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by Kathy Bussert-Webb, María Eugenia Díaz, Krystal A. Yanez
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Justice and Space Matter in a Strong, Unified Latino Community provides a detailed analysis of colonias along the Mexico–United States border, examining the intersection of culture, education, language, literacy, race, religion, and social class in Latino immigrant communities. The researchers investigated...
by Keith Kenney
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Multisensory media – hybrid media that engage more than the auditory and visual senses – is beginning to change the way that we communicate. While hardware and software for capturing and emitting different types of sensory data are still being developed, this book lays a theoretical foundation...
Carlos BulosanRevolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Carlos Bulosan—Revolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States: A Critical Appraisal is an in-depth, critical evaluation of Bulosan's major works in the context of the sociopolitical changes that configured his sensibility during the Depression, the united-front mobilization prior to World War...
The Art of Kunst
Selected Poems, Letters, and Other Writings by Thomas Kunst
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
This book introduces for the first time selected poetry, letters, and other writings by the German writer Thomas Kunst (Leipzig) to the English-speaking world. Given the many prestigious awards the writer has received for his poetry and the originality of his imaginative thinking, the Turkish-German...
The Apotheosis of Nullity
A Transhistorical Genealogy of Human Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
This massive book is an intensive inquest into the fate of the human subject as it passes through the primitive, despotic, passional and capitalist regimes found in Deleuze and Guattari. Emphatic, acerbic, loquacious, impassioned, and marshaling a considerable array of theoretical and literary frameworks—from...
A Curriculum of Wellness
Reconceptualizing Physical Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
A Curriculum of Wellness seeks to encourage a deeper discussion about teaching our children how to be healthy and live well. It makes a significant contribution to the field of education as it features influential curriculum concepts nuanced with action research principles in a unified, intimate,...
An Artist as Soldier
Seeking Refuge in Love and Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
At the center of this book are the World War II letters (Feldpostbriefe) of a German artist and art teacher to his wife. While Bernhard Epple’s letters to his wife, Gudrun, address many of the topics usually found in war letters (food, lodging conditions, the weather, problems with the mail service,...
Toni Morrison and the Maternal
From «The Bluest Eye» to «God Help the Child», Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Linda Wagner-Martin’s study of African American writer Toni Morrison’s work, beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through her 2012 novel Home, describes Morrison as an inherently original novelist who was shaped throughout her career by her role within families. Morrison speaks...
The Charter School Wars
Insight from a Charter School Innovator
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Educational reform has been a topic of scholarly conversation for a long time, but little significant movement toward action has been made. Charter schools were discussed in varied forms throughout the 1980s, but it was not until 1991 that the State of Minnesota put charter school law into practice....
A Screenful of Sugar?
Prescription Drug Websites Investigated
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With drug information rapidly migrating to the Web, the chronically poor standards of drug information available to consumers in the developed and the developing world are being further compromised. This book offers insight into the uncharted waters of prescription drug information and promotion on...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This is the first collection of readings on computer-mediated communication focusing exclusively on interpersonal interactions. Examining messages exchanged via email, Twitter, Facebook, websites, and blogs, the authors analyze communication issues of ongoing importance in relationships including...
White Out
Understanding White Privilege and Dominance in the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Colleges across the country, and the nation as a whole continue to be divided along racial lines. White Out: Understanding White Privilege and Dominance in the Modern Age is about the role of Whiteness and a defense of White dominance in an increasingly diverse society. Whiteness is socially constructed,...
Conducting Hermeneutic Research
From Philosophy to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice is the only textbook that teaches the reader ways to conduct research from a philosophical hermeneutic perspective. It is an invaluable resource for graduate students about to embark in hermeneutic research and for academics or other researchers...
Uprooting Urban America
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race, Class and Gentrification
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Shifts in America’s socioeconomic geography have been documented since the 1960s, demonstrating the reversal of white flight and the reshaping of a nation, evidenced by the growing divide between underprivileged citizens and the wealthy. As state and local governments continue to scale back social...