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  • Scaling Physiological Processes

    Leaf to Globe

    by Jacques Roy, James R. Ehleringer, Christopher B. Field ...
    Series series Physiological Ecology
    Traditional plant physiological ecology is organism centered and provides a useful framework for understanding the interactions between plants and their environment and for identifying characteristics likely to result in plant success in a particular habitat. This book focuses on extending concepts from plant physiological ecology as a basis for understanding carbon, energy, and biogeochemical ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Tell Me a Story

    Using Narratives to Break Down Barriers in Composition Courses

    by Anthony Tate Fulton, Christopher B. Field, Michael MacBride ...
    Stories have great power. This book attempts to harness that power to help students grow and develop as writers. It argues that stories and narratives can be utilized in the composition classroom, specifically first-year composition (FYC) to break down barriers. Throughout a given semester, stories and narratives can help students in composition courses to overcome academic, personal, and creative ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • "I'm Just a Comic Book Boy"

    Essays on the Intersection of Comics and Punk

    Edited by Keegan Lannon, Michael David MacBride, Christopher B. Field ...
    Comics and the punk movement are inextricably linked--each has a foundational do-it-yourself ethos and a nonconformist spirit defiant of authority. This collection of new essays provides for the first time a thorough analysis of the intersections between comics and punk. The contributors expand the discussion beyond the familiar U.S. and UK scenes to include the influence punk has had on comics ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation

    Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Edited by Christopher B. Field, Vicente Barros, Thomas F. Stocker, Qin Dahe ...
    This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate change adaptation. Extreme weather and climate events, interacting with exposed and vulnerable human and natural systems, can lead to disasters. Changes in the frequency and severity of the physical events affect disaster ... Read more

    $80.39 USD

  • The Global Carbon Cycle

    Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World

    by Susan Hill MacKenzie ...
    Series series SCOPE Series
    While a number of gases are implicated in global warming, carbon dioxide is the most important contributor, and in one sense the entire phenomena can be seen as a human-induced perturbation of the carbon cycle. The Global Carbon Cycle offers a scientific assessment of the state of current knowledge of the carbon cycle by the world's leading scientists sponsored by SCOPE and the Global Carbon ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

  • History of American Political Thought

    by Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga, George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand, Paul O. Carrese, Daniel T. Carrigg, Laurence D. Cooper, Murray Dry0, Thomas S. Engeman1, Peter S. Field2, Christopher Flannery3, Steven Forde4, David F. Forte5, David Foster6, David Fott7, Matthew J. Franck8, Peter B. Josephson9, Steven Kautz0, John Koritansky1, Harvey C. Mansfield2, Sean Mattie3, Jonathan Marks4, James McClellan5, Peter C. Meyers6, Lance Robinson7, Michael J. Rosano8, Richard S. Ruderman9, Richard Samuelson0, David Lewis Schaefer1, Peter Schotten2, Kimberly C. Shankman3, Natalie Taylor4, Aristide Tessitore5, Eduardo A. Velásquez6, Karl-Friedrich Walling7, Melissa S. Williams8, Jean M. Yarbrough9, Lucas E. Morel0, James R. Stoner Jr.1, Michael Zuckert2, Jean Bethke Elshtain3, Steven F. Hayward4, Peter Augustine Lawler5, James A. Morone6, Ronald J. Pestritto7, William G. Thomas8, Daryl M. Tress9, David Tucker0, Bradley C. S. Watson1 ...
    Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Great Mistake

    How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them

    by Christopher Newfield ...
    Series series Critical University Studies
    A remarkable indictment of how misguided business policies have undermined the American higher education system.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLHigher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Unmaking the Public University

    The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class

    by Christopher Newfield ...
    An essential American dream—equal access to higher education—was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War II. But this vital American promise has been broken. Christopher Newfield argues that the financial and political crises of public universities are not the result of economic downturns or of ultimately valuable restructuring, but of a conservative campaign ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Ivy and Industry

    Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980

    by Christopher Newfield ...
    Emphasizing how profoundly the American research university has been shaped by business and the humanities alike, Ivy and Industry is a vital contribution to debates about the corporatization of higher education in the United States. Christopher Newfield traces major trends in the intellectual and institutional history of the research university from 1880 to 1980. He pays particular attention to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • My Nuclear Family

    A Coming-of-Age in America's Twenty-first Century Military

    by Christopher Brownfield ...
    The unsentimental education of an idealistic, brilliant American naval officer.It begins in 2001. Christopher Brownfield is a naïve young midshipman. His heroes at the time: Oliver North and John McCain.In My Nuclear Family, Brownfield writes about how he loved the navy for its “rigidity and its clarity in separating right from wrong”; how he cut his teeth there on the principles of energy and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • After Political Correctness

    The Humanities And Society In The 1990s

    by Christopher Newfield, Ronald Strickland ...
    This book resituates the political correctness debates in the humanities branch of the academy. It contends that conservatives have tainted entire academic disciplines to cause university humanists to go from irrelevant to dangerous overnight. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Great Mistake

    How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them

    by Christopher Newfield ...
    Series series Critical University Studies
    A remarkable indictment of how misguided business policies have undermined the American higher education system.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLHigher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a ... Read more

    $27.09 USD