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CBS Views the Press ranks as one of the important radio programs in US journalism history. Don Hollenbeck's fifteen-minute program aired weekly over WCBS in New York City from 1947 to 1950. This work features twenty transcripts of CBS Views the Press, providing the historical context and insight into Hollenbeck's approach.

Created in 1887, Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana is home to the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine peoples. This title investigates how historical understandings of literacy practices challenge Indigenous language revitalization efforts on the reservation.

Discusses the roles played by Nevada's present US senators in two of the state's controversies with the federal government: the longstanding water rights dispute between Native Americans and Nevada's ranchers; and the decade-long fight against the establishment of the nation's first permanent nuclear waste depository at Yucca Mountain.

A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the "metropolis" of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood of berry picking, fishing, and hunting led to a life as a big-game guide. The essays in The Hard Way Home offer a view of Alaska that is at once introspective and adventurous.

The Jazz Age coincided with the growth of Kansas City from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City's music, culture, and stars are well covered, Queering Kansas City Jazz supplements the grand narrative of jazz history by including queer identities in the city's history while framing the jazz-scene experience in terms of identity and space.

A memoir of a union activist fighting for industrial democracy, quality craftsmanship and self-actualization through work. It shows how the construction of rural roads, railroad bridges, and modern superhighways depended on the expertise of skilled workers who cared deeply about quality.

Presents a biography of Ruth Benedict, the renowned anthropologist, by her student, drawing on her correspondence and work with Margaret Mead, and on course notes. This book finds the ordering patterns in the materials Benedict left in her papers and shows that she was embarking on new interpretive directions in the last decade of her life.

The American artist Theresa Ferber Bernstein (1890-2002) made and exhibited her work in every decade of the twentieth century. This authoritative book about Bernstein provides an overview of her life and artistic career, examining her relationships with contemporary artists.

Presenting an account of the Kaibab deer controversy, this work describes the interactions, rivalries, and conflicts between state and federal agencies, scientists, nature lovers, conservationists, and hunters. It blends a history of events with an understanding about the promise of scientific knowledge in the face of factual uncertainty.

The Great Plains is a vast expanse of grasslands stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the Missouri River and from the Rio Grande to the coniferous forests of Canada. This book captures what is vital about the Great Plains - from its temperamental climate to its images and icons, its historical character, its folklore, and its politics.

A study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a village outside Nairobi. It documents how families adapted to changing opportunities and conditions as their former colony became a modern nation.

William Winters was unlike most of the soldiers who answered the Union's appeal for men in 1861 and 1862. Like so many others in the Civil War, Winters was a prolific correspondent. His letters included here show a sensitive man who reflects upon both, the loveliness of the southern locales in which he found himself and the hideousness of war.

Offers an indirect method for dealing with powerful and conservative voices in Trakl criticism, a method that unburdens the debate of its weighty pomposity and elicits delight from readers familiar with the critical context.

From the 1880s to the 1980s more than eight thousand workers died in the coal mines of the Rocky Mountain states. Sometimes they died by the dozens in fiery explosions, but more often they died alone, crushed by collapsing roofs or runaway mine cars. This title studies the coal-mining industry in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana.

Ruth C. Wylie''s two volumes of The Self-Concept, published by Nebraska in 1974 and 1979, evaluated psychological and sociological studies of self-concept and self-esteem. Looking at a plethora of tests, Wylie found in 1974 that very few had been adequately conceived or implemented. Many produced results that were unverifiable or specious. Her findings had disturbing implications not only for the tests themselves but for substantive research based upon them. In the 1980s psychometric tests of self-concept have continued to proliferate. Wylie has continued to assess them. Measures of Self-Concept briefly summarizes the psychometric criteria for self-concept tests, as fully discussed in Wylie''s 1974 book, and the present general state of methodological adequacy of currently used earlier tests and some promising new ones still under development. Although Wylie still finds serious shortcomings, she notes a greater attempt today to increase and evaluate the validity of self-concept indices. This book presents detailed, up-to-date information about and psychometric evaluations of ten self-concept tests that appear to be the most meritorious candidates for current use and for further research and development. It is the first book since her 1974 volume to review specific as well as general measures of self-esteem for a range of ages from preschool to adult.

This expanded, updated, and revised edition of A Guide to the Ghosts of Lincoln takes you on a tour of the known and the obscure sites in Lincoln, Nebraska, where on a dark and silent evening you might feel a slight chill in the air, hear the faint calling of a lost soul, or see the ghostly shape of a spirit fade into blackness.

The incredible story of one of the greatest unknown basketball players of all time.

"The enemies of the people must be torn out by the roots," read a sign the author observed in a public building shortly before her arrest in 1938. Her husband was an "enemy of the people," a member of the educated classes that Stalin saw as a threat to his regime. This title tells her story.

Sharp-witted and tenderhearted, these are stories in which readers will find people they know but never really knew until now.

The sobering tale of the rapid rise and decline of the settlement of the western Great Plains.

On March 6, 2001, the top two women's college basketball teams in the US, UConn and Notre Dame, played what was arguably the greatest game in the history of the sport. Bird at the Buzzer re-creates this unique season with a detailed account of the games that led up to - and beyond - the tournament finale.

Today, in a world dominated by agribusiness, less than 1% of Americans claim farm-related occupations. What has been lost is something that Evelyn I. Funda experienced firsthand when, in 2001, her parents sold the last parcel of the farm they had worked since 1957. Against that landscape of loss, Funda explores her family's three-generation farming experience in southern Idaho.

First study of its kind to combine literary and narratological analysis with reference to linguistic terms and models.

Rahel Levin Varnhagen occupied a unique place in German intellectual history. This work provides a comprehensive portrait of this remarkable woman. It gives an account of Varnhagen's intellectual community, and discusses Varnhagen's writings on women, philosophy, literature, Jews, and a host of other topics.

Variations in childhood development are nowhere more conspicuous or important than in the development and expression of emotions. A child’s capacity to understand another’s feelings, to experience guilt or shame, to manipulate others emotionally, to anticipate the response of parents to displays of anger of distress, to exercise emotional control—all of these are aspects of socioemotional development. A concern with it is reflected in the efforts of researchers to understand the long-term consequences of the parent-infant attachment, the effects of maltreatment on young children, the influence of congenital disorders on their social and emotional functioning, and the origins of depression. Thus the topic of socioemotional development has far-reaching and fascinating applications to everyday life, as the essays in this volume reveal. In Socioemotional Development leading scholars approach the topic from diverse perspectives, summarizing findings and discussing original research. They also address a number of broad developmental concerns: What are the lasting effects of early influence? What can account for the long-term consistency of individual characteristics? What are the origins of psychological disorders? To what extent is emotional experience socially constructed? How does biology affect emotion?The contributors and their works are Carol Z. Malatesta, “The Role of Emotions in the Development and Organization of Personality”; Inge Bretherton, “Open Communication and Internal Working Models: Their Role in the Development of Attachment Relationships”; Carolyn Saarni, “Emotional Competence: How Emotions and Relationships Become Integrated”: Carolyn Zahn-Waxler and Grazyna Kochanska, “The Origins of Guilt”; Dante Cicchetti, “The Organization and Coherence of Socioemotional, Cognitive, and Representational Development: Illustrations through a Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Down’s Syndrome and Child Maltreatment.”

Offers candid biographical sketches of nine compelling individuals from the sport of baseball, including athletes, coaches, umpires, businessmen, and sportswriters. The book examines Cal Ripken Jr., Bobby Brown, George Brett, Joe Torre, Bob Feller, Mike Ilitch, Marty Springstead, Bill Madden, and Frank Robinson.

This book finally provides a fuller and more complex picture of a writer who, perhaps more than any other, has brought the Great Plains and the Midwest, lived large and small, into the poetry of our day.

In 1962 Joan Fry was a college sophomore recently married to a dashing anthropologist. Naively consenting to a year-long “working honeymoon” in British Honduras (now Belize), she soon found herself living in a remote Kekchi village deep in the rainforest. Because Fry had no cooking or housekeeping experience, the romance of living in a hut and learning to cook on a makeshift stove quickly faded. Guided by the village women and their children, this twenty-year-old American who had never made more than instant coffee eventually came to love the people and the food that at first had seemed so foreign. While her husband conducted his clinical study of the native population, Fry entered their world through friendships forged over an open fire. Coming of age in the jungle among the Kekchi and Mopan Maya, Fry learned to teach, to barter and negotiate, to hold her ground, to share her space—and she learned to cook. This is the funny, heartfelt, and provocative story of how Fry painstakingly baked and boiled her way up the food chain, from instant oatmeal and flour tortillas to bush-green soup, agouti (a big rodent), gibnut (a bigger rodent), and, finally, something even the locals wouldn’t tackle: a “mountain cow,” or tapir. Fry’s effort to win over her neighbors and hair-pulling students offers a rare and insightful picture of the Kekchi Maya of Belize, even as this unique culture was disappearing before her eyes.