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How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles. University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original understandings of 27 key terms that define the study and operation of the American university today. Editor Andy Hines and the book's contributors invite ......
The Power of Regenerative Thinking in the Face of Crisis
How locally focused, ethically driven action can help communities and ecosystems thrive in the face of crisis. How do we move beyond simply surviving in a world of accelerating environmental and social disruption? Place-Based Solutions offers a bold and practical response, charting a path toward what Charles G. Curtin calls "prosilience"-the ......
A blueprint for what's possible when higher education institutions embrace collaboration over competition. In Collaborative Thinking, Sarah K. A. Pfatteicher offers an insightful guide to the transformative potential of consortial thinking in higher education. With extensive experience leading one of the largest and oldest higher education ......
A strengths-based guide for teaching ADHD college students that promotes inclusive, supportive, and high-structure learning environments for all. The college learning environment is a place of both challenge and opportunity for students with ADHD. In An Educator's Guide to ADHD, Karen Costa offers a transformative perspective on education that ......
A comprehensive synthesis of mussel-driven ecosystem processes and their role in freshwater sustainability. Freshwater mussels are among the most endangered animals on the planet-and some of the most ecologically important. As powerful filter feeders and ecosystem engineers, mussels influence everything from water clarity and nutrient cycling to ......
A beautifully illustrated account of the evolutionary journey of mammals in Africa. For more than 80 million years, "Island Africa" was a vast, isolated landmass south of the ancient Tethys Sea. Despite this isolation, waves of pioneering mammals crossed the sea, sparking remarkable evolutionary success stories that include the ancestors of ......
The Life and Assassination of John Dunn Hunter, American Radical
The story of John Dunn Hunter's remarkable life, tragic betrayal, and disgraceful murder. John Dunn Hunter was many things: a frontier hero, a writer, a celebrity at home and abroad, and, ultimately, the victim of a deadly conspiracy. Born to white parents in 1800, he was captured as a young child by the Kickapoo and later raised by the Kansa and ......
Race and Reproduction in the British Empire, 1660-1840
Explores the intersection of racial thought and reproductive science and policy across the British Empire. In Generating Difference, Andrew Wells traces the entwined histories of race, sex, and reproduction in Britain and its empire during the long eighteenth century. Challenging the assumption that the concept of race evolved in the modern era ......
The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution
This LA Times Book Prize finalist is a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United States. Finalist of the LA Times Book Prize for History by the LA Times, Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize by the Massachusetts ......
