Women Educators’ Experiences During COVID-19: On the Front Lines examines the gendered experiences, challenges, and rapid changes faced by women in higher education during COVID-19. The book’s chapters cover lived experiences ranging from graduate students navigating the pandemic to those grappling with balancing motherhood and the academy. Through these diverse perspectives, this edited collection explores the impact of the diversity and nuances of the feminine identity on navigating high...

Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance.UNDERCOVER COUPLEA Ree and Qunit Novelby Barb HanLegendary ATF agent Quint Casey isn't thrilled to pose as Ree Sheppard's husband for a covert investigation into a weapons ring that could be tied to his past. But when his impetuous "wife" proves her commitment to the j...

Mike Walker adapts one of the best stories ever told: Victor Hugo’s classic European blockbuster about the triumph of love and hope over seemingly impossible odds.Les MiserablesEpisode OneJean Valjean, freed after 19 years in prison, finds redemption through a bishop’s mercy. Reinvented as a factory owner, he’s hunted by the relentless Inspector Javert. Meanwhile, desperate Fantine dies entrusting Valjean with her daughter Co...

Les œuvres littéraires médiévales restent, pour la plupart, méconnues du public cultivé, qui les considère volontiers comme un domaine réservé aux érudits et aux spécialistes. C'est là une situation d'autant plus regrettable et paradoxale qu'on sait assez l'attirance, voire la fascination, qu'exerce sur tant de nos contemporains tout ce qui touche à cette époque. Ne répond, trop souvent hélas, à cette attirance quasi instintive du public qu'un Moyen Âge de carton-pâte - films ou émissions ...

This edited collection critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and practice.International contributions from activists, practitioners and academics consider the evolution of funding in community development and how changes in policy and practice can be understood in relation to the politics of neoliberalism and contemporary efforts to build global democracy from the ‘bottom up’.Thematically, the...

As pastors' wives, the authors of this devotional personally have experienced or witnessed the issues with which women struggle: identity, marriage, children, work. Reading this devotional is like having a conversation with a trusted friend who knows what you are going through. Over 52 weeks, these authors share from their hearts using engaging Scriptures, real-life inspiration, and practical wisdom they have learned along the way. Each week focuses on one theme, and daily devotions includ...

The incredible story of the two italian most high-profiles cases in recent history: the story of the Monster of Florence, a serial killer who targeted unmarried couples and terrorized Florence for two decades, and the Amanda Knox' case.- "The Monster of Florence": Brunoro and Pezzan write about everything, from the Sardinian Lead to Pietro PAcciani and the picnicking friends, from the satanic-esoteric theory to the Narducci story. A detailed map to find the way through a deep myste...

Als erste Originalausgabe in der Edition Ustad erschien Legères mitreissender historischer Indianerroman über den Freiheiskampf der Mimbreno-Apatschen. Legère bietet Action und Spannung nonstop, aber nie auf Kosten historischer Authentizität. Die dichte Verwebung geschichtlicher Fakten und abenteuerlich-romantischer Phantasie sucht ihresgleichen. Werner Legère gab dem deutschsprachigen Abenteuerroman seit den 50er Jahren wichtige neue Impulse. Spannende und exotische Erzählungen, zu denen ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technology, ICDSST 2015, held in Belgrade, Serbia, in May 2015. The theme of the event was “Big Data Analytics for Decision-Making” and it was organized by the EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies) working group of Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS).The eight papers presented in this book were selected out of 26 submissions after being carefully r...

This book contains extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from two workshops organized by the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), which were held in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Rome, Italy, in May and July 2013.From a total of 45 submissions, 15 papers were accepted for publication in this edition after being reviewed by at least three internationally known experts from the EWG-DSS Program Committee and external invited reviewers. The selected...