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2009
2008
- University of Illinois Press
Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration
Jasmine Alinder
Assistant Professor, History
When the American government began impounding Japanese American citizens after Pearl Harbor, photography became a battleground. The control of the means of representation affected nearly every aspect of the incarceration, from the mug shots criminalizing Japanese Americans to the prohibition of cameras in the hands of inmates. The government also hired photographers to make an extensive record of the forced removal and incarceration. In this insightful study, Jasmine Alinder explores the photographic record of the imprisonment in war relocation centers such as Manzanar, Tule Lake, Jerome, and others. She investigates why photographs were made, how they were meant to function, and how they have been reproduced and interpreted subsequently by the popular press and museums in constructing versions of public history.
Alinder provides calibrated readings of the photographs from this period, including works by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Manzanar camp inmate Toyo Miyatake (who constructed his own camera to document the complicated realities of camp life), and contemporary artists Patrick Nagatani and Masumi Hayashi. Illustrated with more than forty photographs, Moving Images reveals the significance of the camera in the process of incarceration as well as the construction of race, citizenship, and patriotism in this complex historical moment.
- University of Illinois Press
Perspectives on Milwaukee's Past
Margo Anderson and Victor Greene, Editors
Professor, History and Urban Studies; Professor Emeritus, History
A stimulating variety of approaches to the history of a distinctive Midwestern city.
In this volume, a diverse group of scholars explores key themes in the distinctive history of Milwaukee, from settlement to the present, both in terms of the area's internal development and its comparative standing with other Great Lakes cities. Contributors discuss the importance of socialism and labor in local politics; Milwaukee's ethnic diversity, including long-standing African American, Latino, and Asian communities as well as an unusually large and significant German American population; the function and origins of the city's residential architecture; and the role of religious and ethnic culture in forming the city's identity. Rich in detail, the essays also challenge readers and researchers to pursue additional research on the city and the region by identifying critical areas and methods for future investigations into Milwaukee's past.
Contributors are Margo Anderson, Steven M. Avella, John D. Buenker, Jack Dougherty, Eric Fure-Slocum, Victor Greene, Thomas C. Hubka, Judith T. Kenny, Genevieve G. McBride, Aims McGuinness, Anke Ortlepp, Joseph A. Rodriguez, and N. Mark Shelley.
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia
Anne Davis Basting
Director, Center on Age and Community
Associate Professor, Theatre
Memory loss can be one of the most terrifying aspects of a diagnosis of dementia. Yet the fear and dread of losing our memory make the experience of the disease worse than it needs to be, according to cultural critic and playwright Anne Davis Basting. She says, Forget memory. Basting emphasizes the importance of activities that focus on the present to improve the lives of persons with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
Based on ten years of practice and research in the field, Basting's study includes specific examples of innovative programs that stimulate growth, humor, and emotional connection; translates into accessible language a wide range of provocative academic works on memory; and addresses how advances in medical research and clinical practice are already pushing radical changes in care for persons with dementia.
Bold, optimistic, and innovative, Basting's cultural critique of dementia care offers a vision for how we can change the way we think about and care for people with memory loss.
- The Edwin Mellen Press
Escritoras puertorriqueñas de la transición del siglo XIX al XX: Carmela Eulate Sanjurjo, Ana Roqué y Luisa Capetillo
Nancy Bird-Soto
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
This study analyzes representative works by Puerto Rican authors: Carmela Eulate Sanjurjo, Ana Roqué, and Luisa Capetillo, for their treatment of the topic of women. The historical background is the transition associated with 1898, and the conceptual background is that of the roles of women in the Puerto Rican society and nation at the time. In Spanish.
- Thomson Wadsworth
Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration (Paperback)
Kenneth J. Meier, Jeffrey L. Brudney, John Bohte
Associate Professor, Political Science
Little background in statistics or research methods? No problem. Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration is written especially for students and practitioners like you. All statistical techniques used by public administration professionals are covered, and all the examples in the text relate to public administration and the nonprofit sector.
- Arlen House (Ireland)
Daphnis & Ratboy
Jim Chapson
Senior Lecturer, English
Poetry. "Specifically drawing on the pastoral traditions of Greek poetry, Chapson's book contains an extended imitation of the work of Theocritus, the third-century poet widely considered the father of the idyll." — Shepherd Express
- South-Western Cengage Learning
Advanced Accounting
Paul Marcus Fischer, William James Taylor, Rita Hartung Cheng
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Professor, Accounting
This textbook explains accounting methods for business takeovers, multinational accounting and other reporting concerns, accounting for partnerships, governmental and not-for-profit accounting, and fiduciary accounting. The ninth edition reflects new GASB requirements and adds an analysis of FASB exposure drafts for business combinations. The CD-ROM contains an Excel tutorial and working papers.
- University of Arizona Press
Poema
Maurice Kilwein Guevara
Professor, English
Maurice Kilwein Guevara views the poem as a living art form that stretches well beyond the traditional bounds of poetry. Citing the Catalan avant-garde artist Joan Brossa, who printed the word POEMA on a clear lightbulb, Kilwein Guevara rethinks the interconnectedness of form, context, and meaning in a poem. While he is aware of the blood flow through a single poem—and his poems are coursing with life—he is simultaneously aware of the capillary effect that nourishes every poem in this collection. His engrossing experiments with form and his often startling juxtaposition of poetic subjects succeed so well because they are animated by a unifying force: the poet’s hyperawareness of our fragile—and frequently confusing—humanness.
Inside this book you will find a poema asking itself a litany of questions, two lovers taunting fate with each kiss, Gertrude Stein as an infant discovering language in Pittsburgh, Plan Colombia spraying farmers’ fields with herbicides, and a beetle crawling into the ear of a president as he trumpets his imagined glories. Lines in Spanish sneak unannounced into a poem here and there, only to sneak out as quietly as they entered. Dictators rise and fall. Lovers quarrel. Humans, we begin to understand, are always vulnerable: as vulnerable to our lovers as to our rulers; as vulnerable in our bodies as moths, perhaps, or spiders. And in the end you have to wonder “What wakes you/just as you begin to dream of Heidegger / in a clouded field of summer chives?”
- Indiana University Press
The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations
Douglas Howland and Luise White, Editors
Professor, History
The State of Sovereignty examines how it came to pass that the nation-state became the prevailing form of governance in the world today. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries and addressing colonization and decolonization around the globe, these essays argue that sovereignty is a set of historically contingent practices, and not something that accrues naturally to states. The contributors explore the different ways in which sovereign political forms have been defined and have defined themselves, placing recent debates about nations and national identity within a broader history of sovereignty, territory, and legality.
- Arlen House (Galway, Ireland); distributed in North America by Syracuse University Press
Askeaton Sequence and Wexford and Arcady (posthumous)
James Liddy
Professor, English
Askeaton Sequence and Wexford and Arcady are both poetry anthologies that shift between Liddy's native home in Ireland and his adopted home in Milwaukee. According to James Chapson, Liddy's longtime partner and fellow poet, Liddy felt the new books were among his best work.
"The style there is often elliptical but more lyrical at the same time than in the last few years," he says.
—Shepherd Express, February 17, 2009
- University of Wisconsin Press
Who Wrought the Bible? Unveiling the Bible’s Aesthetic Secrets
Yair Mazor
Professor, Hebrew Studies
Approaching the Hebrew Bible as a work of literary art, Yair Mazor examines its many genres, including historical narratives, poetic narratives, poetry, psalms, and songs. Line drawings from a late nineteenth-century Bible illustrate many of the most famous scenes in scripture, suggesting another aesthetic layer of the text. By breaking the Bible into constituent parts, Mazor traces the range of its writing styles, reconfiguring the work as a literary collage and an artistic masterpiece. He shows how the aesthetics of the texts that comprise the Bible serve its over-arching message, and he develops a literary portrait of its authors by decoding their cryptic aesthetic devices.
- Penn State Press
Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France
Suzanne Desan, Jeffrey Merrick (Eds.)
Professor, History
The essays in Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France explore how ordinary men and women negotiated power within early modern French households and continually reinvented their families in response to external forces. Larger processes, such as state building, religious reform, changing understandings of gender roles, and economic developments, influenced family practices in the areas of marriage, separation, guardianship, and illegitimacy. Relatives, gender, community, and the law imposed limits upon families but also provided opportunities for agency. Contributors investigate patterns of courtship and decisions about marriage; the financial power exercised by wives; marital conflict and related controversies about gender, sexuality, and social order; death and guardianship; and the legitimization of children born out of wedlock. While addressing a variety of topics, this volume focuses on family members as individuals with complicated agendas and strategies of their own.
- National Foreign Language Resource Center
Second Language Teaching and Learning in the Net Generation
Raquel Oxford & Jeffrey Oxford (Eds.)
Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction; Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Today’s young people—the Net Generation—have grown up with technology all around them. However, teachers cannot assume that students’ familiarity with technology in general transfers successfully to pedagogical settings. This volume examines various technologies and offers concrete advice on how each can be successfully implemented in the second language curriculum.
- J. Wiley & Sons
Because Teaching Matters
Marleen C. Pugach
Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
Because Teaching Matters provides teachers with a realistic depiction of todays classrooms while highlighting the enormous impact they have on everyday lives. The second edition presents material around a framework of five professional commitments that allows them to make sense of what it means to be a teacher. A new critical-thinking framework helps them manage the content better and retain more of what they learn. Increased coverage of diversity and technology is integrated throughout the chapters. A new chapter has also been added on the history and philosophy of education. This book will help teachers make decisions and take responsibility for the consequences of those choices.
- Guilford Press
Emergent Literacy and Language Development: Promoting Learning in Early Childhood
Paula M. Rhyner, Editor
Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Associate Dean, College of Health Sciences
This concise, accessible book explores the connection between language acquisition and emergent literacy skills, and how this sets the stage for later literacy development. Chapters address formative early experiences such as speaking and listening, being read to, and talking about print concepts and the alphabet. Written for early childhood professionals and speech-language pathologists, the book describes effective assessment and instructional approaches for fostering language learning and emergent literacy in typically developing children and those at risk for language delays. Vivid case examples illustrate specific ways to collaborate with parents to give all children a strong foundation for school readiness and success.
- Yale University Press
The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Distinguished Professor, History
This book tells the extraordinary story of three sixteenth-century sisters who, along with their father and brothers, were afflicted with an extremely rare genetic condition that made them unusually hairy. Amazingly, the Gonzales sisters were not mocked or shunned, but were welcomed in the courts of Europe, spending much of their lives among nobles, musicians, and artists. Their double identity as humans and beasts made them intriguing, and the girls and their father were the subjects not only of medical investigations but also of a considerable number of portraits, some of which still hang in European castles today.
Using the Gonzales family as a lens, historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks examines their varied and wondrous times. The story of this family connects with every important change of their era—political and religious violence, colonial conquest, new forms of scholarship and science—and also provides insights into the complex relationships between beastliness, monstrosity, and gender in early modern life.
2008
- Routledge. Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
History of Multicultural Education: Teachers and Teacher Education
Carl A. Grant and Thandeka K. Chapman, Editors
Associate Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
This benchmark 6-volume set documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the U.S. By collecting and providing a framework for key publications spanning the past 30-40 years, these volumes provide a means of understanding and visualizing the development, implementation, and interpretation of multicultural education in American society. These volumes do not promote any one scholar's or group's vision of multicultural education, but include conflicting ideals that inform multiple interpretations.Each volume contains archival documents organized around a specific theme: Volume 1 - Conceptual Frameworks and Curricular Content; Volume II - Foundations and Stratifications; Volume III - Instruction and Assessment; Volume VI - Policy and Governance; Volume V - Students and Student Learning; and, Volume VI - Teachers and Teacher Education.The historical time line within each volume illustrates the progression of research and theory on each theme and encourages readers to reflect on the changes in language and thinking concerning educational scholarship in that area. Readers will also see how language, pedagogical issues, and policy reforms have been constructed, assimilated, and mutated over the highlighted period of time. Exploring the tenets of the field and examining the individuals whose work has contributed significantly to equity and social justice for all citizens, this landmark set illuminates the historical importance, current relevance, and future implications of multicultural education.
- Elsevier
Brownfields Redevelopment and the Quest for Sustainability
Christopher A. De Sousa
Associate Professor, Geography
Concerns over urban blight, environmental degradation, climate change, inner-city unemployment, and a host of other socio-economic and environmental problems have forced policy makers, planners, and others interested in the future of our planet to take a closer look at ways to foster more sustainable urban development. Drawing on the author's extensive research, this book examines the role that brownfields redevelopment is playing and can play in our quest for sustainability, focusing primarily on efforts in the US and Canada to build better places for urban dwellers to live, work, and play. It commences by reviewing the nature and scope of the brownfields problem and puts it into a sustainability context, both theoretically and in terms of real costs and benefits. The book then looks at how brownfields are being used as spaces for developing an array of residential, recreational, and employment-oriented projects that have breathed new life into the urban environment. For a more sustainable future, however, the author argues that more still needs to be done to connect sustainability objectives and processes to redevelopment efforts.
- Scarecrow Press
Ebony Jr! The Rise, Fall, and Return of a Black Children's Magazine
Laretta Henderson
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
In 1945, John H. Johnson published the first issue of Ebony magazine, a monthly periodical aimed at African American readers. In 1973, the Johnson Publishing Company expanded its readership to include children by producing Ebony Jr!. Targeting Black children in the five to eleven age-range, the magazine featured stories, comics, puzzles, and cartoons. Its contents combined elements of Black culture, Black history, and elementary school curriculum. The publication remained in print until 1985 and was resurrected online in 2007.
In Ebony Jr! The Rise, Fall and Return of a Black Children's Magazine, Laretta Henderson charts this unique publication's genesis, history, and impact. She analyzes the structure and literary context of Ebony Jr!, revealing how the political climate informed the composition of the magazine. Henderson also profiles the magazine's publisher, John H. Johnson, and examines how his corporate structure facilitated and informed Ebony Jr!'s content, success, and its initial demise.
This culturally significant milestone in African American culture is given its due deference in this interdisciplinary examination of the environment in which Ebony Jr! was produced, assessing what the magazine's existence meant to a generation of young readers.
- J. Wiley & Sons
Accounting Principles
Jerry Weygandt, Donald Kieso, Paul D. Kimmel
Associate Professor, Accounting
This engaging book lays the foundation for readers to succeed on the CPA exam and ultimately in their professional practice. The new edition continues to reflect the conversational style and clarity that has made this a leader in the market. It explores the key concepts and principles while using the PepsiCo financial statement to clearly show how the information is applied in the real world. The book has also been updated with the latest data as to reflect today's business environment.
- Irish Academic Press
The 'Tinkers' in Irish Literature: Unsettled Subjects and the Construction of Difference
José Lanters
Professor, English
Irish travellers or 'tinkers' have appeared as characters in Irish literature since the early nineteenth century. Representations of this semi-nomadic cultural and ethnic minority in works by non-traveller authors almost invariably function in some way within the context of Irish identity politics, whereby the 'tinker' often serves as a 'primitive' Other to a modern, civilized Irish Self. This study considers the 'tinker' character in a large body of serious and popular literary texts, some well known, others rarely if ever discussed, and traces how the literary construct of the 'tinker' figure as domestic or foreign Other evolves over time.
Three chapters concentrate on specific historical contexts, as the 'tinker' shifts from being a relatively straightforward scapegoat in the literature of the early nineteenth century, to being a more complex and ambiguous embodiment of both the aspirations and anxieties of the Anglo-Irish writers of the Revival, to being a barometer of aspects of modernity and regression in the mid-twentieth-century Irish Republic.Three further chapters focus on thematic contexts that have particular relevance for the development of the 'tinker' figure: children's literature from and about Ireland; fabulist narratives, particularly those with plot configurations derived from Celtic mythology; and crime and detective fiction set in Ireland.
Finally the way in which individual travellers represent themselves in autobiographical narratives of the late twentieth century is considered, often in response to the fictional 'tinker' stereotype that has persisted in sedentary society and its cultural expressions for centuries. José Lanters is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also serves on the advisory board of the Center for Celtic Studies, and president of the American Conference for Irish Studies (2007-09).
- Cornell University Press
Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush
Aims McGuinness
Associate Professor, History
Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest route between New York City and San Francisco--a route that combined travel by ship to the east coast of Panama, an overland crossing to Panama City, and a final voyage by ship to California.
In Path of Empire, Aims McGuinness presents a novel understanding of the intertwined histories of the California Gold Rush, the course of U.S. empire, and anti-imperialist politics in Latin America. Between 1848 and 1856, Panama saw the building, by a U.S. company, of the first transcontinental railroad in world history, the final abolition of slavery, the establishment of universal manhood suffrage, the foundation of an autonomous Panamanian state, and the first of what would become a long list of military interventions by the United States. Using documents found in Panamanian, Colombian, and U.S. archives, McGuinness reveals how U.S. imperial projects in Panama were integral to developments in California and the larger process of U.S. continental expansion. Path of Empire offers a model for the new transnational history by unbinding the gold rush from the confines of U.S. history as traditionally told and narrating that event as the history of Panama, a small place of global importance in the mid-1800s.
- Sloan Publishing
Conceptual Foundations of Radical Behaviorism
John (Jay) C. Moore
Professor, Psychology
This book is about the conceptual foundations of radical behaviorism. Radical behaviorism is the underlying philosophical perspective of behavior analysis, an approach to the science of behavior and its application associated with the thought and work of B. F. Skinner.
Each chapter in the book presents what radical behaviorism says about an important topic in a science of behavior, and then contrasts the radical behaviorist perspective with that of other forms of behaviorism, as well as other forms of psychology. The book is intended for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students, in courses within behavior analytic curricula dealing with conceptual foundations and radical behaviorism as a philosophy. Included for each chapter is a brief study guide to focus student attention on relevant issues. The book is not specifically concerned with the experimental analysis of behavior (e.g., research on schedules of reinforcement), applied behavior analysis (e.g., research on the best way to teach social skills and language to autistic children), or the delivery of behavior analytic professional services (e.g., descriptions of particular instances of application in education, developmental disabilities, or the world of business).
After an introductory chapter, the chapters in the first part are concerned with the foundations of behavior analysis. Chapters in this part deal with the history of behaviorism and behavior analysis, behavior as a subject matter in its own right (and as distinct from the subject matter of such other disciplines as neuroscience), the categories and concepts that are deployed in behavior analysis, and an examination of selection by consequences as a causal mode across the three levels of phylogeny, ontogeny, and culture.
Chapters in the second part are concerned with the realization of the radical behaviorist program in areas traditionally regarded as important in psychology. Chapters in this part deal with verbal behavior, private behavioral events, methods in a science of behavior, and the nature/origin/validity of scientific language, such as found in theories and explanations. Chapters in the third part compare and contrast radical behaviorism with alternative viewpoints. Chapters in this part deal with mentalism, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and selected traditional issues in philosophy, including a position known generically as methodological behaviorism, which by some accounts is the orthodox position in contemporary psychology.
The concluding chapter is concerned with radical behaviorism as epistemology. This chapter reviews how the perspective of radical behaviorism allows one to profitably engage the question of knowledge in light of the concept of operant behavior and within human operant behavior, verbal behavior.
- Blackwell Publishing
Tropical Forest Community Ecology
Walter Carson and Stefan Schnitzer, Editors
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Historically, tropical ecology has been a science often content with descriptive and demographic approaches, which is understandable given the difficulty of studying these ecosystems and the need for basic demographic information. Nonetheless, over the last several years, tropical ecologists have begun to test more sophisticated ecological theory and are now beginning to address a broad array of questions that are of particular importance to tropical systems, and ecology in general. Why are there are so many species in tropical forests and what mechanisms are responsible for the maintenance of that vast species diversity? What factors control species coexistence? Are there common patterns of species abundance and distribution across broad geographic scales? What is the role of trophic interactions in these complex ecosystems? How can these fragile ecosystems be conserved?
Tropical Forest Community Ecology includes contributions from some of the world's leading tropical ecologists who address these key issues and many others, providing a unique and timely summary of this discipline.
- Blue Canary Press
On death row: Poems of Osip Mandelstam, 1935-1937
Paul Vogel, James Liddy
Graduate student and Professor of English, respectively