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  Push Me, Pull You (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)

  Sarah Blick and Laura D. Gelfand

  Late Medieval and Renaissance art was surprisingly pushy. Its architecture demanded that people move through it in prescribed patterns; its sculptures played elaborate games alternating between concealment and revelation; while its paintings charged viewers with imaginatively moving through them. Viewers wanted to interact with artwork in emotional and/or performative ways. This inventive and personal interface between viewers and artists sometimes conflicted with the Church’s prescribed devotional models, and in some cases it complemented them. Artists and patrons responded to the desire for both spontaneous and sanctioned interactions by creating original ways to amplify devotional experiences. The authors included here study the provocation and the reactions associated with medieval and Renaissance art and architecture. These essays trace the impetus towards interactivity from the points of view of their creators and those who used them.

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  Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution

  Jeff Horn, Leonard N. Rosenband, and Merritt Roe Smith

  This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. The fifteen contributors go beyond the longstanding view of industrialization as a linear process marked by discrete stages. Instead, they examine a lengthy and creative period in the history of industrialization, 1750 to 1914, reassessing the nature of and explanations for England's industrial primacy, and comparing significant industrial developments in countries ranging from China to Brazil. Each chapter explores a distinctive national production ecology, a complex blend of natural resources, demographic pressures, cultural impulses, technological assets, and commercial practices. At the same time, the chapters also reveal the portability of skilled workers and the permeability of political borders. The Industrial Revolution comes to life in discussions of British eagerness for stylish, middle-class products; the Enlightenment's contribution to European industrial growth; early America's incremental (rather than revolutionary) industrialization; the complex connections between Czarist and Stalinist periods of industrial change in Russia; Japan's late and rapid turn to mechanized production; and Brazil's industrial-financial boom. By exploring unique national patterns of industrialization as well as reciprocal exchanges and furtive borrowing among these states, the book refreshes the discussion of early industrial transformations and raises issues still relevant in today's era of globalization.

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  Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare’s Festive World

  Phebe Jensen

  Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare’s Festive World re-examines traditional festivity in early modern England and Shakespeare's plays in light of new scholarly understandings of the scope and progress of the English Reformation. Whereas most scholarship on Shakespeare and festivity has stressed the political and social meanings of early modern festivity, Religion and Revelry seeks to restore a sense of the importance of devotional issues to our understanding of the topic. The book argues that Shakespeare is a festive traditionalist whose plays not only acknowledge the relationship between traditional pastimes, stage plays, and religious controversy, but who aligns his own work, on aesthetic though not theological grounds, with festive energies identified with Catholic religious practices. Religion and Revelry also identifies an ongoing association between “popery” and festive pastimes made by both Protestant reformers and some early modern Catholics who practiced traditional festivity as a way of defining their own threatened religious community. In this way, the book contributes to a rich body of recent scholarly literature seeking to reconstruct the place of lingering Catholic ideas, beliefs, and behavior in early modern Protestant culture.

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  Revisiting Silent Reading: New Directions for Teachers and Researchers

  Elfrieda H. Hiebert and D. Ray Reutzel

  Literacy leaders come together in this important and timely volume-destined to become a vital part of every schools PD library-to give expert advice about silent reading instruction and how to make it work in your classroom.

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  School Psychology for the 21st Century: Foundations and Practices, 2nd Edition

  Kenneth W. Merrell, Ruth A. Ervin, and Gretchen Gimpel Peacock

  A leading introductory text, this authoritative volume comprehensively describes the school psychologist's role in promoting positive academic, behavioral, and emotional outcomes for all students. The book emphasizes a problem-solving-based, data-driven approach to practice in today's diverse schools. It grounds the reader in the concepts and tools needed to become a competent, ethical practitioner; implement and evaluate multi-tiered interventions; and facilitate systems-level change. Useful pedagogical features include illustrative vignettes and end-of-chapter discussion questions and activities.

  New to This Edition

  • Incorporates up-to-date research findings and professional standards.
  • Expanded coverage of response to intervention, cultural and linguistic diversity issues, and evidence-based practice in mental health.
  • Chapter on legal issues includes expanded coverage of IDEIA and other recent federal mandates.

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  Shoshoni Grammar

  John E. McLaughlin

  Shoshoni is a member of the Central Numic branch of the Numic language family of the Uto-Aztecan stock. It was formerly spoken in a broad, continuous arc extending from southwestern Nevada up through northwestern Utah and southern Idaho to central Wyoming. There are four generally recognized dialect complexes–Western Shoshoni, Gosiute, Northern Shoshoni, and Eastern Shoshoni. Today, the Shoshoni community lives in colonies and reservations scattered throughout the former range.

  Shoshoni is closely related to the Comanche language of Oklahoma. Shoshoni has an underlying obstruent system which consists of voiceless stops /p, t, k, kw/, two voiceless fricatives /s, h/, and a voiceless affricate /ts/, but a surface phonetic system that includes voiced and voiceless stops, fricatives, and affricates in all the places of articulation of the underlying stops and affricates. Nominals in Shoshoni are inflected for three cases and for singular, dual, and plural number. Shoshoni aspect and tense are reflected as suffixes on the verb stem and there is a large set of instrumental prefixes that can be prefixed as well. Adverbial relations are marked by postpositions. Shoshoni word order is relatively free, although there is a marked tendency toward SXV. Subordinate clauses in Shoshoni are marked for same reference of subjects or for switch reference of subjects.

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  Simply Silly Songbook-Songs about Music

  Kevin Olson and Kenn Nesbitt

  Have you ever heard of an elephant playing in a band? A piano-playing puppy? Kids will get a kick out of these imaginative, silly songs by Kevin Olson, who put music to the clever humor and wordplay of poet, Kenn Nesbitt. This is the first book in a series that will get you singing and laughing! It’s ideal for children’s choirs or the classroom music teacher perfect for educators who need fresh ideas for school skits, or public presentations. Chord symbols are included to appeal to a broad educational market.

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  South African Literature After the Truth Commission: Mapping Loss

  Shane Graham

  In the wake of apartheid, South African culture conveys the sense of being lost in time and space. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) provided an opportunity for South Africans to find their bearings in a nation changing at a bewildering pace; the TRC also marked the beginning of a long process of remapping space, place, and memory. In South African Literature After the Truth Commission: Mapping Loss, Shane Graham analyzes the attempts of post-apartheid writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and memoir to come to terms with South Africa’s violent past and rapidly changing present. Graham contributes to ongoing debates about political transition and reconciliation in South Africa, and about the intersections of space, place, and memory in the age of globalization. The book considers issues and controversies surrounding the TRC, the literature it inspired, and texts that grapple with broader issues of memorialization, urbanization, and capitalist development. Rita Barnard of the University of Pennsylvania has called it “an unfailingly intelligent and readable book that will prove to be an indispensable scholarly resource.”

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  Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Culturally Based insights Into Comparative National Security Policymaking

  Jeannie L. Johnson, Kerry M. Kartchner, and Jeffrey A. Larsen

  The surprise of 9-11 exposed the vulnerabilities and shortcomings of our most prominent social science models in forecasting adversary behavior. It has become clear that we must know our enemies better if we are to deter, dissuade or defeat them. Strategic Culture is designed to do exactly this. As an analytic tool, Strategic Culture rejects the assumption that all actors on the world stage use the same codes of rationality when pursuing defensive or offensive security measures. State actors are indeed rational, but rationality is culturally encoded. Those codes must be understood in order to forecast the most essential elements of their behavior. Thus, Strategic Culturalists probe organizational and national cultures for clues regarding acceptable, and preferred strategies and endstates. Nowhere is this process more vitally important than the realm of weapons of mass destruction. As we struggle to understand how to deter Iran from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, how to dissuade North Korea from selling, or how to deny terrorist organizations the ability to purchase or employ them, we must first understand the motivations, values, and accepted norms of behavior that shape the way these actors think and act in the weapons arena.

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  Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction: Helping Every Child Succeed, 4th Edition

  D. Ray Reutzel and Robert B. Cooter Jr.

  This best-selling book is a ready-reference for teachers of reading, a highly popular core text for reading diagnosis and assessment courses, and an ideal guide for ongoing professional development workshops. The unique format of the book, with its IF/THEN Strategy Guides that help readers quickly match student needs to research-proven strategies, make it a quick, effective, “point-of-teaching” resource of up to date information, strategies, and suggestions. In Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction Readers can quickly turn to current information on evidence-based assessment and instruction and find ways to assess, teach, and organize for effective and comprehensive reading instruction.

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  Structure and Function of Plants

  Jennifer W. MacAdam

  Structure and Function of Plants was written as a text for an introductory course in plant anatomy and plant physiology. It is fully illustrated with original drawings and photographs as well as data from the scientific literature. The book begins with the structure and function of plant cells and tissues, and moves on to the anatomy and physiology of roots, stems, leaves and flowers. The more complex subjects of plant nutrition and plant water relations are discussed in the context of the sources of soil fertility and the use of fresh water in the cultivation of food crops. Before introducing the two most fundamental subjects of plant function, photosynthesis and respiration, there is discussion of macromolecules and enzyme activity, the currency of plant metabolism. After exploring the balance between the synthesis of energy as food in photosynthesis and its use in growth and maintenance of the plant through respiration, the interactions of plants with the environment that allow them to occupy a wide range of terrestrial environments are discussed in chapters on environmental and hormonal regulation of plant development. Lastly, the pigments, volatiles and alkaloids plants produce in their quest to survive are acknowledged as the dyes, spices and drugs that enrich our lives.

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  Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers (5 volumes)

  Patricia Gantt, Andrea Tinnemeyer, Paul Crumbley, Robert C. Evans, and Blake Hobby

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  Sustaining Agropastoralism on the Bolivian Altiplano: The Case of San José Llanga

  David Layne Coppock and Corinne Valdivia

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  Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the Difference (6th Edition)

  D. Ray Reutzel and Robert B. Cooter Jr.

  The new 6th edition of the highly popular, market-leading Teaching Children to Read, 6/e is a must-have resource for pre-service and new teachers alike. It presents a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to reading instruction that reinforces the centrality of the teacher’s role in every aspect of teaching and learning. The authors organize each chapter into seven pillars of evidence-based, effective reading instruction: Teacher Knowledge, Assessment, Evidence-Based Instruction Practices, Response to Intervention, Family and Community Connections, and, new to this edition, Motivation and Engagement, and Technology and New Literacies. The book uses color-coding for each of the seven pillars making navigation of each chapter easy and accessible.

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  Teaching Cues for Sport Skills for Secondary Students, 5th Edition

  Hilda Fronske

  Teaching Cues for Sport Skills for Secondary School Students, Fifth Edition, helps teachers learn how to correctly and effectively demonstrate sports skills so that students will remember the skills. This unique and exciting user-friendly text provides students with memorable teaching cues–short, catchy phrases that call the learner's attention to key components of a skill–for nearly 30 sports and fitness activities.

  The book’s back to basics approach makes for the most complete and comprehensive edition yet. A brand new core chapter focuses on basic skills and techniques. “Rules of Play” and “Safety” sections are included for virtually every sport, and popular “Cues Tables” are completely filled (making the Whys and Common Errors available for every skill).

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  Teaching the Works of Willa Cather

  Steven Shively and Virgil Albertini

  This book features 19 essays offering a wide range of approaches to teaching the novels and short fiction of the American writer Willa Cather. Cather’s books, which are regularly taught in both secondary schools and universities, have long been acknowledged as aesthetic masterpieces. More recently, they have become essential parts of courses that examine many aspects of American life including gender and sexuality, ethnicity, the environment, and the arts. Some of the essays offer strategies for teaching Cather’s literature in specific situations, ranging from freshman composition courses to Native American tribal colleges to a high school for aspiring performing artists. Other essays examine broader cultural issues in Cather’s work: gender identity, the influence of the Victorian Era, connections to Rodin’s sculpture, and her portrayal of race and ethnicity. Additional essays explore the use of media—the Internet, film, television—in teaching Cather’s works. An important essay in the book was written by USU Department of English faculty members Evelyn I. Funda and Susan Andersen; they show how archival material can help students understand Cather as a young woman and a writer.

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  The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings

  David Lancy

  The raising of children, their role in society, and the degree to which family and community is structured around them, varies quite significantly around the world. The Anthropology of Childhood provides the first comprehensive review of the literature on children from a distinctly anthropological perspective. Bringing together key evidence from cultural anthropology, history, and primate studies, it argues that our common understandings about children are narrowly culture-bound. Whereas the dominant society views children as precious, innocent and preternaturally cute ‘cherubs’, Lancy introduces the reader to societies where children are viewed as unwanted, inconvenient ‘changelings’, or as desired but pragmatically commoditized ‘chattel’. Looking in particular at family structure and reproduction, profiles of children’s caretakers, their treatment at different ages, their play, work, schooling, and transition to adulthood, this volume provides a rich, interesting, and original portrait of children in past and contemporary cultures. Jargon free, politically balanced, this is a must-read for anyone interested in childhood.

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  The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood

  David F. Lancy, John Bock, and Suzanne Gaskins

  This first major anthropological reference book on childhood learning considers the cultural aspects of learning in childhood from the points of view of psychologists, sociologists, educators, and anthropologists.

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  The Elizabethan World

  Susan Doran and Norman Jones

  This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. Featuring contributions from thirty-eight international scholars, the book takes a thematic approach to a period which saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the explorations of Francis Drake and Walter Ralegh, the establishment of the Protestant Church, the flourishing of commercial theatre and the works of Edmund Spencer, Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare.

  Encompassing social, political, cultural, religious and economic history, and crossing several disciplines, The Elizabethan World depicts a time of transformation, and a world order in transition. Topics covered include central and local government; political ideas; censorship and propaganda; parliament, the Protestant Church, the Catholic community; social hierarchies; women; the family and household; popular culture, commerce and consumption; urban and rural economies; theatre; art; architecture; intellectual developments ; exploration and imperialism; Ireland, and the Elizabethan wars. The volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular culture, the world of work and social practices fit together in an exciting world of change, and will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Elizabethan period.

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  The Essentials of Teaching Children to Read: the Teacher Makes the Difference (3rd Edition)

  D. Ray Reutzel and Robert B. Cooter Jr.

  The Essentials of Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the Difference, Third Edition, by Reutzel and Cooter is the ideal hands-on personal guide for pre- and in-service K–8 teachers who want to make a critical difference in ensuring effective reading instruction for all students. It shows educators how, by thinking deeply about their teaching decisions, they can come to understand and meet the literacy needs of every student. The authors present seven pillars of effective reading instruction—Teacher Knowledge, Classroom Assessment, Evidence-Based Teaching Practices, Response to Intervention (RTI), Motivation and Engagement, Technology and New Literacies, and Family and Community Connections—that provide a logical and consistent structure for closely examining the essential elements that well-prepared literacy teachers know, understand, and are able to implement in the classroom.

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  The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars

  Christopher Cokinos

  Weaving natural history, memoir, and the stories of maverick scientists, daring adventurers, and stargazing dreamers, this epic work takes us from Antarctica to outer space to tell the tale of how the study of meteorites became a scientific passion.
  
  A famed polar explorer who risked personal ruin-and the lives of his crew-in a quest for massive iron meteorites hidden in an Arctic wasteland. A nervy, obscure professor who staked his life against the scientific indifference of his day to become the world's most prominent meteorite collector and researcher. An Australian scientist confronted with a geological mystery in the Outback-the key to which might yet unlock a secret of evolution on planet Earth.
  
  These characters and many other collectors, researchers, dreamers, schemers, and ordinary people populate Christopher Cokinos's The Fallen Sky. Through their foibles and successes, their adventures and tragedies, Cokinos unfolds the panoramic history of how science came to understand meteorites-the rocks that fall from space to the Earth-and how these stones reveal truths not only of the solar system, but of the human heart as well.

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  The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture

  Victoria Grieve

  This intellectual and cultural history chronicles the processes of compromise and negotiation between high and low art, federal and local interests, and the Progressive Era and New Deal. Grieve examines how intellectual trends in the early twentieth century combined with government forces and structures of the New Deal’s Federal Art Project (FAP) to redefine American taste in the visual arts. Representing more than a response to the emergency of the Great Depression, the Federal Art Project was rooted in Progressive Era cultural theories, the modernist search for a usable past, and developments in the commercial art world in the early decades of the twentieth century. In their desire to create an art for the “common man,” FAP artists and administrators used the power of the federal government to disseminate a specific view of American culture, one that combined ideals of uplift with those of accessibility: a middlebrow visual culture.

  Grieve discusses efforts by thinkers and reformers to democratize art amid a blossoming consumer culture after World War I, and then turns her attention to the New Deal. Two programs of the FAP in particular – the Index of American Design and the Community Art Center program – were instrumental in bringing art to the masses. By the end of the 1930s, however, the nationalism and cultural egalitarianism of middlebrow visual art came under attack. But the FAP laid the groundwork for a postwar resurgence of American art, and by the 1960s, the federal government would once again enter the cultural arena.

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  The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America

  Lawrence Culver

  Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans. Tracing the history of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century, The Frontier of Leisure reveals how this region did much more than just create lavish resorts like Santa Catalina Island and Palm Springs--it literally remade American attitudes towards leisure. Lawrence Culver shows how this "culture of leisure" gradually took hold with an increasingly broad group of Americans, and ultimately manifested itself in suburban developments throughout the Sunbelt and across the United States. He further shows that as Southern Californians promoted resort-style living, they also encouraged people to turn inward, away from public spaces and toward their private homes and communities. Impressively researched, a fascinating and lively read, this finely nuanced history connects Southern Californian recreation and leisure to larger historical themes, including regional development, architecture and urban planning, race relations, Indian policy, politics, suburbanization, and changing perceptions of nature.

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  The Gift of Tongues: Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages

  Christine F. Cooper-Rompato

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  The Obama Presidency in the Constitutional Order: A First Look

  Carol McNamara and Melanie Marlow

  The Obama administration is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in recent American history. In this book, a diverse group of presidential scholars step back from the partisan debate to consider the first two years of the Obama presidency through the lens of the U.S. constitution's theory, structure, and powers. They ask how Barack Obama understands and exercises the President's formal constitutional and informal powers and responsibilities of the president, from foreign policy and public policy to his political leadership of the Democratic Party and the nation as a whole. This timely first look at the Obama presidency establishes a constitutional yardstick of interest to scholars of the presidency, constitutional thought, and American political thought.