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My Name Is Max, Max Bowman Jul 2023

My Name Is Max, Max Bowman

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No abstract provided.


Analysis Of Interactions In A Synchronous Hybrid English Class, Chaoran Wang, Ying Luo Aug 2021

Analysis Of Interactions In A Synchronous Hybrid English Class, Chaoran Wang, Ying Luo

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Interaction plays an essential role in teaching and learning, whether in face-to-face, online, or blended-hybrid settings (Anderson, 2003; Smith & Kurthen, 2007). While hybrid learning has gained in popularity since the COVID emergency, the discourse nature of hybrid classrooms remains less explored. Current literature mainly focuses on the discourse analysis of hybrid interactions in higher education. However, there is limited research in the context of synchronous hybrid instruction for young English language learners (Lin et al., 2017).


Access Services: Not Waving, But Drowning, Max Bowman, Monica Samsky Dec 2020

Access Services: Not Waving, But Drowning, Max Bowman, Monica Samsky

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Examining the chasm between access services staff and “the rest of the library” is illustrative of the divisions of labor that exist throughout the library. The chapter is an exploration of the effects of siloing and hierarchies in library staffing. The effort to elevate the work of the library within the academy has resulted in a troubling stratification of labor and devaluing of certain kinds of work within libraries.


Making It In Maine: Stories Of Jewish Life In Small-Town America, David M. Freidenreich Jan 2015

Making It In Maine: Stories Of Jewish Life In Small-Town America, David M. Freidenreich

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There are countless stories of Jewish life in Maine, stretching back 200 years. These are stories worth telling not only for their enjoyment value but also because we can learn a great deal from them. They reflect the challenges that confronted members of an immigrant community as they sought to become true Mainers, as well as the challenges this ethnic group now faces as a result of its successful integration. The experiences of Jews in Maine, moreover, encapsulate in many ways the experiences of small-town Jews throughout New England and the United States. Their stories offer glimpses into the changing …


The Death Of Al-ʿAbbās B. Al-MaʾMūn And A “Thwarted” Coup D’État, John P. Turner Apr 2013

The Death Of Al-ʿAbbās B. Al-MaʾMūn And A “Thwarted” Coup D’État, John P. Turner

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This article focuses on the point at which the slave soldiers of al-Muʿtaṣim (r. a.h. 218–227/833–842 c.e.) rose to the political forefront and came to dominate the holder of the Caliphal seat. It is a study of the mechanisms by which the center of the state, and more specifically the Caliph, came to be their captives.


Proxy Citizenship And Transnational Advocacy: Colombian Activists From Putumayo To Washington, Dc, Winifred Tate Feb 2013

Proxy Citizenship And Transnational Advocacy: Colombian Activists From Putumayo To Washington, Dc, Winifred Tate

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Proxy citizenship is the mechanism through which certain rights of citizenship—the ability to make claims for redress to a state—are conferred on activists through relationships with NGOs. Focusing on advocacy from within the policy process, U.S. and Colombian NGOs channeled political legitimacy and rights of access to Colombians, whose claims emerge from the experience of governance as articulated through testimony. This process, and its roots within the shared history of the Putumayo region of Colombia and Washington, DC, reveals emerging practices of citizenship claims and transnational political participation.


The Food Of The Damned, David M. Freidenreich Jan 2013

The Food Of The Damned, David M. Freidenreich

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No abstract provided.


Maine Shared Collections Strategy: Why Now In Maine?, Clem Guthro Nov 2012

Maine Shared Collections Strategy: Why Now In Maine?, Clem Guthro

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No abstract provided.


Faculty In The Mist: Ethnographic Study Of Faculty Research Practices, Marilyn R. Pukkila, Ellen L. Freeman Oct 2012

Faculty In The Mist: Ethnographic Study Of Faculty Research Practices, Marilyn R. Pukkila, Ellen L. Freeman

Faculty Scholarship

A report on ethnographic research on college faculty research and teaching methods, with their use of information resources, library services, technology, and academic IT support.


'Not Unworthy Of His Hand': Crossing Borders In Benjamin West's A Drayman Drinking, Lauren K. Lessing, Terri Sabatos Jul 2012

'Not Unworthy Of His Hand': Crossing Borders In Benjamin West's A Drayman Drinking, Lauren K. Lessing, Terri Sabatos

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In May 1797, Benjamin West—President of the Royal Academy, Historical Painter to the Court of King George III, and Surveyor of the King's Pictures—exhibited a small genre painting titled A Drayman Drinking at the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy in London. It was one of seven paintings West exhibited that year, and the only one overlooked by the reviewer for the Times. The critic's oversight may have stemmed from the unprecedented number of paintings on view (nearly twelve hundred, four hundred more than were hung the previous year) and the resulting overcrowding of the principle exhibition room. Through his …


Living On The Lam: Libraries, Archives And Museums In The Digital Age, Clem Guthro Jun 2012

Living On The Lam: Libraries, Archives And Museums In The Digital Age, Clem Guthro

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No abstract provided.


Why Jewish Studies Scholars Should Care About Christian–Muslim Relations, David M. Freidenreich Apr 2012

Why Jewish Studies Scholars Should Care About Christian–Muslim Relations, David M. Freidenreich

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No abstract provided.


A Postulate For Tiger Recovery: The Case Of The Caspian Tiger, Carlos A. Driscoll, I Chestin, H Jungius, Y Darman, E Dinerstein, J Seidensticker, J Sanderson, S Christie, S J. Luo, M Shrestha, Y Zhuravlev, O Uphyrkina, Y V. Jhala, S P. Yadav, D G. Pikunov, N Yamaguchi, D E. Wildt, J D. Smith, Marker, Philip J. Nyhus, R Tilson, D W. Macdonald, S J. O'Brien Jan 2012

A Postulate For Tiger Recovery: The Case Of The Caspian Tiger, Carlos A. Driscoll, I Chestin, H Jungius, Y Darman, E Dinerstein, J Seidensticker, J Sanderson, S Christie, S J. Luo, M Shrestha, Y Zhuravlev, O Uphyrkina, Y V. Jhala, S P. Yadav, D G. Pikunov, N Yamaguchi, D E. Wildt, J D. Smith, Marker, Philip J. Nyhus, R Tilson, D W. Macdonald, S J. O'Brien

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Recent genetic analysis has shown that the extinct Caspian Tiger (P. t. virgata) and the living Amur Tigers (P. t. altaica) of the Russian Far East are actually taxonomically synonymous and that Caspian and Amur groups historically formed a single population, only becoming separated within the last 200 years by human agency. A major conservation implication of this finding is that tigers of Amur stock might be reintroduced, not only back into the Koreas and China as is now proposed, but also through vast areas of Central Asia where the Caspian tiger once lived. However, under the current tiger conservation …


Fusion Cooking In An Islamic Milieu: Jewish And Christian Jurists On Food Associated With Foreigners, David M. Freidenreich Jan 2012

Fusion Cooking In An Islamic Milieu: Jewish And Christian Jurists On Food Associated With Foreigners, David M. Freidenreich

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No abstract provided.


Muslims In Eastern Christian Law, 1000–1500, David M. Freidenreich Jan 2012

Muslims In Eastern Christian Law, 1000–1500, David M. Freidenreich

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No abstract provided.


Omens, Portents, And Possibilities: Libraries In 2020, Clem Guthro, James Jackson Sanborn Nov 2011

Omens, Portents, And Possibilities: Libraries In 2020, Clem Guthro, James Jackson Sanborn

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No abstract provided.


Human Rights Law And Military Aid Delivery: A Case Study Of The Leahy Law, Winifred Tate Nov 2011

Human Rights Law And Military Aid Delivery: A Case Study Of The Leahy Law, Winifred Tate

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Explicitly prohibiting US military counternarcotics assistance to foreign military units facing credible allegations of abuses, Leahy Law creation and implementation illuminates the epistemological challenges of knowledge production about violence in the policy process. First passed in 1997, the law emerged from strategic alliances between elite NGO advocates, grassroots activists and critically located Congressional aides in response to the perceived inability of Congress to act on human rights information. I explore the resulting transformation of aid delivery: rather than suspend aid when no “clean” units could be found, US officials convinced their Colombian allies to create new units consisting of vetted …


Creating A Culture Of Innovation And Mobility With An Ipad For All Librarians And Support Staff, Clem Guthro Aug 2011

Creating A Culture Of Innovation And Mobility With An Ipad For All Librarians And Support Staff, Clem Guthro

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No abstract provided.


Angels In The Home: Adelicia Acklen's Sculpture Collection At Belmont Mansion, Lauren K. Lessing Apr 2011

Angels In The Home: Adelicia Acklen's Sculpture Collection At Belmont Mansion, Lauren K. Lessing

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Following the Civil War, the wealthy plantation owner Adelicia Acklen redecorated her villa, Belmont, near Nashville, Tennessee, with white marble ideal sculptures by the American sculptors Randolph Rogers, Chauncey Ives, Joseph Mozier, and William Rinehart. During the war, Acklen had compromised her reputation as a genteel Southern lady by bargaining with Union officers in order to sell her cotton at exorbitant wartime rates. By purchasing and displaying a collection of statues that embodied the ideal of true womanhood, Acklen hoped to publicly redomesticate both her home and herself and to express her affinity for the ideology of the Lost Cause.


Muslims In Western Canon Law, 1000–1500, David M. Freidenreich Jan 2011

Muslims In Western Canon Law, 1000–1500, David M. Freidenreich

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No abstract provided.


Food And Table Fellowship, David M. Freidenreich Jan 2011

Food And Table Fellowship, David M. Freidenreich

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No abstract provided.


Christians In Early And Classical ShiʿI Law, David M. Freidenreich Jan 2011

Christians In Early And Classical ShiʿI Law, David M. Freidenreich

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No abstract provided.


The Implications Of Unbelief: Tracing The Emergence Of Distinctively ShiʿI Notions Regarding The Food And Impurity Of Non-Muslims, David M. Freidenreich Jan 2011

The Implications Of Unbelief: Tracing The Emergence Of Distinctively ShiʿI Notions Regarding The Food And Impurity Of Non-Muslims, David M. Freidenreich

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The distinctively Shiʿi conception of non-Muslims as bearers of a contagious form of impurity emerges gradually, reaching its classical form only in the 5th/11th century. Contrary to common scholarly presumptions, Q. 9.28 does not constitute the point of origin for this conception but rather serves as retroactive justification for its validity. This essay utilizes ḥadīth collections and works of law from the 2nd/8th through 5th/11th centuries to trace the emergence of Shiʿi notions regarding the impurity of non-Muslims and the parallel emergence of distinctively Shiʿi norms regarding the meat of animals slaughtered by non-Muslims. It concludes by suggesting that the …


Paramilitary Forces In Colombia, Winifred Tate Jan 2011

Paramilitary Forces In Colombia, Winifred Tate

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How can we understand the transformation of Colombian paramilitary groups during the past two decades? Intimately connected to drug trafficking, paramilitary groups have infiltrated political institutions and enjoyed significant political support even as they have used extreme brutality. Since the early 1990s, paramilitaries have grown exponentially in strength, creating a national coordinating body and carrying out military offensives. These developments brought territorial expansion throughout Colombia and a peak in political violence, typified by massacres from 1997 to 2003. After negotiations with government officials, more than thirty-two thousand troops passed through demobilization programs verified by the Organization of American States; much …


New Perspective: Rereading Seymour Joseph Guy's "Making A Train", Lauren K. Lessing Jan 2011

New Perspective: Rereading Seymour Joseph Guy's "Making A Train", Lauren K. Lessing

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In March 1868 a reviewer for the Commercial Advertiser described a small painting on view in Seymour Joseph Guy’s Tenth Street studio in Manhattan. It depicted a young girl preparing for bed and holding around her waist “a gaudy skirt of a dress, its folds, draped behind her, forming a train. From her shoulders a single garment hangs loosely, disclosing her neck and finely rounded shoulders.” The painting, originally titled The Votary (or Votaress) of Fashion, is now known as Making a Train. Visually complex, beautifully painted, and disturbing in its sensual presentation of a prepubescent female body, Making a …


Next Generation Libraries, Clem Guthro Apr 2010

Next Generation Libraries, Clem Guthro

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No abstract provided.


Five Questions About Non-Muslim Meat: Toward A New Appreciation Of Ibn Qayyim Al-Ǧawziyyah’S Contribution To Islamic Law, David M. Freidenreich Jan 2010

Five Questions About Non-Muslim Meat: Toward A New Appreciation Of Ibn Qayyim Al-Ǧawziyyah’S Contribution To Islamic Law, David M. Freidenreich

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No abstract provided.


Holiness And Impurity In The Torah And The Quran: Differences Within A Common Typology, David M. Freidenreich Jan 2010

Holiness And Impurity In The Torah And The Quran: Differences Within A Common Typology, David M. Freidenreich

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In sharp contrast to the Torah’s hierarchical conception of society, the Quran articulates an egalitarian worldview in which all humanity has equal access to the holiness that comes from being in relationship with God. Quranic egalitarianism serves to undermine biblically-grounded Jewish and Christian claims to elevated status. The significant differences in quranic and biblical discourse about both holiness and the antithetical state of impurity, however, can best be understood as existing within the framework of a common typology. Both the Torah and the Quran distinguish between impurity that results from physiological events and impurity caused by sin. These works, moreover, …


Where The Tiger Survives, Biodiversity Thrives, Philip J. Nyhus, Ronald Tilson Jan 2010

Where The Tiger Survives, Biodiversity Thrives, Philip J. Nyhus, Ronald Tilson

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No abstract provided.


Quite A Year And New Life For Panthera Tigris: The St. Petersburg Declaration And The Future Of Wild Tigers, Philip J. Nyhus, Lisa Ann Tekancic Jan 2010

Quite A Year And New Life For Panthera Tigris: The St. Petersburg Declaration And The Future Of Wild Tigers, Philip J. Nyhus, Lisa Ann Tekancic

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No abstract provided.