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Using Zotero for Citation Management: A Step-by-Step Guide to Organizing and Citing Your Research
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2023-08-21)This guide will provide an overview of the essential features of Zotero, explaining in step-by-step detail how to download the program, create reference libraries, insert in-text citations into Word, and back-up your library ... -
Public Speaking as Performance: Practicing Public Speaking in the Theatre & Performance Classroom
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2023-04-15)Public Speaking as Performance: Practicing Public Speaking in the Theatre & Performance Classroom, written by theatre educators, presents the essential elements of speechwriting with the skills that actors use to communicate ... -
One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change on the Great Plains
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2024-03)Robert Benecke (1835-1903) was a St. Louis photographer who was hired by the Kansas Pacific Railroad to take promotional photographs along the entire length of the Railroad. Benecke traveled from Kansas City to Denver in ... -
Religious Education and the Anglo-World: The Impact of Empire, Britishness, and Decolonisation in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
(Brill, 2020)Focusing on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, “Religious Education and the Anglo-World” historiographically examines the relationship between empire and religious education. In each case the analysis centres on the ... -
KU-phoria! A collection of stories about KU traditions, KU Info and KU basketball
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2023-10-11)In his fourth decade of service to the University of Kansas, Curtis Marsh has developed an obsessive love for his school. As an undergrad, he led one of the first organized camping groups for KU basketball games and a ... -
Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge
(Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 2023-09)The intersection of scholarly communication librarianship and open education offers a unique opportunity to expand knowledge of scholarly communication topics in both education and practice. Open resources can address the ... -
Breaking Barriers: Diversity and Equity in Chemistry
(University of Kansas, 2023-07)The field of chemistry has long been associated with the pursuit of objective facts and the uncovering of the building blocks of our universe. However, this view can often exclude the important role that diversity, equity, ... -
Gripped by the Drum: The Inspiring Artistry of Master Percussionist Kim Byeong Seop in the Korean Tradition of Nongak
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2023-08)This book presents an introduction to the Korean tradition of nongak (농악), which is a form of group percussion and dance performance rooted in agricultural lifestyle and shamanistic/animistic worldview. It is based on my ... -
Proceedings of the Low-x 2021 International Workshop
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2022-06-22)This volume contains research presented at the 2021 edition of the Low-x International Workshop. Topics include: Diffraction in electron-proton and electron-ion collisions (including EiC physics), Diffraction and ... -
Classic Readings in Architecture
(WCB/McGraw Hill, 1999)Classic Readings in Architecture introduces students to the important literature of the field. It consists of journal articles and book chapters by authors who are recognized as major contributors to architectural history, ... -
The Way of Humanity: Confucian Wisdom for an Opening World (Teachings of the Korean Philosopher, Haengchon) - Second Edition
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2022-02)The Way of Humanity, second edition, presents a Confucian vision for personal and social transformation intended to bring about a worldwide social order of harmony, dignity, and justice for all peoples, beyond divisive ... -
A checklist of mediaeval manuscripts in the Department of Special Collections Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
(1996)From the Preface: "This informal list of most of the pre-1550 MS holdings of the Department of Special Collections in Spencer Library was prepared for the April 1996 meeting of the Medieval Academy of America in Kansas ... -
An Introduction to Plautus Through Scenes: Selected and Translated by Richard F. Hardin
(Poetry in Translation, 2021-08-01)This collection celebrates a comic artist who left twenty plays written during the decades on either side of 200 B.C. He spun his work from Greek comedies, “New Comedies” bearing his own unique stamp. In Rome the forerunners ... -
Collected Publications of the Society for Spirituality and Social Work 1990-2005
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2021-05-13)The Society for Spirituality and Social Work (SSSW) published print newsletters and journals, that included invited or refereed articles, with various names from 1990 to 2005 under the editorship of Edward Canda (1990 – ... -
The Status and Distribution of Birds of Missouri, 2nd edition
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Proceedings of the 3rd World Summit on Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (EDSU2020): March 9–13, 2020, Guadeloupe Islands
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2020-12-23)These Proceedings contain research presented at the 3rd World Summit on Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (EDSU2020), one of the major venues of interaction between cosmologists and particle physicists. Topics include ... -
The Peoples and Languages of Roatán
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2020-10-07)The Peoples and Languages of Roatán is a compilation of writings about the diverse peoples and languages in Roatán, including the Miskitu, Garifuna, Bay Island English-speaking Kriols, and Spanish-speaking Ladinos (mestizos). ... -
Stopping the Trains to Auschwitz, Budapest, 1944
(2020-10-01)Despite Hitler’s and Eichmann’s secret machinery for the deportation of Jews from the Hungarian provinces, dramatic events finally interrupted the progress of their unprecedented crimes. Although many thousands had already ... -
Proceedings: Workshop on Forward Physics and QCD at the LHC, the Future Electron Ion Collider, and Cosmic Ray Physics
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2020-09-11)The main purpose of the Workshop on Forward Physics and QCD at the LHC, the Future Electron Ion Collider, and Cosmic Ray Physics, held November 18-21 2019 in Guanajuato, Mexico, was to stimulate discussions between ... -
Introduction to Supply Chain and Operations Management – A Real World Perspective
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2020-09-01)This textbook looks at operations management and supply chain management from a real world perspective. The foundations of operations and supply chain are presented in a format that builds upon the theories found in most ...
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