Newbery Honor–winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation—and readers will cheer him on!Jeremiah is the world’s biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport. So when he’s told he can’t play baseball following an operation on his heart, Jeremiah decides he’ll do the next best thing and become a coach.Hillcrest, where Jeremiah and ...

The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on multimedia and transmedia transformations, The Superhero Multiverse pivots on two important points: firstly, it reflects on the core concerns of the superhero narrative—including the relationship between ‘superhero comics’ and ‘superhero films’, the comics roots of superhero media, matters of ...

Bonnie Gold, twenty-eight, Native American, Jewish, Irish, recent Phd in hand, has fallen through the cracks, adrift, and lost without direction or purpose, until she's drawn into her mother's uphill battle for governor of the State of Wisconsin. Bonnie's life improbably begins to come together as her parents' relationship comes apart under the stress of the all consuming political campaign fraught with dirty tricks and dark money. Shattered windows, shots in the night, and violence endemi...

The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned "down" toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study of poor and marginalized groups in public schools. Seldom have educational researchers considered class privilege and educational advantage in their attempts at understanding inequality and fom...

Superhero Rhetoric from Exceptionalism to Globalization: Up, Up and ...Abroad examines superhero narratives through the lens of American rhetoric and globalization. Michael Arthur Soares illustrates how deeply intertwined superhero narratives are with American political culture by analyzing, on the one hand, the rhetoric of American exceptionalism and the representation of American presidents in superhero narratives and, on the other, the prevalence of superhero rhetoric in speeches by Ame...

Teaching with Dystopian Text propounds an exchange of spatial to pedagogical practices centered around “Orwellian Spaces,” signaling a new utility for teaching with dystopian texts in secondary education.The volume details the urgency of dystopian texts for secondary students, providing theoretical frameworks, classroom examples and practical research. The function of dystopian texts, such as George Orwell’s 1984, as social and political critique is demonstrated a...

Chasing Aristotle’s “probable impossibilities”, Science Fantasy: Critical Explorations in Fiction and Film scrutinizes science fantasy, a hybrid genre that draws from both science fiction and fantasy. It delves into how science fantasy serves as a medium to shape the present and build a better future through memories and explores uncharted territories where science and imagination intersect. The eleven chapter of this volume challenge preconceptions and invites contemplation on th...

Bloomsbury presents Buckeye by Patrick Ryan, read by Michael Crouch‘I’ve been yearning for a novel that connects the American generations who dealt with our two Wars – one of Omaha Beach, the other of the Ia Drang Valley. Buckeye is that book, and it soars’ TOM HANKS‘Funny and tender ... Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favourite writers’ ANN PATCHETT‘I love this novel with my entire he...

República em notas, organizado por Vanessa Campagnac e Gabriela Lotta, reúne análises sobre os principais temas relacionados ao poder público brasileiro. A partir da coluna online do Instituto República.org, e com textos inéditos, os 26 autores abordam questões como democracia, diversidade, orçamento público, burocracia, gestão de pessoas e valorização dos servidores. Apresentando múltiplas perspectivas sobre o campo de estudos e as experiências práticas de profissionais de diferentes área...

Em Liderança e Performance, os autores desvendam os segredos da liderança eficaz e do alto desempenho para líderes atuais e futuros.Este guia prático apresenta conhecimento real sobre gestão, comunicação e inovação, de quem transformou desafios em sucessos. Aprenda a construir equipes alinhadas, promover a excelência e liderar com propósito.Se você busca desenvolver sua liderança e capacitar sua equipe para atingir novos patamares, esta leitura é uma ferramenta indi...

En este relato, inspirado en los poemas que Bishop escribió durante los diecisiete años que vivió en Brasil, Michael Sledge recoge la esencia de aquello que la poeta norteamericana más amó: la naturaleza, la poesía, la vida y un amor que se despertará en ella tan pronto pise suelo brasileño. Poco después de su llegada, Bishop inicia una relación con Lota de Macedo Soares, mujer vital, curiosa y sensible que le ofrece una percepción intensa del ser en el tiempo tal y como se plasma en la na...

A urgência de pensar o animal é a mesma que obriga a refletir criticamente sobre a crença milenar na primazia ontológica do ser humano e em sua superioridade diante das outras espécies, contra as quais ele implementa lancinantes expedientes de exploração, experimentação e consumo que não só têm produzido todo tipo de sofrimento (o que já é terrível e condenável por si só) como têm contribuído para a extinção de muitas formas de vida que povoam ares, terras e águas. Esse primeiro contrassen...