Native American Heritage Month: Book Spotlight

On D-Day on the shores of Normandy, thirteen Comanches laid communication lines and sent messages in coded Comanche, a code that was never broken by the Germans. The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II details the vital role these thirteen men played on D-Day and throughout the rest of the war. Interviews with all surviving members of the unit, their training officer, and their fellow soldiers help provide information and context for the men's involvement in the war, after the war, and into the present. A group of appendices provides even more information on other code talkers, their tribes, and the code terms.

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Native American Heritage Month: Book Spotlight

Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way focuses on a facet of Native American experience not often touched on. The book deals with the Christian presence in indigenous history, first through colonization, and then evangelization and assimilation.  The text then looks at Native Americans' experiences with and expressions of Christianity, and the final chapter delves into the future of the Native faith. This is a fascinating and important book for both Christians and non-Christians alike, giving context and voice to an area of Native American life that often goes ignored.

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Native American Heritage Month: Book Spotlight

The first book of its kind, Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women looks at the state of Native American women's health care by focusing on the Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota. The book is divided into four parts: "The Stories We Tell and Why;" "Tracing the Ruling Relations: Health Care, the Reproductive Body, and Native America;" "Consequences of the Double Discourse: Native Women's Experiences with the Indian Health Service;" and "Reproductive Justice for Native Women." Also included are two appendixes that feature methods and methodologies and a chronology of federal actions affecting native health care.

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Native American Heritage Month: Book Spotlight

The first book of its kind, Native Americans in the American Revolution: How the War Divided, Devastated, and Transformed the Early American Indian World gives an encompassing look at the various Native American tribes and their experiences during the war. The book focuses on the north, south, and west's experience both at the collapse of the British Indian Policy and the start of the Revolutionary War. Also included is a guide on the main Native American groups presented by region, a timeline of events, a brief introduction, and a concluding chapter dealing with the post-Revolutionary War period. This is an excellent read for anyone wishing to gain a more complete view of the American Revolution.

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Disability Employment Awareness Month: Book Spotlight

With this month's focus on disability employment, it would be fitting to examine the history of disability rights in the United States and abroad. Rights Enabled focuses on the shifting views of disability from a medical or physical issue to a social oppression issue. Chapters cover the disability revolution and the passage of the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), and then explores how Germany and Japan subsequently dealt with issues of disability. The book ends with a discussion on how to further globalize the view of disability rights as human rights.

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Frames of Memory after 9/11: Culture, Criticism, Politics,and Law [eBook]

Frames of Memory after 9/11: Culture, Criticism, Politics,and Law offers an analysis of post 9/11 memorial culture that has included Acts of Congress, artistic expressions, and public displays of remembrance. The author questions the political and legal factors behind the generation of memory concerning the terrorist attacks, while offering possible ways to open the conversation about seeking justice to a global rather than nationalistic audience.  

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Resources for Successful Academic Writing: Book Spotlight

If you're having trouble meeting assignment expectations or simply wanting a few tips to further enhance your work, How to Improve Your Assignment Results is the book for you. The book covers essays, reports, and dissertations, and each chapter examines different issues that can negatively affect one's assignment, such as unanswered questions, descriptive rather than critical thinking, limited reading, and other subjects. The final chapter provides sources of help, like peer assisted learning, counseling services, tutors, and more.

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Resources for Successful Academic Writing: Book Spotlight

Part of writing a successful paper is using correct grammar and punctuation to make sure concepts and ideas are communicated clearly. English Grammar for the Utterly Confused is an excellent guide for all levels of education. The book is divided into five parts dealing with the parts of speech; word use; sentence construction; punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviation; and the combination of all these areas of grammar to communicate well. Each chapter ends with exercises to review your newly acquired knowledge or to simply brush up on your grammar skills.

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Resources for Successful Academic Writing: Book Spotlight

For any student going to college for the first time, The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing is an excellent and easy to read resource that can making writing for instructors easier. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of writing a paper such as concision, clarity, flow, punctuation, gracefulness, using sources, paragraphs, and beginnings and endings. Each chapter is then broken down into separate sections to explain the nuances of each subject. The book even contains an appendix for document and citation formats including CMS, MLA, and APA style guides and instructions on how to do basic document formats and abstracts. If you are concerned about your writing expertise or simply want to refresh your memory on writing rules, this book is the perfect guide to aid you in your many assignments.

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Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act: Book Spotlight

To inspect the subject of disability, one must also take into consideration other factors that affect the disabled. Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity's main topic may be the idea of a disabled person passing as "normal," but the book as a whole takes an inter-sectional look at disability and passing by examining how race, sex, gender, class, and history all contribute to how the disabled function in society. With chapters like "Passing as Sane, or How to Get People to Sit Next to You on the Bus," "The Menstrual Masquerade," "'I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb': Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American South," and more, this book is an invaluable resource on the complexity and nuances of the individual experiences of people with disabilities.

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U.S. History and Government Information Book Spotlight

While there is a strong modern day movement for environmentalism and green living, there was an equally important and widespread conservation movement in the early 1900s. Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America looks at conservation's champion Theodore Roosevelt and beyond to create a transnational picture using environmental, economic, and imperial history. The book is divided into three sections ("The Origins of Alarm," "The New Empire and the Rise of Conservation," and "The Global Vision of Theodore Roosevelt and Its Fate") that follow early conservation's history, the specific areas of nature the movement addressed, and the inherent paradox of Roosevelt's conservation efforts while he simultaneously hunted big game.

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U.S. History and Government Information Book Spotlight

The world of politics is ever changing, and the current generation of young people and their significant usage and knowledge of the internet could bring about a new direction in politics. Democracy Bytes: New Media, New Politics and Generational Change explores a host of interconnected issues, such as the practice of labeling generations, the complexity of understanding how politics change, the definition of what is political, and whether society is in need of a new politics. The last four chapters of the book look at case studies from different areas of society and culture to examine the use of media and participation of young people. Anyone interested in politics, education, or technology will likely find Democracy Bytes a fascinating and inspiring read.

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U.S. History and Government Information Book Spotlight

If you are studying management or are simply curious about how political figures in America do their job, What Government Does is a fascinating and insightful resource. Rather than viewing these political appointees according to policy area, the book chooses to examine executives by the agency they manage. Focusing on forty-two executives over a four year period in the Obama administration, this book presents real life examples of the challenges and achievements faced by deputy secretaries, producers, regulators, infrastructors, scientists, and collaborators.The end result is a deeper understanding of these jobs, providing priceless information for future political executives.

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Poetry and Art Month Book Spotlight

A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race brings together a confluence of contributors discussing issues of poetry and race in context of their own varied racial backgrounds. The authors bring up a multitude of important topics grouped under chapter headings like "Racialization & Reimagination: Whitman & the New Americans," "The Unsayable & the Subversive," "Imperialism & Experiments: Comedy, Confession, Collage, Conscience," and "Self as Center: Sonics, Code Switching, Culture, and Clarity." This unique book shines a much needed light on the intersection of poetry and race from years past to the present.

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Poetry and Art Month Book Spotlight

We are surrounded by images and text that are constantly telling us something or influencing our behavior. Good artists, graphic designers, and typographers are skilled at making these subtle commands and influences both effective and attractive. In Stop, Think, Go, Do: How Typography & Graphic Design Influence Behavior, Steven Heller and Mirko Ilić discuss and explain the eight uses of typography and graphic design: to inform, to advocate, to play, to caution, to entertain, to express, to educate, and to transform.

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Women's History Month Book Spotlight

 Far from being a single, cohesive ideology, feminism comes in many forms and defies simple descriptors. In her book Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction, Rosemarie Tong fleshes out seven different modes of thought in feminism, from the liberal to the radical and from the existentialist to the women of color. She examines both the strengths and weaknesses of each perspective, revealing a rich community of thought that builds upon and challenges each other. 

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