Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher education institutions, it develops both theoretical insights and practical organizing strategies pertinent to challenging new academic-capitalist values and behaviors. Contributors, local an...

Presenting a compelling case for changing our system of education from a graded, curriculum-centered approach to a multiage, child-centered approach, Understanding Multiage Education is a comprehensive exploration of the philosophy and foundations of multiage education.Veteran educators Stone and Burriss examine the "why" of multiage education, exploring how multiage classrooms' structure, environment, strategies, and assessments unfold and complement the multiage philosop...

How do we save play in a standard-driven educational environment? This edited collection, Play and Literacy: Play & Culture Studies provides a direct answer and solutions to this question. Researchers and theorists have argued for decades that play is the best way to learn language and literacy for children. This book provides theoretical and historical foundation of connection between play and literacy, applied research studies as well as practical strategies to connect play and literacy ...

Are you looking for some wild and hot stories for tonight? Maybe related to nasty and perverse daddies?If the answer to those questions is “yes” you may probably have found the perfect book for you.What kind of father could share his daughter with a friend?And what kind of husband could share his wife with another friend?What if a dad had fun with a daughter’s best friend?You are going to answer to all those questions reading “Di...

A new edition of Regardie's classic textIn the mid-1930s, Israel Regardie had an insight into understanding alchemical writings. The result was The Philosopher's Stone, where he analyzed three 17th-century alchemical works symbolically, psychologically, and via magickal energy.Now, famed occultists Chic and Tabatha Cicero bring this book into the 21st century. The original is completely reproduced here. The Hebrew transliterations have been updated...

Women, how many times in your lives have you heard that God does not value you as a person? That the only job you can do at church is to work in the nursery or the kitchen?This book is about just a few of the women that God chose for His special purpose, and it was written in the Bible to show that He uses any man or woman that is willing to listen when He calls, and to step out in faith and obedience. They were no different than any woman in this day and age. God is calling each on...

UMA MALDIÇÃO QUE CARREGA SEGREDOS, PODE MUDAR UM DESTINO. Fallon Bane carrega uma maldição cruel: o toque de outra pessoa lhe causa uma dor insuportável. Condenada a uma vida sem contato físico, ela nunca sentiu o abraço de seu pai ou sonhou com um beijo. Mas quando seu amado pai adoece, Fallon invade a mágica Cidade Dourada em busca de um alguém capaz de salvá-lo. É então que conhece Ariyon Madden, um curandeiro carismático que muda tudo o que ela acreditava sobre si mesma. Durante o trat...

Where and to whom do ancient things belong? What happens when they are stolen—not by a colonial power, but by a national museum claiming them as state patrimony? What kinds of healing and restitution can follow? In The Absent Stone, Sandra Rozental tells the story of the Piedra de los Tecomates, the largest stone monument in the Americas, popularly identified as the pre-Hispanic rain deity Tlaloc. In 1964, the Mexican state called in the military to forcefully relocate this 167-to...

Conseguiria resistir aos encantos daquela mulher? Quem era o verdadeiro Jonathan Chadwick? O homem com a inocência de uma criança ou um cínico sofisticado que desprezava a sociedade? Aquele homem escondia muitos segredos, porém Kathryn Wainwright estava decidida a descobri-los. Sobretudo porque, com as suas imensas perguntas, descobriu uma alma apaixonada que lhe era irresistível. Jonathan Chadwick tinha a certeza de que não existia outra mulher como Kathryn Wainwright, que tinha a capacid...

The medical profession is rich in those who have made names for themselves outside of medicine. The fields of literature, exploration, business, sport, entertainment, and beyond abound with doctors whose interests lie outside medicine. This book, largely written by members of the medical profession, examines the efforts of doctors in non-medical fields. The doctors discussed here are those who are, or were, well-known to the public for their contributions to their non-medical fields of cho...

DOIS CORAÇÕES, DOIS PODERES TROCADOS E UMA GUERRA QUE NÃO ESPERA POR NINGUÉM. Fallon Bane pensava que sua maldição era o pior castigo: uma vida de agonia a cada toque alheio. Estava enganada. A verdadeira tortura começou quando encontrou Ariyon Madden – o único homem capaz de tocá-la sem lhe provocar dor. O amor que parecia destinado a salvá-la tornou-se sua maior ruína. Um acidente devastador os separou para sempre: agora, Ariyon está preso no Reino da Eternidade, a cruel terra das almas,...

Winter tourism has seen increased levels of investment in recent times, in an effort to reduce economic risk, address environmental concerns and adapt to the effects of global warming. New ski destinations are developing and merging with traditional ones to increase spatial distribution, while many established leading resorts are adapting their management models. Climate change adaptation processes are supported by the reduction of CO2 emissions and energy consumption in ski resorts. Curre...