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  The Art and Science of Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness Into the Helping Professions (3rd Edition)

  Shauna L. Shapiro, Linda E. Carlson, and Broderick A. Sawyer

  Now in its third edition, The Art and Science of Mindfulness offers a deeper understanding of the concept of mindfulness and explores its potential as a core clinical skill and a way to increase the well-being of both clients and clinicians.

  Mindfulness helps us to see clearly so that we can make choices grounded in reality and respond to life with wisdom. However, seeing clearly is difficult because the lens through which we view the world is blurred by our parents, teachers, relationships, and society, and they influence our perceptions on conscious and subconscious levels. Practicing mindfulness helps us remove the filters, biases, and preconceived ideas that shape our perceptions and cloud our consciousness. At the deepest level, mindfulness is about freedom: freedom from reflexive patterns, freedom from reactivity, and, ultimately, freedom from suffering.

  This book navigates how mindful awareness is fundamental to the therapy process, and shows how mindful practice can help therapists and clients cultivate and connect with this deeper awareness. It also aims to present mindfulness as:

  • an important dimension of clinical training with unique contributions toward fostering attention, empathy, presence, and awareness of our own biases and assumptions;
  • an empirically supported clinical intervention effective across a wide range of populations;
  • a means of fostering self-reflection and self-care for clinicians; and
  • a way to expand the profession's focus on pathology to include positive growth and development.

  New to this edition is a comprehensive overview of the evidence supporting the neurochemical basis of intention, attention, and attitude; a discussion of implicit bias and how it interferes with connecting mindfully with clients; a discussion of new mindfulness-based interventions and ways to apply mindfulness in therapy, and more.

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  The Circuit Graphic Novel

  Francisco Jimenez and Celia Jacobs

  Poignantly told from a young boy’s perspective, the popular and award-winning memoir centered on a Mexican family working California’s fields is now a powerful graphic novel that will appeal to readers of Illegal and They Called Us Enemy.

  An honest and evocative account of a family’s journey from Mexico to the fields of California—and to a life of backbreaking work and constant household moves—as seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for education and the right to call one place home.

  A popular choice for community reads, as well as school curricula and curriculum adoptions, Francisco Jiménez’s award-winning memoir, now brought to life in Celia Jacob’s beautiful and resonant artwork, is a powerful story of survival, faith, and hope.

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  The Economics of Innovation and Intellectual Property

  Bronwyn H. Hall and Christian Helmers

  The first comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of the economics of innovation and the role of intellectual property in encouraging or discouraging innovation
  
  Innovation is widely viewed as the engine behind economic growth, and it has assumed increasing importance in contemporary economic research. In The Economics of Innovation and Intellectual Property, Bronwyn H. Hall and Christian Helmers introduce readers to the use of economic analysis for the understanding of technical change and the innovative process, its determinants, and consequences.
  
  The authors cover innovation basics, the measurement of returns to innovation for individuals and the economy, and the use of intellectual property protection by innovators. They focus on the various ways patents have been used by industry to secure returns to innovation, as well as the strategic use of patents, and they emphasize present-day technologies including pharmaceuticals, software, and AI.
  
  Clearly organized and accessible, The Economics of Innovation and Intellectual Property offers a useful introduction to economics, business, public policy, and legal studies, and provides a comprehensive collection of references and information from a variety of sources across disciplines. It also includes various boxes with definitions and examples, as well as a brief mathematical appendix explaining concepts that may be unfamiliar and an introduction to data sources.

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  The Palgrave Handbook of Everyday Digital Life

  Hopeton S. Dunn, Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu, and Laura Robinson

  This comprehensive Handbook explores the multiple ways in which people experience digital life. It maps the transitions in human civilization generated by such digital technologies as the internet, mobile telephony, artificial intelligence, the metaverse, social media platforms and algorithms. It explores how the scarcity or abundance of digital affordances impacts access, governance and livelihoods in various parts of the world. The book’s 27 chapters are organised in five sections: Social Media and Digital Lifeworlds; Digital Affordances and Contestations; Digital Divides and Inclusion Strategies; Work, Culture and Digital Consumption, and New Media and Digital Journalism. The present and future of digital transitions are interrogated in the context of everyday social production and consumption.

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  The Rule of the Association and Related Texts

  John J. Collins and James Nati

  This book provides text, translation, and commentary on 1QS (Serekh ha-Yahad), 1QSa (Rule of the Congregation), 1QSb (Scroll of Blessings), and related fragmentary texts: 1Q29a, 4QS^a–j, 5Q11, and 11Q29. It also provides introductions to 1QS, 1QSa, 1QSb, and to the related fragments from Caves 1, 4, 5, and 11. Each of the fragmentary manuscripts is presented in full and analyzed in its own right, and not treated simply as variants of 1QS. The entity for which the Rule was written (the yahad) is called an “association” rather than a “community,” because it assumes that members have multiple settlements, not just one at Qumran. The commentary recognizes, however, that a special group is set aside within the association, to go into the desert to pursue a higher degree of holiness. The introduction to 1QS attempts to locate this association in the context of ancient Judaism, and also pays attention to the broader cultural context, by noting the phenomenon of voluntary associations in the Hellenistic world and the influence of Zoroastrian dualism on the doctrine of two spirits of light and darkness in 1QS 3–4. The commentary engages the full range of scholarship on the Rule and provides a comprehensive bibliography.

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  The Transformative Power of Architecture and Urban Design: Planning for Social and Spatial Justice

  Mohammad Ali Chaichian

  Informed by urban political economy and critical social analysis, this book provides a critical comparative analysis of macro- and micro-level spatial design processes in architecture and urban planning. It interrogates the extent to which past and existing approaches to design have catered to social justice issues. With a special focus on the Right to the City approach and recent efforts to democratize urban spaces in the post-COVID 19 pandemic era, the book draws on examples of spatial design from the USA, Northern European countries and elsewhere to shed light on the presence (or lack) of social justice concerns in liberal capitalist and social democratic societies. This book is an important academic addition and resource for undergraduate and graduate curricula in architecture and urban planning/design programs, as well as a complementary resource for practitioners and policy planners who engage in urban development and transformation.

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  Tsongkhapa: The Legacy of Tibet's Great Philosopher-Saint

  David B. Gray

  Tsongkhapa’s seminal contributions to Buddhist thought and practice, and to the course of history, are illuminated and celebrated by some of his foremost modern interpreters.
  
  Few figures have impacted the trajectory of Buddhism as much as the great philosopher and meditator, scholar and reformer, Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa (1357–1419), the founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism and teacher of the First Dalai Lama. His Ganden tradition spread throughout Central Asia and Mongolia, and today, through figures such as the Dalai Lama, who calls Tsongkhapa a second Nagarjuna, his teachings are shaping intellectual conversations and ethical practice globally. To commemorate the 600th anniversary of Tsongkhapa’s passing, a special conference was held at Ganden Monastery in India in 2019, featuring some of the best translators and interpreters of his teachings today. Highlights of those incisive summations of Tsongkhapa’s special contributions are gathered in this volume. Here we discover Tsongkhapa the philosopher, Tsongkhapa the master of the Buddhist canon, Tsongkhapa the tantric adept, and Tsongkhapa as the visionary who united wisdom to compassion.
  
  Each of the authors featured looks at a distinct facet of Tsongkhapa’s legacy. Donald Lopez provides a global context, Guy Newland distills Tsongkhapa’s Middle Way, Dechen Rochard uncovers the identity view, Jay Garfield examines the conceptualized ultimate, Thupten Jinpa highlights the seminal importance Tsongkhapa placed on ascertainment, David Gray looks at his approach to Cakrasamvara tantra, Gavin Kilty surveys his Guhyasamaja tantra commentary, Roger Jackson surmises his views on Zen and mahamudra, Geshé Ngawang Samten examines his provisional-definitive distinction, Gareth Sparham highlights his scholastic prowess, Mishig-Ish Bataa illuminates his impact in Mongolia, and Bhiksuni Thubten Chodron presents his instructions on how to cultivate compassion.
  
  Whether you are well acquainted with Tsongkhapa’s life and thought or you are encountering him here for the first time, you will find The Legacy of Tsongkhapa an illuminating survey of his unique explorations of the highest aspirations of humanity.

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  Unity in the Book of Isaiah

  Benedetta Rossi, Dominic S. Irudayaraj, and Gina Hens-Piazza

  Building on previous holistic readings of the Book of Isaiah, this collection approaches Isaiah through the concept of unity. Contributors outline research that point to new directions in the unity movement and, in the process, bring it under a critical gaze, considering the perennial challenges to unity reading and thus problematizing the very concept of unity.
  
  Divided into four parts, the book provides methodological reflections on reading Isaiah as a unity, and examines historical and redactional readings, literary readings and contextual or reader-orientated readings. Topics include how the figure of Jacob functions as a unifying motif in the final form of the book, Isaiah 1 as an example of the relevance of local structure for global coherence and how woman as a root metaphor of Zion not only bears revelatory significance but also serves as a theological linchpin for a more holistic reading of the book. Overall, the book highlights the continued promise of holistic readings for diverse methods and varied approaches to the Book of Isaiah.

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  Voting for Ethics: A Guide for U.S. Voters (Second Edition)

  John P. Pelissero, Ann Gregg Skeet, and Hana S. Callahan

  Voting for Ethics is a non-partisan guide that equips U.S. voters to make informed decisions. It emphasizes identifying ethical candidates, irrespective of political affiliations.

  The updated second edition delves into the role of artificial intelligence in politics and the importance of a candidate's commitment to the peaceful transition of power. This book is a call to action for voters to scrutinize candidates' integrity, ensuring their vote contributes to an ethical political landscape.

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  الطيور المهاجرة: قصص حقيقية عن النجاة والأمل والصمود

  Mimi Melkonian and Mohammed Kadalah

  في "الطيور المهاجرة"، جمعت ميمي مالكونيان مجموعة رائعة من قصص المهاجرين السوريين الذين غادروا أماكن مألوفة، وأفراد عائلاتهم، وغير ذلك الكثير، وهم يعلمون أنهم قد لا يخطون خطوة أخرى في وطنهم. كانت رؤيتهم لحياةٍ أفضل هي ما ألهمهم لمواصلة التقدّم دون النظر إلى الوراء. لقد مكّنهم إصرارهم من النجاح في البلدان التي تبنّتهم. تقدّم ملكونيان لمحات عن 16 مهاجرًا ملهمًا، من بينهم فنانون، وموسيقيون، ومثقّفون، ورواد أعمال.

  In Nightingales, Mimi Malkonian brings together a fascinating collection of stories of Syrian migrants who left familiar places, family members, and more, knowing they might never make it back home. Their vision of a better life inspired them to keep moving forward without looking back. Their determination enabled them to succeed in their adopted countries. Malkonian profiles 16 inspiring migrants, including artists, musicians, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs.

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  American Gospel: A Novel in Three Parts

  Miah Jeffra

  A low-income Baltimore neighborhood is targeted for a controversial urban renewal project—an amusement park in the theme of Baltimore itself—that forces its residents to reckon with racism, displacement, and their futures. Peter Cryer is a queer teenager who fantasizes about leaving Baltimore and the instability of his home life while also seeking a place to belong. Ruth Anne, his prickly mother, is terrorized by her estranged husband and the indecision of what to do after the wrecking ball comes through her neighborhood. Thomas, a cleric and History teacher at Peter’s school, questions his vocation in the face of the neighborhood’s destruction. These three voices braid together a portrait of a neighborhood in flux, the role of community and violence in our time, and the struggles of a very real and oft misunderstood city.

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  Cajas de cartón. Relatos de la vida de un niño campesino

  Francisco Jimenez

  A lo largo de doce relatos, Francisco Jiménez narra sus experiencias en la infancia como migrante mexicano en los Estados Unidos. Otorga una perspectiva directa de las complejidades que vivió junto con su familia, como las múltiples mudanzas en busca de trabajo, las dificultades de ir a la escuela sin saber inglés, y la construcción de un nuevo hogar. De la mano de Panchito vivimos su cotidianeidad, los retos y las esperanzas que se van presentando a lo largo de los años en este nuevo hogar.

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  Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems: 25Th IFIP WG 1.02 International Conference, DCFS 2023, Potsdam, Germany, July 4-6, 2023, Proceedings

  Henning Bordihn, Nicholas Tran, and György Vaszil

  This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Format Systems, DCFS 2023, which took place in Potsdam, Germany, in July 2023.

  The 14 full papers, including one invited presentation as a full paper, presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The conference focus on all aspects of descriptional complexity, including automata, grammars, languages, and other formal systems; various modes of operations and complexity measures.

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  Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition: 96 Ways to Immerse, Inspire, and Captivate Students

  Michal Reznizki and David Coad

  This collection of activities for the composition classroom includes dozens of practical, useful, successful, and accessible exercises that have been developed and implemented by writing instructors from all over the country. Editors Michal Reznizki and David T. Coad have assembled a collection of tried-and-proven teaching activities to help both novice and experienced teachers plan, prepare, and implement writing instruction in college. As two educators who have been teaching writing in the field for more than a decade, they have created the resource they wished they had.

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  Embroidering the Landscape: Art, Women, and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770

  Andrea Pappas

  Linking histories of women, relationships to the natural environment, material culture and art, Andrea Pappas presents a new, multi-dimensional view of eighteenth-century American culture from a unique perspective. This book investigates how and why women pictured the landscape in their needlework. It explores the ways their embroidered landscapes address the tumultuous environmental history of the period; how their depictions of nature differ from those made by men; and what women’s choices of motifs can tell us about their lives and their relationships to nature. Embroidering the Landscape situates these pastoral and georgic needleworks (c. 1740-1775) at the intersection of environmental and social histories, interpreting them through ecocritical and social lenses. Pappas’ investigation draws out connections between women’s depicted landscapes and environmental and cultural history at a time when nature itself was a charged arena for changes in agriculture, husbandry, gardening, and the emerging discourses of botany and natural history. Her insights change our understanding of the relationship between culture and the environment in this period and raise new questions about the unrecognized extent of women’s engagement with nature and natural science.

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  Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap

  José Roger Flahaux, Brian Patrick Green, and Ann Gregg Skeet

  The primary goal of this handbook is to help companies developing, procuring, or adopting advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, understand the ethical risks that these technologies introduce, and implement the infrastructure necessary to mitigate those risks throughout the entire product and service life cycle.

  The ITEC Handbook offers a thoughtful and pragmatic roadmap for providing technology ethics governance and implementing it throughout the organization. It guides enterprises on their transformation journey from adoption and implementation of ethical behavior to operationalizing ethical and humane use principles, into a new mindset and culture of technology ownership and accountability, where everyone thinks through the consequences of the technology and feels accountability for its impacts on humanity and the planet.

  Authored by three experienced professionals bringing their own diverse fields of expertise, conceptualizing skills, and language, the ITEC Handbook offers practical solutions written in a comprehensible way for the different functions within an organization. The book was written by José Flahaux (former hi-tech operations executive and adjunct professor in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at San Jose State University), Brian Green (director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics), and Ann Gregg Skeet (senior director of leadership ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics).

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  Fluid Mechanics with Civil Engineering Applications

  E. John Finnemore and Edwin P. Maurer

  A complete guide to fluid mechanics for engineers—fully updated for current standards

  This thoroughly revised, classic guide clearly explains the principles and applications of fluid mechanics and hydraulics in a straightforward manner, without using complicated mathematics. While aimed at undergraduate students, practicing engineers will also benefit from the hands-on information covered. You will explore fluid mechanics fundamentals, pipe and open channel flow, unsteady flow, and much more.

  Written by a pair of experienced engineering educators, Fluid Mechanics with Civil Engineering Applications, Eleventh Edition focuses on reducing and streamlining content while retaining its traditional approach to teaching fundamental concepts by solving engineering problems. This overhauled edition features new practical sample problems and exercises and incorporates digital resources while removing some more advanced topics less essential to civil engineering.

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  Head Cleaner

  David James Keaton

  HEAD CLEANER is a hugely original blend of thriller, science fiction, and horror that takes our love of nostalgia to task for its morbid obsessions with dead media and dead-end jobs: Clerks meets Black Mirror (with a little Groundhog Day and Russian Doll thrown in for good measure):
  
  The last Blockbuster video store in the United States is hanging on by a thread. And after a crazy night attempting to track down a lost VCR rental to collect the record-setting and internet-famous late fee, three employees, idealistic Eva, cinephile Jerry, and their tyrannical manager Randy, discover that this machine may actually have the power to change the endings of popular films, which, depending on the historical basis of the film, might also be changing the real world around them.
  
  Or could this just be an elaborate, increasingly deadly prank?
  
  When they begin receiving videotapes and voicemails seemingly depicting their deaths, Eva, Jerry, and Randy scramble to keep the VCR from falling into the wrong hands. And as one action-packed evening begins to seemingly repeat itself (or does it?), scores are settled and unwanted confessions begin to fly, until they begin to unravel a grand psychological experiment orchestrated at the highest levels of a crumbling social media empire. Sort of.

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  Internet Law: Cases and Materials (2023 Edition)

  Eric Goldman

  This is a casebook for students learning Internet Law, but other people interested in Internet Law may find it interesting as well. The book covers jurisdiction, contracts, trespass to chattels, intellectual property (copyright, trademarks, and domain names), child safety, defamation and other information torts (including Section 230), privacy, spam, and the legal issues applicable to social media. Please note that some of the printed images may be a little blurry. While I’ve done my best to make the hard copy version of the book useful to you, the hard copy is missing some features, such as color images, clickable links and keyword searching.

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  Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students

  Christina Soto van der Plas and Lacie Rae Buckwalter Cunningham

  Offers a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, movements, genres, and historical turning points in Latino literature.
  
  More than 60 million Latinos currently live in the United States. Yet contributions from writers who trace their heritage to the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico have and continue to be overlooked by critics and general audiences alike. Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students gathers the best from these authors and presents them to readers in an informed and accessible way. Intended to be a useful resource for students, this volume introduces the key figures and genres central to Latino literature. Entries are written by prominent and emerging scholars and are comprehensive in their coverage of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Different critical approaches inform and interpret the myriad complexities of Latino literary production over the last several hundred years. Finally, detailed historical and cultural accounts of Latino diasporas also enrich readers' understandings of the writings that have and continue to be influenced by changes in cultural geography, providing readers with the information they need to appreciate a body of work that will continue to flourish in and alongside Latino communities.

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  Luces y sombras del renacimiento psicodélico

  Alberto Ribas-Casasayas

  This essay has been acknowledged by historian Juan Carlos Usó as 'one of the best texts (...) about the rediscovery of psychedelia we're currently immersed in". Luces y sombras del renacimiento psicodélico offers a personal approach to the repopularization of psychedelics brought about by renewed scientific research and the proliferation of new spiritual and healing practices.

  Thought of as an introduction for people with little or no knowledge about these 'visionary drugs,' Albert Casasayas brings the perspective of a recent initiate with a direct and passionate style that will help to demystify the usual commonplaces about these substances. At the same time, his critical focus will interest those more versed in the matter for his frank approach to the challenges and issues challenging contemporary psychedelia.

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  Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California

  Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

  Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California. In 1874–75, Vallejo, working with historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, composed a five-volume history of Alta California—a monumental work that would be the most complete eyewitness account of California before the gold rush. But Bancroft shelved the work, and it has lain in the archives until its recent publication as Recuerdos: Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769–1849, translated and edited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz.
  
  In Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California, Beebe and Senkewicz not only illuminate Vallejo’s life and history but also examine the broader experience of the nineteenth-century Californio community. In eight essays, the authors consider Spanish and Mexican rule in California, mission secularization, the rise of rancho culture, and the conflicts between settlers and Indigenous Californians, especially in the post-mission era. Vallejo was uniquely positioned to provide insight into early California’s foundation, and as a defender of culture and education among Mexican Californians, he also offered a rare perspective on the cultural life of the Mexican American community. In their final chapter, Beebe and Senkewicz include a significant portion of the correspondence between Vallejo and his wife, Francisca Benicia, for what it reveals about the effects of the American conquest on family and gender roles.
  
  A long-overdue in-depth look at one of the preeminent Mexican Americans in nineteenth-century California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo also provides an unprecedented view of the Mexican American experience during that transformative era

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  Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy

  Philip J. Kain

  Many people think Marx a totalitarian and Soviet Marxism the predictable outcome of his thought. If one shows them the texts-proves to them that Marx was a radical democrat--they often flip and think him utopian. Totalitarian or utopian--for many those seem to be the alternatives. How might one combat this completely mistaken image?
  
  To establish the connection between Marx and social democracy, philosopher Philip J. Kain argues four main points. First, economy if markets are controlled to eliminate alienation, socialist society for Marx is compatible with a market. Second, markets can be controlled democratically. Third, Marx had a theory of revolution compatible with a democratic electoral movement engaged in by a social democratic party. And fourth, from the late 1860s on, Marx and Engels worked with the German Social Democratic Party of Liebknecht, Bebel, Bernstein, and Kautsky--which eventually became the largest party in Germany and the largest socialist party in the world.
  
  If social democracy is a true expression of Marxism, then Marx cannot be called a totalitarian. There is nothing remotely totalitarian about social democracy. Nor is it utopian. It exists all over Western Europe. Moreover, social democratic parties have always opposed the undemocratic tactics of Soviet Marxism. Drawing on these four points, Kain argues against the depiction of Marx as either utopian or totalitarian, and instead makes a case for Marx as a social democrat, whose strongest legacy is found in Western Europe.

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  Mastering Italian through Global Debate

  Marie Bertola and Sandra Carletti

  Critical engagement with complex global issues that provides an effective approach to promoting linguistic proficiency and social responsibility

  Mastering Italian through Global Debate is a one-semester textbook designed for students with Advanced-level Italian language skills, moving toward Superior and above. Over the course of each chapter, students gain linguistic and rhetorical skills as they prepare to debate on broad, timely topics, including environmental consciousness, immigration, wealth distribution, surveillance and privacy, cultural diversity, and education. Discussion of compelling issues promotes not only linguistic proficiency but social responsibility through critical engagement with complex global challenges.

  Each chapter includes topic-specific reading texts and position papers, giving students insight into issues being widely discussed—and debated—in Italy today. In addition to pre- and post-reading activities, students benefit from lexical development exercises, rhetorical methods sections, and listening exercises with audio available on the Press website. Online resources for instructors include pedagogical recommendations and an answer key.

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  Optical Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy

  Hebin Li, Bachana Lomsadze, Galan Moody, Christopher Smallwood, and Steven Cundiff

  This book provides an introduction to optical multidimensional coherent spectroscopy, a relatively new method of studying materials based on using ultrashort light pulses to perform spectroscopy. The technique has been developed and perfected over the last 25 years, resulting in multiple experimental approaches and applications to a broad array of systems ranging from atoms and molecules to solids and biological systems.
  
  Indeed, while this method is most often used by physical chemists, it is also relevant to materials of interest to physicists, which is the primary focus of this book. As well as an introduction to the method, the book also provides tutorials on the interpretation of the rather complex spectra that is broadly applicable across all subfields, and finishes with a survey of several emerging material systems and a discussion of future directions.

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  Poétique de la nature: Romantisme et négativité, de Jean-Jacques Rousseau à Marcel Proust

  Jeffrey Burkholder

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau invents a poetics of nature, founded on a negative image of modern man as well as a new descriptive art. This essay studies the ways in which nineteenth-century literature takes up and transforms this new poetics.

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  Progressive Chinese: Intermediate Course 1 (Traditional Character ed.)

  Hsin-fu Chiu, Yu Wu, Yusheng Yang, and Hsin-hung (Sean) Yeh

  The learning goals that center on the thematic units are set in accordance with the language proficiency levels, established by the ACTFL ˙To Comply with the pedagogical principle of backward design to establish the teaching/learning goals for the intermediate learner of Chinese ˙Integrates into its thematic contents the ACTFL-defined, three mores of language uses as well the 5C concepts ˙Assist the learner to achieve holistic progress and to cultivate specific linguistic abilities of Chinese ˙The selecting of keywords/phrases in thetextbooks is greatly in line with vocabulary levels defined by the HSK and by the TOCFL. The regional difference in language uses between the two sides of theTaiwan Strait are also meticulously annotated in the textbooks “Progressive Chinese: Intermediate Course” complies with the pedagogical principle of backward design to establish the teaching/learning goals for the intermediate learner of Chinese. Through various forms of formative and summative assessment, every lesson and every thematic unit constantly provides the learner with chances to re-consolidate their developing Chinese proficiency. As standardized ways of ensuring successful learning, “Progressive Chinese” integrates into its thematic contents the ACTFL-defined, three mores of language uses as well the 5C concepts. In addition to the overall progress in Chinese, it attempts to cultivate the following specific linguistic abilities of Chinese: 1. To ask questions, to answer questions, to deal with simple social transactions, (forthe high potential learner) to narrate, to compare, and to describe. 2. To process and to produce Chinese texts in paragraphs. 3. To develop strategies to comprehend audio and textual input: to put up with unfamiliar language units, to skim through materials, to infer information from co-texts. 4. To develop and apply language learning strategies to gradually become independent Chinese learners to achieve the purpose of lifelong learning.

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  Recuerdos: Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769–1849 (2 Volume Set)

  Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Rose Marie Beebe, and Robert M. Senkewicz

  A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well—a history to dispel the romantic vision quickly overtaking the state’s recent past. The five-volume history he produced, published here for the first time in English translation, is the most complete account of California before the gold rush by someone who resided in California at the time.

  Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California, such as the Monterey Constitutional Convention and the first legislature. With his project, undertaken for historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vallejo sought to correct misrepresentations of California’s past, which dismissed as insignificant the pre–gold rush Spanish and Mexican periods—conflated into one “Mission era.”

  Instead, Vallejo’s history emphasized the role of the military in the Spanish colonization of California and argued that the missionaries after Junípero Serra, with their medieval ideas, had actually retarded the development of California until secularization in the early 1830s. Culture, he contended, was of intense interest to the Californio people, as was the education of children. His accounts of Indigenous peoples, while often sympathetic, were also characteristic of his time: he and other California military leaders, Vallejo maintained, had successfully subdued “hostile” Indians and established mutually beneficial relationships with others.

  Out of keeping with Bancroft’s American triumphalism, Vallejo’s monumental project was consigned to the archives. With their deft translation and commentary, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz—authors of a companion volume on Vallejo’s work—have brought to light a remarkable perspective, often firsthand, on important events in early California history. Their efforts restore a critical chapter to the story of California and the American West.