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 ...

Inspired by the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Kat and Adam Kramer and their two young children left a conventional life in Minnesota to experience a simpler way of living, close to nature in the peaceful Northwoods of Wisconsin. They built a five-hundred-square-foot one-room house with limited plumbing, grew most of their food, raised chickens and rabbits, and learned to forage and prepare wild edible plants.Living in beautiful but isolated surroundings, Kat fin...

On the outside we looked like an ordinary middle class black family, but we were anything but. Right under the nose of daddy, my mother carefully orchestrated our double lives from the time we were born; lives we are still living and relationships we are still honoring as adults. The heaviest weight of all of this was the thought of the consequence if we got caught in the lie. My mother would tell us that if daddy ever found out he would kill her. The deception peppered with the domestic v...

*READ BETH O'LEARY'S BRAND NEW UNMISSABLE ROMANCE, THE NAME GAME, OUT NOW*'Ingenious, heartwarming and romantic' SOPHIE KINSELLA'Surprising and deeply satisfying' EMILY HENRYThree women. Three dates. One missing man . . .8.52 a.m. Siobhan's looking forward to her date with Joseph. Breakfast on Valentine's Day surely means something . . . so where is he?...

Three women who seemingly have nothing in common find that they're involved with the same man in this smart new rom-com by Beth O'Leary, bestselling author of The Flatshare.Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree surgeon used to being treated as just one of the guys on the job. Jane is a soft-spoken volunteer for the local charity shop with zero sense of self-worth.These three women are strangers who...

The people most impacted by criminal justice policies and practices are seldom included in the decision-making processes that affect their lives.Building on the ‘nothing about us without us’ social movement, this edited volume advocates an inclusive approach to criminology that gives voice to historically marginalized, silenced, and ignored groups.Incorporating the experiences of service users, academics, and state and grassroots practitioners, this volume considers how res...

Amy likes to make things.Sometimes she uses broken things for parts. Sometimes things get broken.When her brother Finn goes looking for her, he follows a trail of broken objects from the house to the backyard, fixing items along the way.But what has his creative little sister been making?Join Finn and his little sister in this book about creativity as they fix broken objects to make new inventions.

In the High Middle Ages, the dream narrative was an enormously popular and influential form. Along with the romance, it was perhaps the genre of the age. It has come down to us in such classics twelfth to fourteenth-century classics as The Divine Comedy, the Romance of the Rose, Piers Plowman, Chaucer's early poetry, and the works of Guillaume de Machaut. This book redefines the dream vision by attending to its role in philosophical debate of the time, a conserva...

Learn what to do when allegations of child sexual abuse become part of the child custody processChild Custody Litigation: Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse is an invaluable resource for forensic mental health professionals involved with conducting custody evaluations in family court proceedings. Each of the book‘s five chapters reviews an important

Hi Students. My name is Kathryn-Magnolia Feeley and I am an Australian lawyer. I have seen a lot of kids who have been victims of school bullying and I have seen how they are destroyed and injured. So now I am here to help you.This series of Apps is to help you deal with bullying at school and to tell you your rights. Every day you will be able to get important information. This will empower you.You have to be safe at school. That is the law in every democratic country. You...

Everyone in school has concerns about bullying and violence. Bullying is not a rite of passage or part of the competitive spirit, as it was once thought. It is a serious problem in our schools and neighborhoods. Bullies often have emotional problems, histories of trauma, and inadequate problem solving and social skills. Bullying is their self-defense mechanism to protect their insecurity.Bullying is not something someone will grow out of without assistance and guidance from wise an...

"[A] concise and detailed description of a very complex issue...rich in detail and insight."--Leslie J. Temme, LCSWSchool of Social Work, Adelphi University"[A] 'must have' resource for practicing professionals and an invaluable teaching tool for social work students....This is precisely the book that mandated reporters seek to assist in the reporting process and understanding their legal obligations."--Keva M. Miller, PhD, LC...