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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.

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Arts and Humanities
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author:
Joseph Donohue
Date Added:
03/04/2021
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.

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Arts and Humanities
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author:
Joseph Donohue
Date Added:
01/21/2021
An American Playgoer in London
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A Chronicle of West End and Fringe Performance Over Four Decades

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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. This chronicle of West End and fringe performance sets down the perceptions of a lifelong American theatregoer who over time made London almost a second home. It reveals a writer with a persistently curious, skeptical mind, alive to innovation and open to fresh interpretation, while always aware of the pitfalls that make theatrical production one of the riskiest but also one of the most rewarding of artistic pursuits.

Word Count: 137599

ISBN: 978-1-945764-09-7

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
Performing Arts
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date Added:
07/20/2020
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.

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Gender and Sexuality Studies
Social Science
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Textbook
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author:
Donovan Lessard
Laura Heston
Miliann Kang
Sonny Nordmarken
Date Added:
06/30/2017
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.

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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.

Word Count: 36024

ISBN: 978-1-945764-02-8

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Gender and Sexuality Studies
Social Science
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date Added:
06/30/2017
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.

Word Count: 36024

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Gender and Sexuality Studies
Social Science
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author:
Donovan Lessard
Laura Heston
Miliann Kang
Date Added:
06/30/2017
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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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.”

Word Count: 97595

ISBN: 978-1-945764-07-3

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Chemistry
Physical Science
Physics
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date Added:
01/15/2020
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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Physical Science
Physics
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Provider:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author:
Brokk Toggerson
E.F. Redish
Edward J. Neth
Emily Hansen
John Eggebrecht
Julianne Zedalis
Klaus Theopold
Paul Flowers
Paul Peter Urone
Richard Langley
Roger Hinrichs
William R. Robinson
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02/28/2021
Radical Social Theory: An Appraisal, A Critique, and an Overcoming
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Word Count: 55735

ISBN: 978-1-945764-22-6

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Philosophy
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date Added:
04/20/2022
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.

As much as possible in this text, we aim to avoid unnecessary jargon or lingo. So, it doesn’t require a master’s degree to decipher. The goal is to make the beekeeping stories, tools and strategies accessible, and to share practices and examples of all the lessons we can learn from the hive. The intention is that the resources will be adapted or inspire you to co-create new resources.

Word Count: 36246

ISBN: 978-1-945764-16-5

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Ecology
Life Science
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date Added:
02/02/2024
Tokyo University and the War
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Tachibana Takashi analyzes the impact of World War II on Tokyo University and Tokyo University’s impact on the war: attacks from outside, faculty politics and purges, institutional expansion, the sacrifice of liberal arts students to the war machine, and heroic dissenting professors who tried in vain to bring the war to an early end.

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Tachibana Takashi (b. 1940 and himself a graduate of Tokyo University) traces the relations between the Japanese imperial state and Tokyo University, its showcase educational institution. He focuses on the era 1930-1945, including rightist politics, war mobilization, Pearl Harbor, and utter defeat. He describes attacks on the university’s patriotism by outside and inside agitators, factional fighting within the university (his focus is on the faculties of Economics and Law), collaborationism or the retreat into silence of many faculty. He lauds the heroism of the few who dissented, some of whom (Nambara Shigeru, Tanaka Kōtarō, Yanaihara Tadao) went on to play major roles in Japan’s postwar era.

Word Count: 123133

ISBN: 978-1-945764-04-2

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History
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date Added:
11/22/2017
Tokyo University and the War
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Tachibana Takashi analyzes the impact of World War II on Tokyo University and Tokyo University’s impact on the war: attacks from outside, faculty politics and purges, institutional expansion, the sacrifice of liberal arts students to the war machine, and heroic dissenting professors who tried in vain to bring the war to an early end.

Subject:
History
World History
Material Type:
Reading
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author:
Richard H. Minear
Tachibana Takashi
Date Added:
03/31/2020
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

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Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author:
Melina Masterson
Date Added:
05/18/2022
Torniamo a tavola! Volume 2
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An intermediate Italian grammar manual

Word Count: 14175

ISBN: 978-1-945764-24-0

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Languages
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Provider:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author:
Melina Masterson
Date Added:
05/18/2022
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.

Word Count: 36832

ISBN: 978-1-945764-17-2

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English Language Arts
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date Added:
01/26/2024
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.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author:
Melina Masterson
Stacy Giufre
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author:
Melina Masterson
Stacy Giufre
Date Added:
11/17/2021
The UMass Amherst Libraries Falcon Curriculum: An Open, Common Core PreK-12 Curriculum on Peregrine Falcons
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Word Count: 52193

ISBN: 978-1-945764-26-4

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Subject:
Education
Life Science
Zoology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author:
Lauren Weiss
Margaret Krone
Date Added:
02/01/2023
Unseen Labor
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Unseen Labor is an international library community-organizing embroidery project created by University of Massachusetts Amherst librarian Ann Kardos. Metadata work is not typically seen as creative work, but work that is guided by national standards, best practices, policies and guidelines in order to produce and maintain standard records for library resources that can be shared between institutions and vendors. Metadata librarians and catalogers create and maintain millions of library resources for our patrons, with whom we may rarely (if ever) interact, and we provide valuable backend support for our front-facing colleagues.

Word Count: 9321

ISBN: 978-1-945764-15-8

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Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Computer Science
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date Added:
01/31/2022
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 secondary writings followed by trips to libraries or, more recently, investigation of on-line sources.

Readers approaching this comprehensive account of criticism will find it can be read as a straightforward chronological narrative, conveniently divided into chapters of moderate length, allowing time for some reflection along the way. It can also be used as a basis for identification and description of insightful criticism that can be located and explored independently; outstanding critical approaches to Wilde’s play can be located by employing the Works Cited as a convenient handlist for exploration. For readers whose memory of the play in performance or reading may be fragmentary or less than full, a summary of the action and an indication of the time scheme of The Importance of Being Earnest will be found at the end of the book, as Appendix 1. References are gathered in footnotes, with short citations keyed to the list of Works Cited at the end.

Word Count: 94118

ISBN: 978-1-945764-11-0

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Literature
Provider:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date Added:
10/15/2020