Bio
Catherine Compton-Lilly is the John C. Hungerpiller Professor at the University of South Carolina.  As a professor in the College of Education, Dr. Compton-Lilly’s research has focused on family literacy practices, particularly the literacy practices of children from communities that have been underserved by schools.  In her initial work, she documented the home and school literacy practices of eight of her former first-grade students as they moved from elementary school through high school.  In a current study, now in its tenth year, she is exploring the family literacy practices of children from immigrant families.  Dr. Compton-Lilly has edited or authored eleven books and has authored multiple articles related to literacy in major literacy journals, including the Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Written Communication, Journal of Literacy Research and Language Arts.  Dr. Compton0Lilly has a passion for helping teachers to support children in learning to read and write.  Her interests include early reading and writing, student diversity, and working with families.  She has a strong interest in teacher education and is currently documenting the exceptional teacher education practices at the University of South Carolina.  Dr. Compton-Lilly holds emerita status at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Book Title
Time in education:  Intertwined dimensions and theoretical possibilities 

Abstract
Compton-Lilly, C. (2020).  Time in education:  Intertwined dimensions and theoretical possibilities.  In B. Kabuto, (Series Editor) Great Women Scholars Series.  New York, NY: Garn Press.

This invited, honorary book celebrates the scholarship of Dr. Compton-Lilly.  This is the fifth book in the Garn Press Woman Scholars Series which has previously celebrated the work of Yetta Goodman, Maxine Greene, Louise Rosenblatt, Margaret Meek, and more recently Anne Haas Dyson.  

It explores the intersection of literacy and the construct of time within education through the scholarship of Catherine Compton-Lilly, who highlights the complexity of studying learning.  In particular, she focuses on how and what people learn over time within school-based structure, which entail established power structures that define who we are as learners, privileging some learners and marginalizing others.

Catherine Compton-Lilly presents a theoretical kaleidoscope of learning and literacy over time and illustrates how understandings of learners and learning shift as educators cast their gaze through different theoretical lenses.  She asks how people reconcile, or strive to reconcile, complementary and contradictory framings of learners – a dilemma often faced by educators and parents.

Specifically, Compton-Lilly proposes that time acts as a constructive dimension of people’s experiences that significantly affects how people make sense of their worlds by exploring the temporal affordances of three highly influential theories:  Jay Lemke, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Pierre Bourdieu.  To illustrate the temporal potential of these theories, she draws upon data from a ten-year case study of one student and his family.  Attending to how people operate within time provides important insights into longitudinal processes, including identity construction, literacy learning, and becoming a student.  These insights are important not only to researchers who attempt to make sense of the experiences of children and teachers but also to educators who must seek ways to acknowledge and effect the longitudinal trajectories of children.

Bio
Dr. Sixta Rinehart is a Professor of Political Science in Palmetto College.  Her areas of expertise are international relations and comparative politics.  Her research focuses on Latin American Politics, Middle Eastern Politics, US foreign policy, international terrorism, counterterrorism (UAV, RPA), and female terrorism.  She is the author of 3 books published by Lexington Books: Sexual Jihad: The Role of Islam in Female Terrorism, Drones and Targeted Killing in the Middle East and Africa, An Appraisal of American Counterterrorism Policies, and Volatile Social Movements and the Origins of Terrorism, The Radicalization of Change.  

Book Title
Sexual Jihad: The Role of Islam in Female Terrorism

Abstract
Female terrorists are a rare phenomenon. Less than ten terrorist organizations throughout the world have women members. These terrorist groups are either Marxist (atheist) or Jihadist in their ideologies. Sexual Jihad: The Role of Islam in Female Terrorism ascertains, “What is the role of Islam in female terrorism?” It explores the roles of women in eight jihadist case studies, including Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Boko Haram, the Chechen Separatists, HAMAS, Hezbollah, ISIS, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda. Primary sources and secondary sources are used, including research conducted on Palestinian women in Israeli prisons who have been convicted of terrorism. It is argued that are three roles for women in Jihadist terrorism: the disposable, the domestic, and the secretary. The theory posited in this book is that the roles of women in terrorist groups are similar to their cultural/religious roles in society.

Bio
Adonis “Sporty” Jeralds is currently the Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion and Senior Instructor in the College of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management at the University of South Carolina. He also works in Community Relations with the NBA Charlotte Hornets.  Mr. Jeralds is a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and attended Guilford College, where he graduated with a Criminal Justice degree.  He has a master’s degree from UNC-Chapel Hill in Public Administration and a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts in Sport Management.  Mr. Jeralds began his career in public assembly venue management at the Hampton Virginia Coliseum and then accepted a Charlotte Coliseum position as Assistant Manager.  In 1990 he became Manager of the Charlotte Coliseum, a position he held for fifteen years.  In that position, Mr. Jeralds oversaw the day-to-day operations, managed a $12 million operating budget and a staff of over sixty full-time and six hundred part-time employees.  Mr. Jeralds is certified by the International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM) as a Certified Venue Executive (CVE), a designation currently awarded to approximately 350 worldwide.  During his career, Mr. Jeralds has helped coordinate such internationally recognized events as the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Final Four, NBA All-Star Weekend, ACC Basketball Tournament, a visit by Mother Teresa, and a variety of major concerts.  Mr. Jeralds is the author of four successful books, “The Champion In You,” “Let Your Light Shine,” “Follow The Bouncing Ball,” and “From The Locker Room To The Classroom.”   In 2006 he was awarded the Harold J. VanderZwaag Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Sport Management Department at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.  In 2018 he was awarded the IAVM Education and Service Award. In 2019 was the recipient of the Harry E. Varney Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management—University of South Carolina. Mr. Jeralds and his wife Teresa reside in Charlotte, North Carolina, and are the proud parents of Jazmine and Jacob.

Book Title
Public Assembly Venue Management--(2nd Edition)

Abstract
Public Assembly Venue Management (2nd Edition) is intended for students who are preparing to enter public assembly venue management and practitioners already working in the industry.  It provides a strong conceptual and practical basis for understanding the ever-evolving venue management industry.  The book is organized in a logical sequence that takes the reader through the history and role of public assembly venues, followed by the other significant areas of venue management, including venue ownership and management, business and financial management, booking the venue, marketing, ticketing, ancillary services, and revenue sources, venue operations, event management, safety and security, and the newly added chapter of venue planning, financing, design, and construction.  These chapters address the functions common to all public assembly venues and reflect current industry trends.  The 2nd edition also includes new information regarding international venue management, venue emergency use scenarios, and the impact of COVID-19.

Bio
Christie Martin is an Associate professor in the Instruction and Teacher Education Department at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her research interests include literacy and formative assessment in mathematics and science. She is a Fulbright Scholar that spent a year in Norway researching the role of literacy in mathematics observations instruments and how these instruments generalize across contexts. She studies her research interests by examining their impact on student learning, how teachers engage in this work through professional development, the tools used in the classroom to support this work, and the measurement tools used for students and teachers.

Book Title
Handbook of Research on Formative Assessment in Pre-K through Elementary Classrooms

Abstract
Educators require constructive information that details their students’ comprehension and can help them to advance the learners’ education. Accurate evaluation of students at all educational levels and implementing comprehensive assessment strategies are essential for ensuring student equality and academic success. The Handbook of Research on Formative Assessment in Pre-K Through Elementary Classrooms is an essential research publication that addresses gaps in the understanding of formative assessment and offers educators meaningful and comprehensive examples of formative assessment in the Pre-K through elementary grade levels. Covering an array of topics such as literacy, professional development, and educational technologies, this book is relevant for instructors, administrators, education professionals, educational policymakers, pre-service teachers, academicians, researchers, and students.

Bio
Damien K. Picariello is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina Sumter. He is also the author of Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). 

Book Title
The Politics of Horror

Abstract
The Politics of Horror features contributions from scholars in various fields—political science, English, communication studies, and others—that explore the connections between horror and politics. How might resources drawn from the study of politics inform our readings of, and conversations about, horror? In what ways might horror provide a useful lens through which to consider enduring questions in politics and political thought? And what insights might be drawn from horror as we consider contemporary political issues? In turning to horror, the contributors to this volume offer fresh provocations to inform a broad range of discussions of politics.

Bio
David Owen is the Carolina Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, where he was the Director of the Office of Tort Law Studies and taught courses and seminars on tort Law, tort theory, and products liability law. Prior to teaching, Professor Owen received degrees in economics (Wharton) and law from the University of Pennsylvania, was law clerk to Chief Justice Kenison of New Hampshire, and practiced law in Denver at Holland & Hart. In addition to USC, Professor Owen has taught at the Universities of Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, and Texas; Oxford University, England; Santa Anna University, Pisa, Italy; and the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. Professor Owen has authored numerous journal articles and authored, co-authored, and edited various books, including a hornbook/treatise, Products Liability Law (West, 3d ed. 2015); an abridged account in Products Liability in a Nutshell (West, 9th ed. 2015); a casebook, Products Liability and Safety (Foundation Press, 8th ed. 2020); a products liability treatise, Owen & Davis on Products Liability (4 volumes, Thomson Reuters, 4th ed. 2014); a theoretical work, Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law (Oxford Univ. Press, ed. 1995); and Prosser & Keeton on Tort Law (West 1984). He has advised Congress, state legislatures, the British and Scottish Law Commissions, and the European Union on various products liability and tort law matters. He was an Adviser to the American Law Institute for the Restatement (Third) of Torts and was the ALI’s Editorial Adviser for the Restatement of Products Liability.

Book Title
Products Liability and Safety, 8th ed.

Abstract
The new 8th edition modernizes and enriches the previous edition. While retaining a great majority of prior cases and materials, it adds a number of important new cases and legislative developments, makes minor organizational enhancements, and adds depth to the most important sections. The 8th edition continues to stress developments in the evolving meaning of “defectiveness” and problems of proof―both generally and arising from the Supreme Court’s Daubert v. Merrell Dow decision. The new edition includes new, updated, and enriched materials in such critical areas as:

• Amazon’s liability for “selling” defective products
• Defective medical devices
• Federal preemption
• Toxic substances causation
• Automated vehicles
• Computer software as a “product.”
• Human body parts as “products.”

Bio
Derek Black is a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. His areas of expertise include education law and policy, constitutional law, civil rights, evidence, and torts. The focus of his current scholarship is the intersection of constitutional law and public education, particularly as it pertains to educational equality and fairness for disadvantaged students. His earlier work focused more heavily on intentional discrimination standards. His articles have been published and are forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Boston University Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, Boston College Law Review, and North Carolina Law Review, among various others. His work has also been cited in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and by several briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Prior to teaching, he litigated issues relating to school desegregation, diversity, school finance equity, student discipline, and special education at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He left the Lawyers’ Committee to teach at Howard University School of Law, where he also founded and directed the Education Rights Center.

Professor Black has also taught at the University of North Carolina School of Law and American University Washington College of Law. Beyond teaching, has been active in various outside endeavors, including serving as pro bono counsel in civil rights cases, a consultant to civil rights campaigns, and a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.

He attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Law Review for two years, was awarded the Dan Pollitt ACLU fellowship in his third year, and graduated with High Honors.

Book Title
Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy

Abstract
Public education as we know it is in trouble. Derek W. Black, a legal scholar and tenacious advocate shows how major democratic and constitutional developments are intimately linked to the expansion of public education throughout American history. Schoolhouse Burningis grounded in pathbreaking, original research into how the nation, in its infancy, built itself around public education and, following the Civil War, enshrined education as a constitutional right that forever changed the trajectory of our democracy. Public education, alongside the right to vote, was the cornerstone of the recovery of the war-torn nation.

Today’s current schooling trends -- the declining commitment to properly fund public education and the well-financed political agenda to expand vouchers and charter schools -- present a major assault on the democratic norms that public education represents and risk undermining one of the unique accomplishments of American society.

Bio
Dr. Gloria Boutte is a Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina. For more than three decades, Dr. Boutte ' s scholarship, teaching, and service have focused on equity pedagogies. She is the author/editor of five books: (1) We Be Lovin ' Black Children: Becoming Learning to Be Literate About the African Diaspora; (2)African Diaspora Literacy: The Heart of Transformation in K-12 Schools and Teacher Education (2019 AESA Critics Choice Award) (3) Educating African American Students: And how are the children; (4) Resounding Voices: School Experiences of People From Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds; and (5) Multicultural Education: Raising Consciousness. She has received millions of dollars in grants and has nearly 100 publications. Dr. Boutte has presented nationally and internationally on equity issues and has received prestigious awards such as Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Specialist; 2020 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE} Outstanding Educator in the English Language Arts-Elementary Section; and the 2021 American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2021 Division K Legacy award. Dr. Boutte is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Education and Equity of African American Students (CEEMS). She has presented and/or served as a visiting scholar internationally in every continent except Antarctica. Dr. Boutte and Dr. George Johnson are the authors of the Drs. Diaspora curriculum.

Book Title
We Be Lovin' Black Children: Becoming Literate About the African Diaspora

Abstract
We Be Lovin ' Black Children: Learning to Be Literate About the African Diaspora is an edited volume written by scholars, K-12 teachers/students, and community members. The title, We Be Lovin ' Black Children, establishes its premise. "Be Lovin' " connotes an immediacy, a now-ness, a persistence that is culturally based and applicable to today's enigmatic conditions. We be lovin Black children means that Black adults have loved Black children in the past; we love them in the present, and we will love them in the future. We Be Lovin ' seeks to reconnect our historical, present, and future lives. The book has an intentional pro-Black focus. Pro-Black does not mean anti-white or anti-anything else. It means that this little book is about what Black people must do to ensure that Black children around the world are loved, safe and that their souls and spirits are healed from the ongoing damage of living in a world where white supremacy flourishes. It teaches us how to heal and protect Black children. This book, which makes the knowledge base on African Diaspora Literacy accessible to lay audiences, is intended to be a resource and reference that is consulted often. It contains a wealth of ideas that families, educators, and community members can use to ensure the cultural and academic excellence of Black children.

Bio
Henry Tran is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policies who studies issues related to education human resources (HR) and finance. He has published numerous articles on the topics, including several with students. He holds two national HR certifications and serves on the Board of Advisors and Board of Trustees for the National Education Finance Academy. He is also the editor of the Journal of Education Human Resources and the Director of the Talent Centered Education Leadership Initiative.

Prior to his professorship, Tran served as an HR practitioner in both the private sector and in public education. He draws from both experiences in his research and teaching.

Book Title
Stakeholder Engagement Improving Education through Multi-Level Community Relations

Abstract
This book focuses on the topic of the multiple-stakeholders that comprise the education community across the P-20 continuum. In various ways and forms, the authors of the chapters found within this book promote the importance of engaging with the diverse array of stakeholders in order to truly improve education in an increasingly interconnected world. The book itself is divided into two major arcs, the first of which covers community relations and stakeholder engagement in P-12 schools, while the second addresses those same issues in higher education. When one considers the activities that take place within education institutions, there is a realization that they are influenced and driven by much more than just the educators and administrators who occupy the schools. In the editors’ own work (e.g., see Tran & Bon, 2016), the importance of the inclusion of the viewpoints and inputs of multiple-stakeholders in school decisions when appropriate has been consistently argued, given that the school is considered by many to be a social and communal environment. To address these issues in this text, this book is lucky to have a collection of peer-reviewed writing that explores various aspects of how multiple-stakeholder input can be used to improve school decisions.

Bio
Professor Burkhard teaches in the areas of Property and Business. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a partner in a Columbus, Ohio firm where he practiced law for twelve years. He served for seven years as the editor in chief of the American Bar Association's Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Journal, retiring from that position in January 2013. Professor Burkhard has a special interest in small business organizations. He has been active as a member of and reporter for various drafting committees involved in revisions of the South Carolina business laws.

Book Title
South Carolina Limited Liability Companies, Fifth Edition

Abstract
South Carolina Limited Liability Companies, Fifth Edition, takes a hands-on, how-to approach to forming and operating LLCs. You will get practical insights on choosing, forming, and operating limited liability entities, valuable analysis of tax and securities issues, and most importantly, practical, easy-to-follow instructions and sample forms for preparing South Carolina LLC operating agreements.

The Fifth Edition includes a new chapter on the personal liability of LLC managers and members and contains 14 sample LLC operating agreements, an agreement of conversion, all of the Secretary of State official LLC and LLP forms, and updates of practically every chapter since the Fourth Edition was released in 2012. Best of all, the purchase of the Fifth Edition entitles you to receive, at no extra charge, a downloadable copy of the book.

Bio
Josh Eagle is the Solomon Blatt Professor of Law and the Director of the Coastal Law Field Lab at the University of South Carolina.  He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University (B.A.), Colorado State University (M.S., Forest Sciences), and Georgetown University (J.D.), and he began his legal career at the United States Department of Justice.  Professor Eagle has published articles in top peer-reviewed journals and law reviews on a wide range of topics, including coastal land use, fisheries, public lands, conservation easements, and endangered species.  He has been named an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy, a Fulbright Scholar, and an international research scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.

Book Title
Ocean and Coastal Resources Law

Abstract
Ocean and Coastal Resources Law, Third Edition exemplifies an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to teaching that combines cases and materials with key sources from science, economics, and business. Ocean and Coastal Resources Law prepares students for practice as lawyers in a variety of fields, such as conservation and marine protection, coastal land use, real estate development, and work in state regulatory agencies.

In the third edition, nationally-renowned experts Eagle and Hsu introduce all-new ocean law coverage, including domestic and international ocean law, protected marine species, and offshore industrial development.  (The book, in its first two editions, was entitled "Coastal Law.") The new materials include in-depth treatment of the Deepwater Horizon disaster and a holistic view of how activities on the seas affect coastal land activities and vice versa.

Bio
Before joining the law school faculty, Lewis Burke was a VISTA Volunteer and a legal services attorney. As a clinician, Professor Burke continued to represent low-income clients. In 2003 he was awarded the “Outstanding Faculty Service Award” for his years of community service, including Habitat for Humanity, Appleseed, and his pro bono representation of a death row client.

Burke also received the law school’s “Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award” in 2002 and 2007. He has authored or edited six books. These are Truth in Lending and Credit Disclosures (1986), At Freedom’s Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina (2000), Matthew J. Perry: The Man, His Times and His Legacy (2004), The Dawn of Religious Freedom in South Carolina (2007), Madam Chief Justice: South Carolina’s Jean Hoefer Toal, and All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina 1868–1968. His articles, essays, and chapters have been in books published by such university presses as Oxford, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina and in journals such as American Journal of Legal History, The Nineteenth-Century American History Journal, Journal of African American History, Journal of Contemporary Law, South Carolina Law Review, Journal of Southern History, the Alabama Review, and the Journal of Mississippi History. He was commissioned by the Institute for Public Service and Policy Research’s 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Project. His study “He’s in the Jailhouse Now: Justice in South Carolina” was published in the institute’s “…and Miles to go Before I Sleep” in 2004. His most recent publications have included “United States v. Amistad (1841)” and “Richard Harvey Cain’s, All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation and Equal Rights” in Milestone Documents in African American History (2010), “IT’S A GIRL: Jean Hoefer Toal and the Rise of Women in the Legal Profession,” in South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (2012), a review of Volney Riser’s Defying Disenfranchisement in the Alabama Review (2012) and “Pink Franklin versus South Carolina: The NAACP’s First Case,” in the American Journal of Legal History (2014). In retirement, he is farming, birding, and lecturing on Reconstruction and civil rights in South Carolina.

Book Title
All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968

Abstract
“The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina,” writes W. Lewis Burke, “is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state.” Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, 168 black lawyers were admitted to the South Carolina bar. All for Civil Rights is the first book-length study devoted to those lawyers’ struggles and achievements in the state that had the largest black population in the country, by percentage, until 1930―and that was a majority black state through 1920.
Examining court processes, trials, and life stories of the lawyers, Burke offers a comprehensive analysis of black lawyers’ engagement with the legal system. Some of that study is set in the courts and legislative halls, for the South Carolina bar once had the highest percentage of black lawyers of any southern state, and South Carolina was one of only two states to ever have a black majority legislature. However, Burke also tells who these lawyers were (some were former slaves, while others had backgrounds in the church, the military, or journalism); where they came from (nonnatives came from as close as Georgia and as far away as Barbados); and how they were educated, largely through apprenticeship.

Bio
Dr. Jenkins joins U of SC School of Medicine Greenville as Dean from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas, where she was a Professor of Medicine and the founder of the Laura Bush Institute for Women’s Health, a biomedical research and health education institute spanning across five health professionals’ schools and six campuses. Her most recent endeavor is her work as the Director of Medical and Scientific Initiatives for the FDA Office of Women’s Health since 2015, where she provided sex and gender scientific expertise within scientific programs. In addition to her medical degree from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, Dr. Jenkins holds a degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Education in the Health Professions (MEdHP).

Dr. Jenkins is a well-recognized expert in women’s health and sex and gender-based medicine and has served in a variety of national roles such as Program Chair of the 2015 and 2018 National Sex and Gender Health Professional Education Summits, co-Chair of the Reproduction Workgroup of NASA’s Decadal Review, USMLE Women’s Health National Board of Medical Examiners Writing Group, and HRSA expert panel advisories and NIH expert panels.

Dr. Jenkins has delivered over 150 scientific and consumer presentations and co-authored numerous research publications, scientific commentaries, and textbooks. She has been honored through numerous awards such as the American Medical Women’s Association Elizabeth Blackwell Award, the Women’s Health Congress Award for Public Policy and Advocacy in Women’s Health, and the Cedars Sanai Linda Joy Pollin Advancing Women’s Heart Health Leadership Award, and recognized multiple times as a Texas SuperDoc.

Her academic credentials are stellar as she has served as the Associate Dean of Women’s Affairs for Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Chief Science Officer of the Laura Bush Institute, and has been faculty with Johns Hopkins MEdHP program where she also filled the capacity of CAPStone Program Director.

Book Title
How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care

Abstract
How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care enables primary care clinicians by providing a framework to understand differences and better care for patients in their practice. Each chapter covers a subspecialty in medicine and discusses the influence of sex hormones on disease, along with sex and gender-based differences in clinical presentation, physical examination, laboratory results, treatment regimens, comorbidities, and prognosis. Illustrative case examples and practical practice points help each chapter come alive. A special chapter on communication differences between men and women assists clinicians in their conversations with patients.

This book fills an important need by applying years of research findings to sex and gender-specific medical care and demonstrating that an individualized approach to patient care will lead to improved detection, treatment, and prevention of disease.

Publishing house: Academic Press

Published date: December 1, 2020

Bio
Mitchell L. Yell, Ph.D., is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and a Professor in Special Education at the University of South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. in special education from the University of Minnesota. His professional interests include special education law, IEP development, progress monitoring, and parent involvement in special education. Dr. Yell has published 134 journal articles, six textbooks, 36 book chapters and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring. His textbook, Special Education and the Law is in its 5th edition. In 2020, he was awarded the Researcher of the Year from the Council for Exceptional Children. Dr. Yell also serves as a State-level due process review officer (SRO) in South Carolina and is on the Board of Directors of the Council for Exceptional Children. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 12 years.

Book Title
Current Trends and Legal Issues in Special Education

Abstract
School leaders and special educators are expected to be experts on all levels and types of special education law and services, types of disability, and aspects of academic and functional programming. With the increasing demands of the job and the ever-changing legal and educational climate, few feel adequately prepared to meet the demands. Trends and Legal Issues in Special Education helps administrators and teachers build and support timely, legally sound, and effective special education services and programs.

 

Bio
Professor Ned Snow teaches Intellectual Property, Copyright, Trademark, and Property. His scholarship focuses on constitutional issues in copyright and trademark law. Prior to joining the University of South Carolina faculty, Professor Snow served as an associate dean at the University of Arkansas School of Law. He practiced law in the Dallas office of Baker Botts LLP, and following law school, he clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Snow earned his law degree from Harvard Law School and his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University.

Book Title
Intellectual Property: A Survey of the Law (2d edition)

Abstract
This casebook teaches the law of trademark, copyright, patent, and trade secret. The casebook presents the material so that it is accessible to students and explains the black-letter rules and underlying policies in a straightforward and simple manner. It provides examples, practice problems, and explanations for each area of the law, facilitating mastery of fundamental concepts.

Bio
Dr. Frierson is Past President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (aka AAPL, the largest forensic psychiatry organization in the United States). He is the immediate Past President of the Association of Directors of Forensic Psychiatry Fellowships.  He has received three national awards from AAPL: the Most Outstanding Teacher in a Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Award in 2006, the Red Apple Award for service to the organization in 2014, and the Seymour Pollack Award in 2016 for distinguished lifetime contributions to the teaching and educational functions of forensic psychiatry.  He received another national teaching award, the Steven Von Reisling Lecturer of Merit Award, from the National College of District Attorneys. He has served on committees for Recertification in General Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and serves on the Review Committee for Psychiatry at the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). He has edited two textbooks and authored 12 book chapters and 45 peer-reviewed articles. He is director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at USC School of Medicine.

Book Title
Textbook of Suicide Risk Assessment and Management

Abstract
Charged with updating the preeminent text on suicide, the new editors of The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Suicide Risk Assessment and Management opted not to simply revise existing chapters but instead to steer a bold course, expanding, reconfiguring and remaking the third edition to reflect the latest research, nomenclature, and clinical innovations. The editorial team and contributors—two-thirds of whom are new to this edition—have taken the intersection of suicide with both mental health and psychosocial issues as their organizing principle, exploring risk assessment and epidemiology in special populations, such as elderly patients, college students, military personnel, and the incarcerated as well as patients with a variety of psychological disorders, including bipolar spectrum, personality, depressive, anxiety, posttraumatic stress, and other disorders and schizophrenia. In addition, the book discusses treatment options (such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and pharmacotherapy) and settings (such as emergency services, outpatient, inpatient, and civil commitment) in detail, with clinical cases to contextualize the material.

Bio
Seth Stoughton is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and an Associate Professor (Affiliate) in the university’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is also affiliated with the Rule of Law Collaborative. His scholarship on policing and how it is regulated has appeared in the Emory Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and other top journals. He has written multiple book chapters and is the principal co-author of Evaluating Police Uses of Force (NYU Press 2020). He is a frequent lecturer on policing issues, regularly appears on national and international media, and has written about policing for The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, and other news publications. He teaches Police Law & Policy, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, and the Regulation of Vice.

Seth served as an officer with the Tallahassee Police Department for five years. In that time, he trained other officers, helped write policies to govern the use of new technologies, earned multiple instructor and operator certifications, and taught personal safety and self-defense courses in the community. In 2004, he received a Formal Achievement Award for his role as a founding member of the Special Response Team. After leaving the police department, Seth spent three years as an Investigator in the Florida Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General, where he handled a variety of criminal and administrative investigations. In 2008, he received a statewide award for his work combating private school tuition voucher fraud.

Seth earned his B.A. in English from Florida State University. He attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an Articles Editor on the Virginia Law Review, an Elsie Hughes Cabell Scholar, and the recipient of the Thomas Marshall Miller Prize. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Kenneth F. Ripple of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Prior to joining the faculty at South Carolina, Seth was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he taught legal writing and a Regulation of Vice seminar.

Book Title
Evaluating Police Uses of Force

Abstract
Police violence has historically played an important role in shaping public attitudes toward the government. Community trust and confidence in policing have been undermined by the perception that officers are using force unnecessarily, too frequently, or in problematic ways. The use of force, or harm suffered by a community as a result of such force, can also serve as a flashpoint, a spark that ignites long-simmering community hostility.

Bio
Simon Hudson is a tourism professor at the University of South Carolina (now part-time and living in Portugal) and is a consultant for the travel industry worldwide. He has written ten books (including the recently published COVID-19 & Travel) and over 100 research articles and book chapters. With an eclectic background in the ski industry, retail, and academia, Simon is a fount of international experience and comprehensive business information. His cosmopolitan and creative ideas have been influenced by award-winning work at the University of Calgary, Canada, and the University of Brighton, UK, as well as visiting academic positions he has held in Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. Simon has also taught three times on Semester at Sea.

Book Title
COVID-19 & Travel: Impacts, Responses, and Outcomes

Abstract
The book covers a number of important topics, including why the pandemic and travel were inextricably linked, how the different sectors of the industry reacted to the crisis, leadership and communication strategies employed by the industry during the crisis and the social, economic, and environmental impacts of the pandemic as they relate to travel. 

A dozen insightful case studies from all over the world bring the book to life. We see how the cruise industry suddenly went from being the golden child of the tourism sector to a sober symbol of the deadly disease; we witness the meltdown of ski resorts around the world in one weekend, and we see how Richard Branson coped with what he considers to be his greatest challenge yet. There are also some interesting ‘best practices’ case studies from New Zealand, Vietnam, and Canada.

Hudson also makes predictions for the future of travel after COVID-19, a future driven by technology. We see how hotels are employing virus-killing robots to do the cleaning, how beaches are using drones to monitor social distancing, and how airports have installed technology for instant testing. In short, the industry is having to adapt to survive – something Hudson has coined ‘COVID-adaptability.’  

Finally, there are some fascinating bits of trivia sprinkled throughout the book. Did you know, for example, that the word ‘quarantine’ originated in Italy in the 14th century; that the Spanish flu did not start in Spain at all; that sales of bread machines went up 652% during the pandemic; and that when France advised citizens to stop the traditional bise (kiss) this year, they were not the first country to do this? King Henry VI banned kissing in England in the 15th century in an effort to stymie the spread of the bubonic plague.

Bio
Dr. Sourav Banerjee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, and an elected Fellow of ASME. Dr. Banerjee is the Director of the Integrated Material Assessment and Predictive Simulation (i-MAPS) laboratory. He has 20 years of research experience in the field of Ultrasonics and Acoustics, Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE), and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of engineered materials which have been his primary activities.  However, his expertise with ultrasonics, AI, and big data analytics spread across a wide field of contemporary research, e.g., energy harvesting, topological acoustics, metamaterials, point of care biosensors biomimicking for smart devices, and bioimaging. He received numerous awards, including the prestigious SHM person of the year award (2019), Achenbach medal young investigator award (2010), Michael J. Mungo award, to name a few. In his career, he worked and collaborated with multiple leading industries and government agencies, e.g., Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky, Airbus, Eastern Air Defense Sector (EADS), Embraer, Thales Alenia Space, BMW, Northrop Grumman, NASA, AFRL, NAVSEA, DoE, etc. He contributed to the NDE of the composite handbook published by NASA. He was the team member and NRA contributor in NASA’s Advanced Composite Consortium (ACC). Currently, he is a leading NDE team member on behalf of UofSC under the umbrella of High Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) effort. As PI/Co-PI, Dr. Banerjee has managed more than ~$6.0 Million research grants throughout his career that brought him an international reputation. He has published over ~140 publications in journals and conference proceedings, three book chapters, one book, and holds 3 U.S. patents related to NDE/SHM and ultrasonic big-data analytics. Dr. Banerjee received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, Tucson, while he received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) from IIEST, Shibpore, and Masters of Technology (M.Tech) from IIT, Bombay, India.

Book Title
Computational Nondestructive Evaluation Handbook: Ultrasound Modeling Techniques

Abstract
Introducing computational wave propagation methods developed over 40 years of research, this comprehensive book offers a computational approach to nondestrictive evaluation (NDE) of isotropic, anisotropic, and functionally graded materials. It discusses recent methods to enable enhanced computational efficiency for anisotropic materials. It offers an overview of the need for and uses of NDE simulation. The content provides a basic understanding of ultrasonic wave propagation through continuum mechanics and detailed discussions on the mathematical techniques of six computational methods to simulate NDE experiments. In this book, the pros and cons of each individual method are discussed, and guidelines for selecting specific simulation methods for specific NDE scenarios are offered. This book specifically:

• Covers ultrasonic computational NDE (CNDE) fundamentals to provide understanding of NDE simulation methods.
• Offers a catalog of effective CNDE methods to evaluate and compare.
• Provides exercises on real-life NDE problems with mathematical steps.
• Discusses CNDE for common material types, including isotropic, anisotropic, and functionally graded materials.
• Presents readers with practical knowledge on ultrasonic CNDE methods.

This work is an invaluable resource for researchers, students of advanced studies, and industry professionals across materials, mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering, and anyone seeking to enhance their understanding of computational approaches for advanced material evaluation methods.

Bio
Steven Taylor earned B.S. in Sport and Entertainment Management in 2006 and a Masters of Sport and Entertainment Management in 2007.  In 2008, he was hired for an Internship Director's position and is currently in the middle of his 13th year.

Book Title
Starting Your Career in Sport, Entertainment, and Venue Management

Abstract
Every organization in sport, entertainment, and venue management struggles to find employees who "get it." Very few have any idea of what working in this industry is really like. Even fewer are willing to put in the effort required.

Starting Your Career in Sport, Entertainment, & Venue Management helps readers to identify numerous career paths, some they never knew about, and describe some of the duties of each job.

This publication guides readers step-by-step to prepare them to compete for the scarce and desirable jobs in the sport, entertainment, venue management industry. The content tells readers not just what to do but how to do it in a way professionals value. 

• Gives graduating students an understanding of what it means to work in this dynamic industry and develop the necessary aptitude and attitude to reduce turnover.
• Walks readers through building their resume with volunteer and short-term opportunities to the internships that will allow them to compete in the industry.
• Includes an introduction to the industry, the benefits of experiential/internship experience, preparation and searching tips for landing an internship, and advice on how to build on the valuable internship experience.
• Features advice from industry professionals, chapter summaries, scenarios, and social media editing techniques to prepare future professionals.

Bio
Susan Bon is an active leader in national organizations focused on education law, special education law, and ethical leadership. As a Professor, she teaches and researches education law and has authored and coauthored over 50 publications addressing the legal and ethical principles that inform administrative practice and impact leadership in education and special education. She currently has a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to prepare future special education leaders in South Carolina. She is currently serving as the Presidential Faculty Fellow for President Robert L. Caslen, Jr., with responsibilities such as providing policy research and advice and acting as a liaison between the president and external and internal constituencies. Susan also serves as the Faculty Civility Advocate in the Provost's office. Susan is the immediate past president of the Education Law Association (ELA) and has been an active board member, author, and editor of ELA publications. She was lead editor for Contemporary Issues in Higher Education Law, 4th Edition (2019). Prior to her university faculty service, she worked as the ombudsman in the State Superintendent's Division of the Ohio Department of Education. She received her law degree and a doctorate in education policy and leadership from The Ohio State University. Susan recently was selected to serve a five-year term on the Ohio State University Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Book Title
Contemporary Issues in Higher Education Law, 4th Edition (2019)

Abstract
Featuring a new team of editors and authors, as well as new chapters on international/global issues and race and the law. This text provides historical context for higher education law and various internal and external stakeholders. In addition, the twenty chapters include expanded coverage of higher education topics that are increasingly important across college and university campuses.

Numerous individuals would benefit from this practical, all-in-one guide covering higher education law as it affects students, faculty and non-faculty employees, and institutional leaders. The new edition updates earlier editions and is now even more accessible for all students, including those with or without a legal background.

Bio
Susan Cruise, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina Lancaster. She is also the Coeditor of the Journal of Ideology. Her research focuses on education and the intersection of inequality with education. She has also published in the areas of nonprofit and voluntary organizations. She teaches courses in race, class, gender and sexuality, families, individual and society, social problems, sociology of education, and introductory sociology. She has taken students abroad to London, Paris, and Amsterdam in 2017 and to Ireland and Northern Ireland in Summer 2019.

Book Title
Social Problems: A Case Study Approach 5th Edition

Abstract
Social Problems: A Case Study Approach helps students identify with the social problem at hand through a case study at the start of each chapter. The case study provides a common reference point for discussions and questions and helps students relate to the experiences presented. This book features technology boxes which present thoughtful challenges related to the social problem under consideration and provides a great deal of social science knowledge on the problems. It addresses the interventions for the problems based on the research and provides students with clarity, precision, depth, breadth, accuracy, and social relevance -- critical thinking standards -- in a very understandable and applied manner.

Bio
Thomas E. Hodges serves as Executive Associate Dean and Professor of Mathematics Education. His research interests include the development of teachers of mathematics, particularly at the elementary level, with a focus on identity, agency, and teaching mathematics for social justice. Hodges has served on numerous task forces and committees at both the state and national level, and has secured in excess of $2 million in extramural funding to develop the Center for Research on Teacher Education (SC-TEACHER), aimed at identifying and institutionalizing promising practices in teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention; as well as to develop pathways to the teaching profession for traditionally underserved candidates in rural communities (CarolinaCAP).

Bio
Angela C. Baum serves as Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education and the Associate Department Chair of the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education. She formerly served as the President of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. Her expertise lies in the areas of early childhood teacher preparation and professional development at both the pre-service and in-service levels. She serves on several state and national committees related to teacher preparation and is actively engaged with the South Carolina Department of Social Services on several projects designed to strengthen the quality of early care and education in South Carolina.

Book Title
Handbook of Research on Field-Based Teacher Education

Abstract
The Handbook of Research on Field-Based Teacher Education is a pivotal reference source that combines field-based components with traditional programs, creating clinical experiences and on-the-job learning opportunities to further enrich teacher education. While highlighting topics such as certification design, preparation programs, and residency models, this publication explores theories of teaching and learning through collaborative efforts in pre-Kindergarten through grade 12 settings. This book is ideally designed for teacher education practitioners and researchers invested in the policies and practices of educational design.

Bio
Toby Jenkins is an Associate Professor in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies and Interim Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Graduate School. Her work focuses on the utility of culture (contemporary culture, folk culture, and pop culture) as a politic of social survival, a tool of social change, and a transformative space of non-traditional knowledge production. She also education as both a space of oppression and liberation. She has authored four previous books focused on the evolving ideologies of culture, family, and education in contemporary society. “My Culture, My Color, My Self: Heritage, Resilience, and Community in the Lives of Young Adults” (Temple University Press, 2013) was named by the Association of American University Press to the list of “Top 100 Books for Understanding Race Relations in the US”. “Family, Community, & Higher Education” (Routledge Press, 2012) is an edited volume that explores the critical role of family and community in the lives of first-generation college students. “The Open Mic Night: Campus Programs that Champion College Student Voice and Engagement” (Stylus Press, 2017) focuses on integrating hip hop culture into activist educational spaces. It received a 2018 AERA Special Recognition for Outstanding Edited Volume in Curriculum Studies. Her most recent book, Culture, Community, and Educational Success: Re-imagining the Invisible Knapsack (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), contributes to the base of scholarship on cultural capital and assets. Prior to becoming faculty, Jenkins spent ten years serving as an administrative leader in diversity and inclusion in higher education.

Book Title
Reshaping Graduate Education Through Innovation and Experiential Learning

Abstract
Discussions on the importance and impact of the pedagogical practice on students as whole persons are often concentrated on the P-12 or undergraduate learning experience. In higher education, many institutions do an outstanding job of complicating the undergraduate classroom to include civic engagement, community-based learning, education abroad, social action, and project-based learning. But, what about the graduate classroom? While there are indeed numerous graduate programs that push students to interact with strong, meaningful, difficult, and sometimes harsh facts, scholarship, and ideologies, the instructional methods have largely remained stagnant. New methods of constructing deep and meaningful learning in graduate education is essential for the transformation and continued evolution of graduate school instruction.

Bio
Thomas Crocker is a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of law, where he teaches courses on Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, Free Speech and Democracy, National Security and the Constitution, as well as seminars in Jurisprudence and Law & Literature.

Professor Crocker graduated from Yale Law School, where he was Book Reviews Editor of the Yale Law Journal and an editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. After graduating from law school, Professor Crocker clerked for Judge Carlos F. Lucero on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prior to attending law school, he completed a Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University, an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Wales, and a B.A. summa cum laude from Mississippi State University, majoring in Economics and Philosophy. He also taught philosophy at St. Lawrence University in New York as a Visiting Assistant Professor before attending law school.

Professor Crocker has held fellowships as a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, MA, and as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Germany at the Johann Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, where he was a resident fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities) and a participant in the Formation of Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh in Summer 2013. Most recently, he was the MacCormick Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh School of Law from April 2015 through August 2015. In 2013, he was named a USC Breakthrough Star in recognition of the scholarly impact and potential of his work.

His recent scholarship focuses on issues of privacy, constitutional interpretation, and the nature of constitutional constraints. Recent articles appear in, among others, the UCLA, Texas, Washington University, Boston College, Fordham, and Connecticut Law Reviews, as well as the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. He won the law school’s Outstanding Article Publication award three times. His article, “From Privacy to Liberty,” which appeared in the UCLA Law Review, was selected for presentation at the 2009 Law & Humanities Interdisciplinary Junior Scholars Workshop held at Georgetown Law Center.

His current book project, Overcoming Necessity: Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism is under contract with Yale University Press. This project in constitutional theory analyzes how the concept of necessity interacts with constitutional commitments to create dynamic challenges to constitutional governance, especially during times of emergency.

Book Title
Overcoming Necessity: Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism

Abstract
Using emergency as a cause for action ultimately leads to an almost unnoticed evolution in the political understanding of presidential powers. The Constitution, however, was designed to function under “states of exception,” most notably through the separation of powers, and provides ample internal checks on emergency actions taken under claims of necessity. Thomas Crocker urges Congress, the courts, and other bodies to put those checks into practice.

Bio
Derek Black is a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. His areas of expertise include education law and policy, constitutional law, civil rights, evidence, and torts. The focus of his current scholarship is the intersection of constitutional law and public education, particularly as it pertains to educational equality and fairness for disadvantaged students. His earlier work focused more heavily on intentional discrimination standards. His articles have been published and are forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Boston University Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, Boston College Law Review, and North Carolina Law Review, among various others. His work has also been cited in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and by several briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Prior to teaching, he litigated issues relating to school desegregation, diversity, school finance equity, student discipline, and special education at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He left the Lawyers’ Committee to teach at Howard University School of Law, where he also founded and directed the Education Rights Center.

Professor Black has also taught at the University of North Carolina School of Law and American University Washington College of Law. Beyond teaching, has been active in various outside endeavors, including serving as pro bono counsel in civil rights cases, a consultant to civil rights campaigns, and a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.

He attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Law Review for two years, was awarded the Dan Pollitt ACLU fellowship in his third year, and graduated with High Honors.

Book Title
Education Law: Equality, Fairness, and Reform, 3rd Edition

Abstract
Written by Derek Black, one of the nation’s foremost experts in education law and policy, and Education Law Association’s 2015 Goldberg Award for Most Significant Publication in Education Law recipient, this third edition casebook develops Education Law through the themes of equality, fairness, and reform. The book focuses on the laws of equal educational opportunity for various disadvantaged student populations, recent reform movements designed to improve education and the general constitutional rights that extend to all students.

Bio
Mitchell L. Yell, Ph.D., is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and a Professor in Special Education at the University of South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. in special education from the University of Minnesota. His professional interests include special education law, IEP development, progress monitoring, and parent involvement in special education. Dr. Yell has published 134 journal articles, six textbooks, 36 book chapters and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring. His textbook, Special Education and the Law is in its 5th edition. In 2020, he was awarded the Researcher of the Year from the Council for Exceptional Children. Dr. Yell also serves as a State-level due process review officer (SRO) in South Carolina and is on the Board of Directors of the Council for Exceptional Children. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 12 years.

Book Title
The Law and Special Education (5th edition)

Abstract
The purpose of the Law and Special Education helps teachers and educational administrators understand their legal obligations relative to providing a free, appropriate public education for students with disabilities. Clear, straightforward, and very accessible, this indispensable resource (1) walks readers through the history and current developments of special education law and (2) gives educators the information and the tools they need to develop legally sound and educationally appropriate special education programs.

Bio
C. Spencer Platt is an Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration and the Interim Director of the Center for Innovation in Higher Education at the University of South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His M.S. degree is from the University of Dayton and he holds a baccalaureate degree from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Platt has over twenty years of experience in student affairs, community engagement, diversity/equity, and academic affairs. His research interests center on issues of diversity, equity, access, and excellence in education. Dr. Platt's research has been published in the Journal of College Student Development, the Journal of Advanced Academics, The Journal of Negro Education and he has co-edited three books. He has presented his work at the numerous national and international academic conferences and institutes including: the American Educational Research Association, the Association for the Study of Higher Education, the International Conference on Doctoral Education, the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education. He is also a co-founder of the Critical Race Theory Summer Institute hosted annually at the University of South Carolina.

Book Title
Multicultural Education in the 21st Century: Innovative Research and Practices

Abstract
As the educational landscape of America continues to evolve and diversify, college faculty and administrators must be cutting edge in their approaches to create a variety of educational experiences with a greater level of multicultural cognizance. Unlike in previous generations, higher education in the 21st century is no longer a luxury reserved for the elite and wealthy but is an increasing necessity for access to labor markets. Community colleges and universities are working hard to respond to the demands of the labor market, by attempting to provide skills for jobs that may not yet exist.

Colleges and universities should aim to make all of their students feel welcome and a part of the campus being committed to celebrating differences. Additionally, filling faculty seats with varied races, cultures, perspectives and identities will aid in providing mentors and role models everyone can relate to. These are some of the vital steps toward building a campus community that helps students develop a sense of belonging and that allows them to persist and thrive in college. 

The scholarship in this volume illustrates the state of multicultural education on college and university campuses. The authors bridge foundational knowledge with contemporary understandings; making the work both accessible for novices and beneficial for the authorities on multicultural education. This volume provides thoughtful discourse on issues ranging from the racial and ethnic diversity of the student and faculty bodies, and important topics like disability issues, to different educational contexts such as community colleges, HBCUs and HSI institutions.

Bio
George Hendry serves as director of the McCutchen House and senior lecturer in the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management and coordinates the Culinary Institute at Carolina, located in the McCutchen House. Prior to coming to the University of South Carolina, he opened and operated local restaurants in the Poconos of Pennsylvania, and later opened two of his own restaurants. As a result of those experiences, Hendry was given the opportunity to teach at the high school career institute where he was an educator for 25 years. 

Bio
Robert "Robby" Lybrand has more than 22 years of experience in the restaurant and foodservice industry. During that time, he has held many positions such as executive chef, restaurant owner, catering director and food and beverage director. Lybrand has also worked in several different sectors of the food service and hospitality industry, including private clubs, corporate restaurants, private restaurants, as well as a corporate theme park restaurant, Le Cellier Steakhouse, in Walt Disney World. Most recently, Lybrand has spent the past six years at H. B. Swofford Career Center in Spartanburg, S.C., where he implemented and taught the culinary arts program.

Book Title
Essential Culinary Lab Workbook

Abstract
The Essential Culinary Lab Workbook is a collection of recipes for culinary instructors to use in order to instruct students in a laboratory environment. These proven recipes allow students to prepare smaller quantities of food so that they can improve on their skills while following the basic culinary cooking techniques.

Bio
Dr. Jorge Camacho is a Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Latin American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. In 2014, he was the first Hispanic/Latino faculty member to win the Russell Award for Humanities and Social Sciences at UofSC. Since then, Mr. Camacho has published four new monographs on different topics, four critical editions of books, and four other volumes with previously unknown and uncollected chronicles, written by José Martí and Rubén Darío, the two most important authors in 19th century Latin America. In total, he has published fourteen books and more than one hundred refereed essays on topics such as the Spanish Conquest of America, modernism, indigeneity, slavery, and African religions in top refereed journals and scholarly collections in the U.S., Canada, and Spain. His books with José Martí's chronicles are being reprinted by the Centre for Higher Studies of José Martí in Havana, Cuba. And Rubén Darío’s twelve new articles, together with his introductory essay, were reproduced by Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition to his scholarly publications, Mr. Camacho has also made fighting human rights violations and racism a priority in his life. He was a member of the first group of intellectuals that publicly questioned Fidel Castro’s cultural policies in 1989, and at UofSC he has actively contributed to different programs and worked closely with students to make the institution more diverse and inclusive.

Book Title
La angustia de Eros: sexualidad y violencia en la literatura cubana. [Eros’ anguish: Sexuality and Violence in Cuban literature]

Abstract
This book deals with sexuality and violence in Cuban literature, art, and advertisement. It analyzes instances in which eroticism is mixed with violence, censorship, and race from the late 16th century to the present.

Bio
Dr. Nic Ularu is the Head of the MFA Design Program and a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Ularu has extensive design credits in the U.S. and Europe, including theatres in Sweden, Northern Ireland and Romania. He was the head of scenography at the National Theatre of Bucharest - Romania, and served for four years as a board member of The European League of the Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has taught scene and/or costume design in Romania, Germany, Sweden, UK, Italy, Denmark and Hong Kong. Prior to UofSC, he taught at Smith College, National Theatre School of Denmark and The University of Theatre and Film, Romania. In 2003, Professor Ularu received an OBIE award for outstanding achievement in Off-Broadway theater. Dr. Ularu’s designs appeared in the USA entries at the Prague Quadrennial International Exhibitions of scenography in 2007, 2003 and 1998. In 2005, Nic co-designed the exhibit and designed the poster of the World Stage Design Exhibition, Toronto - Canada, and was appointed by the United States Institute of Theatre Technology as the leading designer and curator of the USA National Exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial International Exhibition of 2007. Besides his national and international design activity, Dr. Ularu is a playwright and director. His recent freelance work as playwright and director includes several acclaimed productions at LaMaMa ETC - New York, Sibiu International Theatre Festival - Romania, Teatrul Foarte Mic, Bucharest - Romania, “O” Teatret - Sweden, National Theatre of Constanta - Romania, and National Theatre of Cluj - Romania.

Book Title
THE OFF-OFF-BROADWAY PHENOMENON

Abstract
The Off-Off-Broadway movement was born in 1958 and revolutionized the American theater, and significantly contributed to the international stage's development. Like any artistic movement, Off-Off-Broadway theater started as a reaction of the avant-garde artists of the period against Off-Broadway, which was viewed as a small-scale variant of the Broadway productions. Without the pressure for profits, the Off-Broadway productions repeated the Broadway establishment's same commercialism and taste. Under an ambitious slogan "The complete rejection of the commercial theater", young poets, musicians, artists, and playwrights gathered around some coffeehouses in Greenwich Village — a part of Manhattan that has kept its bohemian appearance until nowadays — to create new forms of artistic expression.

Started as a new movement aimed at reviving theater as an art form to counterbalance the Broadway commercial theater (or what it is called the "entertainment industry"), Off-Off-Broadway theater has remarkably undergone more than 56 years of existence. Regarded by some theorists more as an underground challenging, diverse, exuberant, and imaginative current than an avant-garde movement rigorously defined, Off-Off-Broadway theatre represented a new infusion of vitality in the New York artistic landscape of the period.

The European theater influenced the Off-Off-Broadway theater, and in its turn, influenced it. This ambivalent exchange was possible because of the numerous European tours of some movement representative theatre companies. Some famous directors of the twentieth century, such as Peter Brook, Jerzy Grotowski, Tadeusz Kantor, Andrei Serban, and many others, who worked or presented their creations in New York, influenced the American theatre. Our book on this subject could contribute to the understanding of the Off-Off-Broadway phenomenon. For us, the subject is fascinating and very personal because we devoted half of our artistic and professional life of more than 34 years to this theater-style as a theater practitioner who had the opportunity to work professionally in this field to be studied.

The book proposes a study of trends in the contemporary American theater movement related to the Off-Off-Broadway history.

Beyond the study of the books written on the subject, we had the chance to achieve information from primary sources. The contact with some personalities of the Off-Off-Broadway theater was very inspiring. We have met, and we worked, with theatre people such as Ellen Stewart (interviews in 2008 and 2009), Marshal Mason (2002), Paul Zimet, Ellen Maddow, Tina Shepard, Michael Smith (2015 and 2016), Robert Patrick (2015) and many others. It is tough to extract the "objective" information from the witnesses and the Off-Off-Broadway creators, and it is even more challenging to classify the Off-Off-Broadway companies or productions on a scale of values. We tried to point out some relevant aspects that we found by studying various documents (including some of the theatre reviews in The Village Voice), without starting polemics with several researchers of the Off-Off-Broadway movement (especially on to the period 1970-1980), who circumvent the activity of some companies.

Although some of Off-Off Broadway's playwrights and directors did not create performances as a manifest reaction against the American commercial theater, they developed a new theatrical aesthetic and a new style that uses symbols and a new syntax very similar to American Pop Art.

There is some debate about the phenomenon Off-Off-Broadway, as an avant-garde movement because the playwrights did not have a proper manifest, and the movement was not necessarily created as a direct reaction against Broadway's commercialism. However, the Off-Off plays have a lot in common, and they are different from everything that has been written and produced in American theater until the early 60s. The physical stage restrictions forced the playwrights to create plays with a limited number of characters and the directors to work in poor technical conditions and minimal sets. This denominator will create in time a new theatrical style.

From our perspective, all those theoreticians who deny the existence of a manifest, and thus of an avant-garde movement, refuse to consider the activity of Living Theatre as a part of the Off-Off-Broadway theater and as the predecessor of this movement. Peculiarly, the vast majority of researchers cite Julian Beck's manifesto written in the late 1950s but claim at the same time that the movement does not have any manifest.

We will try to argue this classification, which excludes the Living Theatre company as a part of Off-Off-Broadway, by placing it in the Off-Broadway theater.

One of the book's main objectives is to analyze several theater companies' activities, which influenced the Off-Off movement. We chose to study the Talking Band company that was formed by the core members of the Open Theatre's group (after it dismantled in 1973), whose activities represent an actual bridge in time between the contemporary Off-Off-Broadway theater and the movement's pick from the mid-70s.

Due to the primary sources of information, the amount of subjectivity in any research on the Off-Off-Broadway theatre movement is significant. The founders of the Off-Off theatre, playwrights, actors, directors, and set designers, who are still alive or who were interviewed before they died, remembered their personal experiences (which are more or less conclusive for the development movement as a whole), showing in general details of their artistic life.

The transience of theatre creation touched the Off-Off-Broadway theater, mainly because in the 60s, there were not accessible recording technologies as nowadays, and the filming of the productions was almost impossible due to the small budgets of the productions. Another reason for the lack of documentation on Off-Off-Broadway beginning resides in the counterculture's mentality of the 60s, focused on the present that did not leave space and time to document the theatrical creations. However, plenty of theatre reviews, diaries, and photos can depict a sophisticated understanding of this theatrical phenomenon.

Very few companies have realized the necessity of documenting their creations. Judson Poet's Theatre and La MaMa ETC are among the few institutions that kept and archived clippings, the reviews of their significant performances, photographs, and the painted or printed posters of their shows. Some of the dramatic texts written and produced in the 60s were lost, and one of the principal sources is the book "The Off-Off-Broadway Book," written by Albert Poland and Bruce Mailman, who published 37 representative plays of the movement. Besides the selected works, Poland and Mailman briefly describe some famous companies' activities and productions, from the beginning of the movement until 1972, when the book was published.

The new theatrical language developed by the Off-Off-Broadway movement addressed a particular audience of the 50s in New York. This public connected with the Pop Art movement (founded at the same time), with the new wave of beat poets, with the blamed homosexuality and social issues, with the experimentation of drugs, with racial issues, etc. The Off-Off-Broadway movement benefited from an audience hungry for new forms of art, which it undertook with enthusiasm. This New York public of mid-fifties differed profoundly from America's ordinary cultural life, dominated by Hollywood movies, television, popcorn, Coca-Cola, radio shows, and the newspaper comics.

Bio
James D. Kirylo is Professor of Education at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Kirylo has published works in a variety of educational journals, and among other books, he is the author of Paulo Freire: The Man from Recife (2011), Paulo Freire: His Faith, Spirituality, and Theology (co-author with Drick Boyd) (Sense, 2017), and The Thoughtful Teacher: Making Connections with a Diverse Student Population (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).

Book Title
Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Abstract
A central message that Paulo Freire conveyed to those who have been influenced by his thought was not to “follow” him, but rather to “reinvent” him. Reinvention of Freire is to contextually consider the cultural, political, economic, sociological, and historical climate that surrounds a particular reality. Given that it has been over 50 years since the original release of Paulo Freire’s landmark work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, with numerous printings and over a million sold, one could argue that this classic text is more influential today than when it was first released, drawing in academics from a variety of disciplines and from across the world. To that end, Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Contemporary Perspectives, chapter contributors are comprised of both first and second generation Freirean-influenced scholars who come from various geographic areas, with a cross-section of cultural, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, and experiences. As we are well into the 21st century, the reinvention of Paulo Freire in this text spreads through themes related to theology, technology, ecology, school reform, pedagogy, curriculum, leadership, politics, gender, sexual orientation, race, culture, ethnicity, psychology, and communication. As long as there is injustice in the world, and that there continues to be those on the outside looking in, the thought of Paulo Freire will always matter as underscored in this book.

Bio
Over the course of Dr. Hébert's career, his scholarship has received numerous recognitions. In 2000, he received the NAGC Early Scholar Award. In 2008, he was the inaugural recipient of the Mary M. Frasier Equity and Excellence Award from the Georgia Association for Gifted Children (GAGC) for his research contributions on diverse students, and he also received the Neag School of Education Outstanding Alumnus Research Award from the University of Connecticut. He was honored as the recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut and the 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award from NAGC. He conducts workshops nationally and internationally on topics related to gifted education. His research interests are the social and emotional development of gifted children and adolescents, underachievement, high-achieving students from low-income backgrounds, culturally diverse gifted students, and problems faced by gifted young men.

Book Title
Understanding the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Students

Abstract
Understanding the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Students (2nd ed.) presents a comprehensive treatment of social and emotional development in high-ability learners. Hébert discusses theories that guide the examination of the lived experiences of gifted students; social and emotional characteristics and behaviors evidenced in gifted learners; friendships and family relationships that support them; contextual influences that shape their social and emotional lives; and identity development. Moreover, the author examines the complexity of these issues with gifted underachievers, gifted culturally diverse students, twice-exceptional students, and young people from low-income backgrounds. The author provides a wealth of field-tested strategies for addressing social and emotional development. In addition, the book offers a plan for designing an appropriate classroom environment to support the social and emotional well-being of gifted students and a comprehensive collection of resources to assist professionals in gifted education research and practice.

Bio
Director of SCIAA since 2014.
Research Professor since 2019.
Associate Director and Research Associate Professor, 2011.
Director or head of Applied Research Division, SCIAA, 1992-2010.

Book Title
Francis Marion and the Snow's Island Community:  Myth, History, and Archaeology

Abstract
In the spring of 1782, being the seventh year of the American Revolution, a Loyalist Colonel named Robert Gray wrote a long essay entitled, “Observations on the War in Carolina.” In it, he described South Carolina as "a piece of patch work, the inhabitants of every settlement, when united in sentiment being in arms for the side they liked best and making continual inroads into one another's settlements." One of those pieces of patch work, the people living on and surrounding Snow's Island, South Carolina, were "united in sentiment" against the British crown. This community of partisans joined the rebellion as early as 1775 and stubbornly refused to surrender, even when Charleston fell in 1780. They supplied food, forage, and blood to the rebellion, and under the leadership of General Francis Marion, became an obstacle to British control of the southern colonies. This book is their story.

Bio
Dr. Weik received his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University and his graduate degrees from the University of Florida (1995, 2002). He chose a career in archaeology in order to explore African diasporan cultural transformations, African heritage, community building projects, freedom seeking initiatives, struggles with inequalities, compensatory justice, and social identities. Outside of academia, Dr. Weik's career has involved brief interludes in Cultural Resource Management and private consultation (museums, nonprofits, and government agencies).

Book Title
The Archaeology of Removal in North America

Abstract
The Archaeology of Removal examines the material implications of human dislocation, focusing on the 17th-21st centuries. This book shows how archaeologists are investigating the catalysts, dynamics, and meanings of removal. The contributors to this edited volume illustrate the diverse factors that uproot humans and their material culture.  They also explain peoples’ roles in removal, their responses to dislocation, and the consequences of being uprooted. A variety of themes are examined such as dispossession, social engineering, value, agrarian labor, class, memory, forgetting, landscapes, racialization, capitalism, violence, government intervention, preservation, neighborhoods, identity, cultural transformation, networks, and confinement.

Bio
Thomas Vogt received his diploma and Ph.D. from the Eberhard-Karls Universität in Tübingen, Germany. From 1988 to July 1992, he worked as a scientist at the Institute Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France. From August 1992 until 2005, he was a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, New York. His final position was Head of the Materials Synthesis & Characterization Group in the BNL Physics Department. In 2005 he moved to the University of South Carolina where he became Director of the NanoCenter and since 2009, has been Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate chemistry classes as well as a course on the history and philosophy of chemistry. From 2009 to 2012, he was a Visiting Professor at the African University of Science and Technology in Abuja, Nigeria. From 2011 to 2013, he was Associate Vice President for Research at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Vogt is Fellow of three scientific organizations: The American Physical Society (APS) (2006), The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2008) and the Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) (2018). In 2009, he received the International Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Sydney, Australia. In 2018, he became Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, UK. He also received the University of South Carolina’s Carolina Trustee Professorship in 2018 and the Educational Foundation Award for Research in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering in 2019. Dr. Vogt is author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications which have been cited more than 18,500 times, author and editor of four books and holds 10 U.S. patents. His work is focused on structure-property relations in materials science using X-ray, neutron and electron crystallography and imaging techniques. 

Book Title
Complex Oxides - An Introduction

Abstract
Readership: Graduate students and advanced undergraduate researchers, and other researchers new to the area of complex multimetallic oxide materials.

Contents:
Dielectric Amorphous-Oxide Electrolytes (M Helena Braga and John B Goodenough)
Magnetic Properties of Perovskite Structure Oxides (John E Greedan)
Ultraviolet and Deep-Ultraviolet Nonlinear Optical Materials (P Shiv Halasyamani)
The Solid State Chemistry of AUO4 Ternary Uranium Oxides: A Review (Gabriel L Murphy, Zhaoming Zhang and Brendan J Kennedy)
Transparent Conductors: Complex Coordination in Complex Metal Oxides (Karl Rickert, Steven Flynn, and Kenneth Poeppelmeier)
Complex Molybdenum-Vanadium Oxide Bronzes and Suboxides as Catalysts for Selective Oxidation and Ammoxidation of Light Hydrocarbons (Douglas J Buttrey, Douglas A Blom and Thomas Vogt)
New Crystalline Complex Metal Oxide Catalysts with Porous, Acidic, and Redox Properties (Satoshi Ishikawa, Zhengxin Zhang, Toru Murayama, Masahiro Sadakane and Wataru Ueda)

Bio
C. Spencer Platt is an Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration and the Interim Director of the Center for Innovation in Higher Education at the University of South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His M.S. degree is from the University of Dayton and he holds a baccalaureate degree from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Platt has over twenty years of experience in student affairs, community engagement, diversity/equity, and academic affairs. His research interests center on issues of diversity, equity, access, and excellence in education. Dr. Platt's research has been published in the Journal of College Student Development, the Journal of Advanced Academics, The Journal of Negro Education and he has co-edited three books. He has presented his work at the numerous national and international academic conferences and institutes including: the American Educational Research Association, the Association for the Study of Higher Education, the International Conference on Doctoral Education, the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education. He is also a co-founder of the Critical Race Theory Summer Institute hosted annually at the University of South Carolina.

Book Title
Comprehensive Multicultural Education in the 21st Century: Increasing Access in the Age of Retrenchment

Abstract
Multicultural education has become its own discipline, developed on the shoulders of the work of giants who argued its merit during the attacks of opponents who believed assimilation was the purpose of state-sponsored education. In an age of rising populism and nationalism throughout the Western world, again questioned is the merit of multicultural education. In the shadows of Brexit and an America First agenda, where migration patterns across the world have led to demographic shifts, it is evident even in the richest countries in the world that gaps in opportunity (and subsequently, achievement) still exist. Disparities in achievement lead some to question whether multicultural education works and others to revert to old notions that ethnically and linguistically marginalized students are, in fact, deficient. The scholars here believe in the untapped potential of all children and illuminate how educational structures have muffled the cultivation of that potential. Contributors argue the goals of multicultural education have not been achieved in part due to the piecemeal application of its tenants.

The scholarship in this volume illustrates the state of multicultural education and articulates what educators committed to equity, inclusion, and a more just society must do to ensure the goals of multicultural education survive in the current age. The authors of these chapters bridge foundational knowledge with contemporary understandings, making the work both accessible for novices and beneficial for the authorities on multicultural education. With the diverse cast of contributors and topics ranging from mathematics instruction to discipline practices, this volume provides thoughtful discourse on issues of access: access to curricular content, access to opportunities to learn, as well as impediments to access. Containing chapters that speak to discipline-specific pedagogical practices, the structures of schooling, teacher education, and research methodologies, the collected work encourages scholars and practitioners to not be discouraged in the age of retrenchment.

Bio
Dr. Jorge Camacho is a Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Latin American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. In 2014, he was the first Hispanic/Latino faculty member to win the Russell Award for Humanities and Social Sciences at UofSC. Since then, Mr. Camacho has published four new monographs on different topics, four critical editions of books, and four other volumes with previously unknown and uncollected chronicles, written by José Martí and Rubén Darío, the two most important authors in 19th century Latin America. In total, he has published fourteen books and more than one hundred refereed essays on topics such as the Spanish Conquest of America, modernism, indigeneity, slavery, and African religions in top refereed journals and scholarly collections in the U.S., Canada, and Spain. His books with José Martí's chronicles are being reprinted by the Centre for Higher Studies of José Martí in Havana, Cuba. And Rubén Darío’s twelve new articles, together with his introductory essay, were reproduced by Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition to his scholarly publications, Mr. Camacho has also made fighting human rights violations and racism a priority in his life. He was a member of the first group of intellectuals that publicly questioned Fidel Castro’s cultural policies in 1989, and at UofSC he has actively contributed to different programs and worked closely with students to make the institution more diverse and inclusive.

Book Title
Dos norteamericanas en la Guerra de Cuba (1868-1878): Josephine T. del Risco y Eliza Waring de Luaces. 

Abstract
This book analyzes and collects for the first time the testimonies of two American women who lived in Cuba during the first years of Cuba’s War of Independence (1868-1878): Eliza Waring de Luaces and Josephine Thompson del Risco. Both women were friends and were married to Cuban revolutionaries: Colonel of the Liberation Army Joaquín Lorenzo Luaces and doctor-surgeon Don Justo del Risco, respectively. Upon arriving in the United States, Eliza Waring published her testimony in the New York Tribune. However, Josephine Thompson del Risco finished writing her memoirs in 1889 but never published them. In this book their testimonies are made public and analyzed with the aim of underlining their contribution to the war and the connections during this time between both countries.

Bio
Jennifer Renee Blevins is currently a Bridge Humanities Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of South Carolina. Her first book, Limited by Body Habitus: An American Fat Story, received the 2018 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Award. Jennifer's work was recognized by a 2016 Breakthrough Graduate Scholar Award from the UofSC Office of Research, and she received the Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship in 2019-2020. She holds a BA in English and Theatre and an MA in English from Wake Forest University, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English from UofSC.

Book Title
Limited by Body Habitus: An American Fat Story

Abstract
Jennifer Renee Blevins' debut memoir, Limited by Body Habitus: An American Fat Story, traces the psychological and material consequences of taking up space in a fat-phobic world. Bringing together experiences of personal and national trauma, Blevins weaves the tale of her father's gastric bypass surgery and subsequent prolonged health crisis with the environmental catastrophe of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. These intertwined narratives, both disasters that could have been avoided, reveal points of failure in our systems of healthcare and environmental conservation.

Incorporating excerpts from medical records, journal entries, news stories, government documents, and other sources, Blevins composes a mosaic of our modern anxieties. Winner of the 2018 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, Limited by Body Habitus: An American Fat Story complicates the dominant discourse surrounding the "obesity epidemic" as Blevins tells the story of her family, their bodies, and their very American history with fat.

Bio
Thomas Vogt received his diploma and Ph.D. from the Eberhard-Karls Universität in Tübingen, Germany. From 1988 to July 1992, he worked as a scientist at the Institute Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France. From August 1992 until 2005, he was a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, New York. His final position was Head of the Materials Synthesis & Characterization Group in the BNL Physics Department. In 2005 he moved to the University of South Carolina where he became Director of the NanoCenter and since 2009, has been Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate chemistry classes as well as a course on the history and philosophy of chemistry. From 2009 to 2012, he was a Visiting Professor at the African University of Science and Technology in Abuja, Nigeria. From 2011 to 2013, he was Associate Vice President for Research at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Vogt is Fellow of three scientific organizations: The American Physical Society (APS) (2006), The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2008) and the Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) (2018). In 2009, he received the International Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Sydney, Australia. In 2018, he became Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, UK. He also received the University of South Carolina’s Carolina Trustee Professorship in 2018 and the Educational Foundation Award for Research in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering in 2019. Dr. Vogt is author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications which have been cited more than 18,500 times, author and editor of four books and holds 10 U.S. patents. His work is focused on structure-property relations in materials science using X-ray, neutron and electron crystallography and imaging techniques. 

Book Title
Solid State Materials Chemistry

Abstract
This comprehensive textbook provides a modern, self-contained treatment for upper undergraduate and graduate level students. It emphasizes the links between structure, defects, bonding, and properties throughout, and provides an integrated treatment of a wide range of materials, including crystalline, amorphous, organic and nano-materials. Boxes on synthesis methods, characterization tools, and technological applications distill specific examples and support student understanding of materials and their design. The first six chapters cover the fundamentals of extended solids, while later chapters explore a specific property or class of material. This builds a coherent framework for students to master core concepts with confidence, and for instructors to easily tailor the coverage to fit their own single semester course. With mathematical details given only where they strengthen understanding, 400 original figures and over 330 problems for hands-on learning, this accessible textbook is ideal for courses in chemistry and materials science.

Bio
Aria Dal Molin is an Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of South Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. in French and Italian from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Oregon. Her scholarly interests lie in the areas of sex and gender in the sixteenth-century literary academies, anticlassicism in the comedies of the late Renaissance, and transnational mobility in the early modern theater of Italy and France. She has published scholarly journal articles and chapters on Machiavelli, Ariosto, and sixteenth-century literary academies in Siena.  Her first book, Early Modern Italian Bromance: Love, Friendship, and Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Italian Academies, resituates the contemporary term, bromance, and its surrounding cultural discourse in the theater of sixteenth-century early modern Italian academies to demonstrate how young academicians sought both to institutionalize and prolong male bonding as a means of escapism from their contemporary social and political concerns.

She teaches upper-division and graduate-level courses in Italian Literature and Comparative Literature including Classics of Literary Theory and Criticism (CPLT 701/ENGL 733), The Italian Love Lyric (ITAL 405), Counter-cultural Italian Civilization (ITAL 400), Great Books of the Western World I (CPLT 301/ENGL 390), Great Books of the Western World II (CPLT 302/ENGL 391), and Twentieth Century Italian Literature ((ITAL 404). She also has created a series of special topics courses for the Italian program curriculum including The Italian Novella, Machiavelli and Renaissance Florence, TEATROMANIA: Italian Theater Practicum, Cercasi Umore: Understanding Italian Humor, and Laughter and Humor in Early Modern Europe (CPLT 415/FREN398).

Book Title
Early Modern Bromance: Love, Friendship, and Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Italian Academies

Abstract
The early theatrical form of the Italian bromance was the product of a particularly fruitful literary period in sixteenth-century Siena influenced by Renaissance humanism and the Age of Criticism. The focus on humanism led to Italian literary academies dedicated to the contemplation of man, his place in society, and his interpersonal relationships. In early modern Italy, the swift transition for a young man from a liberal period of male-male experimentation to married adulthood, as well as unhappiness with arranged marriages, fostered philosophical and theoretical debates designed to resolve conflicts between the individual desires of men and the constraints of compulsory wedlock. The growth in humanistic studies in early modern Italy further heralded a revival of the classical discourse of amicitia perfecta (perfect friendship), which led to an interest in classical lifestyles and philosophical debates contemplating how a man should interact in his friendships and his courtships. In addition to treating themes of love, marriage, and family, the popular literary genre — trattati d'amore (treatises on love) — sought to define the love felt between men. The relative freedom in Pre-Tridentine Italy to contemplate alternative relationships between men led to the creation of the early modern bromance.

This book resituates the contemporary genre of the bromance, as well as its surrounding cultural discourse, in the theatrical practices of early-sixteenth-century Italian academies, revealing how a group of early modern Italian academicians institutionalized alternative friendships between men to prolong male bonding.

This study combines New Historicism with Queer Theory and scholarly discourse on film to analyze the early modern influences on the performative practices of masculinity and male friendships in the bromance of contemporary film, television, and media. This book therefore analyzes the lives and friendships of young Italian members of the early-sixteenth-century Accademia degli Intronati and their public theatrical performances that displayed homosocial triangles using women to strengthen the bonds between men, by referring to the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gayle Rubin, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Taking a new approach to the homosocial triangle, this theory is further applied to theoretical discourses of perfect friendship (amicitia perfecta) as exemplified through the academy members testing its boundaries through narrative and performance. Ultimately, this book newly reveals how early modern Italian bromance narratives interrogate alternative roles of close male friendships, the love between men, and the confines of marriage, thus providing the foundation for the contemporary bromance.

Early Modern Bromance: Love, Friendship, and Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Italian Academies is an important work for Italian Studies, Italian American Studies, Comparative Literature, Literature and Language Studies, Theater and Drama Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Film and Media Studies.

Bio
Holly Crocker is the author of Chaucer's Visions of Manhood (Palgrave, 2007), co-editor of Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates (Routledge, 2014; with D. Vance Smith), and editor of Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux (Palgrave, 2006). Her articles have appeared in The Chaucer Review, Exemplaria, The Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Medieval Feminist Forum, New Medieval Literatures, Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, and numerous edited collections. She is also co-editor of a special issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies on "Premodern Flesh" 4.4 (2013; with Kathryn Schwarz).

From 2008-2015 she was the forum editor and reviews editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. She has been a member of the MLA's Chaucer Division Executive Committee (2010-15; Chair, 2014), a member of the New Chaucer Society Program Committee (Portland, 2012), and Co-Chair of the New Chaucer Society Program Committee (Reykjavik, 2014; with Glenn Burger). Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the NEH, the Folger Shakespeare Library, IASH at Edinburgh University, and the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. She is the recipient of the departmental teaching award, as well as the Graduate English Association's award for best performance in the classroom. She has also twice won the William Richey Faculty Mentor Award from the Graduate English Association. In 2014-2015 she held the English Department's Morrison Professorship and was a Visiting Research Scholar at Vanderbilt University. In 2016, she won the Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences, the highest award for research at UofSC.

Crocker just published a monograph, The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16018.html). Together with Glenn Burger, she also recently published an edited volume, Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 2019: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108672474). She’s currently working on two monographs: Feminism Without Gender in Late Medieval Literature offers a positive account of feminist subjectivity in Chaucer, Langland, the Pearl-poet, Hoccleve, and Kempe; Feeling Medieval: The Affects of the Past in Reformation England investigates how early sixteenth-century writers-including Askew, Bale, Foxe, and Tyndale-make use of the medieval structures of feeling they claim to suppress. She has recently published an essay on Langland and feminism in Exemplaria, an essay on Chaucer's Knight's Tale and feminism in The Chaucer Review, an essay on "Vertu" for the ARC Humanities Companion to Chaucer (ed. Lynn Shutters, Matthew Irvin, and Stephanie Batkie), and an essay on Chaucer's Clerk's Tale for The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (ed. Frank Grady). She also writes on the relationship between past and present for the ARCADE project at Stanford: http://arcade.stanford.edu/users/holly-crocker. You can find links to her work, including her current and developing projects, at her website: https://hollyacrocker.com.

Book Title
The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Abstract
If material bodies have inherent, animating powers — or virtues, in the premodern sense — then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter — namely, women — cannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethical action, Holly Crocker contends. In The Matter of Virtue, Crocker argues that one idea of what it means to be human — a conception of humanity that includes vulnerability, endurance, and openness to others — emerges when we consider virtue in relation to modes of ethical action available to premodern women. While a misogynistic tradition of virtue ethics, from antiquity to the early modern period, largely cast a skeptical or dismissive eye on women, Crocker seeks to explore what happened when poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered agent whose cultural supremacy was guaranteed by prevailing social structures but rather as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.

After an introduction that analyzes Hamlet to establish a premodern tradition of material virtue, Part I investigates how retellings of the demise of the title female character in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida among other texts structure a poetic debate over the potential for women's ethical action in a world dominated by masculine violence. Part II turns to narratives of female sanctity and feminine perfection, including ones by Chaucer, Bokenham, and Capgrave, to investigate grace, beauty, and intelligence as sources of women's ethical action. In Part III, Crocker examines a tension between women's virtues and household structures, paying particular attention to English Griselda- and shrew-literatures, including Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. She concludes by looking at Chaucer's Legend of Good Women to consider alternative forms of virtuous behavior for women as well as men.

Bio
Mark D. Weist received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Virginia Tech in 1991 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina. He was on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSM) for 19 years where he helped to found and direct the Center for School Mental Health (http://csmh.umaryland.edu), one of two national centers providing leadership to the advancement of school mental health (SMH) policies and programs in the United States. He has led a number of federally funded research grants, has advised national research and policy-oriented committees, has testified before Congress, and presented to the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. He helped found the School Mental Health International Leadership Exchange (http://www.smhile.com). Dr. Weist has edited numerous books and has published and presented widely in the SMH field and in the areas of positive behavior support, trauma, violence and youth, evidence-based practice, and cognitive behavioral therapy.

Book Title
Advancing education effectiveness: Interconnecting school mental health and school-wide PBIS, Volume 2: An implementation guide

Abstract
This implementation guide provides step by step processes with examples, activities, and resources for district and school teams to install and implement an Interconnected Systems Framework.

Bio
Amanda S. Wangwright is an associate professor at the University of South Carolina. She received her Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Kansas. She has published on twentieth-century Chinese art, its transnational patronage networks, conceptualizations of gender and the body, and unfolding canonization.

Book Title
The Golden Key: Modern Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)

Abstract
The first monograph devoted to women artists of the Republican period, The Golden Key recovers the history of a groundbreaking yet forgotten force in China's modern art world. Through its detailed examination of the lives and careers of six female artists — Guan Zilan, Qiu Ti, Pan Yuliang, Fang Junbi, Yu Feng, and Liang Baibo — this book argues that women were central to the emergence of modernist art in early twentieth-century China and to the nation's larger modernization project. Amanda S. Wangwright's analysis of a wealth of primary sources demonstrates how these women constructed public personas, negotiated space within art societies, applied feminist thought to their artistic praxis, and surmounted obstacles to their careers — wielding art as the "golden key" to professional advancement and gender equality.

Bio
Drucilla K. Barker (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1988) is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Women's and Gender Studies Program. She is a Marxist feminist economist whose research interests are gender and globalization, feminist political economy, and economic anthropology. Her work is interdisciplinary and ranges from examinations of the roles of gender, race and class in social valuations of labor, especially affective labor, to accounts of the financial crises that characterize late global capitalism. She is a founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics.

Book Title
Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspective on Families, Work and Globalization, 2nd. ed. Fully Revised

Abstract
In this brand-new critical analysis of economics, Barker, Bergeron, and Feiner provide a feminist understanding of the economic processes that shape households, labor markets, globalization, and human well-being to reveal the crucial role that gender plays in the economy today. 

With all new and updated chapters, the second edition of Liberating Economics examines recent trends in inequality, global indebtedness, crises of care, labor precarity, and climate change. Taking an interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist approach, the new edition places even more emphasis on the ways that gender, race, class, sexuality, and nationality shape the economy. It also highlights the centrality of social reproduction in economic systems and makes connections between the economic circumstances of women in global North and global South. Throughout, the authors reject the idea that there is no alternative to our current neoliberal market economy and offer alternative ways of thinking about and organizing economic systems in order to achieve gender-equitable outcomes.

Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of fields, policymakers, and any reader interested in creating just futures.

Drucilla K. Barker is Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina.

Suzanne Bergeron is the Helen Mataya Graves Collegiate Professor in Women's Studies and Social Sciences at the University of Michigan Dearborn.

Susan F. Feiner is a Professor of Economics and a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine. She is now retired.

Bio
Mark D. Weist received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Virginia Tech in 1991 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina. He was on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSM) for 19 years where he helped to found and direct the Center for School Mental Health (http://csmh.umaryland.edu), one of two national centers providing leadership to the advancement of school mental health (SMH) policies and programs in the United States. He has led a number of federally funded research grants, has advised national research and policy-oriented committees, has testified before Congress, and presented to the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. He helped found the School Mental Health International Leadership Exchange (http://www.smhile.com). Dr. Weist has edited numerous books and has published and presented widely in the SMH field and in the areas of positive behavior support, trauma, violence and youth, evidence-based practice, and cognitive behavioral therapy.

Book Title
Social Justice for Children and Young People: International Perspectives

Abstract
According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the goal of a social justice approach for children is to ensure that children "are better served and protected by justice systems, including the security and social welfare sectors." Despite this worthy goal, the UN documents how children are rarely viewed as stakeholders in justice rules of law; child justice issues are often dealt with separate from larger justice and security issues; and when justice issues for children are addressed, it is often through a siloed, rather than a comprehensive, approach. This volume actively challenges the current youth social justice paradigm through terminology and new approaches that place children and young people front and center in the social justice conversation. Through international consideration, children and young people worldwide are incorporated into the social justice conversation.

Bio
Elena A. Osokina received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at Moscow University, Russia. She has authored eight books published in Russian, English, Italian and Chinese, and numerous articles published in the major journals in Russia, USA, Canada, France, Germany, Finland, and Italy. More specifically, her research focuses on the impact that the Soviet industrialization of the 1930s had on everyday life, social hierarchy, transformation of the economy, and the nature of Stalinism.

In 2019, Elena Osokina received two book prizes: the best book on Russian history and the best in non-fiction (both books are in Russian). She is a recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, Kennan Institute-Woodrow Wilson Center, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, the National Gallery of Art, Hoover Institution Archives, La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris, France), Aleksanteri Institute (Helsinki, Finland), and others. 

Elena Osokina taught at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Oberlin College, and Missouri State University, and internationally at the Donaueschingen Academy (on the invitation of the Council of Europe) and Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (both in Germany). She is currently a Professor of Russian History at the University of South Carolina.

Book Title
The Heavenly Blue of Angels’ Vestments: The Fate of the Masterpieces of Ancient Russian Religious, 1920s-1930s (in Russian)

Abstract
This book is the first monograph to examine the odyssey of Russian religious art from the man-made chaos of the 1917 Communist Revolution to the creation of Soviet museums of early Russian art and then to the sale of this national heritage abroad to finance Stalin's industrialization. It is not, however, merely a study of one more Machiavellian dimension of Stalinism that placed the objects of a repressed church at the service of a godless state but, also, by exploring the marketing strategies employed by Stalin's merchants to promote icons as a new art commodity in the world market, this study challenges the stereotypical view of Stalinism as "marketless." Stalin's mass sales laid the foundations for the world market in Russian Orthodox art. This book received the 2019 Makariev Book Prize, 1st place; the highest book award on History in Russia.

Bio
Mark Minett is Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies and English at the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on developing close, contextualized accounts of approaches to storytelling within and across historical periods, industries, and media forms.

Book Title
Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling

Abstract
Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker. This re-examination of his seminal work during the "Hollywood Renaissance" or "New Hollywood" period of the early 1970s (including M*A*S*H, Brewster McCloud, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Images, The Long Goodbye, Thieves Like Us, California Split, and Nashville) sheds new light on both the films and the filmmaker, reframing Altman as a pragmatic innovator whose work exceeds, but is also grounded in, the norms of classical Hollywood storytelling. Its findings and approach hold important implications for the study of cinematic authorship.

Bio
Mark D. Weist received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Virginia Tech in 1991 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina. He was on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSM) for 19 years where he helped to found and direct the Center for School Mental Health (http://csmh.umaryland.edu), one of two national centers providing leadership to the advancement of school mental health (SMH) policies and programs in the United States. He has led a number of federally funded research grants, has advised national research and policy-oriented committees, has testified before Congress, and presented to the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. He helped to found the School Mental Health International Leadership Exchange (http://www.smhile.com). Dr. Weist has edited numerous books and has published and presented widely in the SMH field and in the areas of positive behavior support, trauma, violence and youth, evidence-based practice, and cognitive behavioral therapy.

Book Title
School Behavioral Health: Interconnecting Comprehensive School Mental Health and Positive Behavior Support

Abstract
This book examines the prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems in youth and the implications of little or low-quality mental health services available for them. It describes aspects of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and school mental health (SMH) that work together to form a comprehensive service delivery model called the Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF). The term school behavioral health (SBH) is used to describe SMH and PBIS working together, as in the ISF. The book examines perspectives of key stakeholders through a series of research forums, during which participants identified critical themes for the advancement of SBH in South Carolina and the southeast region of the United States. Chapters address key themes of school behavioral health from these forums, such as collaboration, schoolwide approaches, quality of services, and support for specific populations, including military families and youth involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. The book addresses barriers to providing behavioral health services at school as well as recommendations from key stakeholders for advancing SBH along these critical dimensions. 

This volume is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as practitioners, clinicians, and therapists across such interrelated disciplines as clinical child and school psychology, educational policy and politics, social work, public health, school counseling, family studies, juvenile justice, child and adolescent psychiatry, and child welfare and well-being services.

Bio
Dr. Gardiner completed his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan in 2014. Prior to coming to UofSC in Fall 2016, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg at Bonn University. He taught at UofSC as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies from Fall 2016 to Fall 2018, at which point he became an Assistant Professor. He has published numerous articles and an edited volume, in addition to the present book.

Book Title
Ibn Khaldun versus the Occultist at Barquq's Court: The Critique of Lettrism in al-Muqaddimah

Abstract
This brief monograph is a close examination of the chapter dealing with the occult "science of letters and names" (ʿilm al-ḥurūf wa-l-asmāʾ) in the sixth faṣl of Ibn Khaldūn's (d. 808/1406) famous al-Muqaddimah. It is argued that his views on this Sufi occult discourse are best understood in light of a rising tide of interest in lettrism, other occult disciplines, and millenarianism among the learned classes of eighth/fourteenth century Cairo, especially at the court of his patron, the Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Barqūq. On the basis of multiple recensions of the work, the text is approached as one that the author adapted over time according to his shifting personal situation and contentions with various interlocutors. Particular attention is paid to Süleymaniye MS Damad Ibrahim 863, the recension prepared for donation to Barqūq's sultanal library. A critical edition of the chapter on lettrism as it appears in that manuscript is included, as well as a new translation of the chapter.

Bio
Daniel M. Stuart received a B.A. in interdisciplinary Asian Studies from Long Island University and an M.A. in Sanskrit Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2012. Dr. Stuart has published three monographs and numerous articles on the topics of South Asian contemplative traditions, Pali and Sanskrit literature, and the history of Buddhist thought. 

Book Title
S. N. Goenka: Emissary of Insight

Abstract
In a life that saw him evolve from a staunchly religious Hindu to an ecumenical master of Buddhist insight meditation, Satyanārāyaṇ (S. N.) Goenka (1924-2013) emerged as a leader in the spread of lay mindfulness and insight meditation practice on a global scale. A second-generation Burmese of Indian origin, Goenka was a successful businessman before turning to Buddhist meditation for help with crippling migraines. Becoming first a close student and then assistant teacher under the innovative Burmese lay Buddhist teacher U Ba Khin, Goenka eventually felt the pull of karmic destiny to teach meditation in India and thereby repay the ancient debt that Burmese Buddhists owed to the original Indian Buddhist tradition. In the 1970s, as he became an integral part of the Indian Buddhist spiritual landscape, thousands of young people from the United States and Europe flocked to India to explore its spiritual possibilities. Out of this remarkable convergence was launched a global network of practitioners and meditation centers that would become Goenka's legacy.

Drawing heavily on Goenka's own autobiographical writings and Dharma talks, Daniel M. Stuart draws the first comprehensive portrait of the master's life and demonstrates that Goenka's influences, teaching, and legacy are much more complex than has been commonly thought. Stuart incorporates a wide range of primary documents and newly translated material in Hindi and Burmese to offer readers an in-depth exploration of Goenka's teachings and his practice lineage in Burma. Stuart further details the trials and tribulations Goenka faced in building a movement in India in the 1970s, developing a global network of meditation centers, and negotiating a range of relationships with students and religious leaders worldwide. This fascinating addition to the Lives of the Masters series reflects on Goenka's role in the revival of Buddhism in postcolonial India and his emergence as one of the most influential meditation masters of the twentieth century.

Bio
Samuel Amadon is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. He is the author of Like a Sea, The Hartford Book, Listener, and Often, Common, Some, And Free. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Lana Turner, and elsewhere. He directs the MFA program in Creative Writing, and edits, with Liz Countryman, the annual poetry journal Oversound.

Book Title
Listener

Abstract
The poems in Samuel Amadon's daring new collection, Listener, explore subjects as varied as art, domesticity, memory, night walking, voting, the future, and the Congaree National Park. What unites them is their active lyric and innovative prosody, as well as the relationship they build between speaker and addressee. 

The poems in this collection received this endorsement from Brian Teare, author of six critically acclaimed books:

"Listener bristles with disquiet, its lines a disquisition on the existential situation of the person who listens so hard to himself, "I found everything / Felt like my head." Emerging from "The empty moment before my face surfaces / Before I find I've started the whole thing again," these poems never escape knowing "Here I am...I'm no place new," but they go on to make of thought such an affable trap that we enjoy the sound of it snapping shut on us, too. Each poem makes play out of self's inevitable self-consciousness-"how I saw myself as my own / Toy"-and plumbs the remarkable capacities of poetic language for representation and plasticity, fact and fancy, imagistic precision and prosodic invention. The resulting music brings readers paradoxically back to themselves, to those moments when "I have a voice I can sometimes find / when my head's in a book, distracted and aware."

Bio
David Greven is a Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and publishes in the fields of nineteenth-century American literature and Film Studies. His books include "Intimate Violence: Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory" (Oxford University Press, 2017), "Queering the Terminator" (Bloomsbury, 2017), the Lambda Literary Award Finalist "Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity" (SUNY, 2016), "Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum America" (Routledge, 2016), and "The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender" (Ohio State University Press, 2012). His current book project is called "All the Devils Are Here: Shakespeare, Milton, and American Romanticism."

Book Title
The Bionic Woman and Feminist Ethics: An Analysis of the 1970s Television Series

Abstract
The ABC TV series "The Bionic Woman," created by Kenneth Johnson, was a 1970s pop culture phenomenon. Starring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, the groundbreaking series follows Jaime's evolution from a young woman vulnerable to an exploitative social order, to a fierce individualist defying a government that sees her as property. Beneath the action-packed surface of Jaime's battles with Fembots, themes such as the chosen family, technophobia, class passing, the cyborg, artificial beings, and a growing racial consciousness receive a sophisticated treatment. This book links the series to precedents such as classical mythology, first-wave feminist literature, and the Hollywood woman's film, to place "The Bionic Woman" in a tradition of feminist ethics deeply concerned with female autonomy, community, and the rights of nonhuman animals. Seen through the lens of feminist philosophy and gender studies, Jaime's constantly changing disguises, attempts to pass as human, and struggles to accept her new bionic abilities offer provocative engagement with issues of identity. Jaime Sommers is a feminist icon who continues to speak to women and queer audiences, and her struggles and triumphs resonate with a worldwide fanbase that still remains enthralled and represented by The Bionic Woman.

Bio
Dr. Hannah J. Rule is an Associate Professor of English in Composition and Rhetoric, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses including first-year writing, writing and embodiment, survey of composition studies, and the teaching of writing. Her research focuses on composition studies and writing pedagogies and appears in venues including CCC, Composition Forum, Composition Studies, and several edited collections. She is the author of the monograph, Situating Writing Processes (2019), which asks how conceptualizing writing processes as emplaced physical activity in time reshapes contemporary writing instruction to nurture context-sensitivity, situational differences, on-the-spot learning, and writing as relational and improvisational.

Book Title
Situating Writing Processes

Abstract
What should it mean today to "teach writing as a process"? In Situating Writing Processes, Hannah J. Rule takes stock of this familiar commonplace in composition studies, arguing for a renewed understanding of process that emphasizes situatedness. When attention is paid to the physical, material, and located dimensions of processes, the teaching of writing can emphasize differences, contingencies, and lived experiences of composing. Doing so is critical, Rule argues, to finally letting go of discrete skills and instead teaching writing as experience in seeing and responding to ranging constraints immediate and distant, material and social. Accounting for context, difference, and improvisation, Situating Writing Processes helps writing teachers and scholars freshly reimagine the histories and potential of an enduring concept.

Bio
Mark Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina. A winner of UofSC's Michael Mungo Graduate Teaching Award, he has directed sixteen Ph.D. dissertations.

He is author or editor of a dozen books, including Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (winner of the Organization of American Historians' 1997 Avery O. Craven Award); Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South; Listening to Nineteenth-Century America; How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (a Choice Outstanding Academic Title); and Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History. In 2014, he published The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the American Civil War. It was named a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2014. His work has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Danish, German, and Spanish.

His edited books include The Old South, Hearing History: A Reader, Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt, Writing the American Past, and, with Robert Paquette, The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas. He has published articles in the American Historical Review, Past and Present, the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of Social History, The Chronicle Review, and the Journal of American History. 

Recognized as one of the foremost scholars of the American South and as a pioneer in the history of the senses, he is also a noted scholar of the history of natural disasters. He is the author of Camille, 1969: Histories of a Hurricane and was co-author of Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi (with Susan Cutter, Christopher T. Emrich, Jerry T. Mitchell, Walter W. Piegorsch, and Lynn Weber), which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. This work was funded by a National Science Foundation grant. Smith has also earned funding for his work from the British Academy, the Mellon Foundation, and the Watson-Brown Foundation.   

Smith has lectured in Europe, throughout the United States, Australia, and China; he has keynoted the London Jazz Festival; and his work has been reviewed and featured in the New York Times, the London Times, Brain, Science, the Washington Post, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, Garden & Gun, and Foreign Affairs. He is the Editor of Studies in International Slavery (Liverpool University Press), of Cambridge University Press' series, Studies on the American South, and of the Pennsylvania State University Press' Perspectives in Sensory History. He has been a regular book reviewer for the Wall Street Journal. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and currently serves on the U.S. Commission for Civil Rights. Smith is currently working on several projects — a book on the intersection between disasters and US foreign policy in the post-Civil War period and A Sensory History Manifesto. His most recent book is Emotion, Sense, Experience, co-authored with Rob Boddice and published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Book Title
Emotion, Sense, Experience

Abstract
Emotion, Sense, Experience calls on historians of emotions and the senses to come together in serious and sustained dialogue. The Element outlines the deep if largely unacknowledged genealogy of historical writing insisting on a braided history of emotions and the senses; explains why recent historical treatments have sometimes profitably but nonetheless unhelpfully segregated the emotions from the senses; and makes a compelling case for the heuristic and interpretive dividends of bringing emotions and sensory history into conversation. Ultimately, we envisage a new way of understanding historical lived experience generally, as a mutable product of a situated world-brain-body dynamic. Such a project necessarily points us towards new interdisciplinary engagement and collaboration, especially with social neuroscience. Unpicking some commonly held assumptions about affective and sensory experience, we re-imagine the human being as both biocultural and historical, reclaiming the analysis of human experience from biology and psychology and seeking new collaborative efforts.

Bio
Geoffrey Alpert is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Carolina. He has taught at the FBI National Academy and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and has testified to the U.S. Congress, several state legislatures and to the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Research Advisory Council, and Policy Center Advisory Group, and serves on the Research Advisory Board, Police Executive Research Forum and is a Federal Monitor for the New Orleans Police Department, and a compliance team member for the Portland, Oregon Police Bureau. He was asked to evaluate aspects of the police response to the terrorist attack at the Lindt Café in Sydney, Australia, and provided testimony to the Coronial Inquest of Police Shootings in Queensland.

Book Title
Evaluating Police Uses of Force

Abstract
Our focus in this book is narrow: we seek to explore how individual police uses of force are evaluated. Nevertheless, this book is both necessary and a significant contribution to public and academic debates about police violence.

Bio
Thomas Lekan (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999) is a Professor of History and a faculty affiliate in the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment (SEOE). Dr. Lekan splits his undergraduate and graduate teaching responsibilities between classes in modern European history and courses in environmental studies. In modern European history, he offers an undergraduate survey of European civilization and intermediate and upper-level courses in German history, the urban experience in modern Europe, and everyday life under Nazism. In environmental studies, he offers a history of global conservation since 1800, public histories seminars focused on community outreach, and a graduate seminar on the Anthropocene. He is a recipient of the Golden Key Award for the Creative Integration of Research and Teaching and the Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Dr. Lekan’s research examines European environmental history and the legacies of green imperialism, particularly the frictions between global and local wildlife conservation and the uneven effects of tourism as a lever of sustainable development in East Africa during the decades of decolonization and early independence (ca. 1950-1980). His publications include Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945 (Harvard, 2004), the co-edited volumes Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History (Rutgers, 2005) and Whose Anthropocene?: Revisiting the Four Theses of Climate History (Munich, 2016), and most recently Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti (Oxford, 2020).

Book Title
Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti

Abstract
How did the Serengeti become an internationally renowned African conservation site and one of the most iconic destinations for a safari?

In this book, Thomas M. Lekan illuminates the controversial origins of this national park by examining how Europe's greatest wildlife conservationist, former Frankfurt Zoo director and Oscar-winning documentarian Bernhard Grzimek, popularized it as a global destination. In the 1950s, Grzimek and his son Michael began a quest to save the Serengeti from modernization and "overpopulation" by remaking an imperial game reserve into a gigantic zoo for the earth's last great mammals. Grzimek, well-known to German audiences through his long-running television program, A Place for Animals, used the film Serengeti Shall Not Die to convince ordinary Europeans that they could save nature. 

Yet their message sidestepped the uncomfortable legacies of German colonial exploitation in the region that had endangered animals and excluded local people. After independence, Grzimek raised funds, brokered diplomatic favors, and convinced German tourists to book travel packages--all to persuade Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere that wildlife would fuel the young nation's economic development. Grzimek helped Tanzania to create almost a dozen new national parks by 1975, but wooing tourists conflicted with rights of the Maasai and other African communities to inhabit the landscape on their own terms. Grzimek's global priorities eventually clashed with Nyerere's nationalist ones, as a more self-assertive Tanzania resented conservationists' meddling and failed promises.

A story that demonstrates the conflicts between international conservation, nature tourism, decolonization, and national sovereignty, Our Gigantic Zoo explores the legacy of the man who portrayed himself as a second Noah, called on a sacred mission to protect the last vestiges of paradise for all humankind.

Bio
Dr. DeWitte specializes in bioarchaeology, paleodemography, and paleoepidemiology. She is particularly interested in the evolution, ecology, epidemiology, and consequences of disease in past populations and the ways in which such research informs our understanding of disease in living populations.  For over 15 years, her research has primarily focused on trends in health and demography before, during, and after the fourteenth-century Black Death in England.

Book Title
The Bioarchaeology of Urbanization: The Biological, Demographic, and Social Consequences of Living in Cities

Abstract
Urbanization has long been a focus of bioarchaeological research, but what is missing from the literature is an exploration of the geographic and temporal range of human biological, demographic, and sociocultural responses to this major shift in settlement pattern. Urbanization is characterized by increased population size and density, and is frequently assumed to produce negative biological effects. However, the relationship between urbanization and human "health" requires careful examination given the heterogeneity that exists within and between urban contexts. Studies of contemporary urbanization have found both positive and negative outcomes, which likely have parallels in past human societies.

This volume is unique as there is no current bioarchaeological book addressing urbanization, despite various studies of urbanization having been conducted. Collectively, this volume provides a more holistic understanding of the relationships between urbanization and various aspects of human population health. The insight gained from this volume will provide not only a better understanding of urbanization in our past, but it will also have potential implications for those studying urbanization in contemporary communities.

Bio
Dr. Lewis is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina - Columbia. This position is joint between the Department of Anthropology (housed) and the Institute for Southern Studies.

During the spring semester of 2020, Dr. Lewis was the Mellon Visiting Professor of Justice, Equality, and Community in Anthropology at Davidson College.

In 2012, Dr. Lewis earned her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in the Department of Anthropology. This followed two degrees in economics (B.A. University of Michigan, M.A. Wayne State University). She then began as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Americas at Wesleyan University-Middletown, CT, in the fall of 2012.

Dr. Lewis is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

Book Title
Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty

Abstract
By 2009, reverberations of economic crisis spread from the United States around the globe. As corporations across the United States folded, however, small businesses on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) continued to thrive. In this rich ethnographic study, Courtney Lewis reveals the critical roles small businesses such as these play for Indigenous nations. The EBCI has an especially long history of incorporated, citizen-owned businesses located on their lands. When many people think of Indigenous-owned businesses, they stop with prominent casino gaming operations or natural-resource intensive enterprises. But on the Qualla Boundary today, Indigenous entrepreneurship and economic independence extends to art galleries, restaurants, a bookstore, a funeral parlor, and more.

Lewis's fieldwork followed these businesses through the Great Recession and against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding EBCI-owned casino. Lewis' keen observations reveal how Eastern Band small business owners have contributed to an economic sovereignty that empowers and sustains their nation both culturally and politically.

Bio
Elena A. Osokina received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at Moscow University, Russia. She has authored eight books published in Russian, English, Italian and Chinese, and numerous articles published in the major journals in Russia, USA, Canada, France, Germany, Finland, and Italy. More specifically, her research focuses on the impact that the Soviet industrialization of the 1930s had on everyday life, social hierarchy, transformation of the economy, and the nature of Stalinism.

In 2019, Elena Osokina received two book prizes: the best book on Russian history and the best in non-fiction (both books are in Russian). She is a recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, Kennan Institute-Woodrow Wilson Center, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, the National Gallery of Art, Hoover Institution Archives, La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris, France), Aleksanteri Institute (Helsinki, Finland), and others. 

Elena Osokina taught at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Oberlin College, and Missouri State University, and internationally at the Donaueschingen Academy (on the invitation of the Council of Europe) and Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (both in Germany). She is currently a Professor of Russian History at the University of South Carolina.

Book Title
DIETRO L'EGUAGLIANZA. CONSUMI E STRATEGIE DI NELLA RUSSIA DI STALIN, 1927-1941.  (In Italian)

Abstract
This is an Italian edition of Elena Osokina's earlier work that first came out in Russian and then in English. This research presents the distribution system of goods and foodstuffs in the USSR of the 1930s as an important facet of Stalinism, and Stalinism as a socio-economic phenomenon. More specifically, it reveals the principles of the state distribution of food and goods and the emergence of a new social hierarchy of consumption defined by proximity to power and the degree of involvement of individuals in industrial production. Furthermore, this book was the first scholarly work to document the existence of a huge black market within the Soviet planned economy under Stalin and explained the social nature of the black market through the people's strategies for survival. This discovery of the omnipresent black market within the state centralized economy challenged the stereotypical understanding of the Soviet economy as marketless.

Bio
Lauren Steimer is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Film and Media Studies and the Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. Her book, Experts in Action: Transnational Hong Kong-style Stunt Work and Performance (Duke University Press, 2021), traces a distinct, embodied history of transnational exchange by identifying and defining unique forms of expert performance common to contemporary globalized action film and television genres.  

Steimer has conducted extensive international research on stunt workers, including on set observation of action design techniques, visits to stunt training schools, and interviews with stars, stunt workers, and entertainment industry insurance executives in California, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. Steimer's work speaks to the spectacle of action design with greater specificity than previous academic work on action film and television because of her first-hand knowledge of stunt work and training. Steimer's work considers the transnational movement of style and technique and, in doing so, comes to terms with the effects of cultural policies, production structures, and financing arrangements on the creation of action spectacles and the laboring bodies of performers.

Book Title
Experts in Action: Transnational Hong Kong-style Stunt Work and Performance 

Abstract
Action movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Chad Stahelski stun their audiences with virtuosic martial arts displays, physical prowess, and complex fight sequences. Their performance styles originate from action movies that emerged in the industrial environment of 1980s Hong Kong. In Experts in Action, Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong-influenced cinema aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other locations and production contexts in Hollywood, New Zealand, and Thailand. Foregrounding the transnational circulation of Hong Kong-influenced films, television shows, stars, choreographers, and stunt workers, she shows how stunt workers like Chan, Bell, and others combine techniques from martial arts, dance, Peking opera, and the history of movie and television stunting practices to create embodied performances that are both spectacular and, sometimes, rendered invisible. By describing the training, skills, and labor involved in stunt work as well as the location-dependent material conditions and regulations that impact it, Steimer illuminates the expertise of the workers whose labor is indispensable to some of the world's most popular movies.

Bio
Tracey L. Weldon is a Professor in the English Department and the Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina. She currently serves as Interim Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education. Weldon earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics at The Ohio State University. As a quantitative sociolinguist, she specializes in American dialects, with a particular focus on Gullah and African American English. She teaches both graduate and undergraduate classes in Linguistics, including African American English, Language and Gender, Survey of Linguistics, and Varieties of American English. Weldon is an Associate Producer of the NSF funded documentary “Talking Black in America,” which was released in 2017 by the Language & Life Project at North Carolina State University. Her book on Middle Class African American English was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Book Title
Middle Class African American English

Abstract
African American English (AAE) is a major area of research in linguistics, but until now, work has primarily been focused on AAE as it is spoken amongst the working classes. From its historical development to its contemporary context, this is the first full-length overview of the use and evaluation of AAE by middle class speakers, giving voice to this relatively neglected segment of the African American speech community. Weldon offers a unique first-person account of middle class AAE, and highlights distinguishing elements such as codeswitching, camouflaged feature usage, Standard AAE, and talking/sounding 'Black' vs. 'Proper'. Readers can hear authentic excerpts and audio prompts of the language described through a wide range of audio files, which can be accessed directly from the book's page using QR technology or through the book's online Resource Tab. Engaging and accessible, it will help students and researchers gain a broader understanding of both the African American speech community and the AAE continuum.

Bio
David W. Matolak received a B.S. degree from The Pennsylvania State University, M.S. degree from The University of Massachusetts, and Ph.D. degree from The University of Virginia, all in electrical engineering. He has over 25 years’ experience in communication system research, development, and deployment, with industry, government institutions, and academia, including AT&T Bell Labs, L3 Communication Systems, MITRE, and Lockheed Martin. He has over 250 publications and eight patents. He was a professor at Ohio University (1999-2012), and since 2012 has been a professor at the University of South Carolina. He has organized multiple IEEE workshops and special sessions, and is Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. His research interests are radio channel modeling and communication techniques for non-stationary fading channels. He was elected a Fellow of IEEE in January 2021. Professor Matolak is also a member of standards groups in RTCA and ITU, and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, URSI, ASEE, and AIAA. 

Book Title
UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond

Abstract
UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond delivers a comprehensive overview of the potential applications, networking architectures, research findings, enabling technologies, experimental measurement results, and industry standardizations for UAV communications in cellular systems. The book covers both existing LTE infrastructure, as well as future 5G-and-beyond systems. 

UAV Communications covers a range of topics that will be of interest to students and professionals alike. Issues of UAV detection and identification are discussed, as is the positioning of autonomous aerial vehicles. More fundamental subjects, like the necessary tradeoffs involved in UAV communication are examined in detail. 

The distinguished editors offer readers an opportunity to improve their ability to plan and design for the near-future, explosive growth in the number of UAVs, as well as the correspondingly demanding systems that come with them. Readers will learn about a wide variety of timely and practical UAV topics, like: 

• Performance measurement for aerial vehicles over cellular networks, particularly with respect to existing LTE performance
• Inter-cell interference coordination with drones
• Massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) for Cellular UAV communications, including beamforming, null-steering, and the performance of forward-link C&C channels
• 3GPP standardization for cellular-supported UAVs, including UAV traffic requirements, channel modeling, and interference challenges
• Trajectory optimization for UAV communications

Perfect for professional engineers and researchers working in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond also belongs on the bookshelves of students in master’s and Ph.D. programs studying the integration of UAVs into cellular communication systems.

Bio
Elizabeth W. Edwards, MD, received her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, and completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where she served as chief resident. Dr. Edwards previously completed a master's degree in international business and worked at Computer Sciences Corp., where she served as director of property and casualty outsourcing. Edwards has many hobbies and interests and speaks fluent French and Italian.

Bio
Donald J. DiPette, MD, received his medical degree from Pennsylvania State University in Hershey. He completed his training in internal medicine and hypertension at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. DiPette is currently the Health Sciences Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia. He has previously held the positions of Special Assistant to the Provost for Health Affairs, Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of South Carolina. Previously, he was Interim Senior Executive Dean and Chairman of Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the Texas A&M Health Sciences Center College of Medicine.

Dr. DiPette is a member of several professional societies and organizations including the American Heart Association, the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association, and the American Society of Hypertension. Dr. DiPette is the immediate Past President of the Southern Medical Association. In addition, Dr. DiPette is actively involved in the Global HEARTS program of the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization, as well as the HEARTS in the Americas program of the Pan American Health Organization. He currently serves as the Envoy for Latin American and the Caribbean to the World Hypertension League.

He is board certified in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology and has a specialist certification in hypertension. His major areas of research, which have been funded by the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health, include the pharmacologic treatment of hypertension and the role of novel neuropeptides in the pathophysiology of hypertension. He has published more than 150 manuscripts in leading peer-reviewed clinical and basic science journals.

Book Title
Hypertension: A Case-Based Approach

Abstract
Hypertension leads to severe complications and increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, and death. This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of high blood pressure and covers treatment of hypertension and its associated conditions. Divided into three sections, the text begins with an overview of the condition, current guidelines on its management, potential organ damage, and non-pharmacological treatments. The next section covers the management of hypertension with associated disorders such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, kidney disease, and more. A complete chapter discusses 'white coat' hypertension. The final section discusses management approaches when initial treatment fails, and hypertensive emergencies. Each chapter is presented as a case scenario, describing background, previous control attempts, challenges, and treatments.

Bio
Joel H. Samuels is a Professor of Law and Director of the Rule of Law Collaborative at the University of South Carolina. He is also the Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Honored by the USC School of Law student body in 2007 and 2016 as the Outstanding Faculty Member for teaching excellence, Professor Samuels received his A.B., magna cum laude, in politics from Princeton University in 1994. At Princeton, he also received certificates in Russian Studies and European Cultural Studies and was awarded the Asher Hinds Prize in European Cultural Studies, the Montgomery Raiser Prize in Russian Studies, and the Caroline Picard Prize in Politics. Professor Samuels received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1999, where he was a Clarence Darrow Scholar. While at Michigan, he also earned a master's degree in Russian and East European Studies.

Professor Samuels has authored articles on international boundary disputes, maritime piracy and domestic civil procedure, and he is a lead co-author of one of the premier casebooks on international law, Transnational Law (West Academic Press). Professor Samuels also lectures extensively on litigation matters involving foreign parties involved in cases in U.S. courts.

As Director of the Rule of Law Collaborative, he oversees programming focused on rule of law development across the globe. In addition, he regularly lectures to U.S. Government officials from the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense on rule of law development abroad.

Following law school, Professor Samuels clerked for Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz of the Southern District of California. After completing his clerkship, he practiced law with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., where he was involved in a wide range of international litigation matters, including several international arbitration cases at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), litigation in U.S. courts involving the Alien Tort Claims Act, and the ad hoc arbitration of the Eritrea-Ethiopia boundary dispute.

In 2001, Professor Samuels left private practice and accepted a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. At Michigan, he taught Civil Procedure, Transnational Law, International Litigation and International Arbitration. In his first full year of teaching, he was nominated for the L. Hart Wright award for teaching excellence — the only visiting faculty member to be so honored. He maintains an ongoing affiliation with the University of Michigan, where he regularly teaches a course on International Litigation.

Professor Samuels has also worked at the World Bank in both Washington (in the Office of the Vice President for Africa) and in Zimbabwe (at the African Capacity Building Foundation). During that time, he was a member of the World Bank team that drafted the Initiative for Capacity Building in Africa. In addition, he has been a contributor to several Russian newspapers and magazines and a variety of African publications.

Bio
Professor Flanagan graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1964 and the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1967, where he was a member of the Law Review. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1979, he served in the United States Army, was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and was in private practice with Bell, Boyd, and Lloyd in Chicago, Illinois.

Before his retirement in 2009, Professor Flanagan taught Federal Practice, Federal Discovery, Federal and State Procedure, Federal and State Evidence, Remedies, and other trial-related courses. He is the author of South Carolina Civil Procedure (3d ed., 1996) and its predecessor, South Carolina Civil Procedure (1985, with Dean Harry M. Lightsey), as well as articles on procedure, evidence, and administrative law. He is a member of the United States District Court Rules Advisory Committee in South Carolina. He served as reporter to the South Carolina Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee, which drafted the civil rules of procedure for circuit courts adopted in 1985, and as reporter to the committee that drafted the Rules of Procedure for the South Carolina Administrative Law Court. He has been a consultant on procedural issues to the courts and to the South Carolina Judicial Council and is a member of the Fulbright Roster of Specialists.

 
Bio
Colin Miller is a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Previously, he served as a professor at The John Marshall Law School and a visiting professor at the William and Mary Law School. Professor Miller is the creator and Blog Editor of EvidenceProf Blog, which addresses recent developments in Evidence precedent, legislation, and scholarship. His areas of expertise include Evidence, Criminal Law and Procedure, and Civil Procedure. Professor Miller is a graduate of the William and Mary Law School, where he served on the William and Mary Law Review and the William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal.

Book Title
South Carolina Civil Procedure, Fourth Edition

Abstract
The SC Bar CLE Division is proud to announce the publication of South Carolina Civil Procedure, Fourth Edition by Professor James F. Flanagan, John S. Nichols, Professor Joel Samuels, and Associate Dean Colin Miller. This book has become the standard reference work on the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure. Each chapter tracks the order of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, with analysis, commentary, and case authority on each civil rule, as well as other important related topics such as service of process, personal and subject matter jurisdiction, the right to a jury, and post-trial motions.

The book is being published in two volumes. Volume I covers Rules 1 to 37 which discuss service of process, pleadings, joinder and discovery. Volume II discusses the remaining rules 38-86 including subpoenas, right to jury, summary judgment, trials and post-trial motions. The last four chapters cover personal and subject matter jurisdiction, venue and res judicata.

Bio
Dan Gabriel Cacuci holds the South Carolina SmartStateTM Endowed Chair Professor and Director of the Center of Economic Excellence in Nuclear Science and Energy at the University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC., USA, since 2012). He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nuclear Energy (2019-present), and has been the Editor in-Chief of Nuclear Science and Engineering, The International Research Journal of American Nuclear Society (1984-2020). He received his M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics and nuclear engineering from Columbia University in the city of New York. His scientific expertise encompasses the following areas: predictive modeling (including sensitivity & uncertainty analysis, data assimilation, model calibration, inverse problems) of large-scale physical and engineering systems, large scale scientific computations, nuclear engineering (reactor multi-physics, dynamics, and safety). Professor Cacuci’s career encompasses both the academia and large-scale multidisciplinary research centers. His teaching and research experience as a full professor (tenured or visiting) at leading academic institutions includes appointments at the University of Tennessee (1983-88), University of California at Santa Barbara (1988-90), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1990-93), University of Virginia (1993-2000), University of Michigan (1995-2000), University of California at Berkeley (2001-06), Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (2003-04), the French National Institute for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies in Paris (2006-09), the University of Karlsruhe/KIT (Ordinarius Chaired Professor and Department Director, 1992-2012), North Carolina State University (2010-12), Imperial College London (2013-2017). Professor Cacuci’s research and management experience at leading national research centers includes employments as senior section head at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1976-1988), Institute Director at the Nuclear Research Center Karlsruhe in Germany (1993-2004), and Scientific Director of the Nuclear Energy Directorate/Sector, Commissariat a l Energie Atomique in France (2004-2009). Professor Cacuci is a member of several European National and International Academies, and has received many prestigious awards, including four titles of Doctor Honoris Causa, the E. O. Lawrence Award and Gold Medal (US DOE, 1998), the Presidential Citation, American Nuclear Society (2020), the FRED C. DAVIDSON Distinguished Scientist Award, Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness (2019), the IAN SANQIANG Award, Shanghai, China (2017), the Annual Distinguished Lecture, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), the Arthur Holly Compton Award (ANS, 2011), the Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physics Award (ANS, 2003), the Glenn Seaborg Medal (ANS, 2002), ANS Fellow (1986), and the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Senior Scholars (Germany, 1990). Professor Cacuci has served on numerous international committees, was founding coordinator of the EURATOM-Integrated Project NURESIM (European Platform for Nuclear Reactor Simulation, 2004-2008), and founding coordinator (2004 2007) of the Coordinated Action for establishing a Sustainable Nuclear Fission Technology Platform (SNF-TP) in Europe. He has made over 600 presentations worldwide, has authored 7 book chapters, 290 peer-reviewed articles, and has published seven books.

Book Title
BERRU Predictive Modeling: Best Estimate Results with Reduced Uncertainties

Preface
The results of measurements and computations are never perfectly accurate. On the one hand, results of measurements inevitably reflect the influence of experimental errors, imperfect instruments, or imperfectly known calibration standards. Around any reported experimental value, therefore, there always exists a range of values that may also be plausibly representative of the true but unknown value of the measured quantity. On the other hand, computations are afflicted by errors stemming from numerical procedures, uncertain model parameters, boundary and initial conditions, and/or imperfectly known physical processes or problem geometry. Therefore, knowing just the nominal values of experimentally measured or computed quantities is insufficient for applications. The quantitative uncertainties accompanying measurements and computations are also needed, along with the respective nominal values. Extracting “best estimate” values for model parameters and predicted results, together with “best estimate” uncertainties for these parameters and results requires the combination of experimental and computational data, including their accompanying uncertainties (standard deviations and correlations). The goal of predictive modeling is to perform such a combination, which requires reasoning from incomplete, error-afflicted, and occasionally discrepant information, to predict future outcomes based on all recognized errors and uncertainties. In contradistinction to the customary methods used currently for data assimilation, the BERRU predictive modeling methodology presented in this book uses the maximum entropy principle to avoid the need for minimizing an arbitrarily user-chosen “cost functional” (usually a quadratic functional that represents the weighted errors between measured and computed responses), thus generalizing and significantly extending the customary “data adjustment” and/or 4D-VAR data assimilation procedures. The acronym BERRU stands for “Best-Estimate Results with Reduced Uncertainties,” because the application of the BERRU predictive modeling methodology reduces the predicted standard deviations of both the best-estimate predicted responses and parameters. The BERRU predictive modeling methodology also provides a quantitative indicator, constructed from response sensitivities and response and parameter covariance matrices, for determining the consistency (agreement or disagreement) among the a priori computational and experimental information available for parameters and responses. Furthermore, the maximum entropy principles ensures that the more information is assimilated, the more the predicted standard deviations of the predicted responses and parameters are reduced, since the introduction of additional knowledge reduces the state of ignorance (as long as the additional information is consistent with the physical underlying system), as would also be expected based on principles of information theory. 

In general terms, the modeling of a physical system and/or the result of an indirect experimental measurement requires consideration of the following modeling components: 

(a) a mathematical model comprising linear and/or nonlinear equations (algebraic, differential, and integral) that relate the system's independent variables and parameters to the system's state (i.e., dependent) variables; 

(b) inequality and/or equality constraints that delimit the ranges of the system's parameters; 

(c) one or several computational results, customarily referred to as system responses (or objective functions, or indices of performance), which are computed using the mathematical model; and

(d) experimentally measured responses, with their respective nominal (mean) values and uncertainties (variances, covariances, skewness, kurtosis, etc.).

Predictive modeling comprises three key elements, namely model calibration, quantification of the validation domain, and model extrapolation. Model calibration addresses the integration of experimental data for the purpose of updating the data of the computer/numerical simulation model. Important components underlying model calibration include quantification of uncertainties in the data and the model, quantification of the biases between model predictions and experimental data, and the computation of the sensitivities of the model responses to the model’s parameters. For large-scale models, the current model calibration methods are hampered by the significant computational effort required for computing exhaustively and exactly the requisite response sensitivities. Reducing this computational effort is paramount, and methods based on adjoint sensitivity models show great promise in this regard, as will be demonstrated in this book. The quantification of the validation domain underlying the model under investigation requires estimation of contours of constant uncertainty in the high-dimensional space that characterizes the application of interest. In practice, this involves the identification of areas where the predictive estimation of uncertainty meets specified requirements for the performance, reliability, or safety of the system of interest. The conceptual and mathematical development of methods for quantifying the validation domain is in a relatively incipient stage. Model extrapolation aims at quantifying the uncertainties in predictions under new environments or conditions, including both untested regions of the parameter space and higher levels of system complexity in the validation hierarchy. Extrapolation of models and the resulting increase of uncertainty are poorly understood, particularly the estimation of uncertainty that results from nonlinear coupling of two or more physical phenomena that were not coupled in the existing validation database. 

The numerical results presented in this book were obtained by the author in collaboration with his former doctoral students, Drs. Madalina C. Badea, Erkan Arslan, Christine Latten, James J. Peltz and Federico Di Rocco, to whom the author wishes to express his deep gratitude for their contributions. The author is also grateful to Drs. Aurelian F. Badea, Ruxian Fang, and Jeffrey A. Favorite for their collaboration and contributions. Special thanks are due to the author’s long-time collaborator, Dr. Mihaela Ionescu-Bujor, for her very significant contributions to the BERRU predictive modeling methodology, and for constructively reviewing this book. Last, but not least, the author is grateful to the Springer Editorial team, especially to Dr. Christoph Baumann, Springer Nature, for their guidance throughout the publication process. 

Bio
Dana E. Lawrence is an Associate Professor of English at USC Lancaster. Her teaching and research interests include adaptation, children's literature, Shakespeare, gender studies, and literary tourism. Her essay, "Isabella Whitney's 'Slips': Collaboration, Appropriation, and Coterie," appears in A History of Early Modern Women's Writing, edited by Patricia Phillippy (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She co-edited and contributed an essay to Adaptation in Young Adult Novels: Critically Engaging Past and Present (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), and she is currently completing an entry on Isabella Whitney for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing (forthcoming 2022). Her research interests include adaptation, literary tourism, and children's Shakespeare.

Book Title
Adaptation in Young Adult Novels: Critically Engaging Past and Present

Abstract
Adaptation in Young Adult Novels argues that adapting classic and canonical literature and historical places engages young adult readers with their cultural past and encourages them to see how that past can be rewritten. The textual afterlives of classic texts raise questions for new readers: What can be changed? What benefits from change? How can you, too, be agents of change?

The contributors to this volume draw on a wide range of contemporary novels – from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and Megan Shepherd's Madman's Daughter trilogy to Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones – adapted from mythology, fairy tales, historical places, and the literary classics of Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. Unpacking the new perspectives and critiques of gender, sexuality, and the cultural values of adolescents inherent to each adaptation, the essays in this volume make the case that literary adaptations are just as valuable as original works and demonstrate how the texts studied empower young readers to become more culturally, historically, and socially aware through the lens of literary diversity.

Bio
Elena A. Osokina received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at Moscow University, Russia. She has authored eight books published in Russian, English, Italian and Chinese, and numerous articles published in the major journals in Russia, USA, Canada, France, Germany, Finland, and Italy. More specifically, her research focuses on the impact that the Soviet industrialization of the 1930s had on everyday life, social hierarchy, transformation of the economy, and the nature of Stalinism.

In 2019, Elena Osokina received two book prizes: the best book on Russian history and the best in non-fiction (both books are in Russian). She is a recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, Kennan Institute-Woodrow Wilson Center, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, the National Gallery of Art, Hoover Institution Archives, La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris, France), Aleksanteri Institute (Helsinki, Finland), and others. 

Elena Osokina taught at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Oberlin College, and Missouri State University, and internationally at the Donaueschingen Academy (on the invitation of the Council of Europe) and Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (both in Germany). She is currently a Professor of Russian History at the University of South Carolina.

Book Title
The Alchemy of Soviet Industrialization (In Russian) 

Abstract
This book is a popular version of Elena Osokina's "Gold for Industrialization: Torgsin" that first came out in Russian, then in Chinese and forthcoming in English. The book explores the unknown extraordinary financial sources of Soviet industrialization, and peoples’ lives during the rationing system of the first half of the 1930s. The book was written specifically for the popular series "What Russia is" on the invitation from the New Literally Observer Press (Moscow, Russia). In 2019, the book received the "Prosvetitel" Book Prize (best non-fiction in Russian).

Bio
Swapan K. Ray, Ph.D., is currently a Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at the USC School of Medicine. He participates in teaching graduate and medical students. He is the Director of two graduate level courses. Dr. Ray has been involved in biomedical research for more than 35 years. He received grants for his research from the federal, state, institutional, and private funding agencies. He provided research training to the undergraduate, graduate, and medical students and postdoctoral fellows in his laboratory. He developed research collaboration with many investigators in different Universities and Institutions. Dr. Ray served as a reviewer in grant study sections of the federal government (National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Department of Defense) and participated in the grant review panels of the state governments. In addition, he frequently serves as an international expert when he is invited by the governments of the European (United Kingdom, French, Belgium, and Poland) and Asian (Singapore) countries to review the grants in his fields of expertise. Dr. Ray is a member in the international advisory board of the Broadspec Project (Nova Scotia, Canada) to provide expertise on the pathology and molecular biology of glioblastoma. Dr. Ray extensively presented and published in his fields of expertise (336 abstracts, 34 book chapters, and 215 peer-reviewed journal articles). His research has been highly cited (21769 citations, 63 h-index, and 184 i10-index) by other researchers from all over the world and featured in the newspapers and popular magazines at the national and international levels. Dr. Ray has, so far, edited 3 journal issues and 4 books (2 for Elsevier and 2 for Springer Nature).

Book Title
Retinoid and Rexinoid Signaling

Abstract
This volume on Retinoid and Rexinoid Signaling contains 18 chapters. 

Here is a brief overview of the content of each chapter: proteomics to specify loss of RXRγ during progression of epithelial ovarian cancer (Chapter 1); methodology for identification of acacetin as a ligand and regulator of non-genomic signaling of RARγ (Chapter 2); lentiviral delivery of shRNA constructs into acute promyelocytic leukemia cells for ATRA-induced differentiation and autophagy (Chapter 3); generation of new ligands for modulation of RXR functions (Chapter 4); retinoic acid signaling in regulation of angiogenesis in vitro (Chapter 5); methods to analyze RAR signaling in colorectal cancer cells (Chapter 6); rapid luciferase-based assays to assess activity and potency of rexinoids (Chapter 7); structure-activity relationship (SAR) study to generate novel rexinoids on a potent RXR agonist (Chapter 8); differentiation of primary myoblasts by using RXR agonist (Chapter 9); methylase-assisted bisulfite sequencing (MAB-seq) assay to evaluate generation of 5-formylcytosine (5-fC) and 5-carboxylcytosine (5-caC) in response to ATRA in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (Chapter 10); development of RARα-/RXRα-specific agonists as hemodynamics-based therapeutic components for induction of miR-10a and inhibition of atherosclerotic lesion (Chapter 11); the use of the Seahorse XF Analyzer to evaluate the role of RARβ signaling in regulation of cellular metabolism in melanoma (Chapter 12); reporter cell-based method to determine retinoic acid levels, synthesis, and catabolism in embryonic tissue (Chapter 13); methodology for analyzing effects of retinoid treatment on nervous system development and larval swimming behavior (Chapter 14); protocol for culturing embryonic chick lung explants and testing impact of retinoic acid in branching and pattern-ing using morphometric and molecular analyses (Chapter 15); quality assessment of RNA for chemopreventive effects of retinoids and rexinoids in formalin-fixed tissues (Chapter 16); protocols for assessment of autophagic flux in ATRA-treated 2D and 3D breast cancer cultures (Chapter 17); and non radioactive and radioactive telomerase assays with retinoid-treated cancer cells (Chapter 18).

Bio
Elena A. Osokina received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at Moscow University, Russia. She has authored eight books published in Russian, English, Italian and Chinese, and numerous articles published in the major journals in Russia, USA, Canada, France, Germany, Finland, and Italy. More specifically, her research focuses on the impact that the Soviet industrialization of the 1930s had on everyday life, social hierarchy, transformation of the economy, and the nature of Stalinism.

In 2019, Elena Osokina received two book prizes: the best book on Russian history and the best in non-fiction (both books are in Russian). She is a recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, Kennan Institute-Woodrow Wilson Center, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, the National Gallery of Art, Hoover Institution Archives, La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris, France), Aleksanteri Institute (Helsinki, Finland), and others. 

Elena Osokina taught at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Oberlin College, and Missouri State University, and internationally at the Donaueschingen Academy (on the invitation of the Council of Europe) and Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (both in Germany). She is currently a Professor of Russian History at the University of South Carolina.

Book Title
苏联的外宾商店：为了工业化所需的黄金 . Chinese edition of "Gold for Industrialization: Torgsin"

Abstract
The study explores state stores called Torgsin which sold food and goods to the Soviet people in exchange for gold and other valuables during the lean years of the first five-year plans (1931-1936). Torgsin became an economically successful means for Stalin to raise an extraordinary amount of hard-currency revenue to finance industrialization. It not only outdid the activity of the political police that confiscated people's valuables by force, but also outperformed the results of the major Soviet exports of oil, lumber, and grain. Torgsin became the major strategy for survival for people during those harsh times. The study of Torgsin enriches scholarly understanding of Stalinism, the functioning of the Soviet economy, the nature of Soviet everyday life and consumerism.

Bio
Swapan K. Ray, Ph.D., is currently a Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at the USC School of Medicine. He participates in teaching graduate and medical students. He is the Director of two graduate level courses. Dr. Ray has been involved in biomedical research for more than 35 years. He received grants for his research from the federal, state, institutional, and private funding agencies. He provided research training to the undergraduate, graduate, and medical students and postdoctoral fellows in his laboratory. He developed research collaboration with many investigators in different Universities and Institutions. Dr. Ray served as a reviewer in grant study sections of the federal government (National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Department of Defense) and participated in the grant review panels of the state governments. In addition, he frequently serves as an international expert when he is invited by the governments of the European (United Kingdom, French, Belgium, and Poland) and Asian (Singapore) countries to review the grants in his fields of expertise. Dr. Ray is a member in the international advisory board of the Broadspec Project (Nova Scotia, Canada) to provide expertise on the pathology and molecular biology of glioblastoma. Dr. Ray extensively presented and published in his fields of expertise (336 abstracts, 34 book chapters, and 215 peer-reviewed journal articles). His research has been highly cited (21769 citations, 63 h-index, and 184 i10-index) by other researchers from all over the world and featured in the newspapers and popular magazines at the national and international levels. Dr. Ray has, so far, edited 3 journal issues and 4 books (2 for Elsevier and 2 for Springer Nature).

Book Title
NEUROBLASTOMA - Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Interventions 

Abstract
This new book comprehensively reviews the current concepts in histopathological and molecular mechanisms that influence growth of human malignant neuroblastoma and exciting therapeutic interventions. The book, NEUROBLASTOMA: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Interventions, features a broad collection of chapters with contributions from leading investigators in the field to demonstrate the important roles of histopathology, molecular mechanisms, genetics, epigenetics, sternness factors, microRNAs, autophagy, and metabolism in regulating growth and death in neuroblastoma. 

The recent developments for therapeutic interventions in neuroblastoma are also covered extensively, including chapters on surgery, multimodality imaging, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy. The target audience is advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, medical students, postdoctoral fellows, and principal investigators with a requirement or an interest in current molecular concepts and therapeutic interventions in human malignant neuroblastoma. 

Key features:

• Comprehensively covers the histopathological characterization, molecular mechanisms, and most recent therapeutic interventions in neuroblastoma
• Recent developments in therapeutic interventions for neuroblastoma are also covered extensively, including chapters on surgery, multimodality imaging, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy
• Broad scope provides basic researchers, clinical practitioners, postdoctoral fellows, and students with the most current overview of the advances in neuroblastoma research and clinical practice