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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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Real World Labor: A Reader in Economics, Politics, and Social Policy from Dollars and Sense (4th ed)
Robert Ovetz
The fourth edition of Real World Labor is thoroughly revised and updated and provides up-to-date, accessible, and penetrating analysis of the most significant issues confronting workers and unions today, both nationally and globally. With contributions from leading writers and scholars of the labor movement, this essential anthology introduces students and workers to current labor struggles and the challenges of forming a robust labor movement within a capitalist system. This edition also explains the role of unions and how to organize one, as well as what workers are fighting for and visions for the future. As Kevin Van Meter, one of the editors of this book, notes in this edition’s introduction (“How to Use This Book,” available online here), “[t]hroughout this volume, you will find materials to help workers and students develop economic literacy and critical thinking, discover ways to organize, and envision the future. The book’s approach is an ecumenical one, based in real-world economics, and grounded in the mission to provide economic news and analysis to union members and workers in the United States and across the planet.”
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The Band
Christine Ma-Kellams
A Korean boy band at the apex of global dominion suddenly finds one of its members cancelled after a controversial solo drudges up ancient ethnic rivalries, but when he escapes by hiding out in the McMansion of a married therapist with an illustrious history of falling for the very men she wants to save, the solution to the crisis turns out to be as disruptive as the problem. In its indicting portrayal of mental health and public obsession, fandom and cancel culture, THE BAND considers how old tribal allegiances based on ethnicity or history can disrupt modern-day celebrity and the many ways in which love devolves into something far more sinister when its demands are unmet.
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Object-Oriented Software Design in C++
Ronald Mak
How to write well-designed C++ applications that can meet the challenges of change and complexity.
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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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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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Transformative AI: Responsible, Transparent, and Trustworthy AI Systems
Ahmed Banafa
Transformative Artificial Intelligence provides a comprehensive overview of the latest trends, challenges, applications, and opportunities in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The book covers the state of the art in AI research, including machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics, and explores how these technologies are transforming various industries and domains, such as healthcare, finance, education, and entertainment.
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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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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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The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles
Laureen Hom
The Power of Chinatown chronicles the contemporary history and community politics of Los Angeles Chinatown as the neighborhood faces pressures of gentrification and displacement. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, the book bridges understandings of community, geography, political economy, and race to show the complexities and contradictions of building community power, illuminating how these place-based ethnic politics might give rise to a more expansive vision of Asian American belonging and a just city for all.
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A Dictionary of Modern Consternation
Brook McClurg
A Dictionary of Modern Consternation is a genre-bending nonfiction lyric following one family through the years from the financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this cheeky dictionary-shaped exploration of how language can often alienate and dehumanize, weakening feelings of community with societal trends that subsume individual lives, Brook McClurg offers a footnote narrative of an international life pursuing the business of words. With approximately 500 satirical dictionary entries and 143 flash essays as footnotes, this experimental memoir is filled with satirical definitions, pseudo-aphorisms, and inquisitions into words or phrases. A Dictionary of Modern Consternation is for general readers, collectors, book-as-art lovers, and anyone interested in the political economy of language, as well as graduate classes exploring experimental forms.
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Intrapreneurship Management: Concepts, Methods, and Software for Managing Technological Innovation in Organizations
Oliver Yu
Research has shown that the bulk of technological innovation comes through Intrapreneurship: innovation that takes place inside an existing organization, taking advantage of the institutional support and economies of scale provided by continuing enterprises. Intrapreneurship Management is an approach that cultivates these internal innovations and the knowledge workers who produce them. Our book offers a comprehensive guide to this approach, its challenges, and its rewards. Beginning with a simple yet flexible definition of innovation—an idea implemented with impact—it analyzes the processes and organizational tools by which novel ideas can be fostered, supported, and applied, producing industry-leading firms that maximize their internal talent. It also provides access and tools for using IntrapreneurshipREADINESSNavigator (IRN), a unique software already deployed successfully in over 150 innovation projects. The readers will also find: *Case studies of technological innovations within a range of organizations * A look forward to future challenges facing innovative organizations in the 21st century * Detailed treatment of subjects including innovation marketing, systematic creativity, and developing innovative organizational culture. The book is ideal for intrapreneurs, their managers, and any professionals working in industries driven by technological innovation, as well as researchers and students of innovation management.
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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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Social Issues, Equality, and Technology
Lin Zou
This book explores social equality and justice issues in the political and economic life of the United States, in the creation and consumption of technology, and in the construction of identity. The book specifically examines structural inequality in the judicial system and the capitalist market system in the U.S. It also investigates social equality and justice concerns in the development of modern and emerging technologies, especially the internet, social media, AI and intelligent systems, nanotechnology, geoengineering, neurotechnology, and genetic engineering. Inequality issues are also analyzed in relation to the concepts of gender, racial, and national identity.
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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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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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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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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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Handbook of Understanding Terrorism: Forensic Social Sciences Case Studies
Stephen Morewitz
This book examines common theoretical conceptualization of terrorism, including macro-criminological theories, psycho-criminological models of aggression psycho-criminological models of risk and need (RNR), and psychopathology.
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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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