Teaching Multilingual Learners in Rural Schools is a call to action and a guide to empower educators to build strong, just, and multilingual rural communities.The book offers a research-informed framework for transforming how rural schools serve multilingual learners (MLs). Using the metaphor of a symphony, the author organizes the work around four “movements”: Representation and Belonging, Shared Vision, Centering Families, and Collaboration. Each movement harmonizes rese...

From the 2021 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of How to Stand Up to a Dictator, this is a frontline guide to understanding, defending, and rebuilding democracy in the age of AI, with 10 strategic goals broken down into 100 concrete actions citizens can take right now.The window for saving democracy is closing. If 2024 was the tipping point for elections, then 2025 and 2026 have taught us what happens when citizens don’t hold the line...

Facilities Management in Africa positions FM as a strategic enabler of performance, delivering energy efficiency, safety, and social value, while building the auditable evidence needed to access sustainable finance.Aligning ISO 41001, 55000 and 19650 with leading sustainability schemes and ESG-linked finance models, this book offers a portable, outcomes-driven methodology for turning policy into measurable, bankable results across housing, campuses, and public assets. Chap...

¿Y Yo También? brings together a diverse range of Latina voices to address the under-representation of Latinx voices in the #MeToo movement and discussions of sexual violence. Through scholarly analysis of literature, media, podcasting, film, art, and testimonio alongside memoir, poetry, a short play, and personal essays, the authors address varied Latina experiences of sexual assault and harassment. These authors grapple with these traumas alongside their intersectional contexts,...

In this striking picture book, dad and daughter wake up early to get ready and head out ice fishing while the rest of the family sleeps.The wind is wild on the frozen lake, but luckily they are bundled up inside their cozy tent with plenty of hot chocolate. After waiting...and waiting...and never giving up...is that a tug on the line? Their patience pays off when they reel, reel, reel in some spotty trout. The best part of the day? Sharing their catch with family f...

This pathbreaking book encompasses a wide range of baking recipes with whole flours—from simple cookies, crackers, and cakes to flatbreads, glorious sourdough loaves, stunning tarts, and festive bakes—all while introducing a new balance in baking for modern palates.Inspired by the bounty of the Mediterranean, Baking with Ancient Grains offers captivating contemporary recipes, showing how pleasure at the table can go hand in hand with a better diet....

The book delves into China's extension of its influence over global digital standards and governance.The author introduces the concept of normative power adapted for the digital domain and constructs a multi-level theory of normative diffusion, disaggregating mechanisms operating at bilateral, regional and international levels. The book examines bilateral dynamics through eight cases: Vietnam, Chile, Malaysia, Zambia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, the Philippines and Laos. At the regional lev...

Tracing the emergence of autism in Portugal, from its early recognition in child psychiatry to the rise of parent-led advocacy and digital activism, this book examines how families confront inadequate services, challenge outdated paradigms and advocate for educational and social reforms. Drawing on ethnography and critical analysis, it defines advocacy as a transformative practice that reshapes parents’ identities and links care with politics, showing how digital infrastructures become a f...

A NEW YORK TIMES bestsellerShortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for FictionNow a major motion picture, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig and Billy Crudup'Like A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD written by Tina Fey' RED MAGAZINEBernadette Fox is notorious.To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she's his hilarious, volatile, talented, ...

Existentialist, modernist and viral sensation: Franz Kafka is the life coach you didn't know you needed.‘The last glass of milk has not yet been drunk'There is still time. There is still hope. And sometimes, the most unexpected voice is the one we need most.Famous for his stories of the uncanny and the bleak, and for his piercing love letters, social media's favourite existentialist also had a sunny side. Dead for over a ce...

Urgent crises such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and global pandemics demand new ways of communicating knowledge.This book reimagines science communication, not just as a way to communicate about sustainability, but as a sustainable practice. Challenging traditional communication models rooted in neutrality and control, it explores a transformative approach that is participatory, performative, and ethically engaged. Through arts-based methods, the chapters cultivate a minds...

How do we communicate about plants in diverse socio-cultural contexts? Which underlying values and beliefs inform the positioning of plants in texts? Why is it essential to reflect on plant discourse at a time of climate crisis?Plants are life-sustaining protagonists on the planet, and their immense relevance in ecosystems and in our lives cannot be overstated. Yet, plants tend to be given less consideration than animals because their organisms are very different fr...