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Ecolinguistics and Environment in Education
Authors: Bellewes Emile
Published: August 2024

In the age of ecological crisis, language and discourse are emerging as a new battleground in the environmental debate.With the rise of new environmentalist movements and their subsequent backlash, we are now exposed to a plethora of different and often opposing discourses on the environmental crisis and our relationship with nature. This book argues for the need to develop classroom practices which aid students in critically reviewing and evaluating different perspectives on discourses of environmentalism and sustainability.

Remarking that language and humanities teachers are perfectly positioned to play a key role in the development of eco-critical language awareness at this crucial juncture, this book explores how they can help students utilise a critical perspective to navigate the multitude of cultural messages regarding our relationship with nature. Employing ecolinguistics as a form of eco-critical pedagogy, Emile Bellewes presents key concepts underpinning ecolinguistics, before guiding readers through their application in the classroom. Serving as a bridge between critical perspectives on environmental education and forms of discourse analysis,Ecolinguistics and Environment in Educationexplains how ecolinguistics can be used to carry out detailed linguistic analyses of environmentally significant messages in the classroom.
Anatomical Drawing
Authors: Field Sue
Published: August 2024

Intersecting art, science and the scenographicmise-en-scène, this book provides a new approach to anatomical drawing, viewed through the contemporary lens of scenographic theory.Sue Field traces the evolution of anatomical drawing from its historical background of hand-drawn observational scientific investigations to the contemporary, complex visualization tools that inform visual art practice, performance, film and screen-based installations. Presenting an overview of traditional approaches across centuries, the opening chapters explore the extraordinary work of scientists and artists such as Andreas Vesalius, Gérard de Lairesse, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Dorothy Foster Chubb who, through the medium of drawing dissect, dismember and anatomize the human form.

Anatomical Drawingexamines how forms, fluids and systems are entangled within the labyrinthine two-dimensional drawn space and how the body has been the subject of the spectacle. Corporeal proportions continue to be embodied within the designs of structures, buildings and visual art. Illustrated throughout, the book explores the drawings of 17th-century architect and scenographer Inigo Jones, through to the ghostly, spectral forms illuminated in the present-day X-ray drawings of the artist Angela Palmer, and the visceral and deeply personal works of Kiki Smith. Field analyses the contemporary skeletal manifestations that have been spawned from the medieval Danse Macabre, such as Walt Disney’s drawn animations and the theatrical staging, metaphor and allegorical intent in the contemporary drawn artworks of William Kentridge, Peter Greenaway, Mark Dion and Dann Barber.

This rigorous study illustrates how the anatomical drawing shapes multiple scenographic encounters, both on a two-dimensional plane and within a three-dimensional space, as the site of imaginative agency across the breadth of the visual and performance arts. These drawings are where a corporeal, spectacularized representation of the human body is staged and performed within an expanded drawn space, generating something new and unforeseen - a scenographic worlding.
Conversing in the Metaverse
Authors: Kiaer Jieun
Published: August 2024

How do metaverse technologies change how we communicate with each other? This book explores how existing metaverse technologies affect our communication, both verbal and non-verbal, as well as the ramifications of these effects.

Communication is central to the human experience, and how we currently communicate (and will communicate) can affect our sense of identity and relationships with others, which can have huge long term societal repercussions. Utilising methods of digital ethnography and linguistic landscape, this book takes an in-depth look at what exactly the metaverse is—or will be—and tracks the technological and societal trends that surround it. To do so, it questions what differentiates the metaverse from earlier connected virtual worlds like World of Warcraft or Second Life, and features extracts from interviews with the users and developers of current metaverses, such as Roblox, Minecraft, and Gather.town. It also investigates the impact of the pandemic in changing and accelerating how we communicate in virtual spaces.
Areruya and Indigenous Prophetism in Northern Amazonia
Authors: Amaral Virgínia
Published: August 2024

Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the presence of Christianity on Areruya, an indigenous religious movement practiced by theIngarikó inNorthern Amazonia.

Tracing the role of 19th-century missionaries in the region, the book shows how shamans started to announce the coming of a cataclysm, associated with the promise of indigenous salvation in Christian paradise and the acquisition of the colonizers’ goods. It also explores how the ancient mythological elaboration of salvation after death was reinforced through both an appropriation of some aspects of Christianity and the development of a very violent form of shamanism, which epitomizes the evilness ascribed to the human condition on earth.

Virgínia Amaral offers a valuable reflection on cultural transformations, revealing how Areruya is not only a shamanic appropriation of Christianity, but also an indigenous and ritualized interpretation of colonization.
Placeness and the Performative Production of Space
Authors: Dundjerović Aleksandar Sasha , Martínez Sánchez María José
Published: August 2024

How can performance create and transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this study of the relationship of performance to urban space.

Marrying theory with a series of international case studies of performance practice and interviews with practitioners, this interdisciplinary study examines how space is performatively produced to create a sense of ‘placeness’.

Offering multiple perspectives on space and place, this book investigates the connections between space and the construction of social and cultural narratives. It focuses on the multiple ways performative actions produce space, including theatre, installations, site-specific work, visual arts and digital performance.

Combining interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary performance, architecture and digital media studies, this study builds on a clear theoretical framework that draws on the work of Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Henri Lefevre, Richard Schechner, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Lev Manovich and Slavoj Žižek. It offers themed sections comprising theory, studies of practice and interviews with practitioners. Case studies include site-specific work by Catalan collective La Fura Dels Baus, Barcelona, Spain, the Prague Quadrennial, community engagement in Praça Roosevelt in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Portland Inn Project in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, Campo de la Cebada in Madrid, Spain, and digital spaces created by artists in India and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company
Authors: Lichtenberg Drew , Payne Deborah C.
Published: August 2024

Co-authored by the resident dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company and a long-time scholarly consultant, this book chronicles how a small repertory troupe at the Folger Theatre on Capitol Hill became an internationally renowned company performing in a lavish, multi-venue performing arts centre in downtown Washington, D.C.

The artistic vision and business acumen of Michael Kahn, the founding Artistic Director, largely catalyzed this transformation, but so too did the forces of neoliberalism and, more recently, globalization and new media. Accordingly,Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Companynot only examines directorial decision-making but also 3 decades of social and economic change in the nation’s capital, from the complexities of gentrification to the arts policies of successive administrations.

In addition to discussions of directorial practice, this book examines the ambivalence of American theatre artists toward their British cultural inheritance. Analyses of representative productions and interviews with Kahn and his British successor, Simon Godwin, illuminate this complex relationship: one that aspires to a cosmopolitan Anglophilia while positioning classically trained American actors as worthy rivals to their counterparts at the RSC and the National Theatre of Great Britain.
The Revolution that Dared Not Speak Its Name
Authors: Dousemetzis Harris
Published: August 2024

Examining a significant and largely unexplored aspect of Jimmy Carter’s presidency (1977-1981), Harris Dousemetzis radically revises the current understanding of this critical period in American political history.By using a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, along with personal interviews with 43 prominent gay rights activists of the time and 12 senior Carter White House aides, this book documents what actually happened during Carter’s presidency regarding the development and recognition of gay rights and the efforts of the evangelical right to prevent social reform. Investigating the full range of government actions taken and policies implemented, Carter’s personal commitment and support for the movement, as well as the role of activists in bringing about change, this is a significant and original contribution to knowledge about Carter’s presidency, the gay rights movement, and American political development. Dousemetzis situates Carter’s presidency in its rightful place, as a crucial stage in one of the most dynamic areas of change in recent American politics and political culture.
The Politics of the Wretched
Authors: Zalloua Zahi
Published: August 2024

The Politics of the Wretchedargues forressentiment's generative negativity, prompting a shift fromressentimentas a personal expression of frustration toressentimentas a collective “No”.Inspired by Kant and Nietzsche's philosophy, Zalloua identifies two modes of deployingressentiment– private and public use – by substitutingressentimentfor reason. This reinterpretation argues for a public use ofressentiment, for the wretched to universalize their grievances, to see their antagonism as cutting across societies, and to turn personal trauma into a common cause.

A public use ofressentimentrails against the ideology of identity and victimhood and insists onressentiment's generative negativity, its own rationality, prompting a shift fromressentimentas a personal expression of frustration toressentimentas a collective “No”. Reframingressentimentas a tool to oppose the evils of capitalism, anti-Blackness, and neocolonialism, it both alarms the liberal gatekeepers of the status quo and promises to energize the anti-racist Left in its ongoing struggles for universal justice and emancipation.
Psalms and Songs of Solace
Authors: Percy Martyn
Published: August 2024

A book of consolation and compassion, offering encouragement and hope from the Psalms

For those who are made to endure betrayal, affliction, adversity and suffering, the Psalms can be a source of wisdom and comfort. In this remarkable book, Martyn Percy offers a new reading of the Psalms to shed light on the help and comfort we can find in the midst of darkness and solitude.

Martyn Percy explains how the Psalms fortified him during a time of great difficulty, and how they can help others who encounter difficulties of their own – whether as a result of Covid, recession, grief, abuse or personal hardship.

In three sections - Going Through Fire, Being in the Darkness and the Grace of God – Percy walks us through the meaning of the Psalms that are meant to sustain us through times of intense personal suffering. Peppered with anecdotes, reflections and spiritual wisdom, this book will be a treasure trove of consolation and compassion for those who find themselves alone in their struggles.

Each short chapter picks a Psalm for a day, creating a set of fifty reflections that make a perfect accompaniment for seasons of the year such as Lent or Advent, or any season where we find ourselves needing support. These thought-provoking meditations open up new windows on God’s consoling and abiding presence in the midst of our suffering.
AI Fairness and Beyond
Authors: Reed Chris
Published: August 2024

This book proposes a regulatory system for ensuring that AI makes fair decisions.

No one wants to be the subject of an unfair decision made by an AI, and fairness is so important to society that we are likely to want to regulate to demand it. But how? This book attempts to answer that question.

The aim of regulation must be for an AI’s decisions to match the human conception of fairness. To understand what that is, the book proposes a holistic understanding of fairness, which tells us what regulation must try to achieve.

However, regulation is not an abstract activity – it regulates how humans behave, and the humans in question are those who develop and use AI for decision- making. Thus the book investigates how those humans are attempting to achieve AI fairness. It finds that there is a serious mismatch between how technologists conceptualise fairness, compared to other humans. How can AI regulation bridge this gap?

Traditional models of regulation cannot solve this problem. Fairness is too nuanced, too contextual, and is ultimately a human emotional response. Instead the book proposes to place the responsibility on the AI community to explain and justify their eff orts to achieve fairness, basing regulatory and legal responses on how well that explanation deals with the risks that particular AI presents, and whether the AI operates in accordance with the explanation in use.

The book concludes by examining how far this regulatory model might be useful for some of the other social problems which AI generates.

An original and significant contribution to the literature on AI regulation, this book is a must-read for those working in the areas of law, regulation, and technology.
The Mediator's Tale
Authors: Carroll Eileen , Mackie Karl
Published: August 2024

Written to celebrate the 30th anniversary of CEDR’s emergence as the world’s leading independent disputes consultancy, The Mediator’s Tale: The CEDR Story of Better Conflicts captures the experience of two leading internationally renowned mediators – and married couple – Eileen Carroll and Karl Mackie. Sharing their personal and professional insights into how we can achieve better conflict management in our professional and personal lives, they highlight key insights into how mediation delivers results, and lessons for conflicts generally.

The book:

Tells the story of how a young lawyer and a leading academic ‘had the courage and sheer guts’ necessary to create disruptive change and persuade the legal profession and its clients to embrace mediation

Provides advisers and mediators with in-depth explanations for getting results from negotiation and independent intervention

Shows how to build trust and make emotional connections while building momentum for settlement

Highlights the role of women as conflict resolvers and as early pioneers in conflict resolution, and the links between conflict and diversity – ‘What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity’

Explores the reasons interventions fail and how to avoid failure

Illuminates the international development of mediation and its reach into justice systems, human rights, investor-state disputes and international arbitration

Outlines leadership skills that will put you in the top 1% of people able to deal with conflict.
Criminal Disclosure Referencer
Authors: Wainwright Tom , Fenn Emma , Begum Shahida
Published: August 2024

TheCriminal Disclosure Referencerprovides practitioners with a user-friendly guide to the law and practice relating to the disclosure of unused material.

This text follows the disclosure process chronologically, drawing together all the relevant legislation, codes, guidelines, rules, protocols, and case law in a comprehensive manner.

TheThird Editioncovers guidance and codes which have recently been published or updated, including:

- Criminal Procedure Rules 2020 - CPIA Code of Practice (in effect from 31 December 2020) - Crown Prosecution Service Disclosure Manual (refreshed 14 July 2022) - Attorney General’s Guidelines on Disclosure 2024 - Protocol on Disclosure between Family and Criminal Jurisdictions 2024

Key cases on disclosure are also addressed, including:

-R v Syed[2019] 1 Cr App R 21: Compatibility of disclosure regime with Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights -R v Duarte[2020] 1 Cr App R 11: Use of defence statements at trial -R v CB; R v Mohammed[2020] 2 Cr App R 20: Disclosure of complainant’s mobile phone records

With the role of proper disclosure in avoiding miscarriages of justice being highlighted and voluminous electronic material making the process more complex, this practical guide assists parties to the criminal justice system in remaining fully up to date with their obligations.
A Practitioner’s Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courts
Authors: Freer Dr Elaine , Evans Ryan
Published: August 2024

‘Sets out the criteria and law surrounding orders and explains them clearly and in detail: it addresses an often overlooked area of the law but one that it is essential we understand and apply correctly.’

Sir Brian Leveson, former President of the Queen’s Bench Division, Head of Criminal Justice – in his Foreword to the first edition

A Practitioner’s Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courtssets out the law, application and analysis relating to ancillary orders that are available to criminal courts. It covers orders available on acquittal, such as Restraining Orders and Defence Costs Orders, as well as those available on conviction, such as Compensation Orders and Directors’ Disqualification Orders.

Many of these orders are available in the magistrates’ courts as well as the Crown Court, therefore practitioners of all levels of experience and practice need to be aware of them. In addition to providing guidance on, and analysis of, those orders, this book also sets out the consequences of breaches.

TheSecond Editionincludes new coverage of the following orders:

- Prohibition Order - Psychoactive Substances - Exclusion Order - Licensed Premises

This book helps you to ensure that clients do not have an unwarranted or overly onerous order imposed on them. It is an easy reference guide for courts and advocates alike.
Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960
Authors: Peterson   Jr. Bernard L.
Published: August 2024

This directory includes over 500 African American performers and theater people who have made a significant contribution to the American stage from the early 19th century to the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Entries provide succinct biographical and theatrical information gathered from a variety of sources including library theater and drama collections, dissertations and theses, newspaper and magazine reviews and criticism, theater programs, theatrical memoirs, and earlier performing arts directories. Among the professional artists included in this volume are performers, librettists, lyricists, directors, producers, choreographers, stage managers, and musicians. The individuals profiled represent almost every major category and genre of the professional, semiprofessional, regional, and academic stage including minstrelsy, vaudeville, musical theater, and drama. Persons of historical significance are included as well as those stars and theatrical personalities that were well known during their time but who are relatively forgotten today.

This comprehensive volume will appeal to theater and musical theater, Black studies, and American studies scholars. Cross-referenced throughout, this reference also includes an extensive bibliography and appendices of other theater personalities excluded from the main text. Separate indexes list the personalities, teams and partnerships, and performing groups, organizations, and companies.
Reference Skills for the School Librarian
Authors: Riedling Ann , Houston Cynthia
Published: August 2024

Designed for courses that prepare LIS students for school librarianship, this title teaches basic reference processes, sources, services, and skills and provides authentic school library reference scenarios and exercises.

This fourth edition ofReference Skills for the School Librarian: Tools and Tipsacknowledges the vital importance of reference skills in school libraries. It focuses on new reference skills for school librarians and includes more online materials such as Webliographies and a glossary.

Teaching reference skills and providing reference services to students and staff in schools are extremely important tasks and are required of librarians on a regular basis. Aimed at pre-service and in-service school librarians, this book covers all types of reference materials including almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and other standard information sources, giving extra emphasis to the online sources to which students increasingly turn. This edition addresses more online reference resources than previous editions and offers practical suggestions for use in K–12 student instruction.
Science in Popular Culture
Authors: Van Riper A.  Bowdoin
Published: August 2024

Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media makes it all look easy. Can scientists hope to accomplish such amazing feats in the real world, or are they merely flights of fancy? This book is a fun look at what can, and can't, be achieved with current technology in today's laboratory experiments.

Fans of theJetsons,Star Trek, andStar Warswill learn the facts behind the fiction through entires that describe the scientific inventions and procedures on the screen, and how they differ from the reality. Van Riper shows us who innovators like Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, and Isaac Newton really were before they were mythologized. He discusses how animals such as chimpanzees, dolphins, and elephants are portrayed in books and films, and what we really know about animal intelligence. This book lifts the curtain on science fiction, revealing how and where scientific laws have been discarded for the sake of a good plot.
Selling Out America's Democracy
Authors: Moss Alan L.
Published: August 2024

America's historic greatness is in decline, subverted by moneyed special interests and their lobbyists who take advantage of our system of campaign financing to thwart the will of the people. Monuments to the impact of factions include inadequate efforts to curb global warming, infrequent increases in the minimum wage, no universal healthcare, unchecked inner-city crime, and limited stem cell research. Ineffective political leadership, corroded by special interest manipulation, has landed the nation in foreign intervention that takes American lives and spends obscene amounts of U.S. resources. Moss portrays the motivations and methods of those who corrupt our political system and betray the legitimate interests of the American people. He quantifies the gains reaped by beneficiaries of lobbyist successes.

Selling Out America's Democracyfocuses on Washington insiders who serve the interests of narrow factions that seek to control the national agenda. Telling interviews represent the views of Congressional and think tank staff, lobbyists, media experts, foreign diplomats, and nonprofit citizen advocacy groups. Moss concludes by advancing a program of policy changes calculated to revive our democracy.
The Strange Death of Liberal America
Authors: Brauer Ralph
Published: August 2024

Ralph Brauer defines Liberal America as a place where government exists to keep the playing field level. The success of the American experiment, he argues, depends on how well we maintain this equity and its four cornerstones: economic justice, educational equity, voting rights, and media fairness. His book is both a political and intellectual history examining the various threats to these cornerstones, and a social and cultural chronicle. Touching on music, television, movies, and sports, Brauer's thesis is underscored by a historical discussion that begins with the New Deal and works its way to the present, ending with Global Warming and the Iraq War.

Arguing that the patient is in intensive care, Brauer identifies three reasons for the decline of the level playing field: 1) a Republican counterrevolution dedicated to rolling back the values of the New Deal, 2) an inability of both parties to answer questions raised by decades of Civil Rights revolutions, and 3) the transformation of suburban America from a place of opportunity created by government programs to a battleground.

These three ideas form the basis for the book's three sections. Part One follows the development of the Counterrevolutionary Coalition, beginning with the Southern Strategy and ending with a chapter on America's politicized media. Part Two focuses on questions that have been raised by people of color and by women, and treats the Democratic Party's failure to answer those questions as illustrated by events like the Nader-LaDuke campaign and the 1964 Atlantic City convention. Part Three details the impact of suburban America on the cornerstones.
Strauss's Handbook of Business Information
Authors: Kirkwood Hal P.
Published: August 2024

This new edition of Strauss's guide helps users to find current information for and about businesses of all kinds—both private and public, U.S.-based and international—related to finance, investment, industries, and entrepreneurship.

Strauss's Handbook of Business Informationis a resource for finding and understanding business information. It contains explanation and instruction on the key facets of business information and provides detailed descriptions of key resources within both broad and specific categories. It can be used as a guide to further understanding the what, how, and why of business information research.

The changing arena of business information requires regular updating and awareness. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with three new chapters: Entrepreneurship, Competitive Intelligence, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Other additions of note include subsections on internet and mobile marketing and tax havens and related issues; coverage of new legislation (e.g., Dodd-Frank); and subsections on index funds, investment communities, regulatory bodies and laws, hedge funds, venture capital companies, assessing risks, robo-advisors, and more.

TheHandbookis for students, faculty, librarians, and information professionals looking to gain a broader and deeper understanding of business information. Anyone needing to gain quick exposure to business information needs and resources for solutions will benefit from the volume as well.
Surveillance in America
Authors: Dixon Pam
Published: August 2024

An excellent resource for high school and college students, this book surveys the size, scope, and nature of government surveillance in 21st-century America, with a particular focus on technology-enabled surveillance and its impact on privacy and other civil liberties.

The advent of online, cellular, and other digital networks has enabled today's government surveillance operations to become more extensive and far more thorough than any other programs before them. Where does the line between taking actions to help ensure the safety of the general population against terrorism and other threats and the privacy of individual citizens lie? Is there any such clearly defined line anymore?

This two-volume set examines the key issues surrounding government surveillance and privacy in 21st-century America, covering topics ranging from the surveillance conducted during colonial days, which inspired the Fourth Amendment, to the new high-tech developments that pose unprecedented potential challenges to the privacy of millions of Americans. Readers will gain insight into the complex challenge of interpreting the Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless, unreasonable government searches and understand how changes in the methods by which the U.S. government carries out counterterrorism and law enforcement activities influence its relationship with American citizens and businesses.
Tamora Pierce
Authors: Kunzel Bonnie , Fichtelberg Susan
Published: August 2024

Tamora Pierce has a large following of teen and adult readers, who savor her fantasy novels with strong female characters. This volume provides her readers and fans with additional insights into her life and work. The first section provides a biographical chapter and literary heritage. The second and third sections analyze the Tales of Tortall and the Magic Circle Sagas as a whole, providing details into the characters and settings of each. The final section of the book, Perspectives, includes both a section on literary techniques along with an interview of Tamora Pierce herself. Appendices include a section on Power Female Heroes, and Fantasy Adventures.

Novels include:*The Song of the Lioness Quartet *The Immortals Quartet *The Protector of the Small Quartet *The Trickster Duology *The Magic Circle Quartet *The Circle Opens Quartet *The Will of the Empress
The Taxing Power
Authors: Jensen Erik M.
Published: August 2024

The U.S. Constitution contains several limitations on the national taxing power. These limitations are almost always ignored due to the assumption that Congress is unconstrained in imposing taxes.The Taxing Powerproves that assumption faulty by illustrating the importance of such limitations as the uniformity rule, the direct-tax apportionment rule, and the Export Clause. By looking at the historical origins of these limitations, Jensen argues that they are essential parts of the Constitution and should be taken seriously, as the founders intended.

This full-scale treatment of the subject is a timely reminder that the national taxing power is not absolute. In the last decade the Supreme Court has begun to see the Export Clause as an important factor in taxation. This has opened the door for other limitations to be considered, making this work of utmost importance in the study of taxation.
To Have and To Hurt
Authors: Browne-Miller Angela
Published: August 2024

Every year, nearly 2 million injuries and some 1,300 deaths result from so-called intimate partner violence. In this work, psychotherapist Browne-Miller uses vignettes, as well as standing and emerging research, to detail both healthy and hurtful relationships and to show partners how to recognize and change relationships on, or headed toward, the path to abuse. She also explains when to leave a relationship, as well as how to do that so as to disentangle without further harm. This is a book that will interest not only those involved in, or who know of someone who is or might be involved in, an abusive relationship, but also students and scholars of psychology, counseling, social work, women's studies, and men's studies.

When Cathy and John married 20 years ago, the relationship seemed almost charmed. But over the years as John's career became more established and Cathy raised the family of three children, things changed. First angry fights developed, followed by verbal and gestured threats of violence, and later, actual physical attacks and injuries. Several times Cathy called police, but when they arrived, fearing the social stigma as well as John's retribution, she would explain her injuries as dealt out by a prowler. When friends or family asked, she would claim the cuts or bruises were due to a fall or some other accident. But eventually, when her arm had been broken, a tooth knocked out, and her face bruised so badly she could not cover it up with makeup, she finally left the house and her husband—only to be stalked. Cathy and John are one couple that Angela Browne-Miller introduces us to in this book that looks at the increasingly publicized incidence of intimate partner violence, abuse that takes place behind closed doors, inside marriages and other loving relationships. Only a fraction of this abuse is ever reported, so just a fragment of the problem is reflected in national statistics that show nearly 2 million injuries and some 1,300 deaths annually caused by this so-called intimate partner violence. In this work, Browne-Miller uses vignettes, as well as standing and emerging research, to help us recognize the difference between a relationship being effected by normal stressors, and one that is abusive, or perhaps even deadly.

Psychotherapist Browne-Miller details both healthy and hurtful relationships and shows partners how to recognize and change relationships on, or headed down, the path to abuse. And she also explains when we should leave a relationship, as well as how to do that to disentangle without further harm. This is a book that will interest not only lay readers who are involved in, or know of someone who is or might be involved in, an abusive relationship, but also students and scholars of psychology, counseling, social work, women's studies, and men's studies.
Understanding New, Resurgent, and Resistant Diseases
Authors: Link Kurt
Published: August 2024

In this work, Dr. Link explains the extent of new, resurgent, and resistant diseases defying the abilities of science and medicine, or often finding strength in globalization or other facets of modernization.

Although medicine and sanitation in modernized countries are more advanced than ever before, over the past three decades we have seen the emergence of some 30 new diseases, such as HIV, SARS, and Ebola. Lyme Disease, Hepatitis C, Legionnaires' Disease, and even Jacob-Creutzfeld, the human form of a disorder we know as Mad Cow, has made headlines. We are also facing a resurgence of diseases once thought nearly eradicated, including tuberculosis and smallpox, and the persistence of rare disorders such as leprosy.

Link also explains why such diseases are not prevented by our current systems, and why some rare diseases persist despite technology that could cure them. He offers insight into why we may not be able to predict or prevent factors such as mutations, and also shares thoughts about what we can do—as individuals, communities and countries—to reduce the dangers of disease. Including a basic review of elements that cause them—viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi among them—this work gives a brief history of human diseases and points out how the burden of disease has increased throughout the history of mankind.
The Vietnam War Era
Authors: Solheim Bruce O.
Published: August 2024

There are many lessons to be learned from the Vietnam War, foremost among them being that war as an instrument of peace is not viable. Solheim provides a full picture of the war era at home and in Southeast Asia by combining historical narrative with biographical profiles and personal reflections. He allows the story to unfold in multiple layers, as seen through the eyes of those who were involved on all sides of the conflict: the North Vietnamese, the South Vietnamese, the American generals and politicians, and the American war correspondents and antiwar protestors.

With this book, Solheim explores, and hopes to answer, vital questions about the American war in Vietnam. What is the meaning and significance of the Vietnam War for Americans today? What lessons have Americans learned from our defeat and how should we apply that knowledge in implementing current foreign policy? Who or what is to be blamed for the loss in Vietnam? How can we heal our nation from the Vietnam War syndrome? How do we fit the Vietnam War era into our greater historical narrative?
Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers
Authors: Rappaport Helen
Published: August 2024

The first comprehensive guide to women activists from every part of the world, illuminating the broad range of women's struggles to reform society from the 18th century to the present.

Despite being marginalized, disenfranchised, impoverished, and oppressed, women have always stepped forward in disproportionate numbers to lead movements for social change. This two-volume encyclopedia documents the visions, struggles, and lives of women who have changed the world.

This encyclopedia celebrates the lives and achievements of nearly 300 women from around the globe—women who have bravely insisted that the way things are is not the way they have to be. Nadeshda Krupskaya, the wife of Lenin, spearheaded the drive against illiteracy in post-revolutionary Russia. American Dorothy Day founded the Catholic worker movement. Begum Rokeya Hossain organized a girls' school in Calcutta in 1911. Rachel Carson launched the modern environmental movement with her bookSilent Spring. The stories of these women and the hundreds of others collected here will restore missing pages to our history and inspire a new generation of women to change the world.
Wonders of the Land
Authors: Haven Kendall
Published: August 2024

Renowned storyteller Kendall Haven brings his expertise to the authorship of this fourth book in the 4-book series,Wonders of Nature: Natural Phenomena in Science and Myth. Intended for teachers to use with students in the upper elementary and middle school grades, it focuses on natural phenomena of the earth (volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.) through the eyes of ancient myth, and then looks at the actual modern day science that explains each myth, using an interdisciplinary style of teaching. Using knowledge gained as a former research scientist, Haven integrates science curricular with the study of myth. Students are encouraged not only to appreciate the magic in myth and science, but to understand the commonality of all human experience with nature over all time. The book contains myths from several different cultures, and accompanying scientific explanations. Bibliographies, recommended Web sites, student projects, and discussion and activity ideas are also included, while illustrations and diagrams enhance student interest. The book is to be used by teachers and librarians with students, and by students in libraries and classrooms. Grades 4-8.
Extremism in the Police
Authors: Lewandowski Carla , Bumgarner Jeff
Published: August 2024

A one-stop resource for understanding historical and contemporary perspectives on ideological extremism in law enforcement, as well as its wider impacts on American society.The work blends narrative overview, biographies, essay perspectives, and a helpful guide to other resources to facilitate understanding of the contemporary problem of extremism in American law enforcement. Written by experts in the criminal justice field, the book focuses on the extent, motivations, causes, and dangers of ideological extremism in the ranks of America's police, from the smallest towns to the biggest cities. In addition, it discusses reforms that have been proposed—and in some cases implemented—to combat the problem, including measures introduced in other countries.
Social Science Resources in the Electronic Age
Authors: Oakes Elizabeth , Mayer Michael S.
Published: August 2024

This one-stop source guides students and educators through the chaos of the Internet, helping them locate authoritative information on topics covered in the World History, U.S. History, Government and Civics, Economics, and Geography curricula. Students are taken directly to the Web's best sites for general researching in the field. They are provided with creme-de-la-creme sites on key topics in the discipline, each of which has been screened by an expert in the field and chosen based on a detailed analysis of the national standards and leading subject texts. Reviews include the site's name, URL, and appropriate grade range, as well as a thorough discussion of how to use the site for research. Students' forays into a discipline are bolstered by Web sites for subject-appropriate museums, summer programs, and careers. Subject sites are also critiqued for teacher use and development.

Social Science Resources in the Electronic Agewill be a boon to novice and savvy Web users alike. It addresses the needs of high school and undergraduate researchers, and is ideal for educators and parents. Sites are reviewed for professional associations, academic groups, conferences, workshops, programs, clubs, and other outlets for students interested in working or doing internships in the subject. Each site is definitive, comprehensive, credible, and current.
Encyclopedia of Retirement and Finance
Authors: Vitt Lois A.
Published: August 2024

This is the only encyclopedia that focuses solely on the financial issues associated with aging. Written by experts in a variety of fields, entries include gerontology and finance terms and concepts, policies and programs, the needs and problems of the elderly, and more. This comprehensive, up-to-date, two-volume work includes over 175 entries on the most recent issues in elder financial planning and retirement programs. Each article features references to research, bibliographies, sources for advice, and guides to further information.

Arranged A to Z, entries define and describe topics related to the finances of older Americans, including expenditures and financial planning, insurance and taxes, family, ethical, and legal issues, housing, health care, and security questions and programs, and more.

The encyclopedia is cross-referenced and indexed for easy use by students, seniors, researchers, and professionals working with seniors.
The Arkansas State Constitution
Authors: Goss Kay
Published: August 2024

This authoritative reference gives a brief history of the development of the Arkansas State Constitution and then presents the official text with an article-by-article commentary. This unique guide is designed for lawyers, scholars, and students of constitutional history, constitutional law, and state history, but is written in a manner that makes the book accessible to the general public.

The volume offers a constitutional history of the five different constitutions, the conventions, and proposed amendments and then provides an analysis of the various articles, provisions, and myriad amendments of importance. A selected bibliography, table of cases, and general index add to the usefulness of this unique guide.
The Art and Politics of Academic Governance
Authors: Sathre Colleen O'Brien , Mortimer Kenneth P
Published: August 2024

Academic governance is an art form that is inherently political in nature. This is most apparent when the big issues of the academy are on the table. In order to survive and be successful, given the external forces affecting their institutions, practitioners of the art of governance are urged to become market-smart, mission-centered, and politically savvy. Only by working in this manner can the key governance partners -- administrators, faculty, and governing boards -- hope to further the academic mission of their institution. Using case studies and relevant lierature, this book ilustrates the challenges to legitimate, shared-governance domains when the routine of the academy is forced to deal with big issues, often brought on by external forces.

Morimer and Sathre have gone beyond a discussion of faulty/administrative behavior by focusing on what happens when the legitimate governance claims of faculty, trustees, and presidents clash. They place these relationships in the broader context of internal institutional governance and analyze the dynamics that unfold when advocacy trumps collegiality. The book closes with a defense of shared governance and offers observations and practical suggestions about how the academy can share authority effectively and further achievement of its mission.
The Colorado State Constitution
Authors: Collins Richard B. , Oesterle Dale
Published: August 2024

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The Idaho State Constitution
Authors: Crowley Donald W. , Heffron Florence A.
Published: August 2024

This reference guide is the first to provide a short history of Idaho's constitution, the full text of the current constitution, and a clear and concise analysis of the document article-by-article. Donald Crowley and Florence Heffron describe the colorful development of the constitution over the last 101 years and how it has reflected concerns about Mormons, Chinese, and Indian inhabitants and powerful economic, social, and political forces. Since 1889, the 109 amendments have democratized the political systems and given people rights to participate more actively in the state's governance. A bibliographical essay, table of cases, and general index contribute to the usefulness of this valuable inter-disciplinary guide for lawyers, historians, political scientists, and interested citizens.
The Iowa State Constitution
Authors: Stark Jack
Published: August 2024

This reference guide begins with a constitutional history of Iowa. The majority of this history is devoted to accounts of the constitutional conventions and the documents they produced. The rest of Part I contains a discussion of the cases that had an effect beyond merely deciding constitutional issues and an explanation of major amendments set in the context of Iowa history. The bulk of this book is a section-by-section analysis of the constitution rounded out by a bibliographical essay, table of cases, and index. It will be useful to students and scholars of law and constitutional history.
The Louisiana State Constitution
Authors: Hargrave Lee
Published: August 2024

The current Louisiana State Constitution, drafted in 1974, is the result of successive amendments and revisions to ten previous constitutions, and is among the most lengthy and detailed of all state constitutions. Lee Hargrave's reference guide begins with a brief history of the constitution from its 1812 origins when French and Spanish elitist interests dictated most provisions, through the many changes necessitated by an influx of richly diverse immigrants. The current constitution is the primary focus of the book and is then presented in its entirety.

The accompanying historical material and supplementary comments on the 1974 constitution, as well as the bibliography, are purposely abbreviated in order to place the major emphasis on the document itself. A complete table of cases with citations and a full subject index provide further information. This volume is a valuable addition to the series on state constitutions issued by Greenwood Press.
The Michigan State Constitution
Authors: Fino Susan P.
Published: August 2024

This comprehensive guide, the only single source for information on Michigan's fundamental law, begins with a history that traces the development of the Michigan constitution from its origins in the Northwest Ordinance, through the various constitutions to the 1963 Constitution and its amendments. An analytical commentary on the current constitution as amended, article-by-article, section-by-section, makes up the heart of the book. A table of cases, annotated bibliography and index complete this unique reference work. While designed for scholars, lawyers, and members of state and local government, ^IThe Michigan State Constitution^R is written in plain language that is accessible to any citizen interested in understanding Michigan's charter of government.