Diplomacy is the lifeblood of the states system, shaping global interactions and maintaining order. In this book, Iver B. Neumann delves into the practices that define diplomacy, exploring how they evolve and vary across time and cultures. By combining historical analysis with observational insights, Neumann offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding the dynamic nature of diplomatic practices.From gift-giving to permanent representation, international law and peacebuilding e...

Control is the only thing Eliza Hayes trusts.At thirty, she has built a life in Manhattan far removed from Willow Creek, Georgia-the place she left behind without looking back. She works corporate acquisitions, keeps her distance from anything personal, and avoids the past she never fully dealt with. But when her grandmother passes away, Eliza must return to Willow Creek, Georgia, to dismantle the last anchor tying her to her childhood: the home where her grandmoth...

Ever since their mother vanished, the silence inside their house has been deafening for twins Leo and Addie. It's not just the empty space where she used to be. It's the terrifying reality that her face is getting harder to picture with each passing day. Watching their dad carry a crushing, invisible weight every morning only makes things worse for the siblings. He looks like he's constantly on the edge of breaking down, keeping the entire home walking on eggshells. Instead of bringing Leo...

Streamlined ID presents a focused and generalizable approach to instructional design and development – one that addresses the needs of ID novices as well as practitioners in a variety of career environments. Highlighting essentials and big ideas, this guide advocates a streamlined approach to instructional design: producing instruction that is sustainable, optimized, appropriately redundant, right sized, and targeted at continuous improvement.The book’s enhanced version of...

A cult masterpiece and a darkly comic tale of survival on the high seas, inspired by the mysterious author B. Traven's own life‘Whoever survived the Yorikke could never be frightened any more during his lifetime by anything’Stateless and stranded after he loses his passport, sailor Gerald Gales flees arrest and persecution across Europe, until he finally finds work on the Yorikke, a decrepit ‘death ship’ bound for destruction. Condemned to...

“Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer of her time and an overlooked leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Her voice seemed born of heaven.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr.If Americans today still recognize the name Mahalia Jackson, they might recall that she was perhaps the greatest gospel singer who ever lived. But for many people, there is no awareness at all, not even for an entertainer whose “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold eight million copies, who headlined ...

For more than 25 years, Research on Educational Innovations has helped readers distinguish between truly innovative educational programs backed by credible research evidence and the faddish policy trends of the day. Innovation should be a facet of school life, but improvement should be a continuous process grounded in sound evaluation, not a cycle of fashionable reforms.Using current and emerging topics as practical case studies, this fully revised and expanded sixth editi...

**A young child journeys toward independence in this award-winning picture book, "visual narrative of the highest level."*With richly evocative art by a two-time winner of NY Times’ Best Illustrated Books, here is a story of separation and return.**After a young boy unties the knot anchoring his small boat near his mother, he slips away from her on a gentle tide, floating off on a quiet and peaceful journey through town, jungle, and city. When he floats back to the...

In a crumbling village of ghosts and grief, an assassin and a necromancer are drawn into a dangerous, intimate experiment to defy death—and loneliness.A gothic horror story about losing the love of your life, So Beats a Hollow Heart follows a nameless assassin—a member of the feared Bloodcloaks—sent to rid a village of the necromancer who has been stealing its young women.What the assassin finds is not the monster she expects, but a woman deep in g...

In Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s severe justice Angelo urges the problems that might arise from a static conception of the law: ‘We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey and let it keep one shape till custom make it their perch and not their terror’ (2.1.1–4). Despite Angelo’s temporary authority and corrupt nature, the play illustrates literature’s ability to scrutinise the boundaries of legal power. Yet Shakespeare’s contemporaries al...

Now in its fifth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Concrete examples and the authors’ personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the discipline’s most important insights, such as the idea that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of illness and dise...

Spiritual But Not Religious: The Basics is an accessible guide to the defining attributes of individuals who define themselves as Spiritual but Not Religious (SBNR), who comprise at least 25% of the American population. Topics covered include:What does it mean to consider oneself “religious” or “spiritual”?What historical or cultural forces have prompted people to distinguish between them and identify as “spiritual” but not “religious”?How did tod...