From Long Island diners to Victorian murderers and small-town French cross-dressers, these writers and poets will transport you as far as the written word can carry you. The Saltimbanque Review: we've been putting the "er" in "literature" since 2016.

Wenn das nicht die Chance aufs Abenteuer seines Lebens ist!Mitten in der Nacht fliegt Jasper mit einer Drohne übers Meer, denn zu Hause fühlt er sich im Stich gelassen. So landet er auf der Insel der Schlasocks. Schnarnas und Trütass gibt es dort auch. Aber was sind das nur für seltsame Monster, die nicht wissen, was ein Kind so macht? Kann Jasper das Rätsel dieses geheimnsivollen Ortes knacken? Mit viel Fantasie und Witz und einer gehörigen Portion Mut schafft er ...

Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge professionals need to translate the principles and science of PBS into person-centered interventions that improve lives. Covering a broad range of ages, disabilities, and settings, this comprehensiv...

This book explores the challenges of an academic teaching career. The authors discuss the issues that may arise in the tenure process, scholarship activities, publishing, and providing service to their academic communities as well as how to keep teaching lessons relevant and fresh.

Medical technology broadly defined to include all aspects of the process of treating disease (e.g., pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and surgical procedures) is profoundly important for individual health and, consequently, also for general welfare. Advances in medical technology convey the prospect of both improved population health and increased general welfare. However, because of the extensive regulation of the markets for healthcare goods and services, the development and application ...

A snapshot of ecocriticism in action, Coming into Contact collects sixteen previously unpublished essays that explore some of the most promising new directions in the study of literature and the environment. They look to previously unexamined or underexamined aspects of literature's relationship to the environment, including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, the urbanized Northeast, and lynching sites. The authors relate environmental discourse to practice, in...

In recent decades, American universities have begun to tout the “diversity” of their faculty and student bodies. But what kinds of diversity are being championed in their admissions and hiring practices, and what kinds are being neglected? Is diversity enough to solve the structural inequalities that plague our universities? And how might we articulate the value of diversity in the first place?Transforming the Academy begins to answer these questions by bringing together a...

Human capital is embodied in human beings. It embraces the individual’s capacity to perform and enjoy activities that provide money and/or psychic income. Health behaviour affects human capital and is itself affected by the individual’s human capital. This volume consists of original theoretical and empirical contributions to our knowledge of the interdependence between Human Capital and Health Behaviour.

**Bästsäljaren bakom den Oscarsbelönade filmen!»Ingen skriver bättre om siffror och pengar än Michael Lewis.« | JAN GRADVALL, DI»Jag läser Lewis av samma skäl som jag tittar på Tiger Woods. Jag kommer aldrig att spela på samma nivå, men det är bra att bli påmind då och då om hur genialitet ser ut.« | MALCOLM GLADWELL, NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW**När finanskraschen på den amerikanska aktiemarknaden blev allmänt känd 2008 hade den egentligen redan pågått ett bra tag i det d...

I början av 1950-talet stiger den elvaårige Michael ombord på kryssningsfartyget Oronsay i Colombo, Sri Lanka. London ligger en halv värld bort. Där väntar hans mor och ett nytt liv på internatskola. Vid måltiderna sitter han vid Kattens bord, längst bort från kaptenens bord, tillsammans med två andra pojkar, Cassius och Ramadhin. Medan båten rör sig över Indiska oceanen utforskar de tre pojkarna tillsammans varje tum av fartyget och upptäcker dolda underverk i dess inre – och sig själva. ...