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Blooming in the Ruins: How Mexican Philosophy Can Guide Toward the Good Life
Carlos Alberto Sánchez
This book showcases the practical applications of Mexican philosophy. Now, when we think of philosophy that can guide us in our everyday lives, we are more likely to think of Ancient Greece or Rome than we are 20th-century Mexico. But Mexican philosophy is a rich and wide-ranging tradition with much to offer readers today. Emerging in defiance of the Western philosophy bound up with colonial power, it boasts a range of powerful ideas and advice for modern-day life. A tradition deeply tied to Mexico's history of colonization, revolution, resistance, and persistence through hardship, this philosophy has much to teach us.
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HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust: 6th International Conference, HCI-CPT 2024, Held as Part of the 26th HCI International Conference, HCII 2024, Washington, DC, USA, June 29 – July 4, 2024, Proceedings, Part I
Abbas Moallem
This proceedings, HCI-CPT 2024, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, held as Part of the 26th International Conference, HCI International 2024, which took place from June 29 - July 4, 2024 in Washington DC, USA.Two volumes of the HCII 2024 proceedings are dedicated to this year’s edition of the HCI-CPT Conference. The first focuses on topics related to Cyber Hygiene, User Behavior and Security Awareness, and User Privacy and Security Acceptance. The second focuses on topics related to Cybersecurity Education and Training, and Threat Assessment and Protection.
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The Playboy of the Western World—A New Version
Matthew Spangler
Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s adaption of J.M. Synge’s classic play "The Playboy of the Western World" (1907) had a sold-out run in Ireland’s National Theatre in 2007. The adaptation relocates the story from rural Ireland and places it in a contemporary Dublin pub with the central character recast as a Nigerian asylum-seeker. Under the co-authorship of Adigun – artistic director of Ireland’s first African theatre company – and best-selling, Booker Prize author Doyle, "The New Playboy" represented an exciting intercultural collaboration, and to date, remains the most commercially successful theatre production on the themes of race and immigration in contemporary Ireland.
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Reproductive Justice, Adoption, and Foster Care
Tanya Bakhru
Understanding practices of family separation and child removal necessitates considering the impacts of globalizing capitalism, colonialism, empire building and the establishment and normalization of systemic racism. In Reproductive Justice, Adoption, and Foster Care, the authors situate the colonial legacies of family separation, what it means to center the right parent, and Reproductive Justice and transnational feminist frameworks in conversation with one another in order to elucidate a more nuanced and comprehensive approach to recognizing the significance of contemporary examples of family separation.
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Tectonic Tongues / Lenguas Tectónicas
Stephanie Sherman
“Tectonic Tongues / Lenguas Tectónicas is a series of tender, deeply- felt, intimate poems in English, Spanish, and Spanglish that resist literary categorization. They cross multiple borders: between languages and identities, poetry and choreography, writing and visual art; and between Ecuador, Mexico, San Francisco, and Boston… [Stephanie’s] poems are full of sensual, visceral, kinesthetic and erotic metaphors… They [are] considered body-based poetry: a poetic/critical scholarship, where words and politicized bodies meet in tense queer intercultural feminist manifestos in movement. It is a must-read for feminists, border- crossers, dancers, romantics, nostalgics, city-lovers, and activists across the Américas.” (Guillermo Gómez Peña)
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Pedretti's Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction (9th ed)
Winifred Schultz-Krohn
Pedretti’s Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction is one of the main textbooks for the profession. This textbook is translated into several languages and is used extensively in occupational therapy educational programs nationally and internationally. The textbook originated at San Jose State University by Professor Lorraine Pedretti who then passed the responsibility for editing this work to Drs. Schultz-Krohn and Pendleton. A unique feature is the use of case presentations using evidence to illustrate professional reasoning to support a specific client. This approach allows the reader a glimpse into the thinking processes used by the expert authors.
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Nostalgia and Political Theory
Lawrence Quill
In Nostalgia and Political Theory, Lawrence Quill advocates the central importance of nostalgia as a theoretical response to the ‘historic’ past and a vertiginous present. He does so by offering detailed analyses of diverse theoretical approaches, from the ancient world to the modern day, in order to reassess the relation between nostalgia and politics. Quill proposes nostalgia as an organizing concept, silently (and not so silently) influencing theorists as they construct critiques of the present or visions of the political future. Nostalgia and Political Theory surveys key contributions to nostalgic and anti-nostalgic thinking from across the political spectrum. Assessing the influence of photography, radio, television, and personal computing on changing conceptions of the past, Quill also considers the relation between populism, nationalism, and nostalgia. By challenging those who would dismiss nostalgia as irrational or a symptom of cultural malaise, Quill concludes by advancing the case for a liberal theory of nostalgia.
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Brave New You: Strategies, Tools, and Neurohacks to Live More Courageously Every Day
Mary Poffenroth
Brave New You gives readers actionable steps to navigate the underlying cause of our current mental health crisis: fear. Not fight-or-flight, but the kind of pervasive, debilitating everyday fears triggered by problems, stresses, and challenging issues we all face in our day-to-day lives. Along with the author’s personal stories about overcoming her fears, Brave New You combines the latest research in biology and psychology to help readers identify the hidden sources of struggle while teaching them to use neurohacks that will give them all the tools and strategies they need to live a fuller, happier life.
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Pedretti's Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction (9th ed)
Heidi Pendleton
Pedretti’s Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction is one of the main textbooks for the profession. This textbook is translated into several languages and is used extensively in occupational therapy educational programs nationally and internationally. The textbook originated at San Jose State University by Professor Lorraine Pedretti who then passed the responsibility for editing this work to Drs. Schultz-Krohn and Pendleton. A unique feature is the use of case presentations using evidence to illustrate professional reasoning to support a specific client. This approach allows the reader a glimpse into the thinking processes used by the expert authors.
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A Love Letter
Carmen Kennedy-Saleh
"A Love Letter" steps you into the sharp tenderness of a loved one’s transition. “Its pages expose your mind to the various mirrors of an embrace while also walking you down the predatory nodes of a medical system that serves capital and rage with equal measure. In a few pages, you are years changed,” writes the former San Francisco Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen Martin. "A Love Letter" should make you feel uncomfortable. It should confront you with humanity and inspire your active support for newly imagined forms of universal, comprehensive care that is free for us all.
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Feedback for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom: New Perspectives, Practices, and Possibilities
Brent Duckor and Carrie Holmberg
Educators Brent Duckor and Carrie Holmberg show you how to plan, enact, and reflect on feedback practices within lessons and across units using an accessible, comprehensive, and innovative framework that illuminates the path towards equity and excellence for all. With evidence-based research and real classroom examples, Feedback for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom answers: What is formative feedback? How does it influence student outcomes and teacher pedagogy? Why are well-defined learning goals, aligned with rich tasks and progress guides, essential to making feedback truly formative? What are essential facets of teacher, peer, and self-driven feedback? How does feedback work best in whole-class, small group, or individual configurations? What can make written, spoken, and nonverbal feedback modalities more effective—for all? How can focusing on feedback improve learning across all subject matter disciplines? Prompts for self-reflection, videos, vignettes, and scaffolds throughout help readers see how effective feedback can be embedded into classrooms and school communities committed to discovery, growth, and deeper learning.
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CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action (2nd ed)
Scott Myers-Lipton
CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action helps students learn how to bring about the change they believe will improve their community. What distinguishes an experiential social action class from other social change courses is that students are actively involved in enacting a policy change of their choice, providing first-hand experience of democracy and power. Students can choose to start a new campaign, keep a campaign going from a previous semester, or join a community campaign. This valuable new edition includes updates to the student victories section, reordering and updating of chapters for better student learning, and updates to all of the portfolio assignments.
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Bicoastal Collective: Chapter 6
Aaron Lington
The sixth installment of the Bicoastal Collective - a joint musical project by saxophonist Aaron Lington and trumpeter Paul Tynan. "Tynan and Lington have an intimate familiarity with their instruments, and along with the New York rhythm section of Dimitrov and Abba, they capture an electronic and groove filled formula that few others could emulate." - Tom Haugen, Take Effect
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Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging
Binh Danh
Binh Danh was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the US in 1979. Early in his career, Danh pioneered printing images directly onto plant matter, activating the plants’ chlorophyll with sunlight. Using this process, Danh printed images associated with the war in Vietnam onto the leaves of tropical plants and grasses. Danh has traveled across the American West for almost a decade, making daguerreotypes of scenic. Danh imbues this scenery with his distinctly personal perspective—an attempt to negotiate his connection as a Vietnamese American with the landscape and history of the United States. This monograph features two volumes, bringing together bodies of work and a separate book of essays and memorabilia that contextualizes Danh's work.
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Braided [Un]Be-Longing
Rosanna Alvarez
Braided [Un]Be-Longing is an intricately woven cultural journey across space and time. The debut poetry collection by Rosanna Alvarez offers a poetic glimpse into the collective excavation of journeying toward belonging and reads like a complicated love letter to community, family, and culture. A 2023 finalist for the International Latino Book Awards, the book has been honored with two awards: a silver medal for The Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award and a bronze medal for Best Cover Design. Hailed as "a poetic gem" and "a healing echo," the collection continues to spark conversations about our collective liberation.
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Intelligent Computing and Communication: Proceedings of 6th ICICC 2022
Vishnu Pendyala
This book features a collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication (ICICC 2022). It focuses on innovation paradigms in system knowledge, intelligence, and sustainability that can be applied to provide practical solutions to a number of problems in society, the environment, and industry. Further, the book also addresses the deployment of emerging computational and knowledge transfer approaches, optimizing solutions in various disciplines of science, technology, and healthcare.
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Applied Organizational Behavior and Leadership Development: An Identity Approach
Gretchen Lester
An Identity Approach to Applied Organizational Behavior and Leader Development serves as a bridge between education and training for the emerging leader. While grounded in sound leadership and organizational behavior theory and current research, what sets this leadership textbook apart from others is that the authors personalize the leadership development process in an accessible, applied, and experiential way. The materials are coordinated to allow students to enhance their competencies across the range of leadership knowledge, skills, and abilities. While other leadership texts focus on educating students about leadership, this text provides students with a pathway towards developing a leader identity.
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Mexican Philosophy for the 21st Century: Relajo, Zozobra, and Other Frameworks for Understanding Our World
Carlos Alberto Sánchez
Mexican philosophy has been relegated for far too long to the margins of philosophy's global scene. This book brings it front and centre by demonstrating that its figures, methods, and texts, supplement, enrich, and broaden the scope and depth of both philosophy and our everyday understanding. Powered by a commitment to use Mexican philosophy to navigate the perplexing world we inhabit, Sánchez challenges the blanket application of Eurocentric philosophy to our 21st-century concerns. This is an essential starting point for Latin American philosophy scholars and anyone approaching Mexican philosophy for the very first time.
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Introduction to Machine Learning with Applications in Information Security (2nd ed.)
Mark Stamp
The book covers core classic machine learning topics in depth, including Hidden Markov Models (HMM), Support Vector Machines (SVM), and clustering. Additional machine learning topics include k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN), boosting, Random Forests, and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). The fundamental deep learning topics of backpropagation, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Multilayer Perceptrons (MLP), and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are covered in depth. A broad range of advanced deep learning architectures are also presented, including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), Extreme Learning Machines (ELM), Residual Networks (ResNet), Deep Belief Networks (DBN), Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), and Word2Vec. Finally, several cutting-edge deep learning topics are discussed, including dropout regularization, attention, explainability, and adversarial attacks.
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La Lluvia y la Sequía
Christopher Luna-Mega
"La Lluvia y la Sequía" is a field recording sound collage in which Christopher Luna-Mega explores the intrusion of the urban in the rural, drought, rain, and a week in the lives of a San Joaquín Valley ranch, in Central Valley, CA. "La Lluvia y la Sequía" continues Luna-Mega’s career-long trajectory of utilizing environmental sound as a primary component of musical fabric, both in orchestral-instrumental and electronic media. Different techniques of microphone recording, sound processing, instrumental performance, and collage are combined to create an intimate portrait of a place, both stark and inviting. Commissioned by the Rural Situationism record label.
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Magic Within
Rhoda Shapiro
Magic Within is an empowering book for women, featuring rituals, meditations, and practices centered around healing the womb. When a woman can forge a deeper connection to her womb, she's able to realize her potential and connect to her own personal magic. In Rhoda Jordan Shapiro's newest book Magic Within, she shares ancient wisdom to support women in owning their feminine power more fully to create joy, peace, and clarity in their lives.
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