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Examining the Consequences of the Dismantlement of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education

Edited by Larry J. Walker, Tryan L. McMickens, Robert T. Palmer, Alonzo M. Flowers III, Amy E. French, Rosa M. Banda ...

This urgently important volume examines the nuances of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in American higher education.Featuring contributions from a nationally recognized group of scholars at the forefront of addressing anti-DEI efforts, this book tackles the central question: “What is DEI in higher education?” The chapters establish a foundation for addressing myths and disinformation on the ... Read more

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This urgently important volume examines the nuances of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in American higher education.Featuring contributions from a nationally recognized group of scholars at the forefront of addressing anti-DEI efforts, this book tackles the central question: “What is DEI in higher education?” The chapters establish a foundation for addressing myths and disinformation on the
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Combat Mission Kandahar

The Canadian Experience in Afghanistan

by T. Robert Fowler ...

Seven soldiers. Seven military specialties. Seven stories.What was it like to serve in the combat mission in Afghanistan? Journalists’ reports from 2006 to 2011 could only give brief glimpses of the reality on the ground for Canadian soldiers. This book reveals the full story of what happened to seven soldiers, ranking from corporal to captain, who were deployed during Operation ATHENA, Phase 2. ... Read more

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Seven soldiers. Seven military specialties. Seven stories.What was it like to serve in the combat mission in Afghanistan? Journalists’ reports from 2006 to 2011 could only give brief glimpses of the reality on the ground for Canadian soldiers. This book reveals the full story of what happened to seven soldiers, ranking from corporal to captain, who were deployed during Operation ATHENA, Phase 2.
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The Plague of War

Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece

by Jennifer T. Roberts ...

Series series Ancient Warfare and Civilization
In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece. Whole cities were exterminated, their men killed, their women and children enslaved. While the ... Read more

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In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece. Whole cities were exterminated, their men killed, their women and children enslaved. While the
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Behind the Screen

Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media

by Sarah T. Roberts ...

An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing humanity's worst on today's commercial internetSocial media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, more than 100,000 commercial content moderators evaluate posts on ... Read more

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An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing humanity's worst on today's commercial internetSocial media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, more than 100,000 commercial content moderators evaluate posts on
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Thucydides

A Very Short Introduction

by Jennifer T. Roberts ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brough Athens to its knees in 404. The Athenian aristocrat Thucydides, suspecting the magnitude of the conflict that was unfolding before his ... Read more

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brough Athens to its knees in 404. The Athenian aristocrat Thucydides, suspecting the magnitude of the conflict that was unfolding before his
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Geocritical Cosmopolitanism

Space, Literature, and the Sense of the Global

by Robert T. Tally Jr. ...

Is the world a place? As its inhabitants, we belong to the world, with its increasingly interconnected systems and cultures, but the cosmopolitanism of our daily lives is often hidden from view. In this innovative study, Robert T. Tally Jr. challenges our fundamental understanding of what constitutes the “world” in an age of shifting spatial boundaries.The conception of the “world” profoundly ... Read more

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Is the world a place? As its inhabitants, we belong to the world, with its increasingly interconnected systems and cultures, but the cosmopolitanism of our daily lives is often hidden from view. In this innovative study, Robert T. Tally Jr. challenges our fundamental understanding of what constitutes the “world” in an age of shifting spatial boundaries.The conception of the “world” profoundly
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Black College Men's Mental Health Matters

Edited by Tryan L. McMickens, Robert T. Palmer ...

Series series SUNY series, Critical Race Studies in Education
Looks closely at the mental health concerns of Black men in higher education and offers valuable resources and tools for addressing them.This volume assembles a diverse range of scholars, administrators, counselors, and other mental health professionals to discuss the needs of Black college men with mental health concerns. For some Black men, discussing mental health remains taboo. Black College ... Read more

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Looks closely at the mental health concerns of Black men in higher education and offers valuable resources and tools for addressing them.This volume assembles a diverse range of scholars, administrators, counselors, and other mental health professionals to discuss the needs of Black college men with mental health concerns. For some Black men, discussing mental health remains taboo. Black College
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Down the Fairway

by Robert T. Jones, O. B. Keeler ...

Originally published in 1927, Bobby Jones's Down the Fairway has become what Sports Illustrated calls "an incontestable classic." Part memoir, part golf instructional, part golf history—and including wonderful vintage photographs—Down the Fairway is a must read for all who care about this most fascinating sport. Amazingly, Bobby Jones—along with sports journalist O.B. Keeler—wrote this book when ... Read more

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Originally published in 1927, Bobby Jones's Down the Fairway has become what Sports Illustrated calls "an incontestable classic." Part memoir, part golf instructional, part golf history—and including wonderful vintage photographs—Down the Fairway is a must read for all who care about this most fascinating sport. Amazingly, Bobby Jones—along with sports journalist O.B. Keeler—wrote this book when
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More than a Song

A Biblical Journey from Genesis to Revelation

by Sudeesh Robert T. J. ...

Series series 1
What if worship is more than a song? In an age of stages, streams, and polished production, the church has nearly forgotten the deeper question Scripture has been asking from Genesis to Revelation: what is worship, really, when stripped of everything we have built around it? And what is the God of the Bible actually looking for when His people come before Him? More Than a Song traces the answer ... Read more

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What if worship is more than a song? In an age of stages, streams, and polished production, the church has nearly forgotten the deeper question Scripture has been asking from Genesis to Revelation: what is worship, really, when stripped of everything we have built around it? And what is the God of the Bible actually looking for when His people come before Him? More Than a Song traces the answer
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In the Spirit of Alinsky

Community Organizing’s Fight to Strengthen Democracy

by Robert T. Gannett Jr. ...

Community-based organizing stands at a crossroads at a time when anti-democratic headwinds and authoritarian impulses threaten American society as never before. Robert T. Gannett Jr. draws on a forty-year career as a grassroots activist to make an impassioned plea for citizens to create the robust infrastructure of organizing that is necessary to sustain modern-day democracy.As Gannett shows, the ... Read more

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Community-based organizing stands at a crossroads at a time when anti-democratic headwinds and authoritarian impulses threaten American society as never before. Robert T. Gannett Jr. draws on a forty-year career as a grassroots activist to make an impassioned plea for citizens to create the robust infrastructure of organizing that is necessary to sustain modern-day democracy.As Gannett shows, the
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Herodotus

A Very Short Introduction

by Jennifer T. Roberts ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in words; more narrowly, he determined to discover the causes of the wars between Greece and Persia and to explain them to his fellow ... Read more

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Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in words; more narrowly, he determined to discover the causes of the wars between Greece and Persia and to explain them to his fellow
... Read more
Out of One, Many

Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture

by Jennifer T. Roberts ...

A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and ... Read more

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A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and
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