Family genealogy research has grown exponentially over the past decade, making it an area worthy of scholarly inquest. Tracing Family Lines: The Impact of Genealogy Research on Family Communication, by Amy M. Smith, explores the connection between women and genealogy by examining the ways inherited familial narratives and data work to position women within American culture. Although studies of women’s lives are on the rise, the standpoint(s) of women has historically been marginalized, par...

This book explores the threads between community building and fiber arts. Essays explore a variety of communities, different types of crafts, and the unique spaces and places where those communities exist. Readers will get a sense of how community is established, supported, and deconstructed to better understand the benefits they hold for community members. Thinking about how the communities work and why members join and stay within them offers the reader a rich view into the world of fibe...

“I was a monument to immigration—now I’m a border control cop.” So admits the Statue of Liberty in Giannina Braschi’s United States of Banana, a rollicking and nakedly political allegory of US imperialism and Puerto Rican independence. Illustrated by Swedish comic book artist Joakim Lindengren and based on Braschi’s epic manifesto by the same title, the story takes us along on the madcap adventures of Zarathustra, Hamlet, and Giannina herself as they rescue the Puerto Rican prison...

Pursuing Transformative Inclusion in Higher Education shares the story of the Becoming Community Initiative, a multi-year effort to pursue transformative inclusion on college campuses. The concept of transformative inclusion posits that true inclusion across higher education requires dismantling oppressive structures and an ongoing process of co-creating community. The contributors share the vision of transformative inclusion and Becoming Community, grounding theoretical frameworks, and ho...

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society brings together well-regarded academics and experienced practitioners to explore how communication intersects with policing in areas such as cop-culture, race and ethnicity, terrorism and hate crimes, social media, police reform, crowd violence, and many more. By combining research and theory in criminology, psychology, and communication, this handbook provides a foundation for identifying and understanding many of t...

How to Make Money in Stocks Getting StartedThrough both bull and bear markets, Investor’s Business Daily’s CAN SLIM® Investment System has consistently been the #1 growth strategy, according to the American Association of Individual Investors. How to Make Money in Stocks—Getting Started shows you how to put the CAN SLIM System to work for you.How to Make Money in Stocks Success StoriesThe most successful inv...

Bloomsbury Teacher Guide: Macbeth gives you everything you need to teach Shakespeare's most famous tragedy, tailored for both GCSE and A-level students.Designed as the perfect companion for secondary practitioners, this teacher guide weaves together the expert subject knowledge, ready-to-use resources and tried-and-tested classroom strategies needed to teach Shakespeare's renowned play. Bloomsbury Teacher Guide: Macbeth covers the main points that...

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Anyone Can Learn to Invest Wisely With This Bestselling Investment System!Through every type of market, William J. O'Neil's national bestseller How to Make Money in Stocks has shown over 2 million investors the secrets to successful investing. O'Neil's powerful CAN SLIM Investing System--a proven seven-step process for minimizing risk and maximizing gains--has influenced generations of investors.Based on a major study of all the greatest stock market winners from...

In a quiet farming family, a seemingly adorable little girl turns everyday life upside down. Sweet on the surface but bold at heart, she stirs chaos, outsmarts adults, and drives her entire household to the brink—yet somehow becomes the center of their world. With wit, charm, and unstoppable mischief, this “tiny trouble queen” proves that even the smallest can rule the biggest stage.

Dark Matter explores the thin line between lust and destruction, revealing a blasted spectrum where thirsty raindrops cause havoc between wet sheets, and from the windows view young girls are hanging by rope from the mango tree; from vast twisted tempests, where Miranda carries Caliban’s spawn, to the moist incubator of a breathless baby on the very edge of life, Amy Neilson Smith’sDark Matter work burrows into the bones of what is so viscerally here – and what is so nearly not.It’s the af...

**"This one is hard to put down." Publisher's WeeklyThe phone rings in the middle of the night. It's that the call we all dread: someone we love has been a car wreck.**Nicola Jones doesn’t hesitate when her beloved, charismatic older sister Viv is left widowed and unconscious. The 26-year-old artist drops everything to get to her sister. After all, the two of them are all they have for family since their parents abandoned them when Viv was in high school. It’s alwa...