Tracing the path from Troy's destruction to Rome's foundation, the Aeneid explores the transition between past and future. As the Trojans struggle to found a new city and the narrator sings of his audience's often-painful history, memory becomes intertwined with a crucial leitmotif: the challenge of being part of a group that survives violence and destruction only to face the daunting task of remembering what was lost. This book offers a new reading of the Aeneid that engages with critical...

Catastrophic storms, searing heat waves, crumbling waterfronts, warming oceans, air-fouling forest fires and mass extinction have become facts of life. Under these conditions, it is difficult to imagine that the global industrial civilization will continue in its present form. This requires us to reconsider the subject of ecocomposition from a new perspective: “What does it mean to teach college writing in the face of this sobering reality?” The introduction reviews the history of ecocompo...

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Jazzy and Rhumbi are two happy cats who love all their daily activities. Whether they are running after their toy mousies or playing cat spa, they are always having fun. Even though they love teaching music to kittens, cooking and baking, helping other animals, and interacting with their human family and friends, Jazzy and Rhumbi also enjoy watching the rain, keeping themselves and their home clean, sitting on laps to receive belly rubs, and always making sure they are the happiest kitties...

This heartwarming and adventurous tale is told from the perspective of two resourceful kitties named Jazzy Girl Muffin and Rhumbi Boy. These compassionate cats secretly influence their humans to love and rescue more animals. A colorful compilation of anecdotes dedicated to the precious animal lives surrounding us, Seider's work introduces the reader to two lovable cats whose adventures are certain to charm and delight. With an excellent message to share with children of all ages, the adora...

Please join Jazzy and Rhumbi as they share with you some of their ideas about why they love cooking and baking. They have created new recipes, and have worked on them to make them even more delicious for you. Some of their creations were inspired by their trip to Paris, where they had exciting and unusual adventures. Feel free to invent some of your own recipes based on the ones in this book. Jazzy and Rhumbi would like to thank you for joining them while they keep creating and inventing.

Dori Seider has been an author, teacher, music composer and jewelry design artist. She and her husband Mac enjoy cooking and baking and their two beloved cats. This book is part of a series including Jazzy and Rhumbi In Paris and Jazzy and Rhumbi Become Chefs.

Hello, my name is Nick Seider, and I am the creator of Green Valley Radio, an emulated radio experience that takes you back and time and tunes you in to the news, music, and culture of the past.In this audio book series, we share our original news, fashion, & Homefront pieces that give you a taste of what the world was like in January 1941 from the perspective of a fictional town called Green Valley. In our first broadcast, January 1941, you will meet three of our key characters in...

Jazzy and Rhumbi would like to share with you their exciting and unusual adventures in Paris. Please visit their relatives with them and accompany them to bistros, museums, art shows and much more. Join them for ice cream, as they figure out how to find the owner of a valuable item they discovered. They wish you a wonderful time and are so happy to have you along.

Character Compass, Second Edition is now available: 9798895570302*******2013 American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Moral Development and Education Outstanding Book AwardIn Character Compass, Scott Seider offers portraits of three high-performing urban schools in Boston, Massachusetts that have made character development central to their mission of supporting student success, yet define...

Who among us has not experienced times of vague uneasiness, prolonged stress, depression, or even despair? What if you have just suffered a severe loss or many losses? Where do you turn when everything you've worked so hard to build up suddenly and completely falls apart?A Place Called Happiness, while understanding that circumstances and events of our lives can be anywhere from mildly difficult to brutalizing, nevertheless affirms a permanent pathway to a state of overriding conte...