This book is a resource for understanding why Lightning continues to be a major health hazard, especially in the developing world, and equips researchers, governments, and public health advocates with the knowledge and techniques needed to reduce lightning casualties worldwide.

How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World presents a new look at embodiment that treats gravity as the organizing force for thinking and moving through our twenty-first century world. Author Ann Cooper Albright argues that a renewed attention to gravity as both a metaphoric sensibility and a physical experience can help transform moments of personal disorientation into an opportunity to reflect on the important relationship between individual resiliency and communal responsibility. Long one of the nation's preeminent thinkers in dance improvisation, Albright asks how dancers are affected by repeated images of falling bodies, bombed-out buildings, and displaced peoples, as well as recurring evocations of global economies and governments in discursive free fall or dissolution. What kind of fear gets lodged in connective tissue when there is an underlying anxiety that certain aspects of our world are in danger of falling apart? To answer this question, she draws on analyses of perception from cognitive studies, tracing the discussions of meaning, body and language through the work of Mark Johnson, Thomas Csordas, and George Lakoff, among others. In addition, she follows the past decade of debate in contemporary media concerning the implications of the weightless and two-dimensional social media exchanges on structures of attention and learning, as well as their effect on the personal growth and socialization of a generation of young adults. Each chapter interweaves discussions of movement actions with their cultural implications, documenting specific bodily experiences and then tracing their ideological ripples out through the world.

Entertainment television is a key part of modern mass culture. Despite this, scholars tend to study news and information, both domestically and internationally much more often than entertainment. The elevation of news over entertainment in the study of international media carries through to textbooks, most of which concentrate on journalism or news. This text is unique in shifting the emphasis to entertainment. Since it is one of the first comprehensive books to deal with entertainment mass media worldwide, it meets students where they are (as TV watchers) and takes them to new places, both geographically and intellectually. media study that was previously reserved for global news and takes a truly worldwide approach, encompassing Nigeria, Egypt, Brazil, and India - in addition to the more high-profile, heavily researched areas of Europe and East Asia. The book also uses the familiar to illuminate new concepts, such as media effects, uses and gratifications, dimensions of cultural variability and proximity, globalization, and (from the field of business) core competency and windowing. an emphasis on why - from the success of Millionaire - a show that addresses all five of the classic gratifications - to the penchant of Japanese audiences for celebrity game show players; the dynamic movement of a vicarious trip around the world as students move through the 10 country chapters, starting east to England and arriving at the journey's end in Mexico; country-specific chapters that follow the same template to ensure comparability but draw on the individual insights, expertise, and currency of 10 resident authors; case studies that look at two familiar TV experiences--the Olympics and the Millionaire show - in a global and novel students in international or comparative media, cross-cultural communication, or TV studies courses.

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Published in cooperation with the Denver Museum of Natural History, this book begins with a contemporary story about a Sioux boy who finds an injured eagle, nurses it back to health, and releases it into the wild only to discover one day that it has been shot and wounded by a careless hunter. The story, artfully illustrated with watercolors, examines the importance of eagles in Sioux culture, both in ancient times and today.

Entertainment television is a key part of modern mass culture. Despite this, scholars tend to study news and information, both domestically and internationally much more often than entertainment. The elevation of news over entertainment in the study of international media carries through to textbooks, most of which concentrate on journalism or news. This text is unique in shifting the emphasis to entertainment. Since it is one of the first comprehensive books to deal with entertainment mass media worldwide, it meets students where they are (as TV watchers) and takes them to new places, both geographically and intellectually. media study that was previously reserved for global news and takes a truly worldwide approach, encompassing Nigeria, Egypt, Brazil, and India - in addition to the more high-profile, heavily researched areas of Europe and East Asia. The book also uses the familiar to illuminate new concepts, such as media effects, uses and gratifications, dimensions of cultural variability and proximity, globalization, and (from the field of business) core competency and windowing. an emphasis on why - from the success of Millionaire - a show that addresses all five of the classic gratifications - to the penchant of Japanese audiences for celebrity game show players; the dynamic movement of a vicarious trip around the world as students move through the 10 country chapters, starting east to England and arriving at the journey's end in Mexico; country-specific chapters that follow the same template to ensure comparability but draw on the individual insights, expertise, and currency of 10 resident authors; case studies that look at two familiar TV experiences--the Olympics and the Millionaire show - in a global and novel students in international or comparative media, cross-cultural communication, or TV studies courses.

Passionate, political, informed and engaging, Bitter Harvest is filled with cautionary facts and statistics that every consumer should know, such as:
* nearly 80% of commercially processed chicken is infected with salmonella
* in ten years, 95% of our groceries may be consumed within 20 minutes of getting them home
* researchers believe that over a third of future cancers will be diet-related - roughly the same now attributable to smoking.
Throughout, Cooper argues persuasively why we must begin to change everything from the way food is shipped to the basic components of our diets and offers a comprehensive analysis of the issue of sustainability. In Bitter Harvest, this knowledgeable chef emerges as a political voice to be reckoned with and her manifesto is a must-read for anyone concerned with health, nutrition and the future of our food.

On August 19, 1991, eight high-ranking Soviet officials took over the government of the USSR and proclaimed themselves its new rulers. Less than seventy-two hours later, their coup had collapsed, but it would change the course of history in a way that no one - certainly not the plotters themselves - could have foreseen. The editor of this volume, who witnessed these momentous events, have assembled firsthand accounts of the attempted coup. They include testimonies from "junta" members and military officers, resistance leaders and ordinary citizens, Muscovites and residents of other locales, Russian and foreign journalists, foreign visitors and returning emigres, as well as Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. Key documents and photographs complement the individual accounts. The provocative introduction to the volume places the August events in the larger context - from the early days of perestroika and glasnost to the second confrontation at the White House, in October 1993.

Windows and Words is a collection of seventeen essays that confirms and celebrates the artistry of Canadian Children's Literature. There are essays that survey a wealth of English language fiction, from the internationally acclaimed work of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the aboriginal adolescent novel, to the increasingly multi-cultural character of children's books. Others examine book illustration, visual literacy, and the creative partnership seen in the picture book and its art design. With contributions by two Governor General's Award winning authors, Janet Lunn and Tim Wynne-Jones, and a final commentary by Elizabeth Waterson, the heart of this collection offers a unique perspective on the artistry of writing for children and claims a rightful place for Canadian children's literature as literature.

This book is a resource for understanding why Lightning continues to be a major health hazard, especially in the developing world, and equips researchers, governments, and public health advocates with the knowledge and techniques needed to reduce lightning casualties worldwide.

Michelle is seeking to reconnect with her family by traveling across wild territories. Her adventure is interrupted when she's captured by a foreign tribe lead by Tall Walker. Tall Walker is entranced by Michelle's beauty and mystery and hopes to keep her close to him. He'll soon find that her fiery temper may not make that an easy task.

A heart-warming Christmas adventure where 12-year old Paddy sends his best friends on a quest to solve a riddle and find the German Shepherd, an immortal Wizard. They travel to mystical places hidden between the stones of the old Druid Temple before returning to Paddy. There is magic all around them and Paddy makes one last wish before having to say goodbye forever.

Children will be able to identify with this delightful tale of inclusion and empathy. Flesch-Kincaid Readability Level: Grade 3

How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World presents a new look at embodiment that treats gravity as the organizing force for thinking and moving through our twenty-first century world. Author Ann Cooper Albright argues that a renewed attention to gravity as both a metaphoric sensibility and a physical experience can help transform moments of personal disorientation into an opportunity to reflect on the important relationship between individual resiliency and communal responsibility. Long one of the nation's preeminent thinkers in dance improvisation, Albright asks how dancers are affected by repeated images of falling bodies, bombed-out buildings, and displaced peoples, as well as recurring evocations of global economies and governments in discursive free fall or dissolution. What kind of fear gets lodged in connective tissue when there is an underlying anxiety that certain aspects of our world are in danger of falling apart? To answer this question, she draws on analyses of perception from cognitive studies, tracing the discussions of meaning, body and language through the work of Mark Johnson, Thomas Csordas, and George Lakoff, among others. In addition, she follows the past decade of debate in contemporary media concerning the implications of the weightless and two-dimensional social media exchanges on structures of attention and learning, as well as their effect on the personal growth and socialization of a generation of young adults. Each chapter interweaves discussions of movement actions with their cultural implications, documenting specific bodily experiences and then tracing their ideological ripples out through the world.

Remember how simple school lunches used to be? You'd have something from every major food group, run around the playground for a while, and you looked and felt fine. But today it's not so simple. Schools are actually feeding the American crisis of childhood obesity and malnutrition. Most cafeterias serve a veritable buffet of processed, fried, and sugary foods, and although many schools have attempted to improve, they are still not measuring up: 78 percent of the school lunch programs in America do not meet the USDA's nutritional guidelines.

Chef Ann Cooper has emerged as one of the nation's most influential and most respected advocates for changing how our kids eat. In fact, she is something of a renegade lunch lady, minus the hairnet and scooper of mashed potatoes. Ann has worked to transform cafeterias into culinary classrooms. In "Lunch Lessons," she and Lisa Holmes spell out how parents and school employees can help instill healthy habits in children.

They explain the basics of good childhood nutrition and suggest dozens of tasty, home-tested recipes for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. The pages are also packed with recommendations on how to eliminate potential hazards from the home, bring gardening and composting into daily life, and how to support businesses that provide local, organic food.

Yet learning about nutrition and changing the way you run your home will not cure the plague of obesity and poor health for this generation of children. Only parental activism can spark widespread change. With inspirational examples and analysis, "Lunch Lessons" is more than just a recipe book it gives readers the tools to transform the way children everywhere interact with food.

This book is the first comprehensive, documented history of this popular institution, which millions of Americans fondly remember. For 150 years, the soda fountain was a community social center. In big cities, the neighborhood fountain had a clubby atmosphere because it drew its clientele from nearby businesses and apartment buildings. In small towns, soda fountains were very democratic because they attracted all ages and all classes of people. In both cities and small towns, soda fountains were part of the social infrastructure that held the neighborhood together. The evolution of the soda fountain reflected momentous developments in American history: urbanization, the temperance movement and Prohibition, the Great Depression, technological progress, the decline of Main Street and Center City, the Car Culture, and the growth of suburbia. The fountain's evolution was also closely tied to trends in retailing, food service, lifestyles, and the decorative arts.