The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing arts, and in scholarship. The result is a volume that offers practical advice to teachers on editions and teaching resources in part 1, "Materials," while illuminating how the play's subtle and c...

Provides a more holistic approach by combining research both on the impacts of climate change on agriculture and the contribution of agriculture to climate changeHighlights advances in ways of predicting the effects of agriculture and climate change on one anotherBuilds on this foundation to outline key mitigation strategies to achieve a more ‘climate-smart’ agriculture

Irene Brandt, a pretty blonde/brunette 20-year-old led a double life. Throughout the work week she was employed as a teller at the North Merrick branch of a Hempstead, Long Island bank. Three nights a week she moonlighted as a go-go dancer in two Long Island clubs. There she danced on the bar for patrons who paid to watch her move in time to music. Customers and night club employees attest the she was a talented dancer. On September 26, 1966 Brandt failed to return from her lunch hour. She...

The soldiers of the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry fought in the Overland campaign under Grant and in the Shenandoah valley under Sheridan, notably at the Battle of Monocacy. But as Dennis Brandt reveals in From Home Guards to Heroes, their real story takes place beyond the battlefield. The 87th drew its men from the Scotch-Irish and German populations of York and Adams counties in south-central Pennsylvania—a region with closer ties to Baltimore than to Philadelphia—where some citize...

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts and Clinical Practice is a groundbreaking book that provides an overview of the field from both theoretical and clinical viewpoints. The editors and chapter authors -- some of the field's foremost researchers and teachers -- describe from their diverse perspectives key concepts fundamental to infant-parent and early childhood mental health work. The complexity of this emerging field demands an interdisciplinary approach, and the book ...

Some people would say Jack Solo is a trigger-happy chief inspector with the United States Marshals Service assigned to Interpol. Those people would be wrong. Jack Solo's success in recovering priceless masterpieces and ancient artifacts has led him to be assigned to the FBI's stolen art department. After being involved in a deadly shootout at the Phillips Gallery in Washington, DC, Solo became world-famous for helping stop the largest art heist in history. So, when the Smithsonian Institut...

November 1895, über London liegt dicker Nebel. An der Untergrundstation Aldgate findet man die Leiche eines jungen Mannes, der Angestellter der Admiralität war. Brisanterweise trägt er die streng geheimen Pläne für das neuartige Bruce-Partington-Unterseeboot bei sich. Diese Tatsache ruft Sherlock Holmes' Bruder Mycroft auf den Plan, der ebenfalls für die Regierung arbeitet. Wie haben die Pläne das Gebäude der Admiralität überhaupt verlassen können? Und warum wurde bei der Leiche nur ein Te...