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Approximately 53% of cancer patients are diagnosed when 65 years or older, yet no attempt to explore the experience of older cancer survivors has been made. This thoughtful, respectful book seeks to reduce older cancer patients' and survivors' feeling of aloneness and of not being understood by sharing narratives of other older cancer survivors' experiences.

Masur's book is both sweeping and concise, offering an immersion in American history, from the pre-colonial era to the current moment, and covering all of the main themes and defining events. At its core the book is guided by those whose vision of America's potential has been fulfilled, as well as by those whose dreams remained unrealized but still essential to the country's identity.

Islamic archaeology is young discipline, emerging only over the course of the 1980s and 1990s. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology is the first work of its kind to cover the archaeology of the Islamic world on a global scale, from North Africa to China and Europe to sub-Saharan Africa.

This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing how Islam was transformed through these globalizing transfers, it traces the origins, expansion and increasing diversification of Global Islam - from individual activists to organizations and then states - over the past 150 years.

It is well established that significant gaps in wealth, incarceration, and homeownership exist between the racial groups of the United States, with whites at the top and blacks, Latinx, and indigenous peoples at the bottom. However, scholars have not fully grasped the role that risk-assessment calculations play in creating and maintaining such disparities. Calculating Race expands our understanding of racial disparities in the United States by recounting howinsurers, criminologists, the federal government, financial institutions, and others constructed people of color as risks. It illustrates how, as industry and government strove to base policy on "objective" data and "sound" mathematics, they read evidence of racial disparities as evidence of racialinferiority and, in that miscalculation, advanced racialized structural violence.

Schram and Koenemann analyze the cladistics character matrices of gross anatomy using data from comparative developmental genetics and molecules sequences. With the help of useful diagrams and images, readers will gain an understanding of the relationships of phyla and their phylogeny.

Based on research in the archives of the Paris Opera, One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet illustrates the full and complex history of performances of the ballet The Source, contextualized by political events, colonial and post-colonial narratives, and staging theories of heredity and hybridity.

In this new and fully revised edition of Oklahoma! The Making of an American Musical, author Tim Carter brings newly uncovered sources, including correspondence and rehearsal scripts from the Rouben Mamoulian Papers, to bear in telling the story of the making of Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved musical.

A succinct and clear introduction to international trade and trade policy

Yoga in the Music Studio enables music teachers to introduce yoga practices into their classes and studio lessons, to help students of all ages concentrate, relax, and play their best.

The Renaissance Flute: A Contemporary Guide is an accessible introduction to the world and practice of the renaissance flute for professionals and beginners alike.

Written by seasoned professional bassoonist and reed maker Eric Arbiter, The Way of Cane demystifies the reed-making experience for musicians of all levels.

Drawing on exclusive interviews, choreographic analysis, and the author's own dance experience, Flexible Bodies reveals how South Asian dancers in Britain use their craft and creativity to navigate often precarious economic, national, and racial terrain.

Examining the experiences of musicians, industry personnel, and audiences, World Music and the Black Atlantic offers a nuanced view of a global industry informed and marked by diverse transnational perspectives and histories of transatlantic exchange.

A Blaze of Light in Every Word presents a new conceptual model for analyzing vocal delivery, bringing clarity to the relationship between the singing voice in pop music and its greater emotional signification for listeners.

Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto is the story of Sibelius as performer and composer, of violin performing traditions, of histories of musical transmission, and of virtuosity itself. It investigates the history and legacy of one of the most recorded concertos in the violin repertoire.

In Digital Journalism, Drones, and Automation, Cate Dowd explores modern trends in data journalism and takes readers through the specific risks and benefits that these modern journalistic trends have on society as a whole.

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century is an insightful and practical interpretive guide to contemporary repertoire assembled by celebrated soprano Jane Manning. This first of the two-volume set covers works composed prior to the year 2000.

In this, the first book-length discussion of Cicero's Catilinarians, D. H. Berry considers how the speeches should be interpreted as literature. Can we treat them as representing what Cicero actually said? Or do we have to read them merely as political pamphlets from a later time?

The rise of China is the single most important economic and geopolitical development, and this book provides a concise, easy-to-read guide to how China works, where it's going, and what it means for the rest of the world.