"The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities:(1) art; and (2) sedition."- Edward AbbeyWhether or not an artist intends to do so when creating their work, art—and especially writing—has a profound impact on our history, our communities, and our trajectory as a society. Writers have played a critical role in pushing back against tyranny and authoritarianism through poetry, newspapers, songs, firsthand narratives, and even fiction. Put simply, writing can cha...

Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to change with the introduction of World Health Organization (WHO) frameworks, particularly the International Classification of Function (ICF), that emphasized that disability could only be understood in the context of interactions among health, environmental factors, and personal factors and by examining the impact of such factors on a person’s a...

Examines the emotional, formal, and environmental dimensions of war commemorationExperiencing War Memorials is a compelling edited collection of essays that examines how war is commemorated through public memorials and the powerful emotions and ideologies these sites generate. Drawing on fields such as war studies, affect studies, public memory studies, and the environmental humanities, the volume demonstrates that commemoration is not only an int...

Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the Civil War have explored military, cultural, political, African American, women’s, and environmental history.The essays describe a wide array of photographs and present an eclecti...

This one is exactly what the title would indicate—a select collection of children's stories closely connected with our American festival.The short descriptive note placed before each story will be of use in choosing a tale suited to one's audience in reading aloud.May the present volume make as many friends as did its older brother!ContentsThe Kingdom of the Greedy. By P. J. StahlThankful. By Mary E. Wilkins FreemanBeetle Ring's Thanksgiving Masco...

Technology holds great promise for helping students with autism learn, communicate, and function effectively in the modern world. Start leveraging that power today with this forward-thinking book, your in-depth guided tour of technologies that support learners with autism and help them fully participate in their classroom and community. You’ll learn about readily available technologies you can use right now—from apps to video modeling—and explore next-wave innovations that will help ...

Invasive species are responsible for significant impacts on agriculture, food security and health worldwide. This collection looks at a wide range of invasive species, including insects, plants, snails, fungal diseases, including: Mimosa diplotricha, Chromolaena odorata, privet, Opuntia, fall armyworm, Aedes albopictus, Prostephanus truncatus, Pomacea, and ash dieback. The articles examine mechanisms for detecting the spread of invasive species, and models for understanding the mechanisms ...

The Big Christmas Basket gathers more than two hundred illustrated novels, tales, poems, and carols into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Its range extends from devotional lyric and traditional seasonal song to domestic realism, fairy tale, comic anecdote, moral fable, ghostly fantasy, and cosmopolitan short fiction. Canonical Victorian and Romantic modes meet children's literature, American regionalism, and European storytelling, making the volume a vivid record of how Christmas ...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

OUT ON THE HILLS, A KILLER IS WAITING.'I loved everything about this book! The atmosphere, the suspense, the storyline, the characters.' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW'I can't wait for the next' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW'This gripping thriller has everything you want in a great mystery.' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEWThe riveting, darkly atmospheric new crime series based in the iconic Cumbrian Lake D...

What happens when the structure that defines your days disappears?Days before her fifty-third birthday, Brooke E. Rye retired from her career as a software project manager and promptly created a new role for herself: Chief Architect of a Well-Lived Retirement.Unwilling to drift quietly into a wound down version of life, but equally unable to identify a singular passion, Rye did what she knew best. She builds a year-long retirement plan, com...

A great source for herbal tea recipe ideas, information on growing featured herbs successfully, and much more information gathered in a well organized and easy to read booklet. Comprised of researched herbal monographs, tea infusing insturctioncs, and much more. Make your own herbal teas that support tranquility and nervous system function.