Deborah B. Woodward's Books

First People

The Early Indians of Virginia

By: Keith Egloff,Deborah B. Woodward

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First People

The Early Indians of Virginia

By: Keith Egloff,Deborah B. Woodward

Incorporating recent events in the Native American community as well as additional information gleaned from publications and public resources, this newly redesigned and updated second edition of First People brings back to the fore this concise and highly readable narrative. Full of stories that represent the full diversity of Virginia's Indians, past and present, this popular book remains the essential introduction to the history of Virginia Indians from the earlier times to the present day.

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116

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University of Virginia Press

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0813925487

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9780813925486

In Pursuit of Knowledge

Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture

By: Deborah Rhode

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In Pursuit of Knowledge

Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture

By: Deborah Rhode

Although academics have never lacked for critics, publications on the profession tend to be either popularized polemics, which are engaging but misleading, or scholarly analyses, which are intellectually responsible but of little interest to anyone but specialists. In Pursuit of Knowledge offers an alternative: a unique portrait of academic life that should appeal to both experts and a general audience. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including higher education, history, law, sociology, economics, and literature, the book focuses on the ways in which the pursuit of status has undermined the pursuit of knowledge. Deborah Rhode argues that both individual scholars and institutions in higher education are caught in an arms race of reputation. The result has been to skew priorities in scholarship, erode commitments to teaching, compromise efforts of public intellectuals, and impede effectiveness in administration. The book offers several solutions to counter these pervasive problems in our research institutions. Rhode makes a case for increasing accountability and realigning reward systems. She argues that what is needed is a greater sense of responsibility among universities and their faculties to narrow the gap between academic ideals and practices. In Pursuit of Knowledge is meticulously researched and elegantly written. It is also exceptionally entertaining in its use of quotations culled from over a hundred academic novels, including works by Kingsley Amis, Saul Bellow, David Lodge, and C.P. Snow.(For example, from P.G. Wodehouse's The Girl in Blue, "The Agee womantold us for three quarters of an hourhow she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.") The result is a highly readable but also deeply reflective analysis of the academic profession.

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260

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Stanford University Press

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080476817X

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9780804768177

Ground Water Quality and Agricultural Practices

By: Deborah Fairchild

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Ground Water Quality and Agricultural Practices

By: Deborah Fairchild

This outstanding reference book deals with effects of various agricultural practices on ground water quality and usage; and ground water management strategies for protection of ground water affected by agriculture.

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433

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CRC Press

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1000114635

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9781000114638

Bakhtin Reframed

Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

By: Deborah J. Haynes

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Bakhtin Reframed

Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

By: Deborah J. Haynes

Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new historicist literary criticism and philosophy yet have been under-utilised by artists, art historians and art critics. Deborah Haynes aims to adapt Bakhtin's concepts, particularly those developed in his later works, to an analysis of visual culture and art practices, addressing the integral relationship of art with life, the artist as creator, reception and the audience, and context/intertextuality. This provides both a new conceptual vocabulary for those engaged in visual culture - ideas such as answerability, unfinalizability, heteroglossia, chronotope and the carnivalesque (defined in the glossary) - and a new, practical approach to historical analysis of generic breakdown and narrative re-emergence in contemporary art. Haynes uses Bakhtinian concepts to interpret a range of art from religious icons to post-Impressionist painters and Russian modernists to demonstrate how the application of his thought to visual culture can generate significant new insights. Rehabilitating some of Bakhtin's neglected ideas and reframing him as a philosopher of aesthetics, Bakhtin Reframed will be essential reading for the huge community of Bakhtin scholars as well as students and practitioners of visual culture.

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167

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857736876

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9780857736871

The Road to Scientific Success

Inspiring Life Stories of Prominent Researchers

By: Deborah D. L. Chung

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The Road to Scientific Success

Inspiring Life Stories of Prominent Researchers

By: Deborah D. L. Chung

The Hungarian born mathematical genius, John von Neumann, was undoubtedly one of the greatest and most influential scientific minds of the 20th century. Von Neumann made fundamental contributions to Computing and he had a keen interest in Dynamical Systems, specifically Hydrodynamic Turbulence. This book, offering a state-of-the-art collection of papers in computational dynamical systems, is dedicated to the memory of von Neumann. Including contributions from J E Marsden, P J Holmes, M Shub, A Iserles, M Dellnitz and J Guckenheimer, this book offers a unique combination of theoretical and applied research in areas such as geometric integration, neural networks, linear programming, dynamical astronomy, chemical reaction models, structural and fluid mechanics.

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244

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World Scientific

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9812774718

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9789812774712

Book's by Deborah B. Woodward

First People

First People

In Pursuit of Knowledge

In Pursuit of Knowledge

Ground Water Quality and Agricultural Practices

Ground Water Quality and Agricultural Practices

Bakhtin Reframed

Bakhtin Reframed

The Road to Scientific Success

The Road to Scientific Success

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