Andrew loves to be just a little bit different, and is known to wear things backwards and inside out. While he is at school, his mother turns his world upside down. As usual, in the adventures of Andrew being a Perfectly Normal Everyday Boy, he and his mother get into some pretty surprising situations. When Andrew gets off the bus from school, what will be in store for him? What is his mother up to this time?

“If there’s one thing we learned coming up on Daufuskie,” remembers Sallie Ann Robinson, “it’s the importance of good, home-cooked food.” In this enchanting book, Robinson presents the delicious, robust dishes of her native Sea Islands and offers readers a taste of the unique, West African–influenced Gullah culture still found there.Living on a South Carolina island accessible only by boat, Daufuskie folk have traditionally relied on the bounty of fresh ingredients found on the lan...

Histories of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955–1956 typically focus on Rosa Parks, who refused to yield her bus seat to a White man, and on a young Martin Luther King Jr., who became the spokesman for the Black community organization set up to pursue a boycott of Montgomery’s segregated city buses. In an important revision of the traditional account, this extraordinary personal memoir reveals an earlier and more important role played by a group of middle-class Black Montgomery women in cr...

The way we think about crime and the way that society responds to it are imbued with values that can determine what is considered important and what gets attention. Sometimes values that are claimed may not be the values expressed in practice, as we see in the multiple and confusing discourses about victims and offenders, punishment and protection, rights and responsibilities.This collection of writings considers values in crime theory, criminal justice and research practice, uncov...

This text allows instructors to teach a course on heat and mass transfer that will equip students with the pragmatic, applied skills required by the modern chemical industry. This new approach is a combined presentation of heat and mass transfer, maintaining mathematical rigor while keeping mathematical analysis to a minimum. This allows students to develop a strong conceptual understanding, and teaches them how to become proficient in engineering analysis of mass contactors and heat excha...

Now in its second edition,Climatology continues to provide an up-to-date stimulating and comprehensive guide to the nature of the earth's climate. It presents a synthesis of contemporary scientific ideas about atmospheric circulation.Topics covered include:-Energy systems-The hydrological cycle-General circulation, local and regional climate-Application of climate information-Use of satellite observations

'Invisible' Anne Brown fears she'll never escape the harshness and poverty of her life in County Donegal, Ireland. Until, one Beltane night, her life is changed forever and she leaves to seek her fortune in Australia. Upon the death of their father, charismatic Will Worthington and his sister Mari are stunned to find he has left all their money and a ticket to Australia to an enigmatic painted woman, the mother of his unborn child. Their only hope for a brighter future a...

Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.Urban Sustainability is the first book to provide an applied interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead in this area. Bringing together researchers and practitioners to...

Finally, it’s October! Home to our favorite holiday—Halloween.The origins of Halloween trace back to ancient Celtic harvest festivals, linking it to themes of change and transition that often elements of the fantastic. Darkness falls, boundaries dissolve, and our imaginations open to infinite possibilities.For authors of fantasy and horror, the imagery and symbolism of Halloween fuels imagination and storytelling around our deepest fears and fascinations. The holiday has ce...

Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic inAfricans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business, the plantation economies that it fed and the consequences of its abolition. The volume unearths material entanglements of the Continental and Atlantic economies and also proposes a new ag...

Mave has been unhappy for a number of years with her husband Slim. He barely pays her or their children any attention, and he’s hooked on a number of drugs. He feels more like a messy roommate than a spouse.Lonely and unsatisfied, she begins to eye Raph, the father of one of the boys in the same sports league as her son. Intense and sexually fueled flirtations begin through texts and quickly move to physical. As their relationship develops, Mave finds herself falling more and more f...

A gifted education Legacy Award winner, Best Practices in Gifted Education provides concise, up-to-date, research-based advice to educators, administrators, and parents of gifted and talented youth. The 29 practices included in this volume are the result of an extensive examination of educational research on what works with talented youth. The interest in culturally diverse and low-income learners, the means to identify talents, and the need for curriculum that appropriately chall...