This open access book provides a “state of the science” for biological and ecological knowledge of red spruce (Picea rubens) ecosystems and highlights three decades of successful partnerships to restore them in the central and southern Appalachians. Efforts to restore red spruce have dramatically increased in recent decades and restoration practitioners need a single resource that synthesizes our understanding of these ecosystems and current restoration goals and practices. Over 40 authors...

Embedded in vibrant and richly textured New Mexican landscapes, Storying Plant Communication: More-than-Human Relationships in New Mexicoexplores the narrative accounts of southwestern herbalists, healers, teachers, farmers, and other plant enthusiasts who maintain deep and reciprocal relationships with the local flora.Reflecting on plant relationships, place-making practices, and a breadth of other topics, the storytellers describe their transformative pe...

In the sun-drenched hills of Italy, a young woman named Miriam finds herself drawn into a passionate affair with a mysterious stranger. As their love deepens, Miriam discovers a hidden world of sensuality and desire that challenges her very being. But their forbidden romance is threatened by the watchful eyes of society and the weight of their own pasts. "Tortoises" is a tale of forbidden love, sexual awakening, and the search for true identity. D. H. Lawrence's lyrical prose and unflinchi...

"Me, My Dog and a Sheep," a new children's book share the story of the deep love between a boy and his beloved dog - a love that grows stronger after the dog develops a serious disease.The book begins with a four-month-old dog, Grizzy, being ignored by all customers at a pet store due to his age. One day, Luke's father selected Grizzy and gave a two-year-old Luke his new best friend. A few years later, one day, when Grizzy could not stand, the family took him to a doctor and discov...

This book is designed to illuminate the features of cross-sector partnerships that make them powerful vehicles to drive social change. Partnerships across market sectors, involving for-profit, non-profit, and government entities, work because they leverage the advantages of each type of organization to arrive at novel solutions to social problems.Unlike previous work that has discussed cross-sector, multi-sector, or public-private partnerships at a conceptual level, this book scour...

How is Your Child Doing Socially, Emotionally, and Spiritually?We have many tools for tracking our children's physical and intellectual development, but what about their hearts and souls? After all, how they develop emotionally, socially, and spiritually will determine who they become as husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, friends and co-workers.In Are My Kids on Track? you'll learn the answers to such questions as:● At what age should...

The consequences for climate change range from a gradual to a catastrophic impact on the ecology, environment, economy and society. This book is about the present and future dangers of climate change and the possibilities for corporate sustainability. The work is intended as a companion for students, researchers and professionals interested in the analysis of climate change, and the many initiatives there are to develop sustainability along corporate value chains. The narrative will explor...

Tools for identifying and developing spiritual, social, and emotional growth.From birth to adulthood, our children's physical and intellectual development is carefully tracked and charted. But what about their hearts? After all, how our children develop emotionally, socially, and spiritually will determine who they become as husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, friends and co-workers.Are My Kids on Track? helps you identify and measure twelve k...

How can you encourage students to accept varieties of English from around the world?This reflective question and many others await your discussion and analysis in this revised edition of TESOL Press’s best-selling Teaching Speaking, which explores different approaches to teaching speaking in second language classrooms. This volume contains new references and updated research as well as new activities, charts, and a detailed lesson plan for teachers to cons...

The movement of policy is a core feature of contemporary education reform. Many different concepts, including policy transfer, borrowing and lending, travelling, diffusion and mobility, have been deployed to study how and why policy moves across jurisdictions, scales of governance, policy sectors or organisations. However, the underlying theoretical perspectives and the foundational assumptions of different approaches to policy movement remain insufficiently discussed.To address th...

Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky’s role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development. The collection features women with well-known names as well as those whose lives and work deserve greater...

This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San MiguelYou see their silhouettes along the stone wallor arm in arm below the glow of garden lightshuddled like foothills, earth you coul...