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Veterinary Clinical Immunology

2026
Oliver A. Garden

Firmly grounded in clinical practice, this textbook would fill a niche in the current market, which is currently populated with books that are inherently biased towards the pathology of the immune system, reflected in the credentials of the authors or editors. Furthermore, the current textbooks take an immune-centric view on the subject, focusing on anatomical or functional divisions of the immune system and mentioning diseases in passing, rather than taking a more clinically tractable, disease-centric, practical viewpoint that would be of greater use to the clinical practitioner. This textbook would be richly illustrated with both cartoon images and photographs of clinical cases and relevant supportive materials, such as images of blood smears, tissue sections and other specimens germane to the clinical pathology of immune-mediated disease
Foundations of Multiple Regression and Analysis of Variance

2026
Lynn Roy LaMotte

This book provides a rigorous development of the foundations of linear models for multiple regression and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), based on orthogonal projections and relations among linear subspaces. It is appropriate for the linear models course required in most statistics Ph.D. programs.

The presentation is particularly accessible because it is self-contained, general, and taken in logical steps that are linked directly to practicable computations. The broad objective is to provide a path of mastery so that the reader could, if stranded on a desert isle with nothing but pencil, paper, and a computer to perform matrix sums and products, replicate general linear models procedures in extant statistical computing packages.

The primary prerequisite is mathematical maturity, which includes logical thinking and the ability to tell when a proof is a proof. Casual acquaintance with matrices would be helpful but not required. Background in basic statis- tical theory and methods is assumed, mainly for familiarity with terminology and the purposes of statistics in applications.

The material is developed as a series of propositions, each dependent only on those preceding it. The reader is strongly encouraged to prove each one independently. Mastery requires active involvement.

As part of the broad coverage of the mathematics supporting multiple regression and ANOVA, those propositions also establish several new, key results.
- There is a unique, best numerator sum of squares for testing an estimable function
- The extra residual sum of squares due to imposing a linear hypothesis tests exclusively the estimable part
- Models that include exclusively any given set of ANOVA eﬀects can be formulated with contrast coding
- Tests of any ANOVA eﬀects in any design and model, including unbalanced and empty cells, can be had with extra residual sum of squares due to deleting predictor variables
- Essential properties of Type III methods are identiﬁed and proven
Public Personnel Management : Contexts and Strategies

2026
Jared J. Llorens

Effective public personnel management (also known as human resource management, HRM, or human capital management) is essential for successful government. Now in a thoroughly revised 8th edition, Public Personnel Management: Contexts and Strategies focuses on the critical issues and common processes in the management of public sector personnel. In keeping with prior editions, the text centers on the essential elements of public human resource management: strategic workforce planning, effective recruitment and retention, workforce development, and employee relations. Designed to further address the ways in which expectations for human resource managers have changed and developed over the last few years, this 8th edition includes several new features and improvements:
- All-new, substantially restructured, and updated case studies and applied work assignments.
- Examination and discussions of the impact and promise of artificial intelligence adoption on all aspects of the human resource management process.
- Careful exploration of the evolving characterizations of diversity, equity, and inclusion in public workforces, and the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on employee working conditions and expectations.
- A fully updated online Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading to make it easier to assign and use this classic text in the classroom.
Providing the most up-to-date and thorough overview of the history and practice of public human resource management, Public Personnel Management, 8th Edition reflects the need to navigate change – while preserving enduring values – to effectively manage the public service workforce. It serves as an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate introductory courses in public personnel management, public human resource management, and nonprofit personnel management.
LGBTQ+ Runaway and Homeless Youth : A Guide to Practice, Policy, and Research

2026
Elaine M. Maccio and Kristin Ferguson

For years, 20 to 40 percent of the runaway and homeless youth (RHY) population have identified as LGBTQ+, a vastly disproportionate share relative to the general population. These youths experience lower rates of family reunification compared with their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts, and there are few LGBTQ+-affirming programs and services to which they can turn.

This book offers a comprehensive review of best practices, current policies, and the latest research regarding LGBTQ+ runaway and homeless youth. Elaine M. Maccio and Kristin Ferguson describe the prevalence and demographics of LGBTQ+ youth in the context of the larger RHY population, sharing current understandings of sexual orientation and gender identity. Combining empirical data with vivid case vignettes, they delve into the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ RHY, considering a range of issues, including physical and mental health, risk and protective factors, and parents and families. Maccio and Ferguson identify available and ideal support mechanisms, providing a detailed look at practice, programs, policies, and advocacy. The book concludes with practical recommendations to improve well-being and promote positive outcomes.

LGBTQ+ Runaway and Homeless Youth is the preeminent reference and resource for students, instructors, practitioners, service providers, researchers, policy makers, and other community partners who are invested in improving the lives of this vulnerable population.
Synthetic Intelligence in Education: Transforming Pedagogy with AI

2026
Yufeng Qian

Synthetic Intelligence in Education introduces the groundbreaking concept of synthetic intelligence, referring to a harmonious blend of human and artificial intelligence. Yufeng Qian explores how today's generative AI and future systems can create a progressive learning environment where human cognition and AI capabilities work together, fostering co-learning experiences that surpass the possibilities of previous technological eras.

Arriving at a critical moment, this volume addresses the urgent need for a fundamental shift in mindset, pedagogical vision, and professional practice. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into educational tools and practices, many educators and learners still rely on outdated methods and lack the frameworks to engage with AI meaningfully. Synthetic Intelligence in Education provides a clear and accessible roadmap for educators, researchers, and policymakers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI in education.

The book examines the theoretical foundations of synthetic intelligence, emphasizing the cognitive and pedagogical principles that support meaningful human–AI collaboration. Through practical examples and actionable strategies, it shows how synthetic intelligence can be applied across diverse educational contexts.
The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News

2025
Kevin Arceneaux

The influence of partisan news is presumed to be powerful, but evidence for its effects on political elites is limited, often based more on anecdotes than science. Using a rigorous quasi-experimental research design, observational data, and open science practices, this book carefully demonstrates how the re-emergence and rise of partisan cable news in the US affected the behavior of political elites during the rise and proliferation of Fox News across media markets between 1996 and 2010. Despite widespread concerns over the ills of partisan news, evidence provides a nuanced, albeit cautionary tale. On one hand, findings suggest that the rise of Fox indeed changed elite political behavior in recent decades. At the same time, the limited conditions under which Fox News' influence occurred suggests that concerns about the network's power may be overstated.
Mentoring Doctoral Students in Higher Education: An International Perspective

2025
Michael F. Burnett

Many students world over who decide to pursue a doctorate have a very specific career path in mind when they enter a doctoral program. Some of these know they want to work in the world of academia. After the author's more than forty years in academia, this trend is changing with time in that many doctoral students now end up working in business and industry, for profit, non-profit agencies and government agencies. For prospective or current doctoral students reading this book, please remember that if you land your position in academia, you must then work diligently toward achieving tenure or building a successful career as a teaching professor. If you want to be successful in academia, you should do as much as you can to achieve the skills and abilities needed to be successful while you are enrolled in your doctoral program. This book is organized in a "generally" chronological order, but when I felt the need, I have drawn from experiences with students throughout my career. The first lesson in the book is drawn directly from the experiences with my first doctoral student and for a very good reason. I think it will become evident when you read the first chapter. One thing that I sincerely hope is evident throughout the book is my unwavering belief in the value of effective mentoring. In my opinion, this is something that has been seriously damaged in our age of mass production and immediate gratification. You cannot become an effective mentor in a few sessions. It takes a lot of time and effort. One of my dearest friends in the world is a colleague with whom I worked for many years. He has been retired now for several years, but he has continued to be one of my most cherished friends and mentors. A few years ago, my friend's wife (who is also one of my dear friends) hand-stitched a beautiful picture of a cardinal sitting on a flowering tree limb and gave it to me for a Christmas present. The picture is beautiful, and I treasure it. It has a place of prominence on the wall in my office. However, the note that she gave me with the picture is even more treasured. She starts by saying, "I wanted to thank you for being my husband's mentor." As he is a true elder statesman in our program, I always considered him my mentor. The following words in her note helped to affirm the worthiness of the doctoral advising aspect of my efforts over these last 40 plus years: She said that we (I and her husband),". . . help students to go out in the world as blessed human beings and spread knowledge to the next generation.
Toxitaly: industrial landscape and the environment in Italian ecodocumentary

2025
Paolo Chirumbolo

The rise of Italian ecodocumentaries represents a significant cultural response to urgent environmental issues, reflecting a growing ecological awareness in contemporary Italian society. Toxitaly presents comprehensive scholarly analysis of these films, exploring their portrayal of key regional and national environmental events and concerns. Paolo Chirumbolo discusses the impact of these documentaries on Italian culture, highlighting how they depict industrial landscapes and articulate the emerging ecological consciousness. The analysis is structured around four main narratives: "Petronarratives," "Steel Narratives," "Chemical Narratives," and "Waste Narratives." Each ecodocumentary is examined thematically and formally, with Chirumbolo employing Bill Nichols' theories on the various modes of representation in documentary film to define the relationships between subject matter, filmmaker, and viewer. In a time of increasing of public interest in environmental issues and the growth of grassroots movements, Toxitaly illuminates how ecodocumentaries can shape public discourse and inspire ecological awareness both in Italy and beyond.
Conversations with Rick Veitch

2025
Brannon Costello

From his roots in underground comics to his high-profile runs on mainstream characters, Rick Veitch (b. 1951) has carved out a career unlike anyone else’s. Collecting thirteen interviews—including three published here for the first time—Conversations with Rick Veitch offers a wealth of insight not only into the development of Veitch’s graphic innovations and metaphysical explorations, but also into the upheavals and transformations of American comics from the 1970s to today. In acclaimed comics such as The Maximortal, Army@Love, and Can’t Get No, Veitch employs a style that synthesizes Jack Kirby at his most cosmic, the mind-bending graphic sensibility of European innovators such as Jean (Moebius) Giraud and Philippe Druillet, and the brass-tacks realism of classic war cartoonists such as John Severin and Russ Heath. His comics defamiliarize popular genres—especially superheroes, war stories, and science fiction—with his philosophical musings and pointedly satirical political perspective. Yet Veitch’s capacious mind reaches beyond these familiar genres, too, as his long-running autobiographical dream comic Roarin’ Rick’s Rare Bit Fiends attests. Ranging across topics such as his early days at the Joe Kubert School, the controversial end of his Swamp Thing run, his muckraking work as a comics journalist, and his educational comics publishing venture, Eureka Comics, the interviews collected here reveal Veitch to be both a shrewd observer of the pitfalls of the marketplace and an eloquent spokesman for the boundless potential of creativity. A comics maker since childhood and a fierce advocate of creator’s rights and the possibilities of self-publishing, Veitch knows all too well the many persistent obstacles to creating comics that challenge readers instead of condescending to them. Yet Veitch remains optimistic about the potential of comics. According to Veitch, comics “might be the form of the future.” If that’s the case, then his work is a map to that future.
Powers and Compensation in Circuits with Nonsinusoidal Currents

2025
Leszek S. Czarnecki

The author, Dr. Leszek Czarnecki, is an IEEE Life Fellow, A. M. Lopez Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University, with M.Sc., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Silesian University of Technology, Poland.
Reinventing STEM in Early Childhood Education: A Constructivist Approach

2025
Eugene Geist

Teaching STEM to young children is about more than helping them learn their numbers and facts. It is an important and complex process that, to be effective, should honor the way children’s brains are developing. This book outlines how early childhood educators can best support young children’s STEM journeys as children naturally take in information about their environment, synthesize it, and grow in the process. This comprehensive text details different theories of learning; research on how young brains develop; practical information on preparing your environment and yourself for teaching STEM to children; guidance for supporting diverse populations of students; and developmental guidelines, sample standards, resources, and lesson plans. Organized chronologically, the book connects relevant STEM topics with each developmental age range and outlines common school standards for each grade. Reinventing STEM in Early Childhood Education is meant to be a core text for preservice teachers in math and science methods courses and is also important reading for teacher educators and professional development programs.
Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion

2025
Lauren Horn Griffin

This volume, focusing on discourses of crisis during a time that is constantly mediated as "in crisis," shows us ways of doing religious studies that are up to the challenge of reflecting on the problems, strategies, and political structures through which we construct our social worlds
Andragogy in Practice: Case Studies on Innovation in Adult Learning

2025
Elwood F. Holton

Andragogy in Practice is a timely book of case studies, which offers readers the opportunity to see andragogy in practice solving real-world challenges in a variety of adult learning contexts. It highlights the wonderful range of innovative practices that characterize adult learning today.

Holton, Robinson, and Caraccioli, authors of the bestselling The Adult Learner, bring a variety of diverse and inspiring extended cases together from a range of experienced teaching and learning specialists. Showing the broad scope, power, and potential of adult learning using andragogy, case topics include Artificial Intelligence, Online Learning in Higher Education, Human Resource and Leadership Development, Curriculum and Faculty Development and Art-Based Learning. The book can be used in conjunction with The Adult Learner or as a standalone text and provides a wealth of resources for educators, students, and practitioners looking to further their understanding of how andragogy is being applied in new and innovative ways. Experienced adult educators will be challenged to be more innovative in their own practices. For reflection and further dialog, each case includes a set of discussion questions to enhance engagement and understanding.

Students and practitioners of human resource development and adult education will enjoy the engaging, innovative, and insightful cases in this book addressing andragogical practices in the contemporary society.
Cybersecurity in Context : Technology, Policy, and Law

2025
Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Golden G. Richard III

The first-ever introduction to the full range of cybersecurity challenge, Cybersecurity is crucial for preserving freedom in a connected world. Securing customer and business data, preventing election interference and the spread of disinformation, and understanding the vulnerabilities of key infrastructural systems are just a few of the areas in which cybersecurity professionals are indispensable. This textbook provides a comprehensive, student-oriented introduction to this capacious, interdisciplinary subject.

Cybersecurity in Context covers both the policy and practical dimensions of the field. Beginning with an introduction to cybersecurity and its major challenges, it proceeds to discuss the key technologies which have brought cybersecurity to the fore, its theoretical and methodological frameworks and the legal and enforcement dimensions of the subject. The result is a cutting-edge guide to all key aspects of one of this century's most important fields.

Cybersecurity in Context is ideal for students in introductory cybersecurity classes, and for IT professionals looking to ground themselves in this essential field.
No Pardons to Ask, Nor Apologies to Make: the Journal of William Henry Kingm Gray's 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment

2025
Gary D. Joiner

Chief editor, Gary D. Joiner, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana State University- Shreveport.
Seeing Into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter

2025
Rodger Kamenetz

The author of The Jew in the Lotus seeks to answer the Dalai Lama's question. During the historic dialogue between rabbis and the Dalai Lama, as told in his international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus, Rodger Kamenetz heard a penetrating question from His Holiness to the rabbis, "How does your spiritual practice purify afflictive emotions?" To Kamenetz this seemed the most fundamental question to ask of any religion or philosophy of life. How do your practices help you with negative emotions like anxiety, envy, resentment and shame? Taking the reader with him on an exhilarating intellectual and emotional journey, he finds a natural spiritual path in the imagination. Kamenetz connects daily life to spiritual longing, from the musical rhythms of his beloved New Orleans to his tender bond with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, visionary founder of Jewish Renewal and a central figure in the Dharamsala dialogue. Embedded in a rich poetic narrative. Seeing into the Life of Things offers down to earth practices from "count your blessings," to savoring perception, from dwelling on powerful memories, to the sacred encounters in dreams. Kamenetz shows how giving birth to our images restores us to an imagination of the sacred
The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

2025
Malcolm Knowles, Elwood F. Holton III, Petra Robinson, and Corina Caraccioli

How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes? These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’ pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centred approach to learning have been hugely influential and are still the basis of the learning practices we use today.

Understanding these principles is the cornerstone of increasing motivation and enabling adult learners to achieve. The 10th edition of The Adult Learner has been revised to include:

The two chapters on diversity, inclusion and belonging in adult learning, and andragogy and the online adult learner have been greatly expanded to reflect the importance of these topics to the field today.

The accompanying Instructor and Student Resources website provides free digital materials designed to enhance student learning and save instructors time when preparing lessons. Resources include:

• Ready-to-use PowerPoint slides to save instructor time when planning lessons

• Learning objectives and part outlines for structured learning

• Suggested class discussions, exercises, and scenario-based activities

• Downloadable instruments for chapters 19 to 22

• Video explaining the Andragogy In Practice model

• A chapter-by-chapter Instructor Manual and a corresponding Student Guide to enhance learning outcomes.

If you are a researcher, practitioner, or student in education, an adult learning practitioner, training manager, or involved in human resource development, this is the definitive book in adult learning you should not be without.
Media Building: Architecturem Design, and the Spatial Politics of Mass Communication

2025
William Mari

This book brings together leading scholars to interrogate the enduring and evolving relationship between journalism, mass communications, and the built environment. From the emergence of the first newspapers, media buildings have provided their producers and consumers with a "definable shape" and served as key nodes in the urban geography of communications. At the same time, the changing form and function of media buildings has both reflected and reified transformations in modern journalism and mass communication.
Lula: A People's President and the Fight for Brazil's Future

2025
Andre Pagliarini

In 2022, left-wing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented third term in Brazil, defeating far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. While the return of the only working-class president in Brazilian history was celebrated by many, Bolsonaro supporters reacted by attacking the legislature, judiciary, and presidential palace. What explains this violent assault on Brazil's democratic institutions? Why did Lula, who first left office with an approval rating of almost 90 percent, provoke such vehement resistance from a supposedly patriotic mob? Through the intertwined stories of Lula and modern Brazil, historian Andre Pagliarini illuminates the country's journey over the last eighty years. He examines the processes that forged Lula, his Workers' Party and the contours of the country's current predicament to show that the fight for Brazil's future is far from an historical anomaly. It is rooted in a history of democratic advance and backlash familiar to many pluralistic, multiracial democracies worldwide. Given the intense feelings Lula arouses across the political spectrum, his undeniable historical importance, and his re-election at a critical juncture for Brazil and the world, Lula's life and legacy offers a provocative prism through which to analyze the recent past, present, and contested future of Latin America's largest nation.
COVID-19 Responses in Cultural and Political Context: Paradox of Precaution

2025
Anthony Palackal

Drawing on a diverse array of international case studies, this book provides an in-depth analysis of how information, exposure, and locative fears shaped global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents a nuanced understanding of health behavior during crises, exploring issues of public trust, identity, and resistance.

Expert authors delve into key cultural and political factors that impacted public perception and policy, including the credibility of information sources, levels of knowledge and preparedness, and the primary fears and behaviors that emerged. Chapters cover responses across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe, integrating insights from medical professionals, scientists, educators, and individuals in various socio-economic contexts. Reflecting on lessons learned from COVID-19, the book suggests valuable guidance for future pandemic preparedness, emphasizing the influence of culture and politics on our actions and attitudes during global health emergencies.

This interdisciplinary book is a helpful resource for students and researchers in political science, public policy, sociology, public administration and management, and public health. Policymakers, health professionals, and educators will also benefit from its recommendations for handling future health crises.
Regimes of Violence: Toward a Political Anthropology

2025
John Protevi

A wide-ranging examination of the roots—and possible future—of violence in human societies

Is aggression inevitable among humans? In Regimes of Violence, John Protevi explores how human violence originates and exists in our societies. Taking humans as biocultural (that is, our social practices shape our bodies and minds), he shows how aggression does not arrive from any purely biological predisposition but rather occurs only in social regimes of violence that, by manipulating the ways in which culture can shape our biological inheritance of rage and aggression, condition the forms of violence able to be expressed at any one time.

Offering detailed insights into human aggression throughout history, Protevi’s analysis ranges from evolutionary psychology to affective ideology and finally to an alternate politics of joy. He examines a wide range of seemingly disparate topics, such as cooperation between early nomadic foragers, organized sports, berserkers and blackout rages, the experiences of maroons escaping slavery, the January 6 invasion of the United States Capitol building, and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. As he entwines the philosophical with the anthropological, he asks readers to consider why humans’ capacity for cooperation and sharing is so persistently overlooked by stories that focus on aggression and warfare.

Regimes of Violence is an important contribution to studies of Deleuze and Guattari, uniquely combining cutting-edge investigations in psychology, history, evolutionary theory, cultural anthropology, and philosophy to examine the “political philosophy of the mind.” Presenting to readers a refreshingly optimistic perspective, Protevi demonstrates that we are not doomed to war and argues that humans can build a world based on antifascism, joy, and mutual empowerment.
Fractional Integrals, Potentials, and Radon Transforms

2025
Boris Rubin

Fractional Integrals, Potentials, and Radon Transforms, Second Edition presents recent developments in the fractional calculus of functions of one and several real variables, and shows the relation of this field to a variety of areas in pure and applied mathematics. In this thoroughly revised new edition, the book aims to explore how fractional integrals occur in the study of diverse Radon type transforms in integral geometry.

Beyond some basic properties of fractional integrals in one and many dimensions, this book also contains a mathematical theory of certain important weakly singular integral equations of the first kind arising in mechanics, diffraction theory and other areas of mathematical physics. The author focuses on explicit inversion formulae that can be obtained by making use of the classical Marchaud's approach and its generalization, leading to wavelet type representations.
Practitioner Research in Voice Studies

2025
Rockford Sansom

Practitioner Research in Voice Studies aims to support the artist-scholar who wishes to design and publish research in voice. The book is useful for the novice, who wants tangible tools to begin, and for the more experienced researcher, who wants varying perspectives on how voice scholarship has evolved. The book contains three sections:

* Conducting Practitioner Research in Voice Studies

* Getting Started

* Practitioner Research Examples.

The first two sections outline major themes, debates, and research approaches in the field, and many chapters offer step-by-step guides and tips. The final section presents example research articles that highlight numerous methods including qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, action research, performance as research, practice as research, literature review, narrative review, and other kinds of multidisciplinary practices. This ambitious project includes leading international figures who write in a scholarly and accessible manner.

Utilizing research ideas and examples from a variety of voice disciplines, this book will be of interest to those studying voice, speech, singing, acting, public speaking, voice science, communication, music, theatre, and performance. Those writing a dissertation or thesis may also draw from this text. Articles from this book were originally published in the Voice and Speech Review journal.
Voice and Identity

2025
Rockford Sansom

Voice and Identity draws from the knowledge and expertise of leading figures to explore the evolving nature of voice training in the performing arts. The authors look through both practical and theoretical lenses as they connect voice studies to equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging, and to gender and gender diversity.
The Pitfalls of Virtue Ethics

2025
Husain Sarkar

This book offers a unique look into virtue ethics, exploring why this tradition is in need of repair, renewal, and reformation