This book provides an important lens for understanding how interlocking humanitarian crises caused by armed conflict, natural disasters, forced displacement and, more recently, a global health pandemic have adversely impacted teaching and learning.It brings together evidence from multiple, diverse research-practice partnerships in seven countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The authors provide a clear account of...

Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. A salient idea that guides much of the collection is the one of transformation, expressed in these pages as the way in which post-millennial movie stars are in one way or another reshaping ideas...

Have you ever started strong only to watch your motivation quietly disappear? In this energetic and witty audiobook, Anthony Stevens delivers a science-backed, laugh-out-loud guide to transforming how your brain thinks, and making sure you never quit on yourself again.Drawing on real neuroscience, from neuroplasticity and dopamine triggers to habit stacking and sleep science, Stevens breaks down exactly why we fade and hands you a practical toolkit to push through. Each chapter end...

This cutting-edge work critiques today's global mediascape through feminist perspectives, highlighting concerns of policy, power, labor, and technology. Starting with the general state of international communications, the book uses feminist political-economic and policy analyses to explore the globalization of media industries, including questions about women's employment and media content that is globally produced and consumed. A top-notch group of authors covers cases on online news, por...

Have you ever started strong only to watch your motivation quietly disappear? In this energetic and witty audiobook, Anthony Stevens delivers a science-backed, laugh-out-loud guide to transforming how your brain thinks, and making sure you never quit on yourself again.Drawing on real neuroscience, from neuroplasticity and dopamine triggers to habit stacking and sleep science, Stevens breaks down exactly why we fade and hands you a practical toolkit to push through. Each chapter end...

Have you ever started strong only to watch your motivation quietly disappear? In this energetic and witty audiobook, Anthony Stevens delivers a science-backed, laugh-out-loud guide to transforming how your brain thinks, and making sure you never quit on yourself again.Drawing on real neuroscience, from neuroplasticity and dopamine triggers to habit stacking and sleep science, Stevens breaks down exactly why we fade and hands you a practical toolkit to push through. Each chapter end...

A collection of new and original steampunk short stories.Tommy's Game by LM CookeA young man is drawn into an unusual - and lethal - game of chance.Celestine by Steven C DavisA sophisticated automaton awakes in a confused state in a laboratory; how did she arrive there and what is her purpose?Spinners by Ian CaldwellA strange group of friends and their broken-down automaton attempt to escape a life of drudgery at the bottom of a city that has...

Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females: Gender, Temporality—and Yentas, the fourth volume in Marleen S. Barr’s Future Females critical feminist science fiction anthology series, is the first essay collection devoted to Jewish women science fiction writers. The anthology forges new alliances across disciplinary boundaries—feminist theory, science fiction, and Jewish Studies—by forming a scholarly force, consisting of established critical voices and cutting-edge,...

Animal law is a growing discipline, as is animal ethics. In this wide-ranging book, scholars from around the world address the intersections between the two. Specifically, this collection focuses on pressing moral issues and how law can protect animals from cruelty and abuse. A project of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, the book is edited by the Oxford Centre’s directors, Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, and features contributions from many of its fellows. Divided into three sections, ...

Sometimes called the “literature of ideas,” science fiction is a natural medium for normative political philosophy. Science fiction’s focus on technology, space and time travel, non-human lifeforms, and parallel universes cannot help but invoke the perennial questions of political life, including the nature of a just social order and who should rule; freedom, free will, and autonomy; and the advantages and disadvantages of progress. Rather than offering a reading of a work inspired by a pa...

Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these shifts—addressing more expansive understandings of where, how, and with whom we research, teach, and partner. This book examines these shifts, locating them within socio-economic trends within a...

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear.Though it’s been over four hundre...