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  • The Synergistic Classroom

    Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting

    by Corey Campion, Aaron Angello, Paul D. Reich, Patricia Marchesi, Patrick L Hamilton, Allan W. Austin, Christine Dehne, Jonathan Munson, April M Boulton0, Erika Cornelius Smith1, Maryann Conrad2, Julia F. Klimek3, Christine D Myers4, Audra L Goach5, Hilary Cooperman6, Winston Ou7, Lana A. Whited8, Sharon E. Stein9, Martha Barcenas-Mooradian0, Amanda M. Caleb1, Alicia H. Nordstrom2, Tina L Hanlon3, Peter Crow4, Susan V Mead5, Carolyn L Thomas6, Delia R. Heck7, Paola Prado8, Autumn Quezada-Grant9 ...
    Among the many challenges confronting the liberal arts today is a fundamental disconnect between the curricula that many institutions offer and the training that many students need. Discipline-specific models of teaching and learning can underprepare students for the kinds of interdisciplinary collaboration that employers now expect. Although aware of these expectations and the need for change, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Do, Die, or Get Along

    A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns

    by Peter Crow ...
    Do, Die, or Get Along weaves together voices of twenty-six people who have intimate connections to two neighboring towns in the southwestern Virginia coal country. Filled with evidence of a new kind of local outlook on the widespread challenge of small community survival, the book tells how a confrontational "do-or-die" past has given way to a "get-along" present built on coalition and guarded ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Factory Man

    How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

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  • Eaarth

    Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

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  • Our Towns

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  • The South Side

    A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation

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  • Graceland, At Last

    Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

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    "In this luminous collection" a New York Times columnist "delivers smart, beautifully crafted personal and political observations" on the American south ( Minneapolis Star Tribune).Margaret Renkl's New York Times columns offer readers a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in ... Read more

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  • The War in the Country

    How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future

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    Rural life in North America has changed dramatically since the days of the family farm, when people worked the same land for generations, let their cows graze in pastures and their chickens scratch in dirt, and sold their produce locally. The few remaining small farmers now struggle to survive, strangled by debt and a rash of complex regulations designed to drive them out of business. In their ... Read more

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