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Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies: Recent submissions
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Reference Question Answered: Bibliographic Sources for the Ukrainian Periodical Press in the 1840’s: Encyclopedias, Bibliographies, Guides, and Library Catalogs
(Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2008)The author answers a reference question on the bibliographic sources for the Ukrainian periodical press from 1840-1850. Helpful publications include bibliographies, guides, and library catalogs that can be used to identify ... -
Reference Question Answered: Discussion of Russian funeral rites as depicted in V posikakh schast’ia (In Search of Happiness), Film, 2006
(Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2008)The author answers a reference question on the depiction of a funeral in the 2006 Russian documentary film V poiskakh schast’ia (In Search of Happiness), which takes place in the Jewish Autonomous Region in Siberia. ... -
Book Review. Pushkinskaia Entsiklopediia “Mikhailovskoe” (Pushkin Encyclopedia “Mikhailovskoe”)
(Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2006)This article reviews volume one of the encyclopedia, which sets out to be a systematic guide to information about the realities of A. S. Pushkin’s life in the Pskov region. The work is intended to help both reader and ... -
Book Review. The 20th Century Libraries in the Baltic Sea Regions. Transactions of the National Library of Estonia
(Slavic & East European Information Resource, 2008)This article reviews a collection of essays about library collections of national heritage in the countries of the Baltic Sea region (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and St. Petersburg, Russia). -
Murlin Croucher: Magician of Slavic Book Collecting
(Association of College and Research Libraries. Slavic and East European Section, 2012)Memorial article in honor of Murlin Croucher, long time Slavic bibliographer at Indiana University. Includes reminiscence of the author and excerpts from letters written by Murlin Croucher. -
Are Anti-Spit Tobacco Campaigns Striking Out? A Survey of Iowa and Nebraska College Baseball Players
(Great Plains Studies, Center for Social Sciences, 2006-10-01)Anti-spit tobacco information is replete with fear appeals, including firsthand accounts of death and debilitation, to make users aware of the health risks and dangers. Those dangers, however, are well known by baseball ... -
Addressing the Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education
(Arizona State University, 2005)In this article, we present a conceptual framework for addressing the disproportionate representation of culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education. The cornerstone of our approach to addressing ... -
PIE inheritance and word-formational innovation in Slavic motion verbs in i
(John Benjamins, 2010)The unprefixed imperfective verbs of motion with present tense in -i (such as Russian vodit’, vozit’, bežat’), most of which are considered indeterminate in the modern languages, developed over a lengthy period from ... -
Review of The Middle Minoan Three-Sided Soft Stone Prism (CMS Beiheft 9), 2 vols., by Maria Anastasiadou.
(Gnomon, 2013-01)A review of the two-volume work on Middle Minoan prisms, most by the Malia Workshop, by Maria Anastasiadou. -
Lexicalisation Patterns of Rendering Path Descriptions in Polish Translation from English
(2012-02-01)The article pertains to the powerful bi-categorial typology of languages developed by Talmy. The researcher generally points at satellite-framed languages and verb-framed languages in terms of conflating the semantic ... -
A Balkanism in Central Europe? Realis vs. Irrealis in Subordinate Clauses in Prekmurje Slovene
(Nakl. Kleinwächter and Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2011)The paper examines the distinction between realis- and irrealis-marking complementizers (ka vs. da in the Prekmurje (Pannonian) dialect of Slovene and compares the phenomenon to the same distinction observed in Balkan ... -
Tracking the History of Romani Publications: Challenges Presented by Flawed Data
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2012-12)Romani is a language of northern Indic origin spoken natively by an estimated 2.5 million people, primarily in Eurasia but also in North America. The history of publication patterns in Romani has not been well documented. ... -
An Overview of Bankruptcy Law in the United States
(Chase Cambria, 2012-12-21)This overview of bankruptcy and other debtor-creditor law in the United States is designed for lawyers trained outside of the U.S. It summarizes federal and state law governing collection from debtors in bankruptcy and ... -
Competing Ideologies of Collaborative Research
(2013-01-15)Collaboration advocacy is born both of perceived necessity and ideology. Necessity, since for in situ language research, community partnerships and interdisciplinary work have resolved problems of non-collaborative research ... -
Russia's Foreign Policy Toward Iran: A Critical Geopolitics Perspective
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)Russia’s foreign policy stance on nuclear Iran has been a subject of debate. Why has Moscow oscillated between resistance to sanctions and support for punitive measures against Iran in the meantime supplying Tehran with ... -
Natural Disasters: Triggers of Political Instability?
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)Do different types of natural disasters – droughts, earthquakes, floods, storms, and others – trigger political instability? This study engages with this question. It revisits an ongoing debate over the nature of association ... -
Teaching with Lecture or Debate? Testing the Effectiveness of Traditional versus Active Learning Methods of Instruction
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Resolved: Academic Debate Should Be a Part of Political Science Curricula
(Taylor and Francis, 2007)Should political science educators use debate for teaching their undergraduate students? This paper argues for incorporation of academic debate into curriculum of undergraduate courses. It demonstrates the process of ... -
Self and Peer Evaluation in Undergraduate Education: Are Promises Worth Risking the Perils?
(Taylor and Francis, 2005)This study canvasses reliability of students’ self and peer evaluation, a method of assessment of university students that has recently gained renewed pedagogical interest and broad recognition. Two experiments, imbedded ...