 from the American Educational Research Association for her book, <i>Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Schools. </i><br />
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The University of Chicago Press provides the following abstract:<br />
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"Math and science hold powerful places in contemporary society, setting the foundations for entry into some of the most robust and highest-paying industries. However, effective math and science education is not equally available to all students, with some of the poorest students—those who would benefit most—going egregiously underserved. This ongoing problem with education highlights one of the core causes of the widening class gap. While this educational inequality can be attributed to a number of economic and political causes, this book demonstrates that it is augmented by a consistent failure to integrate student history, culture, and social needs into the core curriculum. The chapters argue that teachers and schools should create hybrid third spaces—neither classroom nor home—in which underserved students can merge their personal worlds with those of math and science. A host of examples buttress this argument: schools where these spaces have been instituted now provide students with not only an immediate motivation to engage the subjects most critical to their future livelihoods but also the broader math and science literacy necessary for robust societal engagement. The book pushes beyond the idea of teaching for social justice and into larger questions of how and why students participate in math and science."<br />
<i> </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-56992636177970193912013-05-03T04:00:00.000-04:002013-05-03T16:59:01.219-04:00The Politics of Modern Central America<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.uncg.edu/~f_lehouc/">Dr. Fabrice Lehoucq</a> (Political Science) is the author of <i>The Politics of Modern Central America: Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2012). The book provides an analysis of both the origins and outcomes of civil war in Central America, including social, economic, and political upheavals and even failures. It seeks to use examples from the events in this region to enable a broader understanding of political change and civil war. One reviewer called it “a well-executed book of impressive theoretical scope and richness.” Another declared, “If I were to recommend one book on modern Central America to my students, it would be this one.' Clearly it is a valuable addition to scholarship on this often volatile area. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-44229541983932284562013-04-12T16:51:00.001-04:002013-04-12T16:51:35.356-04:00Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action: Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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November 3, 1979. The Greensboro Massacre. The Klan-Nazi shootings. Whatever you want to call that day, it is a day of infamy in this city’s history. <a href="http://www.uncg.edu/aas/research/jovanovic.html">Dr. Spoma Jovanovic</a> (Communication Studies) is the author of <i>Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action: Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro</i>, published in November 2012 by the University of Arkansas Press. The book follows the trail that led from the horror of 1979 to the formation of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2004 to the commission’s final report in 2006—and beyond.<br /><br />Dr. Jovanovic worked with community members to document the work of the TRC as it tried to discover and explain what happened on that day and what resulted. Why were no police present? Why were the gunmen never convicted? The Greensboro TRC was the first in the United States to undertake this sort of examination and this book testifies to its importance. As one reviewer said, “A practical look at the messy, conflicting, and difficult work, the book explores how such work can foster greater participation in local, even national, democracy.” Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513418693048813027.post-23388995956608249332013-03-26T16:13:00.001-04:002013-03-26T16:13:40.483-04:00Berkeley Prelude: A Lyrical Memoir, 1970-1975<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Berkeley Prelude: A Lyrical Memoir, 1970-1975</i> is the latest book of poetry by <a href="http://www.uncg.edu/llc/faculty/smith-soto.html">Dr. Mark Smith-Soto</a> (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures). In it, there are two narrators and the poet himself plays both parts. One is Mark Smith-Soto as he was in California in the 1970s; the other resides in the present. Each poem has two parts; in the first, he speaks of himself in the third person and in the second, in the first person. As one critic observed, “By making his earlier self be a he instead of an I, Smith-Soto is simultaneously creating psychological accuracy and opening up questions about the contiguity of the self.” Another wrote, “In the end, Berkeley Prelude cautions that when you look back, the face you don’t recognize might be your own.” <br />
<br />The book was published by <a href="http://www.unicorn-press.org/">Unicorn Press</a> in Greensboro in two separate editions. Unicorn describes the editions as follows: “The author signed 26 hardbound copies, lettered A through Z. An additional 50 hardbound copies and 225 bound in paper were produced by Unicorn Press.” It seems fitting that even the physical properties of the poems should represent yet another duality.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0