Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life issues. This edited collection is divided into three sections—“Reflecting on Community Partnerships,” “Reflecting on Classroom Practice,” and “Reflecting on Diversity”—so as to represent inte...

New essays from foodways archaeology related to cuisine in social, cultural, and environmental contexts.This collection of original essays is the first to cover recent trends in foodways archaeology in the Midwest using the concept of cuisine: the selection of food ingredients and methods of food preparation, cooking, and serving/consumption in relation to their social, cultural, and environmental contexts. This work span the Early Archaic (9000 B...

Mary Barton (1848), untertitelt A Tale of Manchester Life, verbindet Liebes- und Kriminalhandlung mit einer dichten Studie der industriellen Stadt. Mary, Tochter des Spinners John Barton, gerät zwischen den Werber Harry Carson und den Mechaniker Jem Wilson; Johns Verelendung und Chartistenwut enden im Mord an Carson, worauf ein Prozess folgt, den Mary durch eine hastige Zeugenjagd abwendet. Realistische Milieuschilderung, Lancashire-Dialekt und moralisches Pathos formen eine zentrale Condi...

Ryan White was a typical 13-year-old living in a small town in the Midwest. Then, it was discovered that Ryan had contracted AIDS through tainted blood products he had been given for his hemophilia. Denied the right to return to school, he went to court. Newspaper headlines followed the many legal battles, and although Ryan won the court case, his own fight had just begun. With great courage, he spoke out against the many misconceptions about the disease and called for AIDS sufferers to be...

Suspended Lives explores the experiences of asylum seekers in the midwestern United States in vivid detail. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Cameroonian and other African asylum seekers, Bridget M. Haas traces the emotional and social effects of being embedded in the US asylum regime. Appealing to the United States for protection, asylum seekers are cast into a complex and protracted bureaucratic system that increasingly treats them as suspect. Haas shows how the ...

Na, o du fröhliche aber auch: Oma Rosa ist auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt gestürzt, und obwohl sie ein Engelskostüm trug, hat sie nun einen Oberschenkelhalsbruch. Immerhin keinen Halsbruch, finden Greta und Finn, und versprechen, Mama den Schlüssel für die "Bücherbutze" zu bringen, Omas Buchhandlung. Dass Mama gerade auf einer Fortbildung ist, verschweigen sie lieber. Omas Mitarbeiter, genannt "Monokel", wird den Laden schon schmeißen! Doch bald stellt sich heraus, dass Monokel nicht nur die Best...

Particular focus on improving functional traits needed for more resilient poultry breedsComprehensive coverage of key advances in genomic selection and their practical application in breeding improved breeds of layers and broilersLooks forward to emerging trends such as the use of epigenetics and genome editing

Marie Dicker Haas knew how to make friends and keep them—and being connected to others was what she treasured most. In this memoir, her spirit shines through, as do her philosophies on life, which she developed over more than 90 years before her death in 2017. From her formative days growing up on Staten Island, New York, to her years at Cornell University, through the World War II years, and on to life as it unfolded, she writes with a thoughtful, creative style. She writes courageously o...

Twenty-two nightmarish stories for your reading enjoyment! Prepare for the terrifying.Sara Jordan-Heintz selected a perfect blend of tales from a talented list of authors. You might just find your next favorite horror writer in the listStories byBrooke MacKenzieJohn HaasEvan BaughfmanJohn GroverD.C. PhillipsH.K. SladeC.A. VerstraeteLindy SpencerPatrick F. MurphyK.T. TateKay Hanifen

Le 18 mars 2017, l’association Être et Naître a organisé un colloque sur le thème “Toucher et Être touché, quand le corps s’invite dans la rencontre thérapeutique”.Cette journée a été préparée en très étroite collaboration avec les intervenants externes de l’association.Présentation de la communication par le toucher affectif.Annie Le Cousin, Sandrine Pineau, Elisabeth Georgeault. Processus à l'oeuvre dans le toucher affectif (haptonomique). Utilisat...

For many service users and professionals in the field of social work, shame is an ongoing part of their daily experience.Providing an in-depth examination of the complex phenomena of shame and humiliation, this book sets out key contextual issues and theoretical approaches to comprehend shame and its relevance within social work. It provides a broad understanding of shame, its underlying social and political contexts and its effects on service users and professionals.The bo...