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Urban Youth and School Pushout
Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's Critics Choice Award!Recent efforts to reform urban high schools have been marked by the pursuit of ever-increasing …
Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority
Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and …
Bison and People on the North American Great Plains
The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military …
Changing Environment of Northern Michigan
Northern Michigan is undergoing unprecedented changes in land use, climate, resource extraction, and species distributions. For the last hundred years, the University of Michigan …
That D----d Brownlow
Published in 1978, this book tells the story of William Gannaway Brownlow, a Methodist minister, Whig politician, author of a Civil War bestseller, and anti-Confederate who …
From Here to University
From Here to University examines factors leading to successful college preparation and academic mobility for historically underrepresented, low-income, inner-city youth. Alexander …
Disaster Response and Homeland Security
Hurricane Katrina is the latest in a series of major disasters that were not well managed, but it is not likely to be the last. Category 4 and category 5 hurricanes will, according …
Radiation Nation
On March 28, 1979, the worst nuclear reactor accident in U.S. history occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Central Pennsylvania. Radiation Nation tells the story of …
Why Teach?
One year out of college, James Nehring landed "e;accidentally"e; in teaching and soon discovered his love for the profession. But he was surrounded by a school system …
Rangeley's Historic Legacy
Rangeley, Maine, was settled in 1817 when Luther Hoar brought his family from Madrid to a log cabin he had built on the shore of Rangeley Lake. Several others families soon …
Praise Song for My Children – New and Selected Poems
Praise Song for My Childrencelebrates twenty-one years of poetry by one of the most significant African poets of this century.Patricia Jabbeh Wesley guides us through the complex …
Water from Stone
In Water from Stone, Jason O'Donoughue investigates the importance of natural springs to ancient Floridians. Throughout their history, Florida's springs have been gathering places …