Cereus blooms at night

Shani Mootoo’s haunting debut took the international literary world by storm. A Book Sense selection and a finalist for the Giller Prize, the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, Cereus Blooms at Night is an exquisite cross-generational history filled wi...

Certain people

Roberta Allen presents characters who are never at home in the world, who find in their surroundings “the strangeness” they feel inside themselves.The thirty-three stories in Certain People are set in Australia and other exotic locales. The first story, “House Hunting,” tells of a successful gent...

Certificate of cloud security knowledge (ccsk v5) study guide

Certified ethical hacker (ceh) study guide

Certified information systems security professional (cissp) study guide

CISSP certification is the gold standard of cybersecurity certifications, and it's often a prerequisite for advancement in an information security career. If you're thinking of taking the CISSP exam, or if you just want to get up-to-date on current industry standards, this engaging and comprehens...

Certified kubernetes administrator (cka) study guide

The ability to administer and monitor a Kubernetes cluster is in high demand. Those who want to demonstrate their credibility and value in the job market hold the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification—proving they can confidently work in a Kube...

Certified kubernetes security specialist (cks) study guide

Cervantes and the burlesque sonnet

Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet delves into the overlooked yet rich tradition of burlesque poetry, with a focus on the humorous works of Spain’s literary titan, Miguel de Cervantes. Often overshadowed by his masterpiece, Don Quixote, Cervantes’s burlesque sonnets reveal his prowess not only as...

Cesare

A spy navigates the labyrinthine horrors of Nazi Germany, on a mission to save the woman he lovesOn a windy night in 1937, a seventeen-year-old German naval sub-cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none o...

Cesmm4 revised

This fourth edition of the handbook has been specifically produced to be used alongside the new Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement, fourth edition - CESMM4. The handbook has been completely updated and includes new text to bring it in line with the changes and new material contained...

Cezanne's other

In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cézanne, little has been said about the twenty-four portraits in oil that Cézanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cézanne, over an extended twenty-year period. In Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense, Susan Sidlauskas breaks new gr...

Cezanne, murder, and modern life

Cézanne, Murder and Modern Life offers an original approach to early French modernism, one informed by the art’s unprecedented psychological intensity. Focusing on the early work of Paul Cézanne, it offers a competing version for modern painting rooted in the evocation of emotive “expression,” e...

Cha-ching!

A tender, unforgettable story about being young and broke in America, and the conjoined hearts of love and addiction.

Chadha

In 1973 Jagdish Chadha found himself a man without a country, the victim of the decolonization of Kenya where, as a Kenyan of Indian descent, he was not allowed to return after having spent six years in the U.S. as a student. Barbara Hinkson Craig describes Chadha's effort to achieve legal reside...

Chains of love and beauty

Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as “Michael Field”—and who were partners and lovers for decades—is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literatureMichael Field, the renowned late-Victorian poet, was well known to be the pse...

Chairman mao would not be amused

Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and engrossing mysteries all coexist in an anthology tha...

Challenged hegemony

Few issues in international affairs and energy security animate thinkers more than the classic topic of hegemony, and the case of the Persian Gulf presents particularly fertile ground for considering this concept. Since the 1970s, the region has undergone tumultuous changes, with dramatic shifts ...

Challenges and opportunities in healthcare leadership

This book addresses the challenges faced by healthcare leaders, such as managing interprofessional teams, payment reform, homelessness and the opioid crisis. It features authentic reflections and professional stories from leaders, offering insights and lessons. Each chapter includes scholarly com...

Challenges in human rights

By using human rights as a guidepost, social workers can help create social welfare policies that better serve societal needs. However, in applying human rights to contemporary situations, social workers often encounter challenges that require thinking outside the box. Bringing together provocati...

Challenges in teaching arabic as a foreign language

An essential collection of empirical studies on the TAFL (teaching Arabic as a foreign language) classroom experience, by leading professionals in the fieldAlthough teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) has grown inexorably in recent decades, there is a dearth of empirical research on the...

Challenges on the path toward sustainability in europe

Challenges On the Path Toward Sustainability in Europe offers a theoretical and empirical approach to addressing sustainable development, providing rich data analysis at cross-country level, as well as practical examples from the European context.

Challenges to us and mexican police and tourism stability

Challenges to US and Mexican Police and Tourism Stability examines the impacts that historical, political, and social campaigns targeting police practices have had on law enforcement in general and on the tourism industry in particular, specifically focusing on recent developments in both the USA...

Challenging china

Interest in China has never been greater, but the voices of the Chinese themselves often escape notice. Here, finally, is a book that reverses the trend by giving us a rare and important portrait of contemporary life within China—"written with style, honesty, and expertise born of intimate and o...

Challenging china

Expertly researched and thought-out, yet approachable and witty, this book will immediately draw in anyone interested in global affairs, foreign policy and the future of America's role on the world stage.This book provides a fascinating insider's look at how China is changing rapidly today, how t...

Challenging foreign aid

In March 2002, President George W. Bush proposed establishing the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), a new foreign aid program designed to provide substantial assistance to a select group of low-income countries that are committed to sound development policies. The MCA could bring about the most...

Challenging inequalities

A comprehensive look at inequalities and why they matterThere is a widespread sense throughout the developed world that progress towards a better society has stalled. Many countries, including the UK, have experienced persistent economic stagnation accompanied by declining trust in institutions. ...

Challenging modern atheism and indifference

Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference is the first English translation of Pierre Manent’s penetrating engagement with the seventeenth century polymath and apologist for the Christian faith, Blaise Pascal.Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was the first Christian apologist to address modern human bei...

Challenging modernity

In three final essays, Robert N. Bellah grapples with the contradictions of modernity, and seven leading thinkers respond with profound new perspectives on our present predicament.

Challenging the conventional wisdom on the property tax

This book reviews the role of the property tax, addresses the reasons behind its poor performance in practice, and critiques the conventional wisdom in academic literature on the subject. It also suggests ways for government officials to achieve greater voter confidence and more robust property t...

Challenging the myths of us history

Beyond a takedown of the traditional narrative of US history, this sharp and accessible book teaches readers how to read history with a critical eye.According to textbooks, the media, and politicians of all stripes, the story of the United States is one of steady progress toward a "more perfect u...

Challenging the narrative

Filmmaker McLaughlin addresses the need to create platforms for survivors of political violence to tell their stories in order to challenge marginalizing narratives and injustices and as a form of public acknowledgement and personal healing.

Challenging the right, augmenting the left

This book provides suggestions for working with popular disaffection, taking the rich, fragmented, conflicted history of refusals and defeats as a starting point for next steps in the struggle against capitalism and the far right, rather than as the basis for more conflict or defeatism.

Challenging the status quo

This edited collection represents the latest scholarship in the area of diversity and inclusion, pertaining to institutional policies, practices, discourse, and beliefs.

Challenging the teaching excellence framework

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)’s aims, implementation and effect on the English higher education sector remains a controversial and contested subject. This text offers a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of the implications of the TEF on the UK’s fast-moving policy environment, a...

Challenging the “jacks of all trades but masters of none” librarian syndrome

This volume will explore the current purpose of librarianship and libraries, how we become “Masters of our Domains”, develop expertise in various elements of the profession, and how we extend outward into our communities.

Chambermaid

The devil holds a gavel in this wickedly entertaining debut novel about a young attorney’s eventful year clerking for a federal judge. Sheila Raj is a recent graduate of a top-ten law school with dreams of working for the ACLU but law school did not prepare her for the power-hungry sociopath, Jud...

Champ

A powerful and wise story about finding the courage to be yourself, despite the pressure to conform.Abtin is nothing like the rest of his family. The Moleskis are fiercely competitive sports champions, and they expect Abtin to become a great athlete too. But Abtin is a reader, an artist, and has ...

Championing child care

Why has child care legislation developed along its present course? How did the political players influence lawmakers? What do the politics of child care legislation over the past thirty years indicate for the future? Based on more than one hundred interviews with legislators and executive branch ...

Championing science

Championing Science shows scientists how to persuasively communicate complex scientific ideas to decision makers in government, industry, and education. This comprehensive guide provides real-world strategies to help scientists develop the essential communication, influence, and relationship-bui...

Championship mock trial

Table of Contents: Introduction Building Your Case Performance Opening Statement Direct Examination Cross Examination: Attorneys Cross Examination: Witnesses Closing Argument Before the Judges Arrive Pretrial Matters Pretrial Arguments Team Scores Other Roles Objections Rules of Evidence Genera...

Chance and chaos

How do scientists look at chance, or randomness, and chaos in physical systems? In answering this question for a general audience, Ruelle writes in the best French tradition: he has produced an authoritative and elegant book--a model of clarity, succinctness, and a humor bordering at times on the...

Chance in biology

Life is a chancy proposition: from the movement of molecules to the age at which we die, chance plays a key role in the natural world. Traditionally, biologists have viewed the inevitable "noise" of life as an unfortunate complication. The authors of this book, however, treat random processes as ...

Change a life, change your own

“Change a Life, Change Your Own is a long-overdue adult discussion about how child sponsorship, a spectacularly successful fundraising tool, infantilizes both donor and recipient, turning good intentions into paternalism and reinforcing stereotypical Western ideas about helplessness and hopelessn...

Change and continuity management in the public sector

In evolving crises, managing teams often have little information and fewer resources. This book proposes a model for more effective decision making early in the evolution of a crisis, before disaster response plans are activated.