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Agropastoralismo Sostenible en el Altiplano Boliviano: El Caso de San José Llanga

David Layne Coppock and Corinne Valdivia

Como la cultura, el ganado, la innovación técnica y las conecciones rurales/urbanas influencian la habilidad de una sociedad para enfrentar la sequía y los cambios económicos

A Mi Manera: Spanish for Proficiency

Lizette Mujica-Laughlin, Maria Spicer-Escalante, and Helen Hamlyn

A mi manera is a Spanish textbook specifically designed to help higher intermediate and advanced level speakers of Spanish improve their professional language proficiency. A mi manera is a focused curriculum to help the students polish their basic Spanish skills, and develop and refine linguistic tasks that are critical to effective communication in the professional arena. Attaining high levels of proficiency is a current challenge for foreign language education in the United States, and one of the “pathways to proficiency” is through the development of effective, proficiency based materials for upper-level students that target advanced and superior level communicative skills. Therefore, A mi manera seeks to prepare students for using Spanish professionally in the Spanish global workplace.

Au Naturel: (Re)reading Hispanic Naturalism

J. P. Spicer-Escalante and Lara Anderson

Literary naturalism, within the Hispanic context, has traditionally been read as a graphic realist school or movement linked predominantly to late nineteenth century literary production. The essays in 'Au Naturel: (Re)Reading Hispanic Naturalism' - written by scholars from different generations, nationalities and ideological backgrounds - propose a major revisionist contribution to the study of Hispanic naturalism. Based on a theoretical proposal that re-semanticizes naturalismo as a diachronic counter-metanarrative phenomenon that transcends the chronological and geographic limitations imposed by traditional criticism on naturalism, the collection provides new readings of traditional naturalist fare as well as re-readings of works that have not been read, within the bounds of conventional criticism, as naturalist. Re-read within the proposed theoretical framework, its essays demonstrate the countless ways in which Hispanic naturalist texts - literary and more recently, filmic - continue to frankly engage the societal problematics that has impeded true social, political, economic and cultural progress from taking place in the Hispanic world from the turbulent fin-de-siecle period of the nineteenth century through the present day, globalized context. 'Au Naturel: (Re)Reading Hispanic Naturalism' is thus also an open invitation to the scholarly community to re-consider other socio-critical works within the Hispanic naturalist context that observe and reflection upon social issues that continue to plague Hispanic society today.

Best Research Practices: How to Gain Reliable Knowledge

Charles Romesburg

Clearly explains how to plan and carry out reliable experiments, how to conceive and circumstantially support research hypotheses, how to test research hypotheses, how to discover cause and effect, and more. For students and practitioners in all fields of the physical, life, earth, social, and engineering sciences. Contains more than 150 illustrative research examples from all fields. Based on Professor Romesburg's examination of 5,000 top scientific articles, studying the methods used to produce reliable knowledge. See the book's first page explaining the blind peer review of the book that was commissioned and paid for by the author's academic department; see the book's back cover for peer reviewer comments. To read most of it, go to Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/) and enter this: Romesburg Best Research Practices - then click on the book.

British Literature of the Blitz: Fighting the People’s War

Kristine Miller

Analyzing conflicted representations of class and gender in British literature and film of the Blitz, this book interrogates the ideal of the People's War, which claimed to unite men and women of all classes in defense of the British home front. The subtitle -- Fighting the People's War -- describes the way that British citizens not only cooperated to fight Nazi Germany but also questioned the nationalist ideology binding them together. The paradox of the People's War is that it counters a totalitarian threat with a potentially totalizing ideal: because it is both patriotic and utopian, the rhetoric resists critique, even though the right to question compulsory nationalism was precisely what Britain was fighting for. Above all else, British Literature of the Blitz values the voicing of individual opinion, even -- or especially -- when individuals do not agree; a utopia that denies the freedom to critique utopianism is no utopia at all. Kristine Miller has published on modern British literature in Modern Fiction Studies, Genre, Twentieth Century Literature, and the Journal of Modern Literature.

Climate Warming in Western North America: Evidence and Environmental Effects

Frederic Wagner

Twentieth-century weather records and temperature proxies (boreholes in the earth, ice cores in Montana glaciers) show temperature increases throughout western North America, northern precipitation increases, but decreases in the Southwest. Montane snowpacks are shrinking, flow patterns in western streams are changing. Climate models predict intensification of these trends, and optimum climate for wine-grape production shifting north out of California to Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Massive mountain pine beetle outbreaks are killing lodgepole pines in the Northwest, and in British Columbia where no outbreaks occurred historically. Shifting distributions and timing of plant and animal species are changing structures of natural communities. In Alaska, glaciers are receding, thermofrost is thawing, lakes are disappearing, forests are dying, natives’ coastal villages are no longer protected from erosion by sea ice and must be moved. Climate Warming in Western North America: Evidence and Environmental Effects documents these and other climate changes.

Collaborative Home/School Interventions: Evidence-Based Solutions for Emotional, Behavioral, and Academic Problems

Gretchen Gimpel Peacock and Brent R. Collett

Parents can be invaluable partners in identifying students’ behavioral and learning needs and developing effective solutions. This book provides practical tools for collaborating with families to achieve the best outcomes for K–12 students. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy reference and photocopying, the book includes more than 40 ready-to-use reproducibles. The volume is useful for school-based mental health professionals, who will learn how to build positive home/school relationships, actively involve parents in assessment and intervention, and overcome barriers to collaboration. This is the latest research on what works in treating internalizing, externalizing, and academic difficulties is translated into clear-cut recommendations for practice.

Communication Sciences and Disorders: From Science to Clinical Practice

Ronald Gillam, Thomas P. Marquardt, and Frederick N. Martin

Communication Sciences and Disorders: From Science to Clinical Practice is an excellent introductory text for undergraduate students enrolled in their first course in communication sciences and disorders. Written by experts in the field, this text contains basic information about speech disorders that are related to impairments in articulation, voice, and fluency; language disorders in children and adults; and hearing disorders that cause conductive and sensorineural hearing losses. It includes basic information on the speech, language, and hearing sciences and practical information about assessment and intervention practices. Unlike some other introductory text books, this book also includes chapters on multicultural issues, deafness, dysarthria, and dysphagia. The key ancillary features of this book that makes it unique are the CD and Companion Web site. The accompanying CD contains numerous high-quality videos that demonstrate every critical aspect of speech, language, and hearing disorders. The CD enables professors to provide information about common or unusual cases in a single, highly accessible format, and it enables students to watch the segments many times over to make the most of the enhanced learning opportunities they provide. A fun way to aid learning comprehension, the Companion Web site has an interactive glossary, flashcards, and crossword puzzles for an additional review of key terms.

Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform

Barry M. Franklin

Barry M. Franklin’s new work uses the concept of community as a lens for interpreting urban school reform since 1960. Focusing on the curriculum and employing case studies, he applies the concept to reform initiatives in a number of city school systems. Included are compensatory education, community control, mayoral takeovers, educational partnerships, and smaller learning communities. This comprehensive work concludes with a consideration of how we can employ the concept of cosmopolitanism to change the idea of community for a twenty-first century, globalized world and its schools.

De Apóstol Matamoros a Yllapa Mataindios: Dogmas e Ideologías Medievales en el (Des)cubrimiento de América

Javier Domínguez García

In this second monograph, I present the thesis that the different (and often contradictory) ideas of Spain that surfaced in medieval times show a common fixation with the colonial and early modern discourses that emerged during the (dis)covery and conquest of the New World. Taking into account current theoretical developments on mimesis and empire, I argue in this volume that the literary representations of St. James Indian-Slayer in the New World chronicles provide a symbolic mirror image of the different ideas of Spain that came to light in medieval times.

Digital Soil Mapping: Bridging Research, Production, and Environmental Application

Janis L. Boettinger, David W. Howell, Amanda C. Moore, Alfred E. Hartemink, and Suzann Kienast-Brown

Digital Soil Mapping is the creation and the population of a geographically referenced soil database. It is generated at a given resolution by using field and laboratory observation methods coupled with environmental data through quantitative relationships. Digital soil mapping is advancing on different fronts at different rates all across the world. This book presents the state-of-the art and explores strategies for bridging research, production, and environmental application of digital soil mapping.It includes examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The chapters address the following topics: - evaluating and using legacy soil data - exploring new environmental covariates and sampling schemes - using integrated sensors to infer soil properties or status - innovative inference systems predicting soil classes, properties, and estimating their uncertainties - using digital soil mapping and techniques for soil assessment and environmental application - protocol and capacity building for making digital soil mapping operational around the globe.

Doing Something Different: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Thorana S. Nelson

Many books on solution-focused brief therapy provide histories, overviews, and uses of the approach. Doing Something Different does not do any of those things. Instead, it provides those interested in the solution-focused approach with a plethora of ideas for practice, training, and simply enjoying the solution-focused approach and its practice in therapy, consulting, coaching, and training. It contains a varied and rich array of interventions, training ideas, uses with different populations and approaches, and resources written by contributors who represent many countries and viewpoints, and who are well known in the training and practice of the solution-focused approach. Chapters are presented in simple language, as befits the solution-focused approach, and complement the many serious and whimsical sections of the book, which include practice and training ideas, favorite quotes and stories, “outrageous” moments in therapy, and a list of solution-focused songs. Anyone who enjoys the approach in any manner should find something that grabs the interest and tickles the senses and sensibilities. Readers will come away informed, thoughtful, and entertained.

Family of Fallen Leaves: Stories of Agent Orange by Vietnamese Writers

Charles Waugh and Huy Lien

This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral questions about the physical, spiritual, and environmental consequences of war.

Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed approximately twenty million gallons of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliants on Vietnam and Laos, exposing combatants and civilians from both sides to the deadly contaminant dioxin. Many of the exposed, and later their children, suffered from ailments including diabetes, cancer, and birth defects.

This remarkably diverse collection represents a body of work published after the early 1980s that stirred sympathy and indignation in Vietnam, pressuring the Vietnamese government for support. “Thirteen Harbors” intertwines a woman’s love for a dioxin victim with ancient Cham legend and Vietnamese folk wisdom. “A Child, a Man” explores how our fates are bound with those of our neighbors. In “The Goat Horn Bell” and “Grace,” families are devastated to find the damage from Agent Orange passed to their newborn children. Eleven of the pieces appear in English for the first time, including an essay by Minh Chuyen, whose journalism helped publicize the Agent Orange victims’ plight.

The stories in Family of Fallen Leaves are harrowing yet transformative in their ability to make us identify with the other.

Freedom and the Rule of Law

Anthony A. Peacock

Freedom and the Rule of Law takes a critical look at the historical beginnings of law in the United States, and how that history has influenced current trends regarding law and freedom. Anthony Peacock has compiled articles that examine the relationship between freedom and the rule of law in America. The rule of law is fundamental to all liberal constitutional regimes whose political orders recognize the equal natural rights of all.

Genome Mapping and Genomics in Domestic Species

Noelle E. Cockett and Chittaranjan Kole

The nine chapters in this volume focus on genome mapping and genomics research that has been conducted in domesticated and farmed species. Topics in the chapters include the development of genome maps, descriptions of available genomic resources, phylogenetic analyses, domestication patterns, and genetic control of traits. While each chapter serves a stand-alone description of genomics for that particular species, when read as a whole, the breadth of the research in domesticated and farmed species is remarkable, particularly in light of the limited funding, resources, and personnel as compared to the investment on humans and laboratory species. These limitations have resulted in the development of collaborations and consortiums that cross the globe. Direct outcomes of genomics research in domesticated species have been the identification of genetic regions and in some cases, the causative mutation, that control a spectrum of traits including fertility, growth rate, milk production, carcass quality and composition, fitness, immune function, and disease traits. Progress in this area of research is remarkable given that its beginning was in the early 1990’s, when genome linkage maps containing molecular markers were first developed.

Grasses of the Intermountain Region

Laurel K. Anderton and Mary E. Barkworth

Grasses are the world’s most important plants. They are the dominant plant group over so many parts of the world that there are many languages with a word for grassland, or even multiple kinds of grassland. They provide 70% of our calories, either directly, through the food that we eat, or indirectly, through the food that nourishes the animals that we eat – or their products. They are increasingly being used as ornamentals and the woody grasses (aka bamboos) are now being used for flooring, cutting board, and fabric.

Grasses of the Intermountain Region is derived, with a few updates and additional illustrations, from a two-volume treatment of grasses in North America that was organized and edited at Utah State University. Completing the two volumes involved over 70 contributors, at least as many herbaria, numerous reviewers, 11 illustrators, five botanical editors, and numerous other colleagues. The regional volume, because it includes fewer species, is simpler to use, shorter, and less expensive than the two volume set. Money generated from its sales (and those of the two volume set) are used to help support the Intermountain Herbarium of Utah State University.

High Geologic Slip Rates Since Early Pleistocene Initiation of the San Jacinto and San Felipe Faulty Zones in the San Andreas Fault System, Southern California, USA

Susanne U. Janecke and Tammy M. Rittenour

How to Read the Federalist Papers

Anthony A. Peacock

Thomas Jefferson called The Federalist Papers the best commentary on the principles of government, which ever was written. Over 200 years after the writing of these essays, most commentators — liberal and conservative — still agree. While The Federalist is indeed an important resource for understanding the meaning of our Constitution, its relevance is based on something deeper. The authors of the essays knew that the principles of our Founding would not always be unquestioned, so they gave us the strongest defense of those principles as part of the immediate political struggle for ratification. The Federalist not only illuminates the meaning of the Constitution s text. It also explains how our Constitution embodies the core principles of the Declaration of Independence and why it must be preserved in the face of present struggles. In this monograph, Anthony Peacock, professor of political science at Utah State University, offers us a brief guide to The Federalist, a road map illuminating the major issues treated in the essays and explaining their continued relevance for us today. An appendix of important passages on contemporary subjects is also included as a helpful resource for interested readers.

Despite our contemporary challenges, we still enjoy some measure of constitutional government. More important, our Founders have left us with their teaching and example, showing us the way to restore our Constitution to its rightful place. Our Constitution will endure only if our leaders understand why it is defensible, and there is no better argument in favor of the Constitution that The Federalist Papers.

Impulsivity: The Behavioral and Neurological Science of Discounting

Gregory J. Madden and Warren K. Bickel

Impulsivity explores the basis for the seemingly universal tendency to devalue rewards or punishments that are not immediately available. When confronted with any number of modern impulsive behaviors such as drug use, pathological gambling, marital infidelity, and gluttony individuals have a choice with two outcomes: an immediate benefit, such as getting high, or a delayed or probabilistic benefit, such as health, money saved, or the satisfaction of a good life. This volume is an approachable, comprehensive overview of the behavioral science and neuroscience of these impulsive choices and their relation to delay discounting--the tendency to devalue temporally distant rewards or punishments, even though they may greatly outbalance the immediate benefit of our choices. The cutting-edge researchers who contributed to this volume have documented cross-species similarities in impulsive decision making and pioneered the neuroscience of impulsive choice. In this text they provide insights into harmless impulsive acts as well as those that dominate and destroy lives. The contributors tackle key issues such as whether impulsivity and risk taking are a trait or state; the neuroscience, neuroeconomics, and computational modeling of neural systems underlying impulsivity; and the relation between impulsivity and addictions, health decision making, altruism, and attention-deficit disorder. Theoretical debates regarding the origins of impulsivity round out this text, which will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in psychology, behavioral economics, psychopharmacology, behavioral analysis and therapy, and the science of decision making.

Landscaping on the New Frontier: Waterwise Design for the Intermountain West

Susan E. Meyer, Roger K. Kjelgren, Darrel G. Morrison, William A. Varga, and Betina Schultz

Landscaping on the New Frontier teaches the reader how to use natural landscapes to inspire individually designed landscape--around a business or a home and a yard. Included are design principles, practical ideas, and strong examples of what some homeowners have already done to convert traditional "bluegrass" landscapes into ones that are more expressive of the West. Landscaping on the New Frontier also offers an approach to irrigation that minimizes the use of supplemental water yet ensures the survival of plants during unusually dry periods. The book demonstrates how to combine ecological principles with design principles to create beautiful home landscapes that require only minimal resources to maintain. In the Mountain West, a place of rugged terrain and long-term droughts, it is time for a new kind of pioneering. Rather than continuing to mimic the moist English garden in our home landscapes--and spend substantial resources on maintenance--it's time to celebrate the unique attributes of where we live. Landscaping on the New Frontier demonstrates how to create a striking home or office landscape that reflects the place we live, in both its roughness and it subtleties. The starting point, the inspiration, lies in the rich array of plants, patterns and process around us: on the mountainsides, in the deserts, salt flats and canyons, in the valleys and along the meandering streams.

Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence

Shane Graham and John Walters

Leadership and the Family and Consumer Sciences Classroom: Challenging Junior High Students to Take Action in Their Community

Lindsey Shirley

Social issues facing society impact adolescents differently than adults, therefore, decisions made guiding society are better informed if adolescents participate in the decision making process. Not only do adolescents need to be involved in these decisions, but also attention needs to be given to the development of adolescents as ethical, skilled, highly committed young leaders willing to take on all levels of local and national responsibility for building our future society. This will require a deliberative effort by adults generally, and family and consumer sciences (FCS) professionals specifically. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the integration of leadership development opportunities using a practical problem framework emphasizing childhood obesity on the self-perceived leadership practices of junior high students.

Marriages and Families: Intimacy, Diversity, and Strengths

David Olson, John DeFrain, and Linda Skogrand

An introductory text, Marriages and Families accentuates the positive aspects of relationships and focuses on enriching students' knowledge and experience in building strong, successful couple and family relationships. The authors, seasoned family scholars and therapists, integrate research, theory, and practical applications with an interdisciplinary perspective on marriage and family. To enhance teaching and student learning, an updated AWARE (Awareness of Attitudes and Relationships Expectations) Online computerized assessment contains 15 categories that match the chapters of the book.

Mechanics of Flight

Warren F. Phillips

With its unique balance of breadth and depth, coupled with a comprehensive presentation of theory and applications, Mechanics of Flight is rapidly becoming the textbook of choice to enable readers to master the science and mathematics of flight mechanics. By progressively building on the formulation and solution of simpler problems associated with aircraft performance, static stability, and control, the author guides readers from fundamental principles to the development of the general equations of motion and continues through dynamic stability, aircraft handling qualities, and flight simulation.

In response to feedback from students, instructors, practicing engineers, and test pilots, this Second Edition features much new material, including new and updated coverage of:

Effects of nonlinear aerodynamics on aircraft stability

Effects of tail dihedral on longitudinal and lateral stability

Lateral trim, engine failure, and minimum-control airspeed

Dynamic stability constraints and center-of-gravity limits

Flight simulation in geographic coordinates

Throughout the text, many new worked examples demonstrate how to apply principles of flight mechanics to solve engineering problems. Moreover, the text offers an array of modern and classical techniques for solving a broad range of problems in flight mechanics. Unique features include presentations of the numerical lifting-line method for efficient and accurate evaluation of stability derivatives and the quaternion formulation for six-degree-of-freedom flight simulation. Moreover, the author provides the detail needed to enable readers to write their own code.

Mechanics of Flight is designed as a textbook for a two-semester sequence of courses for students in mechanical and aerospace engineering. In addition, the text's self-contained chapters allow instructors to select individual topics for one-semester courses. The book is also a valuable reference for engineers working in the aerospace industry.

New Developments in Computable General Equilibrium Analysis for Trade Policy

John Gilbert

The aim of the proposed volume will be to present new developments in the methodology and practice of CGE techniques as they apply to recent issues in international trade policy. The volume will be of interest to academic researchers working in trade policy analysis and applied general equilibrium, advanced graduate students in international economics, applied researchers in multilateral organizations, and policymakers who need to work with and interpret the results of CGE analysis.