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  Race and the Senses: The Felt Politics of Racial Embodiment

  Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown

  In Race and the Senses, Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown explore the sensorial and phenomenological materiality of race as it is felt and sensed by the racialized subjects. Situating the lived body as an active, affective, and sensing participant in racialized realities, they argue that race is not simply marked on our bodies, but rather felt and registered through our senses. They illuminate the sensorial landscape of racialized world by combining the scholarship in sensory

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  Second Language Writing Instruction in Global Contexts: English Language Teacher Preparation and Development.

  Lisya Seloni and Sarah Henderson Lee

  This book revisits second language (L2) writing teacher education by exploring the complex layers of L2 writing instruction in non-English dominant contexts (i.e. English as a foreign language contexts). It pushes the boundaries of teacher education by specifically examining the development of teacher literacy in writing in under-represented L2 writing contexts, and re-envisions L2 writing teacher education that is contextually and culturally situated, moving away from the uncritical embracement of Western-based writing pedagogies. It explores

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  Crow's Gambit: A Near Future Techno Thriller

  Patrick Tebbe

  On Net-Day the alien Sylph surrounded the Earth and destroyed everything in orbit or in the air. Grounding the human race. The world had to adapt and reinvent itself in a new reality that didn’t allow for the planes and satellites people had come to take for granted.

  In this world Cassie is one of a new breed of barnstormers. Drone pilots that fly low and fast in violation of human law and alien weapons.

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  Crow's Haven: A Near Future Technothriller

  Patrick Tebbe

  On Net-Day the alien Sylph surrounded the Earth and grounded humanity. Then a maverick drone pilot discovered how to slip past their notice and opened the possibility of humans returning to space.

  Fearful of what the Sylph might do and how the United States might use their new capabilities, several nations decide to attack the East Coast. Cassie and the Crow Works team flee before the growing conflict to an abandoned research facility. There they

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  Fortunes of the Star Sloth

  Patrick Tebbe

  Sebastian Rogers is the owner of the civilian vessel, Star Sloth. A loner, possible alcoholic, and someone with serious relationship issues.

  Not the person you would normally pick as an explorer or for first contact situations. His A.I. doesn't seem to work quite right either, but then he did program it while he was drunk. When an accident dumps the Sloth beyond human explored space, he discovers they also have a stowaway. A stowaway with

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  What Falls Away is Always: Poems and Conversations

  Richard Terrill

  Here is a new collection of poetic “conversations” with the work and wisdom of Walt Whitman, Diane Arbus, Miles Davis, Groucho Marx, and more. Tai qi, classic movies, environmental angst, and the inexorable passage of time are among the subjects the poems consider—along with Terrill’s signature subject, music, especially the blue nights and blue notes of jazz.

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  An Incomplete List of Names

  Michael Torres

  An astonishing debut collection looking back on a community of Mexican American boys as they grapple with assimilation versus the impulse to create a world of their own. Who do we belong to? This is the question Michael Torres ponders as he explores the roles that names, hometown, language, and others’ perceptions each play on our understanding of ourselves in An Incomplete List of Names. More than a boyhood ballad or a coming-of-age story, this

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  A New Journey: Hmong College Student Experiences

  Mai Xee Vang and Brian V. Xiong

  Collected stories by 24 Hmong undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral college students reflecting the joys, challenges, struggles, and sacrifices of being Hmong students in a new education world.

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  How Bioscience Meets Buddhism: Biophenomena, Dependent Arising, and Emptiness

  Sun Kyeong Yu and Chang-Seong Hong

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  The Great Reboot: Succeeding in a World of Catastrophic Risk and Opportunity

  Bob Zukis, Paul Ferrillo, and Christophe Veltsos

  Our world has failed us.
  

  COVID-19 has stopped the world. Every business and system on the planet now needs to reboot.

  And a great equalizing in competitive markets is unfolding as powerful forces are creating massive new markets and threatening existing ones as COVID-19 changes how we live, work and play.

  THE GREAT REBOOT is a story about the extraordinary business risks and opportunities behind the catastrophic impacts of the global pandemic.

  The

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  Understanding Communication Research Methods: A Theoretical and Practical Approach

  Stephen Michael Croucher and Daniel Cronn-Mills

  Using an engaging how-to approach that draws from scholarship, real-life, and popular culture, this textbook offers students practical reasons why they should care about research methods and a guide to actually conducting research themselves. Examining quantitative, qualitative, and critical research methods, this new edition helps undergraduate students better grasp the theoretical and practical uses of method by clearly illustrating practical applications. The book features all the main research traditions within communication including online methods, and

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  The CIDER Method: A Human Resource Approach to Handling Employee Complaints

  Jon Gallop

  "Sexual harassment and discrimination complaints can result in toxic work environments and huge plaintiff verdicts. This book teaches a novel, systematic method for addressing all employee complaints in a style that utilizes humor and case studies to help business students and human resource personnel comprehend the law, recognize issues and respond appropriately. The method employs the acronym CIDER--Communicate, Investigate, Document, Evaluate and Respond--as the cornerstone for properly handling employee complaints. This innovative approach takes a

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  Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Literature and Art

  Danielle Haque

  Interrogating Secularism is a call to rethink binary categories of “religion” and “secularism” in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. While most studies that explore the traffic between literature and issues of secularism emphasize how canonical texts naturalize and reinforce secular values, Interrogating Secularism approaches this nexus through novels written by and about ethnic and religious minorities. Haque juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Rabih

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  Cracking the Bell

  Geoff Herbach

  While recovering from a game-related concussion, football star Isaiah wonders what his life would be like without the game.

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  Essential Learning Theories: Applications to Authentic Teaching Situations

  Andrew P. Johnson

  Research-based theories provide the basis for good decision-making in education. As well, teacher effectiveness and student learning are enhanced when research-based theories are used to design curriculum and daily lessons. This book examines human learning in the context of four types of research-based learning theories: neurological learning theories, behavioral learning theories, cognitive learning theories, and transformative learning theories. With each theory, the basic elements are described along with specific classroom applications. The writing style makes

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  The Development and Challenges of Russian Corporate Governance I: The Roles and Functions of Boards of Directors

  Oksana Kim

  Despite increasing attention toward Russia’s economy and capital market, corporate governance norms of Russian public firms are rarely analyzed. This project presents and interprets evidence regarding various governance practices followed by Russian firms covering almost the entire period of the existence of the Russian stock market. Its findings run counter to some widely held beliefs according to which Russia is a country with high resistance to corporate innovations due to socialist legacies.
  
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  Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains

  Lori Ann Lahlum and Molly Patrick Rozum

  On 10 December 1869, the governor of Wyoming Territory signed the first full woman suffrage bill in the history of the United States. Suffragists in the neighboring territories of Montana and Dakota believed their prospects were similarly bright. Over the next twenty years, however, organizers' efforts to secure votes for women met only limited success. While suffragists hoped the territories' respective bids for statehood in 1889 and 1890 would change their fortunes, only Wyoming enshrined

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  Guide to Analysis of Language Transcripts

  Kristine S. Retherford, Linda R. Schreiber, and Rebecca L. Jarzynski

  Guide to Analysis of Language Transcripts is now in its fourth edition! This updated text includes access to a companion online program to give students additional analysis practice.

  Through the use of this comprehensive text readers learn classic semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic analysis. The opening chapter thoroughly explains the collection and transcription of conversation speech samples. The GALT presents hundreds of helpful example utterances (with full explanations) plus four transcriptions for analysis. The accompanying online

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  Undergraduate Research: Step-by-Step

  Elizabeth J. Sandell

  To view the first two chapters of the book, use an "incognito browser” to go to this link: https://app.tophat.com/e/119052

  Select "enter as a guest."

  Click on the "Assigned" tab.

  "I am excited to announce the 2019 publication of my electronic textbook, Undergraduate Research Projects: Step-by-Step by TopHat Publishers, Toronto, Canada. It's in a workbook format, intended to complement any

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  Vestige of Eden, Image of Eternity: Common Experience, the Hierarchy of Being, and Modern Science

  Daniel Toma

  Three great cosmological worldviews―of the Latin West, ancient Greece, and the Hebrew/Syriac world―arose from a union of ancient and medieval thought. Each had origins in the ancient world and reached a synthesis under scholastic medieval thinkers. This synthesis was incorporated into Catholic tradition, becoming identified as a cosmological worldview of the Catholic Church. This worldview maintains a correspondence to and connection between the structure of the universe and the divine plan of creation, whereby creation

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  Los inicios del género detectivesco en España y sus antecedentes anglo-americanos: una antología bilingüe

  Enrique Torner

  A bilingual anthology of detective writing in Spain and the UK/US, with a preliminary study by Enrique Torner.

  This work was originally first available online through the World Association of International Studies at https://waisworld.org/en/wais/publications/books.

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  Los inicios del género detectivesco en España y sus antecedentes anglo-americanos: una antología bilingüe

  Enrique Torner

  A bilingual anthology of detective writing in Spain and the UK/US, with a preliminary study by Enrique Torner.

  This work was originally first available online through the World Association of International Studies at https://waisworld.org/en/wais/publications/books.

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  Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx

  Matt Vidal, Tony Smith, Tomás Rotta, and Paul Prew

  Karl Marx is one of the most influential writers in history. Despite repeated obituaries proclaiming the death of Marxism, in the 21st century Marx's ideas and theories continue to guide vibrant research traditions in sociology, economics, political science, philosophy, history, anthropology, management, economic geography, ecology, literary criticism, and media studies.

  Due to the exceptionally wide influence and reach of Marxist theory, including over 150 years of historical debates and traditions within Marxism, finding a point

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  Empowering Our Students For the Future: Encouraging Self-Direction and Life-Long Learning

  Scott D. Wurdinger, Cynthia McDermott, Kiel Harell, and Hilton Smith

  Educators of every kind such as school superintendents, principals, teachers, higher education practitioners, community organizers and even students will gain essential skills, resources and examples to encourage and support individual as well as collective empowerment from early childhood education through college in both traditional classrooms and in the broader community. Working toward the goal of empowering young people as active citizens, this collection of chapters presents voices from across the broad community of educators who

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  Two Weeks In May: Revisiting Minnesota State University, Mankato's Past [Film Showing]

  Monika Antonelli

  Two Weeks in May, Film Showing and Panel Discussion held on October 2, 2018 at the Centennial Student Union at Minnesota State University, Mankato.