This guidebook is designed to increase readers’ social resilience and assertiveness in response to minority stress. It highlights the need for belonging and community building and a safe, collaborative, and peaceful coexistence with our diverse, pluralistic cultures.The LGBTQIA+ Peacemaking Book Project offers two guidebooks, Feel Secure in Yourself and Relate to Others with Confidence, and twelve e-resources self-published by each set of chapter coauthors. The cha...

This guidebook is designed to increase readers’ personal resilience, self-acceptance, and growth from minority stress. Readers are encouraged to clarify their beliefs and improve their relationship with themselves to develop self-awareness, self-value, and self-direction. Conflicts can be resolved as readers develop knowledge of themselves and others and consider resilient ways of experiencing sexual and/or gender diversity.The LGBTQIA+ Peacemaking Book Project offers two guidebooks...

The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities engages in the necessarily complex task of mapping out the operations of racialized desire as it circulates among gay men. In exploring such desire, the contributors to this collection consider the intersections of privilege and marginalization in the context of gay men’s lives, and in so doing, argue that as much as experiences of discrimination on the basis of sexuality are shared among many gay men, experiences of discrimination within...

Embark on the adventure that has captivated readers for centuries. In this timeless Chinese classic, a clever and rebellious monkey rises from humble origins to become one of the most powerful creatures in existence-only to find that his greatest challenge lies in learning to serve rather than rule.Complete and unabridged, this new translation by M. T. Wu includes all 10 books of the Monkey King's adventures in contemporary English that modern readers can enjoy. At the same it, it ...

Was würdest du tun, wenn du allein mit deiner Mom lebst, die manchmal ihre “ruhigen Tage” hat, und du planst, deinen iPod mit einer selbstgebauten Rakete ins All zu schießen, um den Außerirdischen das menschliche Leben auf der Erde zu erklären?Ganz einfach: Der 11-jährige Alex wagt gemeinsam mit seinem Hund Carl Sagan die große Reise quer durchs Land zu einer Convention von Raketen-Nerds. Dabei lernt er nicht nur die unterschiedlichsten Menschen kennen, sondern erfährt auch eine Me...

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 600 fully solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 20 detailed videos featuring instructors who explain the most commonly tested problems--it's just like having your own virtual tutor! You'll find everything you need to build confidence, skills, and knowledge for the ...

“I haven't read anything that has moved me this much since Wonder.” —Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright PlacesA space-obsessed boy and his dog, Carl Sagan, take a journey toward family, love, hope, and awe in this funny and moving novel for fans of Counting by 7s, Walk Two Moons, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.**11-year-old Alex Petroski loves space and rockets, his mom, his brother, and his dog Carl ...

**“Another beautiful book by Jack Cheng.” —Erin Entrada Kelly, Newbery Award-winning author of Hello, UniverseCreative and brave sixth grader Andy Zhou faces big changes at school and at home in this new novel by the award-winning author of See You in the Cosmos, for fans of When You Trap a Tiger and The Stars Beneath Our Feet**Andy Zhou is used to being what people need him to be: the good kid for his parents and, now, his grandparents i...

**“Another beautiful book by Jack Cheng.” —Erin Entrada Kelly, Newbery Award-winning author of Hello, UniverseCreative and brave sixth grader Andy Zhou faces big changes at school and at home in this new novel by the award-winning author of See You in the Cosmos, for fans of When You Trap a Tiger and The Stars Beneath Our Feet**Andy Zhou is used to being what people need him to be: the good kid for his parents and, now, his grandparents i...

美國亞馬遜網路書店年度最佳圖書《生命中的燦爛時光》作者珍妮佛．尼文：自從《奇蹟男孩》之後，還沒有哪本書能這樣感動我！**　　一個發射火箭的偉大計劃，一段橫跨兩千英哩的漫漫旅程。　　一個男孩和一隻小狗，哪裡才是屬於他們的幸福終點？**　　艾力克，十一歲，熱愛一切和太空有關的事物，　　甚至用天文學家卡爾．薩根的名字為自己養的小狗命名，　　最大的夢想是發射自製火箭，和外星人對話。　　現在艾力克的機會來了！　　只要他安頓好家中處於「安靜時間」的母親，　　順利搭上前往新墨西哥州的火車，　　並且和論壇上那些不曾見過面的網友會合，　　就可以抵達一年一度的火箭節，讓自己組裝的火箭升空。　　獨自帶著卡爾．薩根踏上旅途的艾力克，　　一路上遇上了形形色色的人物，　　也讓原本孤單漫長的旅程變得狀況不斷。　　這時，族譜網站寄來了一封關於他...

All eyes and ears turned toward Ann Arbor in late 2014 when it was announced that Jim Harbaugh would be returning to the Big House as the new head coach of Michigan football. Now, Angelique Chengelis, longtime chronicler of the Wolverines for the Detroit News, gives the inside story on how exactly Harbaugh restored the Michigan program to national title contender status. Learn how he instilled a new culture and rankled rivals with outspokenness, creative tactics, and relentless re...

Oi, meu nome é Alex Petroski. Tem alguém aí?Alex tem onze anos e adora o espaço sideral, foguetes, sua família e seu cachorro, Carl Sagan — uma homenagem a seu maior herói, o astrônomo autor de Cosmos e Pálido ponto azul. A missão de vida de Alex é enviar seu iPod dourado para o espaço, do mesmo jeito que Sagan (o cientista, não o cachorro) enviou os Discos de Ouro nas sondas Voyager, em 1977, com sons e imagens da Terra, a fim de mostrar aos extraterrestres como é...