**Who Gets to Adapt?The Environmental Elite and the Climate Divide**Climate change is no longer a distant threat—it is a sorting mechanism. Centuries of rigid social institutions have prevented environmental elite decisionmakers and organizations from incorporating blue collar communities in the rapidly evolving growth of climate adaptation. It is not that these groups don't want to, but the social structures do not allow for the recognition of need fo...

Climate adaptation is often framed as a challenge of the future. In Who Gets to Adapt? Environmental Elites, Blue-Collar Communities, and the Climate Divide, Robert W. Collin demonstrates that its outcomes are rooted in history.This book offers a rigorous historical analysis of how protection, risk, and inequality have been structured over time in the United States. Drawing on environmental law, land-use planning, and public policy, Collin traces how decades of decisions-r...

Imagine yourself hearing the words, "You have breast cancer," while seated in a clean doctor's office, the air heavy with expectation. Your mind is filled with questions, dread, and bewilderment at that same time. How are you going to handle this journey? What actions ought you to take next? The goal of this book is to help you navigate these challenging times. It is titled “Empowered Against Breast Cancer: Strategies for Prevention, Treatment, and Thriving Beyond Diagnosis."Breast...

Step into a world where the kitchen becomes a playground, and every child transforms into a master chef. The Ultimate Easy Bake Oven Cookbook: 200 Fun & Delicious Recipes for Kids is your ticket to this magical realm. Imagine the joy of a rainy afternoon, the sound of raindrops tapping on the window, and the delightful aroma of freshly baked cookies filling the air. The Easy Bake Oven sits proudly on the counter, ready to turn simple ingredients into culinary masterpieces.This cook...

Climate Change in the Classroom: Preparing the Next Generation for a Warming WorldClimate change is not a future problem—it is the defining reality students are already living through. Yet many classrooms still prepare them for a world that no longer exists.In Climate Change in the Classroom, Robert W. Collin draws on decades of work in environmental law, urban planning, and environmental justice to show how today’s climate risks are rooted in history—from land use and indu...

This is an instruction manual for parents and physicians to treat chronic bladder and/or bowel incontinence. Bowel incontinence is the most distressing dysfunction with its penetrating and pervasive foul odors where the child tends to be most resistant to correction. Efforts are focused for one hour in the day with short 3 minute sits and the use of suppositories and enemas to assure a successful bowel movement. Done daily the soiling stops and continuation results in a learnin...

This book provides a basic understanding of spectroscopic ellipsometry, with a focus on characterization methods of a broad range of solar cell materials/devices, from traditional solar cell materials (Si, CuInGaSe2, and CdTe) to more advanced emerging materials (Cu2ZnSnSe4, organics, and hybrid perovskites), fulfilling a critical need in the photovoltaic community.The book describes optical constants of a variety of semiconductor light absorbers, transparent conductive oxides and ...

Reexamining the Creek War, the War of 1812, and the Making of the American South.Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period. Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama was both ancient homeland and new frontier where a complex network of allegiances a...

Forget run-of-the-mill holiday stories. In this cleverly creative WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a carefully curated collection of unexpected holiday stories to add a delightful twist to the season.From completely fictional holidays to holidays celebrated in the strangest of places to off-the-wall twists on familiar traditions (pooping Nativity figures, anyone?), this volume will put a smile on your face as it transports you in...

Progressive politics has long been in crisis in the United States. As the radical Left realizes the dire consequences of defining themselves solely by what they are against, this collection challenges leading engaged academics and activists to show how radical politics can lead to a more fruitful democracy. Dealing with pressing issues of the day such as health care, race, immigration, religion, foreign policy, unions, feminism, liberalism, education, and the media, this edited volume look...

20 Must-Read Supernatural Mysteries surveys the fertile borderland where detective logic encounters haunting, prophecy, occult knowledge, and the inexplicable. Its selections range from Gothic terror and fin-de-siècle decadence to adventure tale, psychological suspense, ghost story, and proto-weird fiction, demonstrating how mystery conventions can both contain and intensify supernatural disturbance. Standout encounters with cursed objects, spectral visitations, hidden identities, and unca...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up twenty fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading." —Tangent Online on ...