In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between similar speech sounds were said to suffer from “sound-blindness.” The term is now best remembered through anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work deeply influenced the way we talk about cultural difference. In this fascinating work of literary and cultural history, Alex Benson takes the concept as an opening onto other stories of listening, writing, and...

Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures critically interrogates the discursive framing of extinctions and how they relate to the systems that bring about biocultural loss. The chapters in this multidisciplinary volume examine approaches to ecological and social extinction and resurgence from a variety of fields, including environmental studies, literary studies, political science, and philosophy. Grounding their scholarship in decolonial, Indigenous, and counter-hegemon...

Introduce students to the study of sport group dynamics.Group Dynamics in Sport, Fifth Edition, provides readers with the most current theories of group dynamics in sport teams as well as practical application. In this updated edition, each chapter identifies and discusses key theoretical concepts of group dynamics and offers extensive and relevant examples that reinforce the principles covered. Topics includethe nature, study, and developmen...

Celebrate Chinese New Year with this sweet story of friendship and family!Chinese New Year is the most important holiday for Alex and her family, so it's even more special when she gets to share her favorite traditions with her best friend, Ethan. Together, they join the Chinese New Year parade and get to help make the dragon dance. Then they prepare for the festivities by tidying up, decorating, and making dumplings. After that, it's time to open red envelopes, ea...

Healthy Habits at Home, 2 in 1 Bundle: Body into Balance and The Home Workout PlanTake charge of your health and fitness from the comfort of your home with the Healthy Habits at Home Bundle. This empowering collection provides the tools and strategies you need to achieve a balanced lifestyle through proper diet, exercise, and effective home workout routines. Included Audiobooks:Body into Balance: Discover the Right Kind of Balance of Diet and Exercise to Get Healt...

Nice Victorian ladies don’t run off to find legendary lost cities.One trifling little arrest shouldn’t have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it’s only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions.When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s holding her chance to revolutionize Pre-Colombian history. There’s just one teensy complication. A ruthless villain wants it, and Ellie is ...

An arcane horror emerges from battle and blood. To stop it, Lily must risk becoming everything she fears.In a Europe devastated by four years of war, a platoon of elite Italian soldiers is horrifically and mysteriously slaughtered. Strangford's occult ability can uncover the truth behind the massacre, but a violent fate stalks him from the trenches. Only Lily stands a chance of changing its course.To save the man she loves, she must gather allies splintered...

How to Talk to Difficult Parents: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Confidence and ClarityStruggling to communicate with your parents? "How to Talk to Difficult Parents: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Confidence and Clarity" is your essential guide to transforming challenging interactions into opportunities for deeper understanding and connection.Written by a team of experts in communication and personal development—Claude Benson, Alex Sage, ...

Avec Tip Tongue, lire de l'anglais devient naturel !Accompagne des héros aux caractères attachants dans des histoires inattendues... et découvre le plaisir de lire et de comprendre l'anglais.Alex est en vacances chez sa tante qui habite New York. Ses cousins, passionnés de rap auquel lui-même ne connaît rien, n'ont qu'un nom à la bouche : celui de Diandra, une jeune star très populaire aux États-Unis, qui a disparu deux jours plus tôt. Qu'est devenue Diandra ? C'est Alex qui...

Archivist and suffragette Ellie Mallory always dreamed of putting her scholarly skills to work in the ancient sands of Egypt. She never imagined she would be doing so in order to save an object of legendary power from a batch of ruthless villains.Racing baddies to an arcanum of Biblical proportions is only one of Ellie’s problems. Her hopelessly academic and perpetually mortified step-brother, Dr. Neil Fairfax, is about to learn that she’s been gallivanting around the globe with hi...

Travel into the darkness and the nightmares will never end…Scare Street is proud to present a diabolical new collection of seventeen ghastly stories. Each spine-tingling tale is a portal to a new world, the beginning of a seemingly endless voyage into fear and dread. An infinite horizon beckons, as the sun sets behind overcast, craggy mountains.But be warned: Not every journey is worth taking. Some roads lead where you might not expect. And some nightmares are to...

A dangerous prophecy threatens Edwardian London... and it begins with a murder.Lily Albright can see the future, and it looks like hell.In an England on the brink of war, Lily is plagued by psychic visions of the cataclysmic destruction of London. An ancient prophecy is coming to fruition, and it starts with the gruesome discovery of a corpse in the sewers.To save her city, Lily must untangle a web of conspiracy and violence. She'll need the help of...