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35 books match the query 'Service'
A Service of Love
Paul McPartlan
Catholic University of America Press, 2013
A Service of Love
Paul McPartlan
Catholic University of America Press, 2016
Agile Faculty
Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and TeachingRebecca Pope-Ruark
University of Chicago Press, 2017
Agile work strategies are a staple of the software development world, developed out of the need to be flexible and responsive to fast-paced change at times when “business as usual” could not work. These techniques call for breaking projects into phases and short-term goals, managing assignments collectively, and tracking progress openly.
Agile Faculty is a comprehensive roadmap for scholars who want to incorporate Agile practices into all aspects of their academic careers, be it research, service, or teaching. Rebecca Pope-Ruark covers the basic principles of Scrum, one of the most widely used models, and then through individual chapters shows how to apply that framework to everything from individual research to running faculty committees to overseeing student class work. Practical and forward-thinking, Agile Faculty will help readers not only manage their time and projects but also foster productivity, balance, and personal and professional growth.
BigLaw
Money and Meaning in the Modern Law FirmMitt Regan and Lisa H. Rohrer
University of Chicago Press, 2021
Community Engagement Abroad
Perspectives and Practices on Service, Engagement, and Learning OverseasPat Crawford
Michigan State University Press, 2020
Fiery Dragons
Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in BurmaSean Turnell
National University of Singapore Press, 2009
First-Generation Faculty of Color
Reflections on Research, Teaching, and ServiceTracy Lachica Buenavista
Rutgers University Press, 2023
Guy Debord
Revolution in the Service of PoetryVincent Kaufmann
University of Minnesota Press, 2010
Instead of providing a conventional day-to-day account of Debord's life, Kaufmann deftly locates his subject within the historical and intellectual context of the radical social, political, and artistic movements in which he participated. He traces Debord's development as an intellectual: his involvement with the lettrist movement in the early 1950s, his central role in the Situationist International from 1957 to 1971 and in the events of May 1968, and the productive and frequently misunderstood period between the dissolution of the situationists and his suicide, during which time Debord clarified the rules of his war against inauthenticity.
As Kaufmann makes clear, for Debord political thought and action were inseparable from aesthetics and poetic expression. Whether envisioning the recovery of a lost, protocommunist age of authenticity and transparency in The Society of the Spectacle or critically assessing the possibility of revolution against postmodern capitalism two decades later, Debord advocated and practiced an art of defiance, a concurrently martial and melancholic poetics. Avoiding the mythologies about Debord that both admirers and critics have cultivated, Kaufmann provides a groundbreaking and generous assessment of Debord and his uncompromising struggle against a corrupt civilization.
In Service to America
A History of VISTA in Arkansas, 1965-1985Marvin Schwartz
University of Arkansas Press, 1988
In Service to American Pharmacy
The Professional Life of William Procter Jr.Gregory J. Higby
University of Alabama Press, 1992
The story of the visionary pharmacist who helped build modern American pharmacy.
In Service to American Pharmacy: The Professional Life of William Procter Jr. by Gregory J. Higby is the definitive biography of William Procter Jr., widely recognized as the "Father of American Pharmacy." Through meticulous historical research, Higby chronicles Procter's extraordinary career and demonstrates how one individual's dedication helped transform pharmacy in the United States from a commercial trade into a respected healthcare profession during the nineteenth century.
The book follows Procter's contributions as a practicing pharmacist, pharmaceutical scientist, educator, editor, and organizational leader. It places his accomplishments within the broader evolution of American healthcare, tracing developments from the founding of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1821 through the emergence of professional standards, drug quality controls, pharmaceutical education, and meaningful pharmacy legislation. Higby shows how Procter's commitment to scientific rigor and public service helped establish many of the principles that continue to guide pharmacy practice today.
This book offers a valuable history of nineteenth-century medicine, science, and professionalization in America. Rich in historical context and scholarly insight, it illustrates the challenges and achievements involved in creating a modern profession dedicated to public health and pharmaceutical excellence. Essential for historians of medicine, pharmacy practitioners, and scholars of American science, this work highlights the enduring legacy of one of the most influential figures in healthcare history.
In Service to the City
A History of the University of CincinnatiDavid Stradling
University of Minnesota Press, 2018
In Service to the City: A History of the University of Cincinnati, the first history of the university written in over fifty years, explores the evolving, complex relationship between UC and the city of Cincinnati. In Service to the City casts an unvarnished lens on the details of student demographics, faculty research, curricular changes, and athletic controversy to challenges associated with campus architecture and planning, neighborhood relations, regional and national consequences of urban decline, and the roles of municipal, state, and federal governments within American higher education.
Urban, environmental historian David Stradling traces UC’s story through starts and stops, growth and contraction. In the 1870s the institution began its transformation into a comprehensive, municipal university located in America’s thriving heartland. Expansion continued through mergers with Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Cincinnati Medical College, among others. In 1977, University President Warren Bennis and Governor Jim Rhodes signed papers ending UC’s municipal status while securing its future as part of the state university system of Ohio.
UC maintains its strong relationship with Cincinnati, pioneering countless community and regionally oriented programs, from its expanding co-op education system, the first in the nation, to the Niehoff Urban Studio. Stradling describes the social and political activism of UC students and faculty—front and center in the civil rights and women’s rights movements, as well as the public health and environmental movements. Often they struggled to change the culture within their own institution, which at times appeared conservative or reactionary.
Drawing on archival research, Stradling recounts in lively prose and through dozens of illustrations, two-hundred years of UC history, setting the story in the context of changes within higher education in the United States.
With the cost of higher education on the minds of legislators and the public, questions first posed by Daniel Drake in 1819 upon the founding of Cincinnati College remain relevant. Who should the college serve? What and how should students learn? How can we pay for it? In Service to the City encourages readers to consider how the University of Cincinnati—with a history so entwined with its city—can balance its urban-serving tradition with its aspiration to be a leader global research university.
Invisible Masters
Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New EnglandElisabeth Ceppi
Dartmouth College Press, 2018
Mobility as a Service
Its development, deployment, and futureBeate Kubitz
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2024
Parish Nursing - 2011 Edition
Stories of Service and CareVerna Benner Carson
Templeton Press, 2011
The engaging stories in Parish Nursing provide accessible and enjoyable accounts of real parish nurses, both paid and volunteer, who attend to the needs of their congregations in a variety of ways—from home, hospice, and hospital visits to community outreach. This revised edition gathers their stories of hearing and heeding God’s call, of their faith that they are doing the “right thing,” of their joys, sorrows, and challenges, and of their quiet dedication as they offer their time and talents to meet the needs of others.
By offering inspiration and encouragement, along with a healthy dose of updated practical advice, this collection will make parish nursing theory come to life. These stories will honor practicing parish nurses, will guide the way for anyone contemplating parish nursing as a career, and will challenge church members and leaders to examine the role that their congregations play in health ministry—especially in meeting the long-term care needs of an aging population.
Parish Nursing
Stories Of Service & CareVerna Carson
Templeton Press, 2002
Public Workers in Service of America
A ReaderEdited by Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin
University of Illinois Press, 2023
From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American democracy. In Part Two, essayists examine race and gender discrimination while revealing the subtle contemporary forms of marginalization that keep Black men and Black and white women underpaid and overlooked for promotion. The historic labor actions detailed in Part Three illuminate how city employees organized not only for better pay and working conditions but to seek recognition from city officials, the public, and the national labor movement. Part Four focuses on nurses and teachers to address the thorny question of whether certain groups deserve premium pay for their irreplaceable work and sacrifices or if serving the greater good is a reward unto itself.
Contributors: Eileen Boris, Cathleen D. Cahill, Frederick W. Gooding Jr., William P. Jones, Francis Ryan, Jon Shelton, Joseph E. Slater, Katherine Turk, Eric S. Yellin, and Amy Zanoni
Regulating Content on Social Media
Copyright, Terms of Service and Technological FeaturesCorinne Tan
University College London, 2018
The first book to look at how social media platforms affect users’ compliance with copyright laws, Regulating Content on Social Media is a timely addition to the current media landscape.
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press, 2015
The Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862 created a series of institutions—at least one in every state and territory—with now familiar names: Michigan State University, Ohio State University, Purdue University, Rutgers University, the University of Arizona, and the University of California, to name a few. These schools opened educational opportunities and pathways to a significant segment of the American public and gave the United States a global edge in science, technical innovation, and agriculture.
Science as Service provides an essential body of literature for understanding the transformations of the land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act in 1862 as well as the considerable impact they had on the history of the United States. Historians of science, technology, and agriculture, along with rural sociologists, public decision and policy makers, educators, and higher education administrators will find this an essential addition to their book collections.
Service and Procedures in Bureaucracy
A Case StudyRoy G. Francis and Robert C. Stone
University of Minnesota Press, 1956
Service and Procedures in Bureaucracy was first published in 1956. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Large, complex systems of organization, such as government bureaus, giant corporations, and massive trade unions, play a decisive role in the daily lives of millions of people and exert an important influence upon national and even international affairs. This gives major sociological significance to the bureaucratic organizations of such groups.
The research reported here was undertaken to test two widespread beliefs about modern, largescale organizations, and the findings point to modifications in what has been regarded as the classic sociological concept of bureaucracy.
Does the personnel in bureaucracies commonly substitute rule-following, preoccupation with procedure, for the intended service purpose of the organization? And are bureaucracies characterized by impersonality, that is, detachment of office from individual, so that relations are between offices rather than between individuals? These are the questions the authors sought to answer in their study of the Louisiana Division of Employment Security. They observed employees working at their jobs, conducted interviews, administered questionnaires, and studied the official documents and records of the organization.
Here is a picture of bureaucracy in real life that will provide valuable insight to those actively concerned with administration and personnel problems, as well as to students in the social sciences.
Service as Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press, 2015
From their founding, land-grant schools have provided educational opportunities to millions, producing many of the nation’s scientific, technical, and agricultural leaders and spawning countless technological and agricultural innovations. Nevertheless, their history has not always been smooth or without controversy or setbacks. These vital centers of learning and research have in fact been redefined and reconceptualized many times and today bear only a cursory resemblance to their original incarnations.
The thirteen essays in this collection explore such themes as the emphasis on food science and home economics, the country life movement, the evolution of a public research system, the rise of aerospace engineering, the effects of the GI Bill, the teaching of military science, the sustainable agriculture movement, and the development of golf-turf science. Woven together, these expertly curated scenes, vignettes, and episodes powerfully illustrate these institutions’ ability to flex and adapt to serve the educational needs of an ever-changing American citizenry.
By dint of their mission to remedy social, economic, and technical problems; to improve standards of living; and to enhance the quality of life, land-grant universities are destined and intended to be agents of change—a role that finds them at times both celebrated and hotly contested, even vilified. A readable and fascinating exploration of land-grant universities, Service as Mandate offers a vital exploration of these dynamic institutions to educators, policy makers, students, and the wider communities that land-grant universities serve.
Service in a Time of Suspicion
Experiences of Muslims Serving in the U.S. Military Post-9/11Michelle Sandhoff
University of Iowa Press, 2017
In Service in a Time of Suspicion, fifteen such service members talk about what it means to be Muslim, American, and a uniformed member of the armed services in the twenty-first century. These honest accounts remind us of our shared humanity.
Simple Story Of A Soldier
Life And Service in the 2d Mississippi InfantrySamuel W. Hankins
University of Alabama Press, 2004
This fast-paced memoir was written in 1905 by 61-year-old Samuel W. Hankins while he was living in the Soldiers Home in Gulfport, Mississippi. It vividly details his years as a Confederate rifleman from the spring of 1861, when at a mere sixteen years of age he volunteered for the 2d Mississippi Infantry, through the end of the war in 1865, when he was just twenty years old and maimed for life.
The 2d Mississippi was part of the Army of Northern Virginia and as such saw action at Bull Run/Manassas, Seven Pines and the Peninsular Campaign, and Gettysburg. Besides being hospitalized with measles, suffering severely frostbitten feet, and being wounded by a minié ball at Railroad Cut, Hankins was captured by Federal forces and sent to a prisoner of war camp on David’s Island, New York. Later, he was transferred to a South Carolina hospital, returned home on furlough, joined a cavalry unit that fought at Atlanta. He was stationed in Selma, Alabama, when the war ended.
The strength of Hankins’s text lies in his straightforward narrative style virtually free of Lost Cause sentiment. Both Union and Confederate veterans could relate to his stories because so many of them had faced similar challenges during the war. Full of valuable information on a common soldier’s experience, the memoir still conjures the sights, sounds, and smells of warfare.
Small Privatization
The Transformation of Retail Trade and Consumer Services in the Czech Republic, Hungary and PolandRoman Frydman
Central European University Press, 1994
Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark
A Life of ServiceBy Mimi Clark Gronlund
University of Texas Press, 2010
An associate justice on the renowned Warren Court whose landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education overturned racial segregation in schools and other public facilities, Tom C. Clark was a crusader for justice throughout his long legal career. Among many tributes Clark received, Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger opined that "no man in the past thirty years has contributed more to the improvement of justice than Tom Clark."
Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark is the first biography of this important American jurist. Written by his daughter, Mimi Clark Gronlund, and based on interviews with many of Clark's judicial associates, friends, and family, as well as archival research, it offers a well-rounded portrait of a lawyer and judge who dealt with issues that remain in contention today—civil rights, the rights of the accused, school prayer, and censorship/pornography, among them. Gronlund explores the factors in her father's upbringing and education that helped form his judicial philosophy, then describes how that philosophy shaped his decisions on key issues and cases, including the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the investigation of war fraud, the Truman administration's loyalty program (an anti-communist effort), the Brown decision, Mapp v. Ohio (protections against unreasonable search and seizure), and Abington v. Schempp (which overturned a state law that required reading from the Bible each day in public schools).
Tautua
Service and Disability Activism in SamoaJuliann Anesi
Temple University Press, 2026
The Sāmoan concept of tautua is the cultural practice of service—to family, village, church, and nation. For Juliann Anesi, tautua includes an ethical responsibility that extends to caring for people living with disabilities. Anesi learned this value from her aunty Sina, who was instrumental in founding two schools for youths in the mid-1970s—Aoga Fiamalamalama and Loto Taumafailike. These schools were designed for students like Sina’s son Gele, students excluded from private and public education because of intellectual or physical disabilities.
Tautua recounts how the Indigenous community organized and resisted ableist paradigms in colonial institutions by changing the education system to a more inclusive environment. Anesi explains how funding was arranged for the schools through NGOs. She also uses oral histories, personal narratives, archival documents, and newspapers to offer insights about how students experienced oppression and erasure as well as shame and sexism in their communities.
Highlighting advocacy and belonging, Tautua argues that these schools for students with disabilities centered Sāmoan concepts of service, advocacy, and self-determination in an attempt to decolonize elementary education. In doing so, Anesi shows what disability activism in Sāmoa can teach us about educability, school inclusion, and collective care.
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Temple University
125 Years of Service to Philadelphia, the Nation, and the WorldJames W. Hilty with Matthew M. Hanson, foreword by Ann Weaver Hart
Temple University Press, 2010
Temple University: 125 Years of Service to Philadelphia, the Nation, and the World, by noted historian and Temple professor James Hilty offers the first full history of Temple University. Lovingly written and beautifully designed, it presents a rich chronicle from founder Russell Conwell’s vision to democratize, diversify, and broaden the reach of higher education to Temple's present-day status as the twenty-eighth largest university and the fifth largest provider of professional education in the United States. With its state-of-the-art technological capabilities, improved amenities, and new multi-million- dollar facilities, Temple remains at the forefront of America’s modern urban universities.
The book captures Temple’s long record of service to its North Philadelphia neighbors, its global reach to Rome, Tokyo, and beyond, and its development from a rowhouse campus into a lively 11,000- resident urban village—all the while assuring “Access to Excellence.” Along the way, we learn how Temple reacted to and helped shape major developments in the history of American higher education.
Featuring 250 full-color photos, Temple University provides a wonderful keepsake for those who already know the university and will become a valued resource for anyone interested in the urban university.
The Aesthetics of Service in Early Modern England
Elizabeth Rivlin
Northwestern University Press, 2011
In The Aesthetics of Service in Early Modern England, Elizabeth Rivlin explores the ways in which servant-master relationships reshaped literature. The early modern servant is enjoined to obey his or her master out of dutiful love, but the servant's duty actually amounts to standing in for the master, a move that opens the possibility of becoming master. Rivlin shows that service is fundamentally a representational practice, in which the servant who acts for a master merges with the servant who acts as a master.
Rivlin argues that in the early modern period, servants found new positions as subjects and authors found new forms of literature. Representations of servants and masters became a site of contact between pressing material concerns and evolving aesthetic ones. Offering readings of dramas by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Thomas Dekker and prose fictions by Thomas Deloney and Thomas Nashe, Rivlin suggests that these authors discovered their own exciting and unstable projects in the servants they created.
The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State
A History of Property MappingRoger J. P. Kain and Elizabeth Baigent
University of Chicago Press, 1992
The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State, illustrated with 126 maps, traces the development and application of rural property mapping in Europe from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Beginning with a review of the roots of cadastral mapping in the Roman Empire, the authors concentrate on the use of cadastral maps in the Netherlands, France, England, the Nordic countries, the German lands, the territories of the Austrian Habsburgs, and the European colonies. During the sixteenth century government institutions began to use maps to secure economic and political bases; by the nineteenth century these maps had become tools for aggressive governmental control of land as tax bases, natural resources, and national territories. This work demonstrates how the seemingly neutral science of cartography became a political instrument for national
interests.
The Call
Eloquence in the Service of TruthCraig R. Smith
Michigan State University Press, 2022
The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts
Medicine and Crafts in the Service of LawRon Shaham
University of Chicago Press, 2010
Shaham begins with a history of expert testimony in medieval Islamic culture, analyzing the different roles played by male experts, especially physicians and architects, and females, particularly midwives. From there, he focuses on the case of Egypt, tracing the country’s reform of its traditional legal system along European lines beginning in the late nineteenth century. Returning to a broader perspective, Shaham draws on a variety of legal and historical sources to place the phenomenon of expert testimony in cultural context. A truly comprehensive resource, The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts will be sought out by a broad spectrum of scholars working in history, religion, gender studies, and law.
The New Praetorians
American Veterans, Society, and Service from Vietnam to the Forever WarMichael D. Gambone
University of Massachusetts Press, 2021
In an engrossing narrative that considers the military, economic, political, and social developments affecting military service after Vietnam, Michael D. Gambone investigates how successive generations have intentionally shaped their identity as veterans. The New Praetorians also highlights the impact of their homecoming, the range of educational opportunities open to veterans, the health care challenges they face, and the unique experiences of minority and women veterans. This groundbreaking study illustrates an important and often neglected group that is key to our understanding of American social history and civil-military affairs.
The Three Nephites
Saints, Service, and Supernatural LegendJulie Swallow, Christopher James Blythe, Eric A. Eliason, and Jill Terry Rudy
University of Illinois Press, 2025
The Work of Gender
Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary JapanEdited by Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi
National University of Singapore Press, 2022
Toward a Natural Forest
The Forest Service in Transition (A Memoir)Jim Furnish
Oregon State University Press, 2015
The Forest Service stumbled in responding to a wave of lawsuits from environmental groups in the late 20th Century—a phenomenon best symbolized by the spotted owl controversy that shut down logging on public forests in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s. The agency was brought to its knees, pitted between a powerful timber industry that had been having its way with the national forests for decades, and organized environmentalists who believed public lands had been abused and deserved better stewardship.
Toward a Natural Forest offers an insider’s view of this tumultuous time in the history of the Forest Service, presenting twin tales of transformation, both within the agency and within the author’s evolving environmental consciousness. While stewarding our national forests with the best of intentions, had the Forest Service diminished their natural essence and ecological values? How could one man confront the crisis while remaining loyal to his employer?
In this revealing memoir, Furnish addresses the fundamental human drive to gain sustenance from and protect the Earth, believing that we need not destroy it in the process. Drawing on the author’s personal experience and his broad professional knowledge, Toward a Natural Forest illuminates the potential of the Forest Service to provide strong leadership in global conservation efforts. Those interested in our public lands—environmentalists, natural resource professionals, academics, and historians—will find Jim Furnish’s story deeply informed, thought-provoking, and ultimately inspiring.
Unlimited Love
Altruism, Compassion, and ServiceStephen G. Post
Templeton Press, 2003
What if we could prove that love heals mental illness and is vital to successful therapeutic outcomes in all areas of health care? What if we could prove that people who live more for others than for self have greater psychological well-being?