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Seeing Women, Strengthening Democracy asks how the more equitable representation of women in positions of power affects male and female citizens. The book argues that the election of women to political office-particularly where women's presence is highly visible to the public-strengthens the connections between women and the democratic process. For women, seeing more "people like me" in politics has important effects, changing how they interact withgovernment and the political process. The authors look at comparative data from across Latin America, but focus on an in-depth case study of Uruguay. Here, the authors find that gender gaps in political engagement declined significantly after a doubling of women's representation in the Senate.

The kindergarten, which offered an innovative approach to early childhood education, was invented in the German-speaking world and arrived in the United States along with German political exiles in the 1850s. In both the United States and Germany, activist women worked to develop and promote this new form of education. Over the course of three generations they created one of the most successful transnational women's movements of the nineteenth century. In this book,Ann Taylor Allen presents the first transnational history of the kindergarten as it developed in both Germany and America between 1840 and 1919.

The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle examines the relationship between Robert Boyle's experimental work in chemistry and his commitment to mechanical philosophy.

This Land Is My Land tells the story of rebellion over federal land management in the American West, from lawsuits to armed confrontation. It starts with the stories of Cliven Bundy, Wayne Hage, and the Dann sisters, who all struggled for decades to maintain their accustomed use of federal rangeland and then explains evolution that made them conservative celebrities. These stories illustrated the profound challenges of federal land management as well as thepartisan dysfunction in American politics today.

Guilty Acts, Guilty Minds proposes an understanding of actus reus and mens rea (the guilty act and guilty mind) as limits on the authority of a democratic state to ascribe guilt. Going beyond discussions of legal justice, Stephen Garvey argues for actus reus and mens rea as necessary conditions, among others, for the legitimacy of state punishment.

Data-driven criminal justice operations have led to the transformation of criminal records into millions of data points. These records are publicly disclosed on the internet, commodified into valuable big data, and leveraged against people. In Digitial Punishment, Sarah Lageson demonstrates the consequences this system has for people, society, and public policy.

Constitutional Orphan explores the role of the former suffragists in the emergence of a limited conception of the Nineteenth Amendment, that the Nineteenth was simply a rule preventing states from discriminating against women at the ballot box. The book describes new legal scholarship, which suggests how the Nineteenth can be used more robustly to fully secure gender equality today.

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waitingAfter languishing for decades on the fringes of political discussion, Medicare-for-All has quickly entered the mainstream debate over what to do about America's persistent healthcare problems. But for most informed Americans, this surge of public and political interest in Medicare-for-All has outpaced a strong understanding of the issues involved. This book seeks to fill this gap in our national discourse, offering an expert analysis of the policy and politics behind Medicare-for-All for theinformed American.

A long overdue and thrillingly paced narrative of one of the most dramatic periods in Medieval history, Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood provides an engaging chronicle of the various imperial upheavals, from the conquests of Basil to the collapse of Constantinople, concluding with the First Crusade.

A groundbreaking pedagogical work, The Baroque Violin & Viola, Volume II: A Fifty-Lesson Course blends Walter Reiter's experience as a renowned teacher and performer to guide the reader through the techniques and interpretive complexities of the Baroque violin repertory.

A groundbreaking pedagogical work, The Baroque Violin & Viola, Volume I: A Fifty-Lesson Course blends Walter Reiter's experience as a renowned teacher and performer to guide the reader through the techniques and interpretive complexities of the Baroque violin repertory.

Engaging with the growing popular and academic interest in the "spiritual but not religious," Andrea R. Jain explores the connections between the practices of global spirituality and aspects of neoliberal capitalism in Peace Love Yoga.

In this book, author Sean Bellaviti offers an insightful new look at how music plays in the formation of national identity by providing a social history and ethnographic account of Panama's most widely embraced musical form: popular cumbia or, as it is more commonly referred to, musica tipica.

The Game Music Handbook is a practical book that provides all composers and musicians with the necessary tools to becoming excellent game music composers. Author and experienced game music composer Noah Kellman covers everything from basic to advanced game scoring techniques, including many that are at the forefront of game music composition today.

With the United Kingdom politically more divided than ever, author Justin A. Williams finds new hope in an often-neglected figure: the British rapper. Through themes of nationalism, history, subculture, politics, humor, and identity, Brithop offers insightful new perspectives from rappers based in Wales, Scotland, and England.

This book offers K-5 classroom teachers a new way to integrate music throughout the elementary curriculum. It contains detailed, practical ideas and examples, including full lesson plans and over 100 teaching ideas and strategies for integrating music with visual art, language arts, social studies, science, and mathematics.

In The Baroque Clarinet and Chalumeau, the second edition of his authoritative 1992 volume, Albert R. Rice presents new and valuable research about the Baroque clarinet and the earlier, related chalumeau, including analysis of recently-discovered early instruments and historical scores.

Based on original archival research, Inventing Ideas sheds light on the origins of the knowledge economy through empirical analysis of over one hundred thousand inventors and innovations in Britain, France, and the United States during the first and second industrial revolutions.

Digital Domesticity is a timely socio-material account of media technologies and domestic life during the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches offers an all-in-one, classroom-vetted guide to integrate technology into the music classroom while keeping with core educational strategies.

Examining the spectrum of "flamboyant" gender expression of male vocalists in historically black churches, Flaming?: The Peculiar Theo-Politics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance observes the relationship between these men, their congregations, and the heteronormativity of theology they perform.

Some children are lucky to be born into the top of the class structure, but that does not mean they'll stay there. In Privilege Lost, Jessi Streib traces the lives of over 100 youth born into the upper-middle-class to reveal who is downwardly mobile, how they fall, and why they rarely see it coming.

This volume explores the intuitive yet puzzling concept of teleology as it has been treated by philosophers from the time of Plato and Aristotle to the present day. Philosophical discussions are enlivened and contextualized by reflections on the implications of teleology in medicine, art, poetry, and music.