The nightcrawlers

How does a banal earthworm become a valuable commodity? Lumbricus terrestris, otherwise known as the Canadian nightcrawler, is the most popular live bait used by recreational anglers throughout the world. Each year, as many as seven hundred million worms are handpicked from Ontario farmland for t...

In a box

In a Box draws on the experiences of more than one hundred Michigan women on probation or parole to analyze how court, state, and federal policies hamper the state’s efforts at gender-responsive reforms in community supervision. Closely narrating the stories of six of these women, Merry Morash sh...

Homeschooling black children in the u.s.

This book explores the rise of homeschooling among Black families in the US, especially during COVID-19. It examines how systemic racism and self-determination influence this choice. Edited by Khadijah Ali-Coleman and Cheryl Fields-Smith, it includes insights from parents, researchers, and homesc...

Ten days that shook the world

Another view of Russia on the eve of revolution The author is an interesting person his own right as an American who became enamored with fascism

Why teach with cases?

This is the first book for educators that combines case pedagogy at a philosophical level with evidence from practical experience into a single volume. It is an implementation ready resource that converges with a time of change in the field of education, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The affective dimension in english-medium instruction in higher education

This book offers a timely investigation into the impact of affective factors on learning in English-medium instruction. It explores topics including motivation, anxiety, emotions, willingness to communicate and teacher beliefs, providing insights into the field from Anglophone, non-Anglophone, mo...

Building regulations, codes and standards

Building Regulations and Standards is a concise practical guide to requirements of the building regulations explaining how to achieve compliance to secure safe, sustainable and healthy developments.

Hollywood or history?

This book continues the "Hollywood or History" strategy by using sitcoms to teach issue-centered curriculum in middle and high school. It helps students explore historical issues, relate them to their lives, and develop informed decisions. Aligned with the C3 framework, it aims to enhance critica...

The poetry of being and the prose of the world in early greek philosophy

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Presocratic philosophers, writing in Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, invented new ways of thinking about human ...

Communication and information technologies annual

This volume examines many aspects impacting the digital divide in Latin America and the politics of digital inclusion including mobile youth identities, technology affordability, school transformation by digital media, the diffusion of e-commerce platforms and digital technology in SMEs.

A revolution in music

Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound...

Hollywood or history?

This book offers practical, classroom-ready lesson ideas for teaching social studies and world religions through Hollywood films. It aims to bridge theory and practice, fostering critical thinking and civic mindedness. Topics include Abrahamic religions, Eastern philosophies, and Indigenous Relig...

Paying the price of freedom

Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial records—including the testimony of the slaves themsel...

Social mobility in industrial society

"Where else but in America," captains of industry are fond of saying, "could a penniless immigrant like Andrew Carnegie achieve so much?" "Any place else that has reached the same stage of industrial development," is the answer implicit in Social Mobility. The authors conclude, somewhat surprisin...

Technology and (dis)empowerment

This timely work draws attention to the varying factors by which technology often leads to disempowerment effects. Seth makes a call to technologists to burst the technology positivism bubble, build an ethos for taking greater responsibility in their work, and engage with the rest of society to s...

On the cross road of polity, political elites and mobilization

This volume discusses the various interrelations that exist within and between social and political phenomena.

Small property versus big government

Clarence Lo's investigation of California's Proposition 13 and other tax reduction bills is both a tribute and a warning to people who get "mad as hell" and try to do something about being pushed around by government. Homeowners in California, faced with impossible property tax bills in the 1970s...

Reading the archival revolution

The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu identifies and takes on the main challenges of reading in these archives.  This transnational s...

Disability and the family

Disability and the Family provides a broad examination of disability and the family. Including diverse theoretical and methodological submissions which explore the many issues pertaining to how families deal with disability issues.

A sea of wealth

A Sea of Wealth is a sweeping retelling of the Omani position in the Indian Ocean. Here the reign of Oman’s longest-serving ruler, Saʿid bin Sultan, offers a keyhole through which we can peer to see the entangled histories of Arabia and the Gulf, South Asia, and East Africa in the Omani Empire. I...

Globalization and education

This book explores how globalization influences education, highlighting marginalized topics and contexts. It examines local and global intersections in education, featuring issues in countries like Saudi Arabia, Guyana, and Brazil. It aims to expand thinking on education's complexities in a globa...

Fester

Winner of the American Society of Criminology's Michael J. Hindelang Book Award The mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic in California’s prisons stands out as the state’s worst-ever medical catastrophe in a carceral setting. Fester offers a cultural history of this correctional disaster through...

The origins of the french labor movement

Many historians have examined the French labor movement, but few have gone beyond chronicling unions, strikes, and personalities to undertake a concrete analysis of workers’ aims in their historical context. Searching for what Marx called the “real movement” of the working class, Bernard H. Moss ...

The first king of england

From one of today’s leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of Æthelstan, England’s founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Britain as we know itThe First King of England is a foundational biography of Æthelstan (d. 939...

Equality and the city

In Equality and the City, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño draws on his experience as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, as well as his many years of international work as a lecturer and consultant, to share his perspective on the issues facing developing cities, especially sustainable transportation and equal a...

Transformation of indigenous north america

This is a book about the adaptation of Indigenous groups in North America (Mexico, USA, Canada) and their interrelatedness to each other and outside influences over time.

Social entrepreneurs

Social Entrepreneurs: Mobilisers of Social Change works to fill a gap in research literature, exploring the notion of social entrepreneurs, their role, facets, and implications to address the social problems.

Sociology looking at disability

The purpose of this volume is to explore existing literature, with an eye towards encouraging scholars not to ask “the same old” questions but to use older writings as a basis for revolutionary and evolutionary thinking. What do the older writings tell us about what questions we should be asking,...

Hidden heroes

Hidden Heroes is a collection of short stories from the 1980s to present that unveil the lives of ordinary North Koreans. Through themes of identity, community, and power, it reveals a complex society, offering readers a nuanced understanding beyond prevailing stereotypes.

Girls and women in stem

This volume advocates for girls and women in STEM fields. It addresses overcoming social and academic entitlement, providing insights into effective strategies for encouraging participation. The book connects with readers at all levels of STEM education and workforce participation, offering inspi...

Ordering the world

The Sung Dynasty (960–1278) was a time of vast changes and new challenges in China. The growth of the urban and rural economics, population increase, the emergence of an educated elite, political and intellectual ferment, and threats from hostile neighbors are some of the forces that shaped the a...

Incorporating architects

By the end of the twentieth century, US architecture and engineering firms held more capital than entire countries, employed more people than were housed in most cities, and rented offices in more nations than comprised the UN. Within them, architects were designing not single buildings but urban...

Learning go

The equal pillars of sustainability

The Equal Pillars of Sustainability investigates whether equality between environmental protection, social sustainability, and economic sustainability can be achieved in all circumstances or what alternatives need to be considered via the latest research on topical issues by international experts.

Good kids

One in ten children worldwide is involved in some form of child labor. While almost half are in occupations that put their safety at risk, the other half have "gray" jobs like industrial farming or selling candy on the street. Children in these positions often defend the value of their work, and ...

The economics of ecology, exchange, and adaptation

This book consists of three sections. The first, concentrating on ecology, further explores the theme of climate change. The second section focuses on exchange transactions and relations in a variety of situations and settings. Finally, papers in the third section share a concern with individual ...

Maker pedagogy

Maker pedagogy’s focus on democratic participation, equity, and empowerment extends to school leadership where it calls upon teachers, students, and those in formal school leadership roles to examine and develop school policies and practices together.

The mediating power of sport

Encouraging readers in other international settings to consider this topic from their own cultural contexts, this collection demonstrates how China has created new forms of influence through sport and considers what this might mean for how we understand the deeper role sport can play on the world...

Educating in ethics across the professions

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on teaching ethics across various professions. It covers historical and contemporary challenges, evolving research, theory and practice and offers future considerations for ethics educators. The volume concludes with professional perspectives and an a...

Green house gas emissions reporting and management in global top emitting countries and companies

Green House Gas Emissions Reporting and Management in Global Top Emitting Countries and Companies increases our understanding of GHG emissions and documents evidence for policy formulation aimed at reducing the accumulation of such emissions.

Feminism and politics

This incisive work provides a comparative political analysis of the women's movement in England, the United States, and Sweden from the 1960s to the present. Based on extensive interviews in each of the three countries, Feminism and Politics focuses not only on the internal dynamics of the moveme...