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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Assessing Policy Effectiveness Using AI and Language Models: Applications for Economic and Social Sustainability
Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
This volume uses advanced machine learning techniques to analyze government communication to evaluate policy effectiveness. The book develops policy effectiveness foundation models by cohorting historical budget policies with statistical models which are built on well reputed data sources including economic events, macroeconomic trends, and ratings and commerce terms from international institutions. By signal mining policies to the economic outcome patterns, the book aims to create a rich source of successful policy insights in terms of their effectiveness in bringing development to the poor and underserved communities to ensure the spread of wealth, social wellbeing, and standard of living to the common denomination of society rather than a selected quotient. Enabling academics and practitioners across disciplines to develop applications for effective policy interventions, this volume will be of interest to a wide audience including software engineers, data scientists, social scientists, economists, and agriculture practitioners.
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Data Science Inscription of the Jyotirlingas! Volume 2
Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
A Jyotirlinga or Jyotirlingam is a devotional representation of Hindu Deity. The word is made up of Sanskrit 'jyotis' which means 'radiance' and linga, also spelled lingam, which means ‘sign’ or “distinguishing symbol”. Hinduism defines Jyotirlingam as the radiant sign of the Almighty. In our data scientific view, nonetheless, Jyotirlinga represents the embodiment of time series. It exhibits stationarity and a multi-model pattern of naturally occurring time series, a classical data science pattern that has a causative relationship with historical events, world macroeconomics, agriculture, and other worldly events. Volume 2 has delved into the significance of six prominent Jyotirlingas - Rameshwaram, Nageshvara, Kashi Vishwanath, Trimbakeshwar, Kedarnath, and Grishneshwar - and explored their spiritual and scientific aspects. Through an interdisciplinary analysis that incorporates a range of fields, from statistics to environmental engineering, from historical perspectives to data science, we have gained invaluable insights into the patterns and trends that shape these sacred symbols. By embracing the fusion of modern science and traditional spiritual practices, we have the potential to unlock new levels of understanding and enlightenment, bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and contemporary knowledge.
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