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We make or listen to music for the powerful effect it has on our emotions, and we can't imagine our lives without music. Yet we tend to know nothing about the intricate networks that neurons create throughout our brains to make music possible. The Musical Brain explores fascinating discoveries about the brain and music, often told through the stories of musicians whose lives have been impacted by the extraordinary ability of our brains to learn and adapt. Svard relates neuroscientific research in how the brain processes music in a practical way to those individuals who make or teach music.

Science, Secrecy, and the Smithsonian: The Strange History of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program tells the story of how in the 1960s the Smithsonian Institution, with its otherwise spotless reputation, got involved in the sordid business of biological warfare. Over a seven-year period, Smithsonian scientists undertook a large-scale biological survey of a group of uninhabited tropical islands in the Pacific but there was a twist. The study had been initiated, funded, and was overseen by the U.S. Biological Laboratories at Fort Detrick, Maryland--home of the American biological warfare program. In signing the contract to perform the survey, the Smithsonian became a literal subcontractor to a secret biological warfare project.

From the earliest literary productions of the eighteenth century to the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the twenty-first century, religion--namely Protestant Christianity--has been encoded in black life in North America. Black is a Church invites attention to the surprising alliances, peculiar performances, and at times contradictory ideas and complex institutions that shape the contours black life in the United States.

Linear Systems and Signals, Third Edition, has been refined and streamlined to deliver unparalleled coverage and clarity. It emphasizes a physical appreciation of concepts through heuristic reasoning and the use of metaphors, analogies, and creative explanations. The text uses mathematics not only to prove axiomatic theory but also to enhance physical and intuitive understanding. Hundreds of fully worked examples provide a hands-on, practical grounding of concepts and theory. Its thorough content, practical approach, and structural adaptability make Linear Systems and Signals, Third Edition, the ideal text for undergraduates.

The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does is the first book-length volume to critically engage with Effective Altruism (EA). It brings together writers from diverse activist and scholarly backgrounds to explore a variety of unique grassroots movements and community organizing efforts and reveals the weakness inherent within the readymade, top-down solutions that EA offers in response to many global problems.

In Politicizing Islam in Central Asia, Kathleen Collins explores the causes, dynamics, and variation in Islamist movements-first within the USSR, and then in the post-Soviet states of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and historical research on Islamist mobilization across numerous post-Soviet Central Asian countries, she covers over a century and explains the strategies and relative success of each movement. Collins argues that in each case, state repression of Islam and ideology motivated and enabled Islamist mobilization.

A "how to" guide to the geology, geomorphology, anthropology, and archaeology of tsunamis and a personal story of a researcher's experience in the field and laboratory, In Search of Ancient Tsunamis takes readers on a journey through the sophisticated and interdisciplinary world of tsunami science.

Democracy: A Guided Tour gives readers a crash course on the evolution of the idea of democracy, how it has been and is currently practiced, and how we might think about it as we head into a new chapter in its story.

In A Legacy of Discrimination, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone trace the history of affirmative action and the legal challenges it has faced over the decades. They introduce evolving, affirmative-action case law that sought to dismantle racism and enable social, educational, and economic progress for Black people and other minority groups. They demonstrate how and why affirmative action policies stand on firm legal ground and must remain protected. A timely and robust overview of affirmative action, this book will serve as a powerful defense of a policy that has accomplished more than most people realize in making America a fairer and more inclusive country.

Tending the Heart of Virtue sheds light on the power of classic children's tales to shape the moral imagination. This revised and expanded edition includes three new chapters on such stories as Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, the Grimms' Cinderella, and John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River.

In Greenovation, noted urban policy scholar Joan Fitzgerald explains why efforts to reduce climate change have to start in cities and calls for a policy of "greenovation." "Greenovation" policies use the city as a test bed for adopting and perfecting green technologies for more energy-efficient buildings, transportation, and other fundamental infrastructures of contemporary life.

North to Boston tells the life histories of ten Black individuals who moved from the southern United States to Boston, Massachusetts, during the Great Migration. Based on extensive oral history interviews and a creative narrative structure, Gumprecht illuminates this singularly important event in the making of Boston as it exists today.

This book showcases several experiments as examples of how psychologists can study religion and spirituality, casting a light on both the ingenuity and limitations of each. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that such scientific experiments are works of imagination that can help us discover truths about the human mind's proclivity for religious ideas, as long as we can adapt and learn along the way.

Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic is a unique firsthand account of the AIDS pandemic from three public health authorities who galvanized the AIDS pandemic response in the United States and abroad.

In Developing Scholars, Domingo Morel explores the history and political factors that led to the creation of community-centered affirmative action programs for students of color in the 1960s. Through a case study of an existing program, Talent Development, Morel shows how protest, including violent protest, has been instrumental in the maintenance of college access programs. He also reveals that in response to the college expansion efforts of the 1960s, hidden forms of restriction emerged that have significantly impacted students of color. Developing Scholars argues that the origin, history, and purpose of these programs reveal gaps in our understanding of college access expansion in the US that challenge conventional wisdom of American politics.

Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essentialism among some groups, or the idea that our biology ties us to particular ethnic identities. Using research from both the social sciences and the genetics literature as support, Ancestry Reimagined establishes realistic expectations about what we can learn from our DNA as a foundation for examining the psychological impact of ancestry testing, including the differences between how this information is perceived versus its reality.

In her latest book, Magdolna Hargittai tells the stories of over 120 women in science who overcame social prejudice and other barriers to excel in their careers. Hargittai presents entertaining and engaging accounts of the lives and careers of women scientists in disciplines such as physics, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. These women include historical figures, such as Lady Margaret Cavendish, a natural philosopher who lived in the 1600s, as well as modern-day scientists, such as COVID-19 vaccine pioneer Katalin Karikó.

From Terrain to Brain is about how the many sciences that apply to making and enjoying wine are tools for exploring and making wine more interesting, not a set of facts to memorize. Rather than comprehensively reporting on a topic, each chapter leads readers through a "foray" or journey, beginning with a common wine concern and traveling through science, culture, tradition, and taste. Throughout, From Terrain to Brain emphasizes that wine science and wine culture are connected and complementary, placing scientific research in social and historical context.

A Fine Romance: Adapting Broadway to Hollywood in the Studio System Era explores the symbiotic relationship between a dozen Broadway musicals and their Hollywood film adaptations, including some of the best loved, most admired, and most enduring works in their respective genres. Beginning with the stage version of Show Boat and ending with Bob Fosse's cinematic re-envisioning of Cabaret, Geoffrey Block explores twelve stage shows and their film adaptations spanning nearly a half century (1927-1972). A Fine Romance engages with aesthetic and critical concerns while also considering social issues, including race and ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual identity.

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Phoenicians among Others provides the first history of Phoenician immigrants in the ancient Mediterranean from the fourth to the first centuries BCE.

In Part-Time for All, Jennifer Nedelsky and Tom Malleson propose a plan to radically restructure both work and care and offer a solution to a fundamentally dysfunctional imbalance of work and care obligations. They argue that no competent adult should do paid work for more than 30 hours per week, and everyone should also contribute roughly 22 hours of unpaid care to family, friends, or their chosen community of care. While such a transformation would require radical changes to our cultural norms as well as to our workplace practices, this book carefully dissects the current crisis of care and offers a realistic plan forward.

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In Leveraging Latency, Tristan A. Volpe explores how weak nations compel concessions from superpowers by threatening to acquire atomic weapons. Volpe finds that there is a trade-off between threatening proliferation and promising nuclear restraint. States need just enough bomb-making capacity to threaten proliferation, but not so much that it becomes too difficult for them to offer nonproliferation assurances. Including four comparative case studies and identifying a generalizable mechanism--the threat-assurance tradeoff--Volpe provides a systematic assessment of the coercive utility of nuclear technology.

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