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  Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images

  Taylor B. Arnold and Lauren Tilton

  A new theory and methodology for the application of computer vision methods to the computational analysis of collected, digitized visual materials, called “distant viewing.”

  Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images presents a new theory and methodology for the computational analysis of digital images, offering a lively, constructive critique of computer vision that you can actually use. What does it mean to say that computer vision “understands” visual inputs? Annotations never capture a whole image. The way digital images convey information requires what researchers Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton call “distant viewing”—a play on the well-known term “distant reading” from computational literary analysis.

  Recognizing computer vision's limitations, Arnold and Tilton's spirited examination makes the technical exciting by applying distant viewing to the sitcoms Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, movie posters and other popular forms of advertising, and Dorothea Lange's photography. In the tradition of visual culture studies and computer vision, Distant Viewing's interdisciplinary perspective encompasses film and media studies, visual semiotics, and the sciences to create a playful, accessible guide for an international audience working in digital humanities, data science, media studies, and visual culture studies.

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  [Description of] American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860

  Edward L. Ayers

  A revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant today.

  With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past. The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. But even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied it: voices from the margins moved the center; eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, and acts of empathy questioned self-interest. Edward L. Ayers’s rich history examines the visions that moved Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, the Native American activist William Apess, and others to challenge entrenched practices and beliefs. So, Lydia Maria Child condemned the racism of her fellow northerners at great personal cost. Melville and Thoreau, Joseph Smith and Samuel Morse all charted new paths for America in the realms of art, nature, belief, and technology. It was Henry David Thoreau who, speaking of John Brown, challenged a hostile crowd "Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong?"

  Through decades of award-winning scholarship on the Civil War, Edward L. Ayers has himself ventured beyond the interpretative status quo to recover the range of possibilities embedded in the past as it was lived. Here he turns that distinctive historical sensibility to a period when bold visionaries and critics built vigorous traditions of dissent and innovation into the foundation of the nation. Those traditions remain alive for us today.

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  Etruria and Anatolia Material Connections and Artistic Exchange

  Elizabeth P. Baughan and Lisa C. Pieraccini

  Striking similarities in Etruscan and Anatolian material culture reveal various forms of contact and exchange between these regions on opposite sides of the Mediterranean. This is the first comprehensive investigation of these connections, approaching both cultures as agents of artistic exchange rather than as side characters in a Greek-focused narrative. It synthesizes a wide range of material evidence from c. 800 – 300 BCE, from tomb architecture and furniture to painted vases, terracotta reliefs, and magic amulets. By identifying shared practices, common visual language, and movements of objects and artisans (from both east to west and west to east), it illuminates many varied threads of the interconnected ancient Mediterranean fabric. Rather than trying to account for the similarities with any one, overarching theory, this volume presents multiple, simultaneous modes and implications of connectivity while also recognizing the distinct local identities expressed through shared artistic and cultural traditions.

  • Opens up new and innovative ways of studying the ancient Mediterranean and the micro and macro connections between peoples, cultures and artistic traditions
  • Brings together detailed studies on a wide range of material evidence (from terracottas to banqueting equipment to jewelry)
  • Merges traditional and innovative modes for studying the Mediterranean, allowing for a broad approach to a new field of study

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  [Preview of] Linguistics and Psychoanalysis A New Perspective on Language Processing and Evolution

  Thomas Paul Bonfiglio

  This groundbreaking, provocative book presents an overview of research at the disciplinary intersection of psychoanalysis and linguistics.

  Understanding that linguistic activity, to a great extent, takes place in unconscious cognition, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio systematically demonstrates how fundamental psychoanalytic mechanisms—such as displacement, condensation, overdetermination, and repetition—have been absent in the history of linguistic inquiry, and explains how these mechanisms can illuminate the understanding of the grammatical structure, evolution, acquisition, and processing of language. Reexamining popular misunderstandings of psychoanalysis along the way, Bonfiglio further proposes a new theoretical configuration of language and expertly sets the future agenda on this subject with new conceptual paradigms for research and teaching.

  This will be an invaluable, fascinating resource for advanced students and scholars of theoretical and applied linguistics, the cognitive-behavioral sciences, metaphor studies, humor studies and play theory, anthropology, and beyond.

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  Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion

  Kent L. Brintnall, Rhiannon Graybill, and Linn Marie Tonstad

  This book takes the groundbreaking work of Lee Edelman in queer theory and, for the first time, demonstrates its importance and relevance to contemporary theology, biblical studies, and religious studies. It argues that despite extensive interest in Edelman’s work, we have barely begun to understand the significance of Edelman’s ideas both in their own right and with respect to the study of religion. Therefore, it offers fresh approaches to Edelman’s work that necessarily complicate the established interpretations of his thinking. With essays by rising and established scholars, as well as a response by Edelman himself, it contends that by fully engaging Edelman, scholars of religion will have to confront negativity and its consequences in ways that will contribute to reshaping the terrain of scholarship on religion, race, sexuality, and social change. The insights provided in this book are new territory for much of the study of religion. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of religious studies, theology, and Biblical studies, as well as gender studies and queer, feminist, and critical race theory.

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  [Description of] Thriving in College with ADHD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Skills Manual for Therapists

  Will Canu, Laura E. Knouse, Kaye Floury, and Cynthia M. Hartung

  Thriving in College with ADHD uses cognitive-behavioral and psychoeducational techniques to address ADHD and related impairment in a way that is tailored to the needs of college students.

  This manual distills the expertise of four psychologists with extensive experience helping students with ADHD. The treatment is designed to be effective, flexible, and feasible. Modules address organization, time management, planning, and academic skills, adaptive thinking, healthy lifestyles, relationships, and other life skills. They can be used with individuals or groups and as an abbreviated or comprehensive treatment, tailored to client needs. The accompanying student workbook will increase the treatment’s impact and keep college students engaged in learning new skills.

  Any mental health professional working with college students with ADHD can benefit their clients by adding this approach to their toolbox.

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  [Preview of] How to Solve a Problem: Insights for Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Success in College

  Kelling J. Donald

  This concise and accessible resource offers new college students, especially those in science degree programs, guidance on engaging successfully with the classroom experience and skillfully tackling technical or scientific questions. The author provides insights on identifying, from the outset, individual markers for what success in college will look like for students, how to think about the engagement with professors as a partnership, and how to function effectively in that partnership toward achieving their pre-defined goals or markers of success. It is an ideal companion for science degree prospects and first-generation students seeking insight into the college experience.

  • Offers transferable problem-solving ideas and skills applicable for other disciplines and future careers.

  • Provides new students with support and inspiration for their college experience.

  • Includes guidance for successful interactions with professors, peers, professionals, and others.

  • Encourages thoughtful determination of desired outcomes from the college experience and shaping one’s actions toward accomplishing those objectives.

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  [Description of] Operator Theory by Example

  Stephan Ramon Garcia, Javad Mashreghi, and William T. Ross

  Aimed at graduate students, this textbook provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to operator theory. Rather than discuss the subject in the abstract, this textbook covers the subject through twenty examples of a wide variety of operators, discussing the norm, spectrum, commutant, invariant subspaces, and interesting properties of each operator.
  
  The text is supplemented by over 600 end-of-chapter exercises, designed to help the reader master the topics covered in the chapter, as well as providing an opportunity to further explore the vast operator theory literature. Each chapter also contains well-researched historical facts which place each chapter within the broader context of the development of the field as a whole.

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  [Description of] Drabble harvest #10: Space station duty free

  G.C. Goddu and J. Currier

  Welcome to a collection of 100-word tales of how many different items pass or do not pass through Duty-Free Space Stations. Our writers’ imaginations worked
  overtime on this one. Find out how to sneak in—or out—of the customs offices.
  You’ll find humor and serious points in these stories. So take a load off and escape this world for a little while.

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  [Description of] The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies

  George R. Goethals, Editor; Scott T. Allison, Editor; and Georgia J. Sorenson, Editor

  Leadership Studies is a multi-disciplinary academic exploration of the various aspects of how people get along, and how together they get things done. The fields that contribute to leadership studies include history, political science, psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, literature, and behavioral economics. Leadership Studies is also about the ethical dimensions of human behavior. The discipline considers what leadership has been in the past (the historical view), what leadership actually looks like in the present (principally from the perspectives of the behavioral sciences and political science), and what leadership should be (the ethical perspective). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies will present both key concepts and research illuminating leadership and many of the most important events in human history that reveal the nuances of leadership, good and bad. Entries will include topics such as power, charisma, identity, persuasion, personality, social intelligence, gender, justice, unconscious conceptions of leadership, leader-follower relationships, and moral transformation.

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  [Foreward to] Public workers in service of America: a reader

  F. W. Gooding Editor and Eric S. Yellin Editor

  "From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American democracy. In Part Two, essayists examine race and gender discrimination while revealing the subtle contemporary forms of marginalization that keep Black men and Black and white women underpaid and overlooked for promotion. The historic labor actions detailed in Part Three illuminate how city employees organized not only for better pay and working conditions but to seek recognition from city officials, the public, and the national labor movement. Part Four focuses on nurses and teachers to address the thorny question of whether certain groups deserve premium pay for their irreplaceable work and sacrifices or if serving the greater good is a reward unto itself. Contributors: Eileen Boris, Cathleen D. Cahill, Frederick W. Gooding Jr., William P. Jones, Francis Ryan, Jon Shelton, Joseph E. Slater, Katherine Turk, Eric S. Yellin, and Amy Zanoni"-- Provided by publisher.

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  [Description of] Jonah A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

  Rhiannon Graybill, John Kaltner, and Steven L. McKenzie

  The book of Jonah, which tells the outlandish story of a disobedient prophet swallowed by a great fish, is one of the Bible’s best-known narratives. This tale has fascinated readers for millennia and has inspired countless interpretations.
  
  This commentary features a new translation of Jonah as well as an introduction outlining the major interpretive issues in the text. The introduction traces the composition history of the book, paying special attention to the psalm in the second chapter; and the authors explore new theories surrounding the time and place where Jonah delivers his message to Nineveh, as well as the city’s act of repentance. In addition to these features, this volume draws on a variety of critical approaches to biblical literature—including affect theory, animal studies, performance criticism, postcolonial criticism, psychological criticism, spatial theory, and trauma theory—to reveal the book’s many interpretive possibilities. An updated treatment of Jonah’s reception history includes analyses of the story in religious traditions, art and literature, and popular culture.

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  [Description of] What Are They Saying About the Book of Jonah

  Rhiannon Graybill, John Kaltner, and Steven L. McKenzie

  Aimed at a general audience, this book provides an overview of how biblical scholars have addressed important issues related to the biblical book of Jonah. Moving far beyond 'the story about that guy and the whale,' this work leads readers to appreciate how complex a work Jonah is and the unique contribution it makes to biblical literature.

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  Critical thinking with argument mapping

  Javier S. Hidalgo, Dona Warren, N. Otey, and A. Sanderson

  Recognizing an Argument: An argument is a unit of reasoning that attempts to establish that a claim is true by citing other claims as evidence.

  Analyzing an Argument

  Evaluating an Argument

  Communicating the Evaluation of an Argument

  Constructing an Argument

  Communicating the Argument

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  Transformative Education: How Can You Become a Better College Teacher?

  Joe Hoyle

  Transformative Education presents a comprehensive approach to college teaching that stresses both the presentation of topical coverage AND the development of critical thinking skills. The book focuses on several key points in the learning process such as student preparation for class, student engagement during class, and student review and organization of the material after class. The book discusses the urgent need for more and better high-quality college education, a goal that can be achieved by a methodical approach to gradual teaching improvement.

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  [Description of] Global Climate Change Turning Knowledge Into Action

  David E. Kitchen

  Earth’s climate is changing. This book investigates the scientific, environmental, social, political, and economic aspects of climate change. It enables students to reach an informed opinion and encourages active engagement in finding solutions.

  It begins with a strong introduction to the scientific factors that drive natural and anthropogenic climate change and expands over three chapters to explore the impact of greenhouse gases on the distribution of solar energy across land, sea, ice, and air. The author examines geologically ancient climates in order to highlight possible future scenarios, and case studies from around the world highlight the impact of climate change on the physical and human environment. The final chapters investigate how society can respond to the challenges of climate change and overcome the political, social, and economic factors that are barriers to progress, focusing on the role of energy policy, fiscal policy, and risk assessment as a means to stimulate discussion about science, society, and the role of the media. Science is the foundation of any solution, but to turn this knowledge into action requires the application of a broad set of skills that are rooted in the liberal arts experience such as critical thinking, analytical thinking, problem solving, and communication.

  This textbook will be an essential resource for students taking courses in environmental geography, climate change, natural hazards, climatology, and meteorology.

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  [Description of] Thriving in College with ADHD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Skills Workbook for Students

  Laura E. Knouse, Will Canu, Kate Floury, and Cynthis M. Hartung

  Developed by four professors who also happen to be ADHD experts, this interactive and customizable workbook provides coaching to students with ADHD to make skills like managing time, motivating and organizing oneself, and "adulting" a workable part of everyday college life.

  Other books for college students with ADHD only describe personal experiences or just give advice, but this workbook promotes learning through interactive exercises and behavioral practice. It will allow you to address issues most relevant to your needs at whatever pace feels right. Modules are designed to be engaging, digestible, and activity-oriented. With practice, you will come away with improved skills that will help you to succeed in college, and to live your best life. This workbook can be used on its own; however, an accompanying Thriving in College guide for therapists uses an approach that mirrors what you will be learning and doing. If you have this workbook and are getting support from a therapist, encourage them to use the therapist guide along with you!

  Parents can also benefit from information in this workbook, to help their college students along the way and to understand ADHD and how it impacts the college years.

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  [Description of] Music as Ethics: Stories from Virginia

  Andy McGraw

  Music as Ethics offers a comparative ethnography of the relationship of music to ethics in four communities in Virginia, covering a wide range of demographic contexts and musical repertoires. Holy Cross Monastery in Berryville is a small community of fifteen Trappist monks who follow the rule of St. Benedict, composed in the early sixth century. Twin Oaks in Louisa is a ninety-member intentional community, founded in 1967, dedicated to egalitarianism. The "Sanctuary" in the Richmond city jail is a community of approximately forty residents drawn from two of the facility's dorms. Richmond is the state capital, with a fraught history of racial inequality. To say that we can experience music "as" ethics means that we can hold several, culturally informed attitudes about music's ethical meanings and functions. While music's relationship to ethical life differs between each community, the case studies suggest that we can all grow as ethical individuals and communities if we pay close attention to music's ethical potential. But as long as our experience of music as ethics remains implicit and vague, we miss an opportunity to fully realize its ethical affordances. More than that, we also expose ourselves to manipulation by those who would wield music (and other "affective" means) for their own social agenda.

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  [Description of] Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing

  Cheryl Pallant

  How to develop the body’s innate intelligence for individual and planetary transformation
  
  In this practical guide, Cheryl Pallant explains how ecosomatics—embodiment work for personal and planetary health—can help us shift our consciousness by embracing the interconnections between our inner and outer worlds. She shares exercises to develop somatic intelligence, let go of limiting beliefs, lessen fear and anxiety, and open to new levels of awareness.

  • Explains how healing ourselves and enacting inner change can also contribute to healing of the planet
  • Shows how ecosomatics—embodiment work for personal and planetary health—can help us shift our consciousness, heal individual and collective wounds, and uncover latent energetic, somatic, and psychic abilities
  • Shares ecosomatic and embodiment exercises to help you expand perception, develop somatic intelligence, let go of limiting beliefs, lessen fear and anxiety, and open to new levels of awareness.

  The inner world of self and body is inextricably linked to the outer world of biosphere and biome. As experienced somatic and energy medicine practitioner Cheryl Pallant reveals in vivid depth, by expanding our sensory perceptions and becoming intimately in touch with the rhythms of the body, we can contribute not only to our own healing and transformation but also that of the planet.

  In this practical guide, Pallant explains how ecosomatics—embodiment work for personal and planetary health—can help us shift our consciousness through expanded listening with all our senses and embracing the interconnections between our inner and outer worlds. Blending research with personal experience in somatic and contemplative practices, the author explores how a broadened appreciation of conscious and unconscious bodily events and perceptions leads to vitally needed, improved stewardship with ourselves and the planet. She shows how the current health, social, and environmental crises are a chance for an evolution in consciousness, pushing us to heal the divisions within personal identity, between self and others, and with the environment. Throughout the book, the author offers ecosomatic and embodiment exercises to help you expand perception, develop somatic intelligence, let go of limiting beliefs, lessen fear, anxiety, and alienation, and open to levels of awareness that allow you to tune in to a greater vision of what is humanly possible.

  Revealing how to incorporate embodiment into everyday life, this guide shows how the body is a process that is part of nature, not separate from it, and that by embarking on the transformative inner journey, we can bring healing to the world around us.

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  [Description of] Light at the End of the Word

  Cheryl Pallant

  Cheryl Pallant’s exuberance for life is barely contained in her surging lines made of luxurious wordplay, bravura wit and lithe music. A happy bodhisattva, Pallant just can’t quit life for Nirvana. In Light at the End of the Word her gorgeous, death-defying acrobatics are simply irresistible. She notices, thinks about, everything—intuiting life’s spark. Her realization of being alive materializes like an invisible inscription held over a candle’s flame—readable in turning to ash. Her motto: “Don’t apologize for beauty.” In honoring life’s fleeting nature, she possesses the gravity of its mortal register. Her confession: “What I most want to say folds into the forget of dreams.” Shaped by the grace of existence, her poems become our self-reflections.

  —Burt Kimmelman

  Cheryl Pallant invites you inside a briskly moving environment with “no sitting down” where ordeal can’t help turning to dance. Passing through unforeseen lingualities—zones of possible languaging—you find it thinkable to think otherwise. Instead of new solutions to old problems or analyses of past events, speaking works new ways of being. Light at the End of the Word is singular language shedding skin, revealing beyond understanding, with ever finer intensities—and laughter over fearful edges. Something like continuous subclinical startle puts reading under pressure, feels text as body in mind-therapeutic mode. Everything’s at stake on the tip of the tongue; you lose your way to find it newer, line by line, barely recognizable. Mirroring alters the looker. Reading finds its further selves in steps along precarious ways.

  —George Quasha

  “Resisting the path is a path” writes Cheryl Pallant. What does that path sound, feel and look like? Light at the End of the World creates a charged (mostly) long lined, breathed, loping, dancerly language that resists easy syntax, old stories and absolutely anything poetically predictable. “Our mission requires the emergence of impromptu faculty” writes the poet who is “susceptible to double vision/ and seeing what isn’t seeable” that is, “as if orcas and manta rays surface, as if a bathyscaphe plunges/ to aphotic depths seeking fluorescence.” Pallant’s poetry seeks connection “transducing passed the tympanic membrane” whilst continually registering the energy emitting materiality of one’s own body, the wounded other, and the conditions that “quicken cosmic connect/ to feral superfluity in full throttled resonance.”

  —Kimberly Lyons

  Cheryl Pallant is the author of several poetry books, Her Body Listening and Continental Drifts (Blaze VOX Books), Into Stillness and Uncommon Grammar Cloth (Station Hill Press), and Morphs (Cracked Slab Books). Her nonfiction books include Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing (Inner Traditions), Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice and Contact Improvisation: an Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form (McFarland and Company), and Ginseng Tango (Big Table Publishing). She teaches dance and writing at University of Richmond and is a Reiki and Healing Touch practitioner.

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  [Description of] German Literature as a Transnational Field of Production, 1848-1919

  Lynne Tatlock, Editor and Kurt Beals, Editor

  A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period.
  
  The cultural formations of the so-called Age of Nationalism (1848-1919) have shaped German-language literary studies to the present day, for better or worse. Literary histories, German self-representations, the view from abroad - all of these perspectives offer images of a culture ever more concerned with formulating a coherent, nationally focused idea of its origins, history, and cultural community. But even in this historical moment the German-speaking territories were not culturally self-contained; international forces always played a significant role in the constitution of the so-called "German" literary and cultural field.
  This volume rethinks the historical period with fourteen case studies that bring into view the push and pull of the national and international in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, undertaking a reframing of literary-cultural history that recognizes the interrelatedness of literatures and cultures across political and linguistic boundaries. Viewing even overtly national literary and cultural projects as belonging to an international system, these case studies examine the interrelations, organization, and positioning of the agents, forces, enterprises, and processes that constituted the German-language literary-cultural field, locating these ostensibly national developments within an inter- or even anti-national context.

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  [Abstract for] Indigenous Governance: Clans, Constitutions, and Consent

  David E. Wilkins

  ndigenous Governance is a comprehensive, critical examination of Native political systems—the senior political sovereigns on the North American continent in terms of their origin, development, structures, and operation. Nearly six hundred Indigenous governments operate on lands connected to the state and federal governments. This study will, of necessity, be a broad comparative and illustrative analysis of these organic bodies. This study provides both the recognition and respect due to Indigenous governments while offering a critique of attributes that merit scrutiny. Governments are human constructions and, therefore, imperfect institutions. This appraisal will highlight their history, evolution, internal and intergovernmental issues, and diverse structures. These governments have always mattered to their constituencies but, today, given the weight and importance of many issues confronting Native peoples—from the devastating and lingering health and economic impact of COVID-19 to the profound environmental problems that have been exacerbated by climate change, and jurisdictional conflicts with local, state, and federal actors—they arguably matter even more to their peoples and the broader society. Native governments command attention as, after recovery from decades of federal dominance and dependence, they now exercise greater degrees of political, economic, and cultural power, and have become critically important as the chief providers of basic services and the authors of solutions to collective problems in their societies. They are major vessels of Indigenous-infused democratic politics; they are, for many communities—including non-Native neighbors—the largest spenders and employers; and key players in negotiating intergovernmental agreements that fortify their unique political status.

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  [Description of] The Eye of the Crown The Development and Evolution of the Elizabethan Secret Service

  Kristin M.S. Bezio

  This volume discusses the development of governmental proto-bureaucracy, which led to and was influenced by the inclusion of professional agents and spies in the early modern English government.

  In the government’s attempts to control religious practices, wage war, and expand their mercantile reach both east and west, spies and agents became essential figures of empire, but their presence also fundamentally altered the old hierarchies of class and power. The job of the spy or agent required fluidity of role, the adoption of disguise and alias, and education, all elements that contributed to the ideological breakdown of social and class barriers. The volume argues that the inclusion of the lower classes (commoners, merchants, messengers, and couriers) in the machinery of government ultimately contributed to the creation of governmental proto-bureaucracy. The importance and significance of these spies is demonstrated through the use of statistical social network analysis, analyzing social network maps and statistics to discuss the prominence of particular figures within the network and the overall shape and dynamics of the evolving Elizabethan secret service.

  The Eye of the Crown is a useful resource for students and scholars interested in government, espionage, social hierarchy, and imperial power in Elizabethan England.

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  [Introduction to] Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt.

  Rania Kassab Sweis

  Each year, billions of dollars are spent on global humanitarian health initiatives. These efforts are intended to care for suffering bodies, especially those of distressed children living in poverty. But as global medical aid can often overlook the local economic and political systems that cause bodily suffering, it can also unintentionally prolong the very conditions that hurt children and undermine local aid givers. Investigating medical humanitarian encounters in Egypt, Paradoxes of Care illustrates how child aid recipients and local aid experts grapple with global aid's shortcomings and its paradoxical outcomes.

  Rania Kassab Sweis examines how some of the world's largest aid organizations care for vulnerable children in Egypt, focusing on medical efforts with street children and out-of-school village girls. Her in-depth ethnographic study reveals how global medical aid fails to "save" these children according to its stated aims, and often maintains—or produces new—social disparities in children's lives. Foregrounding vulnerable children's responses to medical aid, Sweis moves past the unquestioned benevolence of global health to demonstrate how children must manage their own bodies and lives in the absence of adult care. With this book, she challenges readers to engage with the question of what medical caregivers and donors alike gain from such global humanitarian transactions.

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  [Introduction to] Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry.

  Micah Young Myers and Erika Z. Damer

  This volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse, exploring how poetry in the Roman world is fundamentally shaped by its relationship to travel within the geography of Rome’s far-reaching empire.

  The volume surveys Roman poetics of travel and geography in sources ranging from Plautus to Augustan poetry, from the Flavians to Ausonius. The chapters offer a range of approaches to: the complex relationship between Latin poetry, Roman identity, imperialism, and travel and geospatial narratives; and the diachronic and generic evolutions of poetic descriptions of space and mobility. In addition, two chapters, including the concluding one, contextualize and respond to the volume’s discussion of poetry by looking at ways in which Romans not only write and read poems about travel and geography, but also make writing and reading part of the experience of traveling, as demonstrated in their epigraphic practices. The collection as a whole offers important insights into Roman poetics and into ancient notions of movement and geographical space.

  Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry will be of interest to specialists in Latin poetry, ancient travel, and Latin epigraphy as well as to those studying travel writing, geography, imperialism, and mobility in other periods. The chapters are written to be accessible to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.