This book presents interdisciplinary empirical studies about the COVID-19 pandemic’s complex influence on the professional, personal, and family lives of mothers in academia or “MotherScholars”. It calls attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic and higher education's responses to it highlight the historical, societal, and cultural inequities between diverse groups of MotherScholars.The volume represents diverse ethnicities (e.g., Black, Pinay, Asian American), an assortment of discip...

SCN2A encodes a voltage-gated sodium channel (designated NaV1.2) vital for generating neuronal action potentials. Pathogenic SCN2A variants are associated with a diverse array of neurodevelopmental disorders featuring neonatal or infantile onset epilepsy, developmental delay, autism, intellectual disability and movement disorders. SCN2A is a high confidence risk gene for autism spectrum disorder and a commonly discovered cause of neonatal onset epilepsy. This remarkable clinical heterogene...

This edited collection highlights how people connected with friends and family, students and colleagues, and leaders and communities, in their quest to persevere during the pandemic. The chapters describe how people enjoyed their passions for the arts in new and unexpected ways, given the restrictions of COVID-19 safety protocols, and how scripted and reality television programming helped them escape, however briefly, from the traumas of the pandemic, the racial injustice, the political ma...

Explore the Riveting History and Intricacies of Your Beloved Pet's Diet!Embark on a fascinating journey with "The Canine's Cuisine: A Dive into Dog Food Evolution". This masterpiece will guide you through the intricate and vital world of canine nutrition, providing an in-depth analysis of the diet changes our furry friends have undergone throughout history.Ever wondered what dogs ate hundreds of years ago, or how their diets have evolved throughout different regions? An ent...

Discover the captivating history of your pet's diet in "The Canine's Cuisine: A Dive into Dog Food Evolution." This masterful exploration delves into the intricate world of canine nutrition, tracing the evolution of dogs' diets throughout history. Uncover the mysteries of ancient canine diets with a dedicated chapter, offering a timeline and regional insights.Explore the significant milestones in commercial dog food development, from canned food to dry kibble. Understand the nutrit...

Anna Sherman has decided to get a life. She wants to come out of her shell and meet new people. One step toward this is interviewing people in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains for an oral history project. She meets a ninety-something lady who has been keeping company with a ghost since she was a little girl, and her sister-in-law, who owns most of the mineral rights to north Georgia. She also meets a rugged mountain man who would like to get his hands on those mineral rights and a...

The Ethnic Dimension in American History is a thorough survey of the role that ethnicity has played in shaping the history of the United States.Considering ethnicity in terms of race, language, religion and national origin, this important text examines its effects on social relations, public policy and economic development.A thorough survey of the role that ethnicity has played in shaping the history of the United States, including the effect...

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Classroom on the Road: Designing, Teaching, and Theorizing Out-of-the-Box Faculty-Led Student Travel explores real-world, out-of-the-box examples of faculty-led student travel that challenge the dominant paradigms of conventional tourism. Contributors share teaching methods that can be adapted for a variety of university travel scenarios and encourage students to be responsible and thoughtful members of the global community who seek out valuable experiences in other cultures to go...

In her most emotionally charged novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf explores the unspoken events that shape a community, the ties between parents and their children and how the fragile normalcy of our everyday life is so easily shattered.In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom. Outside the school, the town of Broken Branch watches and waits.Officer Meg Barrett holds t...

A female detective on the verge of retirement must track a gruesome serial killer across Canada in this "bracingly original mystery" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef spent all her days in the small town of Port Dundas, Ontario, and is now making her way toward retirement with something less than grace. Hobbled by a bad back and a dependence on painkillers, she's also blindsided by divorce after nearly four decades of m...

From the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of A Short History of Progress comes another surprising, frightening and essential book.The USA is now the world’s lone superpower, whose deeds could make or break this century. For better and worse, America has Americanized the world. How did a marginal frontier society, in a mere two centuries, become the de facto ruler of the world? Why do America’s great achievements in democracy, prosperity and civil right...