This resource-rich guidebook supports faculty developers through the process of planning, facilitating, and assessing programs for mid-career faculty.Framing chapters draw from existing scholarship, national surveys, and the authors’ pilot program to prepare faculty developers to launch their own initiatives. The heart of the book details program modules, including their focus (e.g., identifying values, envisioning a meaningful career, claiming agency, advocating for oneself, plann...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD"This is a book about a courageous woman. Often alone in wild country, she endures hardships and faces danger in many forms …. It is a book I highly recommend: informative, fascinating, and beautifully written."—DR. JANE GOODALLA debut memoir from one of the first women biologists in the United States to study wild wolves in their natural habitat—a story of passion, resilience, and determinat...

Thoroughly written, extensively updated, and optimized for today’s evolving Canadian healthcare environment, Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing for Canadian Practice, 5th Edition, equips students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to effectively care for diverse populations in mental health nursing practice. This proven, approachable text instills a generalist-level mastery of mental health promotion, assessment, and interventions in adults, families, children, adolescents, and old...

This collection features five peer-reviewed reviews on rust diseases of cereals.The first chapter provides an overview of the wheat rust pathogen lifecycle and discusses recent integration of basic biological knowledge and genomic-led tools within an epidemiological framework.The second chapter introduces stripe rust and provides an overview of its decimation of crop yields worldwide. The chapter summarises recent advances in identifying stripe rust resista...

Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park. When she started in the 1970s, she was the only female biologist in the United States researching and radio-collaring wild wolves. With her two dogs for company, she faced the rigors of the Montana winter in an isolated cabin.Boyd fearlessly forded icy rivers, strapped on skis to navigate thick ...

This text offers students rich local cultural examples of Early Childhood Education from around the world. Informed by first-hand research and practice, the book provides authentic snapshots of ECE from countries, including Afghanistan, Australia, Ghana, Nigeria, Brazil, Eswatini, Mongolia, Nepal, Sami children of Finland, and Syrian refugee children, enabling readers to better understand the wider determinants influencing the multiplicity and diversity of children’s daily experiences. Wit...

In the second volume of "Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages," George Hodges delves into the extraordinary lives of individuals who have left an enduring mark on history. From the 16th century to the present day, Hodges chronicles the stories of reformers, missionaries, philanthropists, and social activists who have dedicated their lives to serving others and inspiring change. Through their unwavering faith, courage, and compassion, these saints and heroes have shaped the course of hum...

This unique book explores research related to education for sustainability within early childhood education in the United Kingdom. Divided into the four home nations, it examines what education for sustainability looks like in practice, discusses the different application and positions of each region, and considers the contribution of early childhood education to support the Sustainable Development Goals.Each chapter considers the relevant early years framework and includes associa...

The four nations of the UK each have distinctive policy and curricula in relation to Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). This new textbook offers a comprehensive look at early years education in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, bringing the curriculum frameworks for each country together in one place.Drawing on the cultural and practical pedagogy of each curriculum, this book aims to develop students’ understanding of the development, care, education, health, w...

Using an interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework this book examines the cultural, material, and symbolic articulations of Irish migration relationships from the medieval period through to the contemporary post-Celtic Tiger era. With attention to people’s different uses of social space, relationships with and memories of the landscape, as well as their symbolic expressions of diasporic identity, Heritage, Diaspora and the Consumption of Culture examines the different forms ...