Despite long odds and low funds, the Czech Republic’s national baseball team of amateur players managed to shock the world at the 2023 World Baseball Classic—the sport’s World Cup—when they took an upset win against Spain in the WBC qualifiers and then defeated China in the actual tournament, securing their place in the upcoming 2026 tournament. While the rest of the teams in the WBC rely on experienced professionals, and some like Italy and Great Britain bring in American “passport” playe...

"The Gerontological Prism" promotes disciplinary cooperation in aging research and practice. To some extent, each chapter explores a unified objective, that of generating a disciplinary-blind gerontology. The fundamental assumption throughout this book is that the aging individual and society can be enhanced by an understanding of the correlates of basic social, behavioral, demographic, economic, political, ethical, and biomedical processes involving aging. Each author touches on issues th...

Certains secrets devraient rester enfouis.Archéologue au style anticonformiste, Nolan Moore publie sur sa chaîne YouTube une série de documentaires trépidants critiqués par les « vrais experts »... mais au public conquis. Prochaine mission : Nolan et son équipe décident de se lancer sur les traces d'un explorateur qui, en 1909, aurait découvert une mystérieuse grotte dans la paroi du Grand Canyon.Mais lorsque la grotte commence à livrer ses secrets les plus...

HERRAMIENTAS EFICACES DE LA MEDICINA MENTE-CUERPOPARA ENCONTRAR LA PAZEl estrés puede aparecer en cualquier momento y en cualquier lugar, ya sea por la mañana, durante el trayecto hacia el trabajo, como por la noche, justo cuando empiezas a prepararte para ir a dormir. Además, con el tiempo, el estrés puede acumularse y afectar a nuestra calidad de vida. Es por eso que necesitas estrategias rápidas y efectivas que puedas utilizar al instante, antes de que el estrés se salga ...

Drawing on the self-help success, 10 Simple Solutions to Stress, this on-the-go pocket guide offers simple, evidence based strategies for coping with stress and overwhelm. Think of it as your portable peace finder!Stress—it can happen anytime and anywhere, from your morning commute to the moment you settle in for bed at night. We all struggle with it. And many of us don’t even realize we’re stressed out until we experience more serious symptoms like insomn...

Qui règne sur les grandes villes suisses ? Les partis de gauche, les dirigeant ·e·s des principales banques, ou plutôt les anciennes familles patriciennes ? Cet ouvrage aborde ces questions dans une perspective longue en offrant de nouvelles et stimulantes perspectives sur l’histoire des élites. En ouvrant la voie à une histoire transnationale des élites locales, il explore aussi les ramifications de ces élites à diverses échelles spatiales. En raison de la décentralisation de son système ...

Is twenty-three too old for running away? I sure hope not. Because, right now, that's my current and only life plan.Desperate to escape the dome of control my father has dropped over my life, I visit my brother in Texas with no plans to use my return ticket home.But after spending every cent of my savings to pay off my student loans, I need a job. Stat. Otherwise, I'll be forced to ask my brother for help and admit how bad things have gotten at home.

Critical conversations and reflections about lessons learned at the intersection of social movements and artist production.Diversity of Aesthetics collects powerful and timely conversations among leading cultural critics, artists, and organizers to connect the threads between some of the most pressing social struggles and conflicts of our time: policing, war, borders and migration, economic crisis.Across three themes—infrastructure, migration, and ...

Natalie lever ett traditionellt liv i en lantlig amerikansk idyll, livet som det en gång levdes – livet som det borde levas. Hon plockar sina ägg från hönshuset, dricker opastöriserad mjölk från sina egna kor. Familjens gård är precis så ombonat rustik som man kan önska, hennes man är en stilig cowboy, deras fem små barn är alla ljuvligt rara. Än sen om det finns barnflickor och producenter utanför bild, om hennes kök har toppmoderna vitvaror bakom skåpluckorna? Att hennes man kom...

This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to the United States. As China’s last dynasty was weakening and collapsing from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, China’s internal chaos allowed imperial and private Chinese collections to be scattered, looted and sold. A remarkable and varied group of Westerners entered the country, had their eyes opened to centuries of Chinese ...

Imagining Europe: Essays on the Past, Present and Future of the European Union examines the EU from a variety of perspectives. The collection begins with the expectation that, despite its challenges, the European Union is here to say, but it also proceeds from the premise that imaginative thinking is necessary to guide the 27 member organization into the future. The book offers nine chapters and a substantive introduction to examine the EU from the point-of-view of a commercial enterprise,...

Teaching for Learning is a comprehensive, practical resource for instructors that highlights and synthesizes proven teaching methods and active learning strategies. Each of the 101 entries describes an approach and lists its essential features and elements, demonstrates how the approach may be used in various educational contexts, reviews findings from the research literature, and describes techniques to improve effectiveness. Fully revised and updated to reflect the latest resear...