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  Multimodal Musicianship

  Victoria Malawey

  Access Online: https://pressbooks.macalester.digital/multimodalmusicianship/

  Multimodal Musicianship is an open educational resource for learning music theory and ear training. The content engages concepts related to tonal harmony, suitable for a two- or three-semester music theory and ear training curriculum in a liberal arts college or other higher education setting. This collection of materials offers multiple modes of engaging content—with text, musical examples, audio examples, video content, application activities, and links to supplemental content—designed for users to learn and reinforce their knowledge according to their learning styles and needs.

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  A Call for Change: Minnesota Environmental Justice Heroes in Action, Volume 2

  Christie Manning, Minori Kishi, and Rachel Campbell

  Access Online: https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/environmentaljusticevol2/

  This second volume of “A Call for Change: Minnesota Environmental Justice Heroes in Action” is a collection of the stories and efforts of environmental justice activists at the forefront of the Minnesota environmental justice movement. It is a compilation of interviews, conducted by students at Macalester College in 2023, to understand the layers of environmental injustice in Minnesota and bring attention to the resilience and determination of activists and communities. See volume one at https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/environmentaljustice/

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  A Call for Change: Minnesota Environmental Justice Heroes in Action

  Christie Manning, Alison Bautista, and Avram Anderson

  Access Online: https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/environmentaljustice

  This book provides a brief introduction to the lives and work of Minnesota residents who advocate for Environmental Justice. Their stories were captured in interviews conducted by Macalester College students in Spring 2018, 2019 and 2020. The work featured in this volume covers a broad span, showcasing the depth and breadth of Environmental Justice. More importantly, this book celebrates the extraordinary everyday people who chose to take action in the face of injustice. While their approaches to Environmental Justice work are diverse, they are united in their persistence and their creativity.

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  In Fond Memory: Ron Joslin

  DeWitt Wallace Library

  Access Online: https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/fondmemoriesronjoslin/

  In Fond Memory: Ron Joslin honors Ron Joslin through a collection of stories and mementos. Ron worked at the DeWitt Wallace Library, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota for 35 years and touched the lives of numerous individuals during that time.

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  Grenzenlos Deutsch

  Britt Abel, Erika Berroth, Maureen Gallagher, Adi King, Isolde Mueller, Simone Pfleger, Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers, Faye Stewart, Tessa Wegener, and Amy Young

  Access Online: https://grenzenlos-deutsch.com

  Grenzenlos Deutsch, an open online curriculum for beginning German

  This full-year curriculum is intended as a no-cost alternative to current, more traditional textbooks in the field. It mixes materials rooted in real-world, contemporary communication scenarios, multimedia content, and online learning activities.The Grenzenlos curriculum ensures that the topics of discussion in the language classroom are relevant to and reflect today’s world.

  This project was made possible with grant funding and due to the dedication of former librarian, Ron Joslin. Many additional library staff members including Jacki Betsworth and Erin Porter along with many student employees contributed to this project either by managing images or producing/editing videos and text.

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  A Material Education: The Art & Science of Stanton Sears - Intersections Series by the DeWitt Wallace Library

  Laura Billings Coleman

  Interactive version of A Material Education: The Art & Science of Stanton Sears

  Edited by Beth Hillemann
  Digital Book Design by Magdalena Panetta

  This series of e-books, entitled Intersections, will serve to highlight the interdisciplinary approaches of our faculty and students. Each e-book will feature Macalester faculty members who embody the interdisciplinary nature of the liberal arts in their teaching and scholarship.

  A Material Education: The Art and Science of Stanton Sears is the exciting inaugural book of the series. The studio of Stan Sears gives us the ideal start to our exploration of the critical connections between arts and sciences at Macalester. As a teacher and artist, Sears employs mathematics, geometry, physics, biology, architecture, and engineering, along with his artistic vision. In one of many examples highlighted in A Material Education, students see first-hand how a fundamental understanding of the anatomy of a dragonfly and the physics of structural engineering were necessary inputs to the design and creation of a dragonfly-inspired street gate. They learn the importance of the theoretical grounding they receive in their mathematics and physics courses to creating beautiful and functional art.

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  Rupture of the Virtual

  John W. Kim

  Rupture of the Virtual is an examination of a concept of the material and the invaluable resources it offers for critical thinking today. In a multifaceted analysis, the book considers the theoretical reasons for the material’s exclusion from media theory and details the military origins of computing interface technologies, such as the Head-up Display and Augmented Reality, that enhance knowledge over the material. Rupture of the Virtual insists that a renewal of the material can be central to a critique of the virtual as a cultural condition.

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  Captive Audiences / Captive Performers - Complete Text

  Sears Eldredge

  This document contains all chapters, additional text, acknowledgements and sources associated with Sears Eldredge's work titled Captive Audiences / Captive Performers. It does not contain the audio files and video files that are associated with Captive Audiences/Captive Performers.