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  Advanced research trends in sustainable solutions, data analytics, and security

  Ahmed G. Radwan, Salwa K. Abd-El-Hafiz, Islam Tharwat Abdel Halim, Yuhong Liu, and Meikang Qiu

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, innovation, and sustainability, there is a growing need to explore advanced research trends that shape our understanding and implementation of solutions for a sustainable future. Emerging fields such as renewable energy, artificial intelligence (AI), and circular economy principles are at the forefront of this exploration, driving transformative changes across industries. Understanding these trends allows us to create resilient solutions to promote economic growth, environmental protection, and social well-being. This commitment to innovation and sustainability will be essential for fostering a balanced and prosperous future. Advanced Research Trends in Sustainable Solutions, Data Analytics, and Security introduces new research trends that could change how we perceive, use, and integrate technology in a rapidly changing world. It advances the understanding of how technology and innovation can contribute to sustainable development, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations that transcend traditional boundaries, and inspiring actionable initiatives that address global challenges. Covering topics such as artificial intelligence (AI), green infrastructure, and sustainable tourism, this book is an excellent resource for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, academicians, and more.

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  African Synodal Theology: A Tall Tree Is as Strong as Its Roots

  Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator S.J.

  “Synodality” means “journey together” and for the late Pope Francis synodality expresses “the Church’s nature, her form, style, and mission.” Yet, even several years into the synodal journey, it remains an ecclesiology in need of a theology. Here, many of Africa’s leading Catholic theologians respond to that need, clarifying and deepening the understanding, knowledge, and practice of synodality in the local churches.

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  A Theology of Flourishing: The Fullness of Life for All Creation

  Paul J. Schutz

  Proposing a groundbreaking theological approach to what it means to truly thrive, A Theology of Flourishing reframes Christian thought around the concept of abundant life for all of creation. Drawing from scripture, tradition, and contemporary theology, Schutz argues that flourishing is God’s fundamental intention for the universe. Suitable for students and scholars alike, this timely work confronts modern crises of injustice, inequality, and ecological destruction while constructing a fresh, hope-filled vision of Christian life for the well-being of all.

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  China's church divided : Bishop Louis Jin and the post-Mao Catholic revival

  Paul P. Mariani

  During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese state sought to eradicate religious life throughout the country. But by 1978, two years after the death of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party under Deng Xiaoping cautiously embraced the revival of religion. At the same time, in Rome, the newly elected Pope John Paul II made a point of renewing outreach to China. Paul P. Mariani tracks the fate of Chinese Catholicism in the wake of these transformative leadership changes, focusing on the influential Catholic community in Shanghai.

  Even as Chinese Catholicism came back to life in the 1980s, the way forward was hardly an easy one. Earlier policies of the 1950s had fractured the Catholic community into a state-approved “patriotic” church that answered to the government and an underground church loyal to Rome. Even after the Cultural Revolution, Mariani shows, this divide remained firmly intact. The resulting tensions were on vivid display in Shanghai, owing to the leadership of the Jesuit priest Louis Jin Luxian. Formerly a member of the underground church, Jin realigned with the state church during the revival and was consecrated bishop of Shanghai without papal approval in 1985. Bishop Jin used his position to revitalize the local Catholic community, but his cooperation with the party put him ever at odds with underground church leaders.

  Sensitive to the ideals, compromises, and disappointments of Catholics on both sides of the rift, China’s Church Divided reveals how the community navigated the irreconcilable differences between a worldwide Church centered in Rome and a regime wary of foreign spiritual authority.

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  Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice

  Chad Raphael, Martha Matsuoka, and Ana Isabel Baptista

  Community-engaged research (CER) advances environmental justice by centering the local knowledge and concerns of frontline communities in the research agenda, creating equitable and mutually beneficial relationships between these communities and professional researchers, and co-producing actionable data that can influence policies and practices. This Special Issue welcomed empirical and conceptual articles on environmental justice that employ any CER approach, including participatory action research, community-based participatory research, citizen science and community science, and Indigenous-led and decolonial research. This research involved collaborations with community organizations and advocates by academic and other professional researchers, and/or government agencies. The editors were especially interested in CER that recognizes the intersectional roots of environmental injustices in colonialism, racism, economic exploitation and patriarchy, and that can inform policy and practical responses to urgent issues of environmental justice. For open-access, full-text versions of all articles in the issue, see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/4RMVUHAVCB

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  Comparative Environmental Law

  Tseming Yang, Anastasia Telesetsky, and Sara K. Phillips

  Discussing the law in theory and in practice, Comparative Environmental Law identifies the ways in which regulatory systems converge or diverge, examining key developments in international legal frameworks from every continent. Expert contributors review different comparative approaches and examine how these can be applied to the study of environmental law.

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  Couple Therapy Through the Lens of Four Asian Cultures: Working with Clients from Collectivist Cultures Living in North America

  Jerrold Lee Shapiro, Nina Zhuxiaona Wei, Deepa Sethu, Katerina Gazit, and Tina Golaw Scott

  Couple Therapy Through the Lens of Four Asian Cultures: Working with Clients from Collectivist Cultures Living in North America recognizes the distinctive therapeutic needs of Asian Americans within a collectivist cultural framework. It imparts novel insights into the relational dynamics of four Asian cultures, offering practitioners strategies to navigate the interplay between traditional collectivist values and Western individualism in a therapeutic setting.
  
  The book provides a detailed examination of key cultural dimensions that influence therapy, including the impacts of collectivism, individualism, shame, and guilt, as well as the multifaceted process of acculturation. Emphasizing cultural competence, the book explores the complexities of real-world couple therapy and provides readers with a culturally attuned perspective.
  
  Couple Therapy Through the Lens of Four Asian Cultures is ideal for graduate-level courses focused on cross-cultural therapy, couple and family therapy, and immigrant mental health.

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  Critical Lawyering Skills: A Path to Professional Identity.

  Thiadora Pina

  Developing a strong professional identity is crucial for success in the legal field. To help law students navigate this process effectively, Critical Lawyering Skills provides practical tools and exercises. This workbook aligns with ABA Standards 303(b)(3) and (c), including addressing well-being and social (cultural) competence, and features learning objectives, rubrics, and assessment tools. The workbook format enables students to practice these skills rather than simply reading about them. By engaging with the CLS material, law students will gain a clearer perspective on their role as a lawyer and the responsibilities that come with it, which will serve students well as they transition from law student to practicing attorney.

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  Eight Theories of Justice: Perspectives from Philosophical and Theological Ethics

  Karen Lebacqz and Matthew J. Gaudet

  There may be no more urgent cry than that for justice--and no more frequent accusation than that of injustice. But what is meant when these terms are used? Since its initial publication nearly forty years ago, Karen Lebacqz's Six Theories of Justice has been the go-to guide for answering this question. But today, the matters upon which it touches are even more acute.

  Eight Theories of Justice offers a major update and expansion of the earlier text. Together with coauthor Matthew J. Gaudet, Lebacqz presents the major alternative views of justice, including John Stuart Mill's utilitarianism, the contract system of John Rawls, the entitlement views of Robert Nozick, and the communitarian ideas of Michael Sandel. These political and philosophical accounts of justice are supplemented with analysis of major theological approaches: Pope Francis and Catholic social teaching, Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian realism, the Black liberation theology of James Cone, and Katie Cannon's womanist ethics. Each chapter introduces the major elements of each theory, presents the best critiques of each theory, and offers an assessment of their value for living justly in the modern world.

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  Encouraging the Heart: Igniting Purpose and Providing Meaningful Recognition (2nd Edition)

  James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

  Human-centered leadership insights from the leading experts on the subject

  In the newly revised second edition of Encouraging the Heart: Igniting Purpose and Providing Meaningful Recognition, renowned leadership experts and best-selling authors James Kouzes and Barry Posner deliver an incisive and practical playbook for leaders who want to inspire their followers to achieve extraordinary things. They've packed the book with real-world examples, practical ideas, and eye-opening advice drawn from over four decades of work with countless business leaders.

  Encouraging the Heart is not a book about incentive systems or reward programs. It goes beyond those things to discuss universal leadership principles that will help elevate your people to new levels of productivity, engagement, and performance. It's a hands-on roadmap containing behaviors, principles, practices, evidence, and examples that will form the foundation of a repeatable process you can put into place at your own organization.

  Inside the book you'll find strategies for:

  • Setting clear standards aligned with your organization's purpose
  • Paying attention to exemplary actions and telling memorable stories that motivate action and enact change
  • Noticing exemplars of values and standards and publicly praising them with personalized feedback and appreciation that encourages others to live up to their example
  • Setting a personal example of meaningful ways to recognize others and celebrate values and victories

  Encouraging the Heart is a must-read for leaders of all kinds, regardless of position or function, at organizations of all sizes, in the public and private sectors who wish to help those around them realize their full potential.

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  Everyday Democracy: Liberals, Conservatives, and Their Routine Political Lives

  Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser, and Deborah J. Schildkraut

  How the everyday habits and attitudes of ordinary liberals and conservatives shape the health of American democracy.

  In Everyday Democracy, Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser, and Deborah J. Schildkraut study Americans’ views of several manifestations of “everyday democracy,” which they define as the attitudes, behaviors, and processes that people experience in daily life and their routine considerations of politics and community. Examples include engaging in dialogue with political opponents and giving politicians license to compromise. Ordinary political moments like these constitute much of politics, and they can lay the foundation that shapes if, when, and how crisis moments unfold.

  Paying particular attention to the role of ideology in shaping how Americans emulate daily democratic ideals, this book considers such questions as: How do liberals and conservatives support different aspects of democratic practice, and are there ideological asymmetries between the two groups? If and when asymmetries emerge, what factors might explain them? The authors consider what their findings mean for the health of American democracy broadly.

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  Faceplant: Free Yourself from Failure's Funk

  Melisa Buie, Keeley Hurley, and Noël Kreidler

  Flip the Script on Failure

  By exploring your subconscious patterns of response to failure, Faceplant brings a fresh new mindset to life’s tripping hazards. It’s time to edit your story and let the adventure begin. Discover tools to define new patterns for yourself, create fresh opportunities for engaging in life, and support others as they navigate the gravity of their failures.

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  Inhabiting Ustopia: Science Fiction in Film, Performing Arts, and Digital Media

  Aparajita Nanda and Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Rădulescu

  This volume contributes to research in both humanities and performing arts without disregarding the more recent digital artistic media by focusing on works of science fiction (Sci-Fi). The book's structure mirrors the themes approached in an effort to contextualize the Atwoodian concept of 'ustopia' by addressing a variety of topical subjects, such as transhumanism, ethical dilemmas, subjectivities in a digital world, in science fiction theater, opera, and art installations as well as film and new digital media.
  
  The book collects interpretations of transmedial performances, comparisons of films and novels, videogames, and other immersive platforms. The contributors include a range of academics and specialists from Japan, Romania, India, Spain, Ireland, and the U.S.A. Recent preoccupations with Artificial Intelligence and its advantages and threats have also meant a re-assessment of Sci-Fi creations and their relevance. The book appeals to students and researchers in the humanities, media studies, performance arts, as well as larger audiences interested in comparative and analytic discussions of Sci-Fi works anchored in real-life concerns.

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  La Sfera / The Globe: Cosmology, Science, and Geography in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean

  Gregorio Dati, Carrie E. Benes, Laura Ingallinella, Laura K. Morreale, Caterina Agostini, Winston E. Black, Elena Brizio, and Monica Keane

  OF ALL THE MISCONCEPTIONS about the Middle Ages, one of the most persistent and erroneous is the claim that people before Christopher Columbus thought the world was flat - a myth popularized in the 1820s by the American novelist Washington Irving. In fact, Europeans had known the world was round since the days of the ancient Greeks, and famous fifteenth-century explorers like Columbus and Prince Henry the Navigator were building on a centuries-long tradition of intercontinental travel and cultural exchange. The study of cosmology and natural philosophy in the Middle Ages always assumed that the Earth was round, as we see in La Sfera ("The Globe") by Gregorio (Goro) Dati (1362-1436). This early-fifteenth-century treatise in poetic form introduced readers to the cosmos, the natural world, and the geography of the Mediterranean. La Sfera summarized Europeans' sense of the world and its geography in the period before Columbus, particularly in those last few decades when middle-class Italians like Dati dominated the global economy.

  SEVEN AUTHORS examine the multiple intellectual and literary genres that influenced Dati's La Sfera, including the mapping traditions on which Dati drew for his itinerary and illustrations, the medieval science behind its cosmology, geography, and explanations of the natural world, and the traditions of composition in the Italian vernacular that were especially popular in fifteenth-century Florence. To understand how La Sfera was received by Dati's contemporaries, they also review the many surviving manuscripts of the text - each one handwritten and unique in its witness to Dati's work - and the patterns that emerge among them. The authors explain the editorial choices that produced this edition and translation, based on the linguistic particularities of Dati's Italian and their own policies of editorial practice and translation.

  THIS EDITION of Dati's La Sfera was undertaken by a team of scholars who collaborated over several years to establish a base text of the poem in Italian and render it into English. In this volume they combine their academic disciplines and specialties, among them history, the history of science, literary history, textual criticism, and paleography.

  THIS VOLUME presents the text of Dati's La Sfera, a parallel English translation, and an array of images from the manuscript tradition to demonstrate how its diagrams and maps enhance the reader's understanding of the text. Each image appears alongside the text that it would normally accompany in the manuscripts. This illustrated edition is therefore the opposite of a facsimile. It offers readers a sense of the diversity of the corpus by reproducing images from different codices. By using this method, the authors hope to give readers a clear understanding of Dati's holistic approach to fifteenth-century poetry, science, art, commerce, and cartography.

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  Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts: Black and Indigenous Performers of the Circus Age

  Sakina M. Hughes

  Before the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurs—sometimes called Black Bohemians—seized their limited freedoms and gained both fame and fortune with their work in a white-dominated marketplace. These Black performers plied their trade in circuses, blues tents, and Wild West Shows with Native Americans. The era’s traveling entertainments often promoted the “disappearing Indian” myth and promoted racial hierarchies with Black and Native people at the bottom. But in a racial economy rooted in settler-colonialism and legacies of enslavement, Black and Indigenous performers found that otherness could be a job qualification. Whether as artists or manual laborers, these workers rejected marginalization by traveling the world, making a solid living off their talents, and building platforms for political and social critique. Eventually, America’s popular entertainment industry could not survive without Black and Native Americans’ creative labor. As audiences came to eagerly anticipate their genius, these performers paved the way for greater social, economic, and cultural autonomy.
  
  Sakina M. Hughes provides a conceptually rich work revealing memorable individuals—laborers, artists, and entrepreneurs—who, faced with danger and discrimination, created surprising opportunities to showcase their talents and gain fame, wealth, and mobility.

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  Native Persistence at a California Mission Outpost: The Bioarchaeology and History of the Asistencia de San Pedro y San Pablo

  Jelmer W. Eerkens, Lee M. Panich, Christopher Canzonieri, and Christopher Zimmer

  Collaborative research revealing the lives of Ohlone individuals buried at an eighteenth-century Spanish mission outpost

  Construction work in 2016 at Sanchez Adobe Park, the site of a historic Spanish mission outpost in the San Francisco Bay Area, led to the surprising discovery of human skeletal remains. This book presents a series of bioarchaeological studies done in collaboration with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of Mission San Juan Bautista, the state-appointed Most Likely Descendants of the Ohlone people buried in this cemetery, to explore persistence and change in the lives of Native Californians recruited into the Spanish missions during the late 1700s.

  This volume presents cutting-edge research techniques used to study the health, diet, social connections, and medicinal practices of these Ohlone individuals. Studies include obsidian and glass bead sourcing, osteological and paleopathological analysis, stable isotope analysis, and proteomic studies of dental calculus. By comparing these findings with historical records, researchers are even able to identify several of the individuals by name and reconstruct their life histories.

  This volume reveals continuity in some traditional Ohlone behaviors as well as new practices influenced by the Spanish. It offers unique insights into the experiences of Native communities during early colonization on California’s Pacific coast. It also serves as a key example of collaborative bioarchaeological research carried out by a tribal community, a local parks department, and both professional and academic archaeologists.

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  Noche Oscura del Oeste

  Juan Velasco-Moreno and María Velasco-Moreno

  Juan Velasco presents The Massacre of the Dreamers as an allegory, a symbolic transposition of a territory and its time, perhaps a prophecy unintentionally in its creative moment, already transformed into a visionary announcement of a disoriented and foolish future (...) The Massacre of the Dreamers contains dreamers interwoven within it, all those who have left their dreams in an unredeemed West (Tomás-Néstor Martínez Álvarez).
  The America of 1988: NY-LA, appears to us as a liquid—perhaps gaseous—reality, as a “no-place,” an indelible part of a mythical but paradoxically tangible geography, without which it is impossible to understand our own vital and cultural geography; the America clinging to its religion of the ephemeral; the America of madmen wandering the city streets, like unexpected body snatchers; the America of the unbearable kitsch of pink flamingos. (Juan José Martín Ramos).
  In the third part, Calida Fornax, Juan Velasco sublimates and contextualizes the mythical and legendary California. Early chronicles had not entered the literary discourse because this history does not "exist" in present-day Anglo-American California, and therefore has not been literaryized. This is precisely what Chicano muralists, poets, and writers—like Juan Velasco—knowledgeable about this history of the North American colonial period, intentionally erased from schools, manage to sublimate. (Armando Miguélez).

  
  The present volume, Dark Night of the West, compiles in its three works a history of violence, the diary of a disquiet, and the representation of the violent epic upon which collective identity is founded.

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  Other Illuminations. Narrative, Culture and Psychedelics

  Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and Ana Luengo

  From different angles and critical perspectives, the essays that make up Other Illuminations address the representation of the psychedelic experience in Spanish-language cultural production, with particular emphasis on its contemporary reception. From this common thread, they explore related issues such as the recent shift—in what has been called the "psychedelic renaissance"—in discourses on entheogens and their use, the asymmetrical relationships that govern their global circulation, and their symbolic relevance—both for the community identity of ancestral peoples and for the formation of new cultural imaginaries.

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  Our Little Life: A Novel with Other Archival Texts

  José Antonio Villarreal and Juan Velasco-Moreno

  Our Little Life is the original title of José Antonio Villarreal’s groundbreaking 1959 novel Pocho, which shaped Mexican-American literature for decades. Pocho narrated the experiences of and challenges to the Mexican-American community in 1930s Silicon Valley through the story of Richard Rubio and his family, ending with the U.S.’s entry into World War II. With this new edition, author and editor Juan Velasco restores Villarreal’s original vision for his novel. Published in cooperation with the Villarreal estate, this edition of Our Little Life is based on archival materials from the Villarreal Special Collection at Santa Clara University.
  
  Our Little Life offers a much longer version of the Pocho story that extends a further 100 pages into the postwar period and follows Richard Rubio’s return from war and the changing shape of Mexican-American life in the 1940s. This newly discovered manuscript reveals Villarreal’s attention to Rubio’s struggles with PTSD and his efforts to depict a community and a family’s struggles with identity, belonging, and survival in postwar California. Our Little Life is an important work of archival recovery that sheds new light on Villarreal’s authorship and his place not only in Mexican-American literature but in the twentieth-century American literary canon.
  
  This first publication of Our Little Life includes a scholarly introduction that places this unpublished novel in the landscape of contemporary Mexican-American literary studies and offers a brilliant examination of how novels grow and change. The volume also includes materials from the Villarreal Special Collection that recontextualize the writer’s vision, editing, and marketing of this and later novels. Our Little Life will be of interest not only to everyone in Mexican-American literary studies, but also to scholars of postwar America, women and gender studies, LGBTQ studies, ethnic studies, and migration and border studies.

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  People v. the Court: The Next Revolution in Constitutional Law.

  David L. Sloss

  The Constitution divides power between the government and We the People. It grants We the People an affirmative, collective right to exercise control over the government through our elected representatives. The Supreme Court has abused its power of judicial review and subverted popular control of the government. The Court's doctrine divides constitutional law into rights issues and structural issues. Structural constitutional doctrine ignores the Constitution's division of power between the government and We the People. The Court's rights doctrines fail to recognize that the Constitution grants the People an affirmative, collective right to exercise control over our government. People v. The Court presents an indictment of the Supreme Court's constitutional doctrine. It also provides a set of proposals for revolutionary changes in the practice of judicial review that are designed to enable We the People to reclaim our rightful place as sovereigns in a democratic, constitutional order

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  Reading Nature: The Evolution of American Nature Writing

  John S. Farnsworth

  Reading Nature highlights the ten books that most influenced the scope and direction of literary natural history in the United States. It explores how American nature writing came to focus on the deep observation of wild landscapes and how the genre evolved over 163 years, beginning with the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden in 1854. The volume also examines Mary Austin’s Land of Little Rain (1903), John Burroughs’s Ways of Nature (1905), Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac (1949), Rachel Carson’s The Sea around Us (1951), Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire (1968), Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge (1991), Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), and J. Drew Lanham’s The Home Place (2016). This book features a series of close readings exploring how these authors transformed popular understanding of the natural world.

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  Reflections of an Infinite Beauty: Scientific and Theological Perspectives on the Ecological Crisis

  Aleksandar Zečević

  It is an uncommon privilege to encounter a scholarly work that situates itself at the confluence of science and theology—a text that engages with equal rigor the intricacies of atomic structures and heavenly orders, the mechanisms of biochemical processes and the intimations of divine immanence. In an era where the interaction between theology and science frequently manifests as disjointed monologues rather than a coherent dialogue, this volume emerges as a call to intellectual and spiritual communion. It is both humbling and illuminating to witness a scientist of Professor Zečević’s caliber traverse with such finesse the terrain of theological inquiry, addressing the interrelations of nature, creation, and the contemporary ecological predicament.

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  Religion in the Américas: Trans-hemispheric and Transcultural Approaches

  Christopher D. Tirres and Jessica L. Delgado

  Religion in the Américas explores the fluid, dynamic, and complex nature of religion across Latin America and its diasporic communities in the United States. Utilizing a transdisciplinary and trans-hemispheric lens, this groundbreaking anthology transcends traditional scholarly boundaries—geographical, disciplinary, and temporal—as it explores ideas and cultural practices that share a common history of Iberian colonialism.
  
  This robust collection of essays forges a dialogue among scholars throughout the Americas who represent a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The book is divided into five sections: “Fluidity in the Afro-Latine Diaspora,” “Aesthetics in Las Américas,” “Critical Feminist Epistemologies and Activism,” “The Limits of Institutional Religion,” and “Spiritual Invasions and Contagions.” Throughout the volume, the concept of “experience” serves as a foundational lens, as chapters examine how individuals and communities actively interpret and negotiate their realities within diverse historical and social contexts.
  
  Focusing on religion as a culturally conditioned epistemic practice, Religion in the Américas invites readers to engage with religion in the Americas on multiple, intersecting levels of knowledge, including local insights, scholarly analyses, and the positionality and queries of readers themselves. The book’s dialogical approach encourages not only continual reevaluation of the complexities of religious experience in the Americas but also creative innovation that will inspire new avenues of inquiry.

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  Revit Architecture 2026 for Electrical Workers

  Elise Moss

  Finally! The book electrical workers have been waiting for, an introduction to Autodesk Revit written just for you! Featuring exercises based on real work situations, Revit Architecture 2026 for Electrical Workers will help get you up to speed quickly on developing your own construction documents. The author developed and coordinated this book with a local chapter of electrical workers to ensure it would meet the needs of electrical journeymen. This textbook shows you how to work with Revit documents provided by outside contractors and architects.

  Using this textbook, you will be able to learn enough skills in Revit to be fully functional in less than a week. The textbook can be used in a training class or by someone teaching themselves in their own home or office. If you can open a file and use a mouse, you can learn Revit. You don't need a college degree to use Revit software. There is no other Revit book out there that covers so much material specifically for electricians and electrical engineers.

  Knowing Autodesk Revit software is a valuable skill that will help you earn more money, increase your value as an employee, and collaborate better with other team members.

  This textbook was written by Elise Moss, an Autodesk Certified Instructor. Elise has experience training machinists, electricians, and equipment installers. She knows how to break down software content to make it easy to understand and learn quickly.

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  Senderos fronterizos

  Francisco Jimenez

  After Panchito and his family had been living in the United States for many years as immigrants, they were discovered by the border patrol and deported back to Mexico when he was 14. In this sequel to Cardboard Boxes, Francisco Jiménez recounts this and other challenges he experienced in his youth. He takes a chronological journey through various significant episodes of this period: school, dances, friends, work, his family, and finally, the hope and challenge of being able to attend university. In this sense, he reflects the blossoming of a young migrant in a hostile land, yet one full of dreams.

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  Smart Girl: A First-Gen Origin Story

  La'Tonya Rease Miles

  Smart Girl: A First-Gen Origin Story is a memoir that redefines first-gen and Black student narratives that highlights mass media, pop culture, and sports as key to shaping identity, resilience, and community. In her memoir, Dr. Rease Miles traces the (sound)tracks of her life as she journeys through myriad K-12 public schools and several college experiences toward a Ph.D. and beyond, battling self-doubt, racism, "imposter syndrome," and "survivor's guilt" to transform the higher education landscape for herself, her family, and community. Smart Girl shifts the focus of first-gen memoirs from solely academic grit to exploring the everyday cultural forces that shape identity and resilience.

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  Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications: 8th EAI International Conference

  Xiang Li, Yuhong Liu, and Fan Wu

  This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies, SmartGift 2024a, which was a virtual event, held during March 23–24, 2024.

  The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions.

  They are grouped into the following topics: wireless communication and distribution network; artificial intelligence technologies; security in wireless communication; system design for smart grid and IoT.

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  Teaching User Experience: A Process Approach

  Heather Noel Turner and Emma Rose

  Outlining a process approach, this book offers a theoretical and pedagogical framework for how to teach user experience (UX) from a technical and professional communication (TPC) perspective.

  Recognizing that pedagogy is local to an institution, context, and community, the collection includes teaching cases and stories that demonstrate how instructors in TPC uniquely approach the complexity of teaching UX. This book introduces a six-stage process (empathize, define, design, evaluate, iterate, and implement) that instructors can adapt to their own classrooms. It includes case studies that showcase innovative teaching using the six-stage process, such as creating accessible products for community partners with disabilities and culturally responsive content using Indigenous research methods. This book incorporates Black and Indigenous design perspectives, bridging theory and practice to prepare students for ethical design work.

  This book will appeal to instructors teaching UX within TPC programs and administrators interested in curricular innovation to bring more UX into their programs. The collection can also be used for postgraduate pedagogy courses offered within TPC programs.