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Inclusion in Higher Education: Research Initiatives on Campus
Amanda M. Jantzer and Kyhl Lyndgaard
Inclusion in Higher Education: Inquiry-Based Approaches to Change presents an inquiry-based approach to inclusion in higher education that embraces scholarly inquiry, collaborative efforts, and data-driven interventions to inform transformative institutional change. Contributors analyze inclusion initiatives that address the experiences of minoritized groups on college campuses and recommend tailored interventions for the needs of underrepresented students in varied fields of study.
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Captivity Literature and the Environment : Nineteenth-Century American Cross-Cultural Collaborations
Kyhl Lyndgaard
In his study of captivity narratives, Kyhl Lyndgaard argues that these accounts have influenced land-use policy and environmental attitudes at the same time that they reveal the complex relationship between ethnicity, landscape, and authorship. In connecting these themes, Lyndgaard offers readers an alternative environmental literature, one that is dependent on an understanding of nature as home rather than as a place of temporary retreat. He examines three captivity narratives written in the 1820s and 1830s - A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, The Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner, and Life of Black Hawk -all of which engage with the Jacksonian policy of Indian removal and resist tropes of the so-called Vanishing Indian. As Lyndgaard shows, the authors and the editors with whom they collaborated often saw their stories as a plea for environmental and social justice. At the same time, audiences have embraced them for their vision of a more inclusive and less exploitative American society than was proffered by the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny. Their legacy is that while environmental and social justice has been slow in fulfilment, their continued popularity testifies to the fact that the struggle for justice has never been ceded.
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Currents of the Universal Being: Explorations in the Literature of Energy
Kyhl Lyndgaard, Scott Slovic, and James E. Bishop
Energy scholar Vaclav Smil wrote in 2003, "Tug at any human use of energy and you will find its effects cascading throughout society." Too often public discussions of energy-related issues become gridlocked in debates concerning cost, environmental degradation, and the plausibility (or implausibility) of innovative technologies. But the topic of energy is much broader and deeper than these debates typically reveal. The literature of energy bears this out-and takes the notion further, revealing in vivid stories and images how energy permeates the fundamental nature of existence. Readings in this collection encompass a wide array of topics, from addiction to oil to life "off the grid," from the power of the atom to the power of bicycle technology. Presenting a wide array of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and interviews-ranging from George Eliot's nineteenth-century novel Mill on the Floss to Sandra Steingraber's recent writing on the subject of fracking-this first-of-its-kind anthology aims to capture the interest of the general reader as well as to serve as a potential textbook for college-level writing classes or environmental studies classes that aspire to place the technical subject of energy into a broader cultural context
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At Gloaming: Poems
Lawrence "Larry" Schug
“With his inimitable sense of humor and timing, astute awareness of irony, perfect understanding of permissible sentiment, and sheer joy taken in the well-captured image and pleasingly turned phrase, Larry Schug has given us a book of poems not just to enjoy but to remember for years to come.”
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Nails
Lawrence "Larry" Schug
"Over the years, Larry Schug has spit out 111 nail poems. His most recent book, Nails, is the rusty coffee can that holds them. The nails in these poems are staunchly, relentlessly physical 2 penny, 8 penny, horseshoe, railroad spikes, straight or bent, shiny or rusty, discarded or wedded to wood. Because Larry trusts the potency of the material world, the nails remain themselves and still become much more the bond between father and son, a little girl trying to hold her warring parents together, unemployment lines, old age, people who have been beaten down once too often, redeployed soldiers. There are hammers in these poems, too, most of them brutal and deadly, but as always in Larry's poems, love holds this shaky world together. Unsettling, funny, angry, tender there's a surprise on every page of Nails."
--Mara Faulkner, OSB, author of Going Blind: A Memoir
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Arrogant Bones: Poems
Lawrence "Larry" Schug
"[Larry's] work is always a wonderful surprise, whether he is being whimsical, politically astute, a social commentator or, when the muse moves him, incredibly loving. Arrogant Bones is the best of Larry Schug. Unforgettable."
--Nancy Kay Peterson & Carol BorzyskowskiMcKnight award winner Larry Schug brings his amazing insight to life in these poems.
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The Turning of Wheels: Poems
Lawrence "Larry" Schug
"The Turning of Wheels, Larry Schug's third collection of poems, is a cogent demonstration of how to get from the very small to the very large in simple American idioms."
--Edith RylanderIn English; one poem in English and Spanish.
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Scales Out of Balance
Lawrence "Larry" Schug
With a unique voice, a proud regionalism, Schug captures with his poetry the spirit, the character, the strengths, and quirks of the people who make up the colorful quilt of rural and small-town Minnesota.
