USU 2021 Faculty Author Circular

RESEARCH W E E K 2021 USU F A C U LT Y AUTHOR CIRCULAR

TA B L E O F CONTENTS

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ACT in Steps: A Transdiagnostic Manual for Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy * Michael P. Twohig, Michael E. Levin

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Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners * Keunhyun Park

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Advanced Signal Processing: A Concise Guide * Todd K. Moon

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Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar Phebe Jensen

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Basic Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners * Keunhyun Park

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Building Honors Contracts: Insights and Oversights Kristine Miller

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Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America Don E. Albrecht

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The First World War: A Brief History with Documents, 2nd Edition Susan Grayzel

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Child Helpers: A Multidisciplinary Perspective David F. Lancy

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The Cowgirl and the Racehorse: A Recovery Ashley Wells

From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep * David C. Wall

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Cultural Entanglements: Langston Hughes and the Rise of African and Caribbean Literature Shane Graham

Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy (Vol. I) * Ryan B. Seedall

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His Dark Materials and Philosophy: Paradox Lost * Rachel Robison-Greene

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Cybercrime: An Encyclopedia of Digital Crime * Jason Twede

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Innovations in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy * Michael P. Twohig, Michael E. Levin

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Democracy Under Seige? Parties, Voters, and Elections After the Great Recession * Yesola Kweon

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Integrating Social Justice Education in Teacher Preparation Programs * Courtney K. Clausen

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Interprofessional Care Coordination for Pediatric Autism Spectrum Disorder: Translating Research Into Practice * Maryellen Brunson McClain

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The Latinx Urban Condition: Trauma, Memory, and Desire in Latinx Urban Literature and Culture Crescencio Lopez-Gonzalez

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Sharia in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of the Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1900 * Danielle Ross

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Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World Jennifer Sinor

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Social Unrest: Resolving the Dichotomies of Me/You and Us/Them – The I-System Model of Human Behavior * Derrik Tollefson

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Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling with Mplus Christian Geiser

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Marking the “Invisible”: Articulating Whiteness in Social Studies Education * Andrea M. Hawkman

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Spanish Graphic Narratives: Recent Developments in Sequential Art * David F. Richter

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Nonverbal Communication in Political Debates * John S. Seiter

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Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st-Century World Patrick Q. Mason

Tatar Empire: Kazan’s Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia Danielle Ross

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Testing Tolerance * Candi Carter Olson

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This is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions * Lynne S. McNeill

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Understanding Nonprofit Work: A Communication Prospective * Matthew L. Sanders

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Utah Women: Pioneers, Poets & Politicians Emily Brooksby Wheeler

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Willa Cather and E. M. Forster: Transatlantic Transcendence Alan Blackstock

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Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park * Daniel R. MacNulty

The Faculty Author Circular recognizes USU faculty who published a book in the previous year. USU Libraries and the Office of Research would like to acknowledge this impressive accomplishment that 33 members of our faculty achieved in 2020.

Congratulations to our faculty on their accomplishments!

* Publication has contributors from multiple institutions. This booklet is intended to recognize USU researchers.

ACT in Steps: A Transdiagnostic Manual for Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Michael P. Twohig, Michael E. Levin Psychology ACT in Steps is aimed at any therapist who wants to get familiar with ACT. Chapters walk therapists through a recommended sequence of ACT sessions, including creative hopelessness, control as the problem, acceptance, defusion, mindfulness, values, and committed action, and provide accompanying materials for clients. The book also provides information on assessment, case conceptualization, treatment planning, and intervention that therapists can use as a starting point for practicing ACT. Exercises and worksheets are included which will continue to be useful long after readers have achieved mastery of ACT. Designed to serve as a more structured framework from which therapists can learn and experiment with ACT concepts, ACT in Steps is suitable for anyone interested in applying ACT across a range of presentations, from graduate students seeing their first clients to clinicians with years of experience interested in learning about ACT for the first time.

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Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners Keunhyun Park Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides fundamental knowledge and hands-on techniques about research, such as research topics and key journals in the planning field, advice for technical writing, and advanced quantitative methodologies. This book aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive and detailed understanding of advanced quantitative methods and to provide guidance on technical writing. Complex material is presented in the simplest and clearest way possible using real-world planning examples and making the theoretical content of each chapter as tangible as possible.

Hands-on techniques for a variety of quantitative research studies are covered to provide graduate students, university faculty, and professional researchers with useful guidance and references.

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Advanced Signal Processing: A Concise Guide Todd K. Moon Electrical and Computer Engineering This text is an expanded version of a graduate course on advanced signal processing at the Johns Hopkins University Whiting school program for professionals with students from electrical engineering, physics, computer and data science, and mathematics backgrounds. It covers the theory underlying applications in statistical signal processing including spectral estimation, linear prediction, adaptive filters, and optimal processing of uniform spatial arrays. Unique among books on the subject, it also includes a comprehensive introduction to modern neural networks with examples in time series prediction and image classification.

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Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar Phebe Jensen English Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar is a handbook designed to help modern readers unlock the vast cultural, religious, and scientific material contained in early modern calendars and almanacs. It outlines the basic cosmological, astrological, and medical theories that undergirded calendars, traces the medieval evolution of the calendar into its early modern format against the background of the English Reformation, and presents a history of the English almanac in the context of the rise of the printing industry in England.

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Basic Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners Keunhyun Park Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Basic Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides readers with comprehensive knowledge and hands-on techniques for a variety of quantitative research studies, from descriptive statistics to commonly used inferential statistics. It covers statistical methods from chi-square through logistic regression and also quasi-experimental studies. At the same time, the book provides fundamental knowledge about research in general, such as planning data sources and uses, conceptual frameworks, and technical writing. The book presents relatively complex material in the simplest and clearest way possible, and through the use of real-world planning examples, makes the theoretical and abstract content of each chapter as tangible as possible.

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Building Honors Contracts: Insights and Oversights Kristine Miller Honors Program This book asks an overdue question: can we build honors contracts that transcend the transactional? The word “contract” itself—as both noun and verb—delimits more possibilities than it reveals. The chapters collected here expand this restrictive term by reframing honors contracts as collaborative partnerships for experiential learning. While most, though not all, of the volume’s contributors accept standard definitions of honors contracts as “[e]nriched options within regular [non-honors] courses,” they also imagine many and varied possibilities for such enrichment (Schuman 33). The subtitle’s pairing of “Insights” and “Oversights” thus suggests not that the authors have seen it all or missed the point when it comes to honors contracts, but that contracts, like courses, benefit from the creative pedagogical approaches and thoughtful administrative practices that define honors education.

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Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America Don E. Albrecht Western Rural Development Center In Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America, Don E. Albrecht visits rural communities that have traditionally been dependent on a variety of goods-producing industries, explores what has happened as employment in these industries has declined, and provides a path by which they can build a vibrant twenty-first-century economy. Albrecht describes how structural economic changes led rural voters to support Donald Trump in the 2016 election and why his policies will not relieve the economic problems of rural residents.

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Child Helpers: A Multidisciplinary Perspective David F. Lancy Anthropology In most of the worlds’ distinct cultures, children—from toddlerhood—eagerly volunteer to help others with their chores.

Laboratory research in child psychology supports the claim that the helper “stage” is biologically based. This Element examines the development of helping in varied cultural contexts, in particular, reviewing evidence for supportive environments in the ethnographic record versus an environment that extinguishes the drive to be helpful in WEIRD children. In the last section, the benefits of the helper stage are discussed, specifically the development of an ability to work and learn collaboratively.

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The Cowgirl and the Racehorse: A Recovery Ashley Wells English The Cowgirl and the Racehorse offers a moving, intimate, and richly descriptive memoir of the relationship between a girl and her horses. Beginning with her account of a traumatic horse-riding accident, Wells reflects on the personalities and characters of the many horses—both real and fictional—who have accompanied her through often difficult life experiences, teaching her strength, resilience, discipline, care, and trust. The Cowgirl and the Racehorse is also a scholarly reflection on the many cowgirl narratives—films, music, and books—that have marked the author’s life passages and which offer complex and compelling images for girls as they grow: particularly in terms of their independence of spirit and the social and familial expectations with which they are burdened. Finally, the book is a detailed examination of the ethical and societal questions raised by the sometimes dangerous and cruel, and sometimes seductive and compelling, world of horseback riding.

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Cultural Entanglements: Langston Hughes and the Rise of African and Caribbean Literature Shane Graham English In addition to being a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and essayist, Langston Hughes was also a globe-trotting cosmopolitan, travel writer, translator, avid international networker, and—perhaps above all—pan-Africanist. In Cultural Entanglements, Shane Graham examines Hughes’s associations with a number of black writers from the Caribbean and Africa, exploring the implications of recognizing these multiple facets of the African American literary icon and of taking a truly transnational approach to his life, work, and influence.

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Cybercrime: An Encyclopedia of Digital Crime Jason Twede Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology Cybercrime is characterized by criminal acts that take place in the borderless digital realm. It takes on many forms, and its perpetrators and victims are varied. From financial theft, destruction of systems, fraud, corporate espionage, and ransoming of information to the more personal, such as stalking and web-cam spying as well as cyberterrorism, this work covers the full spectrum of crimes committed via cyberspace. This comprehensive encyclopedia covers the most noteworthy attacks while also focusing on the myriad issues that surround cybercrime. It includes entries on such topics as the different types of cyberattacks, cybercrime techniques, specific cybercriminals and cybercrime groups, and cybercrime investigations. While objective in its approach, this book does not shy away from covering such relevant, controversial topics as Julian Assange and Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It also provides detailed information on all of the latest developments in this constantly evolving field.

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Democracy Under Seige? Parties, Voters, and Elections After the Great Recession Yesola Kweon Political Science The Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 was catalyst for the most precipitous economic downturn in eight decades. This book examines how the GFC and ensuing Great Recession affected electoral politics in the world’s developed democracies. The initial wave of research on the crisis concluded it did little to change the established relationships between voters, parties, and elections. Yet nearly a decade since the initial shock, the political landscape has changed in many ways, the extent to which has not been fully explained by existing studies. Democracy Under Siege? pushes against the received wisdom by advancing a framework for understanding citizen attitudes, preferences, and behavior.

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The First World War: A Brief History with Documents, 2nd Edition Susan Grayzel History The new edition of Susan Grayzel’s The First World War introduces students to one of the world’s most ferocious and all-encompassing global conflicts through a diverse range of perspectives. This volume explores the unprecedented nature of modern “Total War,” and outlines the origins, experiences, and legacies of the war through— and beyond—Europe and the West. The revised introduction, now updated to include the newest scholarship brought about by the hundredth anniversary of the war’s end, offers important insights into the cultural, political, and psychological landscape from which the war emerged, as well as a thoughtful examination of the conduct of the war and its aftermath. The rich collection of primary source documents, including government records and reports, novels, diary entries, poems, propaganda posters, correspondence letters, and detailed maps and images, allows for a thorough examination of the experiences of those who were impacted by the tumultuous global conflict.

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From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep David C. Wall Art Charles Burnett’s 1977 film Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep is the first book-length collection dedicated to the film and designed to introduce viewers to this still relatively unknown masterpiece. Beginning life as Burnett’s master’s thesis project in 1973, and shot on a budget of $10,000, Killer of Sheep immediately became a cornerstone of the burgeoning movement in African American film that came to be known variously as the LA School or LA Rebellion. By bringing together a wide variety of material, this volume covers both the politics and aesthetics of the film as well as its deeper social and contextual histories.

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Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy (Vol. I) Ryan B. Seedall Human Development and Family Studies This first volume of The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy includes extensive work on the theory, practice, research, and policy foundations of the profession of CMFT and its roles in an integrated health care system. Developed in partnership with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), it will appeal to clinicians, such as couple, marital, and family therapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists. It will also benefit researchers, educators, and graduate students involved in CMFT.

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His Dark Materials and Philosophy: Paradox Lost Rachel Robison-Greene Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies The new TV series, His Dark Materials, is based on the series of novels by Philip Pullman, depicting a young girl’s adventures in an imaginary world with similarities and dissimilarities to our own. The story tells of world domination by a religious body, the Magisterium, with malevolent intentions, serving a really existing God who is evil and who can be killed. While the story is a thrilling adventure yarn, it raises many philosophical issues. In the world of His Dark Materials (or one of its many worlds) humans have an animal companion to which they are emotionally linked and which is like an external ‘soul’. This provokes questions about the human personality and the way we think of humans as having bodies, minds, and maybe also souls. Human psychology can be analyzed by psychoanalysis and other theories, some of which are explored in His Dark Materials and Philosophy.

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Innovations in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Michael P. Twohig, Michael E. Levin Psychology Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a powerful and proven-effective treatment model for alleviating several mental health conditions, ranging from depression and anxiety to addiction and eating disorders. And because ACT is an ever-evolving modality that relies on processes, rather than fixed protocols, it is primed for substantial clinical innovations as researchers and clinicians develop new strategies for increasing psychological flexibility. Innovations in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy combines the latest, cutting-edge ACT research with a wealth of “in-the-trenches” experience from leading clinicians in the field, including Steven C. Hayes, Matthieu Villatte, Benjamin Schoendorff, and more. In this volume, you’ll find an overview of innovations spanning the last decade, how to translate these innovations into everyday interventions, and a summary of future directions for researching and refining ACT in practice.

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Integrating Social Justice Education in Teacher Preparation Programs Courtney K. Clausen Applied Sciences, Technology and Education Due to the increasingly diverse populations found in Pre-K-12 education, it is imperative that teacher educators prepare preservice teachers to meet the shifting needs of changing student populations. Through the integration of social justice education, teacher educators can challenge the mainstream curriculum with a lens of equity and collaborative equality.

Integrating Social Justice Education in Teacher Preparation Programs is a critical research book that explores the preparation and teaching methods of educators for including social justice curriculum. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as ethics, language-based learning, and feminism, this book is ideal for academicians, curriculum designers, social scientists, teacher educators, researchers, and students.

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Interprofessional Care Coordination for Pediatric Autism Spectrum Disorder: Translating Research into Practice Maryellen Brunson McClain Psychology This book addresses the importance and relevance of interprofessional care coordination for children and youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It covers the role of interprofessional collaborations across various settings for multiple service provision purposes. The volume examines interprofessional collaboration among professionals across such broad issues as screening, evaluation, intervention, and overall care management of ASD. In addition, the book explores more narrowly focused issues, such as providing transition services during early childhood and young adulthood, culturally responsive practice and advocacy issues for individuals with ASD from diverse backgrounds, and providing care for individuals with ASD and co-occurring trauma.

Finally, the book concludes with the editors’ recommendations for future directions in interprofessional care for pediatric ASD.

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The Latinx Urban Condition: Trauma, Memory, and Desire in Latinx Urban Literature and Culture Crescencio Lopez-Gonzalez Latinx Studies The Latinx Urban Condition brings interdisciplinary cultural theory and U.S. Latinx urban literature into conversation, focusing on the realities and urban experiences of Latinx living in major cities in the United States from the 1960’s to the present. As a cultural studies analyst of U.S. Latinx urban literature and culture, the book focuses on analyzing the works of Latinx authors who write about the cities in which they were raised and how growing up in these environments shaped their lives, their communities, and their future. Their fictional work helps us understand how the human and cultural tapestry of the Latinx community is inextricably connected to the spatial transformations taking place in many cities across the country, most notably within the cities in which the narratives take place.

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Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling with Mplus Christian Geiser Psychology An in-depth guide to executing longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM) in Mplus, this book uses latent state–trait (LST) theory as a unifying conceptual framework, including the relevant coefficients of consistency, occasion specificity, and reliability. Following a standard format, chapters review the theoretical underpinnings, strengths, and limitations of the various models; present data examples; and demonstrate each model’s application and interpretation in Mplus, with numerous screen shots and output excerpts.

Coverage encompasses both traditional models (autoregressive, change score, and growth curve models) and LST models for analyzing singleand multiple-indicator data. The book discusses measurement equivalence testing, intensive longitudinal data modeling, and missing data handling, and provides strategies for model selection and reporting of results. Userfriendly features include special-topic boxes, chapter summaries, and suggestions for further reading. The companion website features data sets, annotated syntax files, and output for all of the examples.

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Marking the “Invisible”: Articulating Whiteness in Social Studies Education Andrea M. Hawkman School of Teacher Education and Leadership In order to challenge the presence of racism within social studies, research must attend to the control that whiteness and white supremacy maintain within the field. This edited volume builds from these previous works to take on whiteness and white supremacy directly in social studies education. In Marking the “Invisible”, editors assemble original contributions from scholars working to expose whiteness and disrupt white supremacy in the field of social studies education. We argue for an articulation of whiteness within the field of social studies education in pursuit of directly challenging its influences on teaching, learning, and research.

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Nonverbal Communication in Political Debates John S. Seiter Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Nonverbal Communication in Political Debates presents a framework for understanding and analyzing the multiple ways that nonverbal behavior functions in political debates. In addition to addressing the ways in which politicians are presented and present themselves in debate broadcasts, the framework considers a wide array of strategic objectives and unintended consequences of candidates’ nonverbal behaviors. Along the way, the book examines theory and research from both humanistic and social scientific approaches, as well as an immense range of factors that influence how nonverbal behavior is enacted and portrayed. Scholars of communication, political science, psychology, and public relations will find this book particularly useful.

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Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st-Century World Patrick Q. Mason History In Restoration, scholar and author Patrick Mason reflects on what it means for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to participate in the ongoing Restoration. Every generation must rediscover the gospel anew, and this book breathes new life into well-worn terms and phrases. What does it mean to restore Israel? How can a church with less than one percent of the world’s population be true? What baggage have we picked up these past two centuries, and how do we move forward with confidence, relevance, and impact? The Restoration was intended to bless all of our Heavenly Parents children, especially the marginalized and vulnerable among us. This book will inspire and challenge you to rethink, recommit, and respond to God’s call to the 21st-century world.

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Sharia in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of the Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1900 Danielle Ross History This book looks at how Islamic law was practiced in Russia from the conquest of the empire’s first Muslim territories in the mid1500s to the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the empire’s Muslim population had exceeded 20 million. It focuses on the training of Russian Muslim jurists, the debates over legal authority within Muslim communities and the relationship between Islamic law and ‘customary’ law. Based upon difficult to access sources written in a variety of languages (Arabic, Chaghatay, Kazakh, Persian, Tatar), it offers scholars of Russian history, Islamic history and colonial history an account of Islamic law in Russia of the same quality and detail as the scholarship currently available on Islam in the British and French colonial empires.

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Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World Jennifer Sinor English Sky Songs is a collection of essays that takes inspiration from the ancient seabed in which Jennifer Sinor lives, an elemental landscape that reminds her that our lives are shaped by all that has passed through. Beginning with the conception of her first son, which coincided with the tragic death of her uncle on an Alaskan river, and ending a decade later in the Himalayan home of the Dalai Lama, Sinor offers a lyric exploration of language, love, and the promise inherent in the stories we tell: to remember.

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Social Unrest: Resolving the Dichotomies of Me/ You and Us/Them – The I-System Model of Human Behavior Derrik Tollefson Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology In an age of mass shootings, widespread terrorism, and violence within schools and in the home, it is clear that society is in an uproar.

Individuals, nations, and the world are becoming more and more polarized as social strife escalates. The authors of Social Unrest argue that at the root of social unrest is the conflicting dualities of me/ you and us/ them that blind us to our inherent connectedness. This book presents an explanation for this human condition through the I-System Model of Human Behavior. It presents the theory that an overactive I-System (a mind-body metasystem) lies at the root of many dysfunctional personal, organizational, and social behavior patterns and some mental health disorders. The book offers specific individual and collective Mind-Body Bridging practices for individuals, couples, families, organizations, and policy makers. These techniques resolve the one-sided dichotomies of me/you and us/them, and can markedly reduce individual suffering and social unrest.

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Spanish Graphic Narratives: Recent Developments in Sequential Art David F. Richter Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spain’s rich literary history, contentious Civil War (1936–39), oppressive Francisco Franco regime (1939–75), and progressive contemporary politics, both the recent graphic novel production in Spain and the thematic focal points of the essays here are greatly varied. Topics of particular interest include studies on the subject of historical and personal memory; representations of gender, race, and identity; and texts dealing with Spanish customs, traditions, and the current political situation in Spain.

These overarching topics share many points of contact with one another, and this interrelationship (as well as the many points of divergence) is illustrative of the uniqueness, diversity, and paradoxes of literary and cultural production in modern-day Spain, thus illuminating our understanding of Spanish national consciousness in the present day.

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Tatar Empire: Kazan’s Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia Danielle Ross History Danielle Ross bridges the history of Russia’s imperial project with the history of Russia’s Muslims by exploring the Kazan Tatars as participants in the construction of the Russian empire. Ross focuses on Muslim clerical and commercial networks to reconstruct the ongoing interaction among Russian imperial policy, nonstate actors, and intellectual developments within Kazan’s Muslim community and also considers the evolving relationship with Central Asia, the Kazakh steppe, and western China. Tatar Empire offers a more Muslim-centered narrative of Russian empire building, making clear the links between cultural reformism and Kazan Tatar participation in the Russian eastward expansion.

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Testing Tolerance Candi Carter Olson Journalism and Communication Tough topics are inescapable for journalism and mass communication academics. If it’s in the news, journalism and mass communication instructors have to discuss it in class. In Testing Tolerance, Candi Carter Olson and Tracy Everbach of the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women bring together a broad range of perspectives, from graduate students to deans, in conversation about ways to address tough topics in and out of the university classroom. Helping instructors navigate today’s toughest topics through discussions of the issues and pertinent terminology, this book provides hands-on exercises and practical advice applicable across student and instructor levels and disciplines. Readers will gain an understanding of the issues and acquire tools to address these topics in sensitive, yet forthright, ways.

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This is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions Lynne S. McNeill English The first book-length treatment of Utah’s distinctive food heritage, this volume contains work by more than sixty subject-matter experts, including scholars, community members, journalists, bloggers, photographers, and food producers. Utah’s food history is traced from precontact Native American times through the arrival of multinational Mormon pioneers, miners, farmers, and other immigrants to today’s moment of “foodie” creativity, craft beers, and “fast-casual” restaurant-chain development. Contributors also explore the historical and cultural background for scores of food-related tools, techniques, dishes, traditions, festivals, and distinctive ingredients from the state’s religious, regional, and ethnic communities as well as Utah-based companies. Scholarly, but lively and accessible, this book will appeal to both the general reader and the academic folklorist.

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Understanding Nonprofit Work: A Communication Prospective Matthew L. Sanders Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Understanding Nonprofit Work: A Communication Perspective is the first resource to bring together the considerable and voluminous amount of communication scholarship and nonprofit research available in academia. Moving beyond the simplistic notion of communication as merely the transmission of information, it instead develops a more insightful approach to nonprofit work based on the concept of communication as social construction, explaining the implications and applications of this distinct communication perspective in ways that will benefit both communication scholars and nonprofit practitioners.

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Utah Women: Pioneers, Poets & Politicians Emily Brooksby Wheeler Journalism and Communication Representing lawmakers and lawbreakers, artists and adventurers or scholars and activists, the women of Utah defied stereotypes.

At the crossroads of the West, they found new challenges and opportunities to forge their own paths. Emma Dean explored the Rocky Mountains with her famous spouse, John Wesley Powell.

Martha Hughes Cannon defeated her husband to become the first female state senator. Maud Fitch drove an ambulance under German artillery fire to rescue downed pilots in World War I. Author Emily Brooksby Wheeler celebrates the remarkable Utah women who, whether racing into danger or nurturing those who fell behind, changed their world and ours.

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Willa Cather and E. M. Forster: Transatlantic Transcendence Alan Blackstock English Though both Willa Cather and E. M. Forster have been alternately praised as progressives and criticized as conservatives, the novels of both writers embody the tenets of liberal humanism, while at the same time reflecting the tensions associated with modernism (though both of these terms have come under intense critical scrutiny in recent years.) And while a few critics have offered brief comparisons of individual works or particular tendencies of Cather and Forster, none has provided the systematic comparative analysis of the relationship between liberal humanist/modernist tensions and the search for transcendence in their work that this book offers. The principal aims of the present study are to locate the imagined alternatives to the “lamentable present” embodied in the novels of both writers and to explore how literature and the arts might assist in transcending the deficiencies and disunities of life in the modern era.

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Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park Daniel R. MacNulty Wildland Resources Here, for the first time in a single book, is the incredible story of the wolves’ return to Yellowstone National Park as told by the very people responsible for their reintroduction, study, and management. Anchored in what we have learned from Yellowstone, highlighting the unique blend of research techniques that have given us this knowledge, and addressing the major issues that wolves still face today, this book is as wide-ranging and awe-inspiring as the Yellowstone restoration effort itself. We learn about individual wolves, population dynamics, wolf-prey relationships, genetics, disease, management and policy, newly studied behaviors and interactions with other species, and the rippling ecosystem effects wolves have had on Yellowstone’s wild and rare landscape. Perhaps most importantly of all, the book also offers solutions to ongoing controversies and debates.

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