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Philip Michael Thomas, Irene Cara, Lonette McKee, Dwan Smith, Mary-Alice, …
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Classic drama in which three soulful sisters rise out of Harlem to
become music's hottest singing group. Against the vibrant grooves
of Curtis Mayfield, these divas explode onto the scene with
off-the-hook harmonies and a sexy style that catapults them to
superstardom. But not every fairytale has a happy ending and when
success leads to excess, one sister's star will fade, while
another's will sparkle.
Ollie Alexander Kandersteen, successful amateur gardener, longs to
be a tree: Strong. Tall. And mighty enough to stand up to Everett,
the bully next door. Ollie is rather short for his age, and when
things are too heavy or too high to reach, Everett is sure to point
it out. Ollie wilts, he withers. Inside and out, he feels small.
But when Everett, feeling jealous of Ollie's gardening skills,
steals Ollie's sapling, an idea takes root... "I couldn't. I
shouldn't." But he does! Ollie SWALLOWS an acorn. He waits,
wonders, and rumbles ... Burp! With a little care and cultivation,
a tree-mendous transformation begins! Ollie's feet root, his arms
branch, his locks leaf, and his limbs stretch to the clouds. He's
finally strong and tall enough to confront Everett. But when he
does, he finds out that being the biggest doesn't always mean
you're the mightiest and getting even with a bully might just make
you feel smaller than ever. Readers of all ages will root for and
relate to Ollie in this whimsical story about working together
despite differences, the power of kindness, and what it truly means
to be mighty.
This insightful and discerning book offers a fresh discourse on the
functioning of national courts as decentralised EU courts and a new
thematic for revising some older understandings of how national
judges apply EU law. Organised into three key sections, the
interdisciplinary chapters combine approaches and theories
originating from law, political science, sociology and economics.
The first section addresses issues relating to judicial dialogue
and EU legal mandates, the second looks at the topic of EU law in
national courts and the third considers national courts' roles in
protecting fundamental rights in the area of freedom, security and
justice. The analysis of each is enriched through diverse research
methods such as case-law analysis, citation network analysis,
interviews, surveys and statistics. With its new legal and
empirical assessment covering the newest member states of the EU,
National Courts and EU Law will hold strong appeal for scholars and
students in the fields of EU law, social sciences and humanities.
It will also be of use to legal practitioners interested in the
issue of judicial application of EU law. Contributors include: M.
Claes, M. de Visser, M. de Werd, M. Wind, B. de Witte, T. Evas, M.
Gorski, C. Hermanin, U. Jaremba, J.A. Mayoral, D. Piqani, K.
Podstawa, R. Raffaelli, U. Sadl, A. Tatham, A. Torres Perez
A little bat struggles to fit in only to learn to celebrate
differences in this heartfelt picture book from an autistic
perspective about starting school, making friends, and seeing what
makes each person special. Bitsy is a little bat with big star
dreams of making friends at her new school. But when she arrives,
Bitsy doesn’t feel like she fits in. The other kids sit on their
chairs, but sitting upright makes Bitsy dizzy. The other kids paint
with their fingers, but Bitsy would rather use her toes. Everyone
tells Bitsy she’s doing things wrong-wrong-wrong, so she tries
harder…and ends up having a five-star meltdown. Now Bitsy feels
like a very small star and doesn’t want to go back to school. But
with help from her family, Bitsy musters her courage, comes up with
a new plan, and discovers that being a good friend is just one of
the ways she shines bright!
Offering practical stigma and discrimination reduction programs in
a range of domains including mental health, disability, ethnicity,
and sexuality, this book is the answer to "What can we do?" to
improve interpersonal relationships by reducing societal stigma
towards social groups that are prime targets of prejudice. In this
volume, researchers from four continents share
empirically-supported stigma reduction programs that capitalize on
creativity and psychological science. The programs capture a range
of populations including high school and college students,
healthcare providers, war survivors, sexual assault survivors,
business professionals, and community members. With a focus on
controversial topics in society today including racism, sexism,
ageism, ableism, and classism as well as stigma of mental health
and body image, innovative and unexpected methods of interventions
are brought to life in the collected chapters from world-leading
experts. The applications of theater, game playing, text messaging,
and social media, as well as new formulations of educational
workshops and communication strategies, shed new perspectives on
how all of us can use accessible tools to make positive and
productive changes on societal attitudes. This is an essential
reading for professionals, academics, and students of psychology,
business, HR, mental health, counseling, and social work,
especially those interested in stigma reduction.
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal
bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research
and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international
community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli
universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian
rights. As this book shows, Israeli universities serve as pillars
of Israel's system of oppression against Palestinians. Academic
disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research
laboratories all service Israeli occupation and apartheid, while
universities violate the rights of Palestinians to education,
stifle critical scholarship, and violently repress student dissent.
Towers of Ivory and Steel is a powerful expose of Israeli
academia's ongoing and active complicity in Israel's
settler-colonial project.
Accessible to users with relatively little experience with R
programming Reproducible data analysis examples that can be
modified to accommodate users' own data Accompanying e-book website
with links to additional resources and R code updates as needed
Features dichotomous and polytomous (rating scale) Rasch models
that can be applied to data from a wide range of disciplines
Accessible to users with relatively little experience with R
programming Reproducible data analysis examples that can be
modified to accommodate users' own data Accompanying e-book website
with links to additional resources and R code updates as needed
Features dichotomous and polytomous (rating scale) Rasch models
that can be applied to data from a wide range of disciplines
Drawing on a range of historical and literary texts, this book
examines how Black women under the yoke of slavery negotiated their
sense of belonging and spirituality from a liminal position, stuck
between a new life in the Americas, and their connections to their
African ancestral roots and a wider diasporic community. The book
investigates how Black women in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the
United States, and Brazil turned to their spiritual beliefs as a
tool of resilience and resistance. These "griots" and "goddesses"
are forced to negotiate complex issues such as race, gender,
identity, maternity, sexuality, and belonging, from a liminal
position that looks to both settle roots in a foreign land, and
stay connected to ancestors and the Sacred. As these Black female
protagonists turn to (re)memory and ancestral knowledge to map
their connection with the Divine, they become mediators of worlds,
and hybrid griots surpassing temporal and geographical boundaries.
With important reflections on Toni Morrison's Beloved, Dahlma
Llanos-Figueroa's Daughters of the Stone, and Ana Maria Goncalves's
Um Defeito de Cor, amongst other texts, this book will be of
interest to advanced students and researchers of comparative
literature, religious studies, gender studies, and African diaspora
studies.
Offering practical stigma and discrimination reduction programs in
a range of domains including mental health, disability, ethnicity,
and sexuality, this book is the answer to "What can we do?" to
improve interpersonal relationships by reducing societal stigma
towards social groups that are prime targets of prejudice. In this
volume, researchers from four continents share
empirically-supported stigma reduction programs that capitalize on
creativity and psychological science. The programs capture a range
of populations including high school and college students,
healthcare providers, war survivors, sexual assault survivors,
business professionals, and community members. With a focus on
controversial topics in society today including racism, sexism,
ageism, ableism, and classism as well as stigma of mental health
and body image, innovative and unexpected methods of interventions
are brought to life in the collected chapters from world-leading
experts. The applications of theater, game playing, text messaging,
and social media, as well as new formulations of educational
workshops and communication strategies, shed new perspectives on
how all of us can use accessible tools to make positive and
productive changes on societal attitudes. This is an essential
reading for professionals, academics, and students of psychology,
business, HR, mental health, counseling, and social work,
especially those interested in stigma reduction.
Become the super-powered hero Perseus, and make choices to survive
one of Greek Mythology’s most famous adventures. You are Perseus,
a superhero from Greek Mythology. To save your mother, you are
forced to embark on an impossible quest. Your mission: to defeat
Medusa, the monster with snakes for hair, razor-sharp claws, and a
gaze so horrifying that it turns people to stone. Assemble your
magical weapons and utilize your extraordinary strength. Every
moment, your life is at risk. You’ll need all of your courage and
cunning to survive such perils as devious witches, a sinister king,
and a giant sea creature. Written by acclaimed author Blake Hoena
with chapter illustrations by Brandon Wind, Can You Survive the
Adventures of Perseus? adapts the classic myth into a Choose Your
Path book for kids. The survival story puts readers in control of
the action. Do you have what it takes to survive the perilous
quest? Or will your battles with mythical creatures lead to your
doom? Step into this adventure, and choose your path. But choose
wisely, or else! Book Features Interactive adventure that
challenges readers to survive the story Familiar characters with
fantastical super powers BONUS: hands-on educational activity for
families and classrooms Interactive books for kids are more popular
than ever. Create your own adventure with the Interactive Classic
Literature book series for boys and girls. You’re the main
character. You make the choices. Can you survive?
First published in 1998, this volume explores how in the
seventeenth century depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks,
cripples, dwarfs, appeared regularly in the work of both minor and
major artists including Velaquez, Rubens, Van Dyck and Rivera. In
this, the first comprehensive study of these images, Barry Wind
starts with the topoi for the mentally and physically infirm
established in antiquity and traces their development into the
Baroque period. A delight in the unusual was consonant with the
contemporary collection of other exotica, convoluted shells and
strange animals, but human 'freaks' provoked more than curiosity.
Their representation ranged from taxonomic fascination to derisive
mockery. They were frequently cast as imperfect foils to the
fashionable courtiers who sought aggrandizement through
juxtaposition. The images were also exploited as metaphors for a
favourite theme of the period 'the world turned upside down'. In
this synthesis of repulsion and fascination, mockery and dread, the
portrayal of these 'others' reveals a dark underside of Baroque
culture that has never been thoroughly investigated or understood.
With the support of 75 reproductions of works from Italy, Spain and
Northern Europe, Barry Wind examines representations of human
deformity throughout the baroque period. He pursues his account
into the eighteenth century and the expression of a new sympathetic
understanding and compassion. His study, written with great
clarity, makes available hitherto obscure and inaccessible material
gathered from diverse sources such as medical treatises, literary
texts, popular ballads and court documents to set these images in
their context and explain this obsession with difference.
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Godzilla Rivals: Round Two
Keith Davidsen, Blue Dellaquanti; Illustrated by SidVenBlu, Ferio Wind, Philip Johnson
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"" This book] opens a window into the process of
psycholinguistics, pulling together classic and cutting-edge
research from a number of different areas to provide an engaging
and insightful introduction to the study of language processing.
Psycholinguistics 101 is sure to hook students with its enthusiasm
as it provides a clear introduction to the modern research in this
field.""Maria Polinsky, PhD
Harvard University
- How is language represented in the brain?
- How do we understand ambiguous language?
- How carefully do we really listen to speakers?
- How is sign language similar to and different from spoken
language?
- How does having expertise in multiple languages work?
Answering these questions and more, "Psycholinguistics 101"
provides an introduction to how language is stored and processed by
mind and brain. The study of psycholinguistics incorporates
interdisciplinary research from psychology, linguistics, computer
science, neuroscience, and cognitive science. By understanding the
processes that underlie language ability, we can help develop more
effective ways to teach languages and understand differences in
reading abilities.
This book introduces the reader to the basic issues in
psycholinguistic research, including its history and the
methodologies typically employed in these studies. Key topics
discussed include information flow, language representation, and
sign language.
First published in 1998, this volume explores how in the
seventeenth century depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks,
cripples, dwarfs, appeared regularly in the work of both minor and
major artists including Velaquez, Rubens, Van Dyck and Rivera. In
this, the first comprehensive study of these images, Barry Wind
starts with the topoi for the mentally and physically infirm
established in antiquity and traces their development into the
Baroque period. A delight in the unusual was consonant with the
contemporary collection of other exotica, convoluted shells and
strange animals, but human 'freaks' provoked more than curiosity.
Their representation ranged from taxonomic fascination to derisive
mockery. They were frequently cast as imperfect foils to the
fashionable courtiers who sought aggrandizement through
juxtaposition. The images were also exploited as metaphors for a
favourite theme of the period 'the world turned upside down'. In
this synthesis of repulsion and fascination, mockery and dread, the
portrayal of these 'others' reveals a dark underside of Baroque
culture that has never been thoroughly investigated or understood.
With the support of 75 reproductions of works from Italy, Spain and
Northern Europe, Barry Wind examines representations of human
deformity throughout the baroque period. He pursues his account
into the eighteenth century and the expression of a new sympathetic
understanding and compassion. His study, written with great
clarity, makes available hitherto obscure and inaccessible material
gathered from diverse sources such as medical treatises, literary
texts, popular ballads and court documents to set these images in
their context and explain this obsession with difference.
Drawing on a range of historical and literary texts, this book
examines how Black women under the yoke of slavery negotiated their
sense of belonging and spirituality from a liminal position, stuck
between a new life in the Americas, and their connections to their
African ancestral roots and a wider diasporic community. The book
investigates how Black women in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the
United States, and Brazil turned to their spiritual beliefs as a
tool of resilience and resistance. These “griots” and
“goddesses” are forced to negotiate complex issues such as
race, gender, identity, maternity, sexuality, and belonging, from a
liminal position that looks to both settle roots in a foreign land,
and stay connected to ancestors and the Sacred. As these Black
female protagonists turn to (re)memory and ancestral knowledge to
map their connection with the Divine, they become mediators of
worlds, and hybrid griots surpassing temporal and geographical
boundaries. With important reflections on Toni Morrison’s
Beloved, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone, and Ana
Maria Gonçalves’s Um Defeito de Cor, amongst other texts, this
book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of
comparative literature, religious studies, gender studies, and
African diaspora studies.
Tribalization is a global megatrend in today's world. The election
of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, populist movements like Catalan
separatism - together with democratic backsliding in Central and
Eastern Europe - are all examples of tribalization. Fuelled by
anti-globalism and identity politics, tribalization is drawing up
the drawbridge to the world. It is putting cultural differences
before dialogue, collaboration and universal liberal values. But
tribalism is a dangerous road to go down. With it, argues Marlene
Wind, we have put democracy itself in danger. Tribalism is not just
about being pro-nation, anti-EU and anti-global. It is in many
instances a bigger and more fundamental movement that casts aside
the liberal democratic principles we once held in common. At a time
when former defenders of liberal values are increasingly silent or
have even joined the growing chorus of tribalists, this book is a
wakeup call. Drawing on a wide range of examples from the UK and
the US to Spain, Hungary and Poland, Wind highlights the dangers of
identity politics and calls on people to stand up for democracy and
the rule of law.
Whether Christian churches, Jewish synagogues, Islamic mosques,
Buddhist temples, or the gathering places for other faiths,
buildings designed for worship are significant to both their own
community of believers and their larger communities. Coming to
understand the history of places of worship, therefore, is an
essential element in understanding the historical fabric of these
communities. Places of Worship offers the abundant insights of an
experienced historian of American religion. Using illustrations
from a wide diversity of congregations, Wind suggests ways in which
answers may be sought. In two enlightening appendices, he also
provides guidance to important published works on American religion
and a directory of denominational archives and historical agencies.
But perhaps his greatest contribution is to emphasize the necessity
of viewing any religious community as a dynamic, evolving social
organism. The author not only offers a comprehensive rationale for
including political and secular influences from each era covered by
the religious group's history, he also explains to the reader the
most effective use of these resources. Because of its fresh
perspective, this volume will prove invaluable to anyone exploring
the history of American places of worship. Places of Worship is
Volume 4 in The Nearby History Series.
This work translates three plays by Plautus, who combined Italian
farce with the more polished Greek form of comedy. The text also
presents discussions of the origins of Roman comedy, the realities
of slavery, the role of women in Roman society and the nature and
expectations of a Roman audience.
Edgar Wind was one of the most distinguished art historians and
philosophers of the twentieth century. He made crucial
contributions to debates on aesthetics and on the interdisciplinary
nature of cultural history involving such other leading figures as
Ernst Cassirer and Erwin Panofsky. It is not always realised,
however, that his early thinking was moulded by a concern with the
German philosophical tradition, culminating in the analysis of the
meaning and function of scientific experimentation and proof. This
first edition in English of Edgar Wind's important work Das
Experiment und die Metaphysik: Zur Aufloesung der kosmologischen
Antinomien (1934) has been translated by Cyril Edwards, and is
prefaced by a new introduction by Matthew Rampley placing Wind's
philosophical thinking in context. It is being published to
coincide with the opening in 2000 of the Sackler Library in Oxford,
which will include a Wind Reading room. (Legenda 2000)
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