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An American Playgoer at Home

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An American Playgoer at Home serves as a companion volume to An American Playgoer in London. It captures the author’s theatregoing on his home territory in Northampton and Amherst, Massachusetts, in Hartford, Connecticut, in New York City, and in other places in the USA and in Canada as well. As a companion volume it covers approximately the same period of roughly four decades, from the early 1970s into the second decade of the new century. Almost all of the reviews are of live theatre; a few are of films that have an important dramatic quality or are a film version of an existing play, as in the instance of O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Joseph Donohue

Physics 132: What is an Electron? What is Light?

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A second semester introductory physics course for life sciences students that looks to deepen students' understanding of biology and chemistry through physics all through the lens of understanding two of the most fundamental particles in the Universe: electrons and photons. The book begins with exploring the quantum mechanical nature of these objects to expand on what students have learned in chemistry and then proceeds to geometric optics (using the human eye as a theme), electrostatics (using membrane potentials), circuits (using the neuron), and finally synthesizing everything in a unit exploring the meaning of "light is an electromagnetic wave."

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Authors: Brokk Toggerson, Edward J. Neth, E.F. Redish, Emily Hansen, John Eggebrecht, Julianne Zedalis, Klaus Theopold, Paul Flowers, Paul Peter Urone, Richard Langley, Roger Hinrichs, William R. Robinson

An American Playgoer in London

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Over forty-plus years, Joseph Donohue spent many days in London libraries researching thea­trical subjects and many after­noons and evenings in London theatres, witnessing almost one hundred twenty-five productions of original plays and revivals and recording his exper­ience in a series of metic­ulously kept journals.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Joseph Donohue

Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

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This textbook introduces key feminist concepts and analytical frameworks used in the interdisciplinary Women, Gender, Sexualities field. It unpacks the social construction of knowledge and categories of difference, processes and structures of power and inequality, with a focus on gendered labor in the global economy, and the historical development of feminist social movements. The book emphasizes feminist sociological approaches to analyzing structures of power, drawing heavily from empirical feminist research.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Donovan Lessard, Laura Heston, Miliann Kang, Sonny Nordmarken

Tutt* a tavola! Volume 2

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This book has all of the same features as the first volume: an opening song for each chapter (Ascoltiamo!); vocabulary and grammar sections; exercises based on a film clip (Guardiamo!); and more in-depth explorations of cultural topics (Punto culturale). It also introduces a new section, Leggiamo!, in which we begin reading short literary texts in Italian.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Melina Masterson, Stacy Giufre

Tutt* a tavola! Volume 1

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This new open educational resource is for Elementary Italian. Our goal is for this book to be comprehensive, user-friendly, inclusive, and cost-effective. Tutt* a tavola has two parts, one for each course, with six chapters in each. Generally speaking, each chapter addresses three to four grammatical topics and includes a vocabulary section related to a cultural theme. The vocabulary is also incorporated into the grammatical presentations and exercises. There is also a short reading in each chapter regarding different aspects of culture and language, to address those questions of diversity and inclusion that are often missing from the textbooks we have used in the past. To include more culture, we have also included multimedia: each chapter begins with a song that is used as a starting point for the inductive presentation of the chapter’s content, and ends with a video (a film clip, an interview, social media) that summarizes the ideas covered.

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Authors: Melina Masterson, Stacy Giufre

Wilde's EARNEST: A Century and More of Critical Commentary

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The present volume proposes to remedy the great lack of access to critical responses to Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Criticism of Wilde’s play abounds, but for the most part it lies out of the way, a challenge to track down, requiring research among a multitude of potential sources, or hours spent combing through files of newspapers, or consultation of biblio­graphies of Wilde.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Joseph Donohue

Radicalize the Hive

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This book is a collection of stories from the field and resources for new and intermediate beekeepers interwoven with my own experience as a beekeeper over the last decade. For context, I think it’s helpful to begin by introducing myself. My name is Ang Roell, and I run They Keep Bees, a queen rearing, honey bee research and education project based in Great Falls, Massachusetts and Southern Florida.

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Author: Angela Roell

Torniamo a tavola! Volume 1

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An intermediate Italian grammar manual Word Count: 12085 Included H5P activities: 20 ISBN: 978-1-945764-23-3 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

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Author: Melina Masterson

Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning

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Welcome to Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning - an interactive, multimodal, multicultural, open access eBook for teaching and learning key topics in United States Government and Civic Life. Open access means these materials are online, digital, and free of charge (Billings, 2019). This book is available online to anyone with an internet connection. The eBook can also be viewed and printed as a PDF file for offline viewing.

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Authors: Allison Butler, Chenyang Xu, Maloy R, Robert W, Torrey Trust, Trust T, Xu C