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As universities rethink their approach to student and faculty mental health, Mad Scholar showcases academics who proudly embrace the label of the "mad scholar." In twenty-three essays from contributors working in nearly a dozen disciplines across three...

The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its region's literature, one that is strange, deviant, or ""queer."" The peculiar, often sexually charged literary worlds of contemporary writers like Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, and Randall Kenan...

This important volume presents the results from a five-year, mixed methods study on the transition from high school to postsecondary education for young adults who, during secondary school, received both English learner and special education services. It...

Wild, dark and divine... The first of its kind, Goddess with a Thousand Faces blends historical research with mythological retelling, taking an inspirational, enlightening and fiercely feminist deep dive into ancient goddesses to explore the modern...

Mari Sandoz’s The Battle of the Little Bighorn encouraged a change in how Americans viewed this infamous fight. By the mid-twentieth century a towering Custer myth had come to dominate the national psyche as a tale that confirmed national exceptionalism...

This fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance. It is a comprehensive and accessible examination of current theoretical approaches,...

This book asserts that authority is a contested category and explores why traditional notions of authority are increasingly in tension with progressive and postmodern claims, devolving into stalemate, schizophrenia, or power plays. Offering a Christian...

Drawing together the worlds of classroom practice, school leadership and cognitive science, this is an essential how-to guide for initiating and maintaining a school improvement journey based on the science of learning.Providing accessible introductions...

For centuries, critics, poets, and philosophers have either openly proclaimed or tacitly assumed the long poem as the highest expression of literary ambition and excellence. Rethinking the North American Long Poem focuses on the North American variant of...

Archival Science in Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice brings together scholars, practicing archivists, and records managers to discuss key issues in the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of the profession. The contributors examine the state of...

This is the first book on Richard III and the Tower of London, shedding new light on the King’s reputation, the Castle’s lore, and early-modern literature’s role in building associations between them. It is also one of the first books to integrate...

If you are training to be a professional teacher in the further education and skills sector, this book is your starting point. The content is applicable to anyone training to be a teacher, or refreshing their current skills and knowledge. The book takes...

This fully updated edition of a classic text explores established approaches to teaching that are grounded in research and experience to ensure high levels of learning.Models of Teaching combines rationale and research with real-life examples and...

Disruptive Women is your guide to changing the status quo in the education system. Drawing from rich, varied perspectives from across the global WomenEd community it offers guidance, solidarity and real-life examples of how to make change happen in four...

This book encourages further conversation on the expanding circle in World Englishes, offering a detailed look at “China English” through the academic writing of Chinese students at a British university.The volume seeks to blur the simplistic binary of...

V Puti: Russian Grammar in Context is a multi-level textbook program for learners of Russian that develops proficiency across the four language skills while building intercultural knowledge and competence.The third edition of this highly successful...

Introducción al estudio del discurso digital en español offers an accessible introduction to the study of digital discourse analysis in Spanish. Written by an international group of scholars who are experts in the field, it presents readers with key...

One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read. But what is it that makes this 2,000-year-old voice so relevant, so personal, and so endlessly fascinating?...

Drawing on ethnographical evidence, this book examines the complexity of the controversial construct “non-native English-speaking teacher” (NNEST) and the newly proposed “translingual/translanguaging teacher” in re-scripting their identities. Zheng...

Increasing diversity and inclusion can help libraries to fit their collections and services to those who need them and to bring in skilled staff who may have previously been overlooked, both of which are key to serving their communities. This book,...

Khitan and Mongol Imperial Women in the Chinese Imagination is a study and translation of two classic Chinese texts about the lives of Khitan and Mongol empresses and imperial consorts, never before translated into English. In 1075, Empress Xuanyi of the...

Are you unsure what your thesis should look like? Perhaps you are struggling to get started or tie everything together in your conclusion? Help is here! Taking you from the introduction all the way through to the conclusion, this practical guide will...

This exciting book is designed to help coaches, or individuals in a coaching and/or capacity building role, support educators in becoming culturally responsive leaders. Coaching Education Leaders describes a unique Facilitative Competency-Based Coaching...

This book tells the story of Clara Stanton Jones, the first woman to direct a major public library system in the United States and the first African American president of the ALA. After being appointed as Director of the Detroit Public Library in 1944,...

School leadership is becoming awfully compliant; flat-pack headteachers and homogenised leadership teams. When did all this conformity ever bring about any lasting change? Drawing parallels between the fiercely independent punk spirit and the demands of...

If children are to access all phonics teaching effectively, they first need to know how to tune into and manipulate the sounds specifically needed for reading. The Right Start to Phonics shows readers how they can support children in gaining the skills...

Ideal for literacy methods and elementary instruction courses, this book brings together three strands of educational practice—Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP), Disability Sustaining Pedagogy (DSP), and balanced literacy—to present a cohesive,...

Since their founding in 1936, Canada’s GG Literary Awards have served as the country’s premier literary prize. Together with Canada’s Storytellers and The Governor General’s Literary Awards of Canada: A Bibliography, this volume completes a three-volume...

A Sentence a Day is not your average grammar workbook. Focusing on short, playful, interesting sentences with a sense of humor, these proofreading exercises help students learn without feeling overwhelmed.This new edition features 50 new exercises and...

Iberia negra provides textual and methodological resources to investigate and study the African Diaspora and early modern Iberian Studies with a transatlantic and global perspective. This unique and timely volume renovates the study of Black African...

Writing Skills for Behavior Analysts provides a practical guidebook for students and clinicians. The book focuses on the importance of balancing technical information with compassionate delivery, providing guidance on writing that is meaningful across...

Eine neue Biographie eines erfahrenen Storm-Herausgebers, die ein Bild von Storm als streitbarem Schriftsteller entwirft und besonders seine Tochter Gertrud in den Fokus nimmt.Book InformationISBN 9783476026392Author Walter ZimorskiFormat HardbackPage...

Traditional cultures have a long and vital association with wetlands as sacred places imbued with spiritual and ceremonial significance that provide physical sustenance and sources of materials in paludiculture. Ancient Greek and Roman cultures...

With an uncertain beginning in the sparsely populated remote northern Nevada town of Elko, a preparatory school opened its doors in October 1874 through the Morrill Act that sought to establish land-grant universities across the nation. Seven students...

This book argues that supporting a child’s learning in primary school is more about nurturing their dispositions than continually assessing their performance. Drawing on the latest research in the fields of child development, psychology, health and...

ACCESS: Accessible Course Construction for Every Student’s Success is a practical guide to digital course design that incorporates and exceeds current accessibility practices for disabled and non-disabled students in higher education. Today’s rapid...

A Gustav Klimt Landscapes collection of three A5, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful design: Poppy Field, Water Castle (1908) and The Birch Wood (1903). With a sturdy cover and rounded...

Literature has experienced two great medium shifts, each with profound implications for its forms, genres, and cultures: that from orality to writing, and that from writing to printing. Today we are experiencing a third shift, from printed to digital...

The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social critique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century US literature for children and adults. Through a range of texts, including James...

Steeped in ancient magic, dark divinity and wild ways, Goddess with a Thousand Faces takes you on a historical journey like no other...Blending mythological retellings with historical research, Goddess with a Thousand Faces traverses the world and...