From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high seas in a cruise-liner’s luxurious dining saloon, The Food Adventurers narrates the history of eating on the most coveted of tourist journeys: the around-the-world adventure. The book looks at what tourists ate on these adventures, as well as what they avoided, and what kinds of meals they described in diaries, photographs and postcards.Daniel E. Bender shows how circumglobal ...

The spread of empires in the nineteenth century brought more than new territories and populations under Western sway. Animals were also swept up in the net of imperialism, as jungles and veldts became colonial ranches and plantations. A booming trade in animals turned many strange and dangerous species into prized commodities. Tigers from India, pythons from Malaya, and gorillas from the Congo found their way—sometimes by shady means—to the zoos of major U.S. cities, where they created a s...

Powerful people pulled strings for me when I learned my family, my foster brothers, needed help. Those strings came with a cost. I might no longer be active duty, but I’m still the property of the government. I’m willing to pay that price, especially when the missions I complete buy favors that keep my brothers safe.When a mission goes sideways, I end up rescuing a young man and woman who have been kept as a madman’s pets. The three of us form a bond during our escape, and I’ll cas...

Eva Leitzke-Ungerer ist seit 2006 Professorin für Didaktik der romanischen Sprachen am Institut für Romanistik der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. In dieser Zeit hat sie nicht nur zahlreiche Studierende auf ihre berufliche Tätigkeit grundlegend vorbereitet, sondern durch ihre umfangreichen Forschungsarbeiten einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Didaktik der romanischen Sprachen geleistet. Um ihr Wirken zu würdigen, haben ihre Kollegen und Freunde beschlossen, ihr anlässlich ihres fün...

Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson reframe the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an international perspective, emphasizing how the development of the United States has always depended on its transactions with other n...

Begleitet unsere tapferen Helden, Prinzessinnen und zauberhafte Wesen auf ihren märchenhaften Abenteuern in der Welt von SimsalaGrimm. Die besten Märchenhörspiele mit tapferen Helden, Prinzessinnen und zauberhaften Wesen.

This scholarly collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. These essays, written by a diverse, international team of contributors, explore the culture and history of this thousand-year-old Jewish community, whose synthesis of Chinese and Jewish cultures helped guarantee its survival. Part I of this study analyzes the origin and historical development of the Kaifeng community, as well as the unique cultural synthesis it e...

For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and encouragement. And for those who are pausing—looking positively but cautiously at what needs to change—at the prospects and challenges that may be encountered, Harward and the collection of aut...

Le champ des connaissances dans le domaine de la douleur chronique « bénigne » ne cesse d'évoluer. En juin 2018, à l'occasion de la publication de la CIM-11, l'OMS marque cette évolution d'une croix blanche, en inscrivant la douleur chronique dans la liste des maladies chroniques non transmissibles. Cette reconnaissance officialise la séparation de la douleur en deux entités autonomes, la « 'douleur symptôme » et la « douleur maladie chronique ». Ce changement de paradigme a des conséquenc...

Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs at the national and inte...

Assesses the viability of management strategies implemented to improve soil health, e.g. intercropping and zero tillageProvides a comprehensive coverage of the dimensions of soil healthReviews the role of organic and other amendments in improving soil health

This volume is based on a symposium, "Cognitive and Psychosocial Dysfunctions Associated with Sex Chromosome Abnormalities," presented at the 1986 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It contains reports from individual research groups and a psychological study.