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The College Affordability Crisis
Author(s): Hillstrom, Laurie;Contributors: Hillstrom, Laurie;Abstract:This title is not yet available; when it publishes, it will appear here in your catalog.
This volume provides a comprehensive and evenhanded overview of the escalating college affordability crisis in the United States. It explains how higher education became so expensive and explores the implications of high college loan debt for students and American society.
The 21st Century Turning Point series is a one-stop resource for understanding the people and events changing America today. Each volume provides readers with a clear, authoritative, and unbiased understanding of a single issue or event that is driving national debate about our country's leaders, institutions, values, and priorities.
This particular volume is devoted to the issue of the rising cost of higher education in the United States. The expense of pursuing a college degree has become so high for so many students, in fact, that the country is experiencing what many educators, economists, parents, and students describe as a college affordability crisis. This work provides an accessible, accurate account of the factors driving this trend, including dramatic reductions in higher education spending by states; for-profit colleges; predatory, unscrupulous, and lightly regulated student loan service companies; and spiraling spending by colleges and universities competing to attract students.
- Entries devoted to specific events and milestones related to the student loan crisis
- Biographical profiles of important lawmakers, public officials, and reformers
- Essays that explore the lasting impact of the college affordability crisis on students, families, institutions of higher education, and American society as a whole
- Annotated bibliography of sources for further study
SortTitle: college affordability crisisKeyword(s): College Experience; Universities; Trump Administration; Student Loans; Student Loan Services; Student Debt; Scholarships; Sallie Mae; Obama Administration; Higher Education; For-Profit Colleges; Colleges; Current Events and Issues: Education; Economics: PolicyAuthor Info:Laurie Collier HillstromauthorLaurie Collier Hillstrom is an independent scholar based in Brighton, MI. She is author or editor of more than 40 books in the areas of U.S. history and politics, biography, and current events.
eISBN-13: 9781440877247Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440877247.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440877230Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 168Publication Date: 20201031Series: 21st-Century Turning Points -
William Shakespeare: Facts and Fictions
Author(s): King, Douglas;Contributors: King, Douglas;Abstract:Based on solid research and clear explanations, this book provides a thorough and up-to-date analysis of ten key facts and fictions regarding the life and workings of William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare is perhaps the most famous author in world literature. His works have attracted tremendous critical and historical attention, and the world in which he lived has been the subject of hundreds if not thousands of books. But for all the attention given to Shakespeare and his world, arguments continue about what we can say for sure concerning his life and works. This book brings a unique perspective to the ongoing fascination and debate over the life and works of the most renowned writer of all time.
The book focuses on ten separate key issues, including Shakespeare's sexuality, his religion, his marriage and family, his education, and the vexing "authorship question." Each chapter treats a particular topic and provides a section on what people think happened, how the story developed, and what we now believe is the historical truth.
This book looks objectively and closely at evidence to provide the most likely explanations for questions that cannot be definitively answered. Using historical primary source documents, it gives readers the clearest possible view of endlessly fascinating topics.
- Chapters examine popular misconceptions related to Shakespeare's life and works
- Each chapter discusses how the misconception developed and what we now believe is the truth behind the myth
- Excerpts from primary source documents show readers how the misconceptions spread and provide evidence for what are now considered the underlying historical truths
- Chapters cite works for further reading, and the book provides a selected, general bibliography
SortTitle: william shakespeare: facts and fictionsKeyword(s): Copyright Law and Publication in Shakespeare's England; Early Modern England; Education in Shakespeare's World; Elizabeth I, Queen of England; James I, King of England; Marriage and Family in Early Modern England; Religious Conflict in Renaissance England; Sexuality in Shakespeare's EnglandAuthor Info:Douglas J. KingauthorDouglas J. King is associate professor of English at Gannon University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, film, and drama. His previous books include Shakespeare: The Tragedies.
eISBN-13: 9781440866753Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440866753.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440866746Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 232Publication Date: 20200930Series: Historical Facts and Fictions -
![Music around the World: A Global Encyclopedia [3 volumes]](9781610694995/~~FreeAttachments/9781610694995.jpg)
Music around the World: A Global Encyclopedia [3 volumes]
Contributors: Martin, Andrew; Mihalka, Matthew;Abstract:With entries on topics ranging from non-Western instruments to distinctive rhythms of music of various countries, this one-stop resource on global music also promotes cultural appreciation of other countries and cultural groups.
A perfect resource for students and music enthusiasts alike, this expansive three-volume set provides readers with multidisciplinary perspectives on the music of countries and ethnic groups from around the globe. Students will find Music around the World: A Global Encyclopedia accessible and useful in their research, not only for music history and music appreciation classes but also for geography, social studies, language studies, and anthropology. Additionally, general readers will find the books appealing and an invaluable general reference on world music.
The volumes cover all world regions, including the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and Asia and the Pacific, promoting a geographic understanding and appreciation of global music. Entries are arranged alphabetically. A preface explains the scope of the set as well as how to use the encyclopedia, followed by a brief history of traditional music and important current influences of music in each particular world region.
- Presents information that is accessible for general readers but will also be useful to specialists and music scholars
- Examines music from a geographical and cultural viewpoint, allowing students to make cross-cultural comparisons
- Includes numerous sidebars and appendices that provide even more compelling information of interest to readers, such as information on top-selling artists and albums in various countries, biographies of well-known musicians, and other fascinating "fun facts" and statistics
- Supports the National Geography Standards and AP Human Geography topics by examining cultural patterns, experiences, and influences
Editor(s): Martin, Andrew; Mihalka, Matthew;SortTitle: music around the world: a global encyclopedia [3 volumes]Keyword(s): Afro-Cuban Jazz; Andean region, Music of; Ashkenazi Jews, Music of; Bagpipes; Bedouin Music; Bluegrass; China, Music of; Classical Music, Europe; Clave Rhythm; Corrido; Cumbia; Gnawa; Gospel Music in the United States; Japan, Music of; Joik; Klezmer; Koto; Mariachi; Mblalax; Morin KhuurAuthor Info:Andrew R. MartineditorMatthew Mihalka Ph.D.editoreISBN-13: 9781610694995Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781610694995.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781610694988Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 1080Publication Date: 20200930 -
Haunted Histories in America: True Stories Behind The Nation's Most Feared Places
Author(s): Hendricks, Nancy;Contributors: Hendricks, Nancy;Abstract:If you believe in ghosts, you're in good company. Haunted Histories brings America's most ghostly locales to life, illuminating their role in shaping America's history and detailing how they became the nation's most feared places.
Haunted Histories takes readers on a state-by-state journey across the United States, exploring the nation's most feared places. Along the way, the text introduces readers to new ghostly tales and takes a fresh look at familiar stories and locations, with an eye to history. From well-known spooky spots like Salem, Massachusetts, to such lesser-known ones as the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland, Oregon, where spirits are supposedly trapped, readers will discover not only where America's most haunted places are but also why they are said to be haunted. The ghosts of the doomed Donner Party allow readers to experience the arduous and often deadly journey of America's westward wagon trains, while different kinds of "spirits" haunting old distilleries allow readers to discover how whiskey almost derailed the new American nation before it was born.
This book can be studied for academic purposes as a historical reference, used as a source for classroom assignments, or simply read for the pleasure of a great story.
- Combines entertaining ghost stories with the history that inspired them, resulting in a highly readable and informative reference text for both students and adults
- Serves as a well-researched and useful resource for teachers seeking to supplement their curriculum or develop class projects
- Brings lesser-known stories to the forefront in lively sidebars
- Brings ghost stories to life in photos of haunted locales
- Helps readers to find specific information in cross-reference guides
- Provides information for site visits, along with video references, in a "Ghost Tour Road Trips" section
SortTitle: haunted histories in america: true stories behind the nation's most feared placesKeyword(s): states; spirits; pop culture; haunted houses; haunted; ghosts; ghost towns; Bonaventure Cemetery; Borden, Lizzie; Celebrity Ghosts; Centralia, Pennsylvania; Deadwood, South Dakota; Ellis Island; Ford’ s Theatre; Little Bighorn; Mental Hospitals; American History: CultureAuthor Info:Nancy HendricksauthorNancy Hendricks holds a doctorate in education and is an award-winning author of titles including Senator Hattie Caraway: An Arkansas Legacy and Notable Women of Arkansas: From Hattie to Hillary, 100 Names to Know.
eISBN-13: 9781440868719Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440868719.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440868702Imprint: GreenwoodPages: 368Publication Date: 20200930 -
The United Nations: 75 Years of Promoting Peace, Human Rights, and Development
Author(s): Kille, Kent; Lyon, Alynna;Contributors: Kille, Kent; Lyon, Alynna;Abstract:This key resource for anyone interested in the United Nations, global issues, or world politics provides accessible and comprehensive coverage of the history, growth, and development of ideas and institutions governing the globe.
The United Nations has been an essential actor in world politics for 75 years. Its entities have eliminated smallpox, protected the ozone layer, promoted arms control, and helped to save the lives of over 90 million children. Yet, it is frequently criticized as ineffective and antiquated. This book provides a balanced and systematic overview of the UN's contributions and challenges, highlighting areas where it plays an essential role in global governance as well as areas of redundancy and needed reform.
This book provides readers with a clear, well-organized reference resource to the entire UN system—its principal organs, specialized agencies, programs and funds, and key issues of engagement. Through individual entries, it examines the history of UN engagement, ranging from peace and security to migration and climate change. It moves beyond a simple description of UN entities as it assesses the development of ideas (such as that of sustainable development), as well as responses to changes in world politics. Finally, it presents both the significant successes of UN work and continued challenges.
- Meticulously researched, accessible entries written by two prominent UN scholars
- Entries on both successes and continued challenges of the UN system
- Primary source documents key to the founding of the UN
SortTitle: united nations: 75 years of promoting peace, human rights, and developmentKeyword(s): Arms Control and Disarmament; Environmental Protection; Human Rights; Human Rights Council; International Criminal Court; Peacekeeping; Sustainable Development Goals; Terrorism; UN Children's Fund (UNICEF); UN Environment Programme (UNEP); UN Security CouncilAuthor Info:Kent J. KilleauthorAlynna J. LyonauthoreISBN-13: 9781440851575Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440851575.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440851568Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 384Publication Date: 20200930 -
Voting Rights in America: A Reference Handbook
Author(s): Glenn, Richard; Kreider, Kyle;Contributors: Glenn, Richard; Kreider, Kyle;Abstract:Voting Rights: A Reference Handbook is a valuable resource for high school and college students curious about the history of voting rights in the United States.
Voting Rights: A Reference Handbook chronicles voting rights in the United States, from the colonial period to the present. Following a historical overview is an examination of current controversies in addition to profiles of key persons and reprint important documents. The book also includes a perspectives chapter featuring ten original essays on various topics related to voting rights, as well as an annotated bibliography and chronology.
The variety of resources provided, such as further reading, perspective essays about voting rights, a timeline, and useful terms in the voting rights discourse, allow this book to stand out from others in the field. It is intended for readers at the high school through community college levels, along with adult readers who are interested in the topic.
- Does not assume prior knowledge about the history of voting rights, fully informing students and other readers on the topic
- Seeks primarily to explain voting rights, rather than to provide advocacy or criticism
- Provides a balanced analysis of many of the current controversies surrounding voting rights
- Rounds out the authors' expertise in perspective essays that give readers a diversity of viewpoints on the topic
SortTitle: voting rights in america: a reference handbookKeyword(s): Constitutional Amendments; Electoral College; Election Day; Felon Rights; Gerrymandering; Voter Fraud; Voter ID Laws; Voter Purging; Voter Registration; Voter Turnout; Voting by Mail; Current Events and Issues: Politics and GovernmentAuthor Info:Richard A. GlennauthorKyle L. KreiderauthoreISBN-13: 9781440870934Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440870934.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440870927Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 408Publication Date: 20200831Series: Contemporary World Issues -
The Watergate Crisis: A Reference Guide, 2nd Edition
Author(s): Genovese, Michael;Contributors: Genovese, Michael;Abstract:This reference provides background information about the Watergate crisis and discusses its significance to American politics today.
Relatively insignificant at first glance, the Watergate crisis led to the downfall of a president and emerged as the most important constitutional crisis since the Civil War. Journalists and the media were instrumental in shedding light on Watergate and exposing political corruption at the highest levels of government. Watergate became part of American popular culture and synonymous with presidential corruption. This book surveys the background of the Watergate crisis and links it to contemporary American politics.
The first part of the book provides a narrative overview and examination of the Watergate crisis, with a consideration of what happened and why, and the relevance of Watergate to today's political issues. The book considers such topics as political corruption and impeachment, the role of the media, and the abuse of presidential power. The book also offers biographical sketches of key players in the Watergate crisis, a chronology, glossary, primary source document excerpts, and an annotated bibliography.
- A chronology highlights key events related to the Watergate crisis
- A narrative overview and analysis explores what Watergate was about and relates that crisis to contemporary politics
- Biographical profiles of key figures help readers identify the chief participants in the crisis
- A glossary defines key terms
- An annotated bibliography directs users to the most important sources of additional information
SortTitle: watergate crisis: a reference guide, 2nd editionEdition: 2Keyword(s): Can the Courts Check Abuses of Presidential Power?; Constitutional Crisis; How Does the Congress Deal With Presidential Abuses of Power?; How Is the Watergate Crisis Relevant to Today's Politics?; Impeachment; Is the Media a Safeguard Against a Runaway Presidency?; Is the Presidency "Imperial"?Author Info:Michael A. GenoveseauthorMichael A. Genovese holds the Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies and is professor of political science, director of the Institute for Leadership Studies, and president of the Global Policy Institute at Loyola Marymount University.
eISBN-13: 9781440866579Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440866579.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440866562Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 324Publication Date: 20200831Series: Guides to Historic Events in America -
![African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs [3 volumes]](9781440862441/~~FreeAttachments/9781440862441.jpg)
African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs [3 volumes]
Contributors: Dyson, Omari; Jeffries, Judson; Brooks, Kevin;Abstract:Covering everything from sports to art, religion, music, and entrepreneurship, this book documents the vast array of African American cultural expressions and discusses their impact on the culture of the United States.
According to the latest census data, less than 13 percent of the U.S. population identifies as African American; African Americans are still very much a minority group. Yet African American cultural expression and strong influences from African American culture are common across mainstream American culture—in music, the arts, and entertainment; in education and religion; in sports; and in politics and business. African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs covers virtually every aspect of African American cultural expression, addressing subject matter that ranges from how African culture was preserved during slavery hundreds of years ago to the richness and complexity of African American culture in the post-Obama era.
The most comprehensive reference work on African American culture to date, the book covers topics such as black contributions to literature and the arts, music and entertainment, religion, and professional sports. It also provides coverage of less-commonly addressed subjects, such as African American fashion practices and beauty culture, the development of jazz music across different eras, and African American business.
- Identifies influential aspects of African American culture through entries on topics such as African Americans in sports, in musical genres such as blues, gospel, hip hop, and jazz, and in religions such as Christianity, Islam, and Yoruba
- Makes clear the numerous ways African Americans have produced, maintained, and evolved their culture in the United States
- Enables readers to truly comprehend what "diversity" is by gaining substantive knowledge of how a particular group of persecuted people has learned to thrive artistically and culturally in the United States
Editor(s): Dyson, Omari; Jeffries, Judson; Brooks, Kevin;SortTitle: african american culture: an encyclopedia of people, traditions, and customs [3 volumes]Keyword(s): Black and African American Studies; Cinema; Comic Books and Graphic Novels; Customs and traditions; Education; Fashion and Beauty; Food; Museums and Monuments; Music; Quilting; Religion; Sports; Television; Race and Ethnicity: African American StudiesAuthor Info:Omari L. DysoneditorJudson L. Jeffries Ph.D.editorKevin L. BrookseditoreISBN-13: 9781440862441Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440862441.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440862434Imprint: GreenwoodPages: 1168Publication Date: 20200731Series: Cultures of the American Mosaic -
![Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion, 2nd Edition [2 volumes]](9781440837357/~~FreeAttachments/9781440837357.jpg)
Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion, 2nd Edition [2 volumes]
Contributors: Clark, Richard; Foster, Kelly; Best, Samuel; Radcliff, Benjamin;Abstract:This work provides an authoritative overview of the composition of public opinion in America, the methodologies by which public opinion is measured, and the importance of polling to U.S. politics, policy, and culture.
This revised edition is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of public opinion polling in the United States, including major and emerging theories and concepts; historical and current methodologies; political, journalistic, and corporate uses; landmark events and developments in the history of polling; and influential people and organizations. The encyclopedia also illuminates how public opinion polling has become important in shaping the trajectory of American society and the views that Americans have about themselves and their fellow citizens.
Specific big-picture topics explored include how data mining of internet and social media usage trends has shaped modern political and business advertising campaigns; the impact of politically partisan media outlets on public opinion; and attitudes of various sectors of the American electorate about diverse topics including gun control, abortion, immigration, marijuana legalization, and the nation's two main political parties.
- Contains 200 new or revised entries on various aspects and impacts of public opinion polling
- Shows American polling trends over the years on major political issues through informative tables, graphs, and charts
- Makes it easy for the reader to explore connections between terms with cross-referenced entries
- Features contributions from the foremost experts in the fields of polling and public opinion
- Includes an appendix of major polling centers, organizations, and archives
Editor(s): Clark, Richard; Foster, Kelly; Best, Samuel; Radcliff, Benjamin;SortTitle: polling america: an encyclopedia of public opinion, 2nd edition [2 volumes]Edition: 2Keyword(s): Can Internet Polling Be Accurate?; Did Polling Fail to Predict the 2016 Presidential Election?; Gender as a Factor in Opinion Formation; How Can 1,000 Respondents Reflect the Views of a Nation of more than 327 Million People?; How to Tell Good Polls from Bad PollsAuthor Info:Richard L. ClarkeditorKelly N. FostereditorSamuel J. BesteditorBenjamin RadcliffeditoreISBN-13: 9781440837357Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440837357.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440837340Imprint: GreenwoodPages: 896Publication Date: 20200831 -
![Nationalism Today: Extreme Political Movements around the World [2 volumes]](9781440850004/~~FreeAttachments/9781440850004.jpg)
Nationalism Today: Extreme Political Movements around the World [2 volumes]
Contributors: Burnett, M. Troy;Abstract:This extensive reference examines extreme political movements and the political, cultural, and economic conditions that breed them, from the alt-right in the United States to the Houthi Rebel Movement in Yemen to the question of Taiwan's independence.
Nationalism Today: Extreme Political Movements around the World is an authoritative guide for students and teachers who seek to understand nationalist movements across the globe.
The two-volume work opens with essays that describe different types of nationalist movements: extremist, revisionist, and separatist. Arranged by country, the entries that follow provide the geographic, cultural, economic, and political context for the development of nationalist movements. The entries provide expert analysis of specific movements and lay the groundwork for comparison of the many different types of extreme political movements that are exerting themselves around the world today.
In addition, easy-to-read tables give cultural, economic, and political facts and figures for each country. A comprehensive scholarly bibliography of secondary sources rounds out the book.
- Investigates nationalism on a theoretical level while providing real-life examples of specific nationalist movements that are making headlines around the world today
- Provides comparative studies of nationalist movements around the world, enabling readers to compare and contrast how and why these groups are manifesting worldwide
- Easy-to-read facts and figures for each country provide another layer of information in analyzing the hows and whys of growing nationalist movements
Editor(s): Burnett, M. Troy;SortTitle: nationalism today: extreme political movements around the world [2 volumes]Keyword(s): Basque, Breton, and Corsican Movements in France; Chechnya, Chukchi, and Yupiit Movements in Russia; Catalonian Movement in Spain; Druze and Assyrians in Syria; Houthis in Yemen; Jammu-Kashmir Movement in India; Kurds, Yazidi, and Turkmen in Iraq; White Nationalism and Tea Party in the U.S.Author Info:M. Troy BurnetteditorM. Troy Burnett is associate professor of geography at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. His areas of academic study are political, economic, environmental, and cultural geography.
eISBN-13: 9781440850004Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440850004.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440849992Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 920Publication Date: 20200831 -
![Violence in American Society: An Encyclopedia of Trends, Problems, and Perspectives [2 volumes]](9781440854682/~~FreeAttachments/9781440854682.jpg)
Violence in American Society: An Encyclopedia of Trends, Problems, and Perspectives [2 volumes]
Contributors: Richardson, Chris;Abstract:While many books explore specific issues such as gun violence, arson, murder, and crime prevention, this encyclopedia serves as a one-stop resource for exploring the history, societal factors, and current dimensions of violence in America in all its forms.
This encyclopedia explores violence in the United States, from the nation's founding to modern-day trends, laws, viewpoints, and media depictions. Providing a nuanced lens through which to think about violence in America, including its underlying causes, its iterations, and possible solutions, this work offers broad and authoritative coverage that will be immensely helpful to users ranging from high school and undergraduate students to professionals in law enforcement and school administration.
In addition to detailed and evenhanded summaries of the key events and issues relating to violence in America, contributors highlight important events, political debates, legal perspectives, modern dimensions, and critical approaches. This encyclopedia also features excerpts from such important primary source documents as legal rulings, presidential speeches, and congressional testimony from scholars and activists on aspects of violence in America. Together, these documents provide important insights into past and present patterns of violent crime in the United States, as well as proposed solutions to those problems.
- Addresses all aspects of violence in American society, past and present, including societal factors and legal, political, and law enforcement responses
- Includes lists of research resources for additional study
- Highlights insightful primary documents of key events and patterns of violence in America
- Features contributions from prominent scholars in a wide range of fields related to crime, violence, and law
Editor(s): Richardson, Chris;SortTitle: violence in american society: an encyclopedia of trends, problems, and perspectives [2 volumes]Keyword(s): Animal Cruelty; Bullying; Civil Disobedience; Domestic Violence; Hate Crimes; Mass Shootings; Media Depictions; Murder; Prison Violence; Sexual Assault; Politics, Law, and Government: Human Rights and Civil Liberties; Current Events and Issues: Law and CrimeAuthor Info:Chris RichardsoneditorChris Richardson, PhD, is assistant professor of communication studies at Young Harris College, GA.
eISBN-13: 9781440854682Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440854682.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440854675Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 680Publication Date: 20200831 -
Modern Brazil
Author(s): Galván, Javier;Contributors: Galván, Javier;Abstract:This book is a crucial reference source for high school and undergraduate college students interested in contemporary Brazil. While it provides a general historical and cultural background, it focuses on issues affecting modern Brazil.
In recent years, Brazil has come onto the world stage as an economic powerhouse, a leader in Latin America. This latest addition to the Understanding Modern Nations series focuses on Brazil's culture, history, and society.
This volume provides readers with a wide understanding of Brazil's historical past, the foundation for its cultural traditions, and an understanding of its social structure. In addition, it provides a look into contemporary society by highlighting both national accomplishments and challenges Brazilians face in the twenty-first century.
Specific chapters cover geography; history; government and politics; economy; religion; social classes and ethnicity; gender, marriage and sexuality; education; language; etiquette; literature and drama; arts and architecture; music and dance; food; leisure and sports; and media, cinema, and popular culture. Entries within each chapter look at topics such as cultural icons, economic inequalities, race and ethnicity, soccer, politics, environmental conservation, and women's rights. Ideal for high school and undergraduate students, this volume paints a panoramic overview of one of the most powerful countries in the Americas.
- The volume covers a wide range of topics, including social issues, cultural traditions, and controversial contemporary issues, making it a comprehensive and valuable thematic encyclopedia
- "Day in the Life" features portray the specific daily activities of various people in Brazil, from teenagers to working adults in different fields, thereby providing readers insight into daily life in the country
- Key terms related to the reading are defined in a glossary appendix
- A chart of national holidays provides at-a-glance information about Brazil's important religious and secular holidays
- Photos illuminate the text, illustrating key topics
- Sidebars provide fun facts and anecdotal information that help to engage readers
SortTitle: modern brazilKeyword(s): Abortion Ban; The Amazon Basin; Economic Rise; Education Challenges; Environmental Concerns; Festivals; Foreign Policy; Geography; Political Corruption; Popular Culture; Popular Music; Race; Religion; Soccer; Geography and World Cultures: Countries and Regions; World History: CultureAuthor Info:Javier A. GalvánauthorJavier A. Galván, PhD, is professor of history and Spanish at Santa Ana College.
eISBN-13: 9781440860324Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440860324.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440860317Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 432Publication Date: 20200831Series: Understanding Modern Nations -
Teen Health from Head to Toe: Exploring Issues and Risks
Author(s): O'Reilly, Mary;Contributors: O'Reilly, Mary;Abstract:This book offers a head-to-toe look at the health concerns most pertinent to teens and young adults and what they can do to safeguard their health. It also provides general information on anatomy and function.
Many of the United States' top health problems—including heart attack, stroke, and complications from type 2 diabetes—are relatively uncommon among teens and young adults. There are, however, a number of health risks that are of particular concern for individuals between the ages of 13 and 25. Many of the behaviors this age group is likely to participate in—from listening to loud music to vaping to constantly using smartphones—can have a profound impact on their health.
This book examines these threats to teen health using a top-to-bottom organization that focuses on particular parts of the body and systems. Each chapter provides background information on the anatomy and function of each part or system before diving into the issues most pertinent to teens. Readers will discover how these threats arise, how they can affect health both now and in the future, and what can be done to prevent, treat, or minimize the impact of these threats. Each chapter also includes a selection of accessible further readings that can be used as a jumping-off point for additional research.
- Addresses health issues of perennial concern, such as STDs and the dangers of smoking and drinking, as well as emerging hot topics, such as the dangers of too much sitting and the overuse of computer and smartphone screens
- Features a unique head-to-toe layout that presents information in an organized and accessible way
- Includes easy-to-understand explanations of the structure and function of each part of the body or system
- Offers practical advice on how to safeguard the health of each part of the body or system, providing readers with the information they need to make better decisions in their daily lives
SortTitle: teen health from head to toe: exploring issues and risksKeyword(s): Brain: Concussion; Eyes: Eyestrain from Too Much Screen Time; Digestive System: Food Allergies; Hair: Chemicals Used in Hair Treatments; Immune System:; Liver: Damage from Binge Drinking and Drug Use; Lungs: Damage from Vaping; Reproductive System: STDs; Skin: Acne; Health and WellnessAuthor Info:Mary O'ReillyauthorMary O'Reilly, PhD, CIH, CPE, is adjunct professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) Albany School of Public Health and a founding member of Workplace Health Without Borders and its U.S. branch.
eISBN-13: 9781440865336Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440865336.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440865329Imprint: GreenwoodPages: 272Publication Date: 20200831 -
![Religious Violence Today: Faith and Conflict in the Modern World [2 volumes]](9781440859915/~~FreeAttachments/9781440859915.jpg)
Religious Violence Today: Faith and Conflict in the Modern World [2 volumes]
Contributors: Jerryson, Michael;Abstract:Through sections containing overview essays and reference entries related to particular religions, this resource explores the rise of religious violence, hate crime, and persecution around the world.
Religious violence and persecution have been growing steadily both within the United States and around the world. Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of scholars, this current and comprehensive reference helps readers understand the persecution of members of particular faiths as well as violence committed by members of those faiths. In doing so it promotes a greater understanding of the role of religion in global politics, domestic and international terrorism, and religious bigotry.
The book contains sections on particular religious traditions from around the world. Each section begins with an overview essay surveying violence related to that particular religion, whether committed by or against members of that faith. Reference entries in each section then provide objective, fundamental information about particular topics related to violence and the religion discussed. The entries provide cross-references and suggestions for further reading, and the work closes with a bibliography of resources for further study.
- Sections are devoted to particular religions from around the world.
- Overview essays in each section survey religious violence associated with that particular faith.
- Reference entries in each section provide current fundamental information about specific topics related to religious violence within a faith tradition.
- Excerpts from primary source documents give readers first-hand accounts of religious violence for critical analysis.
- Cross-references and suggestions for further reading direct users to related topics and additional resources.
Editor(s): Jerryson, Michael;SortTitle: religious violence today: faith and conflict in the modern world [2 volumes]Keyword(s): Art of War (Sun Tzu); Anti-Christian Attacks (India); Boko Haram; Boston Marathon Bombing; Catholicism and Sexual Abuse; Church of Satan; Fourth Turning (United States); Gandhi, Mohandas; Hindutva; Jehovah Witnesses (Persecution of); My Jihad Campaign; Roof, Dylann; Tibetan Self-ImmolationsAuthor Info:Michael JerrysoneditorMichael Jerryson is professor of religious studies at Youngstown State University, senior editor for Oxford Handbooks Online, and cofounder of the American Academy of Religion's Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Program Unit.
eISBN-13: 9781440859915Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440859915.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440859908Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 944Publication Date: 20200731 -
Votes for Women! The American Woman Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment: A Reference Guide
Author(s): Roydhouse, Marion;Contributors: Roydhouse, Marion;Abstract:This contextual narrative of the 70-year-long history of the woman suffrage movement in the United States demonstrates how an important mass political and social movement coalesced into a political force despite class, racial, ethnic, religious, and regional barriers.
Votes for Women! provides an updated consideration of the questions raised by the mass movement to gain equality and access to power in our democracy. It interprets the campaigns for woman suffrage from the 1830s until 1920, analyzes the impact of the 19th amendment, and presents primary documents to allow a glimpse into the minds of those who campaigned for and against woman suffrage.
The book's examination of the 70-year woman suffrage campaign movement shows how the movement faced enormous barriers, was perceived as threatening the very core of accepted beliefs, and was a struggle that showcased the efforts of strong protagonists and brilliant organizers who were intellectually innovative and yet were reflective of the great divides of race, ethnicity, religion, economics, and region existing across the nation. Included within the narrative section are biographies of significant personalities in the movement, such as militant Alice Paul and anti-suffragist Ida Tarbell as well as more commonly known leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
- Documents how suffragists managed to create large, politically sophisticated organizations that conducted massive campaigns without the benefit of modern technology, eventually triumphing over deeply held social conventions, religious beliefs, and strong anti-suffrage opposition
- Includes primary documents that enable readers to hear the voices of the men and women fighting for and against woman suffrage
- Puts the woman suffrage movement in the context of a wider struggle for universal suffrage and democracy, which was fought from the time of the American Revolution through the 20th century
- Provides a readable analysis of the suffrage movement that extends far beyond the traditional focus on a handful of familiar figures, widening the scope to include the Western campaigns; addressing internal conflict over race, class, ethnic, and religious differences; and presents a more balanced interpretation of the militant suffragists
- Supplies a chronology of major events, bibliography, and listing of online resources that add to understanding of the long battle and guide further exploration of the subject
SortTitle: votes for women! the american woman suffrage movement and the nineteenth amendment: a reference guideKeyword(s): Abolition; African American Women and Suffrage; Civil War, The; Failure of the 15th Amendment to Include Women's Vote; Impact of the 19th Amendment; Issue of Race and the Southern Suffrage Campaigns; Lobbyists during World War I; Militant Suffragists; Minor v. Happersett (1875)Author Info:Marion W. RoydhouseauthorMarion W. Roydhouse, PhD, is emerita professor of history and founding director of the Center for Teaching Innovation and Nexus Learning at Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA.
eISBN-13: 9781440836718Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440836718.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440836701Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 348Publication Date: 20200731Series: Guides to Historic Events in America -
Listen to Psychedelic Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre
Author(s): Matijas-Mecca, Christian;Contributors: Matijas-Mecca, Christian;Abstract:Listen to Psychedelic Rock! contains over fifty entries covering the people, records, places, and events that shaped one of the most exciting and influential periods in popular music.
This addition to the Exploring a Music Genre series concentrates solely on psychedelic rock music. Listen to Psychedelic Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre covers over fifty topics, arranged alphabetically, that are central to learning about psychedelic music and will enable readers to understand the breadth and ongoing influence of psychedelia through to the present day.
The title contains biographical sketches on selected artists, "song-by-song" descriptions of many albums, and short, informative essays on participants who were influential in the original psychedelic movement. A background section introduces the genre and a legacy section shows how psychedelic music has cemented its place in the world, while another section shows the tremendous impact the music has had on popular culture. Information on record labels and year-of-release dates for all musical entries make it easy for any reader to navigate this title — a must-have for high school and college readers as well as for music scholars and fans of the genre.
- Provides readers with a thorough overview of artists and albums whose works came to define psychedelic music
- Addresses the differences between psychedelia in England and in the United States
- Discusses the intellectual and literary influence on psychedelia in England
- Provides easy reference to more than fifty individual topics through A-to-Z organization
- Contextualizes the music in American history
SortTitle: listen to psychedelic rock! exploring a musical genreKeyword(s): Abraxas; Anthem of the Sun; The Crazy; Cream; Donovan; Jefferson Airplane; Parliament; Pink Floyd; Their Satanic Majesties Request; The Thirteenth-Floor Elevators; Vanilla Fudge; The Velvet Underground and Nico; Popular Culture: Music and Performing Arts; The ArtsAuthor Info:Christian Matijas-MeccaauthorChristian Matijas-Mecca is professor of music and dance at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
eISBN-13: 9781440861987Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440861987.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440861970Imprint: GreenwoodPages: 236Publication Date: 20200731Series: Exploring Musical Genres -
Antisemitism: Exploring the Issues
Author(s): Jacobs, Steven;Contributors: Jacobs, Steven;Abstract:With an overview essay, timeline, reference entries, and annotated bibliography, this resource is a concise one-stop reference on antisemitism in today's society.
Stretching back to biblical times, antisemitism is perhaps the world's oldest hatred of a group. It has manifested itself around the world, sometimes taking the form of superficially innocent jokes and at other times promoting such tragedies as the Holocaust. Far from disappeared, its continued existence in today's society is evidenced by vandalism of Jewish cemeteries and shootings at synagogues. This book explores the causes and consequences of contemporary antisemitism, placing this form of hatred in its historical, political, and social contexts.
An overview essay surveys the background and significance of antisemitism and provides historical context for discussions of contemporary topics. A timeline highlights key events related to antisemitism. Some 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries provide objective, fundamental information about people, events, and other topics related to antisemitism. These entries cite works for further reading and provide cross-references to related topics. An annotated bibliography cites and evaluates some of the most important resources on antisemitism suitable for student research.
- An overview essay places antisemitism in its historical context and discusses its contemporary significance
- A timeline identifies key developments related to antisemitism
- Roughly 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries provide objective, fundamental information about topics related to antisemitism, with an emphasis on modern society
- Entry bibliographies direct users to specific sources of additional information
- An annotated bibliography lists and evaluates some of the most important broad works on antisemitism
SortTitle: antisemitism: exploring the issuesKeyword(s): BDS (Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment) Movement; Blood Libel; Crusades; Deicide; Dreyfus Affair; Fascism; Hitler, Adolf; Spanish Inquisition; Usury; Religion: Society; Current Events and Issues: EthnicityAuthor Info:Steven Leonard JacobsauthorSteven Leonard Jacobs is professor of religious studies and holds the Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies in the department of religious studies at the University of Alabama.
eISBN-13: 9781440868740Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440868740.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440868733Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 234Publication Date: 20200701Series: Religion in Politics and Society Today -
Family Separation and the U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis
Author(s): Hillstrom, Laurie;Contributors: Hillstrom, Laurie;Abstract:This volume provides an authoritative, evenhanded overview of the Trump administration's family separation and child detention policies at the U.S.-Mexico border—and the impact of those policies and actions on children, their parents, border security, and American politics.
The 21st Century Turning Points series is a one-stop resource for understanding the people and events changing America today. Each volume provides readers with a clear, authoritative, and unbiased understanding of a single issue or event that is driving national debate about our nation's leaders, institutions, values, and priorities.
This particular volume is devoted to the issue of child migrant detention on the U.S.-Mexico border. It provides background information on the political, social, and economic forces driving undocumented immigration into America; explains the policies and records of both the Obama and Trump administrations on immigration, deportation, and border security; summarizes current laws and regulations governing U.S. border and immigration policies; recounts President Trump's rhetoric and record on both legal and "illegal" immigration, including his promise to build a "Border Wall" with funds from Mexico; surveys living conditions in the border detention centers operated by U.S. authorities; and discusses the impact of detention and family separation on children taken into custody.
- Entries devoted to specific events and milestones
- Biographical profiles of important activists and figures
- Essays that explore the lasting impact of child detention on migrant children, their families, immigration trends, and American politics and society
- Annotated bibliography of sources for further study
SortTitle: family separation and the u.s.-mexico border crisisKeyword(s): Conditions in Migrant Detention Centers on the U.S.-Mexico Border; Experiences of Migrant Children Separated from Their Families; Factors Driving Undocumented Immigration into the United States; Flores v. Reno; Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)Author Info:Laurie Collier HillstromauthorLaurie Collier Hillstrom is an independent scholar based in Brighton, Michigan.
eISBN-13: 9781440876622Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440876622.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440876615Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 168Publication Date: 20200731Series: 21st-Century Turning Points -
Dietary Supplements: Fact versus Fiction
Author(s): Goldstein, Myrna; Goldstein, Mark;Contributors: Goldstein, Myrna; Goldstein, Mark;Abstract:This accessibly written book examines the most commonly taken dietary supplements, exploring what they are and what they're purported to do and summarizing key research findings regarding their potential health benefits and risks.
Today, more than 50 percent of Americans take at least one type of dietary supplement regularly. But do these products actually work? How are they regulated? Are there any potential health risks?
Dietary Supplements: Fact versus Fiction examines the most commonly used non-nutrient supplements (those that are neither vitamins nor minerals and not essential for human health). Using a standardized structure, each entry discusses a particular supplement's origins, purported benefits, potential risks, and common dosage. Summaries of key research studies are included to help readers make informed decisions about supplements' usefulness.
Introductory materials give readers a foundational understanding of how supplements are regulated and labeled and offer practical information about how to read a Supplement Facts panel. For those interested in supplements for a particular health complaint (such as fatigue or pain), a topic finder has also been included.
- Provides unbiased, evidence-based information to help readers make their own decisions about supplementation
- Summarizes and contextualizes key research findings in easy-to-understand language
- Uses a standardized structure and topic finder to make it easy for readers to find the exact information they're looking for
- Offers practical information on how to read and understand the Supplement Facts panel found on all dietary supplements
SortTitle: dietary supplements: fact versus fictionKeyword(s): Aloe Vera; Black Cohosh; CoQ10; Fish Oil; Glucosamine; Lutein; Melatonin; Probiotics; Resveratrol; SAMe; St. John's Wort; Health and Wellness: Nutrition and Healthy Living; Current Events and Issues: Health and MedicineAuthor Info:Myrna Chandler GoldsteinauthorMark A. Goldstein MDauthoreISBN-13: 9781440864230Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440864230.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440864223Imprint: GreenwoodPages: 352Publication Date: 20200731 -
Religion and Environmentalism: Exploring the Issues
Author(s): Stone, Lora;Contributors: Stone, Lora;Abstract:A foundational resource for readers investigating religiously motivated environmentalism, this book provides both a global overview of the subject and a detailed discussion of key figures, concepts, organizations, events, and documents.
Beginning in the late 1960s, a growing number of activists, scholars, and scientists asserted that traditional religions had been major contributors to the environmental crisis. In response, theologians, religious organizations, and religiously motivated activists became increasingly involved in environmental issues. At the same time, emerging nature-based belief systems emphasized values and lifestyles based in environmentalism. More recently, religiously motivated environmentalism has become a powerful force in shaping environmental policy and human action globally and has joined with secular environmentalism to address related issues.
This book explores the background and current state of religious environmentalism. The book begins with an overview essay examining the history and context of religious environmentalism and its significance today. A chronology then profiles the most important events related to religious environmentalism. A section of more than 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries follows, with each entry providing objective information about people, places, events, movements, works, and other topics. The entries include cross-references and suggestions for further reading, and the book closes with a selected, annotated bibliography of major works.
- An introductory essay overviews the origins and present-day significance of religious environmental activism
- A chronology features important events related to religion and the environment
- More than 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries provide objective, essential information about people, works, theories, movements, events, and other topics related to religious environmentalism
- Entries cite works for further reading and an annotated bibliography directs users to additional resources
SortTitle: religion and environmentalism: exploring the issuesKeyword(s): Biodiversity; Buddhism; Christianity; Climate Change; Dalai Lama; Environmental Justice; Hinduism; Islam; Judaism; Paganism; Religious Environmental Movement; Shiva, Vandana; Sustainability; Religion: Politics; Current Events and Issues: EnvironmentAuthor Info:Lora StoneauthorLora Stone is associate professor of sociology at University of New Mexico, Gallup. She has taught and published in the fields of political science and sociology for more than twenty years.
eISBN-13: 9781440868573Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440868573.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440868566Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 232Publication Date: 20200731Series: Religion in Politics and Society Today
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The New Town Hall: Why We Engage Personally with Politicians
Author(s): Masullo, Gina;Contributors: Masullo, Gina;Abstract:Drawing on in-depth interviews with a wide variety of Americans, this book answers two questions: How and why do we personally engage with elected officials online and offline? What influence does this personal political engagement have on our democracy?
Never before has it been so easy for Americans to make their personal views known to their elected officials. Citizens can tweet their opinions to their political representatives or respond to a Facebook post on politicians' pages to convey their approval or dislike for policies. They can engage politically through virtual town halls or show up in person at a protest easily organized through digital platforms. But this mediated relationship also makes it easy for politicians to push back against the opinions of their constituents by deriding their views or even blocking them online.
The New Town Hall gives readers a firsthand look at personal political experiences through vivid stories from a variety of Americans. Researcher and former journalist Gina Masullo documents how Americans feel when they are blocked on social media and demonstrates how political talk with elected officials—both online and offline—leads to more involved types of political participation, such as protests or campaigning for political candidates. She contextualizes these personal political experiences with an eye toward understanding how these interactions influence the democratic process.
- Includes data and examples from a wide variety of interviews with citizens about their on- and offline interactions with politicians
- Explains how political talk with elected officials online and offline leads to more involved types of political participation, such as protests and campaigning
- Shows how politicians' refusal to communicate with citizens affects the democratic process
- Demonstrates an accessible and down-to-earth tone
SortTitle: new town hall: why we engage personally with politiciansKeyword(s): Activism; Blocking Social Media; Citizen Voices; Democracy; Online Politics; Personal Politics; Political Engagement; Political Participation; President Donald Trump; Social Media; Politics, Law, and Government; Current Events and Issues: Politics and GovernmentAuthor Info:Gina M. MasulloauthorGina M. Masullo, PhD, is associate director of the Center for Media Engagement and associate professor in the School of Journalism, both at The University of Texas at Austin.
eISBN-13: 9781440866906Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440866906.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440866890Imprint: PraegerPages: 192Publication Date: 20200930 -
The Problem with Parenting: How Raising Children Is Changing across America
Author(s): McDermott, Nancy;Contributors: McDermott, Nancy;Abstract:The Problem with Parenting serves as an essential guide to the recent origins and current excesses of American parenting for students, parents, and policy makers interested in the changing role of the family in childrearing.
Family scholarship focuses predominately on the evolution of family structure and function, with only passing references to parenting. Researchers who study parenting, however, invariably regard it as a sociological phenomenon with complex motivations rooted in factors such as class, economic instability, and new technologies.
This book examines the relationship between changes to the family and the emergence of parenting, defined here as a specific mode of childrearing. It shows how, beginning in the 1970s, the family was transformed from a social unit that functioned as the primary institution for raising children into a vehicle for the nurturing and fulfillment of the self. The book pays special attention to socialization and describes how the change in our understanding of parenthood, from a state of being into the distinct activity of "parenting," is indicative of a disruption of our ability to transfer key cultural values and norms from one generation to the next.
- Suggests that families are no longer able to reliably socialize children
- Proposes that the reason the family has ceased to function as a socializing institution has less to do with changes in structure than the replacement of a child-centered ideal with a therapeutic imperative
- Suggests that parenting is new mode of childrearing that arose in the absence of a reliable institution for childrearing
- Argues that parenting culture itself is a response to the experience of the breakdown in socialization that occurred that began in the 1970s
- Makes the case for a renewal of a societal commitment to children and the rising generation
SortTitle: problem with parenting: how raising children is changing across americaKeyword(s): Authority; Children; Family; Gender; Intimacy; Love; Parent-Child Relationships; Parenting Philosophies; Socialization; Stereotypes; Current Events and Issues: Society; Psychology: Child and TeenAuthor Info:Nancy A. McDermottauthorNancy A. McDermott is an independent writer and researcher and an affiliate of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
eISBN-13: 9781440853197Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440853197.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440853180Imprint: PraegerPages: 208Publication Date: 20200831 -
Ghost Guns: Hobbyists, Hackers, and the Homemade Weapons Revolution
Author(s): Tallman, Mark;Contributors: Tallman, Mark;Abstract:With thorough analysis and balanced reporting, Ghost Guns: Hobbyists, Hackers, and the Homemade Weapons Revolution is an essential resource for readers seeking to understand the rise of homemade firearms and future options for managing it.
For more than a century, strict gun control was possible because firearms were produced in centralized industrial factories. Today, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, combining old and new technologies, threatens to upend this arrangement. An increasing number of hobbyists, "makers," technology provocateurs, and sophisticated criminals are proving that you don't need a factory to make guns anymore.
The security challenges of this transformation are increasingly apparent, but the technologies behind it hold tremendous potential, and so while to ignore the security implications would entail risks, the costs of new policies also must be evaluated. "Do-it-yourself," or DIY, weapons will bring significant ramifications for First and Second Amendment law, international and homeland security, crime control, technology, privacy, innovation, and the character of open source culture itself. How can liberal society adjust to technologies that make it easier to produce weapons and contraband?
Informative and thought-provoking, Ghost Guns: Hobbyists, Hackers, and the Homemade Weapons Revolution carefully analyzes the technical, legal, social, political, and criminological trends behind this challenging new area of illicit weapons activity.
- Provides readers with informative background on DIY gun laws and legislative trends and fascinating descriptions of legal and illegal practices with homemade weapons around the world
- Presents in-depth explanations of the consumer appeal, technology, economics, politics, and enforcement challenges behind America's quickly growing DIY gun-making phenomenon
- Evaluates the current and future appeal of homemade weapons for differing types of crime and terrorism
- Offers a series of forward-looking recommendations for weapons control and security policy in an increasingly "post-industrial" 21st century
SortTitle: ghost guns: hobbyists, hackers, and the homemade weapons revolutionKeyword(s): 21st Century Policing; Comparative Gun Policy; Cyber Crime; Disruptive Technologies; Firearm Industry; Fourth Industrial Revolution; Future Crimes; Gun Control; Gun Rights; Homemade Weapons; Organized Crime; Second Amendment Law; Small Arms Proliferation; Terrorist Use of WeaponsAuthor Info:Mark A. TallmanauthorMark A. Tallman, PhD, ABCP, CIPS, RSO, WFR, is a security educator, researcher, and consultant. He is assistant professor of homeland security and emergency management at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
eISBN-13: 9781440865657Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440865657.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440865640Imprint: PraegerPages: 264Publication Date: 20200831 -
Understanding and Treating Chronic Fatigue: A Practical Guide for Patients, Families, and Practitioners
Author(s): Young, Joel;Contributors: Young, Joel;Abstract:Some doctors still think Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a "fake" diagnosis. In this book, Joel Young, MD, presents the research, experience, and treatments that prove otherwise.
Millions of Americans experience chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), continuous exhaustion and a feeling comparable to that of having just run a marathon when all they have done is a daily living task, such as taking a shower or getting dressed.
Doctors don't have tests for CFS, and some think it's a faux or psychological disorder. Joel Young, MD, in this heavily researched book, explains why it is a true physical illness, and how it may be treated. He details how he successfully treats the symptoms, which can include severe fatigue, "brain fog," chronic pain, and sleep problems. Unlike doctors who recommend exercise, supplements, or opioid medications, Young integrates options such as long-acting stimulants, meditation, and dietary changes to reduce fatigue and non-opioid drugs, medical marijuana, and self-help options including yoga for the associated chronic pain.
- Features new and emerging research
- Cautions against quack treatments and so-called "quick fixes"
- Includes an appendix listing commonly asked questions with short answers
- Includes a glossary of terms
SortTitle: understanding and treating chronic fatigue: a practical guide for patients, families, and practitionersKeyword(s): How to Cope with Non-Believers and Skeptics; How the Diagnosis of CFS is Made Using the Differential Diagnosis Process; How Long-Acting Stimulants Can Help Patients with CFS; Managing CFS with Medication, Therapy, Dietary Changes, and Self-Help Options; Health and Wellness: Diseases and ConditionsAuthor Info:Joel L. Young MDauthorJoel L. Young, MD, is the medical director of the Rochester Center for Behavioral Medicine in Rochester Hills, MI, and clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Wayne State University School of Medicine.
eISBN-13: 9781440871931Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440871931.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440871924Imprint: PraegerPages: 246Publication Date: 20200831 -
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Elements, History, Treatments, and Research
Author(s): Shapiro, Leslie;Contributors: Shapiro, Leslie;Abstract:A comprehensive introduction to one of the most common psychiatric disorders, a condition that results in intrusive, irrational thoughts and/or repetitive, illogical physical or mental actions.
Titles in this Health and Psychology Sourcebooks series address psychological, physical, or environmental conditions that threaten human health and wellbeing. This book presents a comprehensive overview of OCD—one of the five most common psychiatric disorders. Obsessions range from those associated with contamination, safety, and order or symmetry to scrupulosity, or the need the do the "right" thing. Compulsions range from counting, touching, and tapping to excessive cleaning/washing, arranging, or even hoarding.
Written by a therapist among the most experienced in the world in dealing with this disorder, this book covers the incidence, symptoms, diagnosis, history, development, and causes, as well as the effects and costs of OCD. It also addresses theory, research, and treatments and offers insight into and case studies illustrating how the disorder displays in society, at work, and in relationships. A glossary of terms, suggested further readings, and resource websites and organizations listing are included.
- Addresses symptoms, incidence, diagnosis, and treatments
- Explains development and causes
- Includes case studies for illustration of concepts
- Back matter includes a glossary, reading list, and list of organizations and websites
SortTitle: obsessive compulsive disorder: elements, history, treatments, and researchKeyword(s): Brain Activity; Case Studies; Compulsions; Conscience, Role of; Development and Causes; Gender and Age; Guilt, Role of; Obsessions; Scrupulosity; Psychology: Abnormal; Health and Wellness: Diseases and ConditionsAuthor Info:Leslie J. ShapiroauthorLeslie J. Shapiro, LICSW, is clinical supervisor at the OCD Institute at McLean Hospital, Boston.
eISBN-13: 9781440871313Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440871313.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440871306Imprint: PraegerPages: 304Publication Date: 20200723Series: Health and Psychology Sourcebooks -
The Historian's Red Badge of Courage: Reading Stephen Crane's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History
Contributors: Cimbala, Paul;Abstract:For someone who did not actually fight in the American Civil War, Stephen Crane was extraordinarily accurate in his description of the psychological tension experienced by a youthful soldier grappling with his desire to act heroically, his fears, and redemption.
Stephen Crane's novel The Red Badge of Courage provides an extraordinary take on the battlefield experiences of a young soldier coming of age under extreme circumstances. His writing took place a generation after the war's conclusion, at a time when the entire nation was coming to grips with the meaning of the Civil War. It was during this time in the late nineteenth century that the battle over the memory of the war was taking place.
This new, annotated edition of the novel is designed to guide readers through references made through Crane's characters and how they reflect Civil War military experiences—specifically how "the youth's" experiences reflect the reality of the multi-day battle of Chancellorsville, which took place in Virginia beginning on May 1, 1863 and concluded on May 4 of the same year. The annotated text is preceded by introductory essays on Crane and on the Civil War. Crane's short story "The Veteran" is also included to allow readers to better understand the post-war lives of Civil War soldiers.
- Explains key background information for better understanding The Red Badge of Courage
- Includes introductory essays on Crane and on the Civil War
- Provides the full text for both Red Badge and Crane's lesser-known short story "The Veteran" with comprehensive annotations that illuminate the links between the stories and their historical contexts
Editor(s): Cimbala, Paul;SortTitle: historian's red badge of courage: reading stephen crane's masterpiece as social and cultural historyKeyword(s): The Battlefield Experience; Civil War Memory; Civil War Soldiers' Lives; Perceptions of the Civil War During the Late Nineteenth Century; American History: Culture; The Arts: American LiteratureAuthor Info:Paul A. CimbalaeditorPaul A. Cimbala is professor of history at Fordham University, The Bronx, NY. He is author or coauthor of several texts on the American Civil War.
eISBN-13: 9781440854262Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440854262.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440854255Imprint: PraegerPages: 370Publication Date: 20200731Series: The Historian's Annotated Classics -
The Cultural Context of Aging: Worldwide Perspectives, 4th Edition
Contributors: Sokolovsky, Jay;Abstract:From the laughing clubs of India and robotic granny minders of Japan to the "Flexsecurity" system of Denmark and the elderscapes of Florida, experts in this collection bring readers cutting-edge and future-focused approaches to our aging population worldwide.
In this fourth edition of an award-winning text on the consequences of global aging, a team of expert anthropologists and other social scientists presents the issues and possible solutions as our population over age 60 rises to double that of the year 2000. Chapters describe how the consequences of global aging will influence life in the 21st century in relation to biological limits on the human life span, cultural construction of the life cycle, generational exchange and kinship, makeup of households and community, and attitudes toward disability and death.
This completely revised edition includes 20 new chapters covering China, Japan, Denmark, India, West and East Africa, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, indigenous Amazonia, rural Italy, and the ethnic landscape of the United States. A popular feature is an integrated set of web book chapters listed in the contents, discussed in chapter introductions, and available on the book's web site.
- Takes a qualitative, case study approach, with most chapters informed by original, ongoing field research around the world
- Draws its reputation from use in courses from anthropology, sociology, and psychology to social work, nursing, and public health at 60 universities
- Discusses and points readers to related web book chapters, available on the book's website
- Provides access to valuable web support offering literature updates, educational activities, videos, and more
Editor(s): Sokolovsky, Jay;SortTitle: cultural context of aging: worldwide perspectives, 4th editionEdition: 4Keyword(s): Care Among Multinational Family Networks; Culture and Women's Mid-Life; Culture and the Perception of Dementia; Community Gardens and Civic Ecology; Death Dulas; Designing Age-Friendly Communities; Eldersourcing and New Visions of Work in Late Life; Intergenerational Contact ZonesAuthor Info:Jay SokolovskyeditorJay Sokolovsky, PhD, is professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is a cultural anthropologist with specialties in the anthropology of aging, psychological/medical anthropology, and urban anthropology.
eISBN-13: 9781440852022Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440852022.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440852015Imprint: PraegerPages: 762Publication Date: 20200630 -
Negotiating at Home: Essential Steps for Reaching Agreement with Your Kids
Author(s): Kurtzberg, Terri; Kern, Mary;Contributors: Kurtzberg, Terri; Kern, Mary;Abstract:Why do parents who can pull off multi-million dollar deals at work then go home and stumble with their kids?
Parents spend an awful lot of time negotiating with their kids—over everyday requests, rules and policies, and big decisions, and often end up derailed and frustrated. In Negotiating at Home, Kurtzberg and Kern offer parents a chance to look more closely at what they already do well (and why) and what can be done better. Grounded in decades of research on how to negotiate effectively, parents will learn about how to plan, recognize specific tactics, communicate and work in partnerships with other family members, address fairness, and handle conflict.
- Real stories and examples generated from interviews with hundreds of parents demonstrating the common patterns and "pain points"
- Strategies to avoid predictable pitfalls
- Specific tips for mastering the immediate moment and paving the way for future successes
- A guide for kids to learn the basic rules of effective negotiating for use in their own lives
SortTitle: negotiating at home: essential steps for reaching agreement with your kidsKeyword(s): Agreement; Effective Preparation; Interests; Kids; Negotiation; Parents; Pitfalls; Power; Rights; Business: Careers; PsychologyAuthor Info:Terri R. KurtzbergauthorMary C. KernauthoreISBN-13: 9781440868115Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440868115.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440868108Imprint: PraegerPages: 200Publication Date: 20200608 -
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American Universities and Colleges, 19th Edition [2 volumes]
Abstract:For well over a half century, American Universities and Colleges has been the most comprehensive and highly respected directory of four-year institutions of higher education in the United States. A two-volume set that Choice magazine hailed as a most important resource in its November 2006 issue, this revised edition features the most up-to-date statistical data available to guide students in making a smart yet practical decision in choosing the university or college of their dreams. In addition, the set serves as an indispensable reference source for parents, college advisors, educators, and public, academic, and high school librarians.
These two volumes provide extensive information on 1,900 institutions of higher education, including all accredited colleges and universities that offer at least the baccalaureate degree.
This essential resource offers pertinent, statistical data on such topics as tuition, room and board; admission requirements; financial aid; enrollments; student life; library holdings; accelerated and study abroad programs; departments and teaching staff; buildings and grounds; and degrees conferred. Volume two of the set provides four indexes, including an institutional Index, a subject accreditation index, a levels of degrees offered index, and a tabular index of summary data by state. These helpful indexes allow readers to find information easily and to make comparisons among institutions effectively. Also contained within the text are charts and tables that provide easy access to comparative data on relevant topics.
SortTitle: american universities and colleges, 19th edition [2 volumes]Edition: 19Keyword(s): Current Events and IssueseISBN-13: 9780313366086Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9780313366086.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9780313366079Entry Code: EC36607Imprint: PraegerPages: 1680Publication Date: 20100416Subtitle: Nineteenth Edition -
A New Psychology Based on Community, Equality, and Care of the Earth: An Indigenous American Perspective
Author(s): Blume, Arthur;Contributors: Blume, Arthur;Abstract:Explains Native American psychology and how its unique perspectives on mind and behavior can bring a focus to better heal individual, social, and global disorders.
Psychology is a relatively new discipline, with foundations formed narrowly and near-exclusively by white European males. But in this increasingly diverse nation and world, those foundations filled with implicit bias are too narrow to best help our people and society, says author Arthur Blume, a fellow of the American Psychological Association. According to Blume, a narrowly based perspective prevents "out-of-the-box" thinking, research, and treatment that could well power greater healing and avoidance of disorders.
In this text, Blume explains the Native American perspective on psychology, detailing why that needs to be incorporated as a new model for this field. A Native American psychologist, he contrasts the original culture of psychology's creators—as it includes individualism, autonomy, independence, and hierarchal relationships—with that of Native Americans, in the context of communalism, interdependence, earth-centeredness, and egalitarianism. As Blume explains, psychological happiness is redefined by the reality of our interdependence rather than materialism and individualism, and how we do things becomes as important as what we accomplish.
- Includes a glossary of Native American concepts and terms
- Explains the Indigenous American view of creation as community, humans' place in the social order as one of equal partnership, and the importance of connection to the earth, relationships, spirituality, sacredness, and the place of cultural humility
- Describes cultural myths that permeate contemporary psychology
- Details how the vestiges of colonialism traumatized people, contributed to health disparities, and left people divided, in addition to damaging the planet
- Illustrates how oppression victimizes both oppressor and the oppressed
SortTitle: a new psychology based on community, equality, and care of the earth: an indigenous american perspectiveKeyword(s): Addressing Contemporary Colonial Consequences, Including Trauma, Substance Abuse, Depression, and Suicide; Addressing Contemporary Colonial Psychopathology, Including Narcissism, Bullying, Apathy, Cruelty, Fear, Anger, and Splitting of People and Groups; Colonial WorldviewAuthor Info:Arthur W. BlumeauthorArthur W. Blume, PhD, an Indigenous American psychologist and scholar, is professor of clinical psychology at Washington State University and a past president of the Society of Indian Psychologists.
eISBN-13: 9781440869266Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440869266.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440869259Imprint: PraegerPages: 280Publication Date: 20200414 -
High Performance Managerial Leadership: Best Ideas from around the World
Author(s): de Waal, André;Contributors: de Waal, André;Abstract:Learn how managers have transformed their teams and companies into envied high-performance organizations in this guide to nurturing successful managers at your organization, informed by the author's ten-year study of applications of his High Performing Organization (HPO) Framework.
How can an organization learn to perform at a high level? The key is management. Based on years of intensive research and experience, André de Waal's proven strategy for achieving positive organizational change can turn your company or team into a true High Performance Organization (HPO).
De Waal's HPO Framework is the only management improvement technique that has been developed on a solid scientific basis, validated through longitudinal site-level research, and developed over years of measuring organizational results. In this book, de Waal focuses on the activities and behaviors of managers in organizations that have successfully transformed themselves into HPOs. The author and his team closely followed and measured organizations that have adopted and applied the HPO Framework over many years, uncovering the secrets to creating successful and transformative managers through the use of HPO coaches, the application of "silo-busting" techniques to spur collaboration, and use of the HPO transformation success wheel.
The resulting data set, analytics, and lessons presented represent a treasure trove of actionable tools for achieving successful managerial and organizational change and improvement.
- Leads readers through the process of successfully starting and completing organizational change
- Finds background in the five HPO Framework Principles: Discipline, Speed (in communication, decision-making, action-taking), Constant Self-Improvement, Focus (external and internal), and Creative and Fact-Based Decision-Making
- Draws parallels between these principals and their underlying 35 measurement characteristics, diagnostic tools, and the author's insight from 20+ years of leading organizational change
- Pairs each of the author's five HPO Framework Principles with an accompanying technique and a case study to show the principles
- Presents the HPO Diagnosis, a critical tool for companies to evaluate their current performance and identify areas in their organization that need to be strengthened for the company to become an HPO
SortTitle: high performance managerial leadership: best ideas from around the worldKeyword(s): Business: Strategy; Business: LeadershipAuthor Info:André A. de WaalauthorAndré A. de Waal is director of the HPO Center and partner with Arthur Andersen and the Holland Consulting Group, and former professor of organizational effectiveness at the Maastricht School of Management.
eISBN-13: 9781440872655Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440872655.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440872648Imprint: PraegerPages: 224Publication Date: 20200531 -
The Pearl Harbor Secret: Why Roosevelt Undermined the U.S. Navy
Author(s): Menzel, Sewall;Contributors: Menzel, Sewall;Abstract:This book provides a penetrating look into U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's brilliant strategy to bait Adolf Hitler into declaring war on America in order to defeat Germany militarily, thus preventing the Nazis from developing the atomic bomb.
In late 1939, President Roosevelt learned that Hitler was attempting to develop an atomic bomb to use against the United States. The president responded by directing his own scientific community to develop an atomic bomb and began making plans to go to war with Germany. However, he was hampered by public opinion, with 80 percent of the American people against U.S. involvement in another ground war in Europe.
Roosevelt seized an opportunity in 1940, when Japan and Nazi Germany formed a military alliance. To bait Germany into war, FDR shut down Japan's war-making economy, prompting Tokyo to attack Pearl Harbor. A few days later, Hitler declared war on America.
Using declassified documents, this book shows how Pearl Harbor was not about Japan; it was about the United States going to war with Germany. It reveals how the U.S. Navy's intelligence gathering system could break virtually any Japanese naval code, but Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was kept in the dark about the impending Pearl Harbor attack by his own government.
- Shows how Roosevelt had the courage and insight to see the threat that a Nazi atomic bomb posed to the United States and outlines his strategy to bait Germany into declaring war on America
- Explains how Japan's Bushido Code, which demands "death before dishonor," influenced Tokyo's decision to launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
- Demonstrates how the U.S. Navy's intelligence gathering system was second to none in terms of code breaking and locating the Imperial Japanese Navy's warships
- Uses declassified top-secret documents and other primary sources to prove that Roosevelt could have prevented the Pearl Harbor attack
SortTitle: pearl harbor secret: why roosevelt undermined the u.s. navyKeyword(s): Codebreaking; Einstein, Albert; Germany's Declaration of War; Japanese Navy; Kimmel, Husband E.; Pearl Harbor Attack; Pearl Harbor Strike Force; Oil Embargo; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Yamamoto, Isoroku; U.S. Naval Intelligence; Military History: Military Leadership; American History: ConflictAuthor Info:Sewall MenzelauthorSewall Menzel, PhD, is a political-military analyst and scholar with a degree in history from
The Citadel and a doctorate in international relations from the University of Miami.
eISBN-13: 9781440875861Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440875861.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440875854Imprint: PraegerPages: 432Publication Date: 20200531 -
Who's In Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises, 2nd Edition
Author(s): Kahn, Laura;Contributors: Kahn, Laura;Abstract:With a new preface assessing leadership responses to the coronavirus pandemic, this text explores leadership problems that can develop during public health crises such as the 2001 anthrax attacks, 2003 SARS epidemic, and Mad Cow Disease epidemic of the 1980s–90s.
A threat to public health, such as a rampaging virus, is no time for a muddled chain of command and contradictory decision-making. Who's In Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises, re-issued with a new preface assessing leadership during the COVID-19 outbreak, explores the crucial relationships among political leaders, public health officials, and journalists to see why leadership confusion develops. As the problematic response to COVID-19 has once again shown, the reluctance of politicians to risk alarm can run counter to the public health need to prepare for worse cases.
Many leaders will seek high visibility during a public health crisis, but politicians are not medical experts, and the more they speak, the more they risk disseminating harmful information. How to achieve the right balance is the essence of this book. Beginning by looking at the overarching issues of leadership and public health administration, it then examines in depth five emergencies: the 2001 anthrax attacks, the 1993 cryptosporidium outbreaks, the 2003 SARS outbreak, the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease crisis, and the battle against Mad Cow Disease.
- First-person accounts from leaders involved in actual early-21st-century crises, as well as leading experts, scientists, and others
- Primary documents including excerpts from official reports and the medical literature
- Chronologies of early-21st-century public health emergencies
- A comprehensive index organized by disease and by individuals involved in emergency response
SortTitle: who's in charge? leadership during epidemics, bioterror attacks, and other public health crises, 2nd editionEdition: 2Keyword(s):Airborne Outbreaks
; Animal to Human Outbreaks
; Anthrax Attacks
; Bioterrorism
; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
; Cryptosporidium
; Declaring Emergencies
; Foot-and-Mouth Disease
; Law Enforcement in Public Health Crises
Author Info:Laura H. KahnauthorLaura H. Kahn is a physician and research scholar in the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
eISBN-13: 9781440878183Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440878183.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440878176Imprint: PraegerPages: 266Publication Date: 20200416Series: Praeger Security International -
Race and Identity in Hispanic America: The White, the Black, and the Brown
Author(s): Reid-Merritt, Patricia; Rodriguez, Michael;Contributors: Reid-Merritt, Patricia; Rodriguez, Michael;Abstract:This book offers a historical and comparative overview of the evolution of racial classifications in the United States and in Hispanic/Latino countries in the Western Hemisphere and Caribbean.
The Hispanicization of America is precipitating a paradigm shift in racial thinking in which race is no longer defined by distinct characteristics, but rather is becoming synonymous with ethnic/cultural identity.
Traditionally, assimilation has been conceived of as a unidirectional and racialized phenomenon. Newly arrived immigrant groups or longstanding minority/indigenous populations were "Americanized" in confining their racial and ethnic natures to the private sphere and adopting, in the public sphere, the cultural mores, norms, and values of the dominant cultural/racial group. In contrast, the Hispanicization of America entails the horizontal assimilation of various groups from Spanish-speaking countries throughout the Western Hemisphere and Caribbean into a pan-ethnic, Hispanic/Latino identity that also challenges the privileged position of whiteness as the primary and exclusive referent for American identity.
Instead of focusing on one Hispanic group, ethnic identity, or region, this book chronicles the development of racial identity across the largest Hispanic groups throughout the United States.
• Highlights distinct differences in perceptions of racial identity for members of the Hispanic community• Underscores the fluid and malleable nature of race through a comparative and historical review of the evolution of racial classifications
• Explains why the Hispanicization of the United States constitutes a paradigm shift from traditional notions of racial identity formation
• Documents how immigration to the United States from Spanish-speaking countries throughout the Western Hemisphere and Caribbean is creating the first truly Hispanic country by subsuming the national identities of immigrants to the pan-ethnic, Hispanic/Latino category
SortTitle: race and identity in hispanic america: the white, the black, and the brownKeyword(s): Afro-Latino; Ethnic Identity Formation; Hispanic/Latino; Hispanidad/Latinidad; Hybridity; Mestizaje; Perceptions of Racial Superiority; Racial Identity Formation; Racial Essentialism; Race and Ethnicity: Latino and Hispanic Studies; Current Events and Issues: EthnicityAuthor Info:Patricia Reid-MerrittauthorMichael S. RodriguezauthoreISBN-13: 9781440867859Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440867859.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440867842Imprint: PraegerPages: 232Publication Date: 20200430 -
Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada: Seeking Justice and Sustainability
Author(s): Johansen, Bruce;Contributors: Johansen, Bruce;Abstract:From Flint, MI to Standing Rock, ND, minorities have found themselves losing the battle for clean resources and a healthy environment. This book provides a modern history of such environmental injustices in the U.S. and Canada.
From the 19th-century extermination of the buffalo in the American West, to Alaska's Project Chariot (a Cold War initiative that planned to use atomic bombs to blast out a harbor on Eskimo land), to the struggle for recovery and justice in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017, this book provides readers with an enhanced understanding of how poor and minority people are affected by natural and manmade environmental crises.
Written for undergraduates as well as the general reader with an interest in social justice and environmental issues, this book traces the relationship between environmental discrimination, race, and class through a comprehensive case history of environmental injustices. Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada: Seeking Justice and Sustainability includes 50 such case studies that range from local to national to international crises.
- Provides comprehensive coverage and analysis of the far-reaching specter of environmental racism in the U.S. and Canada, using numerous case studies that extend across the U.S. and Canada from the 19th century into the present day
- Examines the confluence of climate change, natural resource conflicts, political and corporate corruption, and racism
- Reflects a regional arrangement to better highlight patterns and types of injustices as well as victims
- Is written by a prolific author and expert on environmental and Native American issues
SortTitle: environmental racism in the united states and canada: seeking justice and sustainabilityKeyword(s): Alaska Natives: Swamped by Warming; Bridgeport, Connecticut: A Spreading Web of Toxins; Canadian Tar Sands: From Treaty Forest to Moonscape; Chester, Pennsylvania: Unwilling Capital of Hazmat; Farmworkers: Toxicity as an Occupational Hazard; Houston, Texas: Always Awaiting the Next FloodAuthor Info:Bruce E. JohansenauthorBruce E. Johansen is professor emeritus of communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska.
eISBN-13: 9781440864032Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440864032.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440864025Imprint: PraegerPages: 384Publication Date: 20200430 -
Native Americans of New England
Author(s): Strobel, Christoph;Contributors: Strobel, Christoph;Abstract:This book provides the first comprehensive, region-wide, long-term, and accessible study of Native Americans in New England.
This work is a comprehensive and region-wide synthesis of the history of the indigenous peoples of the northeastern corner of what is now the United States—New England—which includes the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
Native Americans of New England takes view of the history of indigenous peoples of the region, reconstructing this past from the earliest available archeological evidence to the present. It examines how historic processes shaped and reshaped the lives of Native peoples, and uses case studies, historic sketches, and biographies to tell these stories. While this volume is aware of the impact that colonization, ethnic cleansing, dispossession, and racism had on the lives of indigenous peoples in New England, it also focuses on Native American resistance, adaptation, and survival under often harsh and unfavorable circumstances.
Native Americans of New England is structured into six chapters that examine the continuous presence of indigenous peoples in the region. The book emphasizes Native Americans' efforts to preserve the integrity and viability of their dynamic and self-directed societies and cultures in New England.
- Brings New England's Native American past to life through case studies, anecdotes, stories, and biographies
- Emphasizes the continued Native American presence in the region
- Includes various resources such as a chronology, community information, Internet resources, and a bibliography
SortTitle: native americans of new englandKeyword(s): Colonial Warfare; Colonization; Cultural Survival; Ethnohistory; Indigenous Studies; Indigenous-Euro American Relations; New England; Race/Ethnicity; American History: Race and Ethnicity; Race and Ethnicity: American Indian StudiesAuthor Info:Christoph StrobelauthorChristoph Strobel is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
eISBN-13: 9781440866111Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440866111.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440866104Imprint: PraegerPages: 232Publication Date: 20200430 -
Trauma Psychology: Issues in Violence, Disaster, Health, and Illness, Volume 2, Health and Illness
Contributors: Carll, Elizabeth;Abstract:Editor(s): Carll, Elizabeth;SortTitle: trauma psychology: issues in violence, disaster, health, and illness, volume 2, health and illnessAuthor Info:Elizabeth K. Carll Ph.D.editoreISBN-13: 9780313042904Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9780313042904.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9780275985325Imprint: PraegerPages: 360Publication Date: 20070830 -
Trauma Psychology: Issues in Violence, Disaster, Health, and Illness, Volume 1, Violence and Disaster
Contributors: Carll, Elizabeth;Abstract:Editor(s): Carll, Elizabeth;SortTitle: trauma psychology: issues in violence, disaster, health, and illness, volume 1, violence and disasterAuthor Info:Elizabeth K. Carll Ph.D.editoreISBN-13: 9780313042898Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9780313042898.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9780275985318Imprint: PraegerPages: 352Publication Date: 20070830 -
Myths and Realities of Cyber Warfare: Conflict in the Digital Realm
Author(s): Sambaluk, Nicholas;Contributors: Sambaluk, Nicholas;Abstract:This illuminating book examines and refines the commonplace "wisdom" about cyber conflict—its effects, character, and implications for national and individual security in the 21st century.
"Cyber warfare" evokes different images to different people. This book deals with the technological aspects denoted by "cyber" and also with the information operations connected to social media's role in digital struggle.
The author discusses numerous mythologies about cyber warfare, including its presumptively instantaneous speed, that it makes distance and location irrelevant, and that victims of cyber attacks deserve blame for not defending adequately against attacks. The author outlines why several widespread beliefs about cyber weapons need modification and suggests more nuanced and contextualized conclusions about how cyber domain hostility impacts conflict in the modern world.
After distinguishing between the nature of warfare and the character of wars, chapters will probe the widespread assumptions about cyber weapons themselves. The second half of the book explores the role of social media and the consequences of the digital realm being a battlespace in 21st-century conflicts. The book also considers how trends in computing and cyber conflict impact security affairs as well as the practicality of people's relationships with institutions and trends, ranging from democracy to the Internet of Things.
- Provides an overview of the numerous myths and realities associated with all aspects of cyber warfare
- Explains how the leveraging of social media shapes political discourse and frays cultural norms
- Shows how advanced persistent threats engage in espionage against critical infrastructure
- Reveals how individuals and criminal groups conduct an array of nefarious cyber activities with wide-ranging levels of skill
SortTitle: myths and realities of cyber warfare: conflict in the digital realmKeyword(s): Cyber Pearl Harbor; Cyber Espionage; Cyber Weapons; Encryption; Facebook; Internet of Things; Ransomware; SCADA; Stuxnet Trap; Twitter; Security Studies: Science, Technology, and Security; TechnologyAuthor Info:Nicholas Michael SambalukauthorEugene H. SpaffordeISBN-13: 9781440870811Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440870811.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440870804Imprint: PraegerPages: 232Publication Date: 20200331Series: Praeger Security International -
Turning Points: The Eastern Front in 1915
Author(s): DiNardo, Richard;Contributors: DiNardo, Richard;Abstract:This book provides a comprehensive and illuminating study of some of the most crucial campaigns on the Eastern Front during what was perhaps the most momentous year of World War I in that battleground.
Turning Points: The Eastern Front in 1915 offers a well-researched and fascinating study of war in a distinct theater of operations and shows how it was impacted by diplomacy, coalition warfare, command, technology, and the environment in which it is conducted. In contrast to those on the Western Front, lines in the east in 1915 moved hundreds of miles. Although the work focuses more on the Central Powers, significant attention is also given to the Russians.
The book follows the course of events on the Eastern Front during the critical year of 1915, proceeding chronologically from January 1915 to the end of active operations in October, with a brief mention of some action in December. In addition to the better-known campaigns in the Carpathians and Gorlice-Tarnów, the work covers lesser-known operations including the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes, the Austro-Hungarian "Black-Yellow" offensive into eastern Galicia, and the German move into Lithuania. Naval action on the Baltic Sea is also covered.
- Offers a detailed account of a significant and often overlooked theater of World War I
- Relies on original documentary research conducted by the author in archives in Freiburg and Munich, Germany, and in Vienna, Austria
- Analyzes the key campaigns and battles on the Eastern Front in 1915
- Builds on the author's 2010 Praeger book Breakthrough: The Gorlice-Tarnów Campaign, 1915
SortTitle: turning points: the eastern front in 1915Keyword(s): Carpathian Winter War; Changes in Command; Conquest of Poland; Controversy in German High Command; Eastern Front; Gorlice-Tarnów Campaign; Nonlinearity in Warfare; Occupation Policy; Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes; Military History: Conflict and Wars; World History: ConflictAuthor Info:Richard L. DiNardoauthorRichard L. DiNardo, PhD, is professor for national security affairs at the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College at Quantico, VA.
eISBN-13: 9781440844546Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440844546.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440844539Imprint: PraegerPages: 296Publication Date: 20200229
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Serving Teens and Adults on the Autism Spectrum: A Guide for Libraries
Author(s): Whitehead, Carrie;Contributors: Whitehead, Carrie;Abstract:Understand the unique needs of teens and adults with autism and how to adapt existing library programs to be more inclusive.
Autism spectrum disorder is a lifelong condition, but programs and services are mostly for children. As this population ages and the number of adults receiving autism diagnoses grows, are public libraries serving this group? Serving Teens and Adults on the Autism Spectrum offers practical strategies for delivering better service to individuals with autism, from library programming to technology, collections, library volunteers, and the information desk.
Relying on feedback and help from the autism community in her area, Carrie Rogers-Whitehead created programs for children, teens, and young adults on the autism spectrum. In this book, she shares advice on developing programs that focus on teamwork, transitions, and social skills. She explains best practices for reference interviews and teaches readers how their libraries can partner with nonprofit and government entities to develop workforce skills and connect adults with autism to jobs. Ready-made program activities for teens and adults with autism make it easy for libraries to better serve this often misunderstood group.
- Adapt existing library programs to be more inclusive of individuals with autism
- Learn tested program ideas specifically aimed at individuals with autism
- Understand the unique needs of adults with autism and how those needs present differently than they do in children
- Learn how to better mobilize these members of the community and help them find meaningful work and service opportunities
- Connect to resources to better understand and create library services for the autism community
SortTitle: serving teens and adults on the autism spectrum: a guide for librariesKeyword(s): Adult Service Librarians; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Collections; Customer Service; Diversity; Inclusivity; Neurodiversity; Programming; Reference; Adult Services and Programs: People with Disabilities; Librarian's Instructional RoleAuthor Info:Carrie Rogers- WhiteheadauthorCarrie Rogers-Whitehead, MLIS, MPA, is founder of Digital Respons-Ability and worked in libraries for more than a decade.
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Teen Genreflecting: A Readers' Advisory and Collection Development Guide, 4th Edition
Author(s): Flowers, Sarah; Stavole-Carter, Samuel;Contributors: Flowers, Sarah; Stavole-Carter, Samuel;Abstract:Teen Genreflecting serves as a guide to contemporary teen fiction, encompassing every genre and format, including graphic novels, scrapbook-formatted books, verse novels, historical fiction, speculative fiction, contemporary realistic fiction, and more.
Teen literature is one of the most popular and quickly growing segments of the publishing world. Not only are teens continuing to read for pleasure, but many adults have discovered the joys of teen literature.
As part of the Genreflecting Advisory Series, Teen Genreflecting provides librarians with a road map to the vibrant and diverse body of literature focusing on recent fiction for teens, organizing and describing some 1,300 titles, most published within the past ten years, along with perennial classics. The authors indicate where each title fits in the genre scheme; its subject matter, format, and general reading level; and any pertinent awards. They also provide advice on readers' advisory services to teens, descriptions of genres and subgenres, and lists of favorites for each genre.
As with previous editions, this guide will prove invaluable to librarians building their teen collections and will help them assist teens in finding the books they love, no matter what genre.
- Helps librarians find the right book for their teen users
- Helps librarians develop current, diverse, and robust teen collections
- Provides libraries with a comprehensive list of recent teen fiction
- Provides students or professionals new to YA lit with a detailed overview of contemporary YA genre fiction
SortTitle: teen genreflecting: a readers' advisory and collection development guide, 4th editionEdition: 4Keyword(s): Acquisitions; Collection Development; Fiction; Genre Fiction; Readers' Advisory; Teens; Young Adult Fiction; Children's and Young Adult Services: Readers' Advisory Services; Children's and Young Adult Collection Management: Literature, Lists and Special CollectionsAuthor Info:Sarah FlowersauthorSamuel Stavole-CarterauthorDiana Tixier HeraldeISBN-13: 9781440872730Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440872730.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440872723Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 288Publication Date: 20200930 -
Radical Collaborations for Learning: School Librarians as Change Agents
Contributors: Harada, Violet; Coatney, Sharon;Abstract:Librarians can be effective catalysts and vital connectors who facilitate successful partnerships that enrich students' lives—"radical collaborations" that have deep and far-reaching impact.
Envisioning schools as learning organizations requires collaborating with the greater communities as an integral part of the school's dynamic. How can librarians be key players in realizing this concept of schools?
This book addresses this essential question, as well as how librarians can serve as catalysts in reaching beyond the traditional school to form alliances and partnerships with a range of community organizations and agencies, and how these collaborations result in transformative learning experiences not only for the students but for the adults who work together as well.
The authors provide examples of schools where librarians, library directors, and educators are joining together in these types of unique partnerships. Chapters are authored by library professionals, who describe what stimulates and motivates these partnerships and how they are collaboratively developed and sustained. This publication will be a catalyst that will inspire readers to grow similar alliances in their own schools and districts among public libraries, colleges, arts foundations, nonprofit cultural organizations, and STEM-related agencies.
- Defines a unique and critical role for today's school librarians
- Describes the rationale for forming distinctive collaborations to enhance student learning
- Features projects currently being implemented and how to foster collaborations
Editor(s): Harada, Violet; Coatney, Sharon;SortTitle: radical collaborations for learning: school librarians as change agentsKeyword(s): Businesses; Colleges; Community Welfare Agencies; Government Agencies; Nonprofit Cultural Organizations; Parents; Partnerships with Arts Foundations; Public Libraries; Librarian's Instructional Role: Curriculum and Instruction, K-12; Children's and Young Adult ProgramsAuthor Info:Violet H. HaradaeditorSharon CoatneyeditoreISBN-13: 9781440872396Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440872396.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440872389Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 140Publication Date: 20200701 -
Strauss's Handbook of Business Information: A Guide for Librarians, Students, and Researchers, 4th Edition
Author(s): Kirkwood, Hal P.;Contributors: Kirkwood, Hal P.;Abstract:This new edition of Strauss's guide helps users to find current information for and about businesses of all kinds—both private and public, U.S.-based and international—related to finance, investment, industries, and entrepreneurship.
Strauss's Handbook of Business Information is a resource for finding and understanding business information. It contains explanation and instruction on the key facets of business information and provides detailed descriptions of key resources within both broad and specific categories. It can be used as a guide to further understanding the what, how, and why of business information research.
The changing arena of business information requires regular updating and awareness. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with three new chapters: Entrepreneurship, Competitive Intelligence, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Other additions of note include subsections on internet and mobile marketing and tax havens and related issues; coverage of new legislation (e.g., Dodd-Frank); and subsections on index funds, investment communities, regulatory bodies and laws, hedge funds, venture capital companies, assessing risks, robo-advisors, and more.
The Handbook is for students, faculty, librarians, and information professionals looking to gain a broader and deeper understanding of business information. Anyone needing to gain quick exposure to business information needs and resources for solutions will benefit from the volume as well.
- Uses comprehensive coverage to aid business librarians in finding exactly the right information their patrons need
- Features logical arrangement and integration online with print resources to make information easy to find
- Provides clear explanations that speak to reference librarians at public and academic libraries, and to students learning this field
- Serves as a helpful collection development resource for business information, as well as a trusted textbook
SortTitle: strauss's handbook of business information: a guide for librarians, students, and researchers, 4th editionEdition: 4Keyword(s): Accounting and Taxation; Business information literacy instruction; Competitive Intelligence; Corporate Social Responsibility; Cryptocurrencies; Entrepreneurship; Insurance; Investments; Real Estate; Reference and Information Services and ToolsAuthor Info:Hal P. KirkwoodauthorHal P. Kirkwood is Bodleian Business Librarian at the Sainsbury Library of Said Business School, Oxford University. Previously, he served as associate professor at the Parrish Library of Management & Economics at Purdue University.
eISBN-13: 9781440851315Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440851315.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440851308Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 424Publication Date: 20200831 -
A Brief History of the Book: From Tablet to Tablet
Author(s): Galbraith, Steven;Contributors: Galbraith, Steven;Abstract:This book leads readers through an intriguing examination how books began and have evolved through history, and explores where future technologies may lead them.
From ancient clay tablet and scrolls to medieval manuscripts and printed books to personal computers and iPads, this guide examines the fascinating history of books from 4000 BCE to the present. At each step of this evolution, technologies are examined and evaluated to show how these ideas are present from the very beginning of written communication.
Moving chronologically from the ancient world to the present, the book shows how written communication media evolved from cuneiform to the Kindle. Focusing on key technologies and vital periods of historical transition, it traces an evolution that elucidates the history of the written word, at each step examining and evaluating such aspects of technologies as memory capacity, readability and writability, durability, recyclability, information security, ease and mode of access, and cost. Additional attention is paid to how these technologies were made, how they were circulated, and who was reading them.
- Provides faculty and students with a brief but fascinating and engagingly written textbook
- Includes hands-on activities and course assignments that encourage student learning
- Features interesting factoids and illustrations, making this book useful as a text, as a professional guide, or for pleasure reading
SortTitle: a brief history of the book: from tablet to tabletKeyword(s): Calligraphy; Clay and Wax Tablets; Codices; Gutenberg Press; Lithography; Medieval Paleography; Modern Tablets and eBooks; Papyrus Scrolls; Parchment Scrolls; Librarianship: Philosophy, Values, and Issues: History of Books, Publishing, and LibrarianshipAuthor Info:Steven K. GalbraithauthorSteven K. Galbraith is curator of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology and former Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Books at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
eISBN-13: 9781440869402Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440869402.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440869396Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 182Publication Date: 20200831 -
Academic Library Services for First-Generation Students
Author(s): Arch, Xan; Gilman, Isaac;Contributors: Arch, Xan; Gilman, Isaac;Abstract:Presenting strategies for improving academic library services for first-generation students, this timely book focuses on programs and services that will increase student academic engagement and success.
Demographic data and secondary school graduation rates suggest that colleges and universities will enroll growing numbers of first-generation students over the next decade. Academic Library Services for First-Generation Students focuses on ways academic libraries can uniquely contribute to the successful transition to college and year-to-year retention of first-generation students.
The practical recommendations in this book include a wide range of ideas for the design and modification of library services and facilities to be more inclusive of the needs of first-generation students. All of the recommendations are specifically aimed at addressing challenges faced by first-generation students. Topics covered range from study spaces and service points to information literacy instruction and campus partnerships. The book makes the case—both explicitly and implicitly—that academic libraries can help address known risk factors (e.g., by helping students build academic cultural competencies) and thereby improve success, persistence, and retention for first-generation students. Academic library professionals in both leadership roles and public service positions will benefit from the actionable strategies presented here.
- Includes practical strategies for modifying existing library services to be more inclusive of first-generation student needs
- Incorporates suggestions for new services targeted toward first-generation students
- Offers insight into first-generation students' perspectives on academic libraries
- Builds understanding of the role libraries can play in first-generation student success and retention
SortTitle: academic library services for first-generation studentsKeyword(s): Academic Libraries; Academic Support Services; Advising; First-Generation Students; Information Literacy; Library Facilities; Mentoring; Outreach; Student Retention; Librarian's Instructional Role: Information Literacy and Instruction, College Level and AboveAuthor Info:Xan ArchauthorIsaac GilmanauthoreISBN-13: 9781440870187Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440870187.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440870170Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 168Publication Date: 20200731 -
Academic Library Makerspaces: A Practical Guide to Planning, Collaborating, and Supporting Campus Innovation
Author(s): Mathuews, Katy; Harper, Daniel;Contributors: Mathuews, Katy; Harper, Daniel;Abstract:Moving beyond simplistic equipment lists, this book provides contextual and practical information to help academic library personnel learn how to plan, collaborate, and sustain relevant makerspaces positioned within the broader ecology of campus innovation.
The makerspace movement within academic libraries has largely focused on providing space and equipment for making. Academic libraries, however, have a unique opportunity to push beyond the 3D printer to create makerspaces that complement the broader ecology of innovation happening on campus.
Intended for academic library personnel, this book is for those seeking guidance on how to establish a makerspace that is more than an equipment room. Katy Mathuews and Daniel Harper provide important context for the maker movement, a review of the process of making, and an overview of the various types of makerspaces, including the hub-and-spoke model, the centralized model, and the mobile makerspace.
Additionally, the book provides practical steps to consider, including situating the academic library makerspace within the campus environment, creating valuable collaborations on campus, finding innovative ways to support the entire making process, programming, curriculum planning, and sustaining daily operations such as staffing, funding, and public service.
- Understand how making fits into the campus ecology of innovation and how academic libraries are naturally suited to support the maker movement
- Understand the history of the maker movement, makerspace typologies, and the making process
- Learn how to build sustainable relationships with campus and community collaborators
- Learn what to consider when establishing a library makerspace, including planning, staffing, and funding
- Understand how traditional library services can complement the makerspace and making process, including programming and instruction
SortTitle: academic library makerspaces: a practical guide to planning, collaborating, and supporting campus innovationKeyword(s): Advocacy; Assessment; Branding and Marketing; Budgeting; Campus Partnerships; Design Thinking; Equipment; Maker Movement; Planning; Librarian's Instructional Role: Information Literacy and Instruction, College Level and Above; Adult Services and ProgramsAuthor Info:Katy B. MathuewsauthorDaniel J. HarperauthoreISBN-13: 9781440872075Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440872075.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440872068Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 180Publication Date: 20200731 -
Healthy Living at the Library: Programs for All Ages
Author(s): Lenstra, Noah;Contributors: Lenstra, Noah;Abstract:This broad-ranging resource is for librarians who want to begin a new program or incorporate healthy living into an existing one.
From garden plots to cooking classes, StoryWalks to free yoga, more and more libraries are developing innovative programs and partnerships to encourage healthy living. Libraries increasingly provide health and wellness programs for all ages and abilities, and Healthy Living at the Library is intended for library staff of all types who want to offer programs and services that foster healthy living, particularly in the domains of food and physical activity.
Author Noah Lenstra, who has extensive experience directing and advising on healthy living programs, first outlines steps librarians should take when starting programs, highlighting the critical role of community partnerships. The second section of the book offers detailed instructions for running different types of programs for different ages and abilities. A third section includes advice on keeping the momentum of a program going and assessing program impacts. Lenstra offers tips on how to overcome challenges or roadblocks that may arise. An appendix contains resources you can adapt to get these programs off the ground, including waivers of liability, memoranda of understanding, and examples of strategic plans and assessment tools.
- Learn how to start, run, and sustain healthy living programs
- Get inspired to develop new programs based on the successes of librarians throughout North America
- Determine how to overcome challenges and roadblocks
- Refer to practical resources you can adapt for your own library
SortTitle: healthy living at the library: programs for all agesKeyword(s): Adult Services and Programs; Children's and Young Adult ProgramsAuthor Info:Noah LenstraauthorNoah Lenstra directs the Let's Move in Libraries initiative from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he is a faculty member of library and information studies.
eISBN-13: 9781440863158Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440863158.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440863141Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 234Publication Date: 20200630 -
Academic Library Services for Graduate Students: Supporting Future Academics and Professionals
Contributors: Forbes, Carrie; Keeran, Peggy;Abstract:Providing practical and theoretical chapters on academic library services for graduate students, this volume helps information professionals support this often-overlooked campus population to address their multiple roles and identities as students and as future faculty members or professionals.
As more and more students attend graduate programs, many higher education institutions have established professional development programs to help graduate students learn the wide range of skills needed to be successful as both students and as future professionals or academics. To presuppose that graduate students are proficient library users is a mistake. Graduate students need and want help, and many libraries are now offering specialized services for this diverse population.
Contributors to this edited volume provide case studies and practical advice on academic library services for graduate students that support their multiple roles on campus and address the complex social and emotional issues related to their other roles as parents, working adults, caretakers, and more. As academic libraries shift from functioning primarily as collections repositories to collaborating as key players in discovery and knowledge creation, value-added services for graduate students are even more central to libraries' changing missions. This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing professional conversation and is a useful tool for librarians who want to better support graduate students at their institutions.
- Provides case studies and practical advice for specialized library services for an often-overlooked academic population
- Highlights innovative designs for instructional and outreach programming, as well as physical library spaces, that target the needs of graduate students
- Describes best practices for tailoring library services to the unique needs of graduate students with divergent career goals
- Demonstrates how academic librarians can contribute to lifelong learning and workplace information literacy by supporting graduate students, not only as students but also as future academics and professionals
- Details collaborative endeavors that result in services and programming which address the holistic needs of 21st-century graduate students
Editor(s): Forbes, Carrie; Keeran, Peggy;SortTitle: academic library services for graduate students: supporting future academics and professionalsKeyword(s): Librarian's Instructional Role: Information Literacy and Instruction, College Level and Above; Adult Services and ProgramsAuthor Info:Carrie ForbeseditorPeggy KeeraneditoreISBN-13: 9781440869549Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440869549.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440869532Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 292Publication Date: 20200630 -
Podcasting with Youth: A Quick Guide for Librarians and Educators
Author(s): Maxwell, Lucas;Contributors: Maxwell, Lucas;Abstract:Learn how to set up a student-led podcast in your library, involve staff from several subject areas, market effectively, what challenges you are likely to face, and how podcasting will benefit the students and school overall.
Podcasting from the library is a growing movement. Podcasting with Youth teaches librarians and educators how to set up, develop, market, and deliver a successful youth-led podcast from their library.
Putting youth in control when interviewing authors and other guests develops their leadership and technical skills and brings new users to the library to engage in a unique library activity. This program can be set up relatively cheaply, and readers will learn how to use the technology required to deliver a podcast. Sound recording equipment, microphones, mixers, and audio files may be intimidating to some librarians and educators; this book quells those fears by explaining the technology in a straightforward, how-to manner. It also includes student input on what podcasters have learned, the challenges they have faced, and their plans for the future.
Author Lucas Maxwell offers many helpful tips to librarians who want to learn how to create a program that puts students in charge and allows them to produce a tangible product that their peers will be interested in.
- Offers practical information on how to set up your own youth-led podcast in your library, including equipment to purchase, potential pitfalls, and marketing strategies
- Features examples of high/middle school library podcasts from around the world
- Includes appendices of useful books and other material related to podcasting and using related technology in the library
SortTitle: podcasting with youth: a quick guide for librarians and educatorsKeyword(s): Educational Technology and Instructional Design; Librarian's Instructional Role: Digital and New Literacies, K-12Author Info:Lucas MaxwellauthorLucas Maxwell is the librarian at Glenthorne High School in London, UK. In 2017 he was named the UK's School Librarian of the Year by the School Library Association.
eISBN-13: 9781440870361Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440870361.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440870354Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 94Publication Date: 20200630 -
Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction: New Directions for School Libraries, 4th Edition
Author(s): Thomas, Nancy; Crow, Sherry; Henning, Judy; Donham, Jean;Contributors: Thomas, Nancy; Crow, Sherry; Henning, Judy; Donham, Jean;Abstract:Exploring the ways in which today's Internet-savvy young people view and use information to complete school assignments and make sense of everyday life, this new edition provides a review of the literature since 2010.
The development of information literacy skills instruction can be traced from its basis in traditional reference services to its current growth as an instructional imperative for school librarians. Reviewing the scholarly research that supports best practices in the 21st century school library, this book contains insights into improving instruction across content areas—drawn from the scholarly literatures of library and information studies, education, communication, psychology, and sociology—that will be useful to school, academic, and public librarians and LIS students.
In this updated fourth edition, special attention is given to recent studies of information seeking in changing instructional environments made possible by the Internet and new technologies. This new edition also includes new chapters on everyday information seeking, motivation, and a much-expanded chapter on Web 2.0. The new AASL standards are included and explored in the discussion. This book will appeal to LIS professors and students in school librarianship programs as well as to practicing school librarians.
- Offers information literacy research and applications to instruction useful to all types of libraries
- Expands on previous editions of a textbook widely adopted by school library preparation programs
- Discusses the newest AASL standards as they relate to information literacy and instruction
SortTitle: information literacy and information skills instruction: new directions for school libraries, 4th editionEdition: 4Keyword(s): Alternate Information Literacy Frameworks; Carol Kuhlthau's Information Search Process (ISP); Designing Inquiry; Diagnosing Information needs; Digital Inquiry; Process Models; Guided Inquiry; Historical Perspective of Information Literacy; Motivation; ReferenceAuthor Info:Nancy Pickering ThomasauthorSherry R. Crow Ph.D.authorJudy A. HenningauthorJean Donham Ph.D.authoreISBN-13: 9781440844522Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440844522.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440844515Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 292Publication Date: 20200531 -
Reference and Information Services: An Introduction, 6th Edition
Contributors: Wong, Melissa; Saunders, Laura;Abstract:This revised and updated sixth edition of Reference and Information Services continues the book's rich tradition, covering all phases of reference and information services with less emphasis on print and more emphasis on strategies and scenarios.
Reference and Information Services is the go-to textbook for MSLIS and i-School courses on reference services and related topics. It is also a helpful handbook for practitioners. Authors include LIS faculty and professionals who have relevant degrees in their areas and who have published extensively on their topics.
The first half of the book provides an overview of reference services and techniques for service provision, including the reference interview, ethics, instruction, evaluation and assessment, and services to diverse populations including children. This part of the book establishes a foundation of knowledge on reference service and frames each topic with ethical and social justice perspectives.
The second part of the book offers an overview of the information life cycle and dissemination of information, followed by an in-depth examination of information sources by type-including dictionaries, encyclopedias, indexes, and abstracts-as well as by broad subject areas including government, statistics and data, health, and legal information. This second part introduces the tools and resources that reference professionals use to provide the services described in the first half of the text.
- Reference and Information Services is a recognized textbook for information retrieval courses and updates the previous edition
- Editors and contributors are experts in the field
- Activity boxes engage readers and invite them to reflect on what they are learning and practice skills through real-life exercises
- Conscious integration of critical theory and social justice perspectives offers critical reflection on the standards and practices of the field and encourages readers to consider alternate perspectives
Editor(s): Wong, Melissa; Saunders, Laura;SortTitle: reference and information services: an introduction, 6th editionEdition: 6Keyword(s): Archives and Primary Sources; Ethics; Information Life Cycle; Instruction; Legal and Business Information Sources; Management; Professional; Reader's Advisory; Reference Interview; Services to Diverse Populations; Training and DevelopmentAuthor Info:Melissa A. WongeditorLaura SaunderseditoreISBN-13: 9781440868849Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440868849.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440868832Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 768Publication Date: 20200430 -
Mastering United States Government Information: Sources and Services
Author(s): Brown, Christopher;Contributors: Brown, Christopher;Abstract:This up-to-date guide provides informational professionals and their clients with much-needed assistance in navigating the immense field of government information.
When information professionals are asked questions involving government information, they often experience that "deer in the headlights" feeling. Mastering United States Government Information helps them overcome any trepidation about finding and using government documents.
Written by Christopher C. Brown, coordinator of government documents at the University of Denver, this approachable book provides an introduction to all major areas of U.S. government information. It references resources in all formats, including print and online. Examples are provided so users will feel comfortable solving government information questions on their own, while exercises at the end of chapters enable users to practice answering questions for themselves. Additionally, several appendixes serve as quick reference sources for topics such as congressional sessions, the most popular government publications, federal statistical databases, and citation of government publications. It serves as a practical and current guide for practitioners as well as a text or supplementary reading for students of library information studies and for in-service trainings.
- Acts as a training book for public and academic librarians who provide reference services
- Includes background, with exercises, for professors needing a text to teach government information
- Provides coverage of the newest electronic resources, with references to print resources
- Offers exercises to assist in the learning process for these challenging topics
SortTitle: mastering united states government information: sources and servicesKeyword(s): Census Data; Congressional Publications; Federal Depository Library Program; Geographic Information Systems; Government Information; Government Publishing Office; Legal Research; Legislative Research; Presidential Documents; Archives and Records Management: Collection DevelopmentAuthor Info:Christopher C. BrownauthorChristopher C. Brown is reference librarian and coordinator of government documents at the University of Denver, Main Library. Brown has taught as an adjunct professor in the University of Denver Library School for 20 years, and many students have taken his government publications course.
eISBN-13: 9781440872518Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440872518.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440872501Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 440Publication Date: 20200430 -
Data Science for Librarians
Author(s): Du, Yunfei; Khan, Hammad;Contributors: Du, Yunfei; Khan, Hammad;Abstract:This unique textbook intersects traditional library science with data science principles that readers will find useful in implementing or improving data services within their libraries.
Data Science for Librarians introduces data science to students and practitioners in library services. Writing for academic, public, and school library managers; library science students; and library and information science educators, authors Yunfei Du and Hammad Rauf Khan provide a thorough overview of conceptual and practical tools for data librarian practice.
Partially due to how quickly data science evolves, libraries have yet to recognize core competencies and skills required to perform the job duties of a data librarian. As society transitions from the information age into the era of big data, librarians and information professionals require new knowledge and skills to stay current and take on new job roles, such as data librarianship. Skills such as data curation, research data management, statistical analysis, business analytics, visualization, smart city data, and learning analytics are relevant in library services today and will become increasingly so in the near future. This text serves as a tool for library and information science students and educators working on data science curriculum design.
- Reviews fundamental concepts and principles of data science
- Offers a practical overview of tools and software
- Highlights skills and services needed in the 21st-century academic library
- Covers the entire research data life cycle and the librarian's role at each stage
- Provides insight into how library science and data science intersect
SortTitle: data science for librariansKeyword(s): Big Data; Copyright; Data Ethics and Security; Data Management Planning; Data Mining; Data Repositories; Date Storage and Archiving; Metadata; Open Data; Research Data Life Cycle; Research Methods, Statistics, and Data: Data AnalyticsAuthor Info:Yunfei DuauthorHammad Rauf KhanauthoreISBN-13: 9781440871221Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440871221.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440871214Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 180Publication Date: 20200430 -
Envisioning the Future of Reference: Trends, Reflections, and Innovations
Contributors: Zabel, Diane; Reiter, Lauren;Abstract:Offering a broad overview of consequential changes in the landscape of reference services, this guide also provides practical guidance on how to meet the new challenges they present.
For the past decade, librarians have been lamenting the demise of reference services. Encouraging recent research shows that reference librarians are actually in more demand than ever; however, nearly everything about reference has changed—from technologies, tools, and techniques to models of service.
What are these changes, and how can the profession respond to and prepare for shifting priorities and user needs? In this volume, business librarians Diane Zabel and Lauren Reiter bring together a host of experts to answer these timely questions. Topics range from the education and training of professionals to meeting the needs and wants of employers. Covered are trends in chat reference, research consultations, do-it-yourself reference, tracking trends with user populations, assessment, and data-driven decisions about reference services.
Grounded in the principle that regardless of the evolutions in service, the user remains at the center of reference, this guide offers readers an exciting look at the future of this important public service.
- Informs librarians of trends currently affecting the profession and shows how to deal with them
- Covers a wide array of topics, from those affecting the education of reference services to assessment of services
- Provides an in-depth look at new models in reference services
Editor(s): Zabel, Diane; Reiter, Lauren;SortTitle: envisioning the future of reference: trends, reflections, and innovationsKeyword(s): Assessment; Chat Reference; Collections; Continuing Education; Digitization; Do-It-Yourself Reference; Government Information; Licensing; Reference Services; Service Models; Reference and Information Services and Tools: Reference and Information ServicesAuthor Info:Diane ZabeleditorLauren ReitereditoreISBN-13: 9781440867385Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440867385.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440867378Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 212Publication Date: 20200225 -
Maximizing the Impact of Comics in Your Library: Graphic Novels, Manga, and More
Author(s): Phoenix, Jack;Contributors: Phoenix, Jack;Abstract:This unique guide offers fresh insights on how graphic novels and comics differ from traditional books and require different treatment in the library—from purchasing, shelving, and cataloging to readers' advisory services, programs, and curriculum.
Challenging librarians to rethink some of their traditional practices, Maximizing the Impact of Comics in Your Library provides creative and proven solutions for libraries of all types that want to get comics into the hands of fans and promote readership. The author describes how libraries would benefit from an in-house classification system and organization that accounts for both publishers and series.
In addition, acquiring comics can often be tricky due to renumbering of series, reboots, shifting creative teams, and more—this book shows you how to work around those obstacles. Shelving and displays that reflect comic readers' browsing habits, creative programs that boost circulation of comics and graphic novels, and how comics can play a vital role in educational institutions are also covered.
• Addresses common challenges librarians face with comics and graphic novels collections, and shows how to surmount them• Offers a solutions-focused approach
• Describes how comics can be used to better engage your community and to educate youth
• Fills a gap in the professional literature, covering topics not touched upon in the existing literature
• Serves as a vital resource for public, academic, and school libraries
SortTitle: maximizing the impact of comics in your library: graphic novels, manga, and moreKeyword(s): Cataloging Comics; Comic Con; Comics and the Curriculum; Comics and Social Media; Comics Programs; Cosplay Events; Manga/Anime Festivals; Promoting Comics through Partnerships and Sponsorships; Selection and Acquisitions of Comics; Acquisitions and Collection ManagementAuthor Info:Jack PhoenixauthorJack Phoenix is assistant manager of the Willowick Public Library, a branch of the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library in Ohio; and former adult programming coordinator at London Public Library in Ohio.
eISBN-13: 9781440868863Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440868863.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440868856Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 270Publication Date: 20200331 -
Young Adult Nonfiction: A Readers' Advisory and Collection Development Guide
Author(s): Fraser, Elizabeth;Contributors: Fraser, Elizabeth;Abstract:Covering over 500 titles, both classics and newer publications, this book describes what titles are about and why teens would want to read them.
Nonfiction has been the workhorse of many young adult library collections—filling information and curricular needs—and it is also the preferred genre for many teen readers. But not all nonfiction is created equal. This guide identifies some of the best, most engaging, and authoritative nonfiction reads for teens and organizes them according to popular reading interests. With genres ranging from adventure and sports to memoirs, how-to guides and social justice, there is something for every reader here.
Similar fiction titles are noted to help you make connections for readers, and "best bets" for each chapter are noted. Notations in annotations indicate award-winning titles, graphic nonfiction, and reading level. Keywords that appear in the annotations and in detailed indexes enhance access. Librarians who work with and purchase materials for teens, including YA librarians at public libraries, acquisitions and book/materials selectors at public libraries, and middle and high school librarians will find this book invaluable.
- Identifies the best and most popular new nonfiction reads for teens, along with perennial classics, helping librarians with acquisitions and weeding
- Allows YA librarians to more easily find books their readers will enjoy through genre organization
- Helps school librarians find books that fill curricular needs through learning connections
- Enables readers to transition from beloved fiction "read-alikes" to nonfiction titles with similar appeals
- Introduces librarians who are new to nonfiction genres and readers' advisory to important features of each genre in "consider starting with" sections in each chapter
SortTitle: young adult nonfiction: a readers' advisory and collection development guideKeyword(s): All About You (e.g., Careers, Health, Personal Growth, Sexuality); The Arts; Biography; Environment; History; How To; Memoirs and Autobiographies; True Adventure; Science; Children's and Young Adult Services: Readers' Advisory ServicesAuthor Info:Elizabeth FraserauthorElizabeth (Betsy) Fraser is a selector at the Calgary Public Library in Alberta, Canada. She is author of Reality Rules: A Guide for Teen Nonfiction.
eISBN-13: 9781440869808Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440869808.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440869792Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 256Publication Date: 20200302 -
Making the Most of Teen Library Volunteers: Energizing and Engaging Community
Author(s): Boland, Becca;Contributors: Boland, Becca;Abstract:When teens volunteer at the library, they gain new skills, make connections, and build their resumes, while libraries benefit from a new generation of advocates. This guide shows librarians how to establish or develop a teen volunteer program.
Advocating a flexible approach, this book speaks to every library, including both public and school libraries. From small libraries with no budget to large libraries with seemingly endless budgets and everything in between, all of the concepts covered can be scaled up or down to meet the needs of the community being served.
The book begins with the big picture, discussing benefits to teens, libraries, and communities; it then reviews volunteer types and volunteer possibilities for teens, including the traditional roles of shelving and programming as well as passion-led projects, programming opportunities, and special initiatives and drives. Specific volunteer roles are described in depth, with instructions for practical applications, and concrete examples and experiences from various types of libraries illustrate principles discussed. Readers will also learn how to establish volunteer partnerships within and outside of the library. The book ends with a discussion of methods for evaluation and assessment.
• Saves librarians time in planning or developing a volunteer program for teens• Offers flexible strategies and programs that can be adapted to different sizes and types of libraries
• Shows librarians that running a volunteer program doesn't have to be complicated
• Fills a gap in the literature for teen librarians
SortTitle: making the most of teen library volunteers: energizing and engaging communityKeyword(s): Benefits of Volunteerism; Community Engagement; Learning Types; Levels of Commitment; Project vs. Process Learning; Social Volunteer; Unconventional Volunteer; Volunteers 55 and Older; Volunteer Squads; Children's and Young Adult ServicesAuthor Info:Becca BolandauthorBecca Boland is teen librarian and assistant head of popular materials at the Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich, IL.
eISBN-13: 9781440865633Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440865633.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440865626Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 172Publication Date: 20200331Series: Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides for Young Adult Librarians Series -
Novels in Verse for Teens: A Guidebook with Activities for Teachers and Librarians
Author(s): Krok, Lisa;Contributors: Krok, Lisa;Abstract:This valuable guide advises teachers and librarians how to use novels in verse in functional, hands-on ways with teens, including reluctant readers.
Novels in verse are popular and have recently won some important awards. They are of great value to teachers and librarians as a way of reaching all teens, including marginalized teens and those who may be struggling or reluctant readers. This guide shows readers how to pair books with teens based on their needs, interests, and specific situations. After teens are paired with books, this guide suggests activities to further engage them with the poetry. Activities are tied to Common Core and AASL standards for ease of lesson planning for teachers.
Verse novels address a widely diverse demographic and a variety of topics, including various cultures, religions, racism, LGBTQ+ themes, mental illness, poverty, homelessness, sexual assault, self-harm/suicide, domestic violence, family dynamics, disabilities, refugees, English language learners, and more.
Novels in verse provide a more modern, practical alternative to some older classics that may not appeal to many teens or that may intimidate them by their sheer number of words per page. This book provides a one-stop resource for choosing and using novels in verse with teen readers.
- Helps librarians reach struggling and/or reluctant readers across a broad demographic
- Provides a way for librarian to engage and empower teens with literature
- Offers an alternative to using traditional classics that may not hold appeal for many teens
- Connects to Common Core and AASL standards for ease of lesson planning
SortTitle: novels in verse for teens: a guidebook with activities for teachers and librariansKeyword(s): AASL Standards; Common Core Standards; Creative Writing; Novels in Verse; Poetry; Readers Advisory; Reluctant Readers; Teen Readers; Young Adults; Children's and Young Adult Services: Readers' Advisory ServicesAuthor Info:Lisa KrokauthorLisa Krok, MLIS, MEd, is the adult and teen services manager at Morley Library in the Cleveland, Ohio, area and a former teacher.
eISBN-13: 9781440874949Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440874949.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440874932Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 164Publication Date: 20200331 -
Supporting Diversity and Inclusion With Story: Authentic Folktales and Discussion Guides
Contributors: Ford, Lyn; Norfolk, Sherry;Abstract:Today's increasingly interconnected and globalized world demands that students be taught to appreciate human diversity and recognize universally held values and beliefs. Authentic, culturally based folktales can lay the foundation for this cultural understanding.
Professional storytellers including editors Sherry Norfolk and Lyn Ford are deeply committed to bringing people together through story. In this book, they have identified a group of culturally diverse storytellers whose carefully researched tales authentically reflect the cultures from which they come. The book includes well-crafted, culturally authentic folktales contributed by storytellers of varying cultures and ethnicities. Commentaries from the contributors follow each tale, reflecting on the story and its significance to the culture it represents. Sets of questions for teachers and librarians also accompany each story to facilitate discussion.
Teachers, librarians and information specialists find that the stories engage students' attention and empathy. The commentaries provide insights into the significance of cultural norms, customs, and beliefs represented in the story, and the discussion questions and guides help them drill down with students to achieve deeper understanding. Resource lists of additional relevant materials at the end of each section promote continued learning.
- Folktales are engaging, non-didactic and entertaining – they captivate student attention while allowing them to explore other cultures and value systems.
- Provides commentaries that offer insights into the significance of the cultural norms and beliefs represented in each story
- Includes thoughtful and effective discussion questions and guides that save librarians and teachers time
- Offers resource lists of relevant materials for further study
Editor(s): Ford, Lyn; Norfolk, Sherry;SortTitle: supporting diversity and inclusion with story: authentic folktales and discussion guidesKeyword(s): Character Development; Cultural Diversity; Cultural Literacy; Racial Tension; Teen and Pre-teen Patrons; Understanding and Acceptance; World Folktales; Librarian's Instructional Role: Teaching Resources, K-12; FolkloreAuthor Info:Lyn FordeditorSherry NorfolkeditoreISBN-13: 9781440867088Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440867088.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440867071Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 146Publication Date: 20200229