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Arts / Humanities

  • The American Film Company
  • American Folk & Popular Music and Politics
  • The Arts and Humanities in Society
  • California History in Surf Music and Surf Films
  • Chicano/Latin American Theatre
  • Coffee and the Culinary Cultures of the Middle East
  • Collectors and Collecting
  • Emotions in Films
  • Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton:  The Literary Marriage
  • Hypnotic Performance and Performances of Hypnotism
  • Islam and the Visual Arts
  • Playwriting and New Play Development
  • Race and Popular Music

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Biological / Environmental / Geological Sciences

  • Arctic Ecosystems
  • Bats: Natural History/ Santa Barbara Bats/ Bats of the World/ Bat Myths
  • Beyond Peak Oil: What Happens When the Oil Supply Begins to Run Out and What Can We Do About It
  • California Grasslands & Nitrate Contamination
  • Climate Change: Global Warming, Hurricanes, and Arctic Changes
  • Developing a New Bi-National Park in Belize and Guatemala
  • Early Dinosaurs and Other New Fossils from Madagascar
  • Ecopsychology in a Nutshell
  • The Future of Oil and Natural Gas Technology: Why the World Must Have Hydrocarbons
  • Geologic and Modern Evidence of Methane Seepage in the Santa Barbara Coastal Area
  • Geologic Studies of the Mission Tunnel
  • Global Warming – Science and Society
  • History of Seals, Sea Lions and Walruses
  • How Microbes Make the World Work
  • How Sediments Become Rocks
  • Humans and the Climate System
  • A Landslide that Caused a Fire? An Unusual Thermal Anomaly in the Los Padres National Forest
  • New Fossil Mammals from the Central Andes, Chile
  • Nuclear Energy: Our Only Option
  • Peak Oil & Global Water Issues
  • The Promise of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
  • Reading the Geologic Record from Rocks
  • Santa Barbara's Streams as Links from Land to the Ocean
  • Sustainable Energy: Mankind's Greatest Challenge for the 21st Century
  • Viewing the Amazon from Space: A New Perspective
  • What You Always Needed to Know About Dirt
  • Why the Hydrogen Economy Will Not Work

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Communication / Health / Psychology / Self-Development

  • America's Love and Hate Relationship with Tobacco
  • Breaking Out of Our Routines
  • Building Enthusiasm
  • Child Bereavement
  • Childhood Aggression
  • Closing the Gender Gap Between Men and Women
  • Communication and Law Enforcement
  • Creativity
  • Cross-Cultural Communication
  • Emotions Between Men and Women
  • The Evolution of Female Body Fat and its Relation to Brain Size
  • Evolution of Human Behavior
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Hypermasculinity and Violence
  • Intergenerational Communication and Aging
  • Intergroup Communication
  • Mind, Madness and the Brain
  • Perception: How We Know the World
  • The Philosophy of Pragmatism
  • Pop Songs: "What's Love Got to Do with It?"
  • Psychological Sex Differences
  • Psychotherapeutic Drugs: From Lab to Clinic
  • Relation Speak: How to Communicate Closeness
  • Social Components in Depression

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Computers / Engineering / Mathematics / Physical Science

  • Acoustic Imaging: From Ancient Phoenicians to Modern Physicians
  • All Tied Up in Knots: Their Mathematical Structure
  • Computers of the Future: The Promise of Quantum Computation
  • Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics
  • The Fourth Dimension
  • How the Surface of the Earth is Formed
  • How To Calculate with Infinity
  • Human Use of Ultrasound: Ancient and Modern
  • The Jet Engine
  • Math Puzzles and Imagination
  • Nonlinear Nanotechnology
  • Numbers: From the Finite to the Different Infinities
  • An Old Man's Toy: Gravity at Work and Play in Einstein's Universe
  • Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
  • Turbulence: From Leonardo da Vinci to the Present
  • The Unpredictable: Chaos, Fractals and Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Where the Wild Things Are: An Exploration of Knotting Across the Ages

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Education

  • Achievement Motivation
  • Application of Information Technologies in Education and Professional Training
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Careers in ESL/EFL Teaching
  • The Education Achievement Gap
  • The Future of Higher Education
  • Grade Retention
  • International School Psychology
  • Language Teaching
  • Multicultural Education
  • New Research on Reading Acquisition for Non-English Speaking Children
  • The Role of Scientists in Scientific Literacy
  • School Crisis Intervention
  • School Dropouts
  • School Reform and School Effectiveness
  • School Violence Prevention
  • The Schooling of English Learners
  • Science in High Schools: A Missed Opportunity
  • Special Education Policy and Practice
  • Student Mobility

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History / Law / Politics

  • American Foreign Policy
  • Ancient and Modern Imperialism
  • Athenian Democracy
  • Attacking the Courts: Old Game or New Crisis
  • Environmental Law in a Nutshell
  • From Flatbush (Brooklyn) to the Supreme Court: The Early Years of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Gender and Sexuality in Classical Greece
  • Historical and Contemporary American Foreign Policy
  • Hyperlexus: Diagnosis and Cure
  • International Relations
  • Israeli/Palestinian Elections
  • The Maya
  • The Middle East
  • Political Psychology
  • Responses to the Iraq War Memorial by Stearns Wharf
  • The Role of the Military Today
  • The Santa Barbara County Courthouse and the Moors of Andalucia
  • Saudi Arabia since 9/11
  • Soldiers and Warfare in Ancient Greece
  • 20th Century European History
  • 20th Century French History
  • The Pleasures and Perils of Writing About a Sitting Supreme Court Justice (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
  • The War on Terror & Iraq/Afghanistan
  • What Can We Expect From the New Roberts Court: Race and Sex
  • Women and Gender in the Middle East
  • Women and Media in Afghanistan

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Religious Studies

  • American Religious Landscape
  • Introducing Islam
  • Iraq's Islamic Revolution
  • Islam
  • Islam in India
  • Islam Today
  • Pilgrimages to Sacred Places – A Comparative Perspective
  • Reading the Qur'an
  • Religion and the California Experience
  • Religious Pluralism

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Social, Cultural and Economic Issues

  • Bringing Gifts to Paradise: Activites of the Santa Barbara-Puerto Vallarta Sister City Association
  • Business Culture – Changes in the Contemporary Working World
  • California Culture, Past and Present
  • Center for Nanotechnology and Society
  • Contemporary Race Relations
  • Ethical Capitalism
  • The Impact of Nanotechnology on Society (China)
  • Increasing Your Win-Win Living
  • International/Global Economics
  • Is the Work Week Getting Longer? For Whom and Why?
  • Santa Barbara/Puerto Vallarta: A Tale of Two Sister Cities
  • Sister Citizens Savor Mazatlán
  • The Spirit of Santa Barbara Wows Puerto Vallarta
  • Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey Through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine
  • University-Industry Relations
  • U.S. Economic Foreign Policy
  • What Should I Wear Today? Sweatshops and the Global "Race to the Bottom"
  • Where is California Headed?
  • The World's Friendliest City (Puerto Vallarta)

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