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In 2013, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) launched its Circulating Now blog to convey the vitality of medical history in our twenty-first-century world. This book is an open access, edited collection of curated posts from Circulating Now. This book brings Circulating Now full circle in the twenty-first-century publishing ecosystem, creating a new access point for researchers and augmenting the original blog as a deep knowledge base of searchable information about the Library and its collection.
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Challenging Stories explores experiences of demanding health conditions and attitudes in response to them, across historical and contemporary contexts. This collection of original scholarship brings an interdisciplinary perspective to topics such as maternal health, care for aging adults, births by midwives, family planning, infectious disease outbreaks, biosafety health protocols, blood transfusions, and plant-based health practices. The case studies explored in each chapter contribute to a deeper and richer understanding of how challenging stories are embedded in an appreciation of community and individual health.
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Politics, Propaganda, and Pop Culture is a senior capstone book project that examines the role of television in projecting, shaping, and amplifying Cold War ideologies.
In the context of the global Cold War, television became the most important medium of communicating ideologies, values, and worldviews to citizens at home and societies abroad. The essays in this volume examine this truism at a variety of discrete historical moments, including the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; the broadcast of experimental nuclear detonations in the American desert; the persistence of fascism in the resurrection of the postwar Italian television service; and coverage of the 1972 World Chess Championship. The authors show that television intervened in social questions such as the Red Scare, the civil rights movement, and shifting representations of gender, but not always in the ways that we might expect. The volume demonstrates that programming can indeed shape attitudes, but just as important are the structures that underpin shifting industrial conditions of television production, distribution and reception.
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Scholars in the social sciences are increasingly expected to incorporate both quantitative and qualitative techniques and methods into their research. The growth of “mixed-methods” research is evident in social science disciplines ranging from psychology and management to marketing and information systems. This book is designed to provide principles, strategies, and guidance specifically for researchers in these disciplines so that they can use mixed-methods research more effectively.
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Dive into the multifaceted landscape of inclusive excellence in STEM education with Fostering Communities of Transformation in STEM Higher Education. This scholarly work examines transformative initiatives from Virginia Tech, Radford University, Trinity Washington University, and Towson University, showcasing their role as catalysts in cultivating inclusive excellence across diverse STEM disciplines. Take inspiration from their projects and guidance from their lessons learned with this collection.
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An introduction to Content Operations (ContentOps), its place in the organization, and how we can use its principles to deliver better content at scale.
An edited collection of essays that makes Content Operations (ContentOps) teachable across silos and departments. A convergent approach for industry-based training and college level courses covering a broad spectrum of professional content. The edited collection includes ideas for teaching and exploring key concepts and topics related to ContentOps based on available resources and scale. The purpose of this collection is to provide the equivalent of a guest lecture from an industry expert to inform decision makers in industry or to inspire research and teaching ideas in academia.
Book DetailsBlack Feminist Theorizing Toward Futurity: A Standpoints Volume contains essays that apply Black feminist theory to multiple contexts, critiquing the oppression of the present while imagining Black feminist futures. The essays are divided into sections on critiquing social and institutional relations, decentering whiteness, and authoring Black feminist counternarratives of resistance. The first section of the book critiques institutional structures of health, higher education, and therapy that harm Black women and proposes methods of change. Then, reflecting the volume’s emphasis on a plurality of Black feminisms, students analyze how sociology, white feminisms, and theatrical intimacy direction center white, male, and heteronormative experiences, emphasizing the value Black feminisms bring to these contexts. Finally, the essays consider how counternarratives of resistance can destabilize inequitable power relations to promote Black liberation, concluding with a poem by Marva Cossy and a reflection on the cover art by Tykeisha Swan Patrick. This volume is edited by Dr. Andrea N. Baldwin and Dr. Nana Brantuo and authored by the students from Baldwin’s Black Feminisms graduate course in the Virginia Tech Department of Sociology.
Book DetailsThe Community Change Collaborative (CCC) at Virginia Tech brings together student and faculty researchers, practitioners, and community partners who are committed to enacting democratic social change at local, regional, and global levels. Under the sponsorship of the Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance (IPG), CCC promotes thoughtful dialogue with leaders who have devoted their professional lives to spurring or assisting with community change. This book is the product of those conversations.
Book DetailsIn 2013 the Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance (VTIPG) launched the online essay series “RE: Reflections and Explorations” for Virginia Tech graduate students to share articles concerning their evolving research, interests, and experiences on topics relevant to the VTIPG mission. The “RE: Reflections and Explorations” book series features essays selected and edited by VTIPG Director Max Stephenson Jr. and affiliated research faculty member Lyusyena Kirakosyan.
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Virginia Tech celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2022. What started as a fledgling school established in Southwest Virginia to promote agricultural, mechanical, and military education grew into a comprehensive research university with a global land-grant mission. As part of the celebrations, No Ordinary Moment tells the remarkable story of Virginia Tech through a selection of 150 illustrations, including numerous rare photographs and other unique images from the Special Collections and University Archives at Virginia Tech.
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