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  • Animals in Nineteenth-Century America

    A History in Documents

    by Susan Nance ...
    Animals in Nineteenth-Century America examines animal life and human-animal relationships in a pivotal century in American and world history. Spanning the “long nineteenth century” (1770s–1910s), this collection of primary sources and images traces how the United States was transformed in this period from a mosaic of Indigenous multispecies homelands into a managed landscape of industry, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Rodeo

    An Animal History

    by Susan Nance ...
    Series series The Environment in Modern North America
    "What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human triumph and resilience, but of human imperfection and stubbornness?” asks animal historian Susan Nance. Against the backdrop of the larger histories of ranching, cattle, horses, and the environment in the West, this book explores how the evolution of rodeo has reflected rural western beliefs and assumptions about the natural world ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790-1935

    by Susan Nance ...
    Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the "East--witness the popularity of the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing vaudeville magicians, and even the antics of fez-topped Shriners. In this captivating volume, Susan Nance provides a social and cultural history of this highly ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Animal Modernity: Jumbo the Elephant and the Human Dilemma

    by Susan Nance ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The concept of 'modernity' is central to many disciplines, but what is modernity to animals? Susan Nance answers this question through a radical reinterpretation of the life of Jumbo the elephant. In the 1880s, consumers, the media, zoos, circuses and taxidermists, and (unknowingly) Jumbo himself, transformed the elephant from an orphan of the global ivory trade and zoo captive into a distracting ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Entertaining Elephants

    Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus

    by Susan Nance ...
    Series series Animals, History, Culture
    How the lives and labors of nineteenth-century circus elephants shaped the entertainment industry.Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior—drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications—to offer a study of elephants as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Bellwether Histories

    Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis

    Edited by Susan Nance, Jennifer Marks ...
    Explores ecological crises and extinctions that have shaped US historyA multispecies history of the globalized United States, Bellwether Histories reveals how animals have been ensnared in colonialism, capitalism, and environmental destruction as human decisions created and perpetuated untenable and unequal interspecies relationships. The collection's authors explore how people misunderstood or ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Exploring Leadership

    For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference

    by Susan R. Komives, Nance Lucas, Timothy R. McMahon ...
    This third edition is a thoroughly revised and updated version of the bestselling text for undergraduate leadership courses. This book is designed for college students to help them understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and guide them in developing their leadership potential. The Relational Leadership Model (RLM) continues as the major focus in this edition, and the book ... Read more

    $58.00 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Exploring Leadership

    For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference

    by Susan R. Komives, Nance Lucas, Timothy R. McMahon ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 6 min

    This book asserts that leadership is not something possessed only by a few people in high positions, but rather is a capability that we all need to bring to our roles in groups, organizations, and communities whether we are in a formal leadership position or not. Believing that leadership can be learned, the authors set out to expose students to key concepts of leadership, and then to help them ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Historical Animal

    by Jason Colby, Abraham H. Gibson, Sandra Swart, Zeb Tortorici, Lisa Cox, Concepción Cortés Zulueta, David Gary Shaw, Andria Pooley-Ebert, Noah Cincinnati, Dolly Jørgensen, Nicola Foote, Charles W. Gunnels, IV, Stephanie Zehnle, Drew Swanson, Scott A. Miltenberger, Andrew McEwen, Courtney E. White ...
    The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings with complex intelligence. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to examine our ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Exploring Leadership

    For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference, Student Workbook

    by Wendy Wagner, Daniel T. Ostick ...
    Exploring Leadership For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference, Student WorkbookThis companion to the third edition of Exploring Leadership is designed to help you deepen your understanding of leadership and develop your leadership potential. The workbook includes tools to enhance your exploration of the Relational Leadership Model, and exercises to guide your learning. You will discover ... Read more

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  • Last Child in the Woods

    Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder

    by Richard Louv ...
    The Book That Launched an International MovementFans of The Anxious Generation will adore Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller. “An absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe“It rivals Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.” —The Cincinnati Enquirer“I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the elect... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Why Fish Don't Exist

    A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

    by Lulu Miller ...
    A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * SmithsonianA “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder.“At one... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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