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This high-interest informational text will help students gain
science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and
nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled
nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science
experiments and full-color images and graphics. Fourth grade
students will learn all about how sensory systems differ among
animals through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next
Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.
Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first
systematic study of Shinto's environmental turn. The book traces
the development in recent decades of the idea of Shinto as an
'ancient nature religion,' and a resource for overcoming
environmental problems. The volume shows how these ideas gradually
achieved popularity among scientists, priests, Shinto-related new
religious movements and, eventually, the conservative shrine
establishment. Aike P. Rots argues that central to this development
is the notion of chinju no mori: the sacred groves surrounding many
Shinto shrines. Although initially used to refer to remaining areas
of primary or secondary forest, today the term has come to be
extended to any sort of shrine land, signifying not only historical
and ecological continuity but also abstract values such as
community spirit, patriotism and traditional culture. The book
shows how Shinto's environmental turn has also provided legitimacy
internationally: influenced by the global discourse on religion and
ecology, in recent years the Shinto establishment has actively
engaged with international organizations devoted to the
conservation of sacred sites. Shinto sacred forests thus carry
significance locally as well as nationally and internationally, and
figure prominently in attempts to reposition Shinto in the centre
of public space.
Using an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress
in Northeast Brazil explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian
women's perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and
divorce. In this book, women's narratives of marriage dissolution
demonstrate the ways in which changing gender roles and marriage
expectations associated with modernization and globalization
influence the intimate lives and the health and well being of women
in Northeast Brazil. Melanie A. Medeiros explores the women's rich
stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and
transformation.
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