Leaping Upon the Mountains


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Presenting the first real investigation of what male sexual assault survivors themselves identify as most important during various stages of recovery, Leaping upon the Mountains contains powerfully moving contributions from hundreds of men of all ages and backgrounds throughout the United States and 45 other countries. It is not a work of fiction, but a compilation of many truths, many realities—a quilt pieced together from men's experiences—forming an impressively triumphant pattern. Taken together, they state, lucidly and forcefully, that recovery work produces changes that are real, important, and permanent. Leaping upon the Mountains is a celebration of successful recovery. Readers of Leaping upon the Mountains will discover: • Insights and resources for all stages of recovery • Encouraging and inspiring messages from other male survivors • A large updated resource section providing concrete help to survivors and professionals • Ways of reconnecting with their own strength and creativity




Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature


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This multidisciplinary handbook pulls together in one volume the research on children's and young adult literature which is currently scattered across three intersecting disciplines: education, English, and library and information science.




A Fury Of Shadows


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They stole someone precious from her. And she will do everything to get him back. After losing Nikolai Stanisic to the Sorcerer King and his Dark Council in a brutal attack that left her battered and broken, Mae Jin resolves to rescue the man who’s come to mean so much to her. But just when she’s unravelling a new form of magic that could help Nikolai recover his memories, Mae and her friends come under attack from Oscar Beneventi and a new breed of devils led by Barquiel. The unexpected allies that come to their aid bring with them a perturbing development. Dietrich Farago, the Immortal long affiliated with Barquiel, is not only modifying devils, he has helped the Sorcerer King devise a way to control Mae. Meanwhile, Nikolai Stanisic slowly adapts to his new life in the Dark Council and the horrid reality of having been a puppet under the Witch Queen’s powerful illusion. Bent on proving his worth and his loyalty, he places his powers at his father’s disposal to help him find and unlock the elusive Book of Shadows. Time is ticking and the Sorcerer King is drawing closer to achieving his goals. Can Mae and her friends rescue Nikolai and foil his father’s evil plans, as well as those of the treacherous demon who serves him? Join Mae Jin and her friends in A Fury of Shadows, the penultimate book in the thrilling urban fantasy spin-off series Witch Queen, by the author who brought you Seventeen and Legion. Follow our intrepid witch on yet another dangerous adventure full of magic, monsters, mayhem, and steak in this riveting fifth installation in the action-packed series fans cannot get enough of. Visit Shop AD Starrling to get digitally signed books and discounted bundles!




The Road Home


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Mystery and romance collide at a glittering soirée when a Sydney businessman meets a stunning beauty who resembles a missing woman. Bruno McKendrick knows that he can win the attention of any woman he pleases. The well-to-do son of a Scottish-born father and Italian mother, Bruno is one of the most eligible bachelors in Australian high-society. But on this night at a party off the coast of Sydney Harbour, finding love is the last thing on his mind as he makes his way through the usual crowd of movers, shakers, and hob-nobbers. Then he lays eyes on an incomparable beauty whose face Bruno is sure he’s seen before. Her name is Isabelle Martin—and she says she’s not who Bruno thinks she is. Still, he’s determined to prove that Isabelle is the living image of someone his late private-investigator father spent his life trying to find. Solving this twenty-year-old mystery is one challenge; the burning attraction between Bruno and Isabelle is another. As he closes in on the case and discovers a dark truth from Isabelle’s past, Bruno risks tearing her whole world apart . . . unless she will allow him to help pick up the pieces . . . “In this enjoyable contemporary, Way . . . combines romance with a decades-old mystery and the dazzling beauty of the Australian outback. . . . The mystery . . . propels the novel forward at a swift pace as romantic tension heats up between Bruno and Isabelle, and readers will eagerly follow them to the satisfying ending.” —Publishers Weekly




HEGEMONY


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An object encrypted with a Master Plan for terror at the EU parliament brought to Stockholm by a Saudi royal entourage went missing. Prince Fareed's missions: sign the Gripen Arms Sales with Sweden negotiated in Riyadh by government officials and address Turkey's membership to the EU in Brussels. Amidst the 113th Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm Concert House, the Saudi ambassador is murdered and a Swedish prostitute beheaded while secret collaterals to the Gripen Agreement securing Islam's dominance in Svealand are exposed. Dubbed The Ã-stermalm Crime Mystery, government ministers, Saudi and Iranian Islamist terrorists, the young Swedish Crown princess, a PhD candidate, a neophyte police superintendent, and Iranian nurse/code breaker grapple with each other in Stockholm City and Oxford University for control of the impending terror in Brussels. Time span of the novel: 13-22 December, ten days in freezing Scandinavian winter.




Then There Was No Mountain


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Sophie was a brilliant child by anyone's definition. Accomplished athlete, 4-H champion, recognized artist, and Western and English horsewoman. By the age of sixteen she had added one more "achievement" to her resume, this one ignominious: drug addict. Then There Was No Mountain describes the external and internal processes the author, Sophie's mother, experiences in coming to terms with her daughter's addiction, then in seeking and ultimately finding help. Equally important, the author is forthright in examining the role that she, as a single mother, played in perpetuating her daughter's crisis by not coming to terms with her own "drugs of choice": guilt, shame, and denial. A timely and provocative voice in the chorus of firsthand experiences of parents dealing with their childrens' drug use, Then There Was No Mountain is set against the backdrop of the ranching West, where the parallel paths of mother and daughter to healing are illuminated by Waterston's powerful pen. In real time the story covers a period of two years; in "heart time," the author writes, "it takes the reader to places of pain, promise, and wonder." Along the way, the rawness of life—represented by a father wanted on charges of drug possession, selling child pornography, and raping and molesting a minor—is set against the miraculous, an extraordinarily intuitive Montana social worker who helps adolescent girls regain their self-respect through ranch work. This book is not just a "how-to" but what the author calls "a wherefore-and invitation to the reader to look the good, the bad, and the ugly of life in the eye with the same unwavering gaze."




English Language Arts Research and Teaching


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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Artist's Statement about the Cover -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Arthur N. Applebee: A Scholar's Life in Retrospect -- Section 1 Considering Curriculum as Conversation -- 2 Discussion, Conversation, and Dialogue: Applebee, Bakhtin, and Speech in School -- 3 Entering the Conversation: Creating a Pathway to Academic Literacy -- 4 A Curricular Conversation in Teacher Education: In the Domain of Dialogic Teaching -- 5 Bringing Queer Students and LGBT-Inclusive Literature into the Conversation: Lessons We've Learned from the Work of Arthur Applebee -- Section 2 Writing as a Tool for Learning -- 6 Writing the World to Build the World, Iteratively: Inscribing Data and Projecting New Materialities in an Engineering Design Project -- 7 Nurturing Discursive Strengths: Efforts to Improve the Teaching of Reading and Writing in a Latino Charter School -- 8 Reading the World as Text: Black Adolescents and Out-of-School Literacies -- 9 The Internet's Concept of Story -- Section 3 Talking it Out: Class Discussion and Literary Understanding -- 10 Adaptive Expertise in the Teaching and Learning of Literary Argumentation in High School English Language Arts Classrooms -- 11 Literary Theory in the Secondary School -- 12 Dialogic Eventful Teaching through Dialogic Conversation and Dramatic Inquiry -- 13 Curricular Conversations, Reading the World, Intertextuality, and Doing School in a Tenth Grade English Language Arts Classroom Conversation -- Section 4 Conclusion -- 14 Practical Progressivism: W. Wilbur Hatfield, Deweyan Pedagogy, and the Future of English Teaching -- List of Contributors -- Index




What's Your Enneatype? An Essential Guide to the Enneagram


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Pronounced ENN-EE-UH-GRAM, stemming from the Greek words ennea (nine) and grammos (a written symbol), the Enneagram is a centuries-old categorization tool that classifies human personality into nine interconnected personality types. It is a powerful tool for self-observation, maximizing your strengths, and improving your relationships.â?? Learn—through in-depth descriptions, illustrations, and more—how to assess how you think, feel, and experience so you can correctly identify which of the nine types you are: Type 1: The Improver/Reformer/Perfectionist (Survival Strategy: "I must be perfect and good.") â??Type 2: The Helper/Giver/Befriender (Survival Strategy: "I must be helping and caring.") â??Type 3: The Performer/Achiever/Actor (Survival Strategy: "I must be impressive and look accomplished and successful.") â??Type 4: The Romantic/Artist/Individualist (Survival Strategy: "I must be unique and different.") â??Type 5: The Observer/Investigator/Theorist (Survival Strategy: "I must be knowledgeable and equipped.") â??Type 6: The Loyalist/Skeptic/Doubter (Survival Strategy: "I must be secure and safe.") â??Type 7: The Enthusiast/Optimist/Epicurean (Survival Strategy: "I must be fun and entertained.") â??Type 8: The Challenger/Protector/Advocate (Survival Strategy: "I must be strong and in control.") Type 9: The Peacemaker/Mediator/Reconciler (Survival Strategy: "I must maintain peace and calm.") Authors Liz Carver and Josh Green, creators of the hugely popular Instagram account @justmyenneatype, help you discover how knowing your type—and the types of those around you—can affect your daily life, your decisions, and your relationships with others, and how to use this wisdom to live life with more clarity, peace, and insight than you ever thought possible. So what's your enneatype? Find out today and get started on the journey to better understand your world, yourself, and your place within it.




Global Sustainable Cities


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Perspectives from worldwide experts on how major cities across the globe are responding to the major environmental threats of our time, including global climate change Over half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and this share is expected to increase in the coming decades. With growing urbanization, cities and their residents face substantial environmental challenges such as higher temperatures, droughts, wildfires, and increased flooding. In response to these pressing challenges, some cities have begun to develop local environmental regulations that supplement national and environmental laws. In so doing, cities have stepped into a role that has been historically dominated by higher levels of government. Global Sustainable Cities takes stock of the policies that have been implemented by cities around the world in recent years in several key areas: water, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation. It examines the advantages—and potential drawbacks—of allowing cities to assume a significant role in environmental regulation, given the legal and political constraints in which cities operate. The contributors present a series of case studies of the actions that seven leading cities—Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Berlin, Delhi, London, New York, and Shanghai—are taking to improve their environments and adapt to climate change. The first volume of its kind, Global Sustainable Cities is a critical comparative assessment of the actions that major cities in the global North and South are taking to advance sustainability.




Climate Change and Society


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Climate change is one of the most critical issues of the twenty-first century, presenting a major intellectual challenge to both the natural and social sciences. While there has been significant progress in natural science understanding of climate change, social science analyses have not been as fully developed. Climate Change and Society breaks new theoretical and empirical ground by presenting climate change as a thoroughly social phenomenon, embedded in behaviors, institutions, and cultural practices. This collection of essays summarizes existing approaches to understanding the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of climate change. From the factors that drive carbon emissions to those which influence societal responses to climate change, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of the social dimensions of climate change. An improved understanding of the complex relationship between climate change and society is essential for modifying ecologically harmful human behaviors and institutional practices, creating just and effective environmental policies, and developing a more sustainable future. Climate Change and Society provides a useful tool in efforts to integrate social science research, natural science research, and policymaking regarding climate change and sustainability. Produced by the American Sociological Association's Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change, this book presents a challenging shift from the standard climate change discourse, and offers a valuable resource for students, scholars, and professionals involved in climate change research and policy.