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La Mapa de Tenochtitlan
Michelle Wilson
The Rhinoceros Project Collective, of which Michelle Wilson is a member, exhibited their monumental community embroidery at the Bilblioteca Nacional de Mexico during the 700th anniversary of the founding of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City).
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Masala Dabba
Sukanya Chakrabarti
Secrets, lies, and unresolved conflicts play out against a background of familial memories of food and cooking in "Masala Dabba", a deeply felt family drama where food is love, loss, and a portal into the past. Long-buried truths surface through stories inspired by each of the spices in a grandmother’s masala dabba, an Indian spice box. Though "Masala Dabba" focuses on an Indian/African American family, all families can see themselves in the stories about the past, culture, identity, and the choices we make.
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"Songs for Many Lives"
Sukanya Chakrabarti
"Songs for Many Lives" creates and presents new Carnatic compositions inspired by stories of South Asian immigration to the United States. These songs and stories reflect not only the successes and struggles, but also the myriad ways - some more visible than others - by which South Asian immigrants have made a new home, re-invented traditions, and fought for better lives for their communities. Compositions are in the languages Tamil, Sanskrit, Hindi, Telugu, English, Bengali, and the work continues. The project asks - can the music and storytelling speak to the themes of our diasporic lives and immigrant communities?
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Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings
Maite Urcaregui and Fernanda Díaz-Basteris
Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings offers an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Latinx studies and comics studies. The book draws together groundbreaking critical essays, practical pedagogical reflections, and original and republished short comics. Together, the critical and creative works in this collection begin to map out the emerging and evolving field of Latinx comics studies and to envision what might be possible in and through Latinx comics. It examines how comics by, for, and about Latinx peoples creatively and conceptually experiment with the very boundaries of “Latinx” and portray the diverse lived experiences therein.
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Seacliff: Poems
Cate Lycurgus
Anchored by a vivid and resounding sequence, Seacliff enacts the relentless crash and dissolution of our bodies, landscapes, and spirits, even as they are recombined to return. And so this book serves as a reminder of the primeval rhythm that sustains us. Unlike other works, this seascape impels a meditation that is not merely metaphorical. In the face of very real forces, the uncertainty is not whether one must surrender, but when and how. This testament of perseverance invites us to submit to—and to celebrate—the vast vigor of our planet. Here, alongside the Northern California coast, Seacliff offers a path, one lyric runner of shine, out to a fresh horizon.
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How Real is Race? Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture
Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Rosemary Henze, and Yolanda T. Moses
HRR (How Real is Race? Unraveling Race, Biology and Culture) deconstructs the myth of race as biology and addresses the reality of race as cultural invention, drawing on biocultural, historical, and cross-cultural anthropological perspectives, and demonstrating the interplay among race, biology, culture, power, and stratification. Part I, “The Fallacy of Race as Biology,” unravels the myth of races as biological divisions of humanity. Part II, “Culture Creates Race,” explores race as a social construct, ideology, and device, through interracial sex-marriage restrictions, for maintaining visible markers of racial hierarchy. Part III, “Contemporary Issues,” addresses racial stratification in education, health, and how language embodies and reinforces a racial worldview. This new edition focuses more explicitly on the racial worldview as an ideology of difference, rationale for race-based stratification, and a device to mask other forms of inequality. It includes two new chapters “Unpacking the Health Consequences of Racial Stratification,” and “Dismantling the Racial World View,” as well as significant updates-expansions of Parts I & II. A complementary website features learning activities and web-based resources.
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The Self-Determined Doctorate: Perspectives on Leading the Doctoral Journey
Shelly Buchanan and Africa S. Hands
This volume brings together accounts from doctoral students who strengthened their paths by exercising agency in their work and their lives. Contributors who pursued doctoral student in the United States, Sweden, and Australia describe personal and professional transformations shaped by growing autonomy, competence, and connection. Drawing on support networks both within and beyond the academy, and by intentionally cultivating relationships with peers and faculty, these students learned to navigate uncertainty and ambiguity throughout their doctoral journeys. As they progressed toward degree completion, they gained confidence in their disciplinary knowledge and professional identities, resulting in meaningful and generative outcomes.
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Forensic Social Sciences. Theory, Research, and Practice
Stephen J. Morewitz
Forensic Social Sciences. Theory, Research and Practice (ISBN: 979-8-8233-6250-4) explores the intersection of social sciences with legal and governmental forums. The textbook discusses the role of forensic social scientists in the courtroom and beyond, examining how their expertise in disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology can shape legal outcomes and public policy.
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Nizkor— A Journey of Remembrance
Fred Cohen
NIZKOR—A Journey of Remembrance is a 40-minute oratorio for vocal soloists, double chorus and orchestra that responds to family loss and the COVID pandemic in a Jewish context of text, ritual, and remembrance. With reference to the Lamentations, each of the six movements begins with successive Hebrew letters, framing grief within ordered, communal lament, moving from shiva’s raw rupture, through Psalm 23 and a collage of psalms and Ecclesiastes on mortality and wisdom, to El Malei Rachamim and the Mourner’s Kaddish, culminating in the traditional condolence blessing that links personal sorrow to the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem
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HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust 7th International Conference, HCI-CPT 2025
Abbas Moallem
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, held as Part of the 27th International Conference, HCI International 2025, in Gothenburg, Sweden, during June 22–27, 2025. Two volumes of the HCII 2025 proceedings are dedicated to this year’s edition of the HCI-CPT conference. The first volume focuses on topics related to Human-Centered Cybersecurity and Risk Management, as well as Cybersecurity Awareness, and Training. The second volume focuses on topics related to Privacy, Trust, and Legal Compliance in Digital Systems, as well as Usability, Privacy, and Emerging Threats. Two volumes of the HCII 2025 proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-92833-8
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Human Factors Analysis of 23 Cyberattacks
Abbas Moallem
As cyber threat actors have become more sophisticated, data breaches, phishing attacks, and ransomware are increasing, and the global cybercrime damage in 2021 was $16.4 billion a day. While technical issue analyses are fundamental in understanding how to improve system security, analyzing the roles of human agents is crucial. Human Factors Analysis of 23 Cyberattacks addresses, through examples, the human factors behind cybersecurity attacks. Focusing on human factors in individual attack cases, this book aims to understand the primary behaviors that might result in the success of attacks. Each chapter looks at a series of cases describing the nature of the attack through the reports and reviews of the experts, followed by the role and human factors analysis. It investigates where a human agent's intervention was a factor in starting, discovering, monitoring, or suffering from the attacks. Written in an easy-to-understand way and free from technical jargon, the reader will develop a thorough understanding of why cyberattacks occur and how they can be mitigated by comparison to the practical examples provided. This title will appeal to students and practitioners in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, cybersecurity, computer engineering, industrial engineering, and computer science.
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Machine Learning, Deep Learning and AI for Cybersecurity
Mark Stamp and Martin Jureček
This book addresses a variety of problems that arise at the interface between AI techniques and challenging problems in cybersecurity. The book covers many of the issues that arise when applying AI and deep learning algorithms to inherently difficult problems in the security domain, such as malware detection and analysis, intrusion detection, spam detection, and various other subfields of cybersecurity. The book places particular attention on data driven approaches, where minimal expert domain knowledge is required.
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Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women
Jennifer Rycenga
Schooling the Nation recounts the story of an advanced academy for Black women in Canterbury, Connecticut. Led by a white woman, Prudence Crandall, but founded in dialogue with two Black women - Maria Davis and Sarah Harris - the Academy educated over two dozen young Black women in its brief existence from 1833-1834. Schooling the Nation follows the story through the school's literal trials and tribulations, and goes further to show the continued success of the Canterbury alumna as teachers, abolitionists, and community leaders.
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Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Psychology: A Concise Introduction
Christine Ma-Kellams
Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Psychology: A Concise Introduction explores the specific ways one's cultural background shapes one's sense of self, emotions, motivation, judgments, relationships, and more. It discusses race, politics, God, sex, money, and how you like your coffee. In the process, this book unpacks “culture” in all its various forms, including (but not limited to) ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, and religious culture. It also covers what happens when cultures collide (e.g., diversity issues and multiculturalism) and presents insights into the future of culture. To this end, this book uses empirical psychological research on culture and applies it to real-world issues, like whether money makes one happy or being online makes one unwell. It presents the mounting evidence suggesting that much of our psychological processes is culture-specific, theory-driven, and context-dependent. It includes chapters on the newest, most groundbreaking issues facing the study of culture, including how to unpack the origins of culture-where it comes from, how to test the history of culture in modern-day laboratory studies, how culture shapes the brain (and how the brain changes culture), and the question of cultural change in the era of globalization.
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Relics of Modernity: Theorizing Rhetorics and Performances of Ruins
Andrew Wood
This collection of essays explores an emerging area within and beyond communication studies, inviting scholars of the built environment to look past familiar monuments and museums and instead consider ruins as critical lenses on modernity. Focusing on sites such as ghost towns, industrial remnants, prisons, and locations linked to dark tourism, the essays examine spaces often marked by decay, melancholy, and perceived failure. Though visually uncelebrated, ruins can evoke awe, reveal the fragility of modern confidence, and inspire reverence for impermanence. Through theoretically rigorous and vividly written chapters, contributors analyze ruins across and beyond the United States, addressing questions of authenticity, identity, memory, representation, and power.
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Quantum Computing Architecture and Hardware for Engineers: Step by Step
Hiu Yung Wong
The purpose of this book is to teach quantum computing hardware from an engineer’s perspective. Engineers play an important role in quantum computers. However, college and graduate engineering students usually do not have the required physics and mathematics training to understand how quantum computer hardware works. This book provides step-by-step guidance to connect engineers to the quantum world.
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STEM Learning in Extended Reality: Research, Design, and Examples
Ferdinand D. Rivera
This book synthesizes findings from recent and ongoing research on the use of Extended Reality (XR) to support learning of STEM content. XR is slowly being introduced in classrooms due to significant changes in XR technology. These tools were historically costly, unfriendly, and developed only for gamers. Today, XR tools are able to enhance students’ immersive experiences in such settings. In classrooms, in particular, they provide learners with an opportunity to manipulate abstract objects as if they are physical objects. The book begins with an extensive and detailed description and evaluation of the impact of various XR interventions on learning and engagement in STEM classrooms. The author then concludes with theoretical frameworks for investigating learning in computer- immersive contexts and practical implications for effectively using XR tools to learn STEM.
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Pearl of the Wabash
Esteban Garcia Bravo
Pearl of the Wabash is a public art sculpture in Tapawingo Park that celebrates the Wabash River and the community’s deep connection to it. Created through a three-year Public Artist in Residence collaboration with the City of West Lafayette, IN, the project was shaped by community engagement, public events, and surveys. Partnerships with the Wabash River Enhancement Corporation and participation in water quality research, including the Wabash Sampling Blitz, informed the design. Centered on the freshwater mussel, a vital but endangered natural water filter, the sculpture uses three interlocking rings and color animation to visualize over 4,500 water quality datapoints from 2012 onward.
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Artificial Intelligence in Action: Real-world Applications and Innovations
Ahmed Banafa
This comprehensive book dives deep into the current landscape of AI, exploring its fundamental principles, development challenges, potential risks, and the cutting-edge breakthroughs that are propelling it forward. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries and societies worldwide through groundbreaking innovations and real-world applications. Starting with the core concepts, the book examines the various types of AI systems, generative AI models, and the complexities of machine learning. It delves into the programming languages driving AI development, data pipelines, model creation and deployment processes, while shedding light on issues like AI hallucinations and the intricate path of machine unlearning. The book then showcases the remarkable real-world applications of AI across diverse domains. From preventing job displacement and promoting environmental sustainability, to enhancing disaster response, drone technology, and even nuclear energy innovation, it highlights how AI is tackling complex challenges and driving positive change. The book also explores the double-edged nature of AI, recognizing its tremendous potential while cautioning about the risks of misuse, unintended consequences, and the urgent need for responsible development practices. It examines the intersection of AI and fields like operating system design, warfare, and semiconductor technology, underscoring the wide-ranging implications of this transformative force. As the quest for artificial general intelligence (AGI) and superintelligent AI systems intensifies, the book delves into cutting-edge research, emerging trends, and the pursuit of multimodal, explainable, and causally aware AI systems. It explores the symbiotic relationship between AI and human creativity, the rise of user-friendly "casual AI," and the potential of AI to tackle open-ended tasks. This is an essential guide for understanding the profound impact of AI on our world today and its potential to shape our future. From the frontiers of innovation to the challenges of responsible development, this book offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the remarkable real-world applications and innovations driving the AI revolution.
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Black California Gold
Wendy M. Thompson
For numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool’s gold—promising easy riches but frequently resulting in dispossession and displacement. Poet Wendy M. Thompson is descended from two of these migrant waves—post-1965 Chinese immigrants and Black southerners of the Second Great Migration—whose presence has permanently transformed the region. In this arresting debut poetry collection, Thompson traces the past and present of California’s Bay Area, exploring themes of family, migration, girlhood, and identity against a backdrop of urban redevelopment, advanced gentrification, and the erasure of Black communities. Traveling down both familiar highways and obscure side streets, her poems map a region where race, class, and language are just some of the fault lines that divide communities and produce periodic tremors of violence and resistance.
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California and the Making of Modern Sport
Joel S. Franks
This book examines the importance of California - a socio-cultural, economic and political powerhouse - in the history of modern sport. It argues that California has had a profound influence, for better or worse, on the way that not only America but also the wider world plays sport and spends money to watch others play.
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A Lovely Uncontrollable Thing
Ashley Seering
Ashley Seering’s short documentary of artist Victoria Moore, “A Lovely Uncontrollable Thing,” makes its West Coast premiere at the Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival on March 21 2026. A Lovely Uncontrollable Thing offers a profile of artist Victoria Moore as she shapes a life grounded in nature, craftsmanship, and personal growth. Known for jewelry and tools created from self-forged Damascus steel, Moore’s work blurs the line between utility and art, strength and delicacy. As she transforms raw materials by hand, she also redefines happiness and success on her terms, proving that a meaningful life is built one piece at a time.
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