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Dallas Smith was one of my professors at Tennessee Tech. Since retirement, he has become an endurance legend in Tennessee and an ambassador of the sport of running. I purchased his first book, Falling Forward, after catching-up with him at a 5k race in 2008. Reading his book and learning of his accomplishments inspired me challenge myself and try new things. You don't have to be a runner to enjoy his book, which recounts some of his adventures across Tennessee and beyond.

This book was a favorite "enjoyable read" of mine both during my graduate work and was sustaining to me when I read it again during the most tense days of the pandemic. I love all of Dorothy L. Sayers work, and this novel in particular resonates with me now as a faculty member because it evokes the life of female faculty nearly 100 years ago, and involves issues surrounding the balance of work and family, academic truth and personal relationships.

In the Spring of 2016, I tried game-based learning for the first time. The classroom activity I designed was a simple hack of the award-winning, tabletop role-playing game, Dungeon World. Although my activity has taken on a life of its own, I remain indebted to Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel for writing this love-letter to classic, tabletop role-playing games.

This book encourages students to think for themselves.

This book will inspire and prepare individuals interested in research or a career in Physical Activity Epidemiology.

For me, this book by an emerging scholar represents the most compelling, inspired, and rigorous research in the discipline of history today. I hope that my students and colleagues will build on its methods to center Native voices and collaborative practices in historical research. Although it covers histories from hundreds of years ago, it is future oriented in its vision of power and nationhood in the gulf south today. Always missing home, the book also brings joy in its beautiful, lucid descriptions of the waterways, landscapes, and communities of coastal Louisiana.

This was the first book I published and one which, despite plenty of things I'd change if I had to do it again, I continue to be proud.

I could not have gotten where I am today without this book.

It was one of the first books I read that used data in an accessible manner to debunk some common myths about success.

This book reflects my thinking about the quality of food we eat and the environment we live in.

The study of sexuality in emerging adulthood is of vital importance. Sexuality is a complex and multi-faceted aspect of individual identity. This edited book examines sexuality during emerging adulthood in a thoughtful and theoretically informed manner, drawing upon cutting edge research from the top scholars in this field of science.

This is America. And we must understand the complex history of who we were and who we are.

This book contains a chapter on minimal surfaces that Giuseppe Tinaglia (a great friend and collaborator of mine!) and I have written based on lectures on the subject we both gave in our respective institutions.