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Unwired

Gaia Bernstein

Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online. It shifts the moral responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.
Conflict and Peace in Western Sahara: The Role of the UN's Peacekeeping Mission (MINURSO)

János Besenyő, R. Joseph Huddleston, and Yahia H. Zoubir

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of MINURSO (the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara), focused on its activities, composition, purpose and operational future in Western Sahara, the world's last colony. The book's focus is broad, examining MINURSO from key historical, legal, military and political angles whilst assessing the future of UN peacekeeping missions in the Western Sahara. Supported by a diverse, international mix of perspectives and professions - including academics, lawyers, soldiers and humanitarian aid workers - an in-depth view of MINURSO is provided, rooted in practical Western Saharan field experience. The authors reveal the complexities of the region and of the mission locally, but also analyse MINURSO through a global lens, focusing on relations with the United States, China, Russia, France and African states. This approach emphasises the importance of the region as a site of international struggle while remaining conscious of local contexts. A landmark contribution to peacekeeping studies, the book is vital reading for practitioners and academics focused on the Western Saharan conflict and the MENA region, but will also be of interest to those engaged in international relations, international law and security studies.
Linear Algebra: Algorithms, Applications, and Techniques

Richard Bronson, Gabriel B. Costa, John T. Saccoman, and Daniel J. Gross
The Generational Gap in American Politics

Patrick Fisher

"This book examines the history of the generational gap in American politics, with an emphasis on the remarkable contemporary gap. Using data derived primarily from the American National Election Studies (ANES), 2020 National Election Pool, A.P VoteCast, and the Pew Research Center, Patrick Fisher argues that the political environment experienced by successive generations as they have come of age, politically influences political attitudes throughout one's life. The result is that different generations have distinct political leanings that they will maintain over their lifetimes. Fisher examines each generation from the Greatest Generation through to Generation Z, who have recently started to come of voting age. He cites the entrance of the Millennial Generation and Generation Z into the electorate as completely changing the generational dynamics of American politics, through their distinct political leanings that are significantly to the left of older generations. As a result he concludes that demographically, politically, economically, socially, and technologically, the generations are more different from each other now than at any time in living memory. The Generational Gap in American Politics will appeal to a scholarly and public audience interested in American politics in general and political behavior in particular"-- Provided by publisher.
Ethics of Political Commemoration: Towards a New Paradigm

Hans Gutbrod and David Wood
Murmuring Against Moses: The Contentious History and Contested Future of Pentateuchal Studies

Jeffrey Morrow

"For much of the history of both Judaism and Christianity, the Pentateuch--first five books of the Bible--was understood to be the unified work of a single inspired author: Moses. Yet the standard view in modern biblical scholarship contends that the Pentateuch is a composite text made up of fragments from diverse and even discrepant sources that originated centuries after the events it purports to describe. In Murmuring against Moses, John Bergsma and Jeffrey Morrow provide a critical narrative of the emergence of modern Pentateuchal studies and challenge the scholarly consensus by highlighting the weaknesses of the modern paradigms and mustering an array of new evidence for the Pentateuch's antiquity. By shedding light on the past history of research and the present developments in the field, Bergsma and Morrow give fresh voice to a growing scholarly dissatisfaction with standard critical approaches and make an important contribution toward charting a more promising future for Pentateuchal studies"-- Provided by publisher.
A Flaw in the Design: A Novel

Nathan Oates

As a creative writing professor in a bucolic Vermont town, Gil's quiet life is indelibly changed when he receives shocking news: His sister, Sharon, and her husband have been killed in a car accident, and their only son, seventeen-year-old Matthew, is coming to live with Gil and his family. It's with apprehension that Gil and his wife, Molly, greet Matthew. Yes, he has just lost both his parents. But they haven't seen him in seven years, and the last time the families were together Matthew lured Gil's young daughter into a terrifying, life-threatening situation. Since that incident Gil has been estranged from his sister and her flashy, vastly wealthy banker husband. And now: Matthew is their charge, living under their roof. The boy seems charming, smart, and urbane, if surprisingly unaffected by his parents' death. Gil hopes that they can put the past behind them, though he's surprised when Matthew signs up for his creative writing class. Then Matthew begins turning in chilling stories about the imagined deaths of Gil's family and his own parents. Bewildered and panicked with fear and rage, Gil ultimately decides he must take matters into his own hands, before life imitates art.
Seton Hall University: A History, 1856–2006

Dermot Quinn

Founded in 1856 by Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley of Newark, Seton Hall University has played a large part in New Jersey and American Catholic life for nearly two centuries. From its modest beginnings as a small college and seminary to its present position as a major national university, it has always sought to provide “a home for the mind, the heart, and the spirit.”

In this vivid and elegantly written history, Dermot Quinn examines how Seton Hall was able to develop as an institution while keeping faith with its founder’s vision. Looking at the men and women who made Seton Hall what it is today, he paints a compelling picture of a university that has enjoyed its share of triumphs but has also suffered tragedy and loss. He shows how it was established in an age of prejudice and transformed in the aftermath of war, while exploring how it negotiated between a distinctly Roman Catholic identity and a mission to include Americans of all faiths.

Seton Hall University not only recounts the history of a great educational institution, it also shares the personal stories of the people who shaped it and were shaped by it: the presidents, the priests, the faculty, the staff, and of course, the students.
Early Modern Liveness: Mediating Presence in Text, Stage and Screen

Danielle Rosvally and Donovan Sherman

What does it mean for early modern theatre to be 'live'? And how have audiences over time experienced a sense of 'liveness'? This collection extends discussions of 'liveness' to works from the 16th and 17th century, both in their initial incarnations and contemporary adaptations. Drawing on media theory, this study uses the concept of 'liveness' to consider how the early modern theatre - including non-Western and non-traditional performance practices - employs embodiment, materiality, temporality and perception to impress on its audience a sensation of presence. The volume's contributors adopt varying approaches and cover a range of topics from material textual studies, to early modern rehearsal methods, to the legacy of Shakespearean performance in global theatrical repertoires. This collection looks to both early modern and contemporary performance practices to challenge our understanding of 'live' performance. Productions and adaptions discussed include the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Winter's Tale and the National Theatre's Romeo and Juliet (2021), Kit Monkman's Macbeth and Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider. Early Modern Liveness looks beyond theatrical events as primary sites of interpretive authority and examines the intimate and ephemeral experience of encountering early modern theatre in its diverse manifestations.
From Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil

Kirsten Schultz

Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil's hinterland and the hinterland's subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the monarchy, royal officials now argued that the extraction of gold and the imperatives of rivalry and commerce demanded new approaches to governance to ensure that Brazil's wealth flowed to Portugal and into imperial networks of exchange. Using archival records of royal and local administrations, as well as contemporary print culture, Kirsten Schultz shows how the eighteenth-century Portuguese crown came to define and defend Brazil as a "colony" that would reinvigorate Portuguese power. Making Brazil a colony entailed reckoning with dynamic societies that encompassed Indigenous peoples, Africans, and Europeans; the free and the enslaved; the wealthy and the poor. It also involved regulating social relations defined by legal status, ancestry, labor, and wealth to ensure that Portuguese America complemented and supported, rather than reproduced, metropolitan ways of producing and consuming wealth.
Fundamentals of Audiology for the Speech-Language Pathologist

Deborah R. Welling and Carol A. Ukstins

"Fundamentals of Audiology for the Speech-Language Pathologist is specifically written to provide the SLP with a solid foundational understanding of the hearing mechanism, audiological equipment and procedures, and the diagnosis and (re)habilitation of hearing loss"-- Provided by publisher.
The Future of Business Schools: Purpose, Action, and Impact

Rico J. Baldegger, Ayman El Tarabishy, David B. Audretsch, Dafna Kariv, Katia Passerini, and Wee-Liang Tan

Are business schools on the wrong track? For many years, business schools enjoyed rising enrollments, positive media attention, and growing prestige in the business world. However, due to the disruption of Covid-19, many previously ignored issues relating to MBA programs resurfaced. As a result, MBA programs now face lower enrollments and intense criticism for being deficient in preparing future business leaders and ignoring essential topics like ethics, sustainability, and diversity and inclusion. The Future of Business Schools discusses these issues in the context of three critical areas: complexity, sustainability, and destiny.
A Companion to American Poetry

Mary M. Balkun, Paul Jauseen, and Jeffrey Gray

A Companion to American Poetry brings together original essays by both established scholars and emerging critical voices to explore the latest topics and debates in American poetry and its study. Highlighting the diverse nature of poetic practice and scholarship, this comprehensive volume addresses a broad range of individual poets, movements, genres, and concepts from the seventeenth century to the present day. Organized thematically, the Companion's thirty-seven chapters address a variety of emerging trends in American poetry, providing historical context and new perspectives on topics such as poetics and identity, poetry and the arts, early and late experimentalisms, poetry and the transcendent, transnational poetics, poetry of engagement, poetry in cinema and popular music, Queer and Trans poetics, poetry and politics in the 21st century, and African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries. Both a nuanced survey of American poetry and a catalyst for future scholarship, A Companion to American Poetry is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academic researchers and scholars, and general readers with interest in current trends in American poetry.
New Narratives for Old: The Historical Method of Reading Early Christian Theology: Essays in Honor of Michel René Barnes

Michel R. Barnes Honouree, Anthony A. Briggman, and Ellen Scully

This volume both defines and illustrates the methodology of historical theology, especially as it relates to the study of early Christianity, and situates historical theology among other methodological approaches to early Christianity, including confessional apologetics, constructive theology, and socio-cultural history. The volume begins with an introductory essay that orients readers to various approaches to early Christian literature, it moves to two technical essays that define the historical method of studying early Christian theology, and then it illustrates the practice of this method with more than twenty essays that cover a period stretching from the first century to the dawn of the seventh.
Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in Digital Media

Heidi A. Campbell and Ruth Tsuria

This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual reality and social media, the book: provides a detailed review of major topics including ritual, identity, community, authority, and embodiment, includes a series of engaging case studies to illustrate and elucidate the thematic explorations, considers the theoretical, ethical, and theological issues raised. This unique volume draws together the work of experts from key disciplinary perspectives and is the go-to volume for students and scholars wanting to develop a deeper understanding of the subject area. Thoroughly updated throughout with new case studies and in-depth analysis of recent scholarship and developments, this new edition provides a comprehensive overview of this fast-paced, constantly developing, and fascinating field.
The New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction

Colleen Conway

Building on the model of Carr and Conway, Introduction to the Bible: Sacred Texts and Imperial Contexts, this book is an accessible, up-to-date introduction to the New Testament as a collection of writings that took shape in the broad context of ancient Mediterranean history. This groundbreaking, introductory textbook narrates a concise and chronological story about the emergence of the Jesus movement in the first century CE as reflected in the writings of New Testament texts. Opening chapters emphasize the complex cultural context of the first century Mediterranean world with the goal of helping students interpret the different writings of the New Testament as part of that world, both reflecting and contributing to its diversity. Includes insights gained, for example, from postcolonial studies, feminist and gender-critical scholarship, including masculinity studies, especially fruitful for understanding aspects of the presentation of Jesus. Uses the concept of "intersectional analysis", which recognizes the interlocking systems of social stratification that organizes power relationships between groups, to show how such stratification worked in the ancient world as reflected in the New Testament writings, and in later periods, as reflected in interpretation of the Bible. Includes numerous student-friendly features, such as chapter review questions, list of terms, as well as other suggested reading exercises, timelines, illustrations, and photos. The first introductory textbook on the New Testament to be written by a female academic.
Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition

James Rushing Daniel

Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition argues that capitalism is responsible for the entangled catastrophes of the twenty-first century, and that it must accordingly become a central focus in the teaching of writing. Daniel calls for an ambitious reimagining of composition as a discipline opposed to capitalism's excesses.
Writing Across Difference: Theory and Intervention

James Rushing Daniel, Katie Malcolm, and Candice Rai

Increasingly divided by economic inequality, racial injustice, xenophobic violence, and authoritarian governance, writing studies scholars have developed responsive theories and practices to engage students, teachers, administrators, and citizens. The first collection to focalize difference as such, gathering scholars offering theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical resources for understanding, interrogating, negotiating, and writing across difference.
A Short & Happy Guide to Property

Paula A. Franzese

This book takes difficult subject matter and makes it accessible and easy to remember. Professor Paula Franzese, a nationally renowned teacher and scholar, sets forth understandable techniques for mastering estates in land and future interests (including the dreaded rule against perpetuities), concurrent estates, landlord-tenant law, servitudes, land transactions, the recording system, zoning, and eminent domain and includes, in this expanded Third Edition, added treatment of adverse possession, homeowners' associations, common interest communities, future interests, the rule of capture, and the law of finders. Learn from this ten-time recipient of the Professor of the Year Award and become a property connoisseur!
Learning Commercial Law: Core Concepts

Paula A. Franzese

This book for a Uniform Commercial Code survey course makes key concepts from the UCC clear and understandable, and presents the material in a format that encourages students to take the course and teachers to teach it. The book is designed for coverage in a 2 or 3-hour survey course, and covers the most significant provisions of Uniform Commercial Code Article 2 (Sales), Article 9 (Secured Transactions), and Articles 3 and 4 (Payment Systems). The start of each chapter highlights key learning objectives to allow students to fully master the material. Salient provisions of the Code have been selected and excerpted, along with cogent textual explanations and examples that bring the provisions to life, and realistic problems that test the students’ understanding and provide the starting point for class discussion. The text is designed to give a high-level overview of critical concepts from the Uniform Commercial Code, without requiring students to take several more specialized courses.
Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning

Amrita Ghosh and Elizabeth Brewer Redwine

The Yeats-Tagore friendship and the eventual curious fallout between the two remain a mystery; the focus of this volume is a postcolonial reading of the two writers' friendship, the critical reception of Tagore in 1912 England, and Tagore's erasure from Western literary discourse. The essays in this volume take a decolonial turn to critically analyze the two writers in the discourse of power that is a part of their larger story.
Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan

Anne Giblin Gedacht

In 1870, a prominent samurai from Tōhoku sells his castle to become an agrarian colonist in Hokkaidō. Decades later, a man also from northeast Japan stows away on a boat to Canada and establishes a salmon roe business. By 1930, an investigative journalist travels to Brazil and writes a book that wins the first-ever Akutagawa Prize. In the 1940s, residents from the same area proclaim that they should lead Imperial Japan in colonizing all of Asia. Across decades and oceans, these fractured narratives seem disparate, but show how mobility is central to the history of Japan's Tōhoku region, a place often stereotyped as a site of rural stasis and traditional immobility, thereby collapsing boundaries between local, national, and global studies of Japan. This book examines how multiple mobilities converge in Japan's supposed hinterland. Drawing on research from three continents, this monograph demonstrates that Tohoku's regional identity is inextricably intertwined with Pacific migrations.
The Rise, Spread, and Decline of Brazil’s Participatory Budgeting: The Arc of a Democratic Innovation

Benjamin Goldfrank and Brian Wampler

This book examines the rise, spread and decline of participatory budgeting in Brazil. In the last decade of the twentieth century Brazil became a model of participatory democracy for activists, practitioners, and scholars. However, some thirty years later participatory budgeting is in steep decline, and on the verge of disappearing from Brazil. Drawing from institutional, political choice, civil society, and public administration literature, this book generates theory that accounts for the rise and fall of an innovative democratic institution. It examines what the arc of the creation, spread, and decline of participatory budgeting tells us about the long-term viability and potential democratic impact of this innovative democratic institution as it spreads globally. Will the same inverted trajectory plague other countries in the future, or will they be able to sustain participatory budgeting for greater periods of time?
The Unchanging Truth of God?: Crucial Philosophical Issues for Theology

Thomas Guarino

The essays in this volume display how Catholicism understands the proper confluence between philosophy and theology, between human rationality and Christian faith, between the natural order and supernatural grace. To illustrate these points, the book draws on a long line of Christian thinkers: Origen, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas and, in our own day, Fides et Ratio of John Paul II and the Regensburg Address of Benedict XVI. Catholic theology constantly incorporates fresh thinking and remains in lively conversation with an extensive variety of contemporary perspectives. This book displays how reciprocity and absorption has been characteristic of theology's past and must represent its future as well.
Building Your Career in Psychology

Marie S. Hammond and Peggy Brady-Amoon

Building Your Career in Psychology (Hammond & Brady-Amoon, 2022) serves as a practical guide and resource for people interested in psychology careers. It emphasizes making informed decisions to maximize engagement in college, career decision-making, preparation, and management. The book includes relevant career development content and exercises, college success content and practice, as well as reflection exercises and other resources to assist readers in discovering their own path to a meaningful life and meaningful life’s work.

The primary theme in this book is that psychological knowledge makes a difference in people’s lives. As such, we emphasize the role of psychology in promoting well-being and solving real-world issues. Building on this theme, this book serves as an empowered process guide for making the most of college and other career preparation experiences, with a distinctive emphasis on 1) career/ life planning and decision-making and 2) healthy professional and personal relationships. This text is also unique in respecting and addressing the experiences and interests and career development needs of an increasingly diverse population, including nontraditional students.