 | | Robert Fanuzzi St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
English
Abolition’s Public
Sphere
2004
Abolition’s Public Sphere examines the massive publicity campaign
undertaken by the New England abolition movement on behalf of the
enslaved. This campaign sought to enlist every member of society,
slaves as well as children, in a political discussion of American
slaveholding policy and the nature of national power. However, it
was also intended to stir memories of past movements for democracy,
such as the American Revolution, and transform every abolitionist
into a latter-day revolutionary. William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick
Douglass, and Henry Thoreau emerge in a striking new light in this
book. |
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 | | David G. Farley St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Institute for
Core Studies/First-Year Writing
Modernist Travel Writing:
Intellectuals Abroad
2011
Modernist Travel Writing explores the connection between modernist
literature and travel writing in the period between the two World
Wars. Focusing on the travel writing of Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings,
Wyndham Lewis and Rebecca West, this book explores how these
modernist writers traveled to countries that experienced most
directly the tumult of revolution, the effects of empire and the
upheaval of war during the years between World War I and World War
II. How they rendered these experiences in their late modernist
texts helps us understand the ways in which modernism itself went
through its most significant transformations in its complex late
phase. |
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 | | Rebekah Z. Fassler The School of Education, Early Childhood and Adolescent
Education
Room for Talk: Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual
Kindergarten
2004
How does a teacher who only speaks English address the challenges
of working in a multilingual classroom? And what happens if she is
the only fluent English speaker? This book features Mrs. Barker, an
experienced ESL teacher who believes in the potential of her
kindergarten second-language learners and uses identifiable
strategies to maximize it. Illustrating how to make constructive
use of “what children bring to the table,” this volume promotes
sound early childhood educational practice in any classroom. |
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 | | Robert Finkel, Ph.D. St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
Physics
Concise Notes for Physics,
3rd Edition 2006
Concise Notes for Physics is a set of lecture
notes presenting basic theory and typical problems. It serves as a
guide through the voluminous and dense physics textbooks. It is
being bundled with one of the foremost textbooks, Physics for
Scientists and Engineers, 3rd Edition, by Douglas Giancoli
(PH).
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Edition
2008
Concise Notes presents basic theory and typical problems
for introductory University Physics. Standard textbooks are too
voluminous and dense for self-study; Concise Notes distills the
information to manageable essentials. The fourth edition adheres to
educational findings that show problem-solving is best facilitated
with basic and transparent exercises rather than complex
problems.
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2011
College and university physics textbooks are huge and densely
packed with equations and information. Keeping pace has been
likened to "drinking water from a fire hose." Faced with this
excess, students usually rely on lectures to guide them through the
simple fundamentals of the subject and standard model problems. |
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 | | Concise Introduction to
Statistical Mechanics
2011
This book is the antithesis of encyclopedic texts written to
appease specialists. Here readers find an introduction to
statistical mechanics that is sufficiently simple and free from
prior requirements that it may be understood quickly and
comfortably. Readers use statistical mechanics in the opening
pages. The book also gives unique, intuitive developments of
probability distributions, entropy, information, and chemical
potentials not found elsewhere. |
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 | | Jefferson M. Fish St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Psychology
Drugs and Society: U.S. Public
Policy
2006
There are two main approaches to reforming drug policy which
reflect differing American values. One is the public health or harm
reduction or cost/benefit approach, which implements the American
value of pragmatism. The other—libertarian or rights-based
approach—can be seen to implement the American value of
individualism. It views the private behavior of adults as none of
the government's business and aims at maximizing individual
freedom. Drugs and Society includes a wide range of historical,
social science, philosophical and legal background, and offers the
reader the information needed to create an alternative drug
policy. |
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 | | with Uwe P. Gielen and Juris G. Draguns, Ed.S. St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
Psychology
Handbook of Culture,
Therapy, and Healing
2005
The editors have brought together leading psychologists,
psychiatrists, anthropologists and others to consider the
interaction of psychosocial, biological and cultural variables as
they influence the assessment of health and illness and the course
of therapy. The volume includes broadly conceived theoretical and
survey chapters; detailed descriptions of specific healing
traditions in Asia, the Americas, Africa and the Arab world; and
chapters focusing on multicultural concerns within societies,
specific populations (such as refugees) and the integration of
traditional and modern forms of counseling and healing. Taken
together, the chapters offer a broad overview of Western and
non-Western traditions as they span the divides among psychosocial,
medical and religious approaches. |
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 | | Dawn P. Flanagan with Alan S. Kaufman St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Psychology
Essentials of WISC-IV
Assessment
2005
A successor to the extremely popular Essentials of
WISCIII/WPPSI-R Assessment, Essentials of WISC-IV
Assessment provides beginning and seasoned clinicians comprehensive
guidelines to administering, scoring and interpreting the latest
revision of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children.
Featuring the popular Essentials format of call-out boxes, Test
Yourself questions and step-by- step instructions, this handy
resource also includes strengths and weaknesses of the instrument,
practical clinical applications and illustrative case reports. |
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 | | Contemporary Intellectual
Assessment: Theories, Tests, and Issues, 2nd Edition
2006
This comprehensive work provides the most current information
about theory and research on assessment of intellectual abilities
and processes. Leading test authors, theorists and scholars review
the conceptual and research underpinnings of recent editions of
intelligence tests, including the WISC-IV, KABC-II, SB5 and WJ III,
and offer recommendations for interpretation. |
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 | | The Achievement Test Desk
Reference: A Guide to Learning Disability Identification, 2nd
Edition
2007
The Second Edition of this critically acclaimed reference
features the most up-to date versions of assessment instruments to
measure individual achievement and learning disabilities. The
authors’ pragmatic approach offers practitioners an innovative,
systematic assessment framework that applies Cattell-Horn-Carroll
(CHC) cognitive theory and blends cognitive testing and
Response-to-Intervention (RTI) methods into one seamless process
for diagnosing learning disabilities. Replete with case studies,
checklists and worksheets, this reference assists practitioners in
choosing appropriate tests, organizing comprehensive assessments
and interpreting results using a cross-battery approach. |
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 | | with Samuel Ortiz and Vincent Alfonso St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Psychology
Essentials of
Cross-Battery Assessment, 2nd Edition
2008
This book is designed to help busy mental health professionals
quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal
use of psychological assessment instruments. The book contains
widespread coverage of the key cognitive test batteries and
explains how to use the Cattel-Horn-Carroll (CHC) Cross-Battery
assessment approach (XBA) to expand their traditional assessments
to more comprehensively address referral concerns by integrating
data from cognitive and achievement tests. It includes guidelines
for assessing the cognitive abilities of culturally and
linguistically diverse children. It also illustrates the way that
the XBA approach can be used in assessing learning disabilities in
a manner consistent with IDEA. The book includes a CD-ROM that
contains three programs with interpretative and summary
worksheets. |
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 | | Co-author: Alan S. Kaufman St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Psychology
Essentials of WISC-IV
Assessment, Second Edition
2009
Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment, Second Edition,
applies a new, expanded theory-based approach to interpreting the
latest edition of the WISC and provides beginning and seasoned
clinicians with comprehensive step-by-step guidelines to
administering, scoring, and interpreting this latest version of the
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. Also includes a CD-ROM
containing user-friendly software that automates the now expanded,
theory-based interpretive system for the WISC-IV. |
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 | | Co-Author: Vincent C.
Alfonso St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Psychology
Essentials of Specific
Learning Disability Identification
2011
Complete coverage on how SLD manifests itself in academic
performance and expert advice on research and theory-based
approaches to SLD identification. |
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 | | Co-author, Patti L. Harrison St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Psychology
Contemporary Intellectual
Assessment: Theories, Tests and Issues -(3rd
edition)
2012
In one volume, this authoritative reference presents a current,
comprehensive overview of intellectual and cognitive assessment,
with a focus on practical applications. Leaders in the field
describe major theories of intelligence and provide the knowledge
needed to use the latest measures of cognitive abilities with
individuals of all ages, from toddlers to adults. Evidence-based
approaches to test interpretation, and their relevance for
intervention, are described. The book addresses critical issues in
assessing particular populations-including culturally and
linguistically diverse students, gifted students, and those with
learning difficulties-and disabilities in today's educational
settings. |
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Robert Forman St. John’s College of Liberal Arts &
Sciences, English
Aeneid, Vergil(Critical Insights
Series)
2011
A series of essays on the Aeneid and works influenced by the
Aeneid. |
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