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In Why We Vote, renowned legal scholar Owen Fiss offers a bold and daring reconstruction of judicial doctrine that underscores the US Constitution's commitment to the expansion of democracy. Each chapter points to landmark Supreme Court decisions that have either enhanced the citizens' enjoyment of the right to vote or guaranteed feasible access to the ballot for independent candidates and new political parties. Fiss also shifts the focus from equal protection of the laws to the freedom that democracy generates--the right of those who are ruled to choose their rulers.

The topic of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) has become a lightning rod in our society with some firmly embracing it as an issue of national security and others focusing powerful efforts to make DEI offices and their practices illegal. This book, written by two researchers who have conducted work together for 25 years, provides not only the basic facts about DEI but also presents the science behind DEI and how individuals and practitioners can use DEI to improve organizations. This book presents the imperatives (e.g., realistic, financial, moral) of diversity, describes the biases (biases and discrimination) that hold people back from working together, lists strategies that targets, allies, and organizations can adopt, and what leaders of and practitions in organizations must do to lead a diverse workforce.

Theorizing Music Evolution is a critical examination of ideas about musical origins, with emphasis on nineteenth-century music-evolutionary texts by Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer. In a ground-breaking contribution to music theory and histories of science, author Miriam Piilonen argues for the significance of this Victorian music-evolutionism in lights of its ties to a recently revitalized subfield of evolutionary musicology.

In 1948, Milton Friedman and L. J. Savage suggested that risk preferences explain the demand for insurance and gambling--a theory that is still almost universally accepted by economists today. In A Theory of Insurance and Gambling, John A. Nyman critiques this approach and proposes a new theory of the motivations for insurance and gambling. Nyman seeks to reorient how economists think about insurance and gambling by moving away from uncertainty as a negative motivating factor to simply a mechanical feature that allows for the augmentation of income and consumption, by moving away from biased models that ignore income effects and state dependency in evaluating the benefits from insurance and gambling, and by moving away from preferences regarding risk toward the desire to obtain additional future income.

This book combines well-known theoretical elements of various disciplines to form a broad picture of the role of ideologies in conflicts, in particular "the supply and demand side" of the ideological market: namely, why individuals choose particular ideologies and how radical groups, and organizations use them to address individuals' specific needs for the purpose of recruitment. This allows better understanding of the socio-psychological dynamics of social conflicts--why adopting particular ideologies is reasonable given certain socio-economic conditions; why individuals stick to destructive ideologies; and why they embrace major personal risks to join radical groups and advance the goals of these groups.

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In Sounds as They Are, author Richard Beaudoin recognizes the often-overlooked sounds made by the bodies of performers and their recording equipment as music and analyzes these sounds using a bold new theory of inclusive track analysis (ITA). In doing so, he demonstrates new expressive, interpretive, and embodied possibilities and also uncovers insidious inequalities across music studies and the recording industry, including the silencing of certain sounds along lines of gender and race.

In Under the Spell of Freedom, Hans Joas deconstructs the grand Hegelian narrative of human history as the self-realization of the idea of freedom, setting as a counterpart the sketches of a theory of the emergence of moral universalism. He takes the classical views of Hegel and his emphasis on the role of Protestant Christianity and the extremely negative views about Christianity in the work of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to elaborate on this new understanding of religion and freedom, which encompasses a range of intellectual traditions and avoids Eurocentrism. Joas answers the empirical question of when, where, why, and how such a moral universalism emerged and developed.

The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing embraces an open-ended interpretation of socio-musical practices that can be described with the term community singing. The volume exemplifies community singing as an interdisciplinary field of study that encompasses diverse methodologies and objects of inquiry, and in the process brings together recent research from the fields that have historically engaged with the practice of group singing, including group dynamics, ethnomusicology, music history, music education, music therapy, community music, church music, music performance, sociology, political science, Latin American and North American studies, media studies, embodied psychology, theology, and philosophy.

All over the United States, communities big and small are struggling to fight the opioid epidemic. The news about the current drug crisis, which is mostly fueled by opioids, includes grim stories about a sharp rise in overdose deaths. Social workers are on the frontlines of this public health emergency. Many books address the causes of the opioid crisis as well as the clinical aspects, but this book offers a policy analysis. Dr. Ukockis has a unique perspective because she is both an academic and practitioner who has worked on the front lines of the opioid crisis by providing counseling in suboxone clinics to clients with opioid use disorder. Her real world practice experience ensures that the reader will become engaged in the policy discussions.

Each chapter of Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care is written and edited by a chaplain, nurse, physician, social worker, or other professional. Chapter authors representing diversity in professional perspective, region, practice environment, and personal characteristics, many of whom did not know each other prior to consenting to write a chapter together, demonstrate the synergistic value of the interprofessional perspective. Readers will learn about primary and specialty palliative care practice while appreciating the alchemy that occurs when multiple professions contribute their expertise.

The seventh volume in the Anesthesiology Problem-Based Learning Approach series, Perioperative Medicine provides an up-to-date and comprehensive review of the perioperative medicine specialty.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race and Education provides scholars, students, and teachers access to research, theories, and historical and contemporary reviews of the complex and intersectional ways in which race is enacted in educational practices around the world. Understanding race in education requires multiple voices and histories, as well as research that crosses geographic and conceptual boundaries. This Encyclopedia features contributors whose research in race and education provides clear, nuanced, and critical global perspectives in order to furnish readers an authoritative and sophisticated treatment of this growing field.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Industrial, Work, and Organizational Psychology offers a systematic and up-to-date survey of the study of human behavior in organizations and the workplace. Across 79 original overview articles, it presents both core topics and emerging research directions. Each peer-reviewed article is thoroughly cross-referenced and researched, while still being accessible to both students and non-specialists. Written by a global community of scholars, each contribution also presents a valuable international perspective. Academic researchers, students, and those with a more general interest will find the Encyclopedia a vital and indispensable resource.

A highly readable history of beer and the brewing industry around the world over the centuries, Hopped Up narrates the oscillations between distinctive regional and national preferences and the capitalist global standardization of beer style and taste in a work that will appeal to historians and beer connoisseurs alike.

Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Women of Trachis, and Euripides' Heracles and Helen. Through discussions of modern trauma concepts alongside historical and literary analyses of these plays, Erika L. Weiberg examines how and why female characters' expressions of psychological pain are hotly contested, silenced, and suppressed by other characters and sometimes by the plot of the play itself. Tragic representations of female noncombatants' trauma after war expose the ripple effects of violence that wars create, even for individuals and communities distant from the fighting. At the same time, these characters' expressions of trauma also create a conflict of witnessing for other characters and the audience. By shifting focus to the returning hero's wife and the women he enslaves, Weiberg calls attention to the detrimental effects of structural and chronic forms of trauma in addition to trauma caused by discrete, catastrophic events. Weiberg argues that recognizing women's trauma in these tragedies requires questioning how Greek society was organized through hierarchies that privilege the hero's story of trauma and recovery to the exclusion of other types of stories and experiences.

The Last Ghetto is a social and cultural history of Terezín, or Theresienstadt, a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews prior to their deportation for murder in the East. It offers the first analytical case study of a Holocaust victim society that explains human behavior in extremis, and demonstrates how prisoners created new social hierarchies, reshaped their conceptions of family, and developed new loyalties. Based on extensive research in archives around the world and empathetic reading of victim testimonies, this history of everyday life in a prisoner society reveals the many forms of agency and adaptation in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos.

This book recounts the eventful life of Ankh-Hap, a Ptolemaic-era mummy seized in the nineteenth century from infamous mummy-pits of Egypt. In piecing together Ankh-Hap's story, including details of his life in Egypt and the journey his mummy took to and through America, A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits provides a fascinating glimpse into a dark chapter of mummy history.

In Psychotherapy for Pregnancy Loss, Rayna D. Markin demonstrates how the therapy relationship, and specifically evidence-based relationship principles, can help clients affected by pregnancy loss to mourn their losses, process and grow from trauma and loss, and restore healthy self-esteem. This book is a guide on what exactly clinicians should do and how they should be in the therapy relationship to help clients not only grieve and process the traumatic experience of pregnancy loss but also achieve greater attachment security.

Higher education today faces challenges from all sides, but college can provide young people with an opportunity to explore what it means to live a meaningful life. Increasingly, undergraduate education encourages students to reflect on their many callings in life, but this does not need to be a purely individual pursuit. This volume provides an argument for helping students to think about the interconnectedness of individual and communal life as they reflect on their various vocations.

This book shows how Interpersonal Psychotherapy has been taught, implemented, and adapted for different populations and settings across the world. Providing practical guidance and experience, experts from 31 different countries from Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, and Oceania describe challenges and facilitators of implementing IPT in their settings, share templates of training and adaptation, and provide practical case examples.

Islamophobia is an escalating problem worldwide, arising from a convergence of right-wing populism, xenophobia, and the normalization of anti-Muslim scapegoating. A must-read for anyone concerned with the erosion of human and civil rights, Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism is the first to tackle these complex phenomena on a worldwide scale through empirically supported analysis by internationally renowned scholars.

Islamophobia is an escalating problem worldwide, arising from a convergence of right-wing populism, xenophobia, and the normalization of anti-Muslim scapegoating. A must-read for anyone concerned with the erosion of human and civil rights, Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism is the first to tackle these complex phenomena on a worldwide scale through empirically supported analysis by internationally renowned scholars.