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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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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Ahmed Banafa
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a comprehensive overview of the latest trends in artificial intelligence. The book covers the state of the art in AI research, including machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics.The book offers a forward-looking perspective on the future of AI, exploring the emerging trends and applications that are likely to shape the next decade of AI innovation. It also provides practical guidance for businesses and individuals on how to leverage the power of AI to create new products, services, and opportunities. Overall, the book is an essential read for anyone who wants to stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly evolving field of AI and understand the impact that this transformative technology will have on our lives in the coming years.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Contending with Codes in a World of Difference: Transforming a Theory of Human Communication
Tabitha Hart
Whenever people interact, they contend with powerful systems of symbols, meanings, premises, and rules pertaining to communicative conduct, i.e, speech codes. Adding to thirty years of research, this edited book presents original, fieldwork-based case studies that examine speech codes in on- and offline settings around the world. Most importantly, it culminates with an updated, expanded, and re-energized version of speech codes theory, well-suited to the contemporary study of cultural communication. Offering theoretical and methodological guidance and practical insight, this book will help scholars and practitioners understand how people resist, challenge, and negotiate contending speech codes in a world of difference.
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Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries
Sandra Hirsh
Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries examines the opportunities, strengths, and challenges for libraries in the future from the perspective of more than 25 library leaders. Their responses to the question “What will libraries look like by the year 2035?” inspire, provoke, challenge, and expand our thinking about the role and importance of libraries in the future.
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