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Curriculum based, rather than keyed to any one text, the MacLaboratory software utilizes multimedia technology to integrate text, video, graphics, animation, and sound.Students can experience what it's like to conduct real research experiments with millisecond accuracy using MacLaboratory's powerful toolkit and can test virtually any hypothesis -- their own creativity is the key.(Note:The software has been previously purchased by 3,000 adopting schools worldwide.)

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MacLaboratory for Psychology can be used on a hard drive, CD-ROM, or over a network, depending on how the MacintoshT, PeformaT, or PowerPCT being used is set up.

Requires at least 5 MB RAM, color monitor, HyperCard, and System 7 with QuickTimeT available. CD-ROM version requires System 7.(The disk-run system will run many applications in System 6.3 or higher.)A spreadsheet (i.e., ExcelT) is optional.The CD-ROM version of MacLaboratory for Psychology contains a number of larger QuickTimeT movies, additional software, and an enhanced multi-media format not available by floppy distribution.A fast CD player or access across a network for downloading is recommended. ... Read more

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newspaper-style folded to 7½x11½". ... Read more

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Biographical anthology of famous historical leaders and heros. Edited for children. "Michelangelo, Mark Twain, Hellen Keller, Queen Elizabeth II" and more. ... Read more

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The gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. For over two centuries, women who pick up guns have interrupted the popular association of guns and masculinity, spurring debates about women's capabilities for violence as well as their capacity for full citizenship. In Her Best Shot, Laura Browder examines the relationship between women and guns and the ways in which the figure of the armed woman has served as a lightning rod for cultural issues from the American Revolution to the present.

Utilizing autobiographies, advertising, journalism, novels, and political tracts, among other sources, Browder traces appearances of the armed woman across an ideological spectrum ranging from the Black Panthers to militant right-wing militias. Among the colorful characters presented here are Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man to fight in the American Revolution; Pauline Cushman, who posed as a Confederate to spy for Union forces during the Civil War; Wild West sure-shot Annie Oakley; African explorer Osa Johnson; 1930s gangsters Ma Barker and Bonnie Parker; and Patty Hearst, the hostage-turned-revolutionary-turned-victim. With her entertaining and provocative analysis, Browder demonstrates that armed women both challenge and reinforce the easy equation that links guns, manhood, and American identity. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Fascinating but flawed
Fascinating slice of history that needed a stronger-handed editor or coauthor.

The best parts of the book deal with the relationship between women and firearms during the last 15 to 20 years, yet these are also the most problematic. For instance, Browder asserts that Sara Weaver became an object of fascination in the white supremacist community after the Ruby Ridge standoff, yet she fails to provide even slight textual support for this (were white power zines and websites running articles, photo spreads, and interviews gushing over her, or what?).

Even worse, in the last chapter, during what feels like an extremely rushed-to-press discussion of the Iraq War, she writes that the only female soldier to become visible during this conflict was Lynndie England. Uh, Jessica Lynch anyone? How the hell did Browder and her editor miss that? Lynch's story conflates our concepts of "hero" and "victim"; while that's not exactly new or unique to her (the 9/11 mythos suffers from this conflation as well), her portrayal as both a hero and as a cute, blonde damsel-in-distress -- while her story fits neither categorization neatly -- is extremely relevant to a feminist discussion of arms and combat.

I'm glad I checked this book out from the library rather than purchase it, but despite its lack of thoroughness, this is an extremely compelling read and a good starting point for anyone doing research in this area

Timely and well written!
I read this cover to cover in a few days- there is a lot of history about women and guns in America but the delivery is very digestible!With more and more female soldiers in combat in Iraq and other places in the world, this book dispels many myths about women and guns and gives a good background on American culture throughout the years. ... Read more