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Conversations about liberty in the U.S. often focus on freedom from - such as freedom from government. This focus can sometimes come at the expense of the freedom to - such as the freedom for all Americans to live the lives they imagine for themselves, and the conditions that might be necessary for this to be realized. In On Inequality and Freedom, a divesre groupd of authors explore how Americans might benefit from this expanded notion of what freedom trulyentails.

Dangerous Ground examines how white squatters in the American West came to occupy a central and destabilizing position in US political culture in the decades culminating in the Civil War.

In Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream, author Grant Wiedenfeld argues that sports films are a progressive critique of anti-democratic tendencies in the post-Civil Rights era and a site of multiculturalism's origin.

Gains and Losses looks at the details of politics, where individuals make decisions, negotiate with allies and opponents, suffer trade-offs and struggle with dilemmas, and often take to the streets as part of a broad strategic effort. In entertaining detail, the book presents six important, recent cases from three continents.

Music Discovery: Improvisation for the Large Ensemble and Music Classroom is a practical guide for teachers who want to develop their students' improvisational skills. It features both an overview of current research and 36 new learning activities in a wide variety of musical styles.

A provocative argument against the idea that we view the world through the lens of the language we speak.

This book offers readers a digestible, social-scientific definition and analysis of evil in its various incarnations, including hate, sadism, and a range of harmful behaviors. By mapping out the psychological and environmental factors that amplify our propensity for hurting others, Evil in Mind offers a systematic, research-based understanding of the phenomenon of evil for an accessible and potentially transformative read.

Ending Mass Incarceration explores why mass incarceration is a failed public safety strategy and what should be done to bring about truly transformative change. Although policymakers on both the left and right now recognize mass incarceration as a problem rather than a solution, and many states have taken steps to reduce prison populations, the criminal legal response to crime is harsher than ever. This book identifies three key dynamics that are bolsteringmass incarceration. It also identifies three broad changes that would limit the power and reach of the criminal legal system while also addressing the social problems to which it is a misguided response.

In Menergy, author Louis Niebur offers a fascinating new look at gay history through the sounds of San Francisco's queer nightlife. In doing so he also reveals new insights in the history of electronic music and dance music.

Cancer Navigation: Charting the Path Forward for Low Income Women of Color is a practical quick-reference resource for U.S. health care providers working with marginalized women throughout the cancer continuum. The authors present research and best practices for working with low income women of color empathetically and without judgement which is accessible for practitioners and support networks.

Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape.

The first collective work devoted exclusively to the ethical and penal theoretical considerations of the use of artificial intelligence at sentencingIs it morally acceptable to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the determination of sentences on those who have broken the law? If so, how should such algorithms be usedΓÇöand what are the consequences?Jesper Ryberg and Julian V. Roberts bring together leading experts to answer these questions. Sentencing and Artificial Intelligence investigates to what extent, and under which conditions, justice and the social good may be promoted by allocating parts of the most important task of the criminal courtΓÇöthat of determining legal punishmentΓÇöto computerized sentencing algorithms. The introduction of an AI-based sentencing system could save significant resources and increase consistencyacross jurisdictions. But it could also reproduce historical biases, decrease transparency in decision-making, and undermine trust in the justice system. Dealing with a wide-range of pertinent issues including the transparency of algorithmic-based decision-making, the fairness and morality of algorithmicsentencing decisions, and potential discrimination as a result of these practices, this volume offers avaluable insight on the future of sentencing.

The first resource of its kind, Palliative and Serious Illness Patient Management for Physician Assistants provides a fundamental framework for physician assistants and physician associates to incorporate palliative care medicine, including end-of-life care, into their practice.

An innovative, wide-ranging and thoughtful compendium of lesson plans and multimedia resources for middle grade music educators, Teaching Music for Social Justice makes new inroads at the crossroads of music education and social justice.