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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

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,
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Developments in Social Work with Offenders

by Peter Raynor, Iain Crow, James Bonta, Gill McIvor, Tim Chapman, Gwen Robinson, Chris Trotter, Maurice Vanstone, Steve Wormith, Bill Whyte, James McGuire, David O\''Mahony, Shadd Maruna, Sam Lewis, Sue Rex, Frank Porporino, Fergus McNeill, David O'Mahony, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Barry Goldson ...

Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
Developments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across the UK in the past 10 years, in the context of the accumulating body of knowledge about what constitutes effective practice in the assessment, supervision and management of offenders in the community.Three different aspects of working with offenders ... Read more

$45.09 USD

Developments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across the UK in the past 10 years, in the context of the accumulating body of knowledge about what constitutes effective practice in the assessment, supervision and management of offenders in the community.Three different aspects of working with offenders
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Understanding and fostering soil carbon sequestration

by Dr C. Rumpel, Prof Ingrid Kӧgel-Knabner, Dr Martin Wiesmeier, Dr Stefanie Mayer, Prof Xiaojuan Feng, Prof Patrick Lavelle, Prof Sebastian Doetterl, Dr Rose Abramoff, Dr Jean-Thomas Cornelis, Dr Aline Frossard0, Dr Peter Fiener1, Dr Gina Garland2, Dr Michael Kaiser3, Dr Moritz Laub4, Dr Sophie Opfergelt5, Dr Marijn Van de Broek6, Dr Sarah van den Broek7, Dr Sophie F. von Fromm8, Dr Beverley Henry9, Dr C. Chenu0, Dr F. Amiraslani1, Dr Kazem Zamanian2, Prof Yakov Kuzyakov3, Prof Muhammad Sanaullah4, Dr T. Afzal5, Dr T. Shahzad6, Dr María de la Luz Mora7, Dr Jorge Medina8, Dr Patricia Poblete-Grant9, Dr Rolando Demanet0, Dr Paola Durán1, Dr Patricio Barra2, Dr Cecilia Paredes3, Dr Marcela Calabi-Floody4, Dr Matthias Kuhnert5, Dr Pete Smith6, Dr Christopher Poeplau7, Dr Edward Gregorich8, Dr Amin Sharififar9, Prof Budiman Minasny0, Dr Carlos A. Sierra1, Dr Susan E. Crow2, Dr Matt Aitkenhead3, Prof Rattan Lal4, Prof Thomas Kätterer5, Dr Martin A. Bolinder6, Dr Hyeon Ji Song7, Dr Pil Joo Kim8, Dr Abad Chabbi9, Dr K. Klumpp0, Dr Alan Franzluebbers1, Dr Andreas Schindlbacher2, Dr Mathias Mayer3, Dr Robert Jandl4, Dr Stephan Zimmermann5, Dr Frank Hagedorn6, Prof Lydie Stella Koutika7, Dr Nicolas Marron8, Dr Rémi Cardinael9, Dr Sonja Paul0, Dr Jens Leifeld1, Dr Deborah Dick2, Dr Cimélio Bayer3, Dr Jeferson Dieckow4, Dr Inigo Virto5, Dr Isabel de Soto6, Dr Rodrigo Antón7, Dr Rosa M. Poch8, Dr J.-C. Lata9, Dr C. Marques-dos-Santos Cordovil0, Dr E. Nartey1, Dr C. Staudhammer2, Dr E. Yeboah3, Dr Luca Montanarella4, Dr Ram Dalal5, Dr Matthew Tom Harrison6, Dr Brian Keating7, Prof Siân Mooney8, Dr Kathryn Janoski9, Dr Carmen M. Ugarte0, Dr Alexandra Langlais-Hesse1, Professor Michelle M. Wander2, Dr Abdul Wakeel3, Dr Sylvia Vetter4 ...

Series Book 121 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Highlights the increasing role of soils as an important and dynamic part of the global carbon cycle and their potential role in counteracting increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrationsExplores key aspects of soil carbon sequestration in different environments and soil typesProvides a comprehensive review of socioeconomic, legal and policy issues surrounding the adoption of soil carbon sequestration ... Read more

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Highlights the increasing role of soils as an important and dynamic part of the global carbon cycle and their potential role in counteracting increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrationsExplores key aspects of soil carbon sequestration in different environments and soil typesProvides a comprehensive review of socioeconomic, legal and policy issues surrounding the adoption of soil carbon sequestration
... Read more
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

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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
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American Indians and the Urban Experience

by Mahni Dugan, David R. M. Beck, Esther Belin, Victoria Bomberry, Pena Bonita, Parris Butler, John Collier Jr, Jimmy Curtiss, Donald L. Fixico, Jack Forbes, Taweah Garcia, Angela A. Gonzales, Joy Harjo, Paivi Hoikkala, Deborah Davis Jackson, Edgar Jackson/Anawrok, Zig Jackson, Alex Julca, Chris LaMarr, WithOut Rezervation, Julian Lang, Christine T. Lowery, L Frank Manriquez, Carol Miller, Darby Li Po Price, Renya Ramirez, Carter Revard/Nompewathe, Larry Rodriguez Sr, Mike Rodriguez, Terry Straus, Michael J. Thompson, Octaviana V. Trujillo, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Debra Valentino, Joan Weibel-Orlando, Floyd Red Crow Westerman ...

Series series Contemporary Native American Communities
Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the popular and scholarly perceptions of Native Americans, but this is a false expression of a complex and ... Read more

$44.99 USD

Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the popular and scholarly perceptions of Native Americans, but this is a false expression of a complex and
... Read more

Strangers in Their Own Land

Anger and Mourning on the American Right

by Arlie Russell Hochschild ...

The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump"A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book."—Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to S.. ... Read more

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The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump"A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book."—Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to S..
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Factory Man

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

by Beth Macy ...

The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian ... Read more

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The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian
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Eaarth

Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

by Bill McKibben ...

The New York Times Bestseller"Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." —Barbara KingsolverFrom the leading environmentalist comes a urgent call for new social practices amidst a climate crisis that has already arrived.Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about ... Read more

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The New York Times Bestseller"Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." —Barbara KingsolverFrom the leading environmentalist comes a urgent call for new social practices amidst a climate crisis that has already arrived.Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about
... Read more

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Our Towns

A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America

by James Fallows, Deborah Fallows ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO MaxFor five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO MaxFor five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns,
... Read more

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The South Side

A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation

by Natalie Y. Moore ...

**One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American CityIn this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation in the city's South Side; with a memoirist's eye, she showcases the lives of these communities ... Read more

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**One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American CityIn this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation in the city's South Side; with a memoirist's eye, she showcases the lives of these communities
... Read more

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Graceland, At Last

Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

by Margaret Renkl ...

"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

$11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"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
Strangers in Their Own Land

Anger and Mourning on the American Right

by Arlie Russell Hochschild ...

The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump"A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book."— Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to .. ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump"A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book."— Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to ..
... Read more

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