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ENACTing Change
Explains the ENACT model of student civic engagement, empowers instructors to implement it, and shows them how to assess its impact. ENACT: The Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation aims to teach college students about democracy through engagement with the state legislative process. Built on the values of knowledge, cooperation, justice, and integrity, ENACT is a national, intercollegiate nonpartisan network. The program empowers students to be active participants in democratic processes by connecting with policymakers and community organizations, conducting research and analysis, and informing public policy with evidence and expertise. ENACTing Change introduces teachers to the philosophy and practice of the ENACT model—which includes workshops, courses, an online network, as well as pilot projects and other initiatives—while providing detailed guidance on how to incorporate the model into their courses, regardless of discipline or educational settings. The book offers instructors recommendations for developing and teaching courses that engage in state-level policy advocacy with a focus on learning outcomes. ENACTing Change takes instructors through each step of the course design process, from how to build the relationships needed to teach the class to the next steps for students to work in the community after ENACT.
Ida Lupino, Director
The updated edition of Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition, an in-depth exploration of Lupino's film and television directing work, provides close readings of the films and TV episodes Lupino directed and accounts for the history of Lupino's reception, continuing into the mid-2020s, in media and film scholarship. The book gives readers a fuller understanding of Lupino's major contribution to the history of American cinema and media. The revisions update this book, the first on Lupino's directing, to address recent scholarship on Lupino's work and reinforce her abiding relevance for cinephiles and film scholars. It incorporates scholarly and popular culture references to Lupino in the last seven years. Updates include a foreword by writer and film critic Imogen Sara Smith, whose work in film scholarship and the public arena has drawn attention to Lupino and the importance of gender to film noir. Authors Therese Grisham and Julie Grossman have added a complete list of the TV episodes Lupino directed in the 1950s and '60s, as well as an updated epilogue. This new edition addresses how our views of Lupino's innovative cinema and her prodigious contributions to classic television have been taken up by others, proving that Lupino, whose reputation has waxed and waned since the middle of the twentieth century, is here to stay as a major figure in the history of American media.
Big Words for Little People: Celebrate
This little book on celebrating is part of an important series which focuses on the words we need to talk about big topics with young children in a way that feels good. Using carefully chosen words and phrases in a warm lyrical way, it creates a special moment for grown-ups and young children to talk about what - and how - we celebrate, including milestones, happy and sad events, carnivals, festivals, new babies and new teeth - and reminds us to have fun with each other every day. Children can discover and understand new words to help them to talk with confidence. The engaging art style, fun characters who appear in familiar settings in all the books, and hardback picture book feel make this series accessible and perfect to share. Each one includes reassuring tips for grown-ups on how to enjoy these books, encourage conversation and build language confidence. This series is special not only because it focuses on feelings in a child-friendly way, but also because it''s from Oxford, it''s packed with educational goodness that helps children develop and grow.
Fascinating Habitats
Our planet is full of fascinating habitats. From busy tropical rainforests teaming with life to the deep ocean hiding extraordinary creatures, there are so many incredible places to discover. Learn about the landscapes and weather patterns that shape each habitat, the clever adaptations helping animals and plants thrive even in the most extreme places, the unique challenges each habitat faces, and more. Packed with easy-to-read, bite-size facts and stunning full-colour illustrated scenes, this book brings our planet’s most impressive ecosystems to life. Every page reveals something surprising and memorable; it’s a perfect, high-interest read for nature lovers.
Dangerous Dinosaurs
Explore the world of Dangerous Dinosaurs. There were some incredibly dangerous dinosaurs out there once! Lots of these dinosaurs get high scores for strength or ferociousness. Amazing full-colour illustrations showcase the top 25 deadly dinosaurs, showing the individual skills and abilities of each. This includes the terrifying T.rex with its incredibly powerful bite, the speedy Stenonychosaurus with its great vision, and the intimidating Albertosaurus that hunted in packs. Fun bite-sized facts about the features and nature of these fascinating dinosaurs makes this an awesome ready for everyone!
Incredible Dinosaurs
Explore the world of Incredible Dinosaurs. There were some incredibly large dinosaurs out there once! Lots of these dinosaurs get high scores for size or speed. Amazing full-colour illustrations showcase the top 25 dinosaurs that broke records, showing the individual skills and abilities of each. This includes the giraffe-sized Quetzalcoatlus that took to the skies, the speedy Gallimimus that was twice as fast as a human, and the huge Mamenchisaurus with its incredibly long neck. Fun bite-sized facts about the features and nature of these fascinating dinosaurs makes this an awesome ready for everyone!
All About Rockets and Spaceships
We are the Mighty Mechanics, and we look after all kinds of awesome space machines. Join us for a tour of some incredible machines used to reach outer space. Learn about the first ever rocket to get humans into space, the first rocket to take astronauts to the Moon – and so much more! Full of dynamic photographs, colourful graphics, and fun facts that will keep you turning the pages. So, buckle up and prepare for lift-off!
Tell-Tale Treats
A group of high school alumnae reunite years later and reserve rooms at Pixie Inn for an extended retreat. As part of their pampering package, Felicity delivers a scrumptious assortment of enchanted pastries, including her new almond cookies. But the queen bee of the group is soon found dead in her bathroom, drowned in the tub, and she recently sampled the delicious baked goods. Could Felicity’s almond cookies have set off a fatal nut allergy? The enchanted pastries are supposed to bring joy, not sorrow - and certainly not death. Boyfriend, Kelvin Love, is eager to assist, although odd things have been happening to his senses ever since he baked with Felicity. Will his extra sensitivity help or hinder the investigation? Plus, special bunny Whiskers lends a magical paw to the detecting since Felicity can’t and won’t relax until she restores both order and magic to her world.
I Have a Home, There Is a We
I Have a Home, There Is a We, whose original Swahili edition was in 2015 the first book of poetry to win the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature, brings the acclaimed verse of prolific Zanzibari poet, journalist, and cultural changemaker Mohammed Khelef Ghassani to English-language readers for the first time. The book explores the poet's life as a migrant in Germany: linguistic and cultural alienation, nostalgia, and longing for his homeland on the island of Pemba. These poems form a catalog of sorrow and love addressed to the family he left behind, to the children whose roots "he tore forcefully from the ground" in hopes of offering them a better life, and above all to the country he calls home, using the deeply resonant Swahili term "kwetu"—our place—named over and over again as Zanzibar. Utilizing the structured verse forms of traditional Swahili prosody, the collection is modern, unique, and innovative, speaking to a global diasporic experience even as it draws deeply on an idiom specific to the poet's tiny island home. A ripple of political defiance suffuses the poems as Ghassani positions himself against layered forms of oppression and marginalization both at home and abroad in this synthesis of love song, lamentation, and freedom declaration.
Deadly Defensive Dinosaurs
Explore the world of Deadly Defensive Dinosaurs. There were some incredibly skilled dinosaurs out there once! Lots of these dinosaurs get high scores for toughness or agility. Amazing full-colour illustrations showcase the top 25 dinosaurs who were ready for battle, showing the individual skills and abilities of each. This includes Therizinosaurus with its long, razor-sharp claws, the tough-skulled Pachycephalosaurus that headbutted its opponents, and Ankylosaurus with its hard-hitting tail. Fun bite-sized facts about the features and nature of these fascinating dinosaurs makes this an awesome read for everyone!
Campus Whisper Networks
Campus Whisper Networks examines how personal knowledge about student sexual assault circulates within college campus communities. Based upon both qualitative and quantitative survey data, Janet Shope and Richard Pringle's research demonstrates that students who have been sexually assaulted tell someone -almost always a friend. Most college students know someone who has been assaulted. Simply knowing, by means of relationships, that one or more peers have been assaulted affects the knowers, and the effects reverberate unevenly across campuses. Shope and Pringle highlight the structural properties that prohibit relational knowledge from becoming official institutional knowledge, confining it to whispers and secrecy within informal spheres of knowledge. The rules governing the circulation of such knowledge create an uneven epistemic field of sexual assault. This uneven field is consequential for the communities, affecting survivors and their confidants and shaping student views of the college community. Campus Whisper Networks demonstrates how personal and institutional avoidance, both the “need to not know” and “no need to know,” create knowledge gaps that hide the community’s wounds and prevent personal knowledge from becoming social knowledge.
Hyperpolitics
What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher's London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how public life has become infused with protest, spectacle, and moral urgency - while the old infrastructure of parties, unions, and civic solidarity has been hollowed out.
Hyperpolitics revisits the illusions of the "end of history" and dissects the strange energies that replaced them: viral outrage, endless culture wars, and the digital rush of causes that flare and vanish overnight. Jäger shows how the promises of post-Cold War liberalism gave way to a restless, unsteady public sphere where private passions overflow into politics but rarely build enduring power.
Ranging from Guy Debord and Wolfgang Tillmans to Houellebecq's disenchanted fictions, Hyperpolitics makes sense of a world in which collective action remains fragmented and the social fabric thinner than ever. For anyone trying to grasp why our age feels so charged yet so inconsequential, this book offers a vital map through the new contradictions of our hyperpolitical moment.
Star Wars: Mandalorian 2
Osamělý nájemný lovec Mandalorian na žádost krutého imperiálního zůstatku zajistil Dítě a nyní se snaží vrátit se svou kořistí zpět. Návrat ke klientovi, který představuje kdysi všemocné Galaktické impérium, se však ukazuje být mnohem složitější. A Dítě navíc vykazuje tajemné schopnosti, které Mandalorianův úkol i život změní od základu.
Na straně svobody
V situaci, kdy se na progresivní levici i nacionalistické pravici daří autoritářským tendencím, přináší tato kniha radikální obhajobu svobody a potažmo západní civilizace, která k ideálu svobody dospěla.
Na straně svobody nabízí pohled na svobodu z několika úhlů – od hlubších filosofických úvah až po praktické politické otázky. Od představení vybraných myslitelů svobody až po její příkladné státníky. Od hravého pohledu na vlajky svobody až po osobní vzpomínky autora, jak a proč ke svým názorům dospěl. S otázkou politické svobody jen zdánlivě nesouvisí putování autora ke křesťanství a přehled spisovatelů, kteří ho na této pouti provázeli.
Stojíme na ramenou obrů: za svobodu vděčíme moudrosti významných myslitelů, rozvážnosti velkých státníků a odvaze hrdinů v klíčových momentech dějin. Svobodu můžeme snadno ztratit. Tato kniha proto poskytuje návod, jak ji i v rozbouřených časech uchránit a zachovat.
The Loon Counters
In the fictional Adirondack towns of Silver Lake and Lost River, a colorful cast of residents coexist, sometimes unharmoniously, with seasonal visitors, travelers, and vacationers. Their stories are told in The Loon Counters, which sees the residents and visitors of the community encounter Olympic torchbearers, a mysteriously unseen-but-often-heard violinist, pushy hikers, brooding art museum security guards. The characters recur across stories, seasons, and locations, finely illustrating the subtle shifts in the life of a rural, isolated Adirondack enclave. Across sixteen interconnected stories, Roger Sheffer explores the lives and world of this community of outsiders who call this unique region home. Sheffer crafts stories that speak to the complex charm of the region, the isolation and the community, the nostalgia, and the conservation, all the while finding the small places people carve for themselves in nature.
The Art of Skiing
Skiing is more than just a sport – it’s a way of life that blends elegance, adventure, and a deep connection to nature. This Callwey book takes readers on a journey to the world’s most stunning ski destinations – from the legendary slopes of the Alps to the untouched powder of Japan and Alaska. It offers insights into exclusive resorts, hidden gems, and the dedicated people behind the scenes who create unforgettable mountain experiences. Engaging portraits, captivating anecdotes, and historical perspectives invite readers to immerse themselves in the rich culture of skiing – complemented by expert tips for stylish travel, essential gear, and the finest spots for apres-ski and fine dining.
Where Future Grows
An exploration of the shift towards work environments that foster creativity, well-being and meaningful growth – reimagining the future of work as a place where people really want to be.
Although more and more tasks are being taken over by machines and artificial intelligence, humans remain the central element to the working world. For knowledge workers in particular, the choice of workplace will increasingly depend on where they can best utilize their skills, find meaning in their work, and experience a positive working environment. Where Future Grows explores this transformation of work and examines how future workplaces should be designed. An environment that considers both functional and aesthetic aspects will become increasingly important.
The authors present a vision of a working world where the boundary between life and work dissolves, allowing human potential to be fully realized. Through detailed analyses of future work environments and a series of interviews, best-practice examples illustrate how workplaces should be designed to foster both professional and personal growth.
Notes on Book Design
Insightful texts on book design that explore the visual, tactile, and cultural aspects of books through the perspective of graphic designers
Fifty readings on book design, authored by Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of Formal Settings, unfold across the pages of this volume. Drawn from a curated selection of titles in the private collection of the Hopscotch Reading Room – a conceptual bookshop and event space in Berlin – each text focuses on a single book, examining its visual and tactile qualities, from materials and layout to binding and typography. “Our aim is to understand the role and potential of books through a design lens, mapping what they communicate through their physical form.”
The authors guide readers through the intricacies of book design, showing how form can become message – how a book can serve as a vessel, a statement, and an object of beauty in its own right. They explore and examine each book as a design object, situating it within the cultural movements, political climates, and economic conditions in which it was produced. This publication reveals how book design can foster shared languages and cultures, create space for the exchange and exploration of ideas, and underscore the social and cultural dimensions of design itself.
With an afterword by designer, author, and teacher Prem Krishnamurthy, providing further context and insight into the project.
Eyes, Knees, Boundaries, Please!
Teach kids 3 to 5 about body boundaries, private parts, and consent with a positive and empowering picture book from pediatrician and bestselling author Dr. Krupa Bhojani Playforth!
Knowing how to talk about their bodies and establish safe boundaries with others is critical to kids' health and safety - but body safety can be a tough topic to tackle.
This friendly, illustrated picture book from board-certified pediatrician Dr. Krupa Bhojani Playforth makes it simple, with age-appropriate but accurate text and illustrations that describe the correct names for private parts, what body boundaries are, and how kids can advocate for themselves - because their body should belong to them and only them.
An essential topic for this age range - Knowing the right terms for body parts and appropriate body boundaries can improve children's body image, self-confidence, and make them less likely to be a target of abuse. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends starting this conversation as early as possible.
Informative but lighthearted - Introduce your child to body safety in a fun, engaging way that is never scary or too serious, but directly explains everything kids should know with a book that they'll want to read!
Make body conversations easier - Giving kids the language, knowledge, and opportunity to ask questions about bodies and consent encourages them to stand up for themselves, and to feel comfortable talking to trusted grownups.
Get the complete resource parents have been asking for to help young kids talk about their bodies confidently and correctly as they build healthy body awareness!
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