This lively biography explores interwar America through Will Rogers, the comedian and commentator who witnessed it all: the stock market crash, the Great Depression, the advancement of technology, and the development of mass culture. Born on a farm in rural Oklahoma, Will Rogers shared his rural, agricultural beginnings with a majority of Americans at the turn of the century. But Rogers brought his small-town talents to a national audience, becoming a mainstay of early American mass culture. Though Rogers is remembered today for his success in vaudeville and the nascent American film industry, history has largely forgotten his considerable influence as a political commentator, which Anderson explores at length. Rogers' contributions to early American mass culture, the catalog of powerful personages that he counted among his friends, and his extensive writings about the political issues of the day make Rogers an ideal figure through which to explore the American interwar period. College students will relate well to Rogers, whose political opinions evolved as he gained exposure to people, places, things and ideas beyond rural Oklahoma. Rogers' conflicted relationship with his American Indian heritage also provides window on the history of race relations in America.

Will Rogers and "His" America (Library of American Biography)

History

Anderson, Gary

Carnes, Mark

Americas

Pearson

Tony Stiles is coasting towards retirement doing safe, dull investigations for divorce lawyers until Will Taylor and his rich, sexy lover are shot to death and Stiles's client is the prime suspect.

Deadly Assets (Tony Stiles Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

iUniverse

Just as he did in his first book, Spiders Night on the Boom, Gary Anderson takes aim at the both the heart strings and the funny bone in this new collection of stories from one of the Midwests premiere humorists. With his latest batch of stories, Anderson turns his unique blend of humor and poignancy to subjects as diverse as the importance of keeping promises to children, the incredible Dont Boil Over diet, the intricacies of Quantum Fishing, and how to get free if you ever find yourself hanging upside down by a boot heel from the top of an eight-foot chain link fence. The laughter and tears will flow as Anderson gently guides you through these forty tales of the silly and sublime.

Spider's Big Catch: More Tales From The Heartland

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

The Action Research Dissertation: A Guide for Students and Faculty provides an accessible roadmap that honors the complexity of action research. It will show that action research is appropriate not only for a dissertation, but also a deeply rewarding experience for both the researcher and participants. This book helps students understand the ways action research dissertations are different from more traditional dissertations and prepares students and their committees for the unique dilemmas they may face, such as validity, positionality, design, write-up, ethics, and defense of the dissertation.

The Action Research Dissertation: A Guide for Students, Faculty, and Institutional Review Boards

Politics & Social Sciences

Herr, Kathryn G.

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Children and HIV/AIDS

In December 1982, the Centers for Disease Control received the first reports of cases of children with HIV/AIDS. Since that time, the child welfare system, as well as other human service organizations, have been coping with and responding to the crises of children and families living with HIV/AIDS, including the considerable number of children affected by AIDS through the illness of their parents, siblings, or other family members. This volume is intended as a resource for personnel within the child welfare field serving children and families whose lives are touched by HIV and AIDS. The contributors add insight to and fuel the discussion of the fight against AIDS. They provide tools to help better serve the children and adolescents that the current epidemic so tragically affects. Chapters and contributors include: "Factors Associated with Parents' Decision to Disclose Their HIV Diagnosis to Their Children" by Lori S. Wiener, Haven B. Battles, and Nancy E. Heilman; "Custody Planning with HIV-Affected Families" by Sally Mason; "Correlates and Distribution of HIV Risk Behaviors Among Homeless Youths in New York City" by Michael C. Clatts, W. Rees Davis, J. L. Sotheran, and Aylin Attillasoy; and "HIV Prevention for Youths in Independent Living Programs" by Wendy F. Auslander, Vered Slonim-Nevo, Diane Elze, and Michael Sherraden. Originally published as a special issue of Child Welfare, this volume examines lessons learned from a variety of perspectives and settings, and identifies a number of continuing challenges facing the field. Children and HIV/AIDS is an invaluable compendium that should be read by social workers and health specialists and all those affected by the epidemic.

Ryan, Constance

Taylor-Brown, Susan

White-Gray, Myra

Routledge

Studying Your Own School: An Educator′s Guide to Qualitative Practitioner Research

The authors describe the theory and methods for conducting "action-oriented," qualitative practitioner research as they guide educators through the research process.

Education & Teaching

Nihlen, Ann S.

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

The authors describe the theory and methods for conducting "action-oriented," qualitative practitioner research as they guide educators through the research process.

Herr, Kathryn G. G.

Nihlen, Ann S. S.

Grounded in the day-to-day practicalities of school life, this book records the shared musings of eight principals in their attempts to achieve the ideals of democracy and empowerment in their schools. In each case, these ideals are tempered by a range of bureaucratic and political obstacles, contradictions and complexities inherent in the education system.

Democratic Principals in Action: Eight Pioneers

Blase, Joseph

Dungan, Sherry

Blase, Rebajo R. R.

Grounded in the day-to-day practicalities of school life, this book records the shared musings of eight principals in their attempts to achieve the ideals of democracy and empowerment in their schools. In each case, these ideals are tempered by a range of bureaucratic and political obstacles, contradictions and complexities inherent in the education system.

Blase, Rebajo R.

Living With the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia's Ocean Shores (Living With the Shore)

This volume in the Living with the Shore series provides practical and specific information on the status of the nation’s coast and useful guidelines that enable residents, visitors, and investors to live with and enjoy the shore without costly and futile struggles against the forces of nature.

Living with the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia's Ocean Shores (Living with the Shore)

Business & Money

Pilkey, Orrin H.

Neal, William J.

Pilkey Sr., Orrin H.

Ward, Larry G.

Rosen, Peter S.

Howie, Stephen

Economics

Duke University Press Books

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