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Rilke's Hands : an Essay on Gentleness

Harold Schweizer

This is a book of meditative reading. Each of the sixty-one aphoristic entries aims to interpret Rilke’s poetry as a musician might play Debussy’s Clair de lune, to transpose into the key of language the song, the melody, and the refrain of Rilke’s gentle disposition: his recognition of the transience of things; his acknowledgment of the vulnerability and fragility of people, animals, and flowers; his empathy toward those who suffer.

The cut flowers gently laid out on the garden table "recovering from their death already begun" in one of theSonnets to Orpheus form a thread now visible now faint through most of this book. And because of the flowers, the concept of gentleness forms another thread, and because of gentleness, hands—agents of gentleness throughout Rilke’s poetry—enfold these pages. The German word leise (gentle, tender, quiet) weaves the first thread; the second is woven by flowers, then by girls’ hands, then by angels, the beloved, the poor, the dying and the dead, animals, birds, dogs, fountains, things, vanishings. The purpose of this essay is to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades Rilke’s work, how his poetry might gently inspire us to become more gentle people. -- https://www.routledge.com
Topics in Musical Interpretation

Sezi Seskir

While interpretation of musical scores is amongst the most frequent of musical activities, it is also, strangely, one of the least researched. This collection of essays seeks to remedy this deficit by illuminating ways in which today’s curious musician – interested in probing beyond the dictates of a faintly understood score – can engage more deeply and thoughtfully with the act of interpretation. Skilful musical interpretation draws on a vast range of knowledges. The chapters of this collection accordingly address a similarly broad set of issues, including notation, rhetoric, theory, historiography, performers past and present, instrument builders, concert presenters, reception history, and more.

Written by leading experts from a variety of musical subdisciplines, these essays are designed to be accessible and practically relevant for musical performance. Many of the chapters utilize case studies and, as such, will be useful for university and conservatory level students as well as music scholars.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Musicological Research. -- p. [i]
Fearless : Wilma Soss and America's Forgotten Investor Movement

Janice Traflet and Robert E. Wright

Shareholder activist Wilma Soss rocketed to fame in the 1950s fighting for the rights of the individual investor. But over the years, her legacy was almost forgotten.

Based on archival documents, this is the true story of how a disparate group of activist investors-from a PR star to a Holocaust survivor-found each other and became the advocates Fortune 500 management loved to hate.

Soss and her band of activists, including the incomparable Evelyn Y. Davis, leveraged the media to promote the rights of small shareholders. The idea was simple: buy one share of stock to gain access to shareholder meetings and remind management whom they really serve.

These "corporate gadflies" were determined to speak their minds, even if it meant bringing their own megaphones or being dragged out of public meetings. But their message was undeniable, and ultimately changed corporate America for the better. Increased opportunities in the workplace, improved shareholder voting rights and greater corporate transparency were just some of the reforms Wilma Soss and her Federation kicked off in the post-war era.

If you're looking for the intellectual heritage of 2021's WallStreetBets phenomenon or the reason Fearless Girl stands as a symbol of American optimism today, look no further than the life, times and efforts of the fearless shareholder activist, Wilma Soss. -- publisher
Biomedical Engineering Design

Joseph Tranquillo, Jay Goldberg, and Robert Allen

Biomedical Engineering Design presents the design processes and practices used in academic and industry medical device design projects. The first two chapters are an overview of the design process, project management and working on technical teams. Further chapters follow the general order of a design sequence in biomedical engineering, from problem identification to validation and verification testing. The first seven chapters, or parts of them, can be used for first-year and sophomore design classes. The next six chapters are primarily for upper-level students and include in-depth discussions of detailed design, testing, standards, regulatory requirements and ethics. The last two chapters summarize the various activities that industry engineers might be involved in to commercialize a medical device.
- Covers subject matter rarely addressed in other BME design texts, such as packaging design, testing in living systems and sterilization methods
- Provides instructive examples of how technical, marketing, regulatory, legal, and ethical requirements inform the design process
- Includes numerous examples from both industry and academic design projects that highlight different ways to navigate the stages of design as well as document and communicate design decisions
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the design process, including methods for identifying unmet needs, applying Design for ‘X’, and incorporating standards and design controls
- Discusses topics that prepare students for careers in medical device design or other related medical fields
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128164440/biomedical-engineering-design#book-description
A Bilingual Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati Volume 2, chapters 23-52

Rivka Ulmer

Critical edition of Pesiqta Rabbati based upon manuscripts and the first printed edition; includes a modern English translation on facing pages. Homilies fro Jewish holy days and special Sabbaths
Moshe Ulmer, Z"L, Philosophical, Ethical, and Spiritual Dimensions of Judaism

Rivka Ulmer

CHAPTER 1: Luzzato and Bahya .CHAPTER 2: Moral Objectivity CHAPTER 3: Fackenheim and Samuelson .CHAPTER 4: Elliot N. Dorff .CHAPTER 5: Aron Lichtenstein .CHAPTER 6: Conservative and Reform Judaism .CHAPTER 7: Jewish Ethics .CHAPTER 8: Theological Implications of the Holocaust: Emil Fackenheim and Elie Wiesel .CHAPTER 9: Personal Views on Judaism and Jewish Practice: God, The Existence of Evil, Revelation, and The Chosen People .CHAPTER 10: Why Jews Give .CHAPTER 11: The Book of Ruth .CHAPTER 12: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (A Sermon) .CHAPTER 13: Bamidbar - In the Wilderness (A Sermon) . CHAPTER 14: VaYechi – And he lived (A Sermon) .CHAPTER 15: The End of the World and A New Beginning (A Rosh Ha-Shanah Sermon) .CHAPTER 16: Vignette – A Poem .

book cover, back: "Rabbi Moshe Ulmer, J.D., D.Div. h.c. (1945-2021) was born in Los Angeles, the son of Hungarian immigrants. He earned a BA in history, graduated from UCLA Law School, and was a member of the bar of New York, Massachusetts, and California. Initially working in New York representing indigents under the VISTA program, he eventually opened his own practice in Newport Beach, CA. Encouraged by Elie Wiesel to become a rabbi, Ulmer obtained ordination and served congregations in Newton Center, Mass., Buffalo, NY, Vancouver, BC, and Palm Springs, CA. He wrote a book on tsedakah and taught at the Bucknell Institute of Lifelong Learning in Lewisburg, PA."
Mineralogy of Franklin and Ogdensburg, New Jersey. A Photographic Celebration

James A. Van Fleet, Vandall T. King, Nathaniel E. King, Philip P. Betancourt, Richard C. Bostwick, Peter Chin, Tema J. Hecht, Steven M. Kuitems, Harold Moritz, Janet D. Nemetz, Anthony J. Nikischer, Stephen Sanford, and Earl R. Verbeek
Pink : a Women's March story

Virginia Zimmerman

Celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Women's March with this delightful multigenerational picture book about female empowerment. Lina notices her grandmother knitting with pink yarn and soon learns that she’s making special hats to wear at an important march to celebrate women and their rights. Even though she sometimes feels small, Lina learns how to knit her own pink hat, and her confidence begins to build. When Lina and her family join the Women’s March in Washington, DC, she is energized by the crowd and the sea of pink hats. It’s amazing to see so many people all knitted together! And as Lina marches, she feels much bigger than she ever has before.

Celebrate the importance of the Women’s March with young children in Virginia Zimmerman’s and Mary Newell DePalma’s remarkable and empowering story about one girl’s journey from knitting a hat to making a difference. -- publisher
Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands

Paul Barba

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas—a hotly contested land where states wielded little to no real power—local alliances and controversies, face-to-face relationships, and kin ties structured personal dynamics and cross-communal concerns alike. Country of the Cursed and the Driven brings readers into this world through a sweeping analysis of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo-American slaving regimes, illuminating how slaving violence, in its capacity to bolster and shatter families and entire communities, became both the foundation and the scourge, the panacea and the curse, of life in the borderlands. As scholars have begun to assert more forcefully over the past two decades, slavery was much more diverse and widespread in North America than previously recognized, engulfing the lives of Native, European, and African descended people across the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico. Paul Barba details the rise of Texas’s slaving regimes, spotlighting the ubiquitous, if uneven and evolving, influences of colonialism and anti-Blackness. By weaving together and reframing traditionally disparate historical narratives, Country of the Cursed and the Driven challenges the common assumption that slavery was insignificant to the history of Texas prior to Anglo American colonization, arguing instead that the slavery imported by Stephen F. Austin and his colonial followers in the 1820s found a comfortable home in the slavery-stained borderlands, where for decades Spanish colonists and their Comanche neighbors had already unleashed waves of slaving devastation.
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920-1970. Volume 2

Rafe Dalleo and Curdella Forbes

The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the Anglophone Caribbean. This volume features essays by major scholars as well as emerging voices revisiting important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Caribbean contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Windrush generation publishing in England after World War II, and to the regional reverberations of the Cuban Revolution all feature prominently in this story. At the same time, we uncover lesser known stories of writers publishing in regional newspapers and journals, of pioneering women writers, and of exchanges with Canada and the African continent. From major writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Jean Rhys to recently recuperated figures like Eric Walrond, Una Marson, Sylvia Wynter, and Ismith Khan, this volume sets a course for the future study of Caribbean literature.

Covers crucial years in the development of Caribbean literature (the 1920s to 1970s) Revisits key moments in Caribbean literary history to look at them from new perspective Includes major scholars in the field as well as emerging voices
A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology

Karin Knisely

The newest edition of Knisely’s Student Handbook for Writing in Biology is the helping hand your students are looking for, offering the support they need to write within the conventions of biology. Topics range from reading technical literature and writing scientific papers, to preparing lab reports and giving oral presentations of scientific findings. Students get practical advice from MS Office appendices, tutorial videos, and various checklists. Examples and resources throughout the text show not just what to do, but how to do it.

The newest edition mirrors the ways students use online resources and social media platforms for research, making sure the information is both credible and relevant. A new statistics chapter covers the application of descriptive statistics to actual datasets and selected tests of significance.
"You Cannot Imagine What It Is Like In America."

Karin Knisely and Friedemann Fegert

The United States. The land of unimagined opportunities. A place of longing for many Germans for decades. This book describes why people from the Bavarian Forest emigrated to the United States from 1841 to 1931. Diverse documents from German and American archives, historical records, and maps, assembled over many years, are augmented by a wealth of authentic, fascinating letters, photographs, and diary entries from the emigrating families.

Vivid conversations and meetings with present-day descendants bring the story full circle!

You will experience
· the hard life in the Bavarian Forest villages
· the hopeful letters from America
· the attempts of the authorities to thwart emigration plans
· the arduous and often painful preparations for the trip
· the adventure-filled, transatlantic crossing ‘tween deck
· the critical examinations on Ellis Island and
· the difficult new beginning in the New World

This book forms the basis of the exhibits in the “Born in Schiefweg“ Emigration Museum in the Bavarian Forest. It also found its way into the permanent exhibition of the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven, Germany.
Anthems I

Ryan M. Malone

Ryan M. Malone, (Assistant Professor of Music, Bucknell University), editor

Series: Musical treasures from Moravian archives ; v. 4

A collection of 23 German-language anthems for choir and instruments. With a preface, bibliography and critical report. Peter composed these works for the annual Moravian celebration of the Single Brothers' and Single Sisters' Covenant Day Festivals. This edition is based on a variety of manuscript sources. --https://www.tfront.com/p-507259-anthems-i-edited-by-ryan-m-malone.aspx

Volume 4 Contents, Johann Friedrich Peter: Anthems I Edited by Ryan M. Malone

Preface ; 1. Amen, der Herr tue also 2. Bleibet in mir und ich in euch 3. Das Land ist voll Erkenntnis des Herrn 4. Dem aber, der euch kann behüten 5. Der dich gemacht hat ist dein Mann 6. Die Gnade und Wahrheit des Herrn 7. Die mit Tränen säen 8. Die Tage deines Leides 9. Ein jeglicher sei gesinnet 10. Er erquicket meine Seele 11. Es ist ein köstlich Ding 12. Euer Leben ist verborgen 13. Freuet euch Gottes eures Heilandes 14. Gott der Herr ist meine Stärke 15. Gott ist mein Hort 16. Heiliget den Herrn Zebaoth 17. Ich danke Dir ewiglich 18. In allen Dingen lasset uns 19. Kommt lasset uns anbeten 20. Lobe den Herrn meine Seele 21. O Chor des Herrn 22. Sie werden trunken von den reichen Gütern 23. Von Gnade und Recht will ich singen Critical Report-- http://www.steglein.com/Editions/Series/MTMA/MTMA4/mtma4contents.php
On Lingering and Literature

Harold Schweizer

Lingering and its decried equivalents, such as dawdling, idling, loafing, or lolling about, are both shunned and coveted in our culture where time is money and where there is never quite enough of either. Is lingering lazy? Is it childish? Boring? Do poets linger? (Is that why poetry is boring?) Is it therapeutic? Should we linger more? Less? What happens when we linger? Harold Schweizer here examines an experience of time that, though common, usually passes unnoticed.

Drawing on a wide range of philosophic and literary texts and examples, On Lingering and Literature exemplifies in its style and accessible argumentation the new genre of post-criticism, and aims to reward anyone interested in slow reading, daydreaming, or resisting our culture of speed and consumption. -- publisher
Reciprocity Rules : Friendship and Compensation in Fieldwork Encounters

Edmund Searles and Michelle C. Johnson

Focusing on compensation, friendship, and collaboration, this book explores what anthropologists and research participants give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Contributors argue that while learning and following the local rules of reciprocity are challenging, they are essential to responsible research and efforts to decolonize anthropology -- Provided by publisher.
Alcohol in the Early Modern World : a Cultural History

B. Ann Tlusty

This book examines how the profound religious, political, and intellectual shifts that characterize the early modern period in Europe are inextricably linked to cultural uses of alcohol in Europe and the Atlantic world. Combining recent work on the history of drink with innovative new research, the eight contributing scholars explore themes such as identity, consumerism, gender, politics, colonialism, religion, state-building, and more through the revealing lens of the pervasive drinking cultures of early modern peoples. Alcohol had a place at nearly every European table and a role in much of early modern experience, from building personal bonds via social and ritual drinking to fueling economies at both micro and macro levels. At the same time, drinking was also at the root of a host of personal tragedies, including domestic violence in the home and human trafficking across the Atlantic. Alcohol in the Early Modern World provides a fascinating re-examination of pre-modern beliefs about and experiences with intoxicating beverages. -- publisher
Emerging Horizons: 21st Century Approaches to the study of Midrash : Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature, volume 9

Rivka Ulmer and W David Nelson

A text linguistic analysis of a yelammedenu unit in the Tanḥuma (printed edition, Naso 29-30) and in Pesiqta Rabbati 3 (On the eighth day). The rabbinic homiletic unit referred to as “yelammedenu” (“Let our rabbi teach us”) is a major characteristic of the so-called “Tanḥuma-Yelammedenu” literature. Several features of this literature are present in the midrashic work Pesiqta Rabbati, which is a unique rabbinic work based on an annual liturgical calendar in its presentation of homilies for festivals and special Sabbaths, whereas Midrash Tanḥuma follows a triennial[1] cycle of the weekly Torah readings. Both midrashic works lend themselves to “form-analytical,” text-linguistic and post-modern literary theories, because the texts contain recurrent elements of midrash, as well as comprehensive religious messages.

The chapters in Emerging Horizons: 21st Century Approaches to the Study of Midrash pertain to an intriguing midrash that appears in a Masoretic context, the Qur’anic narrative of the red cow, midrashic narratives that rabbinize enemies of Israel, the death of Moses, emotions in rabbinic literature, and yelammedenu units in midrashic works.
La vida imitada : narrativa, performance y visualidad en Pedro Lemebel

Fernando A. Blanco

Lemebel es un ícono del activismo queer en Chile y Latinoamérica con una obra narrativa fundada en el género de la crónica en la que se conjugan la oralidad, los lenguajes e imaginarios populares, las costumbres y ritos urbanos de las clases proletarias con el juicio histórico a la dictadura militar, la pandemia del SIDA, el blanqueamiento de la memoria de los crímenes del Estado represor, los movimientos sociales y migratorios y toda forma de exterminio e inequidad. El presente volumen recoge quince ensayos en los que se revisa la obra del escritor y performer destacando sus vínculos con el cine, la música, el arte visual y performático, su trabajo en medios y, por supuesto, su producción novelística y cronística. La primera sección, “Perfiles y testigos”, incluye ensayos de Fernando A. Blanco, Ignacio Echevarría, Jorge Fornet, Jovana Skármeta y Roberto Echavarren en los que se reconstruyen las múltiples identidades creativas del escritor. La segunda, “Crónicas y ficción”, con contribuciones de Brad Epps, Javier Guerrero, Gilda Luongo y Cristián Montes reflexiona sobre su quehacer literario, en particular en la novela y las relaciones entre género y crónica. La tercera, “Performance, cultura radial y cine” recoge contribuciones de Dieter Ingenshay, María José Contreras, Florencia San Martín, Jorge Ruffinelli, Ángeles Mateo del Pino, Daniel Party y Luis Achondo en las que se analizan el uso de materiales, lenguajes, soportes, medios y géneros no literarios.
Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development, 23rd edition

Chris Boyatzis and Ellen N. Junn

This book is an anthology of current cutting-edge articles on child development. The book is published as part of the long-running Annual Editions series, which reaches hundreds of colleges across the US and Canada. Past editions of this particular book have been assigned at schools from Harvard to community colleges and high schools. The book contains 35 already-published articles from sources as varied as the New York Times, The Atlantic, and many other magazines or websites, as well as professional academic journals such as PLoS One. is organized around several major domains of child development: 1) Prenatal development, birth, and child cognition, language, learning, and education; 2) Social and emotional development; 3) Parenting and family issues; and 4) Culture and societal influences. Each article is accompanied by recommendations for further reading, internet resources, and critical thinking questions.
The Greater Gulf : Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Claire Campbell, Edward MacDonald, and Brian Payne

The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of influences that reach from the heart of the continent to northern Europe. For more than a millennium, the gulf's strategic location and rich marine resources have made it a destination and a gateway, a cockpit and a crossroads, and a highway and a home. From Vinland the Good to the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Gulf has haunted the Western imagination. A transborder collaboration between Canadian and American scholars, The Greater Gulf represents the first concerted exploration of the environmental history - marine and terrestrial - of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Contributors tell many histories of a place that has been fished, fought over, explored, and exploited. The essays' defining themes resonate in today's charged atmosphere of quickening climate change as they recount stories of resilience played against ecological fragility, resistance at odds with accommodation, considered versus reckless exploitation, and real, imagined, and imposed identities. Reconsidering perceptions about borders and the spaces between and across land and sea, The Greater Gulf draws attention to a central place and part of North Atlantic and North American history. -- publisher
Women Making Modernism

Erica Delsandro

Challenging the tendency of scholars to view women writers of the modernist era as isolated artists who competed with one another for critical and cultural acceptance, Women Making Modernism reveals the robust networks women created and maintained that served as platforms and support for women’s literary careers. The essays in this volume highlight both familiar and lesser-known writers including Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Dorothy Richardson, Emma Goldman, May Sinclair, and Mary Hutchinson. For these writers, relationships and correspondences with other women were key to navigating a literary culture that not only privileged male voices but also reserved most financial and educational opportunities for men. Their examples show how women’s writing communities interconnected to generate a current of energy, innovation, and ambition that was central to the modernist movement. Contributors to this volume argue that the movement’s prominent intellectual networks were dependent on the invisible work of women artists, a fact that the field of modernist studies has too long overlooked. Amplifying the reality of women’s contributions to modernism, this volume advocates for an “orientation of openness” in reading and teaching literature from the period, helping to ease the tensions between feminist and modernist studies. -- publisher
Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training

Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson

Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training offers a comprehensive analysis of the Sanford Meisner Acting Technique in comparison to the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. This compilation reveals the connections as well as the contradictions between these two very different approaches, while highlighting meaningful bridges and offering in-depth essays from a variety of sources, including master teachers with years of experience and new and rising stars in the field. The authors provide philosophical arguments on actor training, innovative approaches to methodology, and explorations into integration, as well as practical methods of application for the classroom or rehearsal room, or scaffolded into a curriculum. Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training is an excellent resource for professors teaching Introductory, Intermediate or Advanced Acting Technique as well as acting program directors and department chairs seeking new, impactful research on actor training. - back cover
Remaking Islam in African Portugal : Lisbon, Mecca, Bissau

Michelle C. Johnson

When Guinean Muslims leave their homeland, they encounter radically new versions of Islam and new approaches to religion more generally. In Remaking Islam in African Portugal, Michelle C. Johnson explores the religious lives of these migrants in the context of diaspora. Since Islam arrived in West Africa centuries ago, Muslims in this region have long conflated ethnicity and Islam, such that to be Mandinga or Fula is also to be Muslim. But as they increasingly encounter Muslims not from Africa, as well as other ways of being Muslim, they must question and revise their understanding of "proper" Muslim belief and practice. Many men, in particular, begin to separate African custom from global Islam. Johnson maintains that this cultural intersection is highly gendered as she shows how Guinean Muslim men in Lisbon--especially those who can read Arabic, have made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and attend Friday prayer at Lisbon's central mosque-- aspire to be cosmopolitan Muslims. By contrast, Guinean women--many of whom never studied the Qur'an, do not read Arabic, and feel excluded from the mosque-- remain more comfortably rooted in African custom. In response, these women have created a "culture club" as an alternative Muslim space where they can celebrate life course rituals and Muslim holidays on their own terms. Remaking Islam in African Portugal highlights what being Muslim means in urban Europe and how Guinean migrants' relationships to their ritual practices must change as they remake themselves and their religion. -- publisher
Experiential and Performative Anthropology in the Classroom : Engaging the Legacy of Edith and Victor Turner

Michelle C. Johnson and Edmund Searles

Water and Potato Chips: Classroom Ritual Reenactments as Forms of Pedagogical Resistance, Michelle C. Johnson.

Abstract: Michelle Johnson participated in her first ethnographic performance as an undergraduate, an experience that shaped her as a teacher-scholar. A decade later as a professor, she incorporated Turnerian ethnographic performances in her own courses. Theory in Anthropology students perform the Victor Turner Memorial Sacrifice, a West African-style sacrifice in honor of Victor and Edith Turner and Anthropology of Religion students perform pilgrimage at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. Johnson considers what Turnerian ethnographic performances in and beyond the classroom teach students about religion and ritual specifically, and about life and learning more generally. A form of pedagogical resistance, ethnographic performances destabilize the centrality of the text, engage the body and senses, and disrupt normative structures of knowledge and power. In so doing, they honor the people with whom anthropologists work, for whom embodied, experiential ways of knowing and learning are the norm rather than the exception.

The Smell of Smudge and the Work of Smoke: Reenacting Native American Ritual in an Anthropology Course, Edmund (Ned) Searles.

Abstract: Drawing on exercises performed in several of his classes at Bucknell University, Ned Searles shows how ethnographic performances provide students with a set of learning experiences that texts, class discussions, and films cannot reproduce. In exposing his students to ethnographically-informed sensory experiences such as a prolonged moment of silence, the manipulation of one’s qi, and a thanksgiving ceremony involving smoke and prayer, he shows how performing ethnography in the classroom can broaden student perspectives, cultivate communitas, and encourage students to think more deeply—and question more critically—their taken-for-granted assumptions about the world. One of performances is a smudge ceremony that draws on elements of Haudenosaunee spirituality and cosmology. It is designed to enable students to experience firsthand how and why the Haudenosaunee, an indigenous people with longstanding ties to Bucknell, value rituals—as do other Native American groups—as key elements in the quest for cultural autonomy and collective resilience.
Minimum Wages in China: Evolution, Legislation, and Effects

Shi Li and Carl Lin

This book considers the positive and negative impacts of the minimum wage policy in China. Since China enacted its first minimum wage law in 1994, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum wage have been substantial, both over time and across jurisdictions. The results from China’s experience show that rapidly increasing minimum wages have helped increase average wages and reduce the gender wage gap, income inequality, and poverty. However, the fast-rising minimum wage has also resulted in the loss of employment for young adults, women, low-skilled workers, and migrant workers. Additionally, higher minimum wages have a negative impact on firm profitability and adverse effects on firm’s human capital investment. In summary, the Chinese minimum wage policy has shown both positive and negative impacts on the affected workers. Through unpacking these findings, the book highlights the importance of rigorous research to inform evidence-based policymaking and provides lessons for other transitional and developing economies. -- publisher