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  Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants: Bibliographical Foundations of Information Science

  Wayne de Fremery

  Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants argues that bibliography serves a foundational role within information science as infrastructure, and like all infrastructures, it needs and deserves attention. Wayne de Fremery's thoughtful provocation positions bibliography as a means to serve the many ends pursued by information scientists. He explains that bibliographic practices, such as enumeration and description, lie at the heart of knowledge practices and cultural endeavors, but these kinds of infrastructures are difficult to see. In this book, he reveals them and the ways that they formulate information and meaning, artificial intelligence, and human knowledge.

  Drawing on scholarship from areas as diverse as data science, machine learning, Korean poetry, and the history of bibliography, de Fremery makes the case for understanding bibliography as a generative mode of accounting for what has been received as data, what he calls “carpentry-accounting.” Referencing a well-known debate in the Anglo-American bibliographical tradition that features a willful cat, he suggests that bibliography and bibliographers are intentionally marginal figures who, paradoxically, perform foundational work in the service of the diverse disciplinary ends that formulate, however loosely, information science as a field. When we attend to the marginal but essential work of accounting for what humankind has fashioned as recorded knowledge, it becomes easier to consider the ways that human accounts can serve and, sometimes, injure us. Relevant to scholars and students from the sciences to the humanities, Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants is a highly original argument for bibliography as a marginal but foundationally powerful force shaping information science as a field and the ways that we know.

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  Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants: Bibliographical Foundations of Information Science [Forthcoming]

  Wayne de Fremery

  Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants argues that bibliography serves a foundational role within information science as infrastructure, and like all infrastructures, it needs and deserves attention. Wayne de Fremery's thoughtful provocation positions bibliography as a means to serve the many ends pursued by information scientists. He explains that bibliographic practices, such as enumeration and description, lie at the heart of knowledge practices and cultural endeavors, but these kinds of infrastructures are difficult to see. In this book, he reveals them and the ways that they formulate information and meaning, artificial intelligence, and human knowledge.

  Drawing on scholarship from areas as diverse as data science, machine learning, Korean poetry, and the history of bibliography, de Fremery makes the case for understanding bibliography as a generative mode of accounting for what has been received as data, what he calls “carpentry-accounting.” Referencing a well-known debate in the Anglo-American bibliographical tradition that features a willful cat, he suggests that bibliography and bibliographers are intentionally marginal figures who, paradoxically, perform foundational work in the service of the diverse disciplinary ends that formulate, however loosely, information science as a field. When we attend to the marginal but essential work of accounting for what humankind has fashioned as recorded knowledge, it becomes easier to consider the ways that human accounts can serve and, sometimes, injure us. Relevant to scholars and students from the sciences to the humanities, Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants is a highly original argument for bibliography as a marginal but foundationally powerful force shaping information science as a field and the ways that we know.

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  Reflections of the Long Light: Poems and Images

  Foad Satterfield and Kimberly Satterfield

  Over the course of the last year this project has deepened and expanded in scope. What began as an effort to create a platform to jointly share our creative efforts has shaped itself into an attestation of our lives together. It is a testimony to our individual and shared commitments to our work, to our family and friends, to our communities, and most importantly, to our forty-year relationship with each other—personal and shared spiritual relationship.

  Ultimately, this work is an ever-unfolding love story and a reflection of the long light of living and being.

  We are seekers committed to a spiritual philosophy that affirms life as a benevolent and eternal pattern of being in which nothing is excluded. We believe in this paradox: while all around us and within us, change is both beautiful and devastating, anticipated, and unpredictable, reliable, and undeniable—there is always something permanent, complete, immutable, and ever-present that sustains us.

  We are artists, together and separately. We are each other’s first beholder of our fledgling efforts, and each other’s most reliable loving critic and champion. It is both a gift and a challenge to live and work together, to enjoy long periods of parallel play while also respecting each other’s often contradictory rhythms. Would our work be fully realized without each other? We don’t think so.

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  Aphids in the Rose

  Joan Baranow

  This collection of poems about a cancer patient’s journey vividly conjures the universal anxieties of the human condition as it confronts the simultaneous crises of bodily frailty and ecological precarity. Joan Baranow colorfully details the audacious cures in which we humans put our faith as we try to keep our worlds—inside and out—from falling apart. Modern medicine is at once celebrated and scrutinized in poems recognizing that scientific victories are as bruising as they are benevolent, that there is a cost to “force / assert[ing] its fact.” In looking to nature for answers, these poems bring to mind the Robert Frost of “Birches,” who would surely have approved of Baranow’s homage to a redwood tree’s dignified death: “that’s what I want,… / the full weight of gravity / pulling // with its fiery core, / whose hold never slips, / whose fist releases / such glossy, improbable leaves.”

  –Jenna Le, MD, author of A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora

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  At Home in the World: Reflections of a Travel Addict

  Matt Davis [Professor Emeritus]

  Colliding with a kangaroo in Australia, navigating Italy’s strict dining customs, trying to avoid choking on a popular Japanese confection, dealing with car troubles in a remote part of Iceland, or strolling the shores of Israel’s Sea of Galilee – these are just a few of the hilarious, suspenseful, and introspective highlights of one traveler's international adventures contained within this collection of travel memoirs.

  With over 150 of the author's original photos, this book will bring to life the exotic locations and extraordinary experiences of the author's travels in a way that makes you feel that you are traveling right along beside him.

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  Cálao Bicorne

  Claudia Morales

  The protagonist of Cálao Bicorne immerses herself, from beginning to end, in an intimate bond with the written word, from which she is separated due to various circumstances. Her grandmother and her concern to find answers from her lead her to reconsider her relationship with writing, in which she will lay the foundations of her existence, of her memories, of her relationships with others. others, of its projection and its purposes.

  In her search, the protagonist forges her path by joining her story to others, in a world bloodied by flags and borders, by the fight of guerrillas where poetry, memory and experiences make the environment a hostile and which, however, saves space for fantastic stories of love and illusions that keep alive the flames of internal and external battles.

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  No habrá retorno

  Claudia Morales

  The novel No habrá retorno is a fascinating piece of literature as it traverses time and different geographical spaces. The story takes us from New York to the aquifer systems of the Valley of Mexico, to the indigenous territories, to the harvest season in the south of the country, to explore unprecedented ties, the reliability of memory, and the experience of love. The author's poetic writing style restores a universe cracked by uprooting, weaving plots, and rescuing unique lives from oblivion. The characters in the story, including the photographer Marcey Jacobson, the ghostly presence of Juan de la Cabada, and the outlaws, all leave the imprint of their wandering existences, of their unsubmissive writings. This first novel is full of beauty and horror, depicting the myths embedded in the violence of the present, the indulgence of small acts redeeming human cruelty, the political atmosphere between eras that left a handful of broken utopias, and the implacable landscape imposing its designs. Above all, migration is a prominent theme in the book, as the linguistic and geographical schism has left the characters in that open air where the horizon is misty like dreams, making the idea of living an impossible return for all of them.

  - Nadia Villafuerte-

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  Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague

  Joan Baranow

  Written during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, Joan Baranow’s Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague contemplates the dread uncertainty of our life. Describing hospitalized sufferers, she writes: “A patient, no longer struggling, is wheeled away. / Another sits up, accepts the bent straw between his lips.” Likewise, her tough-minded yet always loving vision of domestic life invites us to inhabit a level of self-scrutiny that leaves us heartened even if also often troubled. And yet, despite the losses mourned throughout this book, the poet’s humor and hopefulness prevail. In “Advice from a Moth” she exhorts us to “enjoy the erratic path.” Deeply satisfying, Baranow’s unaffected language is as clear and natural as a tumbler of spring water. She possesses a scrupulously honed poetic gift that is precious and rare.

  Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University. Author of The Life of Langston Hughes (2 vols.)

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  A Slight Thing, Happiness

  Joan Baranow

  "We think back through our mothers if we are women," Virginia Woolf declares in A Room of One's Own, and certainly Joan Baranow embraces a woman-centered poetics in A Slight Thing, Happiness. In this volume of poetry, Baranow explores the many phases of motherhood, beginning with her struggle with infertility treatments, toxemia of pregnancy, and the premature births of her sons.

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  Meteoric: How to Achieve Success through Innovation, Influence, and Leadership

  Adam Braus

  In Meteoric, San Francisco-based entrepreneur, professor, and product manager, Adam Braus suggests that a key factor in innovation was lost in translation. Nemawashi—or piecemeal consensus—is a Japanese management technique that was ignored when lean and agile migrated from the island nation to the west. Nemawashi is the oil in the engine of an agile company—without it innovation grinds to a standstill. In this book, Braus distills this new way to lead change into a simple five-step process. Braus tells engaging real-life stories from startups, small businesses, and large innovative companies to explain how individuals, teams, and companies can use this breakout method of career and business success.

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  Motivate: How to Defeat Distraction, Ignite Interest, and Secure Success

  Adam Braus

  Motivate is a masterclass in how to support children, youths, and adults to unlock their energies, genius, and success. In each chapter, you'll learn proven strategies that parents, teachers, and managers can use in the design of their homes, schools, and workplaces. You will learn what motivation is exactly, how to be kind while still maintaining high expectations, the three real factors for personalizing learning, a new four-step model to getting anyone interested in
  anything, and much more.

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  The Future of Good: How to Tell Good from Evil in an Age of Distraction, Polarization, and Crisis

  Adam Braus

  In The Future of Good, Adam Braus brings to light a 100-year-old theory of good and evil that can help us meet the moral challenges of our times. Braus weaves together stories from history, philosophy, psychology, and neuro- and evolutionary biology to offer his readers a new perspective on how to build good institutions, identify good leaders, and be good people.

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  Against Medical Advice: Addressing Treatment Refusal

  Luanne Linnard-Palmer

  Refusal, delay, or limitation of medical treatments, including vaccines, is an increasing phenomenon facing nurses and other healthcare practitioners daily. When a patient or family refuses treatment—maybe even lifesaving treatment—because it is contrary to their social, religious, or cultural beliefs, it can plunge healthcare providers, families, and patients into a difficult, emotionally charged conversation. Complex and diverse ethical dilemmas such as this can profoundly impact the health, welfare, and mental and emotional well-being of everyone involved. What’s more, today’s nurses and healthcare professionals will almost inevitably face this situation or one like it. Against Medical Advice details many of the medical, legal, social, cultural, and religious factors associated with treatment refusals. Authors Luanne Linnard-Palmer and Ellen Christiansen prepare healthcare professionals to compassionately assess and understand people’s beliefs, cultures, and philosophical perspectives. Their proven strategies and step-by-step examples guide providers to consider the patient’s and family’s point of view, share concerns with other healthcare team members, and negotiate the best possible outcome for all involved.

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  American Political Leaders [3rd Edition]

  Richard L. Wilson and Alison Howard

  American Political Leaders, Third Edition contains 286 biographical profiles of men and women in the United States who have demonstrated their political leadership primarily by being elected, nominated, or appointed to significant political offices in the United States or by having attained some special prominence associated with political leadership. This reference work provides students and general readers with a concise, readable guide to present and past leaders in U.S. politics.

  Included in this book are presidents, vice presidents, major party candidates for president, significant third-party candidates, important Supreme Court justices, Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives, senators, representatives, cabinet officers, significant agency heads, and diplomats. Since much of U.S. political leadership involves the representation of successive waves of new groups within the U.S. political system, special care has been taken to include the contributions of women, Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and Americans who represented earlier waves of immigrants to the United States.

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  Encyclopedia of the American Presidency [4th Edition]

  Micahel A. Genovese and Alison Howard

  The most up-to-date reference of its kind, Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Fourth Edition is the definitive guide to the role of the president from the American Revolution through the present day. Offering a complete account of the presidency in U.S. history, this A-to-Z encyclopedia will make a great first stop for students and general readers looking for information on the executive branch of the American government. Its comprehensive scope spans the relationship between the executive and the other branches of government, court cases, elections, political opponents, scandals, and more.

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  Getting On in the Creative Arts Therapies: A Hands-On Guide to Personal and Professional Development

  Erin Partridge

  What do you really want from your career, and how are you going to get it? How do you find the right people and make the right connections along the way? What are the secrets of finding fulfilment in your work?

  This book is intended to help you to answer these questions - and many more. Written to inspire and motivate you as you progress through your career as creative arts therapist, it shares diverse stories and experiences spanning different career paths and decisions. The book also tackles common early career challenges including designing services, advocacy and collaborative working, exploring how adverse circumstances can be used as opportunities for growth.

  With creative and reflective exercises throughout to help you to identify your goals and achieve them, this book is an indispensable guide for any creative arts therapist who wants to flourish in their career.

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  Safe Maternity & Pediatric Nursing Care [2nd Edition]

  Luanne Linnard-Palmer

  The text, written specifically for LPNs/LVNs, provides the comprehensive nursing knowledge they need to understand in this key course. Online Resources equip instructors with the lesson plans, teaching resources, and activities to create an active classroom environment where students can apply what they’re learning. Davis Edge online quizzing tracks student progress; assesses their knowledge; prepares students for classroom exams and the NCLEX®; and provides real time analytics to identify their weak concepts and topic areas.

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  Art Therapy with Older Adults: Connected and Empowered

  Erin Partridge

  This book outlines a framework for art therapy with older adults rooted in a belief in the autonomy and self-efficacy of older adults, including those with dementia or other diseases of later life.
  
  Advocating for a more collaborative approach to art-making, the author presents approaches and directives designed to facilitate community engagement, stimulate intellectual and emotional exploration, and promote a sense of individual and collective empowerment. Relevant to community, assisted living, skilled nursing and dementia-care environments, it includes detailed case studies and ideas for using art therapy to tackle stigma around stroke symptoms and dementia, encourage increased interactions between older adults in care homes, promote resilience, and much more.

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  Expressive Therapies Continuum: A Framework for Using Art in Therapy [2nd Edition]

  Lisa Hinz

  Distinctive in its application as a foundational theory in the field of art therapy, this up-to-date second edition demonstrates how the Expressive Therapies Continuum provides a framework for the organization of assessment information, the formulation of treatment goals, and the planning of art therapy interventions.

  In addition to the newest research supporting the uses of art in therapy, this volume offers the latest research in media properties and material interaction, the role of neuroscience in art therapy, emotion regulation, and assessment with the Expressive Therapies Continuum. It provides case studies to enliven the information and offers practical suggestions for using art in many and varied therapeutic ways.

  Through rich clinical detail and numerous case examples, this book’s easy-to-use format and effectiveness in teaching history and application make it an essential reference for practitioners and students alike.

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  Peds Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide [2nd Edition]

  Luanne Linnard-Palmer

  A DAVIS’S NOTES BOOK! Your one-stop source for class, clinical, and practice! This pocket-sized, quick reference is sure to become your #1 pediatric resource! You’ll find all of the information you need to deliver safe, effective care for children based on their age, size, developmental level, and unique pathologies. Write-on, wipe-off, reusable pages make it easy to take notes in any setting!

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  The Final Frontier: International Relations and Politics through Star Trek and Star Wars

  Joel R. Campbell and Gigi Gokcek

  The proposed book uses the Star Trek television/movie and Star Wars movie series to explain key international relations (IR) concepts and theories. It begins with an overview of the importance of science fiction in literature and film/television. It then presents the development of the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, and discusses how their progression through time has illustrated key IR theories and concepts. As a bonus, it compares the two franchises to another recent science fiction franchise used to teach IR (Battlestar Galactica).

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  Beyond Self-Care for Helping Professionals: The Expressive Therapies Continuum and the Life Enrichment Model

  Lisa Hinz

  Beyond Self-Care for Helping Professionals is an innovative guide to professional self-care focused not just on avoiding the consequences of failing to take care of oneself, but on optimal health and positive psychology. This new volume builds upon the Expressive Therapies Continuum to introduce the Life Enrichment Model, a strengths-based model that encourages mindful participation in a broad array of enriching experiences. By enabling therapists and other Helping Professionals to develop a rich emotional, intellectual, and creative foundation to their lives and clinical practices, this guide sets a new standard for self-care in the helping professions.

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  Excelling in Sport Psychology Planning, Preparing, and Executing Applied Work [1st Edition]

  Alison Pope-Rhodius, Sara Robinson, and Sean Fitzpatrick

  Written for graduate students and early professionals who are conducting applied sport psychology work for the first time, Excelling in Sport Psychology is a guide for planning, preparing, and executing this work. Each chapter addresses a critical component of the internship experience, such as selecting a site for an internship, preparing to begin the work, evaluating the completed work, and marketing oneself throughout one’s early career. The diverse experiences of the various authors provide a range of viewpoints for trainees to consider and apply to their growth as sport psychology or mental skills professionals. The text is written in a practical manner, with suggestions and questions that will drive this personal and professional growth. Each chapter also includes a personal account from a current student or recent graduate about their experience in that area.

  This book will appeal to students in academic sport psychology programs seeking additional support and guidance about the internship process, as well as post-graduates who did not have an internship component to their program. Supervisors will benefit from reading the book as it highlights ways to work with trainees. Drawn from the experience of the applied Sport Psychology department at John F. Kennedy University, which has helped students set up internships, have successful experiences, and attain jobs for over 25 years, this book can provide a model for training programs approaching the challenges of fieldwork.

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  Mothering the Fatherland: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust

  George Faithful

  How should one respond, personally or theologically, to genocide committed on one's behalf? After the Allied bombing of Darmstadt, Germany, in 1944, some Lutheran young women perceived their city's destruction as an expression of God's wrath-a punishment for Hitler's murder of six million Jews, purportedly on behalf of the German people.

  George Faithful tells the story of a number of these young women, who formed the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary in 1947 in order to embrace lives of radical repentance for the sins of the German people against God and against the Jews. Under Mother Basilea Schlink, the sisters embraced an ideology of collective national guilt. According to Schlink, a handful of true Christians were called to lead their nation in repentance, interceding and making spiritual sacrifices as priests on its behalf and saving it from looming destruction. Schlink explained that these ideas were rooted in her reading of the Hebrew Bible; in fact, Faithful discovers, they also bore the influence of German nationalism. Schlink's vision resulted in penitential practices that dominated the life of her community.

  While the women of the sisterhood were subject to each other, they elevated themselves and their spiritual authority above that of any male leaders. They offered female and gender-neutral paradigms of self-sacrifice as normative for all Christians. Mothering the Fatherland shows how the sisters overturned German Protestant norms for gender roles, communal life, and nationalism in their pursuit of redemption.

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  Wŏbon “Chindallaekkot” sŏji yŏn’gu 원본『진달내꽃』『진달내』서지 연구 (A bibliographic study of the two issues of Azaleas [by Kim So-wŏl])

  Wayne de Fremery and Ŏm Tong-sŏp