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Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley - Scenic Design
Andrea Bechert
I was the Scenic Designer for the production of "Miss Bennet" at the TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, in December 2024. As the Scenic Designer, I oversee the design and visual aspects in three departments, and work directly with the people in those departments. These areas are Scenery (the architectural aspects of the setting), Scenic Art & Paints (the textures, painting, and finish of the scenery), and Properties (anything that you would move in or out of your house in a moving van including all décor).
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Dust & Grooves: Volume 2
David Ma
Renowned photographer and publisher Eilon Paz returns after the successful release of Dust & Grooves: Adventures In Record Collecting. For Volume Two, Paz highlights the planet’s biggest proponents of vinyl collecting, bridging stunning images with extensive interviews, revealing the motives and backstories behind the global vinyl community. Ten years after the first release, with vinyl sales skyrocketing and a booming popularity among Gen-Zs, Volume Two digs deeper than its predecessor, underscoring gorgeous collections from astute everyday enthusiasts to venerated DJs, musicians, and producers. Veteran journalist and editor David Ma handles the editorial end to this sequel, writing and editing the entire written component of the book, making Volume Two a cultural leader in the field, expertly accentuating the world’s unifying devotion to vinyl.
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Night Music, for Reed Quintet and Electronics
Christopher Luna-Mega
2022 composition performed by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2024. All the musical materials in "Night Music" are derived from direct transcriptions and arrangements of recordings of the summer dusk and night sounds of insects and other creatures in a Virginia forest. Every movement in the piece is a fragment taken from a 35-minute recording of dusk. The striking increase in density and loudness as dusk becomes night is the guiding formal principle of the piece. The recordings, featured in the electronics, were made with five simultaneous microphones in a pentagonal formation, at a distance of ~30 meters between each mic. Each of the five microphone analyses and transcriptions was assigned to an instrument (mic 1 to ob.; mic 2 to cl., etc.), rotating the pairings in each movement. The multi-channel recording sought an expanded listening field resulting from the different microphone responses and placings. Among the various features of the night sounds, one particularly caught my ears: constantly microtonally morphing triads and their aggregates resulting from the superimposition of the multitude of crickets.
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Legally Blond - Scenic Design
Andrea Bechert
I was the Scenic Designer for the production of "Legally Blond" at the massive Starlight Theatre, opening in June 2024. As the Scenic Designer, I oversee the design and visual aspects in three departments, and work directly with the people in those departments. These areas are Scenery (the architectural aspects of the setting), Scenic Art & Paints (the textures, painting, and finish of the scenery), and Properties (anything that you would move in or out of your house in a moving van including all décor).
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Young Adult Library Services: Challenges and Opportunities
Anthony Bernier
Perpetually in the shadow of service to children, and riven by fractious relationships between public and school libraries, this area of service remains without the capacity to build the institutional, political, cultural, or professional influence needed to grow and develop beyond ritual and repetition. Young Adult Services: Challenges and Opportunities begins to address these inequities by preparing professionals. Earnest youth advocates will value the pursuit of issues beyond cliché and perpetual “crash course” entry-level conversations and students will both value the brevity of concisely focused chapters, sectional introductions, as well as the study guide questions concluding each chapter.
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Advancing Sexual Consent and Agential Practices in Higher Education: Toward a New Community of Practice
Jason Laker
This book provides an in-depth exploration of sexual consent communication and negotiation practices among students and efforts to prevent and respond to sexual coercion and violence within North American higher education institutions. Developed as an author-written text with additional sections containing invited chapters from researchers and practitioners, it delves into complexities of communication around sexual consent, examining how factors such as identity, early learning experiences, societal norms, and coercive elements influence interactions among young adult postsecondary students. The book helps to inform educational policies and professional practices to promote sexual agency and undo sexual coercion and assault on campus.
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Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society (10th ed)
Resa Kelly
The goal of the American Chemical Society’s Chemistry in Context is to establish chemical principles on a need-to-know basis for non-science majors, enabling them to learn chemistry in the context of their own lives and significant issues facing science and the world. The non-traditional approach of Chemistry in Context reflects today's technological issues and the chemistry principles within them. Climate change, renewable energy, alternate fuels, nutrition, and genetic engineering are examples of issues that are covered in Chemistry in Context.
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Introduction to Analysis, Theorems and Examples
Hidefumi Katsuura
This book focuses on the theoretical aspects of calculus. The book begins with a chapter on set theory before thoroughly discussing real numbers, then moves onto sequences, series, and their convergence. The author explains why an understanding of real numbers is essential in order to create a foundation for studying analysis. Since the Cantor set is elusive to many, a section is devoted to binary/ternary numbers and the Cantor set. The book then moves on to continuous functions, differentiations, integrations, and uniform convergence of sequences of functions. An example of a nontrivial uniformly Cauchy sequence of functions is given. The author defines each topic, identifies important theorems, and includes many examples throughout each chapter. The book also provides introductory instruction on proof writing, with an emphasis on how to execute a precise writing style
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Data Science Inscription of the Jyotirlingas! Volume 2
Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
A Jyotirlinga or Jyotirlingam is a devotional representation of Hindu Deity. The word is made up of Sanskrit 'jyotis' which means 'radiance' and linga, also spelled lingam, which means ‘sign’ or “distinguishing symbol”. Hinduism defines Jyotirlingam as the radiant sign of the Almighty. In our data scientific view, nonetheless, Jyotirlinga represents the embodiment of time series. It exhibits stationarity and a multi-model pattern of naturally occurring time series, a classical data science pattern that has a causative relationship with historical events, world macroeconomics, agriculture, and other worldly events. Volume 2 has delved into the significance of six prominent Jyotirlingas - Rameshwaram, Nageshvara, Kashi Vishwanath, Trimbakeshwar, Kedarnath, and Grishneshwar - and explored their spiritual and scientific aspects. Through an interdisciplinary analysis that incorporates a range of fields, from statistics to environmental engineering, from historical perspectives to data science, we have gained invaluable insights into the patterns and trends that shape these sacred symbols. By embracing the fusion of modern science and traditional spiritual practices, we have the potential to unlock new levels of understanding and enlightenment, bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and contemporary knowledge.
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Assessing Policy Effectiveness Using AI and Language Models: Applications for Economic and Social Sustainability
Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
This volume uses advanced machine learning techniques to analyze government communication to evaluate policy effectiveness. The book develops policy effectiveness foundation models by cohorting historical budget policies with statistical models which are built on well reputed data sources including economic events, macroeconomic trends, and ratings and commerce terms from international institutions. By signal mining policies to the economic outcome patterns, the book aims to create a rich source of successful policy insights in terms of their effectiveness in bringing development to the poor and underserved communities to ensure the spread of wealth, social wellbeing, and standard of living to the common denomination of society rather than a selected quotient. Enabling academics and practitioners across disciplines to develop applications for effective policy interventions, this volume will be of interest to a wide audience including software engineers, data scientists, social scientists, economists, and agriculture practitioners.
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Religion, Science and Technology in North America: An Introduction
Lisa Stenmark
An introduction to the study of religion, science and technology in a North American context, providing the global and historical context needed to understand this field of study. Provides a history of what we call “religion” in relation to what we define as “science,” followed by chapters exploring key topics such as race, religion and science; secularism; religion and Covid-19; Indigenous communities and colonization; and gender and sexuality.
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Affect, Learning, and Teacher Education: Getting Stuck in Social Justice
Scott Jarvie
Professors Colmenares and Jarvie share insights from their book, Affect, Learning, and Teacher Education: Getting Stuck in Social Justice, which inquires into student teachers’ “stuck moments”—moments of felt crisis—as they occur within the context of a university-based social justice teacher education (SJTE) program. By considering what stuck moments do, and do to, student teachers, the book reimagines SJTE in ways that are both responsive to ‘stuckness’ and disruptive of discourses of learning that dominate the field. Through a critique of the affective workings of learning, the authors consider how these discourses can prove counterproductive for the work of teaching for social justice. This insightful and stimulating volume will be of use to scholars, researchers, and students with interests in curriculum studies, affective approaches to education and SJTE.
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The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood
Grace E. Howard
Decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for crimes against the pregnancies they gestated. The Pregnancy Police investigates the legal arguments undergirding these prosecutions and sheds light on the networks of health-care providers, social workers, and legal personnel participating in the surveillance and punishment of pregnant people. Drawing on analyses of legislation, statements from prosecutors and law enforcement, and records from over 1,000 arrest cases, Howard traces the history of state attempts to regulate and control pregnant people—from the early twentieth century's white supremacist eugenics to the end of Roe.
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Core Java, Volume II: Advanced Features (13th ed)
Cay Horstmann
This is the thirteenth edition of the classic two-volume comprehensive reference to the Java language and core API, updated for the latest Java release. The book is aimed at experienced programmers who want to learn how to write useful Java applications. No hype, no toy code, no language lawyering, just solid facts and in-depth research to help the reader write real programs.
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Core Java, Volume I: Fundamentals (13th ed)
Cay Horstmann
This is the thirteenth edition of the classic two-volume comprehensive reference to the Java language and core API, updated for the latest Java release. The book is aimed at experienced programmers who want to learn how to write useful Java applications. No hype, no toy code, no language lawyering, just solid facts and in-depth research to help the reader write real programs.
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Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries
Sandra Hirsh
Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries examines the opportunities, strengths, and challenges for libraries in the future from the perspective of more than 25 library leaders. Their responses to the question “What will libraries look like by the year 2035?” inspire, provoke, challenge, and expand our thinking about the role and importance of libraries in the future.
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Translating the Language of Patents
Françoise Herrmann
This book examines patent rules and regulations with linguistic impact, in view of understanding patents and preventing costly translation errors. Written by an experienced patent translator, teacher, and author of the blog Patents on the Soles of Your Shoes, this is a rigorously researched compendium for professional patent translators, and for students and translators in legal translation.
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Contending with Codes in a World of Difference: Transforming a Theory of Human Communication
Tabitha Hart
Whenever people interact, they contend with powerful systems of symbols, meanings, premises, and rules pertaining to communicative conduct, i.e, speech codes. Adding to thirty years of research, this edited book presents original, fieldwork-based case studies that examine speech codes in on- and offline settings around the world. Most importantly, it culminates with an updated, expanded, and re-energized version of speech codes theory, well-suited to the contemporary study of cultural communication. Offering theoretical and methodological guidance and practical insight, this book will help scholars and practitioners understand how people resist, challenge, and negotiate contending speech codes in a world of difference.
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Ciencia Zapoteca: Agricultura y Alimentación en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca
Roberto J. González
Zapotec farmers in the northern sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico, are highly successful in providing their families with abundant, nutritious food in an ecologically sustainable fashion, although the premises that guide their agricultural practices would be considered erroneous by the standards of most agronomists and botanists in the US and Europe. In this book, Roberto J. González convincingly argues that in fact Zapotec agricultural and dietary theories and practices constitute a valid local science, which has had a reciprocally beneficial relationship with external farming and food systems since the sixteenth century. González bases his analysis upon direct participant observation in the farms and fields of a Zapotec village. By using the ethnographic fieldwork approach, he is able to describe and analyze the rich meanings that campesino families attach to their crops, lands, and animals. González also reviews the history of maize, sugarcane, and coffee cultivation in the Zapotec region to show how campesino farmers have intelligently and scientifically adapted their farming practices to local conditions over the course of centuries. By setting his ethnographic study of the Talea de Castro community within a historical world systems perspective, he also weighs the local impact of national and global currents ranging from Spanish colonialism to the 1910 Mexican Revolution to the North American Free Trade Agreement. At the same time, he shows how the sustainable practices of "traditional" subsistence agriculture are beginning to replace the failed, unsustainable techniques of modern industrial farming in some regions.
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7000 Miles
Amy Glazer
Follows Jo, a passionate pilot who is inspired by her grandmother's mysterious legacy, is she Amelia Earhart, as she now must decide what is more important, protecting the innocence of those you love or famed success.
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Defining and Defying Borders: Tracing Hispanism across Literary Magazines
Vanessa Marie Fernández
Tracing heated exchanges between Spanish and Latin American intellectuals across journals, magazines, and newspapers, Defining and Defying Borders details how borders and boundaries were contested within a medium that simultaneously crossed borders and defined boundaries. Vanessa Marie Fernández shows how print media is an invaluable medium that offers scholarship a more nuanced perspective of the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America that shaped aesthetic production during the early twentieth century. Presenting inclusive paradigms that are at once able to transcend borders, acknowledge national boundaries, and account for empire, Defining and Defying Borders reveals print media’s importance in postcolonial literary and cultural production.
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Affect, Learning, and Teacher Education: Getting Stuck in Social Justice
Erica Colmenares
Professors Colmenares and Jarvie share insights from their book. Affect, Learning, and Teacher Education: Getting Stuck in Social Justice, which inquires into student teachers’ “stuck moments”—moments of felt crisis—as they occur within the context of a university-based social justice teacher education (SJTE) program. By considering what stuck moments do, and do to, student teachers, the book reimagines SJTE in ways that are both responsive to ‘stuckness’ and disruptive of discourses of learning that dominate the field. Through a critique of the affective workings of learning, the authors consider how these discourses can prove counterproductive for the work of teaching for social justice. This insightful and stimulating volume will be of use to scholars, researchers, and students with interests in curriculum studies, affective approaches to education and SJTE.
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