Purdue University Press: 164 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Quickly following what many expected to be a wholesale revolution in library practices, institutional repositories encountered unforeseen problems and a surprising lack of impact. Clunky or cumbersome interfaces, lack of perceived value and use by scholars, fear of copyright infringement, and the...
Roll with the Times, or the Times Roll Over You
Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Over one hundred presentations from the 36th annual Charleston Library Conference (held November 1-5, 2016) are included in this annual proceedings volume. Major themes of the meeting included data visualization, streaming video, analysis and assessment, demand-driven acquisition, and open access...
The Importance of Being Earnest
Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Over one hundred presentations from the thirty-fourth Charleston Library Conference (held November 5-8, 2014) are included in this annual proceedings volume. Major themes of the meeting included patron-driven acquisitions versus librarian-driven acquisitions; marketing library resources to faculty...
The Extraordinary Spirit of Green Chimneys
Connecting Children and Animals to Create Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Green Chimneys is a nationally renowned US nonprofit organization that helps improve the lives of at-risk urban children by incorporating animals and environmental activities into their educational experiences. Founded by Dr. Samuel (Rollo) B. Ross, Jr., “Green Chimneys Farm for Little Folk” opened...
Methods of IT Project Management
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Designed for graduate, advanced undergraduate, and practitioner project management courses with an information technology focus, Methods of IT Project Management is built around the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). The text provides students with all of the concepts, techniques, and methods...
Animal Cruelty and Freedom of Speech
When Worlds Collide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
A collaboration between an attorney and an animal protection advocate, this work utilizes the extremely controversial and high-profile "crush video" case, US v. Stevens, to explore how American society attempts to balance the protection of free speech and the prevention of animal cruelty....
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Reference service, the idea that librarians provide direct assistance to users, has been a central function of libraries for over a century. Today's libraries are even more complex and intimidating to new users than libraries of the past, and the technical and social contexts in which users experience...
The Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
In Search of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America's farm-reared daughters are conspicuously...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
The studies presented in the collected volume Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies -- edited by Steven Totosy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvari -- are intended as an addition to scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies. More specifically, the articles represent scholarship about Central and...
Child Rights
The Movement, International Law, and Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it. The other is Somalia. Child Rights: The Movement, International...
Mo Yan in Context
Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary." The announcement marked the first time a resident of mainland China had ever received the award. This...
Exploring the C-SPAN Archives
Advancing the Research Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Exploring the C-SPAN Archives is a collection of path-breaking research studies that use video drawn from the C-SPAN Archives. The book, based on the papers presented at a November 2014 conference, includes chapters that explore issues in presidential debates, minority representation, the presentation...
Genre Fusion
A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Although the boom in historical fiction and historiography about Spain's recent past has found an eager readership, these texts are rarely studied as two halves of the same story. With Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain, Sara J. Brenneis argues that...
Striking Their Modern Pose
Fashion, Gender, and Modernity in Galdós, Pardo Bazán, and Picón
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The importance of fashion in the construction and representation of gender and the formation of modern society in nineteenth-century Spanish narrative is the focus of Dorota Heneghan's Striking Their Modern Pose. The study moves beyond traditional interpretations that equate female passion for finery...