Common Threads
An anthology from the University of Illinois Press
Each volume in Common Threads brings together related journal content into e-book format, allowing the reader to experience several thematically-related scholarly articles at one time. This innovative new series gathers hand-selected material by leading scholars in an easy-to-read format meant to reach a wide audience of scholars and interested readers.
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Volume 5 Animal Ethics for Veterinarians Veterinarians serve on the front lines working to prevent animal suffering and abuse. For centuries, their compassion and expertise have improved the quality of life and death for animals in their care. However, modern interest in animal rights has led more and more people to ask questions about the ethical considerations that lie behind common veterinary practices. Contributors: View table of contents (PDF) Paperback - $28.00 |
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Volume 4 Following the Elephant: Ethnomusicologists Contemplate Their Discipline In Following the Elephant, Bruno Nettl edits articles drawn from fifty years of the pioneering journal Ethnomusicology. The roster of acclaimed scholars hail from across generations, using other works in the collection as launching points for dialogues on the history and accomplishments of the field. Nettl divides the collection into three sections. In the first, authors survey ethnomusicology from perspectives that include thoughts on defining and conceptualizing the field and its concepts. The second section offers milestones in the literature that critique major works. The authors look at what separates ethnomusicology from other forms of music research and discuss foundational issues. The final section presents scholars considering ethnomusicology—including recent trends—from the perspective of specific, but abiding, strands of thought. Contributors:
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Volume 3 Mere and Easy: Collage as a Critical Practice in Pedagogy Collage making offers everyone from small children to trained artists the ability to express themselves through images. In this new Common Threads collection, Jorge Lucero draws on the archive of the journal Visual Arts Research to present articles focused on the place of collage in fine art and education. Guided by the twinned concepts of mereness—collage's reputation as a trifle—and easiness—the technique's accessibility to all—the authors explore how subversive, debased, and effortless the collage gesture can be. What emerges is in and of itself a collage, one that groups disparate scholarship into a whole that reveals how the technique may serve as a method of scholarship and as a wellspring of vibrant, even radical, pedagogical utility. Contributors:
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Volume 2 Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship The University of Illinois Press is delighted to announce the next volume in its Common Threads series. This new e-book, Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship, is a joint effort with the Journal of American Ethnic History (JAEH). Editor John Bukowczyk selected 14 articles that explore the challenges of the myriad divisions and hierarchies that immigrants to the United States must navigate and the cultural and political atmospheres they encounter. The book includes a substantial introduction from the editor that highlights these themes that link each chapter. From the introduction:
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Volume 1 Higher Mental Processes A compilation of hard-to-find articles from the foremost psychology journal in the field In this new compilation, Robert W. Proctor curates a collection of celebrated and seminal articles from the past 125 years of The American Journal of Psychology. The debut volume in the University of Illinois Press's Common Threads ebook series, Higher Mental Processes reprints a suite of ten articles on processes of higher-order thinking. Proctor, current editor of the AJP, begins the volume with a special introduction that provides historical and scientific context for the contributions. Contributors: P. Baratta, M. H. Birnbaum, M. E. Bulbrook, L. S. Buyer, R. A. Carlson, S. N. F. Chant, A. A. Cleveland, T. D. Cutsforth, R. L. Dominowski, E. Galanter, P. N. Johnson-Laird, M. G. Preston, Robert W. Proctor, and J. Tagart. View table of contents (PDF) Paperback - $30.00 |
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