Onzichtbare wonden van Kay Douglas gaat over de emotionele reis van wie de kracht vindt zichzelf uit relatieverstrikkingen te bevrijden. Wie in een ongelukkige, destructieve relatie zit, ziet dit zelf niet altijd en staat vaak alleen. Of het nu gaat om een verbaal overweldigende of fysiek gewelddadige partner, overmatige controle of emotioneel misbruik, dit boek kan je helpen je leven terug te winnen en te herstellen van de impact op je(mentale) gezondheid. Kay Douglas, zelf ervaringsdesku...

Invisible Wounds offers positive change!Written from the heart, this ground-breaking, classic book has helped thousands of women to find their way through the distress, confusion, and darkness of partner abuse.Invisible Wounds is for you if you are:• suffering verbal abuse;• in love with a controlling man;• experiencing gaslighting;• living with a jealous, possessive man;• dealing with a physically a...

It’s been suggested that current poultry production must increase by at least 2.5% per year until 2030 to meet demand from a rapidly growing population. However, whilst modern, more intensive production systems offer the potential to meet this demand, they also bring with them increased safety and environmental risks.Improving poultry meat safety and sustainability provides a comprehensive overview of how best to deal with zoonotic diseases which continue ...

This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions and the roles of international forces and agencies in Guatemalan social change. The chapters in this book are written by some of the most prominent scholars and public policy experts from Guatemala and the United States.

Restorative justice, realized in states and communities across the world, is viewed as an innovative framework and growing global social movement, providing a foundation for fairness and accountability in laws, policies and practices. Its application is integrated in legal systems, educational settings and the workplace, among others.A wide range of expert voices in the restorative justice field come together in this book culminating in an insightful and critical assessment of rest...

The category of the Dougla, that is the mixed Indian/Black body located in Trinidad, exists at a crossroads between multiculturalist discourses and essentialist ideas of Indian and African identities. Racialisation is often erased under the deployment of hybridity, creolisation and the ‘callaloo nation’ as meta narratives. Such mixing is seen as quintessentially Trinidadian, yet ontological understandings of race continue to operate as a distinctive marker of difference, particula...

Some 30 years after Glasgow turned towards regeneration, indicators of its built environment, its health, its economic performance and its quality of life remain below UK averages. This interdisciplinary study examines the ongoing transformation of Glasgow as it transitioned from a de-industrial to a post-industrial city during the 20th and 21st centuries. Looking at the diverse issues of urban policy, regeneration and economic and social change, it considers the evolving lived experiences...

Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these universities have adapted to meet the challenges of the past sixty-five years and how, having done so, they have helped to create the modern world.From their founding, land-grant scho...

This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize embodiment, experiential understanding, participatory ways of knowing, sensuous engagement, and intimate encounter. Drawing from disciplines as diverse as sociology, philosophy, performance studies, co...

What happens when a husband suddenly returns to youthful vigor while his wife remains in a nursing home? What happens when a grandmother is suddenly younger than her grandchildren? Over the millennia many have sought the secret of immortality. But be careful what you wish for, you just might get it...and it might not be what you think.Geneticist, Simon Barstow, stumbles on the secret to immortality. Billionaire Gregory Noble, who h...

On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction...

Effective teaching is effective teaching, no matter where it occursThe pandemic teaching of mid-2020 was not really distance learning, but rather crisis teaching. But starting now, teachers have the opportunity to prepare for distance learning with purpose and intent—using what works best to accelerate students’ learning all the while maintaining an indelible focus on equity.Harnessing the insights and experience of renowned educators Doug...