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Whereas all texts produced in Iberia during the early modern period reflect the distinct social, political, and cultural realities sweeping across the peninsula to some degree, Portuguese literature written in Spanish offers a unique vantage point from which to see these converging landscapes.

Offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the heated debate about free-roaming cats. The debate pits conservationists against cat lovers, who disagree both on the ecological damage caused by the cats and the best way to manage them.

Offers a variety of perspectives and views on the question of the future of the German-Jewish past. The volume addresses topics such as antisemitism, Holocaust memory, historiography, and political issues relating to the future relationship between Jews, Israel, and Germany.

Explores how students learn in an inquiry-led approach such as problem-based learning. Included are studies that focus on learning in situ and go beyond measuring the outcomes of PBL. The goal is to expand the PBL research base of qualitative investigations examining the social dimension and lived experience of learning within the PBL process.

Provides case studies that highlight difficult realities, yet embrace exciting opportunities, such as space reclamation, evolving vendor partnerships, metadata, managing personnel, special collections, and distance education. This book will inspire and provide practical advice and examples for solving issues many libraries are facing today.

Tells the story of the students, teachers, administrators, and alumni of the Department of Aviation Technology, each of whom has added their own pursuit of excellence in aviation, which has made the collective passion for excellence in aviation education at Purdue internationally-recognised and respected.

Journalist John Norberg's illuminating oral history allows members of Purdue University's Class of 1950 to tell their stories in their own words. "(This is) a narrative that will hold special interest for those with Purdue or West Lafayette ties, but its scope is broad enough to interest a wider population".

A study of the 50-year career of Edward Charles Elliott is a study of the development of American education. Elliott had experience as a high school and college teacher, school system superintendent, state college system chancellor, and president of a Big Ten university, all during a period of change in American education.

More than 20,000 engineering students at Purdue University have been touched in some way by the ides or the warm personality of Andrey A. Potter, who served for 33 years as dean of the Schools of Engineering at Purdue, the world's largest engineering institution.

Richard Dale Owen was born in 1810 in Scotland to a wealthy textile manufacturer and philanthropist. Owen arrived in the United States in 1828 to teach in New Haven, Indiana, where his father was running an experimental utopian community. He would later go on to be Indiana's second state geologist before enlisting in the army.

This biography details Hovde's life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his student days at the University of Minnesota and in England and Europe as a Rhodes scholar. In addition, it outlines his career from the time he returned to the United States in 1932.

One of the best state treatments for herps, by one of the foremost authorities

Written shortly after the close of World War II, Escaping Extermination tells the poignant story of war, survival, and rebirth for a young, already acclaimed, Jewish Hungarian concert pianist, Agi Jambor.

Publishes original, scholarly work and reviews a wide range of recent books in Judaica. Founded in 1981, Shofar is a peer-reviewed journal that is published triannually by Purdue University Press on behalf of the University's Jewish Studies Program.

In the years between the historic first moon landing by Apollo 11 and his death in 2002, Neil Armstrong received hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world. Dear Neil Armstrong publishes a careful sampling of these letters.

This fifth volume of the C-SPAN Archives research focuses on the Trump presidency in the first term. Chapters address his moral language, his rhetoric on climate change, and African American support forTrump. Other chapters study congressional influence on immigration policy, nonverbal cues in congressional speeches, and congressional debates.

A true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister and Otto Pfister. This is an intimate and epic account of two Germans who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris.

Este libro intenta mostrar la representacin textual de las islas Galpagos desde su descubrimiento hasta nuestros das. El argumento principal sugiere que la descripcin de este espacio crucial para la modernidad, dada la retrica de los escritores de viajes y ficcin, transforma el rea insular para concebir formas alternativas del proyecto de construccin nacional en Amrica Latina. Como resultado de las empresas coloniales, excursiones cientficas, crnicas periodsticas o expediciones, la escritura de viaje de las Galpagos condiciona la formacin del estado y su imaginario nacional. Esto ocurre por el capital simblico que posee archipilago y por el deseo de los intelectuales latinoamericanos de pertenecer a un territorio cosmopolita.El espacio insular funciona como un significante vaco donde los viajeros pueden comunicar su propio significado al narrar las experiencias de sus viajes. Este fenmeno crea una divisin conceptual y poltica entre la identidad de las islas y la nacin ecuatoriana. Dichas ambigedades narrativas crearon una ruptura que condujo a variaciones fundamentales en la forma en que los habitantes locales y entidades extranjeras interpretan las Galpagos hoy en da, ya que su literatura refleja una tensin particular de cara a las tendencias migratorias en las islas, as como los intereses globales que prevalecen en la apropiacin del espacio. This book, written in Spanish, takes a literary and cultural studies model to explain the textual representation of the Galpagos Islands since their discovery until present day. The main argument suggests that the depiction of this crucial space for modernity in Western thought, given the rhetoric of travel and fiction writers, transforms the insular area with the intention of conceiving disparate forms of political displacement. Specifically, these depictions show several conflicts that arose from the seeking of identity in Ecuador during the nation-building project that took place at the time. As a result of colonial enterprises (scientific excursions, exile, tourism, journalistic pieces, expeditions, etc.), travel writings of the Galpagos condition the formation of the state and its national imagery because of the extreme symbolic capital of the archipelago and the desire of Latin American intellectuals to belong to a cosmopolitan territory.

Jan Hus was a late medieval Czech university master and popular preacher who was condemned at the Council of Constance and burned at the stake as a heretic in 1415. Looking for Hus's significance in his own time, this treatment tells a story of a late medieval intellectual who generated conflict and eventually brought execution upon himself.

Recognises that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition. The fourteen papers in this collection examine this phenomenon from different approaches, genres, and media. They cover the period from biblical times to today.

Throughout 100-plus years of flight, Purdue University has propelled unique contributions from pioneer educators, aviators, and engineers who flew balloons into the stratosphere, barnstormed the countryside, helped break the sound barrier, and left footprints in lunar soil. Wings of Their Dreams follows the flight plans and footsteps of aviation's pioneers and trailblazers across the twentieth century, a path from Kitty Hawk to the Sea of Tranquility and beyond. The book reminds readers that the first and last men to land on the moon first trekked across the West Lafayette, Indiana, campus on their journeys into the heavens and history. This is the story of an aeronautic odyssey of imagination, science, engineering, technology, adventure, courage, danger, and promise. It is the story of the human spirit taking flight, entwined with Purdue's legacy in aviation's history.

A collection of essays that continues Steven Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. Topics covered include the significance of translingualism; translation and its challenges; immigrant memoirs; and Ilan Stavans, a prominent translingual author and scholar.

Depicts a profound, intergenerational struggle between a powerful, politically engaged mother, Rose, and her spiritually inclined poet and writer daughter, Kim. Framing this collision are two other generations: Rose's mother from the shtetl, and Kim's daughter.

Assessing events 80 years after the violent anti-Jewish pogrom of 1938, contributors to this volume offer new cutting-edge scholarship on the event and its repercussions. Contributors include scholars from the United States, Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom who represent a wide variety of disciplines.

Contains over 900 picturesque images, most never-before-seen, of men, women, and children working on the farm, which remain powerful reminders of life in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century. As old farmhouses and barns fall victim to age, J.C. Allen's photographs are all that remain.

Explores ways in which libraries can reach new levels of service, quality, and efficiency while minimizing cost by collaborating in acquisitions. In consortial acquisitions, a number of libraries work together, usually in an existing library consortia, to leverage size to support acquisitions in each individual library.

Examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent US-led invasion. Through an analysis of fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates that writing and screening ""Afghanistan"" has become a conduit for understanding our shared post-9/11 condition.

In 1948, the world-renowned book designer Bruce Rogers wrote a brief text that documented and illustrated his creation of the Centaur typeface several decades earlier: The Centaur Types. The book was privately printed by Rogers himself under the name of his design studio, October House. This limited edition of the book was transferred to the Purdue University Libraries at the time of his death along with his other papers and books. Over the years remaining stock of the original private printing has found its home in the Special Collections of the Libraries, and although known as something of a collector's item by those who are aware of the few copies in circulation, it is here available to the general market for the first time in both paperback and digital versions.The Centaur Types is a fascinating book for several reasons: in the designer's own words, we learn of the evolution of the typeface and of his interest in the art and craft of creating type; it demonstrates different and comparable typefaces, and gives examples of Centaur from six to seventy-two point; and it stands as a fitting example of fine bookmaking from one of the master book designers of the twentieth century.

Reanimates John Dewey's Experience and Education for first-time readers and anyone who teaches the text or is interested in appreciating Dewey's continuing significance by focusing on Dewey's thinking on preparation. Jeff Frank asks readers to wonder: How much of what we justify as preparation in education is actually necessary?