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Handbook of Seismic Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure Systems

(Woodhead Publishing / Elsevier, 2013)
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Earthquakes represent a major risk to buildings, bridges and other civil infrastructure systems, causing catastrophic loss to modern society. Handbook of Seismic Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure Systems reviews the state of the art in the seismic risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure systems.

Part one reviews research in the quantification of uncertainties in ground motion and seismic hazard assessment. Part two discusses methodologies in seismic risk analysis and management, whilst parts three and four cover the application of seismic risk assessment to buildings, bridges, pipelines and other civil infrastructure systems. Part five also discusses methods for quantifying dependency between different infrastructure systems. The final part of the book considers ways of assessing financial and other losses from earthquake damage as well as setting insurance rates.

Handbook of seismic risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure systems is an invaluable guide for professionals requiring understanding of the impact of earthquakes on buildings and lifelines, and the seismic risk assessment and management of buildings, bridges and transportation. It also provides a comprehensive overview of seismic risk analysis for researchers and engineers within these fields.

(Description Source: Woodhead Publishing / Elsevier)


Author

Solomon Tesfamariam is a professor of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). Dr. Tesfamariam’s research and leadership is to enhance safe and sustainable built environment subject to multiple hazards, such as earthquake, wind, deterioration and climate change. Dr. Tesfamariam joined the UBC’s school of engineering in 2008, and was promoted to associate and full professors in 2013 and 2017, respectively. Prior to UBC, he worked for over seven years at the National Research Council Canada on developing different decision support tools for infrastructure management, and analytical and numerical based modelling of pipe failures.


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Redefining Mexican “Security”
Society, State, and Region Under NAFTA

(Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997)
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This pioneering effort to conceptualize unforeseen—and nontraditional—security issues in Mexico confronts what went unaddressed in virtually the entire debate surrounding the NAFTA negotiations: the process of redefining security in Mexico within the context of increased economic integration with the U.S. and Canada.

Grappling with the question of what “security” means in the Post-Cold War era, Rochlin discusses the economic dimensions of Mexican security concerns, the role of indigenous peoples, the evolution of democracy, military-civilian relations and human rights, feminist perspectives, environmental issues, and narcotrafficking, all within a historical context. His practical analysis—drawing heavily on a critical theory perspective, but borrowing as well from postmodernism and classical realism—is also an important contribution to the study of conflict resolution.

(Description Source: Lynne Rienner Publishers)


Author

James Rochlin is a professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at York University. He has published widely in the areas of Latin American Politics, Global Theory, and Critical Security.


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ISBN: 9781555875695


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“Should Students have to Borrow?”
Journal of Philosophy of Education, 50 (3), 351-370

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Since autumn 2012, higher education institutions in England have been able to charge undergraduate students up to £9,000 a year in tuition fees. Full‐time students are expected to take out loans large enough to cover their tuition fees and living costs for the duration of their studies. They must start repaying these loans if and when their earnings reach £21,000 a year.

In this bold and timely pamphlet, Christopher Martin argues that forcing students to borrow is a serious mistake. He contends that higher education is a welfare good on a par with basic schooling and health care. To flourish in liberal democratic societies, citizens must be personally autonomous, and the educational demands of personal autonomy are too heavy to be met by compulsory schooling alone. To lead autonomous lives, adult citizens need ongoing educational support, support that the liberal democratic state has an obligation to provide. Higher education should therefore be a universal entitlement and free at the point of use.

The global debate about who should pay for higher education is by no means settled. As England shifted the financial burden from taxpayers to students, Germany moved in the opposite direction: all German universities have offered free tuition since 2014. Christopher Martin’s distinctive contribution to the debate is to lay out a principled argument, based on a plausible assessment of the purpose of higher education, for the view that students should not have to pay for their education. His argument is controversial, to be sure, but it represents a serious and considered attempt to set the question of higher education funding on sure normative foundations.

Description Source: Wiley Blackwell. Published 2015 (3).


Author

Christopher Martin is an associate professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). His research focuses on the philosophy of education. His specific areas of interest include educational ethics, the aims of higher education, and education for democracy. His work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Spencer Foundation, and the Centre for Ethics and Education (Wisconsin).


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Curricular Conversations
Play is the (Missing) Thing

(Routledge, 2012)
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The central theme of Curricular Conversations is this: Play is the thing that brings aesthetic curricular complications near educators and their students, making the lived consequences very vivid, tangible, and possible. Viewing curriculum as genuine inquiry into what is worth knowing, rather than simply a curricular document, this book explores the significances instilled and nurtured through aesthetic play. Each chapter delves into the space a given artwork reveals. The artworks act as points of departure and/or generative vehicles, foregrounding the roles and possibilities of play within curricular conversations. Looking at relevant educational issues, traditions, and theorists through an illuminating lens, this book speaks to curriculum theorists and arts educators everywhere.

(Description Source: Routledge)


Author

Margaret Macintyre Latta is the director of Education and a professor at The University of British Columbia (Okanagan). She’s a former classroom teacher at the elementary, junior high, and high school levels who returned to graduate studies compelled by John Dewey’s (1938) assertion that within aesthetic experience is a learning approach and direction. The aesthetic is understood as attention to the creating process, primary to the arts, permeating all learning—thus adapting, changing, building, and making meaning. Her scholarship addresses the integral role of aesthetic considerations such as attentiveness to participatory thinking, emotional commitment, felt freedom, dialogue and interaction, and speculation within the acts of teaching and learning. She terms these neglected epistemological assumptions, elemental to learners and learning. She believes the aesthetic merits serious consideration as a pragmatic and philosophical necessity missing in much schooling. Aesthetic teaching/learning contexts call for rethinking and revaluing what is educationally important. She is committed to the primacy of teachers in the lives of their students and the long-term impact on the future, contributing to the scholarship regarding school curriculum, teacher education, and professional development reform initiatives.


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BC Wine Territory Identity

(University of British Columbia Library, 2018)
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The Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC) and KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux, have been working with the British Columbia wine industry to develop its sense of identity for a number of years. More recently, the campus partnered with the Innovation School at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) to create and deliver participatory workshops in November 2017, which included a full-day workshop on identity as part of the 2018 Wine Leaders Forum. These workshops stimulated thinking about aspects of identity, including terroir, authenticity, expression, and the overall narrative presented by the BC wine territory.

This report outlines the campus’ activities to date, introduces the idea of identity, discusses its importance for wine regions, analyzes findings, recommends actions for wineries, growers, industry organizations and regional associations, and concludes with UBCO’s commitment. It complements GSA’s (2018) report of the workshops.

(Description Source: University of British Columbia Library)

Author

Kim Buschert is a librarian at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, and is the liaison to the Faculty of Management. She helps organize, track and report on project activities for the UBC Wine Industry Collaboration, as outlined in the agreement with Western Diversification. She participates in activities and provides input into the communication and dissemination of outcomes. She’s skilled in market research, project coordination, library instruction, and research. Before joining UBC Okanagan’s Library, she worked with Interior Health to coordinate residential and addiction services, along with Blue Mountain Vineyard and Cellars.

Malida Mooken (PhD) is a lecturer at the Faculty of Management at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Management. She holds an MSc in Economic Competitiveness and International Business from the University of Birmingham, UK and a PhD in Management from the University of Stirling, UK.

Her work in the wine industry project is especially focused on understanding and analyzing strategic issues that emerge out of the interactions amongst academics, industry actors, policymakers, and others. She also contributes to the overall process of the project, including the development of appropriate methods and methodologies.

More generally, her research interests are related to the development of individual and collective capabilities, regional economic strategies and qualitative methods of inquiry in real-time. Her research activities provide particular contexts and opportunities to explore critical concerns about the roles and responsibilities of university academics in societies.

Jacques-Olivier Pesme graduated from BEM Bordeaux Management School (France) and Madrid University (Spain), along with completing doctoral studies in France (Bordeaux) and in the USA. After working as an export manager in Spain and in France, he is now Director of the Wine & Spirits Academy at KEDGE Bordeaux, offering dedicated programs on wine management.

Dr. Pesme has published several articles and business cases on strategy in the wine sector, and is regularly interviewed by media nationally and globally. He is a board member of the ISVV (Institute of Vine and Wine Sciences), the founder of the Bordeaux Wine & Business Club, and a UN consultant on market analysis. The Revue des Vins de France ranked him as one of the 200 most influential personalities in the wine industry in 2015.

Roger Sugden (PhD in Economics) is a professor and dean at UBC’s Faculty of Management, and the director of the Regional Socio-Economic Development Institute of Canada (RSEDIC). He has previously worked in the UK at the universities of Birmingham, Edinburgh and Stirling, and in Germany at the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Università di Ferrara, Italy, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Sugden is an expert on economic organization and socio-economic development. His research explores the role that universities can play in communities and societies by bringing together academia and industry to create a unique driver for innovation, becoming a regional focal point for industries that are looking for collaborative opportunities. He has extensive experience and expertise in research knowledge mobilization, having designed and led outreach activities in different parts of the world, including Canada, UK, Italy and Argentina.

Marcela Valania is a research associate at UBC’s Faculty of Management and a team member of the UBC Wine Industry Collaboration.

Marcela was previously a professor at the National University of Mar del Plata, in the field of English as a Foreign Language, and worked in academic administration coordinating research and teaching projects at the University of Birmingham, England, and the University of Stirling, Scotland. Her experience has entailed inputs into a wide set of projects, including seminars, conferences, workshops, festivals, graduate schools, short courses and research. A major feature has been the focus on establishing and nurturing relations with colleagues in international and local networks. A significant aspect of the latter has included contributions to multi-lingual research and learning activities, and to project funding applications.

Marcela is also an artist. In that capacity, she has curated and contributed to research-based exhibitions as part of outreach activities in Canada, the UK, Italy and Argentina.

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Strangers on Their Native Soil
Opposition to United States’ Governance in Louisiana’s Orleans Territory, 1803-1809

(University Press of Mississippi, 2013)
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After the United States purchased Louisiana, many inhabitants of the new American territory believed that Louisiana would quickly be incorporated into the Union and that they would soon enjoy rights as citizens. In March of 1804, however, Congress passed the Act for the Organization of Orleans Territory, which divided Louisiana into two sections: Orleans Territory, which lay southwest of the Mississippi Territory; and the Louisiana District. Under this act, President Jefferson possessed the power to appoint the government of Orleans Territory and its thirteen-man legislative council. The act also prohibited importation of most slaves. Anxieties about their livelihoods and an unrepresentative government drove some Louisiana merchants and planters to organize protests. At first this group used petitions and newspaper editorials to demand revisions; later they pressed for reforms as a political faction within the territorial government.

Outside of Louisiana, the conflict became a harbinger for the obstacles to westward expansion and clashes ahead. American politicians became alarmed about the future of American governance, territorial expansion, and the growth of slavery, all issues raised by the Orleans protesters. John Quincy Adams, for example, worried that the government established for Louisianans violated the principles of the American Revolution. Federalist Fisher Ames believed that Jefferson’s power over Louisiana would allow him to establish a western Republican empire ensuring the national demise of the Federalist Party. Slaveholders and supporters of slavery in the Congress attacked the restrictions on importation of slaves, using arguments in debates with opponents of slavery that were repeated until the outbreak of the Civil War. Because they caused politicians in the Congress to reconsider how people in areas acquired by the United States should be governed and because they reinvigorated the national discussion about the future of slavery in the United States, the Orleans protesters played a significant role in influencing the shape of American territorial expansion.

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Author

Julien Vernet is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. He completed his PhD at Syracuse University, and is also a graduate of Queen’s University. He researches the history of the United States and French Americas. His work has appeared in Louisiana History, French Colonial History, and the American Review of Canadian Studies.


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My Body is Yours

(Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015)
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Michael V. Smith is a multihyphenate force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male–a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family; a sissy; an insecure teenager desperate to disappear; and an obsessive writer-performer, drawn to compulsions of alcohol, sex, reading, spending, work, and art as a means to cope and heal.

As an artist whose work focuses on our preconceived notions about the body, Michael questions the very notion of what it means to be human. He also asks: How can we know what a man is? How might understanding gender as metaphor be a tool for a deeper understanding of identity? In coming to terms with his past “failures” at masculinity, and with an aging father he is only beginning to come to know, Michael offers a new way of thinking about breaking out of gender norms, and reconciling with a dangerous childhood.

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Author

Michael V. Smith is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches creative writing. His first novel, Cumberland, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca / Books in Canada First Novel Award. His short fiction has won the Western Magazine Gold Award for Fiction and been nominated for the Journey Prize. In 2007, Smith received the Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers and Vancouver’s Community Hero of the Year Award. A native of Cornwall, Ontario, Smith currently lives in Kelowna, BC.


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Niagara Motel

(Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016)
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Set in 1992, Ashley Little’s follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to unforgettable eleven-year-old Tucker Malone–the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper–who believes his father is Sam Malone from Cheers. He and his mother move from motel to motel until, one night in Niagara Falls, his mother is hit by a car after falling asleep in the street.

Tucker is sent to live in a youth group home where he meets Meredith, a pregnant sixteen-year-old street prostitute. They bond over Slurpees and a shared love for literature and he convinces her to “borrow” a car to go to Boston to find his father.

Their cross-country search becomes an epic depiction of mid-90s America as Tucker comes face to face with some of the most notorious criminals of the time: The Oklahoma Bomber; Lorena Bobbitt; the boys responsible for the Columbine High School massacre; O.J. Simpson; and Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.

Told in spare, straightforward prose, Niagara Motel is a biting chronicle during the rise of mass media in the decade that defined the MTV Generation, and the bittersweet story of a young boy forced to learn brutal lessons on his way to becoming a man.

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Author

Ashley Little received a BFA in Creative Writing and Film Studies from the University of Victoria and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Her book The New Normal won the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize, and Anatomy of a Girl Gang won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has been optioned for television. Confessions of a Teenage Leper is Ashley’s fifth novel. Ashley lives in British Columbia with her partner, their daughter, and her toy poodle, Huxley.


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Designing Tito’s Capital
Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism in Belgrade

(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014)
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The devastation of World War II left the Yugoslavian capital of Belgrade in ruins. Communist Party leader Josip Broz Tito saw this as a golden opportunity to recreate the city through his own vision of socialism. In Designing Tito’s Capital, Brigitte Le Normand analyzes the unprecedented planning process called for by the new leader, and the determination of planners to create an urban environment that would benefit all citizens.

Led first by architect Nikola Dobrovic and later by Miloš Somborski, planners blended the predominant school of European modernism and the socialist principles of efficient construction and space usage to produce a model for housing, green space, and working environments for the masses. A major influence was modernist Le Corbusier and his Athens Charter published in 1943, which called for the total reconstruction of European cities, transforming them into compact and verdant vertical cities unfettered by slumlords, private interests, and traffic congestion.  As Yugoslavia transitioned toward self-management and market socialism, the functionalist district of New Belgrade and its modern living were lauded as the model city of socialist man.

The glow of the utopian ideal would fade by the 1960s, when market socialism had raised expectations for living standards and the government was eager for inhabitants to finance their own housing. By 1972, a new master plan emerged under Aleksandar Ðordevic, fashioned with the assistance of American experts. Espousing current theories about systems and rational process planning and using cutting edge computer technology, the new plan left behind the dream for a functionalist Belgrade and instead focused on managing growth trends. While the public resisted aspects of the new planning approach that seemed contrary to socialist values, it embraced the idea of a decentralized city connected by mass transit.

Through extensive archival research and personal interviews with participants in the planning process, Le Normand’s comprehensive study documents the evolution of ‘New Belgrade’ and its adoption and ultimate rejection of modernist principles, while also situating it within larger continental and global contexts of politics, economics, and urban planning.

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Author

Brigitte Le Normand is an associate professor of history and director of urban studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She holds an MA in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Toronto (2002) and a PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles (2007). In addition to the book ‘Designing Tito’s Capital: Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism in Belgrade’ (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014), she has published several articles and book chapters on urban planning in socialist Yugoslavia and on Yugoslav labour migrants in Western Europe.


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Artwork displayed as part of this project – including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers – is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.


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Artwork and other images that are a part of this project are displayed solely for educational purposes.

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Words on Paper (and Other Things)

(Vernon Public Art Gallery, 2018)
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With a mixture of humour and seriousness, Craig plays with words through a combination of prints and neon signs. Accompanying his work is a participatory metallic board with words printed on magnetic sheets for visitors to create their own messaging within the exhibition.  The printed words are all taken from the artist’s artist statement and visitors are invited to reconfigure that statement into phrases and content of their own choosing.

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Artist

Briar Craig received a BFA in printmaking from Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada in 1984 and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada in 1987.

His prints have been awarded a number of prizes:  the Stand Out Prize at Stand Out Prints 2016 at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking (Minneapolis, MN); Merit Award Winner, America’s 2014 all media exhibition (Minot, ND); the Juror’s Selected prize at the 2013 North American Print Biennial (Boston MA); Honorable Mention at the Pacific Rim International print Exhibition 2013 (Christchurch, New Zealand); 2nd Prize at Imprima 2012 (Sobral, Brazil); 2nd Prize Winner (one of his students achieve first prize) at the Open Studio Canadian Printmaking Awards (Toronto, Canada) and Special Prize Winner at the 1st International Print and Painting Biennial 2008 (Istanbul, Turkey).

He has held positions as an assistant professor of Art at the University of Minnesota, Morris campus (1987 – 1991); assistant and associate professor at Okanagan University College (1991 – 2005); he is currently a professor at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus (2005 – present) in Kelowna, BC, Canada.


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Paper ISBN: 9781927407417


UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project

The University of British Columbia Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project aims to display academically inspiring artwork in classrooms and other teaching areas of the university.

Artwork displayed as part of this project – including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers – is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.


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If you know of other book or journal covers, or other academically inspiring artwork that is connected to work carried out by UBCO artists, scholars or researchers and that is consistent with UBCO’s educational mission, please email your suggestions to classroom.artwork@ubc.ca.

The UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project began in 2019 with support from the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences. It is now a joint project of UBCO’s Faculties and the Office of the Provost.

Artwork and other images that are a part of this project are displayed solely for educational purposes.