Do you want to make delicious and wholesome bread at home without worrying about harmful ingredients? Do you think it is too complicated and be afraid of throwing away ingredients? Or do you simply need a bread specifically for your diet? If you answered YES to any of these questions, YOU MUST KEEP READING…You wake up in the morning, and the irresistible aroma of freshly baked bread fills your home. ...

How dominant patriarchal structures permeated the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic—and women’s multiple and varied experiences of and resistance to these structures.Feminism and COVID-19 explores different but common themes related to women’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Julia Smith and Clare Wenham bring together a unique multicentered, multidisciplinary, and transnational author team, covering nine case studies from Bangladesh, Brazil, C...

Maths Revolution is an essential guide giving you powerful tools to break through where traditional methods have failed, transforming resistant maths learners into confident achievers.Based on Julia Smith's pioneering 5Rs curriculum, real-life case studies and two decades of frontline teaching, this practical resource offers breakthrough strategies that have helped countless resistant learners achieve passing grades. Through compelling case studies (includ...

STAY AWAY FROM THE BAD COMPANY is a book based on a true storyOlga is fed-up being unpopular and feeling lonely. What lengths is Olga willing to go to be friends with Simona? Simona seems to be everything that Olga is not. What lessons will she learn about friendship, and what it really means? Olga is about to embark upon this journey of self-discovery in finding her true identity.

With the vast majority of healthcare and social workers identifying as women, the vanguard of the COVID-19 response was distinctly gendered. In Conscripted to Care Julia Smith introduces us to the women who faced the worst effects of the pandemic and the inequities it exposed. Through clear prose and fascinating critical analysis, she documents their largely unseen contributions and sacrifices, both professional and domestic.Drawing on interviews and focus groups with near...

The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America’s leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks surrounding them. Palmer’s work reveals a life dedicated to dissent and the difficult task of imagining alternatives by understanding the past in all of its contradictions, victories, and failures.Dissenting Traditions gathers Palmer’s contempor...

Why has the response to HIV/AIDS been unique? How did civil society organizations gain access to global decision-making forums to demand exceptional attention and resources for HIV/AIDS? This book seeks to answer these questions, among others, through a critical international relations approach that enquires into the role of civil society in global health governance. It documents how civil society forged the initial response to HIV/AIDS within a rights-based paradigm, and built internation...

This book examines engagements with financial services in contexts of conflict. Using Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as case studies, it explores informal financial and business strategies and how these shift during conflict. Through a combination of regression analyses and panel data modeling with fixed effects, the project research indicates that conflict has a stronger effect on the nature of demand for credit and savings services than it has on the actual performance ...

Step into the dark underbelly of history with "Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals," a captivating compendium of notorious outlaws and their chilling crimes. From highwaymen to murderers, coiners to housebreakers, this book unveils the true stories behind some of the most infamous individuals who have met their fate at the hands of justice. Prepare to be enthralled by tales of daring heists, cold-blooded killings, and the relentless pursuit of justice that ultimately brought these crimi...

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) allocates vast sums of money each year, providing vital assistance to countless individuals across the developing world. Yet many observers and insiders have sharply criticized CIDA for its lack of concrete results.Presenting a range of work by scholars and practitioners, this collection offers the most comprehensive examination of CIDA's efforts in over a decade. Contributors explore recent trends in Canadian foreign aid, includ...

The growth of what some academics refer to as 'the policy analysis movement' represents an effort to reform certain aspects of government behaviour. The policy analysis movement is the result of efforts made by actors inside and outside formal political decision-making processes to improve policy outcomes by applying systematic evaluative rationality to the development and implementation of policy options. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the many ways in which the policy ana...

Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 percent is provided as emergency assistance. In this first-ever attempt to provide an overall...