Melissa S. Cole's Books

An academic library’s instruction program reflects and communicates its vision for teaching and learning within the context of its institution, and the instruction coordinator plays an essential role in shaping and advancing this vision. Instruction coordinators and directors in academic libraries may have a variety of titles and wear an entire wardrobe’s worth of hats, but they face many of the same challenges in developing, promoting, and evaluating their instruction programs. This book approaches using the instruction program as the catalyst to further the library’s agenda for teaching and learning and gives instruction program directors a set of resources that will help them map out, enact, and assess the impact of this agenda. This book is ideal for librarians and administrators who direct, coordinate, or lead an academic library’s teaching and learning program and is particularly useful for new instruction program coordinators—either those new to their position or new to their institution.

This project is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton penned the Declaration of Sentiments for the first women’s rights convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, she unleashed a powerful force in American society. In A Sisterhood of Sculptors, Melissa Dabakis outlines the conditions under which a group of American women artists adopted this egalitarian view of society and negotiated the gendered terrain of artistic production at home and abroad. Between 1850 and 1876, a community of talented women sought creative refuge in Rome and developed successful professional careers as sculptors. Some of these women have become well known in art-historical circles: Harriet Hosmer, Edmonia Lewis, Anne Whitney, and Vinnie Ream. The reputations of others have remained, until now, buried in the historical record: Emma Stebbins, Margaret Foley, Sarah Fisher Ames, and Louisa Lander. At midcentury, they were among the first women artists to attain professional stature in the American art world while achieving international fame in Rome, London, and other cosmopolitan European cities. In their invention of modern womanhood, they served as models for a younger generation of women who adopted artistic careers in unprecedented numbers in the years following the Civil War. At its core, A Sisterhood of Sculptors is concerned with the gendered nature of creativity and expatriation. Taking guidance from feminist theory, cultural geography, and expatriate and postcolonial studies, Dabakis provides a detailed investigation of the historical phenomenon of women’s artistic lives in Rome in the mid-nineteenth century. As an interdisciplinary examination of femininity and creativity, it provides models for viewing and interpreting nineteenth-century sculpture and for analyzing the gendered status of the artistic profession.

Discusses what sand bottoms are, where they can be found, the plant and animal life that live there, and what impact humans have on their ecosystems.

Describes the social interactions of rhinos, their eating habits, mating, and encounters with humans.

Describes the plants and animals that live and survive in the harsh environment of the North American deserts and explains how humans can preserve desert habitats.

Run with some of Africa's swiftest and most powerful creatures, as they search the harsh wilderness for food and water.

This book explores vast stretches of sandy beaches where communities of fascinating creatures thrive below the damp sand. Mole crabs, lugworms, beach hoppers, and gaper clams feed masses of migrating shore birds in this often-unseen coastal environment.

Found only in Africa and Asia, elephants are the world's largest and heaviest land mammals.

Gallop across the grasslands with Africa's most visible herds as they struggle to elude the many dangerous predators that stalk them.

Get a close-up look at the world's tallest land animals as they range across central Africa.

Describes the physical features, development, reproduction, social lives, and survival techniques of dolphins.

Discusses the grasses, plants, animals, climate, food, water, humans, and ecology of the prairie.

Describes the topography, climate, and plant and animal life of the forests, as well as the interaction that humans have with them.

Kelp forests is an underwater jungle experience where readers learn about the interactions between a variety of creatures including sea otters, wolf eels, and kelp crabs.

Describes the physical features, development, reproduction, social lives, and survival techniques of sharks.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and endangered status of tigers.

Journey across the vast plains and grasslands of Africa and Asia with some of the earth's most fearsome felines. Stunning photographs capture these animals in their natural surroundings as the text describes each creature's habitat, physical features, life cycle, survival skills, and special abilities.

Describes the geographic features of the Arctic, the habitat, plant life, and its impact on humans.

Dive into the world of these huge, peaceful, water-dwelling giants with a special knack for surviving.

Discusses the physical characteristics, feeding and mating behavior, and habitat of jaguars and leopards.

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