The idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and practices often do not deal explicitly with gender issues, such as sexual abuse, harassment or violence. Exaggeration of neoliberalism’s successes in creating individual opportunity in education conceals ongoing problems and ignores the continuing need for a fair and equal education for all, regardless of gender or sexuality.In this manifesto for educ...

Feminism, Gender and Universities demonstrates the positive and robust impacts that feminism has had on higher education, through the eyes and in the words of the participants in changing political and social processes. Drawing on the ’collective biography’ of leading feminist scholars from around the world and current evidence relating to gender equality in education, this book employs methods including biographies, life histories, and narratives to show how the feminist project to transf...

This family memoir is my back story. A Locked Safe with 5 ‘Nazi’ passports was found after my mother died in 1996. My father had died 16 years earlier. Although we knew he was a German Jewish professional engineer fleeing Nazism in 1936, we did not know the details of how his family fled. The help of my mother’s family, the Leas, was essential. They had fled from pogroms in Ukraine/Russia in the late nineteenth century. Some were also caught up with Japanese internment camps in China, illu...

Since second-wave feminism of the 1970s, women's rights and opportunities in education and employment have increased across the globe, but has equality, whether social, political or legal, really been achieved?In this fascinating book, Miriam E. David, a well-known and influential feminist in higher education, celebrates the achievements of international feminists as activists and scholars. She provides a critique of the expansion of global higher education masking their pioneering...

"An ambitious attempt to map the transformation of lifestyles and experience among Rome's provincial subjects in the first three centuries AD. . . . "History from below" at its best" ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of the Roman E...

This two-volume anthology brings much of the rich heritage conveniently together for your reading. In this first volume, prepare yourself to sit at the feet of the main representatives of the Chen Village, including Chen Xiaowang, Chen Xiaoxing, and Wang Xi’an. Perhaps of greater importance are the clear explanations outlining each step in the learning process toward mastering Chen-style t’ai chi. Chapters included here clarify what proper training entails and why much tim...

The Toxic: Don’t let your In-Laws ruin your marriage is a guide created to inspire you and not to perspire you! I am of the opinion that if you are informed, you cannot be deformed. With this in mind, the first thing you should know is this; not all Toxic in-laws are aware that they are Toxic. As funny as this sounds, it is true. This is why I want to enlighten people about this sensitive subject matter.As such, living with toxic in-laws can put a considerable amount of undue stres...

Empieza la cuenta atrás para el momento más mágico del año. Veinticuatro días de relatos navideños para abrir y disfrutar.Trece autores y veinticuatro días de relatos navideños llenos de magia, humor, drama, tensión, amor propio, primeras veces y segundas oportunidades. Inicia la cuenta atrás para la Navidad con tus autores favoritos.Raquel ArbetetaJen BernalIria G. Parente y Selene M. PascualEva LópezMyriam M. ...

Este libro es una síntesis perfecta de una metodología que está revolucionando el mundo de las organizaciones y las relaciones humanas: la Indagación Apreciativa (IA); un método basado en la nueva psicología positiva, la biomímesis, el pensamiento de diseño y la construcción social de la realidad.Escrito conjuntamente por el creador del método, David Cooperrider, y por su principal abanderada en el mundo de habla hispana, Miriam Subirana, Indagación Apreciativa trata de la...

Sozial-emotionale Kompetenzen sind die Basis für eine glückliches, gesundes und erfolgreiches Leben. Das Buch geht unter anderem folgenden Leitfragen nach: Wie entwickeln sich soziale und emotionale Kompetenzen in der Kindheit? Welche Rolle spielen unterschiedliche Kontexte (Familie, Kita, Schule, Krisensituationen etc.) für die Entwicklungsprozesse? Und wie lässt sich die emotionale und soziale Entwicklung wirksam fördern? Renommierte Forscherinnen und Forscher aus dem deutschsprachigen R...

CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES BY20 VENDORS OF VILLAINYMystery Writers of America is pleased to present this sinister volume of larceny, deception, and murder, brought to you by the very finest purveyors of perfidy.Donald E. Westlake tells a tale of a cheating wife who tries to turn the tables on her blackmailer, only to find herself caught in a bigger web of lies than she could have imagined. From Robert Bloch comes a story of a man whose ve...

Ever wonder why most people around the world don't get along with their in-laws? Is it all about the adage that has been in existence for ages – "When you marry someone, you do not marry the individual. Instead, you marry the person's entire family"? If so, should this give some in-laws the right to be cruel and nasty to new members of the family?This book introduces readers to simple ways they can recognize, handle and survive toxic in-laws while protecting their marriage....