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  An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play

  Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez

  Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this study, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez focuses on a group of multigenerational Puerto Rican women and girls, exploring how playing with Barbie dolls as children has impacted their lives. By documenting the often-complicated relationships girls have with Barbie dolls, Aguiló-Pérez highlights the ways through which women and girls construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play.

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  Tu mundo: español sin fronteras

  Magdalena Andrade, Jeanne Egasse, Elías Miguel Muñoz, and María José Cabrera Puche

  Tu mundo immerses the Introductory Spanish classroom in a culturally rich world full of opportunities to discover and explore the powerful connections between language and culture. Instructors are provided user-friendly resources to guide students as they dive into intensive communicative practice, building confidence in their ability to interact in meaningful ways in Spanish. Importantly, instructors are also provided with the tools to build a sense of community in face to face, hybrid, and online classes, resulting in a unique personal experience that evolves organically and sparks a natural curiosity about their world.

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  The Gender Reader

  Evelyn Ashton-Jones, Gary A. Olson, and Merry G. Perry

  The Gender Reader's fifty-one selections, all related to issues and questions of gender, are organized into five parts that address sub-themes within this broad and rich subject. The readings represent a balanced view of several gender-related topics and have been chosen to provide a background for rich discussion and thoughtful essays. The issues raised throughout the book are designed to provide readers with opportunities for personal and reflective writing as well as expository and argumentative writing. For anyone interested in issues of gender for balanced writing.

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  Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein; Wide-ranging essays on print culture from Renaissance Europe to the contemporary digital world

  Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Eric N. Lindquist, and Eleanor F. Shevlin

  Inspiring debate since the early days of its publication, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe (1979) has exercised its own force as an agent of change in the world of scholarship. Its path-breaking agenda has played a central role in shaping the study of print culture and "book history"—fields of inquiry that rank among the most exciting and vital areas of scholarly endeavor in recent years. Joining together leading voices in the field of print scholarship, this collection of twenty essays affirms the catalytic properties of Eisenstein's study as a stimulus to further inquiry across geographic, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. From early modern marginalia to the use of architectural title pages in Renaissance books, from the press in Spanish colonial America to print in the Islamic world, from the role of the printed word in nation-building to changing histories of reading in the electronic age, this book addresses the legacy of Eisenstein's work in print culture studies today as it suggests future directions for the field.
  
  

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  Daytime Stars A Poet's Memoir of the Revolution, the Siege of Leningrad, and the Thaw

  Olga Berggolts, Lisa Kirschenbaum, and Katharine Hodgson

  For 872 days during World War II, the city of Leningrad endured a crushing blockade at the hands of German forces. Close to one million civilians died, most from starvation. Amid the devastation, Olga Berggolts broadcast her poems on the one remaining radio station, urging listeners not to lose hope. When the siege had begun, the country had already endured decades of revolution, civil war, economic collapse, and Stalin's purges. Berggolts herself survived the deaths of two husbands and both of her children, her own arrest, and a stillborn birth after being beaten under interrogation. Berggolts wrote her memoir Daytime Stars in the spirit of the thaw after Stalin's death. In it, she celebrated the ideals of the revolution and the heroism of the Soviet people while also criticizing censorship of writers and recording her doubts and despair. This English translation by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum makes available a unique autobiographical work by an important author of the Soviet era. In her foreword, Katharine Hodgson comments on experiences of the Terror about which Berggolts was unable or unwilling to write.

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  New Directions in Portfolio Assessment: Reflective Practice, Critical Theory, and Large-Scale Scoring

  Laurel Black, Donald A. Daiker, Jeffrey Sommers, and Gail Stygall

  Representing a range of approaches and voices, this text explores the tensions and ambiguities of portfolio assessment. While some of its essays problematize portfolio use at the classroom level, others move beyond the classroom to construct new research agendas in writing assessment.

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  Applied Communication Research Methods: Getting Started as a Researcher

  Michael Boyle and Mike Schmierbach

  A hands-on guide for applying research methods to common problems, issues, projects, and questions that communication practitioners deal with on a regular basis, this text demonstrates the relevance of research in professional roles and communication and media careers. The second edition features updated material that covers major communication research methods including surveys, experiments, focus groups, and observation research while also providing key background information on ethics, validity, reliability, concept explication, statistical analysis, and other current topics. It continues to foster student engagement with research through its numerous features and practical activities.The text is ideally suited to both undergraduate and graduate courses in mass communication research methods.

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  Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence

  Claudia Brenner and Hannah Ashley

  The lesbian victim of a violent hate crime that left her seriously wounded and her partner dead is the story of family and community, the medical system, the police and courts, and the media--and of one woman's incredible courage.

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  Bully Pulpit: Poems

  Kim Bridgford

  Stately and assured, Kim Bridgford triumphs over private, public, mythic and literary bullies in her newest volume, Bully Pulpit, a sustained book of poems that ranges wide and deep, shining a searchlight on the world of threats. Her crisp meters and deft turns of phrase take on “mobbing” to “bullycides,” intelligently moving us from examples of survivor-figures (like Rosa Parks) to literary victims (like Desdemona) and on to film icons, too. The growl of Norma Desmond bursts forth, and the electric and charming voices of the Triplets of Belleville. Are these the subjects of poetry? You bet they are, especially in Bridgford’s valiant hands.
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  Epiphanies: Poems

  Kim Bridgford

  The poems of Kim Bridgford's Epiphaniesare heart-breaking in their leap of faith, finding not just the divine in the human, but the human in the divine: "You'll rise again. I know what you've been through./I suffered human life: and so do you."

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  Hitchcock's Coffin: Sonnets About Classic Films

  Kim Bridgford

  The inspired meditations on movies in Kim Bridgford'sHitchcock's Coffin are vibrant in their mix of metrical music and Hollywood gloss.

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  Instead of Maps: Poems

  Kim Bridgford

  Kim Bridgford’s Instead of Maps is a remarkable journey, her elegant poems leading us on the treacherous road to truth with only the heart—and Bridgford’s effortless art—to guide us.

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  In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records

  Kim Bridgford

  Winner of the 2007 Donald Justice Poetry Award sponsored by the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards at the West Chester University Poetry Center.

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  Undone: Poems

  Kim Bridgford

  'Out of what she calls the bric-a-brac of ordinary life, Kim Bridgford has made poems remarkable for their depth of feeling and formal skill. Her lapidary precision conveys a passionate artistry. Open this book anywhere and you will find a gem." -- Mary Jarman. "Her work is rigorous and memorable, full of linguistic surprises and emotional twists that suggest, as she says, that there is an art in learning how to underscore." -- Jay Parini

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  Reaching and Teaching Diverse Populations: Strategies for Moving Beyond Stereotypes

  Mary Bellucci Buckelew and Andrea Fishman

  Based on the conceptual framework of the educational ecosystem, Reaching and Teaching Diverse Populations: Strategies for Moving Beyond Stereotypes engages preservice teachers in activities that promote their understanding of diversity topics. In working through the activities included in this text, students deepen their understanding of the interrelationship of the community, the school, and classroom dynamics and cultures. By making multicultural issues local and relevant, future teachers begin to see themselves as agents of change, creators of curriculum and pedagogy, and facilitators of a synergistic, dynamic, and exciting learning environment.

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  Action Research for English Language Arts Teachers: Invitation to Inquiry

  Mary Buckelew and Janice Ewing

  Offering preservice and inservice teachers a guide to navigate the rapidly changing landscape of English Language Arts education, this book provides a fresh perspective on what it means to be a teacher researcher in ELA contexts. Inviting teachers to view inquiry and reflection as intrinsic to their identity and mission, Buckelew and Ewing walk readers through the inquiry process from developing an actionable focus, to data collection and analysis to publication and the exploration of ongoing questions. Providing thoughtful and relevant protocols and models for teacher inquiry, this book establishes a theoretical foundation and offers practical, ready-to-use tools and strategies for engaging in the inquiry process in the context of teachers’ communities. Action Research for English Language Arts Teachers: Invitation to Inquiry includes a variety of examples and scenarios of ELA teachers in diverse contexts, ensuring that this volume is relevant and accessible to all educators.

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  The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891

  Cari M. Carpenter and Carolyn Sorisio

  Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized as an important nineteenth-century American Indian activist and writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across the United States, along with the copious newspaper articles that grew out of those tours, have been largely ignored and forgotten. The Newspaper Warrior presents new material that enhances public memory as the first volume to collect hundreds of newspaper articles, letters to the editor, advertisements, book reviews, and editorial comments by and about Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins.

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  Russia's Long Twentieth Century: Voices, Memories, Contested Perspectives

  Choi Chatterjee, Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, and Deborah A. Field

  Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, Russia's Long Twentieth Century is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook that situates modern Russia in the context of world history and encourages students to analyse the ways in which citizens learnt to live within its system and create distinctly Soviet identities from its structures and ideologies.

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  Women Writing Latin: Early Modern Women Writing Latin

  Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey

  This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume Three covers women's writing in Latin during the early modern period (1400-1700).

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  Haunted Objects: Spectral Testimony in the Southern Cone Post-Dictatorship

  Megan L. Corbin

  Examining testimonial production in Southern Cone Latin America (Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay), Haunted Objects analyzes how the changed relationship between the subject and the material world influenced the way survivors narrate the stories of their detentions in the wake of the political violence of the 1970s and 80s. It explores descriptions of objects within testimonial narratives and uses these descriptions to inform an analysis of how the objects that survived the violence--items recovered by archeologists from former detention centers, the personal belongings of disappeared peoples, the prison craftwork created by political prisoners during their detention, and the bodies of the second generation children of the disappeared, all join together in memory projects in the post-dictatorship to offer “spectral testimony” about the past.

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  Essays Reflecting the Art of Political and Social Analysis

  Lawrence Davidson

  In 2011, Lawrence Davidson founded his website, tothepointanalyses.com, as a home for his brief essays on contemporary issues touching on US domestic and foreign policy. Over the last few years, Davidson's analytic reflections on contemporary politics have garnered over six million views. Now, for the first time, these essays are collected together to form a coherent, punchy look at American Politics in 2018. Contextualized by a new prologue and new conclusion, as well as updated with new material throughout, these essays provide a cogent demonstration of the power of analytical thinking to create clear and understandable descriptions of issues that impact us all, but are most often obfuscated by propaganda, lying by omission, or other forms of distortion. For those who encounter this work, it is hoped that they will come away with a clearer, if not happier, idea of what sort of world we are all living in.

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  War and Words: Horror and Heroism in the Literature of Warfare

  Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker, and Merry G. Perry

  War and Words is a sweeping study of the profound, painful, and most significantly, defining cultural moments. Working from Homer through to Hemingway and in all traditions, some of the nation's best scholars of literature illustrate how literature and language affect not only the present but also future generations by shaping history even as they represent it. This powerful collection affirms that the humanities remain a site of the most profound reflection on human experience and historical events that have, for better and worse, shaped world civilization. War and Words offers students of literature critical tools for reading literary explorations of ambivalence toward war and provides teachers of literature a suggested syllabus for a course that has become all too necessary in a time when all our lives are touched by war.

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  Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film: Agents of Vengeance

  Eric Dodson-Robinson

  Eric Dodson-Robinson’s Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Filmchallenges critical readings of drama, film, and literature that downplay agency. From Attic tragedy, through Seneca and Shakespeare, and into Japanese and Korean film, the book pursues the agent of vengeance in her fury to reconstruct an identity shattered by trauma. Tragic revenge is an imaginary theater only partly encompassed by disciplines, institutions, and discourses. In this theater, violence becomes contagious and potentially transformative as performance gives birth to the agent of vengeance: a complex, emergent agent who is more than the sum of the actors, auteur, tradition, and audience, all of whom infiltrate, and strive to control, her will. The agent of vengeance, determined to outdo past exemplars, exacts traumatic excess, not equivalence.

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  Child Rape in Ghana: Lifting the Veil

  Martha Donkor

  This book analyzes the etiology of child rape in Ghana within the framework of rape culture. By applying feminist perspectives and psychological theories to laws in Ghana to protect children against sexual abuse, this book creates room for both victims and perpetrators to tell their stories while also incorporating the views of the public through a textual analysis of reader comments on child rape in the nation’s newspapers. The presentation of both victims’ and perpetrators’ perspectives is done with the goal of drawing attention to the pervasiveness of child rape in Ghanaian society and to provide a lens through which we can detect potentially dangerous situations that can lead to child molestation in our homes and communities, revealing lapses in social organization and interactions that make child rape possible.

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  Sudanese Refugees in the United States: The Collateral Damage of Sudan's Civil War

  Martha Donkor

  This work examines the struggles of southern Sudanese refugees who defied great odds to secure better lives for themselves and their families in the United States. The book also looks at the role of the international community in accommodating these refugees.