Christine Barbour

Broschiertes Buch

Amgov

Long Story Short

Beschreibung

AmGov: Long Story Short helps students learn the nuts and bolts of American Government. Author Christine Barbour responds to the need for quick studying and skimming with ten succinct chapters that make it easy to read, revisit, and return to content quickly. Reading aids like bullets, annotations, and arrows walk students through important facts and break up the material in short, engaging bites of information.

Autor

Christine Barbour teaches in the Political Science Department at Indiana University, and directs the department's IU POLS DC internship program. She is a faculty liaison for the University's dual-credit program, which delivers an online version of her Intro to American Politics class to high school students across the state. At Indiana, Professor Barbour has been a Lilly Fellow, working on a project to increase student retention in large introductory courses, and a member of the Freshman Learning Project, a university-wide effort to improve the first-year undergraduate experience. She has served on the New York Times College Advisory Board, working with other educators to develop ways to integrate newspaper reading into the undergraduate curriculum. She has won multiple teaching honors, but the two awarded by her students mean the most to her: the Indiana University Student Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty and the Indiana University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award. When not teaching or writing textbooks, Professor Barbour enjoys traveling with her coauthor, blogging about food and travel, and playing with her dogs and cat. She contributes to Bloom Magazine of Bloomington and is a coauthor several cookbooks. She also makes jewelry from precious metals and rough gemstones. If she ever retires, she will open a jewelry shop in a renovated Airstream on the beach in Apalachicola, Florida, where she plans to write another cookbook and a book about the local politics, development, and fishing industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 198mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781071897683
• ISBN-10: 1071897683
• Artikelnr.: 66351737