Voici, pour la première fois, le récit d’une gestation pour autrui (GPA) rédigé à quatre mains par des femmes d’exception : Sarah qui, après plusieurs années de mariage, ne parvient pas à avoir d’enfant, et Aimee, une fascinante Américaine qui acceptera de devenir mère porteuse. En confiant leurs joies, leurs peines et leurs espoirs déçus, Sarah et Aimee livrent au fil des pages un témoignage des plus intimes. Elles répondent en outre aux brûlantes questions que soulève la GPA. Sarah parvi...

In Do Parents Matter? anthropologists (and grandparents) Robert & Sarah LeVine investigate the diversity of parenting practices across the world - from the USA to Africa, Japan to Mexico - and come away with a reassuring conclusion: children tend to turn out to be the same well-adjusted adults all around the world no matter the parenting style.Japanese children sleep with their parents well into primary school, women of the Hausa tribe (largely based in Ni...

Multiple traditions of Jewish origins in Morocco emphasize the distinctiveness of Moroccan Jewry as indigenous to the area, rooted in its earliest settlements and possessing deep connections and associations with the historic peoples of the region. The creative interaction of Moroccan Jewry with the Arab and Berber cultures was noted in the Jews’ use of Morocco’s multiple languages and dialects, characteristic poetry, and musical works as well as their shared magical rites and popular text...

Vier Freunde haben einen Traum - ein eigenes Restaurant zu eröffnen. Und jetzt stehen sie kurz davor, ihn zu verwirklichen. Alles ist bereit, es fehlt nur noch ihre Unterschrift auf dem Mietvertrag. Doch dann verunglückt ihre Vermieterin tödlich und die vier bekommen es mit ihrem Ex-Mann zu tun, der sich als unberechenbar entpuppt und ein sadistisches Katz- und Mausspiel mit ihnen treibt, das die vier Freunde an ihre Grenzen und darüber hinaus führen wird. Aus "alle für einen" wird mit ein...

Re: great-great uncle Cristoff's lost property read the subject line. He didn't want to be too specific. Privacy was the key. Using the mouse, he guided the cursor to the send button. He hadn't been in touch with his family across the Atlantic for years, and back when they were in touch the contact had been infrequent. The email would come out of the blue. It concerned family legend. Would the others even care? There were cousins and uncles on the other side the sender had never met—severa...

In this book, Sarah Levin-Richardson offers the first authoritative examination of Pompeii's purpose-built brothel, the only verifiable brothel from Greco-Roman antiquity. Taking readers on a tour of all of the structure's evidence, including the rarely seen upper floor, she illuminates the subculture housed within its walls. Here, prostitutes could flout the norms of society and proclaim themselves sexual subjects and agents, while servile clients were allowed to act as 'real men'. Prosti...

The Portrait is a satirical comedy revolving around an upper-crust dinner party, where a family's young bohemians "duel" their snobbish elder East Side counterparts over ownership of a rich ancestral portrait. This play, written by Sarah Levine Simon, was first performed at Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium and was later broadcast in 1993 on WBAI-FM in New York City.

This exciting collection of radio comedy from Waterlogg Productions features four must-listens.Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Missing CountessScotland Yard is puzzled. A young countess has gone missing, and Sherlock Holmes is summoned. Accompanied by the redoubtable Watson, Holmes must juggle the clues. What does he see? Why does he instruct Watson to bring his wife to the circus three days later? And why does Watson keep sneezing? This origi...

Fünf Archäologie-Studenten fahren in ein Camp nach Bulgarien, um thrakische Artefakte auszugraben. Es ist Hochsommer, die Luft flirrt vor Hitze, doch kurz bevor sie das Camp erreichen, schlägt das Wetter plötzlich um. Es wird kühl und beginnt zu regnen. Und das ist nicht die einzige Überraschung, die sie erwartet. Das Camp scheint verwaist zu sein, bis auf zwei düstere Gestalten, die sich die Ohren versiegelt haben. Vom Ausgrabungsleiter fehlt jede Spur - ein angeblicher Arbeitsunfall. Um ...

When it comes to parenting, more isn't always better-but it is always more tiringIn Japan, a boy sleeps in his parents' bed until age ten, but still shows independence in all other areas of his life. In rural India, toilet training begins one month after infants are born and is accomplished with little fanfare. In Paris, parents limit the amount of agency they give their toddlers. In America, parents grant them ever more choices, independence, and attention.

When it comes to parenting, more isn't always better-but it is always more tiringIn Japan, a boy sleeps in his parents' bed until age ten, but still shows independence in all other areas of his life. In rural India, toilet training begins one month after infants are born and is accomplished with little fanfare. In Paris, parents limit the amount of agency they give their toddlers. In America, parents grant them ever more choices, independence, and attention.

This volume culls scholarship on both what high literacy is and how it is developed. It embraces the call put forth by Langer and Applebee (2016) that high literacy must continue to be our aim and to see more research analyzing and identifying how teachers might promote literacy practices that promote deep thinking around important content. The editors offer a conceptual framework for high literacy that explicates how each component (i.e. reading, writing, dialogic engagement, and epistemi...