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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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Weight of Dreams
Irene Carvajal
Inspired by Carvajal’s own immigrant journey and objects found in her family home back in Costa Rica, the Weight of Dreams is a site specific kinetic installation comprised of cast porcelain bells and laser cut objects suspended and interconnected by monofilament. The sounds and fragmented images created by the installation serve as a metaphor to the memories and echos of an immigrant’s past. One of 42 art installations selected to be part of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT exhibition (September-October 2023) in Athens, Greece. Curated by Kostas Prapoglou.
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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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Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico
Alberto García
Abandoning Their Beloved Land is a new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the US as seasonal contract farmworkers (braceros) between 1942 and 1964. This book uses national, regional, and local Mexican archival collections to explore the political factors that shaped the administration of the bracero selection process in Mexico, as well as individual decisions to migrate as braceros.
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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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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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HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust: 5th International Conference, HCI-CPT 2023, Held as Part of the 25th HCI International Conference, HCII 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 23–28, 2023, Proceedings
Abbas Moallem
This proceedings, HCI-CPT 2023, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, held as Part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which took place in July 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The total of 1578 papers and 396 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 7472 submissions. The HCI-CPT 2023 proceedings focuses on to user privacy and data protection, trustworthiness and user experience in cybersecurity, multifaceted authentication methods and tools, HCI in cyber defense and protection, studies on usable security in Intelligent Environments. The conference focused on HCI principles, methods and tools in order to address the numerous and complex threats which put at risk computer-mediated human-activities in today’s society, which is progressively becoming more intertwined with and dependent on interactive technologies.
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