En France, la sclérose en plaques (SEP) touche plus de 80 000 personnes et plus de 3 000 nouveaux cas sont diagnostiqués chaque année. C'est la plus commune des maladies neurologiques de l'adulte jeune. La plupart des cas concernent une population de 20 à 40 ans, majoritairement féminine. Les manifestations neurologiques de la maladie sont secondaires à une destruction progressive des gaines de myéline qui entourent les fibres nerveuses, et dont le rôle est d'assurer leur protection et la ...

FROM THE CASE FILES OF HERITAGE MISSISSAUGA… A murder in a lonely farmhouse with the farmer’s own axe! Two sweethearts pull a bank heist on their wedding day! A young couple offers a midnight ride to a killer! A husband and wife take out hits on each other! Pulp fiction? Think again! These are true tales of crime from Mississauga’s darker side. We’ll tell the facts, name the names and spill the secrets on the dark tales that only get whispered. Meet the gun-toting gangsters, the sicko seri...

As the podcast studies field continues to gain momentum both within academia and in practice, scholars have been mapping and exploring the podcasting landscape from a variety of perspectives. This edited volume highlights the diverse spaces that podcasts embody and create, amplifying the unique and understudied perspectives and voices of podcasting. Through a multitude of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors explore the various cultural, racial, and identity-based markers undergirdin...

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships betwee...

Demands for excellence and efficiency have created an ableist culture in academia. What impact do these expectations have on disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent colleagues?This important and eye-opening collection explores ableism in academia from the viewpoint of academics' personal and professional experiences and scholarship. Through the theoretical lenses of autobiography, autoethnography, embodiment, body work and emotional labour, contributors from the UK, Canada and...

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying Chaucer. This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reflects the wide variety of contexts in which students encounter the poem and the diversity ...

Nicole's latest robot creation is not working right and threw a ball right through a window. No one know how the window got broken, and Nicole decides to keep the accident to herself. But as she learns how the broken window has upset her classmates, she has second thoughts. Will Nicole risk punishment and be honest?

An anthology celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the Predator franchise, If It Bleeds includes seventeen brand new, never-before-seen stories—exclusive to this collection—featuring the Predators throughout space and time. Based entirely on the original films, novels, and comics, Predator: If It Bleeds (a quote from the original movie) reveals the Predators stalking prey in twelfth-century Japan, ninth-century Viking Norway, World War I, Vietnam, the Civil War, Hurric...

Shi Baba is accidentally trapped in a book called The “Lovely Wife of the CEO,” and she is forced to complete tasks, or else she will return to the beginning of the book! Shi Baba, now known as Chuhan Bai, gets fed up in this cliche romance with a bossy CEO, so she finds herself an ally to help her. And this handsome ally is the most unpredictable character in the entire plot.

Astronomy is a popular subject for non-science majors in the United States, often representing a last formal exposure to science. Research has demonstrated the efficacy of active learning, but college astronomy instructors are often unaware of the tools and methods they can use to increase student comprehension and engagement. This is particularly true of two-year college instructors and faculty who are trained in astronomy and physics who may lack any formal instruction in teaching and le...

In a world where communication with parallel tangent Earths, known as “realms”, has brought a disruptive influx of new beliefs and scientific innovation, college-student and fangirl Corazon Kagami continues to discover astonishing new facets to the abilities she’s unexpectedly acquired in the accident that transformed her into Tangent Knight Caprice, the foremost of a growing ensemble of armored super-warriors very much like the heroes and villains of her favorite tokusatsu shows.A...

One boy and one big question; one man and one big response: "What is God?"