Books published by Vanderbilt University Press

In this thoughtful and innovative book, Marcia B. Baxter Magolda writes of ""bridging the worlds between educator and students."" There is perhaps no task more fundamental to effective teaching and learning.

Explores how the major higher education associations and the constituent American colleges and universities try to influence federal policy, especially congressional policy. In clear prose Cook explains how the higher education community organises itself in Washington, how it lobbies, and how its major interest groups are perceived.

A transitional book in the development of Royce's thought, originally published in 1908, The Philosophy of Loyalty is a key to understanding his influence on the development of pragmatism.

A new paperback edition of the standard biography of the flamboyant Earl Van Dorn, one of the most promising yet disappointing officers in the Confederate Army.

Very real differences do exist between what is spoken and what is written in virtually every language. In Brazilian Portuguese, especially, the gulf between the two is wide. The Syntax Of Spoken Brazilian Portuguese is the first thorough analysis of the spoken language of contemporary Brazil, in English, for students and teachers of the language.

Set in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, Haun's stories of Appalachian life capture the forceful simplicity of the legends and ballads that still live in the rural hollows.

In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the violent realities of their time and place. This volume is a chronological study of the way revolution and revolutionary thinking is depicted in the fiction composed from the eye of the storm.

Narrative Sociology defines classics, identifies exemplars of narrative analysis, and delineates a field in the making.

In 1997, when the author began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel and those of indigenous women. Midwives and doctors would plead with her as the anthropologist to "educate women about the dangerous inadequacy of their traditions".