A searing collection of essays looks back at the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings that ignited a national debate about workplace sexual harassment.In the fall of 1991, Anita Hill captured the country's attention when she testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee describing sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas, who had been her boss and was about to ascend to the Supreme Court. We know what happened next: she was challenged, disbelieved, and humil...

Even older students can benefit from play in the classroom—and it doesn’t mean sacrificing rigor. Seasoned educator Amy Heusterberg-Richards shows teachers how embracing play in secondary classrooms can build content, refine skills, and assess understanding, all while inviting joy back into the classrooms of teens who often feel anxious and disfranchised about education.This book describes approaches and rationale for embedding play within secondary classrooms across all discipline...

What happens when a seductive e-mail goes to the wrong recipient—your boss?Is this a disaster waiting to happen—or the beginning of something too hot to handle?

Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life.Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms.Amy’s writing career began early; her poem ‘Ida Grey’ appeared when she ...

Chef Todd Richards, the James Beard Award–winning author of Soul, is your guide to exploring West African diaspora cooking in the Americas, spanning history from the slave trade through the Great Migration, with over 100 mouthwatering recipes and illuminating narratives.Across centuries and continents, the influence of West African food and culture draws a delicious family tree whose branches stretch into the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States from c...

How to achieve a happier and healthier game design process by connecting the creative aspects of game design with techniques for effective project management.This book teaches game designers, aspiring game developers, and game design students how to take a digital game project from start to finish—from conceptualizing and designing to building, playtesting, and iterating—while avoiding the uncontrolled overwork known among developers as “crunch.” Written by a legen...

In Subjectivity, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought. Some critics of modernity reject the turn to the subject as a specifically modern error, arguing that it logically leads to nihilism and moral relativism by divorcing the human mind from objective reality. Yet, some important thinkers of the last half-century--including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lo...

Strengthen your soft skills and reach your leadership potential.If you read nothing else on developing your interpersonal skills, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you identify your social and emotional strengths and weaknesses, approach them with a learning mindset, and become a more effective leader today.This book will inspire you to:...

This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe. Yet its very name ‘London’ is famed, admired and known worldwide. Its growth from hamlet, town, fortification, city and centre of Empire is one of rich reward. Within its ever-changing borders that are forever moving outwards are gems of architecture across cultures, times and influences that exist in very few other places. Its diaspora of pe...

In the early 1900s a new movement in poetry began. With the new century came new thinking, a reaction to both romanticism and the more formal, structured poetry of the Victorian era. Here was poetry designed to be simple, clear and precise, rather than be adorned and encrusted with more from the lexicon than what was actually needed.The original ideas sprang from T. E Hulme and from these Ezra Pound created the structure for its development. Akin to the Ancient Greek lyricists and ...

An all-new Quarterly special featuring super star creators and a multiverse of stories!Frank Tieri and Michael Sta Maria team up for an untold story of Flash Gordon's adventures featuring the iconic villain King Kala!Then, Keith Davidsen and Richard West deliver a mech twist in an action-packed "Flash fiction." Introducing FLASH ULTIMA!Plus, Amy Chase and Tango hit all the high notes in another "Flash fiction." "Music is Merciless" presents a Flash,...

Immerse yourself in the lyrical tapestry of "Short Poetry Collection 160 (Unabridged)," a captivating anthology featuring the works of renowned poets Amy Lowell, William Butler Yeats, and more. This collection showcases a diverse range of poetic styles, from the evocative imagery of Imagism to the haunting melodies of Symbolism. Each poem is a miniature masterpiece, inviting readers to explore the depths of human emotion, the beauty of nature, and the complexities of the human condition. P...