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Shoe Dog, Tanner Hafen 7058931 Dec 2017

Shoe Dog, Tanner Hafen 7058931

Marriott Student Review

A book review of Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight.


Finding Their Voices--A Rhetorical Reflection, Gary S. Selby Dec 2017

Finding Their Voices--A Rhetorical Reflection, Gary S. Selby

Leaven

No abstract provided.


Maine Corporation Law & Practice, 2nd Edition, George F. Eaton Ii, Kristy M. Smith Nov 2017

Maine Corporation Law & Practice, 2nd Edition, George F. Eaton Ii, Kristy M. Smith

Maine Law Review

In 2001, several members of the Business Law Section of the Maine Bar Association convened the Corporate Law Revision Committee (the Committee), which set out to adapt the Model Business Corporation Act (the Model Act) for use in Maine. Maine's corporation law had not benefited from a comprehensive over-haul since 1971, and notwithstanding periodic updates of specific components of the statutory regime over the years, a thorough and comprehensive revision was needed to keep pace with modern corporate law and practice in the twenty-first century. The Committee's efforts, under the leadership of James B. Zimpritch, Esq., widely acknowledged as the …


Scott L. Montgomery And Daniel Chirot, The Shape Of The New: Four Big Ideas And How They Made The Modern World. Princeton University Press, 2015., Laina Farhat-Holzman Nov 2017

Scott L. Montgomery And Daniel Chirot, The Shape Of The New: Four Big Ideas And How They Made The Modern World. Princeton University Press, 2015., Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

Daniel Chirot is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies in the University of Washington’s Henry Jackson School of International Studies. Chirot’s most recent book, co-authored with Scott Montgomery, is The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2015.) Chirot’s other books have been about genocide, ethnic conflicts, tyranny, social change, and Eastern Europe.


J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis. Harpercollins, 2016., Laina Farhat-Holzman Nov 2017

J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis. Harpercollins, 2016., Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

The growing gap in the traditional trajectory from poverty to middle class may have less to do with color than with culture. We can see during this present election process the anger and distress of poor white men, flocking to the rallies of candidate Donald Trump. These men, who were once doing well during the post-WWII era, when our country was a manufacturing giant, are now victims of a changing economy.


The Reaper's Garden: Death And Power In The World Of Atlantic Slavery, Michael Williams Nov 2017

The Reaper's Garden: Death And Power In The World Of Atlantic Slavery, Michael Williams

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

Micheal Williams is a senior history major at Middle Georgia State University. Micheal has been a peer tutor in his department for two years, as well as serving as vice president of the History Student Organization for three semesters. He has presented his research at local, state, and national undergraduate conferences, and enjoys learning and sharing his interest in history with others. His research interests lie in the cultural and sociopolitical histories of Native Americans of the Southeast, both prehistoric and historic. He is currently looking forward to applying to graduate school.


Book Review: The Way Of The Knife, Michael Neal Oct 2017

Book Review: The Way Of The Knife, Michael Neal

The Eastern Illinois University Political Science Review

The author reviews the book The Way of the Knife by Mark Mazzetti, specifically looking at the underlying themes of shifting operations in the CIA, relationships between the CIA and United States military, and the growing private-sector.


From The Book & New Media Review Editor’S Desk, Saul Hernandez Assistant Editor, Jessica Shumake Editor Oct 2017

From The Book & New Media Review Editor’S Desk, Saul Hernandez Assistant Editor, Jessica Shumake Editor

Community Literacy Journal

No abstract provided.


Every Person Is A Philosopher: Lessons In Educational Emancipation From The Radical Teaching Life Of Hal Adams, Eli Goldblatt Oct 2017

Every Person Is A Philosopher: Lessons In Educational Emancipation From The Radical Teaching Life Of Hal Adams, Eli Goldblatt

Community Literacy Journal

No abstract provided.


Mass Authorship And The Rise Of Self-Publishing, Jessica Shumake Oct 2017

Mass Authorship And The Rise Of Self-Publishing, Jessica Shumake

Community Literacy Journal

No abstract provided.


Collaborative Imagination: Earning Activism Through Literacy Education, Rachael Wendler Shah Oct 2017

Collaborative Imagination: Earning Activism Through Literacy Education, Rachael Wendler Shah

Community Literacy Journal

No abstract provided.


Public Pedagogy In Composition Studies, Marissa M. Juarez Oct 2017

Public Pedagogy In Composition Studies, Marissa M. Juarez

Community Literacy Journal

No abstract provided.


Writing Suburban Citizenship: Place-Conscious Education And The Conundrum Of Suburbia, Rosanne Carlo Oct 2017

Writing Suburban Citizenship: Place-Conscious Education And The Conundrum Of Suburbia, Rosanne Carlo

Community Literacy Journal

No abstract provided.


Learning The Language Of Global Citizenship: Strengthening Service-Learning In Tesol, Kara Reed Oct 2017

Learning The Language Of Global Citizenship: Strengthening Service-Learning In Tesol, Kara Reed

Community Literacy Journal

No abstract provided.


Keyword Essay: The Streets, Jessica Estep Oct 2017

Keyword Essay: The Streets, Jessica Estep

Community Literacy Journal

No abstract provided.


Lovie: The Story Of A Southern Midwife And An Unlikely Friendship, Sandra C. Clariday Oct 2017

Lovie: The Story Of A Southern Midwife And An Unlikely Friendship, Sandra C. Clariday

The Southeastern Librarian

Lovie: The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship. Lisa Yarger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4696-3005-2 (cloth, $34.95); ISBN 978-1-4696-3006-9 (ebook: $19.99). 306 p.


Ham: A Savor The South Cookbook, Melinda F. Matthews Oct 2017

Ham: A Savor The South Cookbook, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Ham: A Savor the South Cookbook. Damon Lee Fowler. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-4696-3589-7 (Hardback); 978-1-4696-3590- 3 (ebook) 141 p. $16.96.


Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place And Cultural Resistance, Carol Walker Jordan Oct 2017

Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place And Cultural Resistance, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place and Cultural Resistance. Sara Webb-Sunderhaus and Kim Donehower, eds. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8131-74426. (pbk, $28); ISBN 978-0-8131- 6559-2 (cloth, $50); ISBN 978-0-8131-6560-8 (epub, $50); ISBN 978-0-8131-6561-5 (web pdf, $50). 238 p.


The Life And Work Of John C. Campbell, Carol Walker Jordan Oct 2017

The Life And Work Of John C. Campbell, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

The Life and Work of John C. Campbell. Olive Dame Campbell; edited by Elizabeth M. Williams. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2017. ISBN 978-0- 8131-6854-8 (cloth, $60); ISBN 978-0-8131-6855-5 (web pdf, $60); ISBN 978-0-8131-6856-2 (epub, $60). 720 p.


Kentucky And The Great War: World War I On The Home Front, Keith Phelan Gorman Oct 2017

Kentucky And The Great War: World War I On The Home Front, Keith Phelan Gorman

The Southeastern Librarian

Kentucky and the Great War: World War I on the Home Front. David J. Bettez. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8131-6801-2 (cloth, $45.00); ISBN 978-0-8131-6802-9 (web pdf, $45); ISBN 978-0-8131-6803-6 (epub, $45). 440 p.


Making Gullah: A History Of Sapelo Islanders, Race, And The American Imagination, Carol Walker Jordan Oct 2017

Making Gullah: A History Of Sapelo Islanders, Race, And The American Imagination, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Making Gullah A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination. Melissa L. Cooper. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN 978-4696-3268-1 (pbk., $29.95); ISBN 978-1-4696- 3267-4 (hardcover, $85); ISBN 978-1-4696-3269-8 (ebook, $19.99). 304 p.


Florida Soul: From Ray Charles To Kc And The Sunshine Band, Carol Walker Jordan Oct 2017

Florida Soul: From Ray Charles To Kc And The Sunshine Band, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band. John Capouya. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017. ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-5452-0. $24.95 408 p.


The Book Of Isaias: A Child Of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America, Melanie Dunn Oct 2017

The Book Of Isaias: A Child Of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America, Melanie Dunn

The Southeastern Librarian

The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America. Daniel Connolly. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781250083067 (hardback). $26.99. 258 p.


The Battle Of New Orleans In History And Memory, Kathelene Mccarty Smith Oct 2017

The Battle Of New Orleans In History And Memory, Kathelene Mccarty Smith

The Southeastern Librarian

The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory. Laura Lyons McLemore, ed.. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8071-6465-5 (Hardback). $38.00. 232 p.


From The Desk Of The Dean: The History And Future Of Arts And Sciences Education, Peter R. Dean Oct 2017

From The Desk Of The Dean: The History And Future Of Arts And Sciences Education, Peter R. Dean

The Southeastern Librarian

From the Desk of the Dean: The History and Future of Arts and Sciences Education. Mary Anne Fitzpatrick and Elizabeth A. Say, eds.. Colombia: University of South Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-61117-841-8 (Hardcover, $24.99); ISBN 978-1-61117-842-5 (Ebook, $24.99). 196 p.


Growing Old In New Town: What Marked Me, What Marred Me, What Made Me, Wendy Moore Sep 2017

Growing Old In New Town: What Marked Me, What Marred Me, What Made Me, Wendy Moore

South Carolina Libraries

Wendy Moore, Doctoral student at the University of South Carolina's SLIS program, and a cataloger at Francis Marion's James A. Rogers Library, reviews Growing Old in New Town: What Marked Me, What Marred Me, What Made Me by Michael E. Goings.


Leon's Lines, Shelia Martina Keaise Sep 2017

Leon's Lines, Shelia Martina Keaise

South Carolina Libraries

Shelia Martina Keaise, Children's Librarian at Colleton County Memorial Library, reviews Leon's Lines by Ember Estridge.


Book Review: Angle Of Attack: Air France 447 And The Future Of Aviation Safety, Orin L. Godsey Sep 2017

Book Review: Angle Of Attack: Air France 447 And The Future Of Aviation Safety, Orin L. Godsey

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

This review provides insight on the content and a review of the quality of the recent release of Angle of Attack: Air France 447 and the Future of Aviation Safety from Lexographic.

This review does not reflect the views of IJAAA or ERAU. This work was not peer reviewed.


The Refugees (Book Review), Howard Schaap Sep 2017

The Refugees (Book Review), Howard Schaap

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen. New York: Grove Press, 207 pp. ISBN: 9780802126399.


Christian Economics In One Lesson (Book Review), Sacha Walicord Sep 2017

Christian Economics In One Lesson (Book Review), Sacha Walicord

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Christian Economics in One Lesson by Gary North. Powder Springs, VA: American Vision Press, 2016. 241 pp. ISBN 9780997240214.