CLA Books & Albums

While transplanting human heads is not a new concept, the idea has largely been relegated to religious lore or as a plot device in science fiction. But now, a surgical plan to perform the procedure exists, and though most physicians question head transplantation’s medical veracity, bioethicists have challenged the surgery on moral grounds. “A Test of Morals” examines the ethical questions that dog those who advocate for conducting this most radical of medical proposals.

Brilliant, sensitive, and private, Fitzwilliam Darcy finds himself at the Meryton Assembly, consciously troubled by recent events in Ramsgate and unconsciously troubled by himself… Romantic, reflective, and ironic, this is a story told from Darcy’s point of view, a story of the struggle from intellect to heart—a deliberate character study and a delicate love story.

This book, a comparative study of Texas, California, and Alabama’s drought response, provides for the first time a common framework for analysis to investigate how water scarcity and droughts have interacted with various state-level factors to produce a wide degree of variance in policy innovations. The authors demonstrate divergence in water policies due to the environmental cultures, water distribution and structures in each case, despite similar drought conditions.

Long before internet archives and the anytime, anywhere convenience of streaming, people collected, traded, and shared radio and television content via informal networks that crisscrossed transnational boundaries. Eleanor Patterson’s fascinating cultural history explores the distribution of radio and TV tapes from the 1960s through the 1980s. Original and engaging, “Bootlegging the Airwaves” shares the story of how fan passion and technology merged into a flourishing subculture.

“Ohio Planning and Zoning Law” is the only comprehensive treatise on Ohio land use controls and related planning and economic development issues. It offers a step-by-step guide to Ohio’s permit process as well as in-depth analysis of state legislation governing planning, economic development, and affordable housing. The text emphasizes Ohio statutes and case law, along with significant decisions from other state and federal courts.

“People, Technology, and Social Organization” is a response to the increasing role that technology plays in everyday life, and the urgent need for empirical studies that analyze the impact of technology on social practices. The chapters in this collection reveal how technology is oriented to and embedded within the social organization of action in a wide range of settings and institutions, including education, markets, arts and culture, health and social care, media, politics and science.

Ike and Rhonda Scott Endowed Professor of Piano Jeremy Samolesky has a new album of solo piano music, released by Centaur Records and distributed internationally by Naxos Records. “Marjan Mozetich: The Complete Piano Music” features music by the world-renowned Canadian composer. The album is the first professional recording of Mozetich’s piano works in their entirety.

The Mediterranean as a space in movement, that facilitates internal and external movements, which transforms (and transforms itself) in an incessant way. From the history of its largest island, Sicily, to our present times, we immediately realize how these exchanges between peoples, between languages and cultures, have led to important dialogues. This is the charm of the Mediterranean, of its cultures, of its multiple dialogues; it is not their simplicity that intrigues, but their complexity.

The author, inspired by crime stories that occurred in the southern regions of Italy, traces not only a plot of desperation but of collaboration, of individual response but also of choral acts that can inspire all those women who face oppression. The reader is guided by the narrative voice of a young woman who, on the eve of her wedding, manages to get out of a situation of humiliation, violence, and misogyny.

Reconsidering the Mediterranean, appreciating and demarginalizing the peoples and cultures of this vast region, while considering the affinities and differences, is a valuable part of the process of unframing and reframing the concept of the Mediterranean. The authors of this volume follow Franco Cassano’s refusal of a sort of prêt-à-porter reality of cohabitation of cultures, introducing instead un’alternativa mediterranea, a world of multiple cultures that entails an ongoing learning and experiencing.

What’s the best way to respond to difficult people and difficult circumstances? This book explores the lives of real people who faced extreme challenges but responded with grace and determination instead of anger and bitterness.

The goal of “Listening” is to build individual knowledge, insight and skills to help readers become more effective listeners. Addressing listening as a cognitive process, social function and critical professional competency, the text examines factors affecting individual listening and communication in personal, professional and educational contexts. Areas such as social media, education, health, neurodiversity, aural architecture, and “the musical brain” are explored.