Poppy loves spending time at her mum's allotment and the tangle of wild woodland behind it. They regularly see foxes and hedgehogs, but one special evening, just as they are about to head home, they spot a young badger. It's the first time Poppy has ever seen one in real life, and she's entranced.Then Poppy learns that the woodland has been sold and there are plans to build houses on it. Poppy and her mum are horrified. Is there anything they can do to save the young badger's home?...

This edition is Illustrated.Robert Moffat was a pioneer Christian missionary to the Bechwana tribe in southern Africa. He lived among them for fifty years. He put their language into written characters and then translated the entire Bible into their language. The Bechwanas were dramatically transformed over time. Moffat helped pave the way for other missionaries such as the one who would become his son-in-law, Dr. David Livingstone. Robert Moffat endured many hardships but was singl...

While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography—as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical category—is a modern invention. The contributors to Porn Archives explore how the production and proliferation of pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archive as a conceptual and physical site for preserving, cataloguing, and transmitting documents and artifacts. By segregating and regulating access to sexually explicit material, archives ...

All God's Children introduces a variety of disability ministry strategies, all working to create a deeper sense of belonging across the church. Written by dedicated professionals, pastors, and parents of disabled children, the book invites local congregations to recognize the need, reenvision the church, explore strategies, and find solutions for specific ministry contexts. Chapters often connect readers to practical ministry resources and settings, much like attending a workshop on the to...

Performing Public History explores history-telling as a performance across a wide range of media, including theatre and film, historical re-enactments and living history performances, operas, and video games.Taking historians as storytellers, this book illustrates how the choices they make shape historical meaning. While historians may strive to be objective when they research and write the past, they inevitably draw on their imagination, emotions, and creativity, aligning...

Museum Exhibition is the only textbook of its kind to consider exhibition development using both theory and practice in an integrated approach. This comprehensive study covers care of exhibits, writing accompanying text, using new technology, exhibition evaluation, administration and content for a wide range of collections. It provides a complete outline for all those concerned with providing displays in museums and other cultural heritage contexts.

Every organization has two versions of itself. There's the documented one — the processes, the org charts, the goals and values that make up the official story. Then there's the way things actually work. The workarounds people build because the real process doesn't fit. The spreadsheets no one asked for but everyone depends on. The conversations where someone finally says what they actually need.That second version has always been there. It's how businesses actually run. And AI is ...

This fully revised and updated fourth edition of the bestselling What Really Works in Inclusive Education focuses on more than 32 specific, evidence-based teaching strategies for addressing the needs of diverse learners. A significant revision with nine new chapters, this edition takes a whole-child approach to inclusive education. It is a book for all educators of all learners.The strategies are based on high-quality research drawn from a range of countries and have a str...

A WWII history told from US and Japanese perspectives—"an impressively researched chronicle of the months leading up to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima" ( Publishers Weekly).During the closing months of World War II, two military giants locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence. While developing history's deadliest weapon and weighing an invasion that would have dwarfed D-Day, the US called for the "unconditional surren...

From the editor:Welcome to *Black Cat Weekly #*10. Carlton Clarke, the famed Chicago telepathic detective, returns to our pages with “The Broken Marconigram.” First published in 1915, this tale takes Clarke and Sexton, his “Watson,” to New Orleans in search of a friend who’s been kidnapped by a Satanic cult. These chronicles of the first “telepathic detective” originally appeared in newspaper syndication across the United States in 1908, and I continue to be impressed by them. Ther...

Nine-year-old Blaise finds solace in a forest near his troubled home, where he bonds with Sophie, a mysterious seven-year-old girl. Their friendship begins under tragic circumstances and grows as they share stolen moments and small gifts. When Sophie suddenly disappears, Blaise, suspecting foul play from her abusive family, risks everything to uncover the truth.

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the “migration crisis”, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been linked to the intensification and proliferation of stereotypes about migrants since 2015. Topics include the representations of migration and stereotypes in citizenship ceremonies and culinary traditions, law and literature, and public history and performance. Bringing together academics in the arts, huma...