The short poems in Bosk grow out of close encounters with trees, shrubs, and understory plants observed throughout a sprawling Boston arboretum built on glacial drumlins, with valleys and meadows threading between them. These poems emerged from slow, aimless wandering—moments when a shape, texture, or pattern tugged at the senses and asked to be noticed. From those encounters came a series of questions: How does careful attention to nonhum...

All development is about people: the transformative process to equip, link, and enable groups of people to drive change and create something new to benefit society. Development can promote societies where all people can thrive, but the change process can be complex, challenging, and socially contentious. Continued progress toward sustainable development is not guaranteed. The current overlapping crises of COVID-19, climate change, rising levels of conflict, and a global economic slowdown a...

The overlapping crises of COVID-19, climate change, and rising levels of conflict are exacerbating global inequalities. This report offers a definition and framework for social sustainability as well as examples and guidance on how development can foster progress toward it.

Why are some places successful in moving from war to consolidated peace while others continue to be troubled by violence? And why does postconflict violence take different forms and have different intensities? By developing a new theory of postconflict violence Patrick Barron's When Violence Works makes a significant contribution to our understanding.Barron picks out three postconflict regions in Indonesia in which to analyze what happens once the "officia...

Secret Lakeshia Bell is a young, beautiful, outspoken registered nurse. She knows exactly what she wants out of her life, her career, and her marriage. When her husband, of ten years, is violently murdered, Secret locates the red toolbox filled with his last wishes. Although she doesn’t know where his wishes will take her, she is determined to fulfill them at all costs. Armed with the toolbox and five different colored instructional envelopes, the young widow is suddenly set on a journey o...

Secret Lakeshia Bell. She introduces her handsome new fiancée, Royce Storm, to the most important person in her life, her sassy and outspoken grandmother, Hattie Bell Ruffins. Hattie shares her heart-breaking news with her granddaughter then asks her to help carry out her impossible bucket list. With not much time to spare and a magnificent wedding to plan, an entire new and tumultuous journey begins for the couple. In all the chaos, Secret’s old enemy returns to demand what she feels is r...

As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague," has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city -- the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits of urban life. From vacant lots and railroad tracks, to more diverse interstitial spaces, this collection of original essays and cases presents innovative ways of looking at margi...

Andrea Zanzotto is one of the most important and acclaimed poets of postwar Italy. This collection of ninety-one pseudo-haiku in English and Italian—written over several months during 1984 and then revised slowly over the years—confirms his commitment to experimentation throughout his life. Haiku for a Season represents a multilevel experiment for Zanzotto: first, to compose poetry bilingually; and second, to write in a form foreign to Western poetry. The volume traces the life of...

Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River’s Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document the “new Italian landscape” where divisions between the urban and rural were being blurred into what Celati terms “a new variety of countryside where one breathes an air of urban solitude.” Celati traveled by train, by bus, and on foot, at...

Calling all learners: It's time to level up your memory game!Has your mind ever drawn a blank in a lesson or have you ever stared at a page of revision notes, but nothing has gone in? Well, if you're dyslexic, dyspraxic, autistic, ADHD or have acquired learning differences it's quite likely you will have found yourself in these situations.That's where this handy guide comes in! Not only will this book give you useful info about how your memory and processing work, but it is...

Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches--including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal and landscape studies--to move past cliché and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent pla...

A sweeping saga in the vein of Ask Again, Yes following a foster family through almost a decade of dazzling triumph and wrenching heartbreak—from the author of The Orphans at Race Point.Set in the late 1950s through 1960s in a small town in Massachusetts, All the Children Are Home follows the Moscatelli family—Dahlia and Louie, foster parents, and their long-term foster children Jimmy, Zaidie, and Jon—and the irrevocable changes in their ...