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A radical challenge to the ways anti-rape advocates work with the survivors of sexual assaultWhat is “victim advocacy” when regulated by the government? Victim advocates have long served as the designated support people for survivors of sexual violence. But in the neoliberal era, advocates no longer work at independent collectives supporting survivors through whatever means necessary, but instead operate at rape crisis centers, government-funded agencies with strict policies on the uses of their funding. In this compelling book, Melinda Chen argues that pressures from governmental granting agencies onto rape crisis centers have compelled advocates to turn away from their responsibility of challenging intersectional violence and instead lean into normative interpretations of rape and survivorship, hurting the most marginalized of victims. Killing Radicalism demonstrates that even the most well-intentioned anti-rape activists can inadvertently harm survivors when they forgo an intersectional critique of the oppressive social and institutional structures around them. Through interviews with advocates from over 50 rape crisis centers, and drawing from her own experience as an advocate, Chen examines how neoliberalism affects anti-rape advocacy today. She shows that through everyday activities like grant writing or the compilation of survey data, advocates can inadvertently force victims out of the post-rape process through small-scale acts suggesting that they are not worthy victims. Chen asks advocates to reconsider their relationship to racial and other marginalized peoples' movements to reimagine a radical politics that can resist hegemonic and normative state powers. Ultimately, this book is a wake-up call for advocates and scholars to reexamine their approaches to anti-violence work and prioritize the needs of all survivors. Autorid: Melinda Chen

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to the present and addresses its legacies through works of European Romantic authors and contemporary Caribbean writers. Framed by its origin in geology, geopoetics unfolds the aesthetic and political consequences of the Earth's independence from human existence alongside the realization that this fundamentally independent Earth is also the foundation of all human society. Highlighting this notion of an indifferent Earth, each chapter in this boundary-pushing new book offers an analysis of a Caribbean authorÉdouard Glissant, Erna Brodber, Jacques Roumain, Olive Senior, Patrick Chamoiseau, Frankétienne, and Daniel Maximinas a lens through which to view a Romantic counterpart: William Wordsworth, Friedrich Hölderlin, John Clare, and Karoline von Günderrode. The book invents the term "Caribbean Romanticism" to index an undercurrent in Romantic literature that becomes visible only once the poetic and philosophical experiments to which its themes and forms have been harnessed are made explicit in the context of the present: in the perdurance of neo-colonialism, its role in the acceleration of global warming, and the continued aftermath of the racial hierarchies that scaffolded European colonial expansion. These contemporary problems, anchored in the Romantic era, are addressed directly in much Contemporary Caribbean literature. Adrift on the Earth therefore also suggests how contemporary geopoetics continues to address present-day neo-colonialism, offering a set of ideas about new ways of relating to the Earth for the age of the Anthropocene. Autorid: Kir Kuiken

In 2010, Carlisle Floyd, one of American opera’s most titanic talents, found himself at an impasse. Caring for family and with few leads as to his next project, he unexpectedly found a spark of inspiration in the story of Edward Kynaston. This seventeenth-century British actor had his star turn on the stage unceremoniously ended by a ban on male actors performing women's roles. Centuries later, his misfortune gave this brilliant composer a way back onto the stage he valued so much.In this companion to Falling Up: The Days and Nights of Carlisle Floyd, author Thomas Holliday follows Floyd through his creatively fruitful final decade, focusing on his relationship with family and the production of his final opera, Prince of Players, inspired by the life and work of Kynaston. Told through reminiscences from those closest to him, the book is an intimate portrait of the composer’s creative process. Encore is a testament to Floyd’s work and enduring influence, a portrait of an icon still innovating and creating until the end. Autorid: Thomas Holliday, Jeffrey Hatcher

The Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about poor southern whites. Examining issues of genre, race, and culture, Mitch Ploskonka traces the emergence of this iconoclastic mode through its major authors to reveal a literary-cultural identity rooted in difference, marked by resistance to respectability and class performance, and shaped by reckoning with the legacies of whiteness and regional memory. For those long dismissed as "white trash" and denied an active voice in their own representation, Grit Lit confronts the parallel concerns of finding a way to describe themselves and the means to communicate it appropriately. Beginning with Harry Crews and progressing chronologically to the presentincluding discussions of key works by Larry Brown, Dorothy Allison, Rick Bragg, and Tom Franklin, among othersPloskonka examines how Grit Lit authors forge self-representations by experimenting with genres and engaging with identity politics. Through the ongoing search for a usable, unshameful identity, Grit Lit enacts a painful but heartening narrative of grappling with the realities of people and place by acknowledging difference. As stories about the gritty or rough South proliferate across media, The Bad Poor relates an important story of literary self-fashioning by analyzing a body of literature that speaks to larger cultural discourses regarding racial identity, social justice, disability, and class divisions. Autorid: Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine

On Bernard Suits’ Philosophy situates Suits’ work within philosophy, play and leisure studies, as well as the philosophy of sport. It introduces his core ideas and offers a comprehensive interpretation, presenting Suits as a thinker who explores gameplay to ask how one can live well. On Bernard Suits’ Philosophy situates Suits’ work within philosophy, play, and leisure studies, as well as the philosophy of sport. It introduces his core ideas and offers a comprehensive interpretation, presenting Suits as a thinker who explores gameplay to ask how one can live well.This book offers readers a clear and comprehensive introduction to Suits’ philosophy and its significance across philosophy, game and leisure studies, and the philosophy of sport. By situating Suits’ work within broader intellectual debates, this book helps readers grasp how his exploration of gameplay illuminates enduring philosophical questions, such as those concerning the nature of definitions and the good life. Its approach combines careful interpretation of both published and unpublished manuscripts, historical reception, and contemporary engagement to reveal the unity of Suits’ philosophical project. In doing so, it delivers the benefit of offering the first systematic and accessible framework for understanding Suits’ ideas, connecting The Grasshopper and Return of the Grasshopper as parts of a coherent philosophical project.On Bernard Suits’ Philosophy is intended for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in philosophy, sport studies, and leisure or game studies. It also appeals to readers in related fields—such as political theory, work studies, and existential philosophy—and to general readers interested in perennial philosophical questions, especially those concerning how to live well. Autorid: Francisco Javier López Frías, Alexander H. Asay

This book is a concise yet definitive introduction to human resource management and development that will serve as a handy reference text for the subject.Written in an accessible style that brings the topic to life, the book will help students understand the key principles behind human resource management and development. After setting the context of human resource development, the book’s structure follows the HR lifecycle: starting with attracting new employees, through developing and managing those employees, and on to managing the employer/employee relationship. This gives the book a logical flow that enables readers to internalise these core concepts with confidence. Each chapter begins with a helpful chapter summary and has references that students can use as a springboard for further reading. Discussion questions also supplement each chapter, making the book a useful aide in the classroom for instructors.Ideal for undergraduate students studying human resource management and development, the book may also be used for postgraduate students without a background in Business and Management who need a quick, efficient but authoritative overview. This book is a concise yet definitive introduction to human resource management and development that will serve as a handy reference text for the subject. Ideal for undergraduate students studying human resource management and development, as well as postgraduate students without a background in Business and Management. Autorid: Fiona Robson, Steven Glasgow

Between plain resourcefulness and full-blooded entrepreneurship lies a middle ground of proactivity which, as this book argues, is a concept that allows economists to make better sense of activity where an individual takes greater agency over their personal outcomes through existing employment or additional activity.In this way, proactivity can help economists develop greater understanding of under-valued or under-studied areas such as employee self-initiative, protean career orientation, gig contracting, and prosumer activism. In theoretical terms: if economics is perceived as the investigation of the logic of human action, this book presents the case for the concept of proactivity being seen as a vital aspect of the process whereby economic agents bring about more desirable states of affairs with the use of scarce means. Through their proactiveness, individuals can combine several conventionally defined economic roles (e.g., conscious consumers and independent producers or frontline workers and quasi-entrepreneurs) and sources of income (e.g. regular wages and performance-based quasi-profits or regular wages and minority shareholder profits). In turn, this makes it possible to identify previously underappreciated sources of economic growth and furnishes additional arguments against ideas - such as economic nationalism - whose implementation is likely to stunt the productive potential of individuals.This book will be of interest to readers in economic theory, entrepreneurship, economic development and behavioural economics. Between plain resourcefulness and full-blooded entrepreneurship lies a middle ground of proactivity which, as this book argues, is a concept that allows economists to make better sense of activity where an individual takes greater agency over their personal outcomes through existing employment or additional activity. Autorid: Jakub Boydar Winiewski

First published in 1982, Worldwide Family History is an essential reference and guide for the professional genealogist and the interested amateur alike. Concentrating on non-British genealogical problems, it sets out as succinctly as possible the way in which people of English speech but of foreign descent can begin tracing their ancestors. It is designed to be used throughout the English-speaking world, and especially by people of mixed European ancestry. The first part deals with the political and linguistic structure of Europe and includes chapters on genealogy in all European countries. The second part deals with colonial shipping in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the settlement of the Americas (including chapters on Spanish, Italian, Polish, German, French and Slav emigrants), and a record of the early settlement of Europeans in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. There is also a chapter on heraldry as an aid to genealogical research. Contributors to the book include the internationally known genealogistsMargaret Audin; H. Jäger-Sunstenau; Conte G.G. Camajani; F. de Cadenas; Conde de Gaviria; Dr Artur Norton; Baron de Sao Roque; S. Kuczynski; M. M. Paszkiewicz; L. G. Pine; P. de V. B. Dewar; B. C. G. Brooks; and Professor W. Gordon East. Autorid: Noel Currer-Briggs

This book reintroduces the work of Raymond Aron and demonstrates the pertinence of his thought for reflection on social interaction and the human condition. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of sociology, sociological theory, political theory and international relations. This book reintroduces the work of Raymond Aron and demonstrates the pertinence of his thought for reflection on social interaction and the human condition.One of Europe’s leading intellectuals, Aron was primarily a sociologist, but his writings transcended disciplinary boundaries and engaged with philosophy and political theory. A clear and concise introduction to Aron’s thought on a variety of major socio-political questions – including the importance to social thought of historical understanding, the connection between ideology and socio-political thinking, the development and nature of sociology itself, labour relations, international relations and trans-disciplinary socio-political thought – Reintroducing Raymond Aron explains Aron’s work within its historical context, underlining its importance and relevance for contemporary sociological and political problems.It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of sociology, sociological theory, political theory and international relations. Autorid: Christopher Adair-Toteff

For some students, school isn't a place of growth and opportunity—it's a source of overwhelming anxiety and distress. Behind every empty desk lies a complex story of a child who often feels unseen, unheard, and disconnected from the school community.This illuminating book reveals the hidden world of school-avoidant students through an attachment-theory lens. These aren't simply "truant" children making defiant choices—they're young people whose emotional dysregulation has led them to withdraw as a survival strategy.Drawing from extensive research and real-life cases, this volume offers deep insights into the psychology of school avoidance, providing practical strategies that honor student autonomy and self-determination, along with inspiring stories of successful re-engagement and healing.Whether you're a concerned parent, dedicated educator, or school mental health professional, this guide provides a roadmap for reconnection. By understanding the true nature of school avoidance, we can build the supportive environments these students need to return to learning with dignity and hope. Drawing from extensive research and real-life cases, this volume offers deep insights into the psychology of school avoidance, providing practical strategies that honor student autonomy and self-determination, along with inspiring stories of successful re-engagement and healing. Autorid: Monica L. Mandell

Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered a different lensone shaped by wind and wildfire, rivers and drought, grasslands and pine forests? Nature and Place in Texas reimagines the Lone Star story by centering its ecosystems. This collection of essays by leading environmental historians reveals how the state's natural featuresits plains, deserts, rivers, forests, and coastlineshave shaped and been shaped by human endeavor. From the long shadow of plantation agriculture along Texas rivers to the contested engineering of the Rio Grande, and from the lost pines of East Texas to the windblown plains of the Panhandle, these essays chart a dynamic, place-based history. Organized by ecological regions and themessuch as water, labor, urban development, and recreationthis volume offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental dimensions of Texas history. Contributors draw from interdisciplinary methods and speak to ongoing concerns like climate change, land use, and environmental justice. Ideal for classroom use, the book foregrounds how Texas's environment is not merely a backdrop to history but a central force in its making. With its regional breadth and scholarly depth, Nature and Place in Texas invites students to see the Lone Star State in a new lightas a place where history and ecology are inseparable. Autorid: Char Miller, Scot McFarlane, Kenna Lang Archer, Jason Pierce, Alex Hunt, Samuel Brunk, C.J. Alvarez, Claire Williams Bridgwater, Julie Courtwright, Tim Bowman

Learn how to draw Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown, and the Peanuts gang in this easy, step-by-step, officially licensed activity book for kids ages 7 and up! Calling all kids who love to draw! Now you can learn how to create members of the Peanuts gang in this easy and fun beginning drawing book. Hone your skills of drawing Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Woodstock, and more so you can create your own comic strips and scenes. Officially licensed with Peanuts and inspired by Charles M. Schulz, this how-to activity book for kids includes practice drawing pages throughout, so young cartoonists can follow the step-by-step instructions while becoming master drawers. Kids and beginners will learn how to draw their favorite Peanuts characters, including: Snoopy Woodstock Charlie Brown Linus Lucy Sally Schroeder and his piano Pigpen Franklin Marcie And more! Autorid: Charles M Schulz

Application of Ergonomics in Politics: A Layperson’s Approach is designed for those in the field of politics including politicians at all levels, political campaigners, public speakers, election organizers, political science students, and anyone interested in understanding how ergonomic principles can improve political processes. Politics and ergonomics share a commonality as they are designed for people. Despite this connection, the application of ergonomic principles to political success remains largely unexplored in academic literature. This book presents ergonomics in an accessible format specifically tailored for those involved in politics, regardless of their educational or professional background.Written in an engaging story-telling format, this guide covers six essential areas: the macro picture of politics and elections, the ergonomic approach to politics and power, ruling and opposition dynamics, connecting with people, election ergonomics, and practical exercises for application. Each chapter begins with an overview section and concludes with key points for easy digestion and future revision, followed by practice sessions that allow readers to test their understanding. This structured approach ensures that readers can gain practical skills they can immediately apply to enhance their political effectiveness.Application of Ergonomics in Politics: A Layperson’s Approach is designed for those in the field of politics including politicians at all levels, political campaigners, public speakers, election organizers, political science students, and anyone interested in understanding how ergonomic principles can improve political processes. It will also appeal to practitioners of ergonomics and human factors in understanding where ergonomics and politics intertwine. Autorid: Prabir Mukhopadhyay

Hop into a world of cuteness with Mangatopia: Bunnies and Boba, the latest addition to our enchanting kawaii colouring book series. From fluffy bunnies lounging with their favourite bubble tea to playful kittens sliding down sundaes and tasty unicorn-topped popsicles, each page is a celebration of heartwarming moments and sweet indulgences. Fans of simple and cosy colouring will love this mixture of irresistible art. Autorid: Daniela Massironi

Women Unsilenced: Hope, Freedom, and Music in Palestine explores how Palestinian women use music to express, protest, and celebrate their identities. Divided into two parts, the book is told through two different narrative styles. In Part 1, the author uses evocative autoethnography to illuminate their experiences of traveling through Palestine and meeting the women whose stories they tell through narrative case studies in Part 2. They share harrowing accounts of daily life that chronicle the untold stories of women living under military occupation and patriarchal oppression to challenge dominant narratives about Palestinians and women in the Middle East and disrupt assumptions that are rooted in settler-colonialist and imperialist narratives. Offering an intimate look at the lives and identities of Palestinian women as celebrated through music, this is a useful resource for students and scholars across Music Education, Women and Gender Studies, and Political Science. It will also be of interest to those completing their own narrative research and the general reader wanting to learn more about Palestinian women’s everyday lives. Women Unsilenced: Hope, Freedom, and Music in Palestine explores how Palestinian women use music to express, protest, and celebrate their identities. Autorid: Sommer Helweh Forrester

Friendship has been a central topic for philosophical reflection ever since philosophy itself was born in the circle of friends who gathered around Socrates to follow his probing examinations of how we should live. In this outstanding collection, which takes its lead from the work of Alexander Nehamas, a distinguished roster of contributors examines the many dimensions of the philosophy of friendship. They broaden the discussion beyond common questions about friendship obligations and their relation to the claims of morality to explore a much wider set of issues, including: friendship in the context of Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Kant, Goethe, William James, and Nietzsche the darker side of friendship and frenemies friendship in literature and film, including André Acimans Call Me by Your Name and Andrey Zvyagintsevs The Return dogs and friendship friendship and aesthetic judgment Nehamass own distinctive analogy between the value of friendship and the value of beauty. Friendship: Philosophical Explorations will be of interest to those in philosophy studying and researching ethics and aesthetics, as well as students and scholars in related disciplines such as literature and film. Autorid: R. Lanier Anderson, Andrew Huddleston, Jessica Moss

This book draws together leading international scholars in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and language teacher education to explore language policy, teaching, and learning approaches that foreground the learning needs and changing identities of multilingual language learners. This book draws together leading international scholars in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and language teacher education to explore language policy, teaching, and learning approaches that foreground the learning needs and changing identities of multilingual language learners.The edited collection asks and answers the question: How do we best mobilize learners’ multilingual identities in language policy, teaching, and learning? Through their reflections, illustrations of professional work, and research, contributors illuminate useful connections among language education policies, language learning and teaching, and the changing identities of multilingual language learners, along with their implications for teacher education and professional development.With a global focus on language policy and teaching, the book:• examines the mobilization of multilingual language learner identities as central participants in the policy-learning-identity nexus – that is, who they are and who they become • brings attention to disparities among planned language-in-education policies, their implementation, and their perceived and real outcomes in multiple geopolitical contexts• reports on the (un)intended teaching and learning (and teacher education) practices at the micro level that stem from policy decisions made at the top-down meso/macro-levels• suggests implications for language teacher education programs and practices .This text is essential for graduate students in applied linguistics, language teaching and learning; teacher educators working in language education institutions; as well as policy makers working in language and global education. Autorid: Gary Barkhuizen, Mi Yung Park, Stephen May

The book explores the crisis of neo-classical economic theory in an attempt to explain developments in the post-war period. It present a critique to the structure in terms of scarcity approach and go deeper into the failure to the determination of a uniform rate of profit, and limited substitutions of labor and capital. This book explores the crisis of neo-classical economic theory in an attempt to explain developments in the post-war period. It explores two important aspects: strengthening the tradition of classical political economy (CPE) that arose in response to various critiques of neo-classical economic theory; and exploring the potential of CPE to deal with issues of development.The advantage of an alternative to mainstream economic theory is that it can explain value, distribution, and developmental issues of capitalist as well as non-capitalist economies around the world. The articles in this volume - written by eminent economists in honour of Krishna Bharadwaj - present a critique to the structure of the neo-classical theory in terms of scarcity approach and go deeper into the failure to the determination of a uniform rate of profit, and limited substitutions of labor and capital. The volume resurrects Sraffa’s system of production determining prices and the rate of profit allowing the possibility of output dynamics to be dealt with separately. Krishna Bharadwaj worked passionately towards these objectives, and this book establishes the foundations of CPE in the light of her writings. The book will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers of Economics, Economic Theory & Philosophy, Political Economy, Development Dynamics and History of Economic Thought. Autorid: Goddanti Omkarnath, Sudhanshu Bhushan

The second edition of Young Children’s Play offers an updated and comprehensive introduction to play and development from birth to age 8.This edition includes new real-life examples that illustrate various play types, including dramatic play, motor play, humor, and rough-and-tumble play. This edition provides additional practical strategies for supporting the play of all children, including those of diverse cultural backgrounds.The book continues to address the needs of both typically developing children and those with diverse developmental profiles, including children on the autism spectrum and those with other cognitive and physical disabilities. It features learning objectives and reflection questions in each chapter, encouraging deeper engagement and understanding. It also clarifies and updates terminology and language that reflects current research and best practices.This book continues to be an essential resource for students and professionals studying early childhood and special education, as well as teachers and parents. The second edition of Young Children’s Play offers an updated and comprehensive introduction to play and development from birth to age 8. Autorid: Jeffrey Trawick-Smith

Examining the concept of TimeSpace in the work of Immanuel Wallerstein and its crucial role within world-systems analysis, Uncertainties of Time brings together important but previously hard-to-access material from Wallerstein’s writings. Examining the concept of TimeSpace in the work of Immanuel Wallerstein and its crucial role within world-systems analysis, Uncertainties of Time brings together important but previously hard-to-access material from Wallerstein’s writings.TimeSpace is a concept developed from his earliest days in the 1970s until well into the twenty-first century, drawing from the historian Fernand Braudel and the chemist Ilya Prigogine to rethink historical time’s two overlooked modes—long enduring or eternal time, on the one hand, and, on the other, uncertainty in world-systems. Wallerstein, thereby, invented a fresh version of historical social science that brought together the customary disciplines associated with economics, politics, and sociology.This book is an essential volume for understanding Immanuel Wallerstein’s unique contributions to the understanding of the modern world-system, which he argued came to an end after the world revolution of 1968—leaving us now in an indeterminate world of chaos. This is thereby a sourcebook for researchers and students who care about the history and decline of our now chaotic world. Autorid: Immanuel Wallerstein, Charles Lemert

Artfully Teaching Reading with Project-Based Learning: Literacy Lessons for the Elementary Classroom connects evidence-based approaches with project-based learning so that you can help your students develop their literacy skills in engaging and authentic ways. This book connects evidence-based approaches with project-based learning so that you can help your students develop their literacy skills in engaging and authentic ways.There are so many real-world scenarios that can be used in classrooms, such as newscasts, podcasts, and movie-making, all of which require skills that can be taught discretely and explicitly so that students can accomplish the goals of each project. This book takes the research in reading and translates it into structured projects that you can integrate into your lesson plans. Once the research is described, the authors list the skills necessary to complete the project and the ways that these skills can be taught in structured and explicit ways, many of which are embedded in the project itself. Each chapter contextualizes the skills within the Active View of Reading. Then, step-by-step instructions are given on how to complete the project. Each chapter includes an example activity and lesson plan that you can incorporate into your teaching immediately.Through the integration of the science of reading and project-based learning, this is a key resource for elementary school reading teachers. With the strategies and ideas outlined in this book, you can see how evidence-based instruction can be fun and connected to authentic experiences. Autorid: Chase Young, Seth A. Parsons, Allison Ward Parsons

This book focuses on the East African coast, particularly Kenya, examining cross-generic texts—historical novels, Indian Ocean novels, oral history, testimony, and poetry—in English and Kiswahili to challenge and expand existing knowledge archives on Indian Ocean histories along the Kenyan coast. This book, with a focus on the East African coast and especially on the Kenyan coast, puts into conversation cross-generic texts – the historical novel, the Indian Ocean novel, oral history, oral testimony, and oral poetry – in two main languages – English and Kiswahili – with the aim of challenging, expanding and complementing the existing knowledge archive on Indian Ocean histories and its ideations on the Kenyan coast. It especially pays attention to the local forms of expression that articulate the Indian Ocean world from personal, local, and intimate perspectives. The intimate, personal, and local maps of the sea that emerge from this set of texts are derived from local articulations of the sea, informed by musings by seafarers who include divers, sailors, fishers, and beach operators.The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and cultural studies, African studies, and Indian Ocean studies. Autorid: Jacky Kosgei

Rokhl Feygenberg became one of the youngest authors published in Yiddish when her autobiographical debut novel, The Winding Road, was released serially in 1905. This fictionalized account of her own rough childhood in a small Belarusian shtetl in the 1890s is framed by the deaths of her father when she was five and that of her mother when she was fourteen. Forced to provide and care for her family, the narrator finds escape through books and is inspired by them to invent an alternate fantasy life for herself, transforming the challenges of her everyday into a dreamscape world of city life and romance. In Tamara T. Helfers masterful translation, the narrator describes her fictional village of Bulin, deep in wild swampland and forests, far away from the world of books where she finds solace. Readers are enmeshed in the daily rituals of rural Jewish life, following the narrator through her long days of labor and caring for family. Her story, at times very funny, at times full of pathos, is a clear-eyed description of youthful imaginings with three-dimensional, flawed characters, and vivid descriptions of everyday shtetl life. The Winding Road presents an unvarnished portrait of nineteenth-century Jewish life and offers readers a deeper understanding of the vast distance turn-of-the-century women traveled to find a fully realized life. Autorid: Rokhl Feygenberg, Tamara T. Helfer

"Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is the first monograph written in English to offer a comprehensive analysis of the varieties of zhai, a multifaceted term with deep historical and religious significance in Chinese Buddhism. Drawing on a wide array of sources-including canonical texts, apocryphal writings, hagiographies, and ritual documents-this book unveils zhai as a ritual complex encompassing temporary observances, communal feasts, and modes of interaction between the seen and unseen realms. These practices, rooted in both lay and monastic traditions, illustrate the intricate interplay between food, community, and ritual in Indian and Chinese Buddhism. Part I traces how Indian Buddhist temporary observances were adapted, debated, and reimagined in the Chinese context. Part II explains the sponsored feast as a mechanism for lay-monastic interaction and merit-making. It also examines how Buddhists engaged with deities and spirit saints through remote invitations and ritual offerings. Part III focuses on "scripts" used for receiving the Eightfold Observance and conducting sponsored feasts, thus revealing their evolution from simple master-disciple interactions to complex communal events. Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is an essential resource for scholars interested in food-related religious practices and the history of Buddhism. Through its meticulous examination of Chinese, Pāli, Sanskrit, and Tibetan materials, the book offers a fresh perspective on Chinese Buddhism as an intercultural endeavor. It sheds light on relevant scholastic debates, the creation of apocrypha, translation strategies, and ritual innovations in medieval China. By moving beyond teleological frameworks such as Sinicization, it emphasizes the agency of cultural, doctrinal,and social factors in shaping these practices. Additionally, it engages with the cognitive dimensions of ritual and highlights ritual logic as a cross-cultural analytical lens"-- Provided by publisher. Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is the first monograph written in English to offer a comprehensive analysis of the varieties of zhai, a multifaceted term with deep historical and religious significance in Chinese Buddhism. Drawing on a wide array of sources—including canonical texts, apocryphal writings, hagiographies, and ritual documents—this book unveils zhai as a ritual complex encompassing temporary observances, communal feasts, and modes of interaction between the seen and unseen realms. These practices, rooted in both lay and monastic traditions, illustrate the intricate interplay between food, community, and ritual in Indian and Chinese Buddhism.Part I traces how Indian Buddhist temporary observances were adapted, debated, and reimagined in the Chinese context. Part II explains the sponsored feast as a mechanism for lay-monastic interaction and merit-making. It also examines how Buddhists engaged with deities and spirit saints through remote invitations and ritual offerings. Part III focuses on “scripts” used for receiving the Eightfold Observance and conducting sponsored feasts, thus revealing their evolution from simple master-disciple interactions to complex communal events.Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is an essential resource for scholars interested in food-related religious practices and the history of Buddhism. Through its meticulous examination of Chinese, Pali, Sanskrit, and Tibetan materials, the book offers a fresh perspective on Chinese Buddhism as an intercultural endeavor. It sheds light on relevant scholastic debates, the creation of apocrypha, translation strategies, and ritual innovations in medieval China. By moving beyond teleological frameworks such as Sinicization, it emphasizes the agency of cultural, doctrinal, and social factors in shaping these practices. Additionally, it engages with the cognitive dimensions of ritual and highlights ritual logic as a cross-cultural analytical lens. Autorid: Yi Ding, Jacqueline I. Stone

Secure parentchild attachment is essential to healthy development and well-beingbut for young children with disabilities or developmental delays, forming these foundational early relationships can be challenging. The first attachment-focused resource for EI professionals, this groundbreaking book is your complete guide to the why and how of helping families improve the attachment security of children with disabilities.Written in an engaging, conversational style and firmly rooted in EI best practice, this accessible resource delivers practical, evidence-informed strategies for enhancing parentchild relationships in the critical early years. Whether youre an in-service or preservice professional, youll use this books candid insights and real-world guidance to strengthen your practice and build brighter futures for young children and families. Read This Book To: Learn why attachment mattersand how it affects outcomes in childhood and beyond Enhance your understanding of children with disabilities and their challenges in forming secure caregiverchild relationships Develop deeply engaged and respectful partnerships with families to support secure attachment and child development Apply helpful tools and best-practice principles for informal, natural assessment of attachment Implement strategies to support the development of positive parentchild relationships Develop skills in reflective practice and work with diverse families in culturally responsive ways Autorid: Stacey Alexander

In an era where advanced education is gaining unprecedented attention from educators, policymakers, and families, the landscape of learning is evolving rapidly. Over the past 15 years, significant strides have been made in theory, research, and practice, transforming classrooms around the globe. This progress not only enhances the quality of advanced education but also increases the number of students excelling at higher levels. As the spotlight on advanced students intensifies, there is a growing call for innovative and comprehensive approaches to talent development. The Future of Advanced Education and Talent Development brings together insightful essays from leading scholars and practitioners worldwide, offering a deep dive into current practices and envisioning future directions for advanced learning. This compelling collection covers traditional topics such as identification, acceleration, and social and emotional development. It also explores the expansive nature of the field, addressing after-school and summer programs, technology integration, and career and technical education, among other critical areas. Each essay presents thought-provoking ideas and actionable recommendations, sparking meaningful discussions about the future of advanced education. Whether you are an educator or policymaker, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements and future possibilities in advanced education and talent development. Autorid: Jonathan A. Plucker, Melanie S. Meyer

This book is an invaluable resource for all researchers interested in understanding practical applications of longitudinal regression methods. This book aims to equip readers with practical applications of longitudinal regression using case studies derived from administrative datasets such as the Australian government’s Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA). In providing practical examples concerning longitudinal regressions, a variety of administrative data is used, including examples not only from PLIDA but also from other sources like the Institute for Employment Research, Germany. These practical examples based on these data sources are generalisable to other data sources that readers may come across and use in their analytical research.The author emphasises the applications of longitudinal regression methods, using substantial empirical illustrations, designed to help users of social research and data analysis to better analyse and understand linked administrative datasets. This book discusses numerous SAS procedures, such as PROC GLM for estimating fixed-effects linear models, PROC LOGISTIC for estimating fixed-effects logistic regression models, PROC PHREG for estimating fixed-effects Cox regression models, and PROC GENMOD for estimating fixed-effects Poisson regression models. Readers learn about the critical need for the proper handling of longitudinal data, including issues related to data privacy, anonymisation, and ethical considerations. By providing real-world case studies and practical examples, this book bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical implementation, offering valuable guidance for researchers and practitioners.The primary audience for this book comprises social researchers and academics who engage in advanced analytical research, utilising longitudinal datasets across a variety of domains, including income, employment, health, social security, and education. This book is also well suited for statisticians, demographers, public policy analysts, and graduate students who focus on longitudinal studies to understand trends and patterns in population dynamics. The book aims to equip the readers with practical applications of longitudinal regression with case studies derived from administrative datasets such as Australian Government’s Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA) datasets. Autorid: Taylan Akay

What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the concepts and debates that they embody – or sometimes subsume – came to play crucial roles in the articulation of identity, rights, and power in subsequent periods. Together, the essays in this volume provide an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the development of these formative issues. What did it mean to be a stranger in 16th and 17th century England? This text analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. Autorid: Nandini Das, João Vicente Melo, Lauren Working, Haig Smith

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are rapidly growing fields drawing great interest among students. Many students in a range of fields, including mathematics, computer science, statistics, data science, and more, see AI and ML as a key to their future.This book provides the basic mathematics needed to understand AI and ML. It serves both students of mathematics and those who want to fill any gaps in their mathematics experience. It is written as both a text for a course and as a focused look at mathematics needed for readers hoping to learn more.The author has taught every topic in this book, often in different contexts, and the material and exercises are drawn from lecture notes. The material in the book represents a curated set of topics from the undergraduate math curriculum, some first-year seminar material, and some student project topics. Through carefully chosen examples and discussion in the text, the reader will learn how and where these tools are applied. AI and ML connections are raised along the way.It presumes the reader has at least completed the traditional three-semester calculus course. Linear algebra is presented as needed and should not require a completed course. The book is also well-suited for self-paced learning. Each chapter can be read independently with the help of the index for cross-referencing. Exercises are included. This book provides the basic mathematics needed to understand AI and ML. It serves both students of mathematics and those who want to fill any gaps in their mathematics experience. It is written as both a text for a course and as a focused look at mathematics needed for readers hoping to learn more. Autorid: Jane Hawkins

Treasury Futures and Options reviews the varied elements of U.S. Treasury futures and options markets, providing practitioners with a full description of the operations and potential of Treasury futures and options. This book is essential for every fixed income trader, investor, and economist that looks at the U.S. Treasury market. U.S. Treasury futures and options are the world’s largest fixed income markets. They enable investors and traders to trade, risk manage and invest in U.S. government notes or bonds for future delivery. The U.S. government bond market is the most liquid, secure and diverse among international government bond markets. The U.S. government uses the U.S. bond market to finance its maturing debt and expenditures, and with the expansion of U.S. borrowing, these markets have never been so large nor so closely watched around the world.Treasury Bond Futures and Options is the first standard reference handbook of its kind. It systematically reviews all of the varied elements of these crucial markets, providing practitioners and non-practitioners with a thorough description of the operations and potential of Treasury futures and options. The book presents readers with a full sense of how these gigantic markets function, including elements such as trading execution, risk management, delivery mechanism, market participants and regulatory treatment. It describes the key elements of market design, as well as walking through the trading and hedging opportunities that these markets provide. It is divided into three main sections. The first explains the background and current state of the cash and derivative Treasury markets. The second section focuses on risk management and trading using Treasury futures and options, while the third section looks at related products, key types of trader and governance.Treasury Bond Futures and Options is essential for every fixed income trader, regulator, financial investor, researcher and economist who looks at the U.S. Treasury market. Autorid: Owain Johnson, Eric Leininger, Jonathan Kronstein, Agha Mirza

Highly political and controversial: this is art that addresses events of the past which still affect the present. Under the Nazi regime, twenty-six million people in various countries across Africa and Europe were forced into labor. Their experiences and losses continue to shape their communities and descendants to this day. Under the Nazi regime, twenty-six million people in various countries across Africa and Europe were compelled to work as forced labourers. Their experiences and losses continue to shape their communities and descendants to this day. Franz Wanner exposes the present-day effects of that forced labour, telling the story through photographs, texts, films and objects because confronting the long-term impact of the Nazi regime is more important now than ever before. Autorid: Kunst Meran Merano Arte

Timeless sculptures between presence and absence an insight into the unique artistic world of Walter Moroder Life-size full-body figures that reject any kind of imitation of human existence are the quintessence of Walter Moroder's oeuvre. The limitation of their physical existence to standing, waiting, crouching, and silence condenses into an existential wholeness of their identity with a discreet life of their own in the here and now. These are human-like figures with striking experiences of presence and absence and an affinity for classical sculpture. This monograph offers a comprehensive overview of works from over thirty years, located in public and private settings. The structure in 16 chapters, accompanied by mostly full-page illustrations of the works, brings to life the specific and unique aspects of this work and illuminates overarching aspects of the aesthetic experience. The book design and the photographic images contribute significantly to this. Walter Moroder (*1963) lives and works in Ortisei in Val Gardena (Italy). Autorid: Markus Klammer, Margarethe Hausstätter

Effective teaching involves checking and responding in the moment to learning, as you discover which students are getting it and which ones need more support. But how do you make decisions on the fly based on information gleaned during class?In this handy playbook, Sackstein and McDowell help you collect formative assessment data in real-time, and then they provide step-by-step flowcharts and images to demonstrate how best to proceed once you have the data you need. They offer set plays for secondary students below, at, and above standards. They also provide specific instructional advice for when the challenges occur at the beginning, middle, and end of lessons, or in full group or small group settings. And finally, they cover ways to shift instruction based on student needs, engagement, and metacognitive opportunities.With this helpful resource, you'll have a plethora of instructional moves that work in different situations, so you can continually adjust to where students are and help them truly grow in their learning. In this handy playbook, Starr Sackstein and Michael McDowell help you collect formative assessment data in real time and provide step-by-step flowcharts and images to demonstrate how best to proceed once you have the data you need. They also cover ways to shift instruction based on student needs, engagement, and metacognitive opportunities. Autorid: Michael McDowell, Starr Sackstein

This book is an in-depth exploration of the mysterious and complex realm of the Dark Web, Dark AI Tools and offensive security use cases offering readers a comprehensive understanding of its history, structure, and the illicit activities that transpire within its hidden corridors using the Dark web-AI-Offensive tactics. This book is an in-depth exploration of the mysterious and complex realm of the Dark Web, Dark AI Tools, and offensive security use cases offering readers a comprehensive understanding of its history, structure, and the illicit activities that transpire within its hidden corridors using Dark Web-AI-Offensive tactics. It serves as a guide for both the curious reader and professionals in the fields of cybersecurity, law enforcement, and digital forensics. Designed for a diverse audience with varying interests and expertise, the book caters to those with foundational knowledge of the Dark Web as well as those seeking advanced insights into its implications using AI and offensive security. The comprehensive topic coverage and realworld case studies make it suitable for anyone interested in the intersection of technology, crime, and investigation. Autorid: Akashdeep Bhardwaj, Saksham Garg

This book explores how mathematics appears in everyday life. It presents math in a fun and beautiful way using knowledge at the junior high and high school level. It is written for general readers, not for experts. The book avoids difficult math and instead focuses on how new ways of thinking and careful observation can reveal interesting math ideas. It is divided into 33 topics. These include familiar recreational math like tournament games, magic squares, and math tricks, as well as unique ideas like the geometry of origami and toy train tracks. Some of the topics in this book may be unfamiliar to readers outside Japan, as they are based on things the author has observed in daily life in Japan. However, this is also one of the unique features of the book. It offers readers a glimpse into everyday life in Japan. The goal is to help readers feel closer to math, rather than to provide deep academic content. Features Easy to understand with junior high or high school level math knowledge. Introduces math found in real life, like origami. Includes many topics based on the authors popular social media posts (over 23,000 followers on X). Connects math topics with hands-on activities and experiences. Helps readers see the world in a new way through a "mathematical way of thinking". Focuses on intuitive and visual understanding, not difficult formulas or theories. Provide links (with QR codes) to puzzle apps developed by the author. Autorid: Jun Mitani

This book is about the evocation of spirits and the cryptography associated with them. To date only Books I & III have been published in English but without the essential detailed Spirit Registers covering 32 spirits. This edition has rectified that deficiency, and has added a translation of Book II (containing a further 25 spirits) and Book IV which related the Steganographia to Paracelsus, the Almadel and the Shemhammaphorash of Solomon, Adam and Moses. So at last the whole Steganographia is available in English with full explanations by Stephen Skinner. Autorid: Stephen Skinner, Daniel Clark

"The Colorado River through the Grand Canyon has a well-deserved reputation for whitewater-the feature that draws many boaters to the raging torrent amidst its spectacular chasms. This guide offers a literary guide down the river, through each rapid"-- Provided by publisher. The Colorado River through the Grand Canyon has a well-deserved reputation for whitewater—the feature that draws many boaters to the raging torrent amidst its spectacular chasms. This guide offers a literary guide down the river, through each rapid. Embark on an unforgettable adventure down the mighty Colorado River in The River Wild: A Celebrated Journey down the Whitewater Rapids of the Grand Canyon. Former professional river guide Cecil Kuhne takes readers through 225 miles of towering canyon walls, surging currents, and legendary rapids that have challenged explorers for over 150 years. From the historic first descent of John Wesley Powell’s expedition to the modern thrill-seekers navigating Lava Falls, Crystal, and Hance, this book captures the heart-pounding excitement of whitewater rafting. With vivid descriptions of the canyon’s breathtaking geology, lush flora, and abundant wildlife, Kuhne blends history, adventure, and natural beauty into an immersive journey. Whether you’re a seasoned river runner or an armchair explorer, The River Wild offers a front-row seat to one of the world’s most exhilarating river expeditions. Autorid: Cecil C. Kuhne

Mix It!: Understanding and Controlling the Mix Process is a comprehensive textbook designed to introduce the art of mixing music to beginners and novices. Starting with essential theory, this book explores aesthetics, the mix process and associated tools, with a reader-friendly balance of theory, instruction, and practical application.With chapters covering amplitude balance, EQ, panning, compression, effects, editing, and immersive audio, among others, and incorporating guided audio exercises with accompanying online content, this book seeks to empower readers with understanding and practical experience that will encourage exploration of individual creativity and artistry. The practical exercises provided throughout help to break down the mixing process and techniques into manageable pieces, so skills can be acquired and internalised before adding the next concept, to give novices a good foundational skill set and confidence when mixing.Mix It! is an ideal textbook for college students and high schoolers new to mixing music, including those on music production and audio engineering courses, as well as novice to intermediate engineers looking to reinforce their knowledge and skills, so they are ready to develop their creativity further. The skills acquired and processes explained in the book are also relevant to mixing any audio, not only music. Mix It!: Understanding and Controlling the Mix Process is a comprehensive textbook designed to introduce the art of mixing music to beginners and novices. Starting with essential theory, this book explores the mix process and associated tools, with a reader-friendly balance of theory, instruction, and practical application. Autorid: Ian Corbett

This book offers a relationship-focused approach to brokerage leadership, grounded in behavioral insights, practical tools, and real-world experience. Recruitment and retention are more than just business strategies: they’re about building relationships, creating trust, and creating an environment where agents feel they belong. Leadership in Real Estate: A People-First Approach to Brokerage Recruitment, Retention, and Team-Building offers a relationship-focused approach to brokerage leadership, grounded in behavioral insights, practical tools, and real-world experience. Recruitment and retention are more than just business strategies. They’re about building relationships, creating trust, and creating an environment where agents feel they belong.Designed to support brokers across all models—from boutique independents to large franchises—the book focuses on the soft skills, leadership strategies, and cultural foundations that keep agents engaged for the long term. This comprehensive guide reveals the psychological profile of successful real estate agents while providing relationship-centered strategies to build loyalty and encourage professional growth through daily interactions. Readers will discover how to apply behavioral insights like Love Languages and Levers of Influence to strengthen trust and communication, alongside practical approaches for positioning their brokerage's unique value proposition to attract ideal candidates. The author seamlessly blends research-backed principles with real-world case studies, offering flexible, implementable strategies for creating a collaborative culture that inspires commitment, reduces turnover, and works across various brokerage models.Whether launching a new brokerage, stepping into a leadership role, or simply reimagining what’s possible, this book is ideal reading for managing brokers, team leaders, and other real estate professionals. Autorid: Liz Penner

Contesting Translation honors Professor Mona Baker with eleven chapters exploring translation across contexts and time periods. This landmark work reflects Baker's influence on translation studies and serves both students and established scholars. Contesting Translation, a celebratory edited volume, honours Professor Mona Baker, one of the most influential scholars in translation, interpreting, and intercultural studies. The 11 original chapters were especially commissioned from scholars who have developed enduring personal, professional, and intellectual connections with Baker through her teaching and research.The chapters are framed by a reflective introduction, and clustered into three inter-related sections: "Trajectories and concepts", "Narratives and corpora", and "Activism and solidarity", which together map the routes and approaches that characterize Baker’s oeuvre. Individual chapters offer studies on topics ranging from literary translation, knowledge translation, journalistic translation, and museum translation to political and aspirational translation. Studies are situated in diverse temporal and geographical environments, extending from the seventeenth-century Low Countries to present-day Palestine. Chapters resonate with each other through critical scholarly engagement with the history, discourse, and politics of translation, and through a shared interest in the significance of the stories we tell each other and ourselves.Relevant for students new to translation and interpreting studies as well as established and emerging scholars more familiar with the field’s contours, Contesting Translation is a landmark contribution to a dynamic discipline that has itself been significantly shaped by one of its most forthright and creative scholars. Autorid: Jan Buts, Sue-Ann Harding, Neil Sadler

Russian: A Comprehensive Grammar gives a practically complete description of the grammatical system of the contemporary Russian language, including phonetics, morphology, word formation, and syntax. Russian: A Comprehensive Grammar gives a practically complete description of the grammatical system of the contemporary Russian language, including phonetics, morphology, word formation, and syntax.It illuminates grammatical categories by focusing on forms and semantics, using as a basis the comparative analysis of language categories in Russian and English and accompanying accessible but not simplistic explanations with authentic examples. It employs a parallel presentation of grammatical and semantic information that elucidates important points and allows the exploration of alternative linguistic approaches.Russian: A Comprehensive Grammar serves a broad linguistic community, including students of Russian at any level, graduate students in linguistics or pedagogy, for independent study, and it can also be a valuable reference for instructors to mine for methodological material. Autorid: John Dunn, Marina Rojavin

A study of the life and work of Gordon Zahn (1918-2007), one of the most significant and formative figures in the history of the US Catholic peace movement. During World War II, Zahn was one of only a handful of US Catholic conscientious objectors, an experience that first put him in contact with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. Following the war, Zahn completed a PhD in sociology at The Catholic University of America where Paul Hanly Furfeys "supernatural sociology" had a profound effect on him. After joining the faculty at Loyola University, Chicago, Zahn won a Fulbright year in Germany (1956-57) where he discovered the story of Franz Jägerstätter, the Austrian Catholic farmer, husband, and father who was beheaded bythe Nazis in 1943 for refusing to participate in Hitlers military. It was Zahns 1964 book In Solitary Witness that introduced Jägerstätter to an international audience and led to his beatification by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007. This work, along with Zahns several other books, secured his place as a leading intellectual in the Catholic peace movement. His work influenced the discussions of war and peace at the Second Vatican Council and he was enlisted as an expert witness during the drafting of the US Catholic Bishops pastoral letter on nuclear weapons, The Challenge of Peace (1983). Zahn made one of the most intellectually developed cases in the US for "Catholic pacifism"two terms that both Catholics and pacifists had long regarded as deeply incompatible. Forging a Catholic pacifist position led him to be far more perceptive and critical of US political and military institutions than most of fellow US Catholics. Ultimately, Zahn saw the Catholic Church as the only institution capable of resisting, and support those who resist, modern warfare and the modern war-making state. His traditional view of the Church grounded his claim that Catholics can be pacifist and hisfurther assertion that the Church should serve as a "source of dissent" for Catholics and others, especially during times of war. While marginalized within the broader US Catholic intellectual community, Zahn found common cause with other Catholic luminaries who are now seen to be ahead of their time, including Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, and Daniel Berrigan. Gordon Zahns story serves as a template for telling the broader story of the US Catholic peace movement and the development of Catholic attitudes on war and conscientious objection that took place within the twentieth century. Autorid: Benjamin Peters