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Whistle Stop: Kenny Dorham, Jazz, and the Journey of a Texas Family
Robert M. Pallitto Ph.D., J.D.
Whistle Stop traces the remarkable life of trumpeter and composer Kenny Dorham (1924–1972), whose journey from rural Texas to the forefront of modern jazz mirrors the broader story of Black resilience and creativity in twentieth-century America. Dorham was born in Freestone County to a sharecropping family whose roots stretch back to Reconstruction, when his great-grandfather owned and farmed land in East Texas. Raised there and in segregated East Austin, Dorham found his voice on the trumpet at Anderson High School, and after brief stops at Wiley College and in the army, he landed in New York just as bebop was transforming American music.
Dorham quickly became a cornerstone of that transformation. From performing with Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, and Max Roach to mentoring younger talents like Joe Henderson, he played a defining role in shaping modern jazz. A gifted composer, collaborator, and teacher, Dorham also helped lay the foundation for formal jazz education. Yet despite his immense contributions and the respect given him by other musicians, he remained underrecognized by critics—even as he continued to influence the musical generations that followed him.
Drawing on interviews, archival research, and family history, Whistle Stop offers a vivid portrait not only of a jazz innovator, but of a Texas family whose story stretches across emancipation, migration, segregation, and cultural transformation. More than fifty years after his passing, Kenny Dorham’s music and legacy continue to inspire—his whistle stop in jazz history still echoing. -
Teach Like an MC: Hip-Hop Pedagogy in the K–12 Classroom
Edmund Adjapong Ph.D.
The struggle to engage students, empower their voices, and support them in developing their sense of belonging has never been more real. What can hip-hop culture teach school communities about engagement and learning? How is hip-hop culture different from hip-hop music, and how can teachers leverage it as a culturally responsive and affirming approach to teaching?
In Teach Like An MC, Edmund Adjapong provides a research-based framework for implementing innovative teaching strategies anchored in the five elements of hip-hop culture: MCing, graffiti, knowledge of self, DJing, and breakdancing. He shares the historical background of hip-hop, understandings of hip-hop culture, and instructional ideas for incorporating youth culture into the daily fabric of the classroom.
When we create culturally affirming spaces where every student feels seen, heard, and valued, we set the stage not just for engagement, but for a deeper understanding and connection with our content. Bring love, joy, and liberation into your classroom. Teach like an MC. -
Social Work Licensing Clinical Exam Guide: Comprehensive ASWB LCSW Exam Review
Dawn Apgar Ph.D.
This guide has been carefully constructed to provide social workers with information on the licensure examination and how to properly prepare in order to pass it; test-taking strategies and methods for analysing the questions correctly; and the content areas which comprise the test.
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Social Work Licensing Masters Exam Guide: Comprehensive ASWB LMSW Exam Review
Dawn Apgar Ph.D.
Social Work Licensing Masters Exam Guide , Fourth Edition, provides everything you need to successfully pass the ASWB LMSW exam and become fully licensed to practice. This bestselling guide from Dawn Apgar is now updated with more practice questions and features to help you study for and pass the LMSW exam. Chapters fully cover the four exam content areas and all Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs), and end-of-section questions test your understanding and retention. The review concludes with 2 full-length practice exams to prepare you for exam day. With more than 500 unique questions, detailed review content, answer rationales, a glossary of key social work terms, and access to ExamPrepConnect, this guide empowers you with the tools and materials to study your way and the confidence to pass the first time, guaranteed (details inside). Join thousands of successful licensed social workers who have passed their exam with this essential resource.
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A Hybrid Approach to Teaching Chinese Through Digital Humanities, CALL, and Project-Based Learning
Dongdong Chen Ph.D.
A Hybrid Approach to Teaching Chinese through Digital Humanities, CALL, and Project-Based Learning presents an exposition of current thinking, research, and best practices in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Digital Humanities (DH), and Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) in the context of teaching Chinese as a foreign language (TCFL).
It proposes integrating CALL and DH into PBLL to form a Digital Humanities–Augmented Technology-Enhanced Project-Based Language Learning (DATEPBLL) approach to transform student learning. By combining DH pedagogy and CALL technology with PBLL, the approach takes advantage of their synergies, which enables instructors to help students develop linguistic and cultural competency as well as 21st century skills. Case studies and best practices from experienced Chinese language teachers are presented to demonstrate the value of the DATEPBLL approach. This is the first volume that covers all three fields and makes a strong case for the importance of incorporating CALL, DH, and PBLL for effective language learning.
Written for professionals in language education, including educators, curriculum designers and developers, graduate students, publishers, government personnel, and researchers, the book provides theoretical insights and practical applications of CALL, DH, and PBLL. -
Interreligious Studies and Secondary Education: Pedagogies and Practices for Living and Learning in a Religiously Plural World
Christine Gallagher, Lucinda Mosher, and Axel Takacs Th.D.
Interreligious Studies and Secondary Education: Pedagogies and Practices for Living and Learning in a Religiously Plural World is a groundbreaking collection of essays exploring the role of interreligious studies in public, private, and parochial secondary education. Edited by Lucinda Mosher, Axel M. Oaks Takacs, and Christine Gallagher, the volume is divided into four parts: Theory, Practice, Religiously Affiliated School Settings, and Beyond Secondary Education. Contributors—including several alumni of the ICJS Teachers and Nonprofit and Civic Professionals Fellowships—offer insights into religious literacy, the impact of Christian privilege, and the transformative power of interfaith dialogue and experiential learning. Practical chapters present strategies for integrating interreligious studies into curricula, while others reflect on the unique challenges faced by faith-based institutions. The book also highlights youth-led initiatives outside traditional classrooms.
Each chapter ends with a list of discussion questions. Our hope is that administrators, professional learning communities, teacher educators, and more can use these essays as a way to begin conversations in their own schools.
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Trends in Functional Programming: 25th International Symposium, TFP 2024
Jason Hemann Ph.D. and Stephen Chang
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2024, held in South Orange, NJ, USA, during January 10–12, 2024.
The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. Topical sections as follows: dependent type systems; compiler optimizations; and DSL design and implementation.
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Vivere la memoria: Edith Bruck tra Letteratura, Cinema, Teatro
Michela Meschini and Gabriella Romani
Edith Bruck, scrittrice e poetessa italiana di origine ungherese, rappresenta una delle voci più significative della letteratura della Shoah.
Questo volume offre un’indagine ad ampio raggio sulla sua opera letteraria e sulle sue esperienze cinematografiche e teatrali, allo scopo di interrogarne la rilevanza etica ed estetica nel panorama culturale italiano ed europeo degli ultimi sessant’anni, al di là della dimensione testimoniale.
Sulla base di prospettive ermeneutiche diverse, le autrici e gli autori degli undici saggi proposti sviluppano percorsi trasversali sui temi e sulle forme espressive ricorrenti in Bruck, nonché sulle questioni della memoria e della postmemoria, della narrazione del trauma, del translinguismo diasporico, degli approcci transnazionali e di genere.
Il libro si propone come un primo, necessario companion allo studio della figura e dell’opera bruckiana, e al contempo, come un contributo alla riflessione critica sulla letteratura dopo Auschwitz.
"Michela Meschini e Gabriella Romani hanno magistralmente curato questa silloge sull’opera di Edith Bruck rendendo merito a lei come all’intersezionalità che da sempre ne caratterizza la voce. La memoria messa al servizio delle arti vive nella scrittura affettiva di Bruck come testimoniano tutti i saggi qui raccolti."
(Stefania Lucamante, Università di Cagliari)
"In quasi 70 anni di scrittura e di testimonianza, Edith Bruck si è imposta all’attenzione come forse la voce più intensa e più incisiva, senz’altro quella più duratura, della memoria della Shoah in Italia. Questa bella raccolta di saggi sonda con grande chiarezza e acutezza tutta l’opera della Bruck, passando dal 1958 al 2024, dalla testimonianza alla finzione, dalla poesia alla prosa, dal teatro al cinema, dall’italiano in cui ha scelto di scrivere all’ungherese (ma anche allo yiddish e all’ebraico) delle sue origini. Ne emerge un ritratto critico poliedrico di una scrittrice di straordinaria forza e importanza."
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Southeast Asia Views the United States: Perceptions, Policies, and Prospects
Ann Marie Murphy Ph.D.
This book is a comprehensive study of Southeast Asian views of their respective countries’ foreign policies towards the United States. The Southeast Asian contributors are all individuals who bridge both academia and foreign policy circles in their countries, in Southeast Asia, the Indo-Pacific, more broadly, and globally.
There is a dearth of theoretically informed, empirically rich literature on the foreign policies of Southeast Asian states. This volume, with eight chapters written by some of Southeast Asia’s leading analysts, is therefore important, timely, and fills a large gap in the literature.
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An Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Model for Catholic Studies: Rooted in Vatican II, Growing Through the 21st Century
Ines Murzaku Ph.D. and Joseph Rice Ph.D.
This book offers a vision of an integrated Humanities curriculum, potentiated by the depth and diversity of perspectives that Catholic Studies contributes to both Catholic and secular universities. The result, inspired in various magisterial documents, is a more profound, relevant, and enduring college learning experience. It considers Catholic Studies as a response to the rich legacy of Vatican II, and its opening to contemporary culture, as it is expressed in Catholic education. It answers the dual call of the Declaration on Christian Education Gravissimum Educationis (GE) for cooperation and collaboration among Catholic institutions of higher learning, and among faculty of the different scholarly disciplines. This book displays the interdisciplinary breadth and disciplinary depth of Catholic Studies, while providing a window into the practical insights gained by experts in research, program design, and teaching in a flourishing Catholic Studies program that has inspired the founding of the Seton Hall University core curriculum. Complemented by the contributions of Catholic Studies experts from outside Seton Hall, this book serves as a pedagogical model for researchers and educators to consider and emulate, nationally and internationally, an interdisciplinary Catholic Studies model as a way to recuperate theology; stop the siege of the humanities; and teach humanities in contact and communication with other disciplines, including STEM and other vocation-oriented fields. In this overall context, this book serves as a guide and a reference for new and established programs of Catholic Studies, nationally and internationally. It seeks to extend a conversation, in the style of a symposium, to campuses and cultural contexts in the United States and internationally.
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An Earthly Story with a Heavenly Meaning
Dermot Quinn D.Phil.
For G.K. Chesterton, each human life was a story with a secret significance—“an earthly story with a heavenly meaning.” Like Chesterton, Father Ian Boyd dedicated his life and his work to the knowledge and love of that meaning. This volume presents twenty-two of Father Boyd’s essays on Chesterton—the man himself and his vast array of writings. In the words of Dermot Quinn, Father Boyd “would talk about Chesterton to anyone, and with the enthusiasm of one talking about him for the first time. Chesterton never grew stale for him. Constantly refreshed by his triumphant common sense, he wanted others to enjoy the same experience. If such discipleship brought burdens, he shouldered them cheerfully. The world needed to hear from Chesterton and for half a century Ian Boyd made sure that it did.”
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Ethics in Contact Rhetoric: Communication and the Dance of Bodies and Power
Jon P. Radwan Ph.D., Dale Cyphert, Ellen W. Gorsevski, and Omar Swartz
Ethics in Contact Rhetoric offers a novel communication theory centering touch and decentering symbolism. Critical case studies spanning diverse national and cultural contexts demonstrate contact rhetoric’s rich heuristic and applications. Inspired by Gandhi and King’s tradition of nonviolent power, a contact orientation outlines the incarnate and immediate ground of communication ethics. All media and symbolisms grow out of contact, one’s crucial bodily relationships with supporters and oppressors. Here, ethical interactions are defined as bio-relational dances arcing steps of nurture, respect, justice, and too often, violence. As efforts advance through space and time, interpersonal and social gyres form cycles manifesting degrees of relational balance, dynamics which can be described and interpreted with a multidimensional schema drawn from dance. Centering humanity’s physical mutuality is a vital move today. Communication is a thoroughly interactive art, but the West’s ancient “instrumental” (Aristotelian) tradition of rhetorical theory and its accompanying utilitarian ethic have worked across millennia to valorize individual agency over joint action. This book re-balances rhetorical theory by decentering symbolic acts and enabling critique of embodied relational patterns. The result is a much-needed foundation for communication ethics. Special emphasis is placed on engaging material injustice and discerning the role of rhetoric in social transformation. Grounded in concrete encounters, Ethics in Contact Rhetoric addresses how and why human beings function intentionally and interdependently, and how our linked movements can both harm and heal relational cycles. By identifying rhetorical energy within maneuvers advancing visceral engagement with difference, we outline potential for relational growth and transformation. Contact rhetoric asks us to embody and enact ethical ideals as we grapple with real life challenges of interdependence and social being.
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Generative AI Unleashed: Advancements, Transformative Applications and Future Frontiers
Karthik Ramamurthy, Suganthi Kulanthaivelu, Shajina Anand Ph.D, and Thangavel Murugan
Today's generative AI has been marked by the advent of neural networks, inspired by the human brain, which are trained to recognize patterns in a dataset. Once the network is trained, it can make decisions or predictions without being programmed to perform tasks. Generative AI learns from a set of data without explicit instructions and can create and generate new digital content such as text, audio and art. Recent models are beginning to overcome challenges such as computational power, data quality and training stability.
This edited book on generative AI presents novel perspectives, approaches and methodologies, as well as security, ethical and legal considerations, and future trends. Topics and technologies covered include generative transformers and text generation models, generative models for human-like speech synthesis, generative AI for image synthesis, data synthesis for privacy protection, and exploration of the impact of generative AI in fields including industry 4.0, astronomy, and brain tumour detection. Two chapters offer perspectives on ethics and legality.
Generative AI Unleashed: Advancements, transformative applications and future frontiers will serve as a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, advanced students and lecturers operating in the domains that are significantly impacted by generative AI. -
Sara Allgood's Memories: Untold Stories of the Abbey Theatre and Early Hollywood
Elizabeth Redwine Ph.D.
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Antimicrobial Peptides: A Roadmap for Accelerating Discovery and Development
Luis H. Reyes, Juan Cruz, and Gregory Wiedman Ph.D
Antimicrobial Peptides: A Roadmap for Accelerating Discovery and Development covers the most important efforts of scientists and engineers worldwide to accelerate the process of discovery, production, and eventual market penetration of more potent antimicrobial peptides. These efforts have been fueled by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and data science, molecular and CFD simulations, easy-to-use process simulation packages, microfluidics, 3D-printing, among many others. Such technologies can now be implemented and scaled up quickly and at relatively low cost in low-budget production facilities, critical to moving to sustainable and marketable products worldwide.
Discovering novel antimicrobial peptides rationally and cost-effectively has emerged as one of the significant challenges of modern biotechnology. Thus far, this process has been tedious and costly, resulting in molecules with activities far below those needed to address the current challenge of microbial resistance to antibiotics that takes the lives of thousands of people around the world every year. Finally, the book also highlights how multidisciplinary teams have assembled to address the challenges of manufacturing, biological testing, and clinical trials to finally reach complete translation. -
Building Your Academic Research Digital Identity: A Step-Wise Guide to Cultivating Your Academic Research Career Online
Margaret Dreker and Kyle Downey
The purpose of this timely and stimulating book is to thoroughly prepare students, early researchers, and career scholars in establishing their digital identity online.
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Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 6th Edition
Kelly Goedert and Susan Nolan
Susan Nolan and new coauthor Kelly Goedert offer an introduction to statistics that engages behavioral science students with fascinating stories and real data drawn from contemporary research. The authors support students and professors with market-leading coverage, visual displays of data, helpful mathematical and formula pedagogy, and extensive practice exercises.
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The Ambiguity of Being: Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural
Jonathan R. Heaps
The debate in Catholic theology over the relationship between the natural and the supernatural has only occasionally engaged with Bernard Lonergan’s philosophical and theological contributions on the topic. The Ambiguity of Being argues that more detailed engagement with Lonergan’s work implies an oversight in both the 20th- and 21st-century debates.
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The Sick Chicken Case: The Us Supreme Court and the New Deal
Williamjames Hoffer J.D., Ph.D.
The defining legal history of a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court that gutted a key piece of FDR’s New Deal.
On May 25, 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, the US Supreme Court handed down a series of decisions that dealt mortal blows to New Deal legislation and presidential initiatives—a day known to New Dealers as Black Monday. The most significant of these decisions was A.L.A. Schechter Poultry v. U.S., which members of the press promptly labeled the “sick chicken case.” In this decision, the Court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional, thus abolishing the National Recovery Administration and the hundreds of codes it had enacted. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounced the Court’s action, which started him down the road to his ill-fated plan to pack the Court in 1937.
As Williamjames Hull Hoffer shows, however, the sick chicken case is about much more than a single piece of New Deal legislation. It is a window into American society during the Great Depression and the New Deal—a 1930s America before World War II and the Cold War, the age of radio and movie palaces, and a time of experimentation with government that some likened to fascism or communism, or maybe both. More than a landmark law case that threatened the New Deal, but ultimately did not, Schechter Poultry is not just about a sick chicken; it is about a sick nation trying to heal itself. -
Programming-Based Formal Languages and Automata Theory: Design, Implement, Validate, and Prove
Marco Morazán
Covers all the mathematical development traditionally employed in computational theory courses
Reviews essential mathematical background on sets, relations, formal logic, and reasoning about infinite sets
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Perceptions of State: The US State Department and International Law
Phillip Moremen
Why, and to what extent, are states more or less likely to comply with international law? No overarching state compels compliance, and the international institutional context is thin, yet states seem largely to comply. How do we explain this behaviour?
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The Age of Climate Change and International Law: Perspectives, Reflections and Proposals
Catherine Tinker J.D., J.S.D.
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Keeping Women in their Digital Place: The Maintenance of Jewish Gender Norms Online
Ruth Tsuria
Since its inception, the internet has been theorized as a democratic force, a public sphere in which hierarchies are flattened. But the internet is not a neutral tool; it has the power to amplify and mirror certain opinions and, as a result, can concretize social norms. So what happens when matters of religious practice and gender identity collide in these―often unregulated―online spaces?
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