The Australian Film Revival: 70s, 80s, and Beyond explores the matrix of forces – artistic, cultural, economic, political, governmental, and ideological – that gave rise to, shaped, and sustained this remarkable film movement. This engaging new study brings fresh perspectives, insights, and innovative approaches to a variety of films from a diversity of filmmakers. Areas of focus include the complex and contentious subjects of masculinity, femininity and feminism, the maternal, as...

Everyone thinks their community is the best. There are small towns all over the United States like Spanish Fork. But this one is especially great, because of the people!

Everyone thinks their community is the best. There are small towns all over the United States like Spanish Fork. But this one is especially great because of the people!

Imagine working for years at your " dream job" only to have it taken away from you suddenly. What if the Boss changed your job description from " partner and party planner" to permanent cubicle resident with no benefits or chance of reinstatement? That's what it is like to become a widow. People don't know how to talk to you anymore. They exclude you from conversations that might involve the mention of couples. They are uncomfortableBecoming a widow isnt like becoming a wife. Becom...

Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth century through the Civil War era. Placing their subjects in their larger historical contexts, the authors show how the experiences of Virginia women varied by race, class, age, ...

Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a psychological dimension – or, in other words, configuring a ‘landscape’ to function beyond its typical role as a backdrop – and the cultural contexts for this aesthetic impulse. Contributors argue that while audiovisual allegory can be understood as inherently avant-garde, certain kinds of stories – and the ways in which they are prese...

Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most of what these opinion leaders say-and the public believes-about standardized testing just isn't so. However, few members of the general public, not even concerned parents, have the time or the ...

For decades, people have believed that working hard will be enough to get promoted. While generally true at the entry levels of an organization where performance is an important measure of success, once a more senior level of responsibility is reached, working hard is no longer enough. To continue the journey and move up the ladder, leaders need to create personal visibility for themselves and their teams.This was the situation that Susan M. Barber found herself in about ten years ago. She...

For decades, people have believed that working hard is enough to get them promoted. The truth is that leaders need to create personal visibility for themselves and their teams.This was the situation in which Susan M. Barber found herself. A pivotal feedback conversation with a mentor was the catalyst that changed everything. She had to shift her long-held belief that working hard was sufficient for career success and finding a new way. She was on a path of discovery to learn what vi...

Classroom-tested lessons to help you strive for 100% engagement in your ELA classroomFor educators, it can be a constant challenge to keep students engaged and motivated in the classroom. With the rise of technology and shortened attention spans, we have to go beyond traditional teaching methods, especially in the English Language Arts (ELA) classroom where students may perceive reading and writing as tedious tasks.100% Engagement: 33 L...

People believe that working hard is enough to have success without realizing they need to create personal visibility for themselves. A pivotal feedback conversation Susan M Barber had with a mentor led her to find a way to create authentic visibility for herself. Barber created a successful process that helped her build visibility for herself, her teams and now her clients. This process is broken down into easy to follow steps in her new book, The Visibility Factor, a guide to shape the vi...

The substantially revised and updated third edition of Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East focuses on the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children from the region. Readers will gain a grassroots appreciation of Middle East life, culture, and society that recognizes the impact of wars and uprisings as well as changes to Islamic practice due to advances in technology. The book also explores the influence of social media on politics and labor relations and the changing status of w...