Josh put his finger on the word and tried to sound it out.“D-d-d-d …”By the time he got to the bottom of the page, a headachehad started to pound behind his left ear. He snappedthe book shut and shoved it across the table.“I hate reading.”Eleven-year-old Josh’s summer is getting off to a bad start. It’s the first week of vacation, but instead of being out on the water in his nifty sailing dinghy, he’s stuck in the library with the latest ...

Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or at least their urban positionality once in the academy. It may equivalently be that feminists have been influenced by stereotypes of rural women as traditional and reactionary, and thus seen them ...

As researchers continue to adapt, conduct and design their research in the presence of COVID-19, new opportunities to connect research creativity and ethics have opened up. Researchers around the world have responded in diverse, thoughtful and creative ways –adapting data collection methods, fostering researcher and community resilience, and exploring creative research methods.This book, part of a series of three Rapid Responses, explores dimensions of creativity and ethics, highli...

Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowledge formation that currently make legible and organize the study of Asia and its multiple diasporas. Transits, Indigeneity, Epistemology, Language, and A/Geography: These keywords highlight potential overlaps and points of disagreement between area studies, ethnic studies, and diaspora studi...

This textbook provides a practical guide to grammar and style choices for college writers, giving students a basic vocabulary for thinking and talking about language use and enabling them to make purposeful choices in their writing.Each section includes a short overview of a grammatical topic accompanied by exercises for raising the students’ awareness of and skills in using specific grammatical structures. It focuses on the practical and rhetorical functions of grammatical structu...

‘A kind of miracle … Not only made me laugh (again and again) but brought tears to my eyes’ Jonathan Franzen ‘One of the most brilliant satirical novels about life in East Berlin’ New York TimesThomas Brussig’s classic German satire, translated into English for the first time and introduced by Jonathan Franzen, is a comedic, moving account of life in East Berlin before the Fall of the Berlin WallThe Short End of the Sonnenallee, is a satir...

A seriously entertaining collection of feelgood stories guaranteed to put the smile back on your face written especially by ten bestselling novelists:Jenny ÉclairMark WatsonVeronica HenryEva VerdeRichard MadeleyKatie FfordeDorothy KoomsonVaseem KhanHelen LedererRachel HoreFrom a hilarious race against time to a moment of unexpected eavesdropping, from righting wrongs in rural India to finding joy in unlikely pla...

Eliza ist nicht Detektivin geworden, um verschwundene Knochen zu suchen! Doch um so einen dreht sich der neue Fall und lässt Hobbywissenschaftlerin Millie schwärmen. Als die Ermittlungen in gefährliche Tiefen führen, beschleunigt sich Millies Puls noch aus anderen Gründen. Nur ist nicht klar, ob der Museumsangestellte Raja sie rasend vor Wut macht oder vor Attraktivität…

There is an urgent need to rethink relationships between systems of government and those who are ‘governed’. This book explores ways of rethinking those relationships by bringing communities normally excluded from decision-making to centre stage to experiment with new methods of regulating for engagement.Using original, co-produced research, it innovatively shows how we can better use a ‘bottom-up’ approach to design regulatory regimes that recognise the capabilities of communities...

Im Anwesen von Lady Huntington spukt es. Millie und Eliza ermitteln als Haushaltshilfen getarnt. Der Geist stellt sich rasch als irdisches Wesen heraus, stößt die Detektivinnen aber auf ein neues Rätsel: Eine Mutter ist verschwunden. Eine geheimnisvolle Spieluhr enthält wertvolle Hinweise, die spannende Suche enthüllt eine dramatische Liebesgeschichte.

Madame Peregrin hatte sich ruhige Weihnachten gewünscht. Und so haben Eliza und Millie nur Mr. Biggs und Mr. Hoskins eingeladen. Doch bald erklingen unheimliche Geräusche, Gegenstände verschwinden magisch und tauchen andernorts wieder auf. Und vor allem lösen sich Kekse auf - in Luft und ein paar Restkrümel. Ein Geist? Die Feiernden begeben sich auf die Suche...

This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they have created inviting classrooms; established friendly educational experiences both within and beyond the classroom; engaged faculty and enhanced the teaching experience; and developed instrumen...