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Psychology of Aging: A Biopsychosocial Perspective (2nd Edition)
Erin Woodhead
This book provides an overview of the psychology of aging for graduate or advanced undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines who are pursuing clinical, research, or academic careers in aging. Aging is explored in a biopsychosocial perspective, with an emphasis on the diversity of aging experiences. Typical changes in physical health and the brain are discussed, as well as physical health conditions common among older adults. Psychological topics include relationships, mental health, personality, cognitive changes, and neurocognitive disorders. Work and retirement, death and dying, and legal and ethical issues are also explored, with a concluding chapter on the social context of aging.
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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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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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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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Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach (11th edition)
Greg Payne
The book explores human movement across the lifespan, has been used in scores of universities throughout the world and translated into several other languages.
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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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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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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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Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages
Shannon Rose Riley
Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics. With a combination of essays and practice pages that provide a variety of scholarly, creative, and experience-based approaches for readers, the book brings together both established and emergent scholars and artists from many diverse backgrounds and covers work rooted in a dozen countries. The essays engage an array of crucial methodologies and critical/theoretical perspectives, including practice-based research in the arts, especially in performance and dance studies, critical theory, ecocriticism, Indigenous knowledges, material feminist critique, quantum field theory, and new phenomenologies. Practice pages are shorter chapters that provide readers a chance to engage creatively with the ideas presented across the collection. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective that brings together work in performance as research, phenomenology, and dance/movement; this is one of its significant contributions to the area of ecosomatics.
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They Shut Me Up
Cassandra Myers
A debut mystery novel Myers describes as “The Godfather meets Agatha Christie with a dash of Seinfeld,” THEY SHUT ME UP tells the story of the murder of John Callaghan, the boss of an Irish-American crime family in San Francisco.
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Cross-Tradition Engagement on the Laws of Logic: Approaching Identity and Reference from Classical Chinese Philosophy to Modern Logic
Bo Mou
This monograph book explains how, through cross-tradition engagement, insights/engaging treatments from the Chinese philosophical tradition can work with relevant resources from modern logic and contemporary philosophy to enhance our understanding of two basic principles of logic: the law of identity and the law of non-contradiction. Through showing how this work can make significant contributions to the jointly concerned fundamental issues of identity and reference, this book appeals to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy (as a general way of doing philosophy through cross-tradition engagement toward world philosophy). [99 words]
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Cultures of Sport Hazing and Anti-Hazing Initiatives for the 21st Century: Stepping Across The Millennium
Jessica W. Chin
This edited collection offers a current critical analysis of sport hazing practices, including diverse perspectives and experiences of hazing and initiation in the contemporary sport landscape. With a section dedicated to practical suggestions for enacting positive change to team sport cultures and welcome rituals, authors consider intersections of identity, gender, race, ethnicity, and more, and offer examinations of team hazing from diverse perspectives, analytical frameworks, and theoretical lenses.
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Klinische und psychologische Perspektiven der Feststellung von Fremdverschulden
Stephen Morewitz
German translation of the English edition of Clinical and Psychological Perspectives on Foul Play. AI was used for the translation. The work examines a wide range of factors that can influence how police determine foul play in possible homicide cases and in other possible crimes. It develops a new theory of uncertainty at micro, meso, and macro levels to explain how law professionals arrive at this decision.
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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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Human Factors in Cybersecurity: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics and the Affiliated Conferences, Nice, France 24-27 July 2024
Abbas Moallem
The Human Factors in Cybersecurity track focuses on theoretical and applied frameworks that help to understand better human behaviors in cybersecurity, privacy, and trust.
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Isabella Whitney: Poems by a Sixteenth-Century Gentlewoman, Maid, and Servant
Shannon Miller
Edited collection of all poems by or attributed to Isabella Whitney, a young lady who travelled to find work in London in the 1560s where she published two poetry miscellanies. Her poetry speaks to issues of class and gender in the growing publishing world of London, and the challenges for a woman to enter into this space. The volume and commentary highlight Whitney's engagement with writers from Ovid to Gascoigne to Surrey as she actively engages classical and contemporary writers in her own writings.
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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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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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