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Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish
Avizia Long
This volume offers a comprehensive snapshot of the breadth of empirical research currently being conducted on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Spanish during study abroad. Research on this topic spans diverse methodological approaches, types of programs, linguistic structures, and learner characteristics, which is reflected in the contributions in this volume. This diversity of approaches illustrates how the second language development of sociolinguistic variation during study abroad depends crucially on a number of linguistic and extralinguistic factors and can be measured in distinct ways. Thus, this collection will be an indispensable resource to researchers and students of second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, education, and other fields interested in language development during study abroad.
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The Early Works of Luis Miguel Valdez in El Excentrico Magazine: El Machete Critiques of American Society
Rosanna Alvarez and Gregorio Mora-Torres
With his scathing criticisms of American society and its institutions, the published collection of Luis Miguel Valdez’s early writings as “El Machete” in El Excentrico Magazine are timely and important. A series of contributor essays reflecting on the themes and social, political, and cultural implications of the early writings of Luis Miguel Valdez accompanies the collection.
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The Latinx Guide to Graduate School
Magdalena L. Barrera
In The Latinx Guide to Graduate School, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. Barrera provide prospective and current students with a roadmap for surviving and thriving in advanced degree programs. They document the unwritten rules of graduate education, demystifying and clarifying the requirements for navigating graduate school for students who are often the first in their families to walk that path. Topics include finding the right program, developing a graduate student identity, nurturing relationships, and mapping a career plan. Equal parts how-to guide, personal reflection, and manifesto, this book gives a culturally resonant perspective for the unique Latinx graduate student experience.
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The Long Shore: Archaeologies and Social Histories of California's Maritime Cultural Landscapes
Marco Meniketti
The book offers insights into cultural landscapes of California that reaches beyond the confines of waterfronts to include Indigenous practices of maritime -oriented tribes to the Portuguese shore whalers, Italian fishermen, Chinese abalone harvesters, ship breakers, and logging schooners. The book uses an archaeological lens to examine the social relationships and material culture the diverse communities that lived on California's long shore.
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Tips for Writing Well: Research-Based Principles
Scott Alkire
This handbook for academic writers asks, Do you have something to say? Do you know what you are talking about? Do you have credible sources? Can you say what you have to say as clearly as possible? Can you avoid cliches and ready-made phrases? The principles embedded in these questions, along with 20 more, comprise this book. Two essays putting into action the principles for good writing set forth conclude the volume.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Mindful Interview Method: Retrieving Cognitive Evidence
Gil Zamora
The Mindful Interview Method: Retrieving Cognitive Evidence has been written to assist public and private sector investigators in gathering reliable information from eyewitnesses. It’s a resource that offers the reader evidence-based techniques to enhance gathering reliable evidence and reveals the assessment component that measures the reliability of cognitive evidence. It is notable that eyewitness interview training is cursory at best, and most often nonexistent. This book aims to inspire a change in how we distinguish interrogations of suspects from interviewing eyewitnesses that are often victims and initial witnesses to certain events.
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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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The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication, Second Edition
Rona Tamiko Halualani and Thomas K. Nakayama
The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication stands as the premier collection of contemporary and relevant readings that define, delineate, and inhabit what it means to “do critical intercultural communication.” This handbook features the latest research and contributions from leading scholars in the field, covering core theoretical, methodological, and applied works that give shape to the arena of critical intercultural communication studies. This is the only handbook to cover the state and nature of critical intercultural communication studies.
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Optical Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy
Christopher Smallwood
This book provides an introduction to optical multidimensional coherent spectroscopy, a relatively new method of studying materials based on using ultrashort light pulses to perform spectroscopy. The technique has been developed and perfected over the last 25 years, resulting in multiple experimental approaches and applications to a broad array of systems ranging from atoms and molecules to solids and biological systems.
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Omnidirectional Bubble Trap with Centrally Immersed Ports in Closed Reservoir
Anand Ramasubramanian and Sang-Joon (John) Lee
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Plastic Landscape - The Reversible World
Yoon Chung Han
My AI-generated 3D animated video design “Plastic Landscape - The Reversible World” was exhibited as a part of Seoul Light Gwanghwamun in Seoul, South Korea from December 15, 2023 to January 21, 2024 on the media facade of the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History. The work shows the apocalyptic and surreal world surrounded by artificial plastic mixtures and objects in the ocean, urban city, antarctica, and forest. Four different scenes are animated, with the camera panning slowly from left to right. Viewers can observe how the plastics are decomposed at a slower speed by looking at particle animations. Surreal objects/buildings in this animation made out of plastic look beautiful and mesmerizing at first glance. However, the viewers can notice that they are the decayed objects and destroyed nature impacted by human beings. This new multi-sensory artwork addresses the awareness of plastic pollution through the apocalyptic lens.
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Practical Battery Design and Control
Naoki Matsumura
Battery technologies play a vital role in day-to-day life. With the continued growth of the battery market, there is an increasing demand for a comprehensive text such as this, that encompasses aspects of chemistry, materials science, and artificial intelligence. Aimed at early-to-mid career battery engineers, this book addresses common problems that are likely to be encountered on the job, including how to extend battery longevity with machine learning algorithms. Designed to help readers obtain practical knowledge through intuitive explanations and broad coverage of battery topics, this one-of-a-kind book is a must have resource for practicing battery engineers throughout their career.
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Mystical Theology and Renaissance Platonism in the Time of Cusanus: Essays in Honor of Donald F. Duclow
Jason Aleksander
Edited by Jason Aleksander, Sean Hannan, Joshua Hollmann, and Michael Moore, "Mystical Theology and Platonism in the Time of Cusanus" engages with the history of mystical theology and Neoplatonic philosophy through the lens of the 15th century philosopher and theologian, Nicholas of Cusa. The volume comprises nineteen essays that break down the barriers between medieval and Renaissance studies, reinterpreting Cusanus’ place in the history of thought by exploring the archive that informed his thinking, while also interrogating his works by exploring them from the standpoint of their later reception by modern philosophers and theologians.
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Introduction to Blockchain Technology
Ahmed Banafa
This book explores the fundamentals and applications of Blockchain technology. Readers will learn about the decentralized peer-to-peer network, distributed ledger, and the trust model that defines Blockchain technology. They will also be introduced to the basic components of Blockchain (transaction, block, block header, and the chain), its operations (hashing, verification, validation, and consensus model), underlying algorithms, and essentials of trust (hard fork and soft fork). Private and public Blockchain networks similar to Bitcoin and Ethereum will be introduced, as will concepts of Smart Contracts, Proof of Work and Proof of Stack.
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Reframing Community Engagement in Higher Education
Elena Klaw, Andrea Tully, and Elaine K. Ikeda
This book addresses assumptions and challenges inherent within community engagement as a catalyst for developing students’ sense of civic responsibility at a time of rampant social polarization. Promoting academic development and life skills through the high-impact practice of service-learning, the book explores a new ecological framework for reflecting on and improving practice. The book describes innovative models, offers advice on coalition building, and presents the narratives of community engaged professionals and faculty, offering a sense of the tensions and rewards inherent in the work. Guidance, examples, and benchmarks provided are particularly relevant to this time of crises and unrest.
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