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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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  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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  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

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  The Days of Afrekete: A Novel

  Asali Solomon

  Liselle Belmont is having a dinner party. It seems a strange occasion—her husband, Winn, has lost his bid for the state legislature—but what better way to thank key supporters than a feast? Liselle was never sure about her husband becoming a politician, never sure about the limelight, never sure about ... Read More

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  Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life

  Gustavus Stadler

  Woody Guthrie is often mythologized as the classic American “rambling’ man,” a real-life Steinbeckian folk hero who fought for working-class interests and inspired Bob Dylan. Biographers and fans frame him as a foe of fascism and focus on his politically charged folk songs. What’s left unexamined is how the bulk ... Read More

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  Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers

  Anne Balay

  Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck drivers allow award-winning author Anne Balay to shed new light on the harsh ... Read More

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  Muertes Imaginarias

  Roberto Castillo-Sandoval

  Muertes imaginarias es un híbrido que pide una lectura activa que vaya calibrando el estándar de verdad o verosimilitud de los textos y determinando el modo de lectura, o sea el género, más aplicable. Es remix, mashup, versioneo. Marcel Schwob y Stephen Pressfield se pasean por el bosque de referencias ... Read More

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  MOVE: An American Religion

  Richard Kent Evans

  This book is a religious history of MOVE, a small, mostly African American religious group devoted to the religious teachings of John Africa that emerged in Philadelphia in the early 1970s. MOVE is perhaps best known for the MOVE Bombing. In 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department—working in concert with federal ... Read More

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  Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal

  Pika Ghosh

  In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers, and seating mats. Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds ... Read More

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  Ethnographies of Islam in China

  Rachel Harris, Guangtian Ha, and Maria Jaschok

  In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in government suppression but also intriguing resonances with ... Read More

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  Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine (3rd ed.)

  Suzanne Amador Kane and Boris A. Gelman

  From x-rays to lasers to magnetic resonance imaging, developments in basic physics research have been transformed into medical technologies for imaging, surgery and therapy at an ever-accelerating pace. Physics has joined with genetics and molecular biology to define much of what is modern in modern medicine and allied health. Covering ... Read More

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  A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism: 3rd Century BCE - 7th Century CE

  Gywnn Kessler and Naomi Koltun-Fromm

  A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism explores the Jewish people, their communities, and various manifestations of their religious and cultural expressions from the third century BCE to the seventh century CE. Presenting a collection of 30 original essays written by noted scholars in the field, this companion provides ... Read More

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  The Greek Orthodox Church in America: A Modern History

  Alexander Kitroeff

  In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes ... Read More