The contemporaneous movements for human rights that Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers waged during the 1960s are analysed in a comparative fashion here for the very first time. The book also examines the extra-legal measures that both the KGB and FBI employed to destroy them.The Black Panthers and the Soviets innovatively compares Soviet human rights activists' exposure of the workings of the Soviet police state with the miniature, city-level surveillance poli...

Friendship and other intimate (but not always amicable) relationships have received some attention in the greater field of research on early Judaism and Christianity, though not as much as deserved. This volume celebrates and builds upon the life-long work of Adele Reinhartz, covering the various permutations of relationships that can be found in the Gospel of John, the wider corpus of early Jewish and Christian literature, and cinematic re-imaginings thereof.While the issue of whe...

In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening cultures to form across time. Connecting this history of noise in the cinema to a greater sonic culture, Static in the System shows how cinema sound was networked into a broader constellation of factors that affected social power, gender, sexuality, class, the built environment, and ind...

A memoir of service, culture and transformation in a rural Panamanian village by a young American woman trained as a community forester for the Peace Corp.In the storied fifty-year history of the US Peace Corps, Heart of Palms is the first Peace Corps memoir set in Panama, the slender isthmus that connects two continents and two oceans. In her memoir, Meredith Cornett transports readers to the remote village of Tranquilla, where dugout canoes are ...

Interdisciplinary Thinking for Schools: Ethical Dilemmas MYP 1, 2 & 3 is not your average textbook resource. Innovative ethical design projects illustrated with spectacular artwork will connect students to exciting and purposeful learning. Rich primary research includes interviews with the following visionaries: Alberto Alessi, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Dr. Jane Goodall, Jared Della Valle and the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation. The interdisciplinary units have been writt...

What if a simple command like “sit” could unlock your dog’s full potential?The Science of Sit by Dr. Meredith Vale takes one of the most basic commands in dog training—and reveals the powerful psychology, learning theory, and behavioral science behind it. Narrated by Koda Blake, this audiobook transforms a simple action into a gateway for deeper training success.Because every command teaches more than it seems.This book breaks down how dogs learn, how habit...

What if a simple command like “sit” could unlock your dog’s full potential?The Science of Sit by Dr. Meredith Vale takes one of the most basic commands in dog training—and reveals the powerful psychology, learning theory, and behavioral science behind it. Narrated by Koda Blake, this audiobook transforms a simple action into a gateway for deeper training success.Because every command teaches more than it seems.This book breaks down how dogs learn, how habit...

What if a simple command like “sit” could unlock your dog’s full potential?The Science of Sit by Dr. Meredith Vale takes one of the most basic commands in dog training—and reveals the powerful psychology, learning theory, and behavioral science behind it. Narrated by Koda Blake, this audiobook transforms a simple action into a gateway for deeper training success.Because every command teaches more than it seems.This book breaks down how dogs learn, how habit...