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We Are All Chile: Representations of Difference in Contemporary Chilean Historical Fiction
Katherine Karr-Cornejo
A study of the relationship between literature and the current conditions of national life, We Are All Chile explores how artistic expression reflects lived experience. The book travels through figures, symbols, and events in Chilean history from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as represented through historical fiction of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, an oeuvre that uses historical stories to reflect upon the challenges of Chilean society post-dictatorship. Contrasting the use of these stories with previous understanding highlights the power of legacies of the dictatorial authoritarian state, particularly as they shape possibilities for the full flourishing of people without regard for their minoritized or disadvantaged identities, such as their sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or race.
This treatment of Chilean history and culture brings together literature and historiography to offer powerful interpretations of cultural narratives. The focus on varied dimensions of difference illustrates both overlapping representations and distinctive features of each within narratives imagining a more inclusive community. Throughout We Are All Chile, historical narratives and their source material are connected to support the creation of imaginative space for a better and more expansive future. The stories studied highlight the relationships between gender, empire, and the body; performances of race and gender that evoke a utopian dream of coexistence; symbols and systems of the nation as reflections of authoritarian practices; the legibility of the claims of indigenous communities; the role of violence in community building; and the strategies of lament inherent in the repeated stories of dreams for a more inclusive future shattered on the structures of exclusion. These historical narratives alone cannot change the material conditions in which people live, but they can awaken hope for the future that can inspire change. And it is this very process of defending, questioning, challenging, and changing historical stories that opens the door to possibility. -
The Virtues of Endurance
Nathan L. King
The virtues of endurance -- perseverance, patience, resilience, and constancy -- are central to success in any goal-oriented challenging activity that a person undertakes. Gaining a rich understanding of these virtues requires insights from multiple areas of study, but most treatments of the virtues of endurance to date have remained within narrow disciplinary boundaries. No longer. In this volume, philosophers, psychologists, legal scholars, educational theorists, medical practitioners, military theorists, and theologians have labored together to advance our understanding of endurance. Written with scholars in mind, this volume is nevertheless accessible to students and general readers.
This volume is divided into two sections: Explorations and Applications. The first section considers the nature of a given virtue, while the second section showcases the relevance of endurance to important areas of our lives. Taken as a whole, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of this ever-important virtue, offering both a theoretical and practical roadmap to working through challenging activities. -
Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning
Leland M. Roth and Amanda C. R. Clark
The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging.
Significant features of the fourth edition include:
- Expanded global essays outlining the encounters and interchanges, conflicts and accommodations, between disparate global communities
- A brand-new final chapter addressing the twenty-first century during which Western and global architectural developments have increasingly become one broad, interwoven expression. This chapter includes sections on CAD, Contemporary Architecture of the Twenty-First Century, Starchitects, Contemporary Architectural Prizes, Architecture and Energy Consumption, and Architecture Integrated with Nature
- New sections on Frank Lloyd Wright and Late Twentieth-Century Expressionism
- Thoroughly revised and expanded illustration, including over 700 images, over half of which are in full color, and 120 original line art drawings
Understanding Architecture continues to be the only text in the field to examine architecture as a cultural phenomenon as well as an artistic and technological achievement with its straightforward, two-part structure: The Elements of Architecture and the History and Meaning of Architecture. Comprehensive and clearly written, Understanding Architecture is both a primer for visual environmental literacy and a classic survey of architecture. This is an essential book for anyone interested in our built environment and the layered historical meaning embodied within it.
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The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology: Challenging the Nation
Charles Andrews
Examining novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology – works that imagine a resistance to the fusion of Christianity and patriotism which fueled and supported the First World War – this book shows how we can gain valuable insights from their works for anti-militarist, anti-statist, and anti-nationalist efforts today.
While none of the four novelists in this study were committed Christians during the 1920s, Andrews explores how their fiction written in the wake of the First World War operates theologically when it challenges English civil religion – the rituals of the nation that elevate the state to a form of divinity. Bringing these novels into a dialogue with recent political theologies by theorists and theologians including Giorgio Agamben, William Cavanaugh, Simon Critchley, Michel Foucault, Stanley Hauerwas and Jürgen Moltmann, this book shows the myriad ways that we can learn from the authors' theopolitical imaginations.
Andrews demonstrates the many ways that these novelists issue a challenge to the problems with civil religion and the sacralized nation state and, in so doing, offer alternative visions to coordinate our inner lives with our public and collective actions. -
At the Weaving of Creation: 50 New Tunes
Benjamin Brody
Includes (1) scriptural index, (2) thematic index, (3) contributors index, (4) metrical index, (5) tune index, and (6) title and first line index. Each selection consists of melody and keyboard accompaniment. Includes chord symbols. Includes biographical information about composer/compiler. All creation sings God's creature -- All glory, laud, and honor -- At the table, all are equal -- At the weaving of creation -- Be with those who wander -- Child in a manger, the humblest of tables -- Christ still rises -- Come, open your eyes -- Come to the garden -- Far from Your keeping -- Flowering broom tree -- For all things worth praising -- For distant clouds -- Forever, Lord, You are my shepherd -- Give praise for love as strong as death -- Go gently, go lightly -- God is love -- God of little things -- God who moves throughout creation -- Gracious gardener of creation -- Great is Your faithfulness : 0 God my mother -- Hear my prayer, o God -- Hear the good news of salvation -- Holy God, commune with us -- In steadfast kindness shelter me -- In the winter's growing darkness -- It could not be -- Jesus, faithful ancient tree : Jesus, our alleluia -- Leaven us with holy yeast -- Let justice roll down -- Let there be rest -- Lullaby, sing lullaby -- Make our church one joyful choir -- O shepherd of Israel -- One by one, as songs fall silent -- Open my heart to the pulse of grace -- Pause, Zaccheaus, from your labors -- People of the earth, come tremble -- Prepare the way with quietness -- Re-form us, God -- Rest your body/Move your body -- Seed that the sower sows -- Soul, why are you disquieted? -- The first time that death came for Jesus -- This is the moment -- Though the fig tree does not blossom -- Through our fragmentary prayers -- Touch the earth lightly -- Two trees rose from the garden ground -- Waters that rise and flow : Psalm 148 -- When our daily bread -- Within my troubled, care-worn days : Psalm 62.
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Soft Jazz: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 66
Brent Edstrom
This curated collection features 24 timeless standards, arranged for solo piano by acclaimed arranger Brent Edstrom, with chord symbols included for added harmonic exploration. From the nostalgic charm of Moon River to the moody elegance of In a Sentimental Mood, every arrangement captures the emotional depth of soft jazz. Designed for intermediate to advanced players, this book allows pianists to explore lush harmonies and lyrical phrasing with clarity and ease.
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Sound & Music Projects for Eurorack and Beyond: Explorations in Teensy® Microcontroller Technology
Brent Edstrom
Open-source technologies have created new expressive opportunities by expanding the creative music palette into the realm of circuits and source code, democratizing the line between design and creative application. Sound & Music Projects for Eurorack & Beyond explores the intersection of music, computer science, and electronics in the context of Eurorack, a popular framework for mounting and interconnecting modular synthesizers. This book provides a practical path for musicians and other artists to envision and build custom electronic instruments using freely available software and a modest collection of tools and electronic components.
Hands-on projects are based on Teensy microcontrollers, a category of USB-based devices that are easy to program for a variety of music and sound-design applications including music synthesis, digital signal processing, and the Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Mini projects include a genetic step sequencer, interactive arpeggiator, custom effects unit, and synthesizers based on several typologies including frequency modulation, subtractive, additive, and granular synthesis.
Sound & Music Projects for Eurorack & Beyond is comprised of four sections that explore music synthesis and digital signal processing, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, Eurorack concepts, and Eurorack projects. The text culminates with several custom Eurorack modules including an audio mixer, audio effects unit, MIDI to control-voltage converter and Eurorack synthesizer. Throughout the book, readers will develop relevant skills including microcontroller programming, circuit design, PCB design, and instrument fabrication in a building-block fashion that fosters experimentation and creative application. -
American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures
D. Berton Emerson
The study of nineteenth-century American literature has long been tied up with the study of American democracy. Just as some regions in the United States are elevated to stand in for the whole nation—New England is a good example—D. Berton Emerson argues the same is true for American literature of the nineteenth century; a few canonical texts overrepresent the more motley history of American letters. Emerson examines an eclectic group of literary texts that have rarely, if ever, been considered representative of “the nation” because of their unseemly characters or plots, divergence from dominant literary trends of the era, or local particularity. These are his “literary misfits,” authors and texts that show different forms of egalitarianism in action that existed outside and even against the dominant liberal narratives of American democracy.
Emerson’s unique contribution is revealing these texts and the people they represent as rich with political knowledge. This knowledge, he argues, finds its most potent expression in the local. Such texts show us a different kind of democratic politics: one that is egalitarian, disorderly, and radical rather than homogeneous. -
Boogie Woogie Christmas: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 67
Brent Edstrom
(Jazz Piano Solos). Each volume in the Jazz Piano Solos Series features exciting, rich new arrangements with chord names of classic songs. This edition features 31 Christmas favorites with a boogie woogie flair. Songs include: Blue Christmas * Deck the Hall * Feliz Navidad * Frosty the Snowman * Go, Tell It on the Mountain * Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) * A Holly Jolly Christmas * I'll Be Home for Christmas * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear * It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas * Jingle Bell Rock * Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * Little Saint Nick * March, Op. 71a * A Marshmallow World * O Holy Night * O Tannenbaum * Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Run Rudolph Run * Santa Baby * Santa Claus Is Back in Town * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Silent Night * Silver Bells * Sleigh Ride * Up on the Housetop * White Christmas * Winter Wonderland.
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Vince Guaraldi: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 64
Brent Edstrom
Each volume in the Jazz Piano Solos Series features exciting, rich new arrangements with chord names of classic songs. This edition features 24 favorites from Guaraldi including his beloved favorites from the Peanuts TV specials. It includes 24 songs in all, including: Blues for Peanuts * Calling Dr. Funk * Cast Your Fate to the Wind * Charlie Brown Theme * Charlie's Blues * Christmas Is Coming * A Day in the Life of a Fool (Manha De Carnaval) * Django * El Matador * Fenwyck's Farfel * Ginza Samba * The Great Pumpkin Waltz * Happiness Theme * Linus and Lucy * Little Birdie * Mr. Lucky * O Tannenbaum * Oh, Good Grief * Outra Vez * The Pebble Beach Theme * Samba De Orfeu * Skating * Star Song * Treat Street.
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The Liberating Arts: Why We Need Liberal Arts Education P
David Henreckson, Jeffrey Bilbro, and Jessica Hooten Wilson
Why would anyone study the liberal arts? It’s no secret that the liberal arts have fallen out of favor and are struggling to prove their relevance. The cost of college pushes students to majors and degrees with more obvious career outcomes.
A new cohort of educators isn’t taking this lying down. They realize they need to reimagine and rearticulate what a liberal arts education is for, and what it might look like in today’s world. In this book, they make an honest reckoning with the history and current state of the liberal arts.
In this book, educators mount a vigorous defense of the humanist tradition, but also chart a path forward, building on their tradition’s strengths and addressing its failures. In each chapter, dispatches from innovators describe concrete ways this is being put into practice, showing that the liberal arts are not only viable today, but vital to our future.
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Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls
Justin Martin and Marco Favaro
While much of the scholarship on superhero narratives has focused on the heroes themselves, Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls takes into view the depiction of the villains and their lives, arguing that they often function as proxies for larger societal and philosophical themes. Approaching Gotham’s villains from a number of disciplinary backgrounds, the essays in this collection highlight how the villains’ multifaceted backgrounds, experiences, motivations, and behaviors allow for in-depth character analysis across varying levels of social life. Through investigating their cultural and scholarly relevance across the humanities and social sciences, the volume encourages both thoughtful reflection on the relationship between individuals and their social contexts and the use of villains (inside and outside of Gotham) as subjects of pedagogical and scholarly inquiry.
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Africa's Urban Youth: Challenging Marginalization, Claiming Citizenship
Amy S. Patterson, Tracy Kuperus, and Megan Hershey
Making up 65 percent of Africa's population, young people between the ages of 18 and 35 play a key role in politics, yet they live in an environment of rapid urbanization, high unemployment rates and poor state services. Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania, this book investigates how Africa's urban youth cultivate a sense of citizenship in this challenging environment, and what it means to them to be a 'good citizen'. In interviews and focus group discussions, African youth, activists, and community leaders vividly explain how income, religion, and gender intertwine with their sense of citizenship and belonging. Though Africa's urban youth face economic and political marginalization as well as generational tensions, they craft a creative citizenship identity that is rooted in their relationships and obligations both to each other and the state. Privileging above all the voice and agency of Africa's young people, this is a vital, systematic examination of youth and youth citizenship in urban environments across Africa.
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Classical Jazz: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 63
Brent Edstrom
Each volume in the Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Solos Series features exciting new arrangements of the songs which helped define a style. In this unique volume, 30 classical favorites are given entertaining new jazzy arrangements. Titles include: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Op. 71a (Tchaikovsky) * In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) * Meditation (Massenet) * Musetta's Waltz (Quando Men Vo) (Puccini) * Reverie (Debussy) * Salut D'amour (Greeting to Love) (Elgar) * Sandmannchen (The Little Sandman), WoO 31, No. 4 (Brahms) * The Swan (Le Cygne) (Saint-Saens) * Traumerei (Dreaming), Op. 15, No. 7 (Schumann) * and more.
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Coffee Table Jazz: Jazz Piano Solos Volume 62
Brent Edstrom
Relaxing Jazz Piano Arrangements. This collection brings together 25 timeless jazz standards, carefully arranged for solo piano. Ideal for background music, intimate performances, or personal enjoyment, these pieces capture the smooth, sophisticated essence of jazz. Designed for Intermediate to Advanced Pianists.
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Circuit Modeling of Inductively-Coupled Pulsed Accelerators
Kamesh Sankaran, Kurt A. Polzin, Ashley K. Hallock, and Justin M. Little
This monograph describes lumped-element modelling techniques for inductively-coupled pulsed accelerators, starting from the basic physical description of the various processes and then bringing all the pieces together into solutions. Coilguns, inductive pulsed plasma thrusters, and compact toroids have each been individually studied using the methods used in this monograph.
This monograph is of interest to researchers and graduate students in physics, engineering, and mathematics presently studying inductively-coupled pulsed accelerators.
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Apprentissage de "La grammaire est une chanson douce"
Bendi Benson Schrambach
Apprentissage was created with you in mind. Language students often complain that courses focus on "old" literature and do not include information related to more contemporary culture. Apprentissage responds to this critique by weaving in twentieth and twenty-first century Francophone music, culturally authentic videos, advertisements, and even internet activities. The full-color workbook contains discussion and analysis questions centered around the novel "La grammaire est une chanson douce" by Erik Orsenna. Each chapter includes a review of a unique structure or linguistic formulation observed in the reading. Online (or written) homework will ensure your mastery of these structures. Suggested "Allons plus loin" will contribute to your historical, cultural, and linguistic enrichment.
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A Teacher's Guide to Curriculum Design for Gifted and Advanced Learners: Advanced Content Models for Differentiating Curriculum
Tamra Stambaugh
A Teacher’s Guide to Curriculum Design for Gifted and Advanced Learners provides educators with models and strategies they can easily use to create appropriately complex differentiated lessons, questions, tasks, and projects. This must-have resource for both gifted and regular education teachers:
- Includes specific thinking models for teaching English language arts, social studies, and STEM.
- Is ideal for teachers who are looking for ways to differentiate and design lessons for their highest achieving students.
- Provides multiple examples of how to embed complexity within standards-based lessons.
- Highlights units and models from Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth curriculum.
- Helps teachers provide the necessary challenge for advanced learners to thrive.
The models have been vetted by content experts in the relevant disciplines and were designed to guide students to develop expertise within a discipline. Definitions of widely used terms, such as depth, complexity, and abstractness, are explained and linked to models within specific content areas to support common understanding and application of schoolwide differentiation strategies.
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Christ Still Rises, Hicks: For choir, assembly, keyboard and guitar with violin
Benjamin Brody
This choral arrangement was written during the height of the COVID pandemic with virtual choirs in mind. The piece is wonderfully adaptable whether sung by a vocal quartet or a full choir, featuring unison lines that may be taken by a soloist and a violin part that could be played by any treble C instrument or even incorporated into the piano accompaniment.
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A Chinese Jesuit Catechism
Anthony E. Clark
This book is the first scholarly study of the famous Jesuit Chinese children’s primer, the Four Character Classic, written by Giulio Aleni (1582–1649) while living in Fujian, China. This book also includes masterful translations of both Wang Yinglin’s (1551–1602) hallowed Confucian Three Character Classic and Aleni’s Chinese catechism that was published during the Qing (1644–1911). Clark’s careful reading of the Four Character Classic provides new insights into an area of the Jesuit mission in early modern China that has so far been given little attention, the education of children. This book underscores how Aleni’s published work functions as a good example of the Jesuit use of normative Chinese print culture to serve the catechetical exigencies of the Catholic mission in East Asia, particularly his meticulous imitation of Confucian children’s primers to promote decidedly Christian content.
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China’s Catholics in an Era of Transformation: Observations of an “Outsider”
Anthony E. Clark
This book features a collection of essays on China’s modern Catholic Church by a scholar of China-West intellectual and religious exchange. The essays and reflections were mostly written in China while the author was traveling by train, or staying in villages or large cities near to Roman Catholic cathedrals or other important historical sites during research trips to the country. It is clear that Clark’s understanding of Catholicism in China evolved from the first entry to the final ones in 2019. The essays included in this compendium were written in disparate contexts and in response to different events. As such, there is no obvious theme or order to the content. However, despite this, the book provides valuable insights for readers wishing to gain a better understanding of the complex topography of Catholic history in China, the contours of which have undergone stark transformations with each dynastic, political, and ecclesial transition. The information presented serves to highlight and explain the lives of Catholic people and the events that have punctuated one of the most significant dimensions of China’s long history of friendship, conflict and exchange with the West.
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Boogie Woogie: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 60
Brent Edstrom
(Jazz Piano Solos). Piano solo arrangements with chord symbols for 22 songs, including: Boogie Woogie Stomp (Albert Ammons) * Chicago Breakdown ("Big" Maceo Meriweather) * Honky Tonk Train (Honky Tonk Train Blues) (Meade "Lux" Lewis) * Mess Around (Ray Charles) * St. Louis Blues (Albert Ammons) * Swanee River Boogie (Albert Ammons) * Yancy Special (Jimmy Yancey) * and more.
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West Coast Jazz: Jazz Piano Solos Volume 59
Brent Edstrom
Piano solo arrangements with chord symbols for 22 songs, including: Bernie's Tune * East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) * Ginza Samba * Not Really the Blues * Of Thee I Sing * Suddenly It's Spring * The Train and the River * and more.
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Cold War Journalism: Between Cold Reception and Common Ground
Kevin Grieves
This book explores Cold War journalism and journalists as threat, representing ‘enemy’ systems and ideologies. The book also examines Cold War aspirations of forging transnational journalistic connections across the Iron Curtain as well as finding common journalistic ground within the East and West blocs. The book shines a critical light on overly idealistic visions for that journalistic common ground, drawing on primary archival source material to investigate journalists and reporting work, journalistic content and journalistic venues during the Cold War era. This is not a book about traditional war correspondence – rather, it is about the rhetorical battles and the ideological fronts that have shaped and continue to shape our world. By fully understanding how journalism and journalists have intersected with hostile barriers and divisions in the past, we can have a more nuanced understanding of the current global media environment.
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The Excellent Mind: Intellectual Virtues for Everyday Life
Nathan L. King
Nathan L. King's The Excellent Mind considers the importance of the intellectual virtues: the character traits of excellent thinkers. He explains what it means to have an excellent mind: one that is curious, careful, self-reliant, humble, honest, persevering, courageous, open, firm, and wise. Drawing from recent literature in philosophy and psychology, he considers what these virtues are like in practice, why they are important, and how we grow in them. King also argues that despite their label, these virtues are not just for intellectuals: they are for everyone. He shows how intellectual virtues are critical to living everyday life, in areas as diverse as personal relationships, responsible citizenship, civil discourse, personal success, and education. Filled with vivid examples and relevant applications, The Excellent Mind will serve as an engaging introduction to the intellectual virtues for students and anyone interested in the topic.
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