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This book interrogates the narratives and strategies that frame climate change and examines the institutionalized responses in agrarian settings, highlighting what exclusions and inclusions result.
This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.
The book aims to open a dialogue on the continuing value of assimilation and integration for studying social change in an era of increasing ethno-racial diversity in Western liberal democracies.
This inspirational book provides a concrete model of why university-district partnerships are essential to preparing justice-focused school leaders, and how these partnerships can thrive.
This book, illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural society and the world's food and agriculture systems.
This book considers how #defund can bridge the divide between reform and abolition, becoming a catalyst to help organizers realize abolitionist visions.
This text proposes a process for bringing philosophical inquiry into teacher education and adopting it as a centering tool to enrich teaching practice and help teachers act justly.
This is the first critical, contextualized edition in English of Eine Jugend in Deutschland (1933), the remarkable autobiographical account of Ernst Toller (1893–1939), one of the most important German writers of the first half of the twentieth century.
This edited volume offers innovative perspectives on the study of music as cultural diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), a region often overlooked in such discussions.
This book examines how the shift to remote teaching in March 2020 due to the global pandemic created new opportunities for innovation and creativity and shaped how social work classes were taught, with many temporary changes now part of permanent, standard practice.
Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics. This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past.
This book offers a new perspective on the history of the Cold War by exploring the story of the contraband manuscripts sent from the USSR to the West.
In 1588, Paolo Barbieri murdered his wife, Isabella Caccianemici. Later, Paolo would claim to have acted in a fit of madness-but was he criminally insane or merely pretending to be? This riveting book addresses this controversy by reconstructing Paolo's life, prosecution, and medical diagnosis.
This is the first cohesive text to study camp on television that considers various forms it took during that critical decade. It reconsiders American prime-time programs that drew significantly on aspects of camps, such as Batman, The Monkees, The Addams Family, Bewitched, F Troop, British programs including The Avengers, and programs not often associated with camp like Snagglepuss.
This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.
This book considers five recent controversial topics in sociology—race and genetics, secularization theory, methodological nationalism, the culture of poverty, and parenting practices—to reveal how moral debates affect the field. Sociologists, they show, tend to respond to moral criticism of scholarly work in one of three ways.
Featuring chapters written by a diverse group of social work professionals, this book explores the profound effects of the pandemic on social work education
This book tells the history of how Rwandan migrants in a Tanzanian border district became considered either citizens or refugees as nation-state boundaries solidified in the wake of decolonization.
In recent years, both analytics and adaptive learning have helped educators become more responsive to learners in virtual, blended, and personalized environments. This text offers new insights into the use of emerging data analysis and adaptive techniques in multiple learning settings.
In this book, contributors present original research in various established and emerging areas of concern while outlining key theoretical and methodological foundations of this multifaceted and broadly relevant perspective in the field of sociology.
Bridging the gap between current motor control research and its applications to clinical practice, this text gives a full arsenal of best-evidence tools and information to examine, diagnose, and treat those with balance, mobility, and upper extremity function problems.
This volume brings together leading experts on the prospects and challenges of urban energy innovation and on related-economic, social and environmental sustainability transitions with a focus on addressing rapid urbanization and changes across a diverse typology of global cities.
This timely collection provides an accessible discussion and analysis of some of the most urgent policy issues facing early childhood care and education in the United States.
In this book, the author interprets the language Penelope’s suitors use in the Odyssey―their fighting words―as Homeric expressions of reproach and critique against unsuitable kings.
Drawing on the author’s two decades of seeing, writing on, and teaching about puppetry from a critical perspective, this book offers a collection of insights into how we watch, understand, and appreciate puppetry.
Making use of the life-history interviews, focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork with low-income urban residents of color, primarily Black men, the author finds that reentry after incarceration requires the recently released to negotiate a web of disjointed and often contradictory systems that serve as an extension of the carceral system.
This book follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body but a language through which a range of issues—including caste and gender hierarchies, control over land and labor, and the shape of justice—are contested.
Seeking to shed light on how we might end mass incarceration, this book compares the histories and goals of the American and German justice systems.
This book presents Combinations as a set of high-yield instructional strategies for advancing academic literacy for multilingual learners and all students.
This book draws on a fascinating set of contemporary and historical cases to build a sociological theory that accounts for the many faces of anonymity. He asks a number of pressing questions about the social conditions and effects of anonymity.
This text lays out a clear path to help you become a trusted and effective math coach. The “6 Tools” are flexible structures that coaches can use to learn together.
This book draws on a variety of primary sources to answer two key questions. What do Mahler’s allusions to Nietzsche mean? And How can Mahler’s characterization of Nietzsche as an “epoch-making influence” be identified in his compositional techniques?
This is an essential guidebook for anyone looking to succeed in the mental health profession. Featuring contributed chapters from experts in the field, this comprehensive resource equips readers with the necessary skills and resources to transition from academia to real-world practice.
This text takes readers on a tour of how our peers, and the peer cultures they create, shape our behavior in schools and the workplace.
This book brings together autobiography, music theory and history, and theory and history of race in the United States to offer a black perspective on the state of music theory and to confront the field’s white supremacist roots.
This book is a fictional prison account narrated by Mouline and Leila, who have been imprisoned for their political activities during the so-called Lead Years of the 1970s and 1980s in Morocco, a period that was characterized by heavy state repression.
ased on eight years of research and using material in five languages from seven countries and over forty archives, Manu Bhagavan has written the definitive biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.
This fascinating work reveals the marvelous, underappreciated feats of engineering that make today’s supertalls a reality, from double-decker elevators that silently move up to 50 miles per hour to the sophisticated blend of polymers and steel fibers that enables concrete to withstand 8,000 tons of pressure per square meter.
Reconstructed from actual letters and diaries, this is the story of four young people living in Philadelphia whose lives become intertwined when the American Civil War begins in 1861.
Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny.
This book examines the New York metropolis through the lens of a series of twenty-first century pressures related to demography, economic growth, urban development, governance, immigration, leadership and globalization.
Based on more than ten years of research, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical foundations, processes, and strategies unique to Motivational Interviewing (MI) with couples. Drawing on Interdependence Theory, this approach to MI positions the couple as the client.
This volume addresses current research and perspectives on a range of health and psychosocial topics concerning older adults with HIV.
This handbook examines research on youth suicide, analyzes recent data on suicide among adolescents, and addresses the subject matter as a serious public health concern.
This collection is a unique exploration of the novel aspects of perversion from the perspective of cruelty—a psychoanalytic study that has never been sufficiently undertaken in an English-speaking world.
Based on twenty-five years of field research, this book examines protests as they are situated in the built environment, bringing together considerations of networks, spatial imaginaries, space and place-making, and political geographies at local, national, regional, and global scales.
This book demonstrates that many number patterns, even very complex ones, can be understood by simple counting arguments, while featuring Fibonacci Numbers, Lucas Numbers, Continued Fractions, and Harmonic Numbers, to name a few.
This is a definitive overview of the pathbreaking Arab Uprisings of 2011-12, which catalyzed a new wave of rigorous, deeply informed research on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
This text provides a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction to psychiatric mental health assessment and diagnosis in advanced nursing practice.
Takes an in-depth look at the social lives of five objects commonly found in the public spaces of New York City and its suburbs, revealing how our interactions with such material things are our primary point of contact with the social, political, and economic forces that shape city life.
We are taught that anxiety is dangerous and damaging, and that the solution to its pain is to eradicate it like we do any disease—prevent it, avoid it, and stamp it out at all costs. In this radical reinterpretation, the author argues that anxiety is an evolved advantage that protects us and strengthens our creative and productive powers.
This book follows Syrians who fled a brutal war in their homeland as they attempt to rebuild in countries of resettlement and asylum. Their experiences reveal that these destination countries are not saviors; they can deny newcomers’ potential by failing to recognize their abilities and invest in the tools they need to prosper.
Drawing on extensive original research, including interviews with the last surviving members, Leah Garrett follows this unique band of brothers from Germany to England and back again, with stops at British internment camps, the beaches of Normandy, the battlefields of Italy and Holland, and the hellscape of Terezin concentration camp—the scene of one of the most dramatic, untold rescues of the war.
In asking young women about their aspirations in three areas – school, work, and family – this book demonstrates how future plans are framed by notions of gendered responsibilities and abilities.
Using her extensive experiences with culturally, neurologically, and linguistically diverse students, the author provides a rich resource that demonstrates how book clubs serve as critical places where adolescents can develop as readers while simultaneously working to build authentic relationships with their peers.
This book is organized around the personal struggles of ten extraordinary French women activists: Eugenie Niboyet, Eugenie Foa, Suzanne Voilquin, Josephine Bachellery, Pauline Roland, Jeanne Deroin, Elisa Lemonnier, Desiree Gay, Adele Esquiros, and Marie Noemie Constant.
Among shifting politics, tastes, and technology in television history, one genre has been remarkably persistent: the cop show. This book returns to Dragnet, the pioneering police procedural and an early transmedia franchise, appearing on radio in 1949, on TV and in film in the 1950s, and in later revivals.
This book chronicles five decades of planning in and around the communities of West Philadelphia’s University City to illuminate how the dynamics of innovation district development in the present both depart from and connect to the politics of mid-twentieth-century urban renewal.
Stepping Over Rooftops is the historical tale of a young Italian nurse trainee's journey into adulthood as she works alongside patients, teachers, and other students to contribute to the promise of America through healthcare.
