Three girls taken from their neighborhoods for no reason. Snatched up and carried to a faraway place. What happens to them, you might ask? Well, the things of nightmares of course. Unspeakable things. This story will take you to depths of darkness that you never thought possible. Old rickety stairs, Alice in Wonderland type doors in the middle of nowhere. Let me taken you on an adventure that begins with an innocent girl and the terrifying world that she stumbles upon.

Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions.The multifaceted approach of the essays in Race and Displacement allows for nuanced discussions of race and displacement in expansive ways, exploring those issues in transnational and global terms. The contributors not only raise questions about ra...

This book represents the first collection specifically devoted to New Speaker Studies, focusing on language ideologies and practices of speakers in a variety of minority language communities. Over thirteen chapters, it uses the new speaker lens to investigate not only linguistic issues, such as language variation and change, phonetics, morphosyntax, language acquisition, code-switching, but also sociolinguistic issues, such as legitimacy, integration, and motivation in language learning an...

Are you tired of being told your symptoms are "normal" when you know something isn't right? In Fix Your Gut, Fix Your Hormones, Dr. Cassie Smith, MD, reveals how common issues like fatigue, bloating, weight gain, anxiety, and night sweats are often rooted in gut dysfunction-not bad luck or aging. With clarity and compassion, she explains how the microbiome influences hormones, including thyroid, cortisol, insulin, estrogen, and progesterone. Blending cutting-edge science with a practical, ...

Are you tired of being told your symptoms are "normal" when you know something isn't right? In Fix Your Gut, Fix Your Hormones, Dr. Cassie Smith, MD, reveals how common issues like fatigue, bloating, weight gain, anxiety, and night sweats are often rooted in gut dysfunction-not bad luck or aging. With clarity and compassion, she explains how the microbiome influences hormones, including thyroid, cortisol, insulin, estrogen, and progesterone. Blending cutting-edge science with a practical, ...

Are you tired of being told your symptoms are "normal" when you know something isn't right? In Fix Your Gut, Fix Your Hormones, Dr. Cassie Smith, MD, reveals how common issues like fatigue, bloating, weight gain, anxiety, and night sweats are often rooted in gut dysfunction-not bad luck or aging. With clarity and compassion, she explains how the microbiome influences hormones, including thyroid, cortisol, insulin, estrogen, and progesterone. Blending cutting-edge science with a practical, ...

Exploring Intercultural Communication investigates the role of language in intercultural communication, paying particular attention to the interplay between cultural diversity and language practice. This second edition increases and updates the coverage on emerging key topics, including symbolic power, communicative turbulence, conversational inequality, stereotypes, racism, Nationality and Ethnicity talk and the impact and role of technology in intercultural communication. Includ...

This introductory text examines two different approaches to social psychology experimental and critical - and is updated with new developments.

The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics presents a comprehensive introduction to the main concepts and terms of sociolinguistics, and of the goals, methods, and findings of sociolinguistic research.Introduces readers to the methodology and skills of doing hands-on research in this fieldFeatures chapter-by-chapter classic and contemporary case studies, exercises, and examples to enhance comprehensionOffers wide-ranging coverage of topics across socioling...

Do the arts improve academic achievement? What does it mean to ‘teach’ art? What should the balance of classic and pop be in the music curriculum? Should we encourage young children on the stage? How do we judge whether what a child produces is good? How do we justify the arts in the curriculum? What should be the balance between form and content when teaching art?The arts in education inspire considerable commitment and passion. However, this is not always matched by clarity of un...

Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field.Features 35 newly-written essays from internationally acclaimed experts that reflect the growth and vitality of the burgeoning area of historical sociolinguisticsExamines how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and exper...

This book offers an academic, critical approach to theories underpinning current practice in early childhood care and education.