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Las bocas que daban pánico: Antología en español de la pandemia Covid-19 en Estados Unidos
Martin Camps
El mundo se detuvo, la cuarentena se tornó en un momento de introspección y reflexión existencial: ¿por qué hacemos lo que hacemos? ¿Qué es lo más valioso de esta existencia? A fuerza pusimos nuestras vidas en la balanza. Recuerdo que las noches eran largas en esos primeros días, los sueños eran vívidos. ¿Cómo es posible que suceda esto en nuestros tiempos de supuesto progreso científico? Y lentamente nos adaptamos, a lavarnos juiciosamente las manos, con “veinte aguas” como decían en casa. A ponernos cubrebocas, parte de nuestra nueva nomenclatura (barbijos, tapabocas, mascarillas). Los que podían aprendieron de sopetón a utilizar el Zoom, esa plataforma de interacción cuyo sonido al activarla aún me provoca resquemor. Pero los que más sufrieron fueron los trabajadores que no podían hacer su labor a distancia y se pusieron en riesgo para llevar comida a sus casas. Recuerdo que en la tienda “Mi Tierra” en Berkeley, California, después de hacer fila para entrar y seguir las reglas de distanciamiento, escuché a un señor decir en su teléfono: “¿cómo quieres que trabaje a la distancia si soy plomero?”. En efecto, la pandemia se cebó sobre todo en las comunidades latinas. Esta antología es también un ejercicio por recopilar el español que se habla del otro lado de la frontera. El español que trajimos cuando cruzamos por la línea, porque no importa qué tan pobre se haya llegado a este país, los bolsillos los traíamos llenos de español. En los meses inciertos de la pandemia algunos recurrimos al solaz de la lectura. Recuerdo leerles poemas de una antología a mis hijos en la noche como una manera de pasar el tiempo, pero también para estar presentes, de estar allí y reducir el estrés provocado por lo incierto. La pandemia también pegó en un momento de hiperinformación, cuando el teléfono se soldó a los ojos como sanguijuelas y nos dio la ilusión de contacto, de relación, de interacción, pero nada más doloroso que estar separado físicamente de los otros...
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Interprofessional Perspectives on Chronic Care Management and Community Practice
Todd Davenport and Natalie A. Perkins
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From the Center to the Margins: Itineraries of Modernity in the Mexican Novel
Martin Camps
The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel draws literary, historical, and social connections so that readers will come away understanding this literature as a rich and compelling canon. In forty-five chapters by leading and innovative scholars, the Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction, helping readers to see the region's intrinsic heterogeneity--for only with a broader view can one fully appreciate García Márquez or Bolaño. This volume charts the literary tradition of the Latin American novel from its beginnings during colonial times, its development during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and its flourishing from the 1960s onward. Furthermore, the Handbook explores the regions, representations of identity, narrative trends, and authors that make this literature so diverse and fascinating, reflecting on the Latin American novel's position in world literature.
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The Rhetoric of Judging Well: The Conflicted Legacy of Justice Anthony Kennedy
Francis J. Mootz III
This book examines Justice Kennedy’s legacy through the lenses of rhetoric, linguistics, and constitutional law.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Ashutosh Bhagwat, Elizabeth C. Britt, Martin Camper, Michael Gagarin, James A. Gardner, Eugene Garver, Leslie Gielow Jacobs, Sean Patrick O’Rourke, Susan E. Provenzano, Clarke Rountree, Leticia M. Saucedo, Darien Shanske, Kathryn Stanchi, and Rebecca E. Zietlow.
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The Victims' Rights Movement : What It Gets Right, What It Gets Wrong
Michael Vitello
Table of Contents:
Introduction The view from 30,000 feet
A brief history of the victims' rights movement
What the victims' rights movement got right
Victimhood, demagoguery, and mental health
The Warren Court's criminal procedure revolution and its inspiration for the victims' rights movement
Eliminating and extending Statutes of Limitations
Victim impact statements and an assessment of the value of a human life
California's three strikes and you're out legislation, a case study in the VRM's excesses
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Does therapy matter for adolescents in the foster care system?
Linda Webster, David Joubert, and A. Peterson
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Sellos en la memoria: Crónicas de viajes
Martin Camps
“Se viaja sobre el viaje de los otros”, nos dice Martín Camps quien con estas dieciocho crónicas de viaje en Rusia, Islandia, Japón, India, Chile, Canadá, Nueva York, Tijuana, Hawaii, Río de Janeiro, Italia, Marruecos, Helsinki, Perú, Croacia y Atlanta, nos deja otear por estos países y ciudades donde siempre está la literatura como centro. Los viajes levantan una tolvanera en la memoria que no se asienta hasta que se pone en palabras. Como dice el autor: “La ciudad del recuerdo es como el sello en un pasaporte, un laberinto cerrado en la tinta como una Medina enmarañada, una impronta que se guarda en nosotros para acompañarnos por otros viajes en los días caliginosos de la rutina, cuando fluyen días que no registramos, que se pierden en la marejada de los días. La ciudad viaja conmigo como un sello circular de tinta en la memoria”. Estas crónicas impiden que lo cotidiano se estanque como el ancla de los barcos, hay que salir a la calle, hay que ver el mundo.
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Foreward
Curt Casetta and Michael J. Wurtz
A Foreword by renowned Muir expert/archivist Mike Wurtz highlighting Muir's love of nature (especially his beloved sequoias) and an Afterword detailing the mistreatment of the Native Peoples who lived in Yosemite before his arrival, help to inspire discussions about how people treat nature, and how we treat our fellow humans. Also included are a timeline and photo section of Muir's life, as well as an extensive bibliography.
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Transition planning for bi/multilingual students with disabilities
Belkis Choiseul-Praslin and Malorie E. Deardorff
Students with disabilities (SWD) experience poor post-school outcomes. These outcomes worsen when factors of race and ethnicity are added. In response to the negative post-school outcomes, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2004) mandates transition planning for all SWD by age 16. Transition planning is critical for bi/multilingual SWD who have among the worst post-school outcomes of any SWD subgroup. This chapter will (1) review transition plan requirements and considerations, (2) review the known transition status of bi/multilingual SWD, (3) present issues with traditional transition planning, (4) offer case scenarios for how to effectively transition plan for bi/multilingual SWD with mild to moderate and extensive support needs, (5) present recommendations for improving transition planning and outcomes of bi/multilingual SWD through improved educator practices, transition assessments, and increased student and family engagement, and (6) share transition planning and transition-teaching resources that support a smooth transition from school to community.
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LEADERS FOSTERING DIALOGUE THROUGH DEVELOPMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: AN OD PERSPECTIVE
Rod P. Githens and Nileen Verbeten
In complex and chaotic contexts, technical approaches to organizational change fail to produce desired results. This chapter explores how leaders can foster developmental relationships at the individual and group levels by using dialogue-centric methods to help individuals and groups identify emergent solutions. We integrate the literature on dialogic organization development (OD) and psychological safety to develop a perspective for developmental relationships in emergent contexts where groups cannot find clear solutions. The chapter culminates with an overview of three families of methodologies for fostering developmental relationships through dialogue at the group level: Technology of Participation (ToP), Liberating Structures, and Design Thinking. We provide real-life case examples of each from our own practice. Although not widely written about in the OD literature, each of these families of methods offers multi-faceted approaches for organizational change in contexts calling for dialogue and exploration rather than identifying technical solutions. Most importantly, these widely-used methods demystify the process of fostering developmental relationships among teams through dialogue in emergent contexts.
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Service, Leadership and Sisterhood: An Overview of Black Sororities in Social Science Research
Marcia D. Hernandez
Sisterhood is oft elusive, if not a misunderstood concept. Despite all the factors that could impede the development, elevation, and maintenance of sistering relationships, Black women continue to acknowledge the value of sisterhoods. Sistering offers a lifeline of support and validation. Holding membership in an empowering woman-centered relationship is a special kind of privilege. The authors in this volume contest any assumption that sisterhood is limited to blood relationships and physical proximity. In this volume, we consider sisterhood simultaneously as paradigm and praxis. We approach Sisterhood as Paradigm and attempt to parse out the nature of Sisterhood as it is understood in Black communities in the United States. We hope to convey an organized set of ideas about “sisterhood” to create sisterhood as a model of interaction or way of being with one another, specifically among Black women. As we consider how sisterhood could be enacted as practice. Using Sisterhood as a framework, we explore Sisterhood as Peer Support, examining how Black women provide support to peers in academic and professional settings. we embark on a provision of applied exemplars of sistering in emerging digital media in Digital Sisterhood.
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Essentials of Structural Dynamics
Luke S. Lee and Hector Estrada
A concise introduction to the principles and practices of structural dynamics. This hands-on textbook lays out essential structural dynamics concepts and computational methods. The textbook reinforces key concepts and connects theoretical formulations to civil engineering practice. Detailed, step-by-step examples cover all essential aspects of structural dynamics. Written by a pair of experts, Essentials of Structural Dynamics is ideal for both students and practicing engineers who need to brush up on current techniques and computing tools. The book includes access to a various digital ancillaries, including image galleries, PowerPoint lecture notes, and MATLAB scripts.
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Competent Cell Preparation and Transformation of Pichia pastoris
Joan Lin-Cereghino, Christopher A. Naranjo, and Geoff Lin-Cereghino
During the past three decades, the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris (recently reclassified as Komagataella phaffii) has gained widespread acceptance as a system of choice for heterologous protein expression. One of the reasons that this yeast is used so frequently is the simplicity of techniques required for its molecular genetic manipulation. There are several different protocols available for introducing DNA into P. pastoris using electroporation or heat shock. We describe here a shortened protocol for cell preparation and transformation that works reliably with either prototrophic markers or antibiotic selection in this host. This procedure utilizes the most efficient portions of the electroporation and heat-shock transformation protocols to yield a method that is both time-saving and effective.
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Racism, Canon and the Controversy Surrounding #BlackHermoine
Florence Maatita and Marcia D. Hernandez
A fascinating reconsideration of the depictions and implications of race and diversity in the Harry Potter franchise
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Black Theater, City Life: African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies
Macelle Mahala
Macelle Mahala’s rich study of contemporary African American theater institutions reveals how they reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities. Arguing that the community in which a play is staged is as important to the work’s meaning as the script or set, Mahala focuses on four cities’ “arts ecologies” to shed new light on the unique relationship between performance and place: Cleveland, home to the oldest continuously operating Black theater in the country; Pittsburgh, birthplace of the legendary playwright August Wilson; San Francisco, a metropolis currently experiencing displacement of its Black population; and Atlanta, a city with forty years of progressive Black leadership and reverse migration.
Black Theater, City Life looks at Karamu House Theatre, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Theatre Company, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the African American Shakespeare Company, the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, and Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company to demonstrate how each organization articulates the cultural specificities, sociopolitical realities, and histories of African Americans. These companies have faced challenges that mirror the larger racial and economic disparities in arts funding and social practice in America, while their achievements exemplify such institutions’ vital role in enacting an artistic practice that reflects the cultural backgrounds of their local communities. Timely, significant, and deeply researched, this book spotlights the artistic and civic import of Black theaters in American cities. -
Encountering the Mysteries of Law and Literature
Michael P. Malloy
This article is based upon a presentation the author delivered at the 2019 Annual Conference on Law, sponsored by the Athens Institute for Education and Research. The year 2019 marked the 125th anniversary of the birth of Dashiell Hammett, author and early contributor to the “hard-boiled” school of realist detective fiction, like his first novel Red Harvest. This novel focused on the corrosive effects of the failure of the rule of law. Encountering the Mysteries of Law and Literature examines the experience of life in a society where the rule of law has been abandoned in favor of greed and brutal self-interest. It looks at this issue from the literary perspective of Red Harvest, and from the legal perspective of cases like Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., Inc., 556 U.S. 868 (2009), in which the U.S. Supreme Court considered the implications of possible judicial bias – or perhaps even corruption – based upon the timing of a litigant’s large campaign donation to a state supreme court judicial candidate. Among other things, the paper concludes that in the absence of legitimate and impartial law, the default rules of society tend to be more fragile and less predictable in their application and enforcement than fundamental due process requires.
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Heart and Mind Guided Reflection Journal: Reflection journal for self-care, mindfulness, and gratitude
Natalie A. Perkins
Listen to your heart and brain with this self-reflection journal and activity book. This journal is designed to help readers nurture their creativity, mindfulness, and self-reflection. This journal helps readers navigate the feelings in our hearts and the words in our heads by taking time to know ourselves and understand the world around us and within us.
This guided journal for teens and adults is built around the principles of gratitude, self-reflection, self-care, individuality, and empowerment. Heart and Mind Guided Reflection Journal is designed to engage you in mindful activities, creative writing, and self-reflection. This journal allows you to practice self-care, acceptance, and gratitude as you build skills through guided questions and activities.
Featuring supportive prompts and exercises along with inspirational mindful coloring activities to encourage reflection through writing, drawing, list-making, and more.
The skills that the Heart and Mind Guided Reflection Journal promotes include recognition of thoughts and feelings, self-awareness, self-care, self-love, coping skills, and positive growth mindset.
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Airborne Systems and Underwater Monitoring
Elizabeth Basha, Jason To-Tran, Davis Young, Sean Thalken, and Christopher Uramoto
Wetlands monitoring requires accurate topographic and bathymetric maps. Regular creation of these with minimal cost and reduced environmental impact, can be achieved using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This chapter introduces a set of systems needed to create this automation starting with an automatic image labeling system, an online classification system for differentiating land and water, offline bathymetric map creation, and online bathymetric map creation. All systems have been implemented, simulated, and field tested where possible.
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“True enough”
Michael T. Colatrella
Of the many contributions that Professor Leonard Riskin introduced in his landmark article Understanding Mediators’ Orientations, none is more profound than the educational value of the original Riskin Grid (the “Grid”) as a mental model to aid in understanding the mediation process. Describing a phenomenon through use of a simple model so that it can be systematically studied is a well-established and valuable scientific method. To be effective, however, good models must be calibrated to an appropriate level of sophistication for the student. The Grid is an effective model to help students new to mediation to conceptualize what mediators do and how they do it. Indeed, Riskin states that clarifying the mediation process is the Grid’s primary purpose. Along these lines, Riskin emphasizes one of the article’s primary aims is “to facilitate discussions and help to clarify arguments by providing a system for categorizing and understanding approaches to mediation.” Although some have criticized the Grid as being too simple, incomplete, and even misleading, it is the Grid’s simplicity that enables Riskin to illuminate the mediation process so brightly. Riskin himself, in a later article, attempted to address the Grid’s so-called weaknesses and limitations by suggesting a more dynamic Grid system (Riskin). The Grid persists magnificently as a fundamental model of understanding of what mediators do. It remains a central feature of mediation education because it is a clear and simple conceptual framework of the mediation process that a mediation novice, whether a law student, an attorney, or a professional interested in mediation from any number of other disciplines, can understand. The Grid endures, in other words, not because it is perfect, but because it is “true enough.”….
A selection of books and book chapters written or edited by faculty at the University of the Pacific.
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