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The sciences of literacy and place-based education have historically been on two separate tracks. InThe Learning Landscape, Alvera McMillan persuasively brings them together. Working with “challenged readers,” she demonstrates that place-based approaches to literacy are...
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), artist, writer and adventurer, is one of the most celebrated American modernists, but he remains a controversial figure because of his political activism and personal life. This book emphasizes the interplay between Kent’s public persona and...
Debates and discourses surrounding migration—particularly in Europe—are dominated by narratives centred on security and crisis management. The distortion this creates in the public perception of migrants, alongside the xenophobia it indirectly fuels, obscures the...
In the Gettysburg Address of 1863, Abraham Lincoln famously declared that ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth’. Since then the phrase has become the proverbial definition of American democracy.In this book,...
The book serves as a sociocultural-based method for both graduate and undergraduate students, providing practical frameworks that will be beneficial throughout their teaching careers. One of the pressing issues in academia is classroom management. This book addresses...
This book provides a thorough interpretation of Raymond Aron’s political sociology of industrial societies from the perspective of contemporary political science. However, the book is not only aimed at specialists or advanced students of political science, but appeals...
L’Intelligence Artificielle ouvre des perspectives inédites sur la complexité du langage naturel. Si de nombreuses recherches se sont concentrées sur la capacité de l’IA à traiter ou générer des textes écrits, l’oralité n’a pas fait l’objet d’une réflexion aussi...
Drawing on amateur glossaries as well as scholarly dictionaries, this book explores the idiomatic use of toponyms, or place names, either tied to Barbados or connected to the island’s colonial legacy, while chronicling its lexicographic tradition. By tracing their...
Social-emotional learning plays a crucial role in children's mental health, fostering emotional regulation, empathy, and responsible decision-making. This book provides a comprehensive guide for teachers to integrate critical literacy with social-emotional learning,...
Shaping British Romantic Literature in Context explores how British Romantic literature is influenced and shaped by its cultural, social, and historical surroundings. Adopting an inclusive perspective, the volume emphasizes the dynamic interaction between literature and...
Jesus of Nazareth left behind a legacy that soon developed into the world religion that became known as Christianity. Had that been his intention? What kind of man was he? This book sets out to record what can be known or inferred about the historical Jesus. Its main...
As demand for short-term study abroad increases, the need for effective preparation and risk management becomes paramount. This book provides essential support for those designing and delivering decentralized, short-term study abroad programs. Programs are positioned...
Feniza, or The Ingenious Maid, a free adaptation of Lope de Vega’s La discreta enamorada (1606), is one of several English plays from the Carolean period heavily influenced by Spanish comedias de capa y espada. Set in Madrid, this comedy follows the wittyFeniza, who...
Finding the Beautiful Path: On Blackness, Multidimensionality, and Radical becoming is memoir, which is a story of resistance, healing, and most of all love. Drawing on my lived experience and scholarly journey—from the streets of Richmond to the halls of UC Berkeley—I...
Love, longing, despair, and anguish. Falling in love. An abundance. Falling in love with a city. Is this even possible? If so, what would that look like? This book is about falling in love with New Orleans. Socrates says if you want to be educated go to the city. Morris...
In this timely book, the author explores new ways of reading Hemingway’s work, considering nature, gender and American identity. Through forensic analysis of Hemingway’s fiction, the author traces his early experiences of post-frontier America and the decline of the...
The dissolution of the Soviet Union marked a transformative era for Central Asia, elevating its international prominence and shifting its role from a historically marginalized region to a key player in global geopolitics. Comprising Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,...
In Democratic Education, Bertram Bruce insists that democracy and education rise (and fall) together. He goes beyond the generally accepted formula of education of, by, and for democracy to articulate a commitment to education with democracy — through which "educators...
Georges Pompidou and Edward Heath marked a milestone in the centuries-old relationship between France and the United Kingdom, one shaped by rivalries and mutual stereotypes but also strategic convergence, especially in times of crisis. They formed a ‘Franco-British...
This collective volume investigates the multi-scalar and international manifestations of planning models, projects and policies from the 1930s onwards. The publication aims to delineate the notion of welfare planning and situate its historical emergence in its...
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