Susan W Dixon

Between the Real and the Ideal: The Accademia Degli Arcadi and Its Garden in Eighteenth-century Rome

Ama, Your Story Is Mine: Walking Out of the Shadows of Abuse

Ama, Your Story Is Mine: Walking Out of the Shadows of Abuse

Mrs. Beeton's Family Cookbook

Popping With Power (Aims Activities Grade 3-4)

When Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Understanding the Challenging Behaviors of Young Children and Students with Disabilities

This resource provides information and tools for teachers and others on how to support children whose primary way to communicate is through challenging behaviors, including young children and those with disabilities. The authors build an understanding of what behaviors children use to communicate, w...

Italian Baroque Art

This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750, highlighting the key debates with which art historians continue to grapple. Explores themes including: style or the visuality of art; artistic practices and production; artistic communication as projected and e...

Ama, Your Story Is Mine: Walking Out of the Shadows of Abuse

In the preface to her memoir, Ercenia "Alice" Cedeño recalls the secrecy and turmoil that marked her youth: "I spent most of my growing years mad at my mother and wanting her to change to fit in with the rest of the world," she writes. "When my sisters and I wanted her to visit our friends' mothers,...

Printmakers of the Baroque

The essays in this volume complement the recent exhibition of Printmakers of the Baroque: 17th-Century Explorations of Space and Light at La Salle University Art Museum during winter 2013-2014. Co-curated by La Salle Associate Professor of Art History Dr. Susan Dixon, the exhibition also provided a ...

Dissent: Voices of Conscience

During the run-up to war in Iraq, Army Colonel (Ret.) and diplomat Ann Wright resigned her State Department post in protest. Wright, who had spent 19 years in the military and 16 years in diplomatic service, was one among dozens of govern-ment insiders and active-duty military personnel who spoke ou...