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Provides a study of the aftermath of war and state socialism in the contemporary Balkans. The authors look at the inescapable inheritances of the recent past and those that the present has to deal with. The book's key theme is the interaction, often subliminal, of the experiences of war and socialism in contemporary society in the region.

Provides a study of the aftermath of war and state socialism in the contemporary Balkans. The authors look at the inescapable inheritances of the recent past and those that the present has to deal with. The book's key theme is the interaction, often subliminal, of the experiences of war and socialism in contemporary society in the region.

Addresses the continued lack of the diversity in veterinary medicine, the least inclusive of all medical professions. This is book is a call to action for consistent championship and cohesive approaches, and it provides a road map to building a sustainably inclusive future.

Accumulating evidence suggests that assistance dogs, therapy dogs, and shelter dogs can support student wellness and learning. Whether readers are just getting started or striving to improve well-established programs, this volume provides evidence-based guidance on bringing college students and canines together in reciprocally beneficial ways.

Accumulating evidence suggests that assistance dogs, therapy dogs, and shelter dogs can support student wellness and learning. Whether readers are just getting started or striving to improve well-established programs, this volume provides evidence-based guidance on bringing college students and canines together in reciprocally beneficial ways.

Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been underappreciated. His impact continues to this day every time you check the weather forecast. This book details Sutcliffe's life and ideas, and illuminates the impact of the larger forces that propelled him on his consequential trajectory.

Provides readers with a broader understanding of the Jewish experience of migration in the United States and elsewhere. The book describes the record of a wide variety of Jewish migrant groups, including those encountering different locations of settlement, historical periods, and facets of the migration experience.

Argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the historical process of modernization that developed during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.

Provides readers with an understanding of the Jewish experience of migration in the United States and elsewhere. The book describes the record of a wide variety of Jewish migrant groups, including those encountering different locations of settlement, historical periods, and facets of the migration experience.

Focuses on the rapidly changing rhetoric colouring American politics. An increasingly polarized electorate combined with advances in technology have led to a combative and pitched rhetoric through more and more outlets. Each chapter is interdisciplinary, drawing on communication studies, political science, history, and other fields.

Throughout the long history of Judaism, many individuals and groups have sought to wield authority on the basis of unique religious, social, familial, military, or political claims. Moving historically from the biblical period to modern-day Israel, this book discusses a range of those claims to authority from within the Jewish community itself.

Examines the aesthetic history and relations between Cuban film production and Italian Neorealism. The historical framework begins in 1951 before the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and ends in 1962, a year that marks a rupture between Cuban filmmakers and the Italian neorealist aesthetic.

Artfully curated by James R. Hansen, A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong is a companion volume to Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind, collecting hundreds more letters Armstrong received after first stepping on the moon until his death in 2012.

Amelia Earhart's prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. In Their Own Words takes up the writings of eight women pilots as evidence of the ties between the growth of American aviation and the changing role of women.

Examines the air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period. The book also demonstrates the difficulty of applying new military aviation technology to the defense of the global Empire and provides insight into the nature of the political relationship between the Pacific Dominions and Britain.

Examines business formation and success among Latinos by identifying arrangements that enhance entrepreneurship and by understanding the sociopolitical contexts that shape entrepreneurial trajectories.

Don Quixote continues to inspire and to challenge its readers. The universal appeal of the novel, however, has distanced its hero from its author and its author from his own life. This discussion of the novel's Catholic identity, therefore, returns Cervantes's hero to Cervantes's text and Cervantes to the events that shaped his life.

Examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian separatists. Toki focuses on the social and political factors that radicalized certain segments of the Croatian diaspora during the Cold War and the conditions that led them to embrace terrorism as political expression.

Explores how Habsburg Austria utilized education to cultivate the patriotism of its people. Through an examination of the civic education curriculum used in schools from 1867-1914, Moore demonstrates that Austrian authorities attempted to forge a layered identity rooted in loyalties to an individual's home province, national group, and the empire.

Whereas all texts produced in Iberia during the early modern period reflect the distinct social, political, and cultural realities sweeping across the peninsula to some degree, Portuguese literature written in Spanish offers a unique vantage point from which to see these converging landscapes.

Offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the heated debate about free-roaming cats. The debate pits conservationists against cat lovers, who disagree both on the ecological damage caused by the cats and the best way to manage them.

Offers a variety of perspectives and views on the question of the future of the German-Jewish past. The volume addresses topics such as antisemitism, Holocaust memory, historiography, and political issues relating to the future relationship between Jews, Israel, and Germany.

Explores how students learn in an inquiry-led approach such as problem-based learning. Included are studies that focus on learning in situ and go beyond measuring the outcomes of PBL. The goal is to expand the PBL research base of qualitative investigations examining the social dimension and lived experience of learning within the PBL process.

Provides case studies that highlight difficult realities, yet embrace exciting opportunities, such as space reclamation, evolving vendor partnerships, metadata, managing personnel, special collections, and distance education. This book will inspire and provide practical advice and examples for solving issues many libraries are facing today.

Journalist John Norberg's illuminating oral history allows members of Purdue University's Class of 1950 to tell their stories in their own words. "(This is) a narrative that will hold special interest for those with Purdue or West Lafayette ties, but its scope is broad enough to interest a wider population".

A study of the 50-year career of Edward Charles Elliott is a study of the development of American education. Elliott had experience as a high school and college teacher, school system superintendent, state college system chancellor, and president of a Big Ten university, all during a period of change in American education.

More than 20,000 engineering students at Purdue University have been touched in some way by the ides or the warm personality of Andrey A. Potter, who served for 33 years as dean of the Schools of Engineering at Purdue, the world's largest engineering institution.

Richard Dale Owen was born in 1810 in Scotland to a wealthy textile manufacturer and philanthropist. Owen arrived in the United States in 1828 to teach in New Haven, Indiana, where his father was running an experimental utopian community. He would later go on to be Indiana's second state geologist before enlisting in the army.

This biography details Hovde's life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his student days at the University of Minnesota and in England and Europe as a Rhodes scholar. In addition, it outlines his career from the time he returned to the United States in 1932.