What We’ve Forgotten is an ancient text for modern times that promises to undermine systems of oppression through the power of wonder and magic available to us all. Meeting at the intersection of social justice, technology, and witchery, it’s magic book for the tech world that takes listeners on an active quest through the cosmos of consciousness.Shining new light on the old ways, What We’ve Forgotten is a choose your own adventure book of real magic. Amy Miranda leads listeners th...

What We've Forgotten is an ancient text for modern times that promises to undermine systems of oppression through the power of wonder and magic available to us all. Meeting at the intersection of social justice, technology, and witchery, it's magic book for the tech world that takes readers on an active quest through the cosmos of consciousness." In her brilliant book "What We've Forgotten", Amy Miranda invites you to join her into a temple of remembering. The book takes us back in...

Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom introduces faculty, administrators, and staff to creative techniques that can be incorporated into the classroom at undergraduate and graduate levels. These techniques from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences can enhance learning and support professional development experiences for students and faculty alike.While faculty are experts in their disciplines, many are not formally trained in effective or evidence-based...

In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on “economic governance, especially the commons,” Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers written by Lin (often with coauthors, most notably her husband, Vincent), along with papers by others expanding on her work, brings together the strands of her entire empirical, analytical, theoretica...

This book explores the relationship between reading science in fiction and engaging with science. Focusing on embodied readers and empirical approaches to fiction reading, the authors examine contemporary social, cultural, biographical and political contexts in which science fictions come to matter. Drawing together a distinctive set of research studies and conceptual resources, the book outlines theories, epistemologies and methodologies for understanding how and why we read science ficti...

This unique volume explores issues related to working with children who have nonverbal learning disability (NVLD). It examines how a child’s psychology – thoughts, feelings, beliefs – affects his or her functioning and learning. In addition, the book addresses how a child’s experiences are processed through individual personality, psychology, culture, environment and economic circumstances, and family dynamics. Using these psychological organizing principles, the book describes how to work...

Après un an passé sur le Continent en mission diplomatique, le comte de Windermere rentre enfin à Londres, fort peu pressé de retrouver sa femme Cynthia, épousée juste avant son départ, une petite provinciale gauche et timide qui n’éveillait en lui aucune passion. C’est pourtant une tout autre personne qui l’accueille. Bien plus jolie que dans son souvenir. Élégante et visiblement appréciée des autres hommes. L’indifférence de Damian se mue en jalousie. Mais pour satisfaire son ardeur poss...

Devenu duc de Denford, Julian fait désormais partie de l’élite de la noblesse. C’est le moment que choisit sa mère pour lui confier ses trois demi-sœurs. Julian est consterné. Que va-t-il faire de ces gamines intenables qu’il connaît à peine ? Il lui faut une gouvernante de toute urgence ! Par chance se présente au château Mlle Jane Grey, qui semble avoir toutes les qualités requises. En vérité, Julian est surtout frappé par sa beauté. Ne pourrait-il pas joindre l’utile à l’agréable et en ...

Escroc bourré de charme, Marcus Lightgow a sillonné l’Europe avant de rentrer en Angleterre où il ne tarde pas à choisir une nouvelle proie: Anne Brotherton, riche et naïve héritière qu’il entreprend de séduire. Tout de suite, la jeune femme est troublée par ce fringant vicomte, érudit et plein d’humour. Mais le jour où elle découvre que Marcus la manipule, elle décide de lui donner une bonne leçon. Elle aussi peut feindre et mentir! Dans ce jeu de dupes, un joker va brouiller les cartes :...

Les ducs de Castleton ont toujours fait des mariages d’argent, et Thomas est duc jusqu’au bout des ongles, ce qui lui vaut le surnom de « lord guindé ». Mais le destin va se jouer de lui. Alors qu’il s’apprête à demander la main d’une richissime débutante, il fait la connaissance de Caroline Townsend, dont la beauté le foudroie. Veuve, endettée et encline à provoquer le scandale partout où elle passe, Caroline est exactement la femme qu’il ne lui faut pas. Pourtant, lorsque la passion frap...

A former soccer superstar turned sports management company CEO, Ryan is the man every woman wants. Once per week Laura, a plain-Jane lawyer, visits his office for legal consultations. The lives of this playboy and stick-in-the-mud should never have been fated to intermingle, but Laura has lied to her bedridden grandmother, claiming that she’s found the man of her dreams. Hearing this, Ryan offers to play the role of her soul mate. Could he have realized that she sees him as more than just ...

Samantha Rushford’s future looks bright: the high school art teacher is getting ready to leave Mirror Lake and move to Boston with her ambitious boyfriend, and she hopes a diamond ring is just around the corner. But her past still has a hold on her—especially the bittersweet memory of her rebellious ex, who kissed her passionately before he left town without a word.Since then, Lukas Spikonos has parlayed his rebel ways into life as an up-and-coming recording artist. When he shows u...