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  The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937

  Steven Ward Angell, Pink Dandelion, and David Harrington Watt

  The period from 1830 to 1937 was transformative for modern Quakerism. Practitioners made significant contributions to world culture, from their heavy involvement in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements and creation of thriving communities of Friends in the Global South to the large-scale post–World War I humanitarian relief efforts of ... Read More

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  Cognitive Neuroscience

  Marie T. Banich and Rebecca J. Compton

  Now in its fifth edition, this accessible and comprehensive text highlights the most important theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience. Written by two experienced researchers who excel at teaching, the consistent narrative ensures that concepts are linked across chapters, and the careful selection of topics enables readers to ... Read More

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  Inclusivity in Introductory STEM Courses: A Guide to Improving Student (and Instructor!) Mindsets

  Lou K. Charkoudian, Carla Fröhlich, and Mike Hildreth

  Inclusivity in Introductory STEM Courses: A Guide to Improving Student (and Instructor!) Mindsets grew out of a Cottrell Scholar Collaborative project to help create more inclusive STEM learning spaces, in collaboration with FLAMENet, a national network of science faculty, psychologists, and education researchers working to develop and research interventions to ... Read More

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  The Politics of Ritual

  Molly Farneth

  The Politics of Ritual is a major new account of the political power of rituals. In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Molly Farneth argues that rituals are social practices in which people create, maintain, and transform themselves and their societies. Far from mere scripts or mechanical routines, rituals are dynamic ... Read More

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  A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance

  Richard Freedman and Jeanice Brooks

  A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance covers the period from 1400 to 1650, examining structures of identity and the delicate relationships between self, society, and sound. What did listeners and creators want from music in the Renaissance? How were the forms and meanings of music shaped by ... Read More

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  Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes: Seeing South Asian Art Anew

  Pika Ghosh and Pushkar Sohoni

  Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world. This practice, applied to the study of material and visual culture, offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate the complex engagements with paintings, ... Read More

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  Peter Tiboris: A Musical Odyssey

  Alexander Kitroeff

  Peter Tiboris: A Musical Odyssey is a book length biography of internationally acclaimed conductor, music director and producer Peter Tiboris. The book follows Peter Tiboris’ life chronologically and it is divided into six chapters. It details a life devoted to music and the ways Tiboris benefitted from the support of ... Read More

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  The Crisis of Catiline: Rome, 63 BCE

  Bret Mulligan

  The Crisis of Catiline situates students in Rome in 63 BCE during a time of urban and rural tumult, economic instability, sensational trials, and electoral misconduct. Lucius Sergius Catilina (or “Catiline”), a charismatic and scandal-plagued noble, has proposed radical reforms that are favored by the urban and rural poor. But ... Read More

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  Adverbs Across Domains

  Amanda Payne

  This text identifies grammatical constraints on adverbs in multiple areas of language, from morpho-syntax to prosody to semantics. A novel syntactic adverb hierarchy is proposed to explain the distribution of multi-adverb constructions, one which has just five distinct classes. The status of “adverb” as a unique lexical category is also ... Read More

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  Singing City Songbook

  Nathan Zullinger

  In celebration of its 75th anniversary, Singing City commissioned 27 composers to write short works to create the Singing City Songbook. This compilation is intended for community singing everywhere—its themes echo the human experience, with messages of unity, hope, love, and the ties that bind.

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  La novela del corazón

  Roberto Castillo-Sandoval

  El autor de Muriendo por la dulce patria mía y Muertes imaginarias vuelve con una novela vertiginosa, importante, de múltiples espacios y personajes, a la que dio forma después de presenciar un trasplante de corazón a un metro de distancia. Aquí la acción parece latir –sístole, diástole, sístole, diástole– mientras ... Read More

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  Culture and Content in French: Frameworks for Innovative Curricula

  Aurélie Chevant-Aksoy and Kathryne A. Corbin

  Instructors in today’s language classrooms face the challenge of preparing globally competent and socially responsible students with transcultural aptitude. As classroom content shifts toward communication, collaboration, and problem solving across cultural, racial, and linguistic boundaries, the teaching of culture is an integral part of foreign language education. This volume offers ... Read More

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  Confronting Failure: Approaches to Building Confidence and Resilience in Undergraduate Researchers

  Lisa A. Corwin, Louise K. Charkoudian, and Jennifer M. Heemstra

  In this open-access book, authors from a range of disciplines--from geosciences to drama--capture how failure manifests and can be productively supported in a range of undergraduate research experiences. Whether the learning environment is a STEM research lab, a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE), a humanities summer undergraduate research experience, a ... Read More

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  Theopompos: Introduction, Translation, Commentary

  Matthew C. Farmer

  Theopompos was one of the leading comic playwrights of late fifth- and early fourth-century Athens, competing actively with the great Aristophanes and winning several victories. This volume presents the first complete translation and commentary on his surviving fragments. He participated in important trends during the transition from Old to Middle ... Read More

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  The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China

  Guangtian Ha

  The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufism in northwestern China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark of their spiritual practice is the “loud” (jahr) remembrance of God in liturgical rituals featuring distinctive melodic vocal chants. The first ethnography of this order in any language, The Sound of Salvation ... Read More

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  Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production

  Ariana Huberman

  This book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. It introduces the work of Latin American authors and artists who have been inspired by Jewish Mysticism from the 1960s to the present ... Read More

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  Anxious Experts: Disaster Response and Spiritual Care from 9/11 to the Climate Crisis

  Joshua Moses

  The book also provides a lens through which to understand the historical dimensions of disaster-related trauma, its treatment, and the ways that therapeutic and spiritual practices imply politics. By studying the intersection of mental health and spirituality in the context of disaster, we gain essential insight into apocalyptic and dystopic ... Read More

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  Reading Friendship and Enmity in Ancient Rome: An Intermediate Latin Sourcebook

  Bret Mulligan

  This sourcebook offers a carefully-honed selection of Latin authors, predominately from classical antiquity, and supplemented by texts from later periods. The sourcebook purposefully includes both prose and poetry, and a range of genres, including epic, epigram, history, oratory, the letter, and the philosophical essay. Most of the core texts include ... Read More

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  The Poetry of Ennodius: Translated with an Introduction and Notes

  Bret Mulligan

  The Poetry of Ennodius offers the first translation into English verse of the entire eclectic corpus of sacred and secular poetry by Magnus Felix Ennodius (c. 473/4–521 CE), amply supplemented by detailed notes that elucidate the literary and cultural references essential for understanding this poet.

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  Cali Chiu: A Course in Valley Zapotec (3rd ed.)

  Pamela Munro, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Felipe H. Lopez, Brynn Paul '20, and Lillian Leibovich '24

  The Cali Chiu course is designed to give you a working command of Valley Zapotec, an indigenous language of Oaxaca, Mexico, also spoken by many immigrants to California. The course presents a new simplified system for writing Valley Zapotec, along with a guide to pronunciation and information on building Valley ... Read More

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  Microeconomic Theory

  Giri Parameswaran

  This open education textbook is comprised of two parts: Analytical Methods of Economics and Intermediate Microeconomics. Each part supports courses (ECON 201 & ECON 300) in Haverford College's Economics curriculum.

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  American Literature in Transition, 1876–1910

  Lindsay V. Reckson

  Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period's immense transformations while troubling the ideology of progress that underwrote much of its self-understanding. This volume queries the various forms and formations of post-Reconstruction American literature. It contends that the literature of this period, most ... Read More

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  Art of Transition: The Field of Art in Post-Soviet Russia

  Elise Herrala

  The dissolution of the Soviet Union brought a massive change in every domain of life, particularly in the cultural sector, where artists were suddenly "free" from party-mandated modes of representation and now could promote and sell their work globally. But in Russia, the encounter with Western art markets was fraught. ... Read More

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  30-Second Space Travel: 50 Key Ideals, Inventions, and Destinations That Have Inspired Humanity Toward the Heavens

  Charles Liu, Karen Masters, and Allen Liu

  As Space X works to reduce the barriers of access to space and Virgin Galactic forges a path to commercial spaceflight for the masses, we have begun to cross the realms of science fiction into the reality of humans viewing the cosmos with their own eyes. Part of an internationally ... Read More

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  Translation and Temporality in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie

  Maud Burnett McInerney

  The story of the Trojan War has been told and retold across the ages, from Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid to recent film and television adaptations. The peoples of medieval Europe were especially enthralled with the tale of the siege of the great city by the Greeks, and by the ... Read More