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President Barack Obama greets Jimmy Heath, NEA Jazz master and coauthor of I Walked with Giants, at the White House during the Thelonious Monk International piano competition in September 2011. Also pictured is saxophonist Wayne Shorter.

Mari Yoshihara, author of Musicians from a Different Shore, was quoted in a Slate article entitled, "Can Asians Save Classical Music?" on February 2.

Temple University Press is proud to announce the launch of the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC), Project MUSE's new interface, featuring book and journal content integrated on a single platform. The UPCC is up and running at muse.jhu.edu and features over 12,000 scholarly book titles from nearly 70 presses, including Temple University Press

The documentary about dancer and author Frankie Manning, entitled Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging, will begin airing on PBS stations across America this week. The first presentation is January 26 at 9:30 pm on KEET (Eureka, CA). The half-hour program will air in at least eighteen other markets over the next six weeks.

The Company We Keep
Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society
Daniel Marschall

"The Company We Keep traces the rise and fall of a high-tech software firm in ways that illuminate our current moment, in particular how an organizational community of hardcore software developers shapes the digital architectures through which we increasingly live. It is a strong contribution to the emerging literature on technologists and how they organize their work." —Thomas M. Malaby, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and author of Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life
Dangerous Trade
Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World
edited by Christopher Sellers and Joseph Melling

"No other work addresses industrial hazards with such geographic breadth and historical depth. Together, the essays in Dangerous Trade offer a damning indictment of capitalism's impact on working people and the environments in which they have labored and lived. Just as importantly, Dangerous Trade also makes a compelling case regarding the role of workers' movements in improving public health in and beyond the workplace. This book, in short, offers something new to a range of practitioners and academics." —Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado at Boulder
Laotian Daughters
Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
Bindi V. Shah

"Bindi Shah has written a lively and perceptive account of Laotian American youth, who were legacies of war and displacement but came of age through community organizing. This much-needed book reminds us that movement activism does more than counter injustice; it produces new knowledge, new subjectivities, and emergent cultures." —Scott Kurashige, author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles
Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It
A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs
Second Edition
James P. Gray

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION

"Here's a scathing jeremiad against the war on drugs, notable both for the author's position and for the sustained anger of its argument." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Free!
Great Escapes from Slavery on the Underground Railroad
Revised Edition
Lorene Cary

"Lorene Cary is a deft, focused writer. Free! is yet another example of her ability to tell the astounding, immutable truth of what it means to be human." —Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Winner of the 2005 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award for Leaving Cecil Street
Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English
Chante Vodou an kreyòl ayisyen ak angle
Benjamin Hebblethwaite, with the editorial assistance of Joanne Bartley, Chris Ballengee, Vanessa Brissault, Erica Felker-Kantor, Andrew Tarter, Quinn Hansen, and Kat Warwick

"Benjamin Hebblethwaite's Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English is an extraordinary compilation of the sacred oral traditions of Haiti. Hebblethwaite brings the combined talents of an ethnographer and linguist to the translation and interpretation of over six hundred Vodou songs, spanning several decades, contexts, and moods. Many are from important collections that have never been published. Accompanying this remarkable project is a hundred-page dictionary of Vodou terms, which will be an invaluable resource for students of Haitian culture and religion." —Joseph M. Murphy, Georgetown University, author of Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora
Closure
The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us
Nancy Berns

"Closure examines how contemporary Americans—with their inalienable right to pursue happiness—have created a new emotion to help themselves deal with disappointment, loss, and grief. The need to find closure can justify forgetting or remembering, moving on or getting even, to say nothing of making a buck. Sprinkled with examples that range from hilarious to heartbreaking, this book explores closure's many meanings and uses." —Joel Best, University of Delaware, author of Everyone's a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture