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Empire of ancient Egypt
Presents a clear, detailed picture of the life and history of the ancient Egyptians. Explains why religion played such an important part in Egyptian politics, who stood atop the Egyptian social pyramid, what games Egyptian children played, and why Egypt eventually succumbed to the Roman Empire, as well as its connections to the modern world.
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Cowboy of the World? Gender Discourse and the Iraq War Debate
In this article we examine the debate preceding the most recent war in Iraq to show how gendered framing can compromise the quality of debate. Drawing on a sample of national news discourse in the year before the war began, we show that both anti-war and pro-war speakers draw on binary images of gender to construct their cases for or against war. Speakers cast the Bush administration’s argument for invasion either as a correct “macho” stance or as inappropriate, out-of-control masculinity. The most prominent gendered image in war debate is that of the cowboy, used to characterize both President Bush and US foreign policy in general. The cowboy is positioned against a diplomatic form of masculinity that is associated with Europe and valued by anti-war speakers, but criticized by pro-war speakers. Articles that draw on gender images show a lower quality of the debate, measured by the extent to which reasons rather than
ad hominem
arguments are used to support or rebut assertions.
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German for dummies
Introduces conversational German, with useful phrases for greeting others, making small talk, and shopping, as well as tips on improving grammar and vocabulary.
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Technological Boundaries: Defining the Personal and the Political in Military Mothers' Online Support Forms
In recent wars, the military has mobilized Internet technology to foster support for troops among U.S. military families, encouraging family members to form online support groups and often providing server space and technological assistance to them (Christensen 2009). [...] I discuss the Internet's role in shaping mothers' home front relationship to war, looking at how technology mediates definitions of the public/ political and personal/private in practice.
Journal Article
German all-in-one for dummies
German All-in-One For Dummies brings together content from German For Dummies, 2nd Edition, German For Dummies Audio Set, German Phrases For Dummies, Intermediate German For Dummies, and German Essentials For Dummies. Plus, it includes a new CD that allows for even more opportunities to practice speaking the language, as well as additional content on grammar and usage to empower you to use and speak German like a native.--Publisher description.
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Nonlinear Multilevel Model Selection Using Information Criteria
Multilevel modeling is a common approach to modeling longitudinal change in behavioral sciences. While many researchers use linear functional forms to model change across time, researchers sometimes anticipate nonlinear change. In such cases, researchers often fit polynomial functional forms, such as quadratic or cubic forms. Polynomial functional forms are suitable in many situations, but there are other functional forms that could potentially better match the researcher’s theory about the nature of the longitudinal change. “Truly” nonlinear models, such as exponential and logistic models, have been used to model biological phenomena and may also be useful for psychological research. Such models, however, are non-nested, meaning that likelihood ratio tests cannot be used to select among models if one or more truly nonlinear models are in the candidate model set. Information criteria offer a flexible framework for model selection that can accommodate truly nonlinear models, but there currently is no research directly exploring the ability of information criteria to select truly nonlinear multilevel models. In this dissertation, two Monte Carlo simulation studies were conducted to examine the performance of two frequently used information criteria: AIC and BIC. The goal of the first study was to examine their ability to select unconditional models with correctly specified nonlinear functional forms. Higher L1 and L2 sample sizes, a higher ICC, and greater distinction between nonlinear functional forms generally improved correct model selection rates, but BIC appeared to be better than AIC when identifying more distinct nonlinear functional forms and AIC appeared to be better when the forms were less distinct. The goal of the second study was to examine the ability of AIC and BIC to select a model with a “more correct” predictor set when the underlying functional form was truly nonlinear. In many cases, information criteria were able to identify models determined to be more correct, but no clear pattern emerged between AIC and BIC. Finally, the utility of truly nonlinear functional forms was demonstrated in two behavioral health applications, both of which contained substantively interesting nonlinear trends that would have been missed if analysis had been limited to the linear functional form.
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Mobilizing military motherhood: Negotiating support, activism and politics in the U.S. War on Terrorism
To examine the question of how gender organizes political relationships, I analyze how the mothers of current U.S. service members negotiate the intersection between their personal/private concern for their children and the public/political issue of war. Through an online ethnography of military mothers' support forums, interviews of 55 mothers of service members, and content analysis of Department of Defense recruitment and deployment material that targets mothers, I examine how mothers of service members make sense of their experiences within the context of the military institution, and how this shapes their participation in democratic processes. This research provides insight into the process of creating public war support while subverting women's active citizenship. I argue that the military, in targeting mothers for supportive roles, encourages them not only to feel proud of their child's decision to enlist but also to feel as if they are enlisted in the military along with their children. While some are publicly vocal against the war, many of the mothers who are critical of war remove themselves from engaged citizenship. These mothers silence their anti-war views in the belief that it is their duty, like that of those in the armed services, to be publicly apolitical. This shows how the concerns of mothers for their service member children are used to limit their gendered claims to political authority and undermine their ability to act as citizens. I also show that the internet provides the technological means to subdue and exclude viewpoints that do not fit with the dominant discourse. While the internet makes it easier for military families to communicate with service members, it also offers new ways for shaping and constraining their wartime experiences. When ideologies like patriotism and \"supporting the troops\" are mobilized not merely by the Department of Defense but also by mothers' own groups online, points of view do not fit with these dominant discourses are silenced. By uncovering the mechanisms through which individuals censor anti-war views, this research further contributes to scholarship on the suppression of democratic debate during wartime.
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