Somewhere recently, a friend or a wealthy relative mentioned they're "an LP" in a venture fund. You nodded. You didn't ask what that meant, what they actually own, or when they get their money back.Venture capital has built some of the largest fortunes in modern finance. It hasn't built an instruction manual for the people funding it. Founders get accelerators and pitch coaches. Fund managers get conferences and trade press. The limited partners, the family offices, the angel inves...

Historic preservation law sits at the intersection of property, land use, environmental, constitutional, tax, and administrative law, yet it remains one of the most specialized and frequently misunderstood areas of legal practice. Historic Preservation Law provides practitioners, scholars, and students with a comprehensive introduction to the legal frameworks that protect the nation’s historic and cultural resources. From the evolution of preservation policy to the practical appli...

As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in Blackface Nation, this struggle is especially evident in popular culture and the interplay between two specific strains of music: middle-class folk and blackface minstrelsy.The Hutchinson Family Singers, the Northeast's most popul...

Transport Technology is coming soon. Visions Corporation.After revealing a new technology that is capable of replacing current methods of transportation and eliminating the world’s dependencies on oil, David Sampson struggles with the decision to make his breakthrough public.There’s no turning back when Visions, a megacorporation, releases a device the size of a cellphone which is embedded with the technology. Many embrace the new method of transpo...

Forced back to her remote hometown by the war, Giulia is immediately drawn to a couple in a similar situation: graceful, spontaneous Ada and her husband Paolo, a sickly teacher and partisan in hiding. Joined from Turin by Giulia's husband Stefano, the two couples form an intense bond; as the Germans begin to occupy Italy, a subtle dance of attractions begins, intensified by their shared isolation and the muffled hum of threat over a long, hard winter.In prose of subtle, enigmatic a...

In Strategies of Genius Volume IV, Robert Dilts explores the architecture of human genius through the lives and work of four extraordinary innovators: Milton H. Erickson, Gregory Bateson, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Gabrielle Roth. Although each worked in a different field-psychotherapy, systems theory, movement education, and expressive dance-they shared a remarkable capacity to facilitate change that was natural, ecological a...

As relevant as it was at the time of publication, this landmark work remains timely and urgent in demonstrating how to examine questions of race, politics and crime in contemporary society. A formative text in cultural studies and criminology, it shows the relevance of conjunctural analysis to the current emergence of forms of authoritarian populist politics. Examining the crisis of the British state in the 1970s, the book explores how interacting economic, social and political conflicts a...

Upon the death of her husband, Innocenzo Monti, Lalla Romano sought to distil the essence of their long life together. The result was In Farthest Seas: a piercingly intimate retelling of the first four years and final four months of their relationship, built from shard-like moments of connection and revelation.With precise artistry, Romano braids together seemingly minor details-the expressiveness of Innocenzo's hands, the beauty of his face in sleep, a fleeting instance o...

This edited volume is part of the Information Age Publishing (IAP) Series on Family, School and Community Partnerships. This book addresses the ways families and communities engage with an increasingly common feature of the American public education landscape: charter schools. Family and Community Engagement in Charter Schools contains seven chapters examining this emerging field of study authored by both established and emerging scholars. Chapters examine how charter schools, the policy l...

Having worked in the transport industry for many years, my curious nature alerted me to the fact that I was witnessing to many deaths amongst colleagues. This had to be challenged and investigated, as I had never worked in any industry where fatalities amongst work colleagues were so high. Having previously worked in recreation sports and leisure management. I was not going to pass-up this opportunity to apply some old skills of individual health and wellness to assist fellow workers, my e...

A lonely little boy's unlikely friendship with his grandparents' grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying hell of long-buried secrets, shadowy partisans, murdered Nazis, thefts, lies, doppelgängers, bloodthirsty slugs, and the unquiet dead.

Long before the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters. Raised on comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternate universe for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers. Compared to the horrors of real life, Long John Silver and Cthulhu made for positively cuddly company; but little boys raised by beasts may well g...