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By Ed Paulson /
June 12, 2023 /
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Combining theoretical concepts with practical, real-world experience creates a systemized approach to determining the proper media to use for a given communication situation. Using this method best ensures that the great message you created is understood properly, making it more likely to get the cooperation you seek.
By Liam Heneghan /
June 7, 2023 /
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This book's conceptual approach challenges readers to think across multiple disciplines to reveal the "big picture" that is all too often lost in the details of contemporary environmental studies.
By Michael Raleigh /
May 10, 2023 /
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Ray Foley wants to learn what happened to a boyhood friend, a quest that connects him with a slick private detective, a young nurse scarred by her wartime experience, a sardonic old Mafia don and an aging but clever cop.
By Carolina Sternberg /
May 10, 2023 /
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This book argues that neoliberal principles, rationales and institutions, along with the elaborate rhetoric that has contributed to their success, are forever present in the U.S. and Latin American region.
By Arieahn Matamonasa Bennett /
December 7, 2022 /
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"Cages, keys and the chatelaine: A woman's book for transformation" presents a simple process of developing self-awareness and knowledge of where and how we are stuck by themes and patters, and the keys to freedom.
By Jill King /
November 8, 2022 /
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"Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television" addresses the current demand for more inclusive representation in film and TV and equips screenwriters with the tools to ensure their screenplays tell authentic stories, offering innovative ways to reimagine current screenwriting practice towards radical equity and inclusion.
By Scott Myers /
August 25, 2022 /
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Exploring the protagonist’s journey and their "unity arc," this book explains how a family of characters surrounds the protagonist and influences their transformation process. This easy-to-follow guide features activities that will help writers of any level develop their stories from concept to scene-by-scene outline.
By Blair Davis /
July 27, 2022 /
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Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
By: Blair Davis, Media and Cinema Studies program; Peyton... read more
By Tom Mockaitis /
July 15, 2022 /
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"Islands and Empire: A History of Modern Britain" situates the United Kingdom within a local, European and global historical context. It examines the forces of imperialism, emphasizing the dynamic interaction between the colonies and the metropole.
By Jeffrey Meyers /
June 24, 2022 /
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"The nonviolent apocalypse" uses modern examples of nonviolence to help illuminate "Revelation's" resistance, arguing the book's famously violent visions are actually acts of nonviolent resistance to the Roman Empire.
By D. Scott Tharp /
April 7, 2022 /
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Decoding privilege: Exploring white college students' views on social inequalityBy: Scott Tharp, Division of Student... read more
By Clara Orban /
February 11, 2022 /
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In her latest work, the Department of Modern Languages' Clara Orban explores Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr's approach to creating geographies of indifference through slow cinema techniques.
By Joseph D. Tariman /
January 21, 2022 /
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This third edition presents cutting-edge information on novel treatments and nursing care of patients with multiple myeloma receiving these novel therapies.
By Nathan Matteson /
January 6, 2022 /
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Through new essays, recently discovered archival material, photography, and drawings, "Lewerentz Fragments" explores the architect's body of work spanning three-quarters of the 20th century.
By Kathryn Ibata-Arens /
October 29, 2021 /
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"Pandemic Medicine" analyzes the rise and decline of the global innovation system for new drug development and proposes a policy framework for fast-tracking the implementation of new discoveries and preparing for future pandemics.
By Evan F. Moore /
August 19, 2021 /
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Both a reckoning and a roadmap, "Game Misconduct" is an essential read for modern hockey fans, showing the truth of the sport's past and present while offering the tools to fight for a better future.
By Edmund Lawler /
August 13, 2021 /
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"The Graft" shines a light on the first human organ transplant, a story that has been largely lost to history. It examines the operation at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Ill., and the controversy and ethical considerations that followed.
By D. Scott Tharp /
August 5, 2021 /
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"Doing Social Justice Education" provides a succinct but comprehensive introduction to the planning, design, facilitation and assessment of social justice experiences for professional staff and student peer educators.
By Bruce L. Ottley /
July 22, 2021 /
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The book explores Papua New Guinea's colonial system from its adoption in the 1880s, through its development and operation, until the country became an independent country in September 1975.
By Michael Raleigh /
July 14, 2021 /
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Private eye Harry Strummer is hired to find a nightclub singer's estranged husband, a search complicated by a street kid informant, a clever Chicago cop, and a Louisiana private eye hopelessly out of his depth.
By Antonio Morales-Pita /
June 24, 2021 /
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The deeply inspirational book "Is It Possible to Inspire Anyone?" is readable, compelling and persuasive. It has the potential to transform the ways readers approach, establish and achieve goals in a sustainable way.
By Ron Culp and Matthew W. Ragas /
May 28, 2021 /
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Business acumen has emerged as a critical competency for communicators and young professionals. This primer contains everything readers need to know about today's business world. Besides covering the language and thinking of C-suites and boardrooms, the book discusses organizational agility, business models, rules and regulations, the money and the numbers, and even how to read financial statements and reports.
By Ruth Gannon Cook /
April 26, 2021 /
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This educator's introduction to semiotics, the study of signs and symbols, describes a communications phenomenon that has permeated and influenced learner attitudes, behaviors and cognition in any learning environment.
By Kelly Tzoumis /
March 11, 2021 /
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Every year, about four billion pounds of toxic chemicals are generated and released by U.S. industries. "Toxic Chemicals in America: Controversies in Human and Environmental Health" examines the potential threat these chemical pose to American families, as ell as the policies surrounding the chemicals and their manufacturers.
By James Conway /
February 25, 2021 /
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In this short children's book, readers become part of Benzo’s Dream Cheese World. Every time this mouse falls asleep, a magical world begins in his mind. The only obstacle that he has to face is time itself before he awakens from his sleep.
By Paul Booth /
February 2, 2021 /
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"Board Games as Media" explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game. What does a game communicate? How do games play us? With little scholarly research in this still-emerging field, "Board Games" as Media underscores the importance of board games in the ever-evolving world of media.
By Michele Morano /
November 13, 2020 /
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A memoir-in-essays about unconsummated romance, "Like Love" turns romantic clichés inside out and challenges us to rethink our notions about what it means to love.
By Kelly Kessler /
September 29, 2020 /
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"Broadway in the Box" shines a television-centric light on the cross-industry presence of a seminal American art form as it works to unearth, explore and analyze pockets of more than 70 years of programming which embraced and satirized the musical in its various forms.
By Kathleen Rooney /
August 12, 2020 /
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A saga of hope and duty, love and endurance, as well as the claustrophobia of fame, "Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey" is a tragic, yet life-affirming, war story the world has never heard. Inspired by true events of World War I, the author resurrects two long-forgotten figures, recounting their tale in a pair of voices that will change the way readers look at animals, freedom and even history itself.
By Richard Jones /
August 7, 2020 /
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"Avalon" is a world where the mundane and the spiritual intersect. Guided by the poet's voice—precise in his descriptions, trustworthy in his insights—readers experience a receptivity to all life offers and imposes.
By Miles Harvey /
July 7, 2020 /
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"The King of Confidence" tells the story of the most infamous American con man you’ve never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, until his assassination in 1856.
By Alyssa Westring /
April 17, 2020 /
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Drawing on the experience of researchers, educators, consultants, coaches and parents, "Parents Who Lead" offers a robust and proven method - designed specifically for parents - that will help you gain a greater sense of purpose and control.
By Mojdeh Bayat /
February 25, 2020 /
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"Addressing Challenging Behavior and Mental Health Issues in Early Childhood" juxtaposes two often-opposing intervention approaches - behavioral vs. emotionally responsive and positive person-centered - to introduce a novel way of working with children.
By Laura Kina /
February 5, 2020 /
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"Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos" is an illustrated, transpacific feminist fairy tale that illuminates an ancient tradition and pushes back against normative standards of beauty.
By Craig Klugman /
December 4, 2019 /
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"Research Methods in Health Humanities" surveys the diverse and unique research methods used by scholars in the growing, transdisciplinary field of health humanities.
By Kyle Petersen /
November 21, 2019 /
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"Inquiry-Based Enumerative Combinatorics: One, Two, Skip a Few... Ninety-Nine, One Hundred" offers the opportunity to create a uniquely engaging combinatorics classroom by embracing inquiry-based learning techniques.
By Thomas Mockaitis /
November 6, 2019 /
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Written for the general reader as well as the professional, "Violent Extremists: Understanding the Domestic and International Terrorist Threat" examines the hybrid nature of the two violent extremist movements threatening the United States: radical Islamism and white nationalism.
By Jack O'Brien /
October 8, 2019 /
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"Introduction to Community Psychology" is a free, online text that aims to inform readers how to comprehensively analyze, investigate and address escalating problems of economic inequality, violence, substance abuse, homelessness, poverty and racism.
By Fernando De Maio /
April 4, 2019 /
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"Community Health Equity" documents more than a century of work on health equity from Chicago. It testifies to the relentless efforts of many people from many communities determined to achieve something better, more humane and just.
By Sean D. Kirkland /
February 21, 2019 /
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"A Companion to Ancient Philosophy" is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the entire period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle and the Hellenistic thinkers.
By Coya Paz /
February 14, 2019 /
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"Ensemble-Made Chicago" brings together the work of a wide range of Chicago theater companies to share strategies for co-creating theatrical performance as an ensemble, providing histories of both co-created theater in Chicago and the various companies featured in the book.
By Luca Badetti /
January 24, 2019 /
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"I Believe in You" is about trusting who we really are, learning to relate to ourselves and others beyond masks and projections. The book, grounded in stories from L'Arche communities in which people with and without intellectual disabilities live inclusively, brings together psychological and spiritual insights for anyone who wants to live authentically.
By María del Rosario Acosta López /
January 17, 2019 /
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"Aesthetic Reason and Imaginative Freedom" draws attention to Friedrich Schiller as a philosophical thinker in his own right. The authors argue Schiller presents a robust philosophical program that can be favorably compared to those of his age, and that his works can guide us in our more contemporary philosophical concerns and approaches.
By Ann Russo /
December 13, 2018 /
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"Feminist Accountability"offers intersectional praxes of accountability and transformative justice developed through the leadership of feminists. Rather than relying on existing punishment regimes, the book explores everyday practices that cultivate individual and collective accountability.
By Patrick McHaffie /
December 6, 2018 /
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"GIS: An Introduction to Mapping Technologies" provides an accessible introduction to geotechnology to a wide range of students. The techniques and approaches to problem solving, project organization and management, and data visualization are used with the intention of introducing students to the possibility of using GIS as a platform for making contributions to a wide range of programs.
By Elizabeth Millán Brusslan /
November 29, 2018 /
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An edited collections of essays, "Brill's Companion to German Romantic Philosophy" examines aspects of the philosophical contributions of the early German Romantics and showcases the philosophical achievements of figures such as Schlegel, Novalis, Holderlin, and Wackenroder.
By Michael Budde /
October 25, 2018 /
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"New World Pope" book explores how Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis - the ideas, experiences, influences, and passions that have formed this pastor who has inspired, challenged, encouraged, and angered people worldwide.
By H. Peter Steeves /
September 27, 2018 /
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Through an analysis of concrete examples taken from everyday experience and culture, “Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding” develops an aesthetic methodology founded on a phenomenological approach to experience. Refusing hierarchical distinctions between high and low art, the book argues that we must conceptualize the whole of human experience as aesthetic: art is lived and living is an art.
By David Lay Williams /
September 13, 2018 /
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This classroom edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political writings includes new translations of On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the Preface to Narcissus.
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By Liam Heneghan /
May 17, 2018 /
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In "Beasts at Bedtime," scientist and father Liam Heneghan examines the environmental underpinnings of children's stories. From "Beatrix Potter" to "Harry Potter," Heneghan unearths the universal insights into our inextricable relationship with nature that underlie so many classic children's stories.
By Barrie Jean Borich /
April 19, 2018 /
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A nonfiction narrative by the Department of English's Barrie Jean Borch, "Apocalypse, Darling" centers on the author's return to a decimated landscape for a misbegotten wedding. As concise as a poem and as sweeping as an epic novel, "Apocalypse, Darling" explores the intersection of American traditional and self-invented social identities, and the destruction and re-greening of industrial cityscapes.
By Jill Hopke /
March 15, 2018 /
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"Communicating about Fossil Fuel Divestment" analyzes how divestment is a socially responsible investing tactic to remove assets from a sector or industry based on moral objections to its business practices, with historical roots in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
By Blair Davis /
February 1, 2018 /
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Movies based on comic books and their characters have inspired many innovations to Hollywood's business model, with film franchises and transmedia storytelling helping to ensure the genre will continue its reign over popular culture for years to come. "Comic Book Movies" explores how this genre of film offers audiences modern-day myths, sometimes even incorporating ancient mythic figures while also engaging with the questions that haunt a post-9/11 world.
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By Paula McQuade /
January 18, 2018 /
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"Catechisms and Women's Writing" examines original works composed by female catechists - both in manuscript and print - and the construction of these materials from other sources.
By Matt Ragas and Ron Culp /
January 11, 2018 /
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"Mastering Business for Strategic Communicators" provides strategic communications and public relations students and professionals with expert insights and advice into the various major business functions and departments. The authors also will host a book signing in the Loop Campus Barnes & Noble on Thursday, Jan. 18.
By Thomas Henkey /
November 30, 2017 /
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Fifty-five percent of the world's population - and growing - now lives in cities. "Urban Emergency Management: Planning and Response for the 21st Century" examines the concepts and practices of emergency management in the context of the complex challenges faced by the contemporary city.
By Ted Anton /
November 9, 2017 /
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Take a journey through the curious and wonderful science of Earth's smallest life forms, from the mammalian gut to the ocean floor, in "Planet of Microbes: The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Life Forms."
By Connie Johnston /
October 19, 2017 /
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Did you know cockroaches care for their young? "Humans and Animals: A Geography of Coexistence" features short essays, packed with interesting information about the ways human and animal lives intersect.
By Dustin Goltz /
September 28, 2017 /
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"Comic Performativities: Identity, Internet Outrage, and the Aesthetics of Communication" highlights patterns of criticism and public debate in the relationship between humor, identity and offense.