This book is an opportunity to both explore the concepts and theories that shape our current work as English educators and look ahead to new directions for the future of the field. It examines practices that illustrate the principles that guide English educators’ teaching of the English Language Arts Methods course. New directions for the future of the field are also explored. The book’s chapters include both practical enactments and theoretical examinations of teaching ELA methods courses...

Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference, sponsored by the American Shakespeare Center, brings together scholars, actors, directors, dramaturges, and students to share important new work on the staging practices used by William Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The volume’s contributors range from renowned scholars and editors to acclaimed directors, highly-trained actors, and budding researchers. T...

Use strongman training techniques to boost performance and add variety.Have you ever been curious about the strongman style of training? Maybe it has interested you but you are not sure where to start. Or perhaps you have tried to learn more and found there is a shortage of accessible information for non-competitors.As a word-of-mouth sport, strongman knowledge has long been passed on only through veteran coaches and athletes. Strongman...

The body's healing response to injury or infection is localized inflammation and it is normal. However, when inflammation moves beyond the local, it becomes abnormal. New research is showing that abnormal inflammation may be linked to a variety of diseases and conditions, including heart disease, cancer, asthma, diabetes, and arthritis among others. Researchers are suggesting that diet can reverse this inflammation and the conditions and diseases caused by it.New to this edition:

She came home searching for her sister. What she uncovered could destroy them all. A family's dark past resurfaces in this chilling psychological thriller.Johnna LaGrange photographs death for a living. But when she gets the call that her younger sister Ori has vanished from their hometown of Sweetwater, North Carolina, the decay she's drawn to becomes chillingly personal.Returning to a town that never forgave her for surviving, Johnna finds her family in t...

She came home searching for her sister. What she uncovered could destroy them all.Johnna LaGrange photographs death for a living. But when she gets the call that her younger sister Ori has vanished from their hometown of Sweetwater, North Carolina, the decay she's drawn to becomes chillingly personal.Returning to a town that never forgave her for surviving, Johnna finds her family in tatters—her mother drowning in vodka, her brother partying like nothing's ...

“This beautifully crafted novel sings and soars.”—Nikki Grimes, author of Ordinary HazardsDylan seeks solace through birdwatching and poetry in the woods behind his grandfather’s auto shop—but when he rescues an injured hawk, he must learn to confront the broken parts in himself in this powerful middle-grade novel-in-verse.15-year-old Dylan has always felt like an outsider in his small town. Isolated when he was yo...

This book provides a description and analysis of how the concept of business ethics has been received, adopted, adapted and developed in different countries in Europe. While a substantial Europe-wide dialogue about business ethics research and education has taken place since about 1990, especially as a result of the establishment of the European Business Ethics Network, implementation has varied by country, because Europe is a patchwork of cultures, value systems, political ideologies, int...

This edited volume contains valuable information for museums and academic institutions concerning the care and conservation of human remains. The editors provide all the essential information required concerning the curation of human remains, from oft posed ethical questions to storage and transport issues. Jam-packed with references, this collection is up to date and is a must have resource. This volume should be required reading for institutions with osteology collections, as well as sch...