Dual Pandemics: Creating Racially Just Responses to a Changing Environment through Research, Practice and Education commits to promoting and disseminating knowledge that calls for the dismantling of systemic racism and creating racially just responses to the dual pandemics.COVID-19 and anti-racist uprisings as a result of the murders of Mr. George Floyd and many other African Americans and other people of color due to police violence has unprecedented impact on our society...

Take a dive into the history and story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster!In The Story of Chernobyl, an international tragedy is examined after three decades of study and investigation. Michael Robinson provides an educated lens on the background and context of the Chernobyl explosion through exposition, analysis, and testimony. Each chapter addresses the what, where, when, who, how, and why of a significant stage in the emergency. Through thorough and approachable explanation, Robi...

Students often approach math the same way they approach other courses. Read the book, take some notes, look them over, then hope for the best when the test comes. And, if the test doesn't go well, very little is approached differently the next time around. Math Study Strategies is an easy-to-use resource that helps students learn and implement strategies that are useful during each part of the class 'cycle': choosing a class (in college), preparing for class, participating in class, doing ...

The Music of the Streets is Michael Robinson's second collection of poetry. His first, The Tiger in the Vineyard, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2015. Poems in this collection (or earlier drafts of them) have appeared in the following print and online journals: Poetry Matters, Studio, Uneven Floor.

If you've been looking for a self-improvement book that teaches you realistic short and long term methods for enhancing your mind and body. Look no further than here. This is the ultimate guide that can improve your life in as little as four minutes.

August Strindberg is one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists, and is also an internationally recognised novelist, autobiographer, and painter. This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars on different aspects of Strindberg's highly colourful life and work. The essays focus primarily on his most celebrated plays; these include the Naturalist Dramas, The Father and Miss Julie; the experimental dramas with which he created a true modernist theatre ...

Enables readers to easily understand the contract to enable better compliance and efficiencyGuide to the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Construction: The Red Book 2017 helps the reader overcome some of the difficulties encountered on a typical international construction project using the FIDIC Construction Contract 2nd Edition (the 2017 Red Book), by summarizing the activities and duties of those involved, and crystallizing the requirements of the contra...

In 1876, in a mountainous region to the west of Lake Victoria, Africa--what is today Ruwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda--the famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley encountered Africans with what he was convinced were light complexions and European features. Stanley's discovery of this African "white tribe" haunted him and seemed to substantiate the so-called Hamitic Hypothesis: the theory that the descendants of Ham, the son of Noah, had populated Africa and other remote places, prov...

You will come to know a child, a boy, and a man by the name of Brian Underwood who reflects back through remembrance of a troubled childhood. He finds himself convicted of a horrific crime, standing firm and confident of his innocence. In all his madness, he learns that he is burdened with a gift that allows him to enter an individuals mind and see their worst hidden secret when he is judged by them. He finds that the memory in the mind is a universe in itself that he can explore. This is som...

How old is the universe? How far away are the galaxies and how fast are they travelling away from us? What do the atoms in our bodies, our very existence, tell us about the history of the universe? Are we in a special place in the universe? What is dark matter and why do astronomers think it pervades the universe? How heavy is the vacuum? How do galaxies form? Michael Rowan-Robinson answers these questions and encapsulates all that modern astronomy has learnt about the universe around nine...

The bonds forged in Peace Corps service shaped the field of Korean studiesFrom 1966 through 1981 the Peace Corps sent more than two thousand volunteers to South Korea, to teach English and provide healthcare. A small yet significant number of them returned to the United States and entered academia, forming the core of a second wave of Korean studies scholars. How did their experiences in an impoverished nation still recovering from war influence their intellectual ...

A course of Lenten sermons on the seven last words of Our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross.