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Campus Life in the Movies

A Critical Survey from the Silent Era to the Present

By: John E. Conklin

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Campus Life in the Movies

A Critical Survey from the Silent Era to the Present

By: John E. Conklin

Hollywood films have presented audiences with stories of campus life for nearly a century, shaping popular perceptions of our colleges and universities and the students who attend them. These depictions of campus life have even altered the attitudes of the students themselves, serving as both a mirror of and a model for behavior. One can only imagine how many high school seniors enter college today with the hopes of living the proverbial Animal House or PCU Greek experience, or how many have worried over the SAT and college admissions after watching more recent movies like 2004's The Perfect Score. This book explores themes of college life in 681 live-action, theatrically released, feature-length films set in the United States and released from 1915 through 2006, evaluating how these movies both reflected and distorted the reality of undergraduate life. Topics include college admissions, the freshman experience, academic work, professor-student relations, student romance, fraternity and sorority life, sports, political activism, and other extracurricular activities. The book also includes a complete filmography and 66 illustrations.

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McFarland

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0786452358

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Russian and Soviet Education 1731-1989

A Multilingual Annotated Bibliography

By: John T. Zepper,William W. Brickman

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Russian and Soviet Education 1731-1989

A Multilingual Annotated Bibliography

By: John T. Zepper,William W. Brickman

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1135838186

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9781135838188

The Mobilized American West, 1940–2000

By: John M. Findlay

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The Mobilized American West, 1940–2000

By: John M. Findlay

In the years between 1940 and 2000, the American Far West went from being a relative backwater of the United States to a considerably more developed, modern, and prosperous region—one capable of influencing not just the nation but the world. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, the population of the West had multiplied more than four times since 1940, and western states had transitioned from rural to urban, becoming the most urbanized section of the country. Massive investment, both private and public, in the western economy had produced regional prosperity, and the tourism industry had undergone massive expansion, altering the ways Americans identified with the West. In The Mobilized American West, 1940–2000, John M. Findlay presents a historical overview of the American West in its decades of modern development. During the years of U.S. mobilization for World War II and the Cold War, the West remained a significant, distinct region even as its development accelerated rapidly and, in many ways, it became better integrated into the rest of the country. By examining events and trends that occurred in the West, Findlay argues that a distinctive, region-wide political culture developed in the western states from a commitment to direct democracy, the role played by the federal government in owning and managing such a large amount of land, and the way different groups of westerners identified with and defined the region. While illustrating western distinctiveness, Findlay also aims to show how, in its sustaining mobilization for war, the region became tethered to the entire nation more than ever before, but on its own terms. Findlay presents an innovative approach to viewing the American West as a region distinctive of the United States, one that occasionally stood ahead of, at odds with, and even in defiance of the nation.

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517

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496235576

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9781496235572

Land Use and the States

By: Robert G. Healy,John S. Rosenberg

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Land Use and the States

By: Robert G. Healy,John S. Rosenberg

An enlarged and revised book which looks at some programs of state land use control. Focusing on the problems that have caused the public to demand such controls, on the variety of legislative responses, and on the problems of implementation that arise, this study presents a rationale for the role of the state government in the land use field. Originally published in 1979

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309

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Routledge

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1135995265

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9781135995263

Islands in a Far Sea

The Fate of Nature in Hawaii, Revised Edition

By: John L. Culliney

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Islands in a Far Sea

The Fate of Nature in Hawaii, Revised Edition

By: John L. Culliney

First published in 1988, Islands in a Far Sea offers a comprehensive environmental history of Hawai‘i. This thoroughly revised edition begins with an up-to-date account of the geological formation and shaping of the Islands, their colonization by plants and animals, and the patterns of ecology and evolution that unfolded in nurturing seas and on breath-taking landscapes. This book tells the story of human interaction with Hawai‘i's native landscapes and rich biological heritage. The author’s accessible language allows readers to grasp basic geological and biological principles and to understand the perhaps surprising vulnerability of Hawaiian ecosystems--which have coevolved with volcanoes--to human impact. Islands in a Far Sea includes many well-documented historical examples of such impacts, featuring growth and greed, fears and foibles as humans confronted endemic nature in Hawai‘i. Citing a large array of sources, the author makes it possible for interested readers to probe more deeply the changes in natural systems that have ensued on all of the Hawaiian Islands. To date the result has been the tragic reduction of a unique and benign biota. However, the book holds out hope that current efforts to protect what is left of Hawai‘i's flora and fauna in their remaining wild settings may yet succeed.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824874544

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9780824874544

Criminal Behavior Systems

A Typology

By: Marshall B. Clinard,Richard Quinney,John Wildeman

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Criminal Behavior Systems

A Typology

By: Marshall B. Clinard,Richard Quinney,John Wildeman

An important classic, especially useful for courses in criminal behavior and personality, this text begins with a discussion of the construction of types of crime and then formulates and utilizes a typology of criminal behavior systems.

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Routledge

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1437755291

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9781437755299

The Impact of Publicity on Corporate Offenders

By: Brent Fisse,John Braithwaite

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The Impact of Publicity on Corporate Offenders

By: Brent Fisse,John Braithwaite

Uncertainty surrounds the use of publicity as a means of controlling corporate crime. On the one hand, some agree with Justice Brandeis's dictum that light is "the best of disinfectants...the most efficient policeman." On the other hand, many believe that corporations' internal affairs are effectively shrouded with a thick fog that prevents the light of public scrutiny from reaching them. The Impact of Publicity on Corporate Offenders is the first study to go beyond the rhetoric, through an examination of corporate experience. Fisse and Braithwaite have carried out a qualitative inquiry concerning 17 large corporations involved in publicity crises. Based mainly on interviews, the inquiry includes company employees and former employees, union officials, officers of government regulatory agencies, competitors, independent accountants, government prosecutors, public interest activists, judicial officers, stockbrokers, and other experts.

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408

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State University of New York Press

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1438402929

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9781438402925

New Perspectives in Criminology

By: John E. Conklin

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New Perspectives in Criminology

By: John E. Conklin

This reader includes the most up-to-date and engaging selections for a criminology course to be found under one cover, meeting an unfulfilled demand in the marketplace. All publication dates are between 1990 and 1996. Juvenile gangs, white-collar crime, sources of criminal behavior, violent crime, drugs, deterrence, treatment and punishment, and issues of class, gender and race represent topics covered. Selections are well-coordinated with material that appears in basic criminology textbooks, and professors using any one of these can consult a chart in the preface to see how to assign the selections. Carefully designed to supplement such texts, this reader can also be adopted as a basic reader supplemented by other monographs.

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340

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Pearson

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0205183883

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9780205183883

Carnie King

The Story of Patty Conklin and Conklin Shows

By: John Thurston

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Carnie King

The Story of Patty Conklin and Conklin Shows

By: John Thurston

The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America. Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become the world’s largest carnival company. Patty started on the mean streets of New York selling peanuts before becoming a a small-time operator. Willing to try anything to promote his show, he established himself as a carnie celebrity. Winning the midway contract for the Canadian National Exhibition in 1937, he made it his personal world’s fair. It became the foundation for his son and grandson to expand Conklin Shows until they were playing the biggest fairs and exhibitions throughout North America. Carnie King begins with the birth of Joseph Renker to German immigrant parents, tells of his personal transformation into Patty Conklin, and follows his incredible life through to his death in 1970. It covers his company's history after Jim Conklin took over, expanded it beyond recognition, then handed it on to his own son. Not only a history of Conklin Shows, Carnie King explores how midways work and their commercial and popular presence in North America The story it tells is based on dozens of interviews with carnies and access to the Conklin archives. It includes anecdotes about a range of characters and insights about life on the midway. Carnie King is at once a revealing look at a unique part of twentieth-century culture and a vivid account of three generations of showmen and their dominance of midways across the continent.

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Dundurn

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1459749944

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9781459749948

The People’s Constitution

200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union

By: John F. Kowal

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The People’s Constitution

200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union

By: John F. Kowal

The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—and made it more democratic Who wrote the Constitution? That’s obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. The real history of the Constitution is the astonishing story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. It’s a story of how We the People have improved our government’s structure and expanded the scope of our democracy during eras of transformational social change. The People’s Constitution is an elegant, sobering, and masterly account of the evolution of American democracy. From the addition of the Bill of Rights, a promise made to save the Constitution from near certain defeat, to the post–Civil War battle over the Fourteenth Amendment, from the rise and fall of the “noble experiment” of Prohibition to the defeat and resurgence of an Equal Rights Amendment a century in the making, The People’s Constitution is the first book of its kind: a vital guide to America’s national charter, and an alternative history of the continuing struggle to realize the Framers’ promise of a more perfect union.

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493

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The New Press

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1620975629

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9781620975626

Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology

By: John P. Harley

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Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology

By: John P. Harley

Provides an introduction to laboratory techniques and principles that are important in each area of microbiology. This work is prepared to accompany Prescott et al's Microbiology, 6/e.

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McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics

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0072556803

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9780072556803

Book's by John E. Conklin

Campus Life in the Movies

Campus Life in the Movies

Russian and Soviet Education 1731-1989

Russian and Soviet Education 1731-1989

The Mobilized American West, 1940–2000

The Mobilized American West, 1940–2000

Land Use and the States

Land Use and the States

Islands in a Far Sea

Islands in a Far Sea

Criminal Behavior Systems

Criminal Behavior Systems

The Impact of Publicity on Corporate Offenders

The Impact of Publicity on Corporate Offenders

New Perspectives in Criminology

New Perspectives in Criminology

Carnie King

Carnie King

The People’s Constitution

The People’s Constitution

Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology

Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology

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