In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American ...Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This p.
Medical experts on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic provide recommendations for governments, health agencies, and schools to prepare for the next outbreak.Another pandemic is coming. The type, ...severity, and spread are unknown, but governments, public health agencies, schools, and all other organizations must be prepared in order to minimize damage and save lives. We need to identify the lessons learned from our successes and failures during the COVID-19 pandemic to plan better for our future response.In Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak, David C. Pate, MD, JD, and Ted Epperly, MD, combine their decades of experience as doctors and health care leaders who have led their organizations through numerous public health challenges to create an extensive list of practical recommendations for a variety of organizations and agencies to better prepare for the next pandemic. They worked together in the fight against COVID-19 and the misinformation that devastated so many communities across the country. From the exam room to the public health board meeting room to the state capitol, Pate and Epperly use their expertise to craft 117 specific recommendations that organizations and governments can implement now in order to better prepare for the future. They divide these recommendations into checklists specific to different contexts: schools, hospitals, public health agencies, state governments, and the federal government. Public health officials, medical practitioners, state and local officials, school board members, disaster management leaders, and anyone with a stake in preparing their communities against future outbreaks will benefit from the recommendations Pate and Epperly outline.This is the first book to apply lessons learned in real time during a pandemic while chronicling which responses did and did not work and why. The authors examine the global, national, and local responses to COVID-19 and illustrate how we can learn from the mistakes of this pandemic so as not to repeat them during the next.
The tenth-anniversary edition of a foundational text in digital media and learning, examining new media practices that range from podcasting to online romantic breakups. Hanging Out, Messing Around, ...and Geeking Out , first published in 2009, has become a foundational text in the field of digital media and learning. Reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people live and learn with new media in varied settings—at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces—it presents a flexible and useful framework for understanding the ways that young people engage with and through online platforms: hanging out, messing around, and geeking out, otherwise known as HOMAGO. Integrating twenty-three case studies—which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music sharing, and online romantic breakups—in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out combines in-depth descriptions of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis. Since its original publication, digital learning labs in libraries and museums around the country have been designed around the HOMAGO mode and educators have created HOMAGO guidebooks and toolkits. This tenth-anniversary edition features a new introduction by Mizuko Ito and Heather Horst that discusses how digital youth culture evolved in the intervening decade, and looks at how HOMAGO has been put into practice. This book was written as a collaborative effort by members of the Digital Youth Project, a three-year research effort funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.
A pivotal twentieth-century composer, Samuel Barber earned a long
list of honors and accolades that included two Pulitzer Prizes for
Music and the public support of conductors like Arturo Toscanini,
...Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein. Barber's works have
since become standard concert repertoire and continue to flourish
across high art and popular culture.
Acclaimed biographer Howard Pollack ( Aaron Copland ,
George Gershwin ) offers a multifaceted account of Barber's
life and music while placing the artist in his social and cultural
milieu. Born into a musical family, Barber pursued his artistic
ambitions from childhood. Pollack follows Barber's path from his
precocious youth through a career where, from the start, the
composer consistently received prizes, fellowships, and other
recognition. Stylistic analyses of works like the Adagio for
Strings , the Violin Concerto, Knoxville: Summer of
1915 for voice and orchestra, the Piano Concerto, and the
operas Vanessa and Antony and Cleopatra , stand
alongside revealing accounts of the music's commissioning,
performance, reception, and legacy. Throughout, Pollack weaves in
accounts of Barber's encounters with colleagues like Aaron Copland
and Francis Poulenc, performers from Eleanor Steber and Leontyne
Price to Vladimir Horowitz and Van Cliburn, patrons, admirers, and
a wide circle of eminent friends and acquaintances. He also
provides an eloquent portrait of the composer's decades-long
relationship with the renowned opera composer Gian Carlo
Menotti.
Informed by new interviews and immense archival research,
Samuel Barber is a long-awaited critical and personal
biography of a monumental figure in twentieth-century American
music.
The undergraduate years are a turning point in producing scientifically literate citizens and future scientists and engineers. Evidence from research about how students learn science and engineering ...shows that teaching strategies that motivate and engage students will improve their learning. So how do students best learn science and engineering? Are there ways of thinking that hinder or help their learning process? Which teaching strategies are most effective in developing their knowledge and skills? And how can practitioners apply these strategies to their own courses or suggest new approaches within their departments or institutions? "Reaching Students" strives to answer these questions. "Reaching Students" presents the best thinking to date on teaching and learning undergraduate science and engineering. Focusing on the disciplines of astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, and physics, this book is an introduction to strategies to try in your classroom or institution. Concrete examples and case studies illustrate how experienced instructors and leaders have applied evidence-based approaches to address student needs, encouraged the use of effective techniques within a department or an institution, and addressed the challenges that arose along the way. The research-based strategies in "Reaching Students" can be adopted or adapted by instructors and leaders in all types of public or private higher education institutions. They are designed to work in introductory and upper-level courses, small and large classes, lectures and labs, and courses for majors and non-majors. And these approaches are feasible for practitioners of all experience levels who are open to incorporating ideas from research and reflecting on their teaching practices. This book is an essential resource for enriching instruction and better educating students.
" The book concludes with a penetrating examination of how the Lost Cause narrative and the lies on which it is based continue to haunt the country today and still work to maintain racial inequality.
In this updated edition, Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames expand their encyclopedic history of the struggle for disability rights in the United States, to include the past ten years of ...disability rights activism.The book includes a new chapter on the evolving impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the continuing struggle for cross-disability civil and human rights, and the changing perceptions of disability.
The authors provide a probing analysis of such topics as deinstitutionalization, housing, health care, assisted suicide, employment, education, new technologies, disabled veterans, and disability culture.
Based on interviews with over one hundred activists,The Disability Rights Movementtells a complex and compelling story of an ongoing movement that seeks to create an equitable and diverse society, inclusive of people with disabilities.
A well-constructed and reasoned debunking of the
mythology of amateurism in for-profit NCAA athletics
For the last 60-plus-years, as the revenue-generating capacity
of Power Five football and men's ...basketball has dramatically
increased, NCAA Division I Power Five football and men's basketball
players (college profit-athletes) have been economically exploited,
their labor has been severely restricted. To mask this inequity,
the NCAA and its members created, disseminated, and embedded a
fictitious "collegiate model of athletics" established and
repeatedly modified for the benefit of member schools, designed to
ensure profit-athletes were denied employment status and just
compensation for their athletic labor.
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An
Amateurism That Never Was provides a comprehensive historical,
sociological, legal, financial, and managerial argument for the
reclassification of profit-athletes as employees. Such a
reclassification would permit profit-athletes to gain not only fair
financial compensation but also equal access to educational
benefits that have been promised but systematically denied.
The authors trace how Power Five college sports have morphed
into a hyper professionalized and commercialized sport-business
enterprise. They provide evidence that at least since 1956 the
NCAA's amateurism has been a collusive, exploitative, and
racialized "pay for play" scheme that disproportionately affects
Black profit-athletes. The authors cut through the institutional
doublespeak of approved benefits, cost-of-attendance stipends, or
name, image, likeness (NIL) collectives to lay bare the immorality
of Power Five college sports.
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College
Profit-Athletes makes the case that profit-athletes (and their
representatives) must have the right to unionize and freely
negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with management (e.g.,
NCAA, Power Five conferences and athletic departments). In
addition, this book offers a forward-thinking structure in which
individual labor contracts, or a potential collective bargaining
agreement, address profit-athlete compensation and working
conditions.
Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Engineering, National Academy of; Sciences, Division on Engineering and Physical ...
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Environmental engineers support the well-being of people and the planet in areas where the two intersect. Over the decades the field has improved countless lives through innovative systems for ...delivering water, treating waste, and preventing and remediating pollution in air, water, and soil. These achievements are a testament to the multidisciplinary, pragmatic, systems-oriented approach that characterizes environmental engineering.
Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century: Addressing Grand Challenges outlines the crucial role for environmental engineers in this period of dramatic growth and change. The report identifies five pressing challenges of the 21st century that environmental engineers are uniquely poised to help advance: sustainably supply food, water, and energy; curb climate change and adapt to its impacts; design a future without pollution and waste; create efficient, healthy, resilient cities; and foster informed decisions and actions.
Immigrants to the United States have long used the armed forces as
a shortcut to citizenship. Cristina-Ioana Dragomir profiles Lily,
Alexa, and Vikrant, three immigrants of varying nationalities and
...backgrounds who chose military service as their way of becoming
American citizens. Privileging the trio's own words and
experiences, Dragomir crafts a human-focused narrative that moves
from their lives in their home countries and decisions to join the
military to their fraught naturalization processes within the
service. Dragomir illuminates how race, ethnicity, class, and
gender impacted their transformation from immigrant to soldier,
veteran, and American. She explores how these factors both eased
their journeys and created obstacles that complicated their access
to healthcare, education, economic resources, and other forms of
social justice.
A compelling union of analysis and rich storytelling, Making
the Immigrant Soldier traces the complexities of serving in
the military in order to pursue the American dream.
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