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I am a wildlife biologist who works primarily with bats and this is a new text.

I love the autoethnography approach used in the book. I also enjoyed the diversity of the authors and the stories shared (faculty members, graduate students, and even those who decided to leave academia). Higher education is a complex environment and it truly requires bravery, vulnerability, and resistance to make an impact. We often equate bravery and resistance with "disrespect," I was happy to read how these women were able to accomplish their goals while truly being brave and still respectful. Similarly, in higher education "vulnerability" is often equated with "weakness." It is very sad when I see scholar ashamed to share signs of weakness as if were are always strong and powerful. Reading about others sharing their vulnerable side, expressing their fears and doubts, is something I wish we did more often. I think their is beauty in showing we are still "human."

This book is a good introduction for students and researchers in the field of compound semiconductor detectors. I use this text often in teaching and research.

It is beautiful and its message is beautiful. This book has been with me my whole life.

This book is currently not in the Hodges collection. It makes available and accessible the correspondence of the playwright Bernard Shaw and the critic and translator William Archer, who is also responsible for introducing Ibsen to the English-speaking world. Although it is out of my own area of historical specialization, I expect that this book will be useful to colleagues and students researching Shaw and the development of modern drama. On a more personal level, the editor of this collection is the late Thomas Postlewait. Tom was a beloved mentor to many, including me. He taught me how to scrutinize existing narratives, identify overlooked sources, and to consider revision as writing. Above all, his kindness, generosity, and support made me want to pursue an academic life.

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I chose this book because I was drawn to it at a very young age after receiving a free copy due to my accumulation of accelerated reader points. Frederick Douglass' life and accomplishments have inspired me to diligently work toward my goals and his quote "there is no progress without struggle" epitomizes hard work, dedication, motivation, and perseverance toward achieving one's goals despite life's circumstances.

Dr. Cahill's book represents an important turning point for feminist scholarship on rape and sexual violence in the early 2000s. It is a book that fundamentally shifted my own thinking about rape and how to apply modern theories about sexual violence to antiquity, enhancing our ability to understand this phenomenon in the early Christian world and imagination. I have returned to this book many times over the years, and I hope that it will remain a touch point for others seeking to challenge their thinking about rape and sexual violence.

This book was influential early in my graduate studies. The book is organized as a series of short essays, and his style of writing was so accessible that I began to believe I could write for a living too.

The burden of diarrheal diseases has largely been forgotten by high-resource societies, but more than half of the world's population still suffers from these due to a lack of infrastructure. Unfortunately, these diseases tend to impact the most vulnerable in low-resource regions, including children and the elderly. Despite interest from some agencies in addressing this problem, the solutions do not always recognize the cultural or societal nuances of those areas, so their impacts are often limited. As the infectious disease and global health fields move forward in addressing this issue, it is important that we finally consider solutions from the perspective of these communities we are trying to help. This book is one of the first to acknowledge the limitations of those past efforts and outlines some considerations that must be taken if the global community truly wants to assist these communities in improving their quality of life.

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Dr. Pausch's last lecture reflects on his childhood dreams and teaches us to enjoy our own life journey no matter how hard or uncertain it may seem at times. His sense of humor and a positive outlook in life continue to inspire me to not give up on chasing my own dreams and to have fun along the way.

This book combines science, history, and personal experiences with a love for a specific place. It captures the kind of work I want to do-and life I want to live.

To me, this book represents one of the most important advancements of Milman Parry's and Albert Lord's seismic contributions to Homeric scholarship, in particular their theory of oral composition. Great strides had been made in proving that Homer's epics were performed orally and that their composition was highly complex and structured as a result, but Foley's focus on what - and how - these epics mean allowed us to see their tremendous artistry that emerged not from a single, genius, literate author, but from a community of singers and audiences who retained and created these massive works of art through song and collective memory. Foley spent much of his career refining these ideas, but Immanent Art broke that ground by introducing his idea of "traditional referentiality" that guides my own work and remains influential in the field today.

Academic life can sometimes be intensive. I found the book exceptionally beneficial as it offers profound insights into living in the present moment, fostering mental well-being.