A young Polish/ American who grows up in New Jersey, becomes a soccer phenomenon from a young age of five. He excels in the sport and excels in languages and studies all the way through his high school year. His final game of the season a Italian scout from the Italian series A team Inter Milan, comes to watch him play at his high school to see what all the hype is about this superstar player. He is given the opportunity after graduation to fly to Milan and tryout for the team and the rest...

Principles of Medicine in Africa combines clinical medicine with a rich understanding of the major environmental and cultural influences on health and disease, providing comprehensive guidance for anyone intending to practise medicine in Africa. Presenting disease in the context of family and culture, the effects of inequality and problems of limited resources are addressed. The authors have a wealth of experience in front line healthcare in Africa and provide practical, evidence-based man...

A testimony with a difference is a book that will inspire a reader to know God can deliver no matter how great the problem.It will encourage christians to live closer to Jesus and deeper in their prayer life. It is written by a British born christain of a strong Jamaican background. You will have a taste of the real distresses follow young men of ethnic origin such as Michael. Michael share his testimoney on how God heal him when he was ill which leads him to have an encounter with God. A ...

Staging Monstrous Bodies: Questioning Normative Orders brings together global perspectives from leading and emerging scholars to explore the intersections of monster studies and performances studies.Divided into three parts, the volume explores the connection between monstrosity and performance, such as representations of violence, gender and sexuality contexts, disability studies perspectives, anti-racism and post-colonial issues, and monstrosity as an artistic practice a...

Monstrous Utopias examines how monsters in performance, theatre, media, and literature reflect and subvert societal understandings.This book considers the ethical and hopeful work of monsters and examines ways in which playwrights, theatre and performance artists, film artists, drag artists, dancers, cultural practitioners, and activists have engaged the monster to reflect the ongoing fears (including racist, sexist, homophobic, and others) of our society and how those mon...

Collecting together Fin del Mundo, Valley of the Heart, and Adíos Mamá Carlota, this book compiles the latest plays of Luis Valdez and explores how they stand to be considered masterpieces by the man who brought the world Zoot Suit and La Bamba.Luis Valdez has been described as the “last of the great American playwrights,” referring to a Golden Age of U.S. playwriting that began with Eugene O’Neill and included Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, ...

The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and social Others that emerge as eugenic targets from the late 19th century into the 20th century and beyond. This book explores the wildly popular performances that told compelling stories about categories of...

The resilience skills presented in this workbook are modeled from research for positive-coping and creating positive and less stressful outcomes. These are titled: Belief, Persistence, Strength, Trust, and Adaptability for learning. They serve as mental armor, a personal protective factor and to help sustain our social support systems.

The learning-teaching course is a twist on the typical academic preparation-type courses in that this course looks at learning through the eyes of an educator – as you in the role of the instructor. As such, this course may be described as a process of "learning-to-teach-to-learn" where you will explore and practice the design and implementation of learning in a manner that encourages an understanding of instructional design and teaching practices. And, as a consequence, better understand ...

"It is unrealistic to expect that we can be immersed in critical healthcare and not be affected by it. Indeed, we can look to decades of research and see just how much we are affected by these work-related exposures and stressors.""The goal of this workbook is to foster resilience by applying positive-coping skills to personal challenges and by developing and sustaining a social support system in the context of integrative nursing"Excerpt From: Owner. "Building Social Resil...

This Veterans Curriculum is purposefully designed to increase the likelihood of retention and graduation of learners in college settings by establishing an academic and social framework, which is intended to improve concentration, memory, problem solving, and learning, while minimizing social isolation. Specific focus is to provide veterans, emerging from potentially traumatic military experience, with academic transition skills, critical thinking, and coping skills that foster resiliency,...

The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss daily and not be touched by it is as unrealistic as expecting to be able to walk through water without getting wet.--Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.What do we know about the first response community? The literature suggests that comparative measures such as the standardized mortality rate, accident injuries, and early retirement based on medical issues are higher than for the general population.1, 2, 3 Prolonged work rel...