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41. Qed State-By-State School Guide

42. Mormon Trail: Mormon Trail. Mormon

43. Historical collections of the

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44. Prairie University: A History

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45. White Man's Club: Schools, Race,

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46. Affirmative Action and the University:

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47. Visionary Observers: Anthropological

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48. Schoolwomen of the Prairies and

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49. America's Second Tongue: American

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50. Forging New Freedoms: Nativism,

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51. The Journey to Wisdom: Self-Education

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52. Liberal Arts and Teacher Education:

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53. The Kingdom of Science: Literary

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54. Big Red!: The Nebraska Cornhuskers

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55. Nebraska (This Land Called America)

56. Some Microeconomics of Higher

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57. American Indians, the Irish, and

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58. Education That Is Christian: The

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59. Understanding Statistics in Education

60. Patient Education and Preventive

41. Qed State-By-State School Guide 1993-94/Illinois/Indiana/Iowa/Kansas/Michigan/Minnesota/Missouri/Nebraska/Ohio/Wisconsin/Midwest Edition (Qed State School Guide Midwest Regional Set)
	Paperback: Pages (1993-12) list price: US$380.00 Isbn: 0887476538 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

42. Mormon Trail: Mormon Trail. Mormon pioneers, Mormon handcart pioneers, Mormonism, his Is The Place Heritage Park, Landmarks of the Nebraska Territory, Pioneer Day (Utah), National Historic Trail
	Paperback: 64 Pages (2009-09-24) list price: US$43.00 Isbn: 6130042302 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
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43. Historical collections of the Great West: Containing narratives of the most important and interesting events in western history--remarkable individual ... Washington, Nebraska, Kansas, etc., etc by Henry Howe
	Unknown Binding: Pages (1857) Asin: B000856IRQ Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

44. Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska
by Robert E. Knoll

Hardcover: 223 Pages (1995-08-01)
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Founded in 1869, the University of Nebraska was given the awesome responsibility of educating a new state barely connected by roads and rail lines. Established as a comprehensive university, uniting the arts and sciences, commerce and agriculture, and open to all regardless of age, sex, color, or nationality,” it has as its motto Literis dedicata et omnibus artibusdedicated to letters and all the arts.

The University at first was confined to four city blocks and didn’t have a building until 1871. Cows grazed the campus. But soon the high aspirations of the state began to be realized. Nebraska boasted the first department of psychology west of the Mississippi River, and its faculty included national prominent scholars like botanist Charles Bessey and linguist A. H. Edgren (later a member of the Nobel Commission). Willa Cather, Roscoe Pound, Mari Sandoz, and Louise Pound ranked among its early graduates. And it developed a reputation for excellence in collegiate athletics.

Written by a beloved member of the faculty, this history shows both why Robert E. Knoll is so devoted to the University as well as the tests such devotion must endure. Its history is hardly one of placid growth and unimpeded progress. Its regents, administration, faculty, and students have periodically fought one another: sometimes over matters as crucial as the University’s purpose, shape, and destination. More often, battles waged over personalities. It is to these personalities that Knoll directs most of his attention.

The author focuses on the men and women who made a difference, for good or ill. He locates the University’s place in the changing intellectual and academic context of the United States and charts its passage through hard times and prosperity. He notes the contributions of the University to Nebraska, from the early experiments in sugar beet cultivation to the national fame of its football team. Most important, its education of generations of Nebraskans has lifted state goals and achievement, and its outreach has made the University an international community.

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A wonderfully written book by a legendary professor
The late, Professor Robert E. Knoll was my english composition professor at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in the early, 1980s. He was a remarkable human being with an inquiring mind and treasured by his many students, faculty and administration during his tenure of more than four decades with the university. His devotion was always to his students and to his love of Nebraska.

Prairie University is more than just a history book. It is colorful storytelling, sometimes sad, often humorous, about the people and life of the university in this very unique, Nebraska setting.You will come away from this book with a better perspective of the Nebraska culture and Nebraskan values, as well as an appreciation for the role of higher education in helping to shape the culture, and how that is juxtaposed with state and local politics. If anything, you will learn that the University of Nebraska is much more than just football!

I highly recommend. ... Read more

45. White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation (Indigenous Education)
by Jacqueline Fear-Segal

Hardcover: 422 Pages (2007-11-01)
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Tens of thousands of Indian children filed through the gates of government schools to be trained as United States citizens. Part of a late-nineteenth-century campaign to eradicate Native cultures and communities, these institutions became arenas where whites debated the terms of Indian citizenship, but also where Native peoples resisted the power of white schooling and claimed new skills to protect and redefine tribal and Indian identities.

In White Man’s Club, schools for Native children are examined within the broad framework of race relations in the United States for the first time. Jacqueline Fear-Segal analyzes multiple schools and their differing agendas and engages with the conflicting white discourses of race that underlay their pedagogies. She argues that federal schools established to Americanize Native children did not achieve their purpose; instead they progressively racialized American Indians. A far-reaching and bold account of the larger issues at stake, White Man’s Club challenges previous studies for overemphasizing the reformers’ overtly optimistic assessment of the Indians’ capacity for assimilation and contends that a covertly racial agenda characterized this educational venture from the start. Asking the reader to consider the legacy of nineteenth-century acculturation policies, White Man’s Club incorporates the life stories and voices of Native students and traces the schools’ powerful impact into the twenty-first century.

Fear-Segal draws upon a rich array of source material. Traditional archival research is interwoven with analysis of maps, drawings, photographs, the built environment, and supplemented by oral and family histories. Creative use of new theoretical and interpretive perspectives brings fresh insights to the subject matter.

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white mans club
This book is very well researched by the author who not only took the time to travel to Charlisle but also contact and speak with the Lipan Apache Band of Texas who still live in the same land we always have lived.The author traveled and spent time with us at Carlisle where ceremonies were conducted at the graves of 3 Lipan Apache family members.There are precious few authors and historians who do nothing but write about what they have researched in libraries and archives but Fear-Segal di much more.Fear-Segal did this and met with us to gain a complete view of history and how it has affected us, and her.Thank you for taking the extra steps to do a complete story.

White Man's Club
This book is a surrogate diary for those who were allowed no voice of their own.My grandmother attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1882-1885 and in these pages, I feel as though I am walking along side her.
Sammie Dennison-Harmon

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46. Affirmative Action and the University: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Higher Education Employment by Kul B. Rai, John W. Critzer
	Hardcover: 250 Pages (2000-04-01) list price: US$50.00 -- used & new: US$37.03 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0803239343 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description Affirmative Action and the University is the only full-length study to examine the impact of affirmative action on all higher education hiring practices. Drawing on data provided by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, the authors summarize, track, and evaluate changes in the gender and ethnic makeup of academic and nonacademic employees at private and public colleges and universities from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. Separate chapters assess changes in employment opportunities for white women, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans. The authors look at the extent to which a two-tier employment system exists. In such a system minorities and women are more likely to make their greatest gains in non-elite positions rather than in faculty and administrative positions. The authors also examine differences in hiring practices between public and private colleges and universities. ... Read more

47. Visionary Observers: Anthropological Inquiry and Education (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology)
	Paperback: 262 Pages (2006-12-01) list price: US$29.95 -- used & new: US$17.47 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 080326464X Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description Visionary Observers explores the relationship between anthropology and public policy, examining the careers of nine twentieth-century American anthropologists who made important contributions to debates about race, ethnicity, socialization, and education. Included are Franz Boas, the founder of American anthropology; Ruth Benedict, who analyzed modern societies during and after World War II; Margaret Mead, anthropology's most recognized public educator; Gene Weltfish, whose “pragmatic anthropology” positioned education at the core of culture; Hortense Powdermaker, whose fieldwork embraced Black America, Hollywood, and the Pacific; Solon Kimball, who studied the impact of desegregation; Ruth Landes, who adopted a cultural approach to educating teachers; Jules Henry, who analyzed the institutional consequences of imposing middle-class culture; and Eleanor Leacock, who pioneered “advocacy anthropology.” The questions they asked—about culture and human behavior, democracy and inequality, and systemic function and disjunction—and the dilemmas they faced as citizen-scientists are recurrent ones. The topics they addressed illustrate how the lens of American anthropology has long been focused on domestic issues. Through its emphasis on anthropologists as practitioners as well as theorists, this anthology adds a new dimension to the history and development of anthropology in the United States. ... Read more

48. Schoolwomen of the Prairies and Plains: Personal Narratives from Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, 1860S-1920s by Mary Hurlbut Cordier
	Paperback: 365 Pages (1997-02) list price: US$19.95 -- used & new: US$64.89 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 082631774X Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description This lively book, now available in paperback, focuses on the women responsible for educating prairie children. Most were natives of the region, often teenaged girls away from home for the first time. Teaching under difficult circumstances, schoolwomen not only struggled to meet their students' needs but also used all the means at their disposalsummer institutes, normal schools, and even reading programs by mailto upgrade their own educational credentials. ... Read more

49. America's Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860-1900 by Ruth Spack
	Hardcover: 231 Pages (2002-06-01) list price: US$45.00 -- used & new: US$29.66 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0803242913 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description This remarkable study sheds new light on American Indian mission, reservation, and boarding school experiences by examining the implementation of English-language instruction and its effects on Native students. A federally mandated system of English-only instruction played a significant role in dislocating Native people from their traditional ways of life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The effect of this policy, however, was more than another instance of cultural loss-English was transformed by and even empowered many Native students. Drawing on archival documents, autobiography, fiction, and English as a Second Language theory and practice, America's Second Tongue traces the shifting ownership of English as the language was transferred from one population to another and its uses were transformed by Native students, teachers, and writers. How was the English language taught to Native students, and how did they variably reproduce, resist, and manipulate this new way of speaking, writing, and thinking? The perspectives and voices of government officials, missionaries, European American and Native teachers, and the students themselves reveal the rationale for the policy, how it was implemented in curricula, and how students from dozens of different Native cultures reacted differently to being forced to communicate orally and in writing through a uniform foreign language. ... Read more

50. Forging New Freedoms: Nativism, Education and the Constitution, 1917-1927 by William G. Ross
	Hardcover: 285 Pages (1994-10-28) list price: US$60.00 -- used & new: US$40.01 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0803239009 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description In several landmark decisions during the mid-1920s, the U.S. Supreme Court significantly expanded the scope of the Constitution's protection of individual freedom by striking down state laws designed to repress or even destroy private and parochial schools. Forging New Freedoms explains the origins of na-tivistic hostility toward German and Japanese Americans, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and other groups whose schools became the object of assaults during and shortly after World War I. The book explores the campaigns to restrict foreign language instruction and to require compulsory public education. It also examines the background of Meyer v. Nebraska and Farrington v. Tokushige, in which the Court invalidated laws that restricted the teaching of foreign languages, and Pierce v. Society of Sisters, which nullified an Oregon law that required all children to attend public elementary schools. Drawing upon diverse sources, including popular periodicals, court briefs, and unpublished manuscripts, William G. Ross explains how the Court's decisions commenced the Court's modern role as a guardian of civil liberties. He also traces the constitutional legacy of those decisions, which have provided the foundation for the controversial right of privacy. Ross's interdisciplinary exploration of the complex interaction among ethnic and religious institutions, nativist groups, public opinion, the legislative process, and judicial decision-making provides fresh insights into both the fragility and the resilience of civil liberties in the United States. While the campaigns to curtail nonpublic education offer a potent reminder of the ever-present dangers of majoritarian tyranny, the refusal of voters and legislators to exact more extreme measures was a tribute to the tolerance of American society. The Court's decisions provided notable examples of how the judiciary can pro-tect embattled minorities who are willing to fight to protect their rights. ... Read more

51. The Journey to Wisdom: Self-Education in Patristic and Medieval Literature by Paul A. Olson
	Hardcover: 299 Pages (1995-10-01) list price: US$8.50 -- used & new: US$8.50 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0803235623 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description The Journey to Wisdom addresses a broad array of topics in education, the natural world, and medieval intellectual history. The book examines a philosophy of education that originated with the ancient Greeks and that reached its culmination in the late-medieval and early-Renaissance periods. That philosophy of education promotes a journey to wisdom, involving an escape from pure subjectivity and “the seductions of rhetoric” and leading to a profound awareness of the natural world and “nature’s God.” It grants us a renewed sense of education as a self-directed, transforming journey to knowledge and insight—rather than (as is so often the case now) as an impersonal, bureaucratized trek that reflects little sense of the ultimate aims of education. The volume opens with a discussion of the quarrel in ancient Greece between the Sophists and the so-called “philosophers”—a quarrel, Paul A. Olson writes, “out of which the [philosophers’] tradition centering education in reality, as opposed to social convention, develops.” Subsequent chapters follow the development of this tradition in the writings of Augustine, Boethius, Dante, Petrarch, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and others. Here Olson refutes several recent theories: that medieval intellectuals helped legitimize technological mastery and exploitation of the environment; that medieval education involved no systematic progress “toward recognizing the sanctity of creation”; and that all literary works—medieval ones included—“are self-referenced,” and therefore that they offer no guidance to a world beyond themselves. The Journey to Wisdom will be essential reading for students of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance intellectual history. But in its unmistakably modern concerns about education, the book also speaks to a far wider spectrum of readers. Olson’s study falls into that rarest category of scholarly productions: one that reflects both its author’s profound knowledge of the past and his equally great commitment to the present. That dual commitment accounts for the uncommon insights—and pleasures—offered by this book. ... Read more

52. Liberal Arts and Teacher Education: A Confrontation
	Hardcover: 250 Pages (1971-06) list price: US$30.00 -- used & new: US$27.93 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0803202091 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

53. The Kingdom of Science: Literary Utopianism and British Education, 1612-1870 by Paul A. Olson
	Hardcover: 375 Pages (2003-01-01) list price: US$65.00 -- used & new: US$8.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0803235682 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description The Kingdom of Science examines Baconian utopias as blueprints for a scientific sociology of knowledge that founded a new social and economic world in the seventeenth century. Looking backward, Paul A. Olson begins with More's Utopia and Shakespeare's The Tempest, static state utopias designed to woo us toward a moral as opposed to a scientific reform. To these, Olson then contrasts the primary subjects of his study—Bacon's New Atlantis, the Commonwealth educational utopias, and the utopianism of Adam Smith and his Utilitarian followers. These later utopias increasingly point to an ideal world to be dominated by a science linked to technology, compelled education, and competitive capitalism. They posit as their end the conquest of nature and use as their means the routinizing of research and education. Their visions, Olson argues, lie at the center of the educational models adopted by mainstream British and American policymakers in the last century and a half—despite the warnings of both conservative and radical critics concerning their potential consequences for the environment and for culture. The challenge Olson presents for those responsible for forging our social future is creating visions sufficient to energize human groups while allowing both for the critical reflection necessary for constructive policy debate and for the action necessary to prevent environmental chaos and cultural disruption. The Kingdom of Science is a companion to Olson's earlier book, The Journey to Wisdom, and carries the assumptions of that patristic-medieval study into the early-modern and modern periods. ... Read more

54. Big Red!: The Nebraska Cornhuskers Story (College Football Today (Mankato, Minn.).)
by John Nichols

Paperback: 32 Pages (1999-08)
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Highlights some of the important personalities and key moments in football played at the University of Nebraska. ... Read more

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Disapointed.
I was disapointed in the book. For [the price]..(the total cost with shipping)I was expecting much more. It is only 32 pages long.The total number ofpages in books should be included in description. However, the book is accurate in it's details and the photography is good. I wasjust expecting much more, considering the price.

Huge Cornhusker Fan
I really enjoyed this book.I am a huge Cornhusker fan, therefore, this book was very entertaining to me...If you are interested in the history of Nebraska football, then this is the book for you.It really goes intodetail about the whole program. ... Read more

55. Nebraska (This Land Called America) by Rachael Hanel
	Library Binding: 32 Pages (2009-07-15) list price: US$28.50 -- used & new: US$28.50 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 158341780X Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

56. Some Microeconomics of Higher Education: Economies of Scale by James Maynard
	Hardcover: 186 Pages (1971-07-01) list price: US$16.95 Isbn: 0803207921 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

57. American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A Comparative Study (Indigenous Education) by Michael C. Coleman
	Paperback: 400 Pages (2009-03-20) list price: US$29.95 -- used & new: US$29.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0803224850 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description For centuries American Indians and the Irish experienced assaults by powerful, expanding states, along with massive land loss and population collapse. In the early nineteenth century the U.S. government, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), began a systematic campaign to assimilate Indians. Initially dependent on Christian missionary societies, the BIA later built and ran its own day schools and boarding schools for Indian children. At the same time, the British government established a nationwide elementary school system in Ireland, overseen by the commissioners of national education, to assimilate the Irish. By the 1920s, as these campaigns of cultural transformation were ending, roughly similar proportions of Indian and Irish children attended state-regulated schools. In the first full comparison of American and British government attempts to assimilate problem peoples” through mass elementary education, Michael C. Coleman presents a complex and fascinating portrait of imperialism at work in the two nations. Drawing on autobiographies, government records, elementary school curricula, and other historical documents, as well as photographs and maps, Coleman conveys a rich personal sense of what it was like to have been a pupil at a school where one’s language was not spoken and one’s local culture almost erased. In absolute terms the campaigns failed, yet the schools deeply changed Indian and Irish peoples in ways unpredictable both to them and to their educators. Meticulously researched and engaging, American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling sets the agenda for a new era of comparative analyses in global indigenous studies. ... Read more

58. Education That Is Christian: The Classic Bestseller-With Fresh Insights for Today's Families, Churches, and Schools by Lois E. Lebar, James E. Plueddemann
	Paperback: 314 Pages (1989-09) list price: US$12.99 -- used & new: US$4.96 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0896937453 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

59. Understanding Statistics in Education
by W. James Popham, Sirotnik

Hardcover: 423 Pages (1992-01)
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It's a miracle.
I have taught statistics and research methods in two different depts of education, and over the years I have had the chance to review and try out many, many stat texts. No matter what text I've tried, I've seen students fumble, forget, and freak out as they slogged through the material. This book is the ONLY text I've ever used that ALL students found comprehensible and even, dare I say, interesting.

Of course, now it's out of print. =arg= Find it wherever you can. It is a rare gem. ... Read more

60. Patient Education and Preventive Medicine by James Brox Labus PA-C, Alison Ann Lauber MD
	Paperback: 808 Pages (2001-03-16) list price: US$46.95 Isbn: 0721684378 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description This book provides healthcare professionals with essential information needed to appropriately diagnose, treat, and prevent disease as well as educate their patients. Patient Education and Preventive Medicine provides clear, concise information to educate the clinician, who then educates the patient by addressing patients questions and concerns regarding their medical condition. It's easy for practitioners to use and quickly retrieve vital information. ... Read more

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