New developments in urban governance

This book presents the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the world (Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Melbourne, Dublin, Leicester, Montréal and Nantes). It offers comparative reflections on the myriad experi...

Tattoos and popular culture

The rise of tattoos into the mainstream has been a defining aspect of 21st century western culture. Tattoos and Popular Culture showcases how tattoos have been catapulted from 'deviant' and 'alternative' subculture, into a popular culture, becoming a potent signifier of 'difference' for the mille...

Reimagining dialogue on identity, language and power

This book reimagines dialogue as a tool to drive inquiries, encourage reflection and develop meaningful collaborations. It aims to foster public conversations surrounding identity, language and power that inspire criticality, innovation and multimodal engagement.

Scenario planning and tourism futures

This book offers a practical guide for scenario planning to make sense of the future of tourism for practitioners, researchers and students. A variety of case studies are presented which demonstrate how scenario planning is deployed. They include learning points and questions to help readers unde...

Learning web design

Laws of ux

Who decides?

The book explores educational leadership's engagement with social justice, equity, and diversity, focusing on ability and disability. It interrogates policies, research, and practices in education leadership, presenting multidisciplinary perspectives across four themes: ontology, policies, experi...

Participatory practice

In this second edition of a bestselling book, the authors’ unique, holistic and radical perspective on participatory practice has been updated to reflect advances made in the past decade, the impact of neoliberalism and austerity, and the challenges of climate change and the pandemic. Bridging t...

The bera guide to mental health and wellbeing in schools

A research-informed yet accessible introduction to both the scholarly discourse and real-world cases of mental health in education, The BERA Guide to Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools focuses on the UK while providing messages and practical tips for an international readership.

Distance learning vol 21 issue 3

Distance Learning is a professional journal for leaders and practitioners in distance learning, e-learning, and telecommunications. It provides practical information for teaching with telecommunications technologies. Published quarterly, it features articles and columns by practitioners.

Practical wisdom for an ethical evaluation practice

This book explores practical wisdom in evaluation practice, defining it, tracing its roots, and examining its current relevance. It includes essays and reflections on developing sound judgment in chaotic times. Aimed at practitioners, trainers, and teachers, it emphasizes ethics and competencies ...

When we hear them

The book offers tools and theories to enhance listening skills and pedagogical approaches for teachers of language-minoritized and multilingual learners. It aims to upend deficit models of language learning, attuning educators to the voices of diverse students. Organized into three parts, it expl...

Emergency in transit

Emergency in Transit responds to the crisis framings that dominate migration debates in the global north. This capacious, interdisciplinary study reformulates Europe's so-called "migrant crisis" from a sudden disaster to a site of contested witnessing, where competing narratives threaten, uphold,...

Delta futures

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.Delta Futures explores the competing visions of the future that are crowding into the Bengal Delta's imperiled present and vying ...

A practical guide to exemplary professional development schools

This book shares stories of 8 successful Professional Development Schools (PDS), offering practical ideas for new and existing partnerships. It highlights clinical preparation, teacher development and professional growth. It's a valuable resource for academic faculty transitioning to a PDS model,...

Distance learning vol 21 issue 2

Distance Learning is a professional journal for leaders and practitioners in distance learning, e-learning, and telecommunications. It provides practical information for teaching with telecommunications technologies. Published quarterly, it features articles and columns by practitioners.

The ontario cottage

Kretek capitalism

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. Indonesia is the world's second-largest cigarette market: two out of three men smoke, and clove-laced tobacco cigarettes called ...

Who survives cancer?

Howard P. Greenwald takes an incisive look at how class, race, sex, psychological state, type of health care, and available treatments affect one’s chance of surviving cancer. Drawing on a ten-year survival study of cancer patients, he synthesizes medical, epidemiological, and psychosocial resear...

Men writing eating disorders

Eating disorders do not only affect women and girls; men and boys get them too but remain mostly invisible. This book gives insight into this neglected problem through a comparative and transnational analysis of autobiographical accounts written by men with experience of living with eating disord...

A ministry of risk

Experience the powerful legacy of Philip Berrigan’s nonviolent resistance to war and empireFrom the battlefields of World War II to the front lines of peace activism, Philip Berrigan evolved from soldier to scholar, priest to political prisoner. Confronting the fundamental nature of America’s mil...

Modern persian, elementary level

Modern Persian, Elementary Level is a cutting-edge elementary Persian language textbook intended for two consecutive semesters. With contemporary real-world topics, high-frequency structures and vocabulary, a multitude of engaging speaking activities in each chapter, and a companion website, this...

No cop city, no cop world

A collection of essays from the Stop Cop City movement on the fight for police abolition and for a liveable planet for all, with gripping reporting from activists on the ground and rousing articles from renowned radical academics The Stop Cop City movement is a decentralized effort to stop the c...

The popes on air

The story of the origin of Vatican Radio provides a unique look at the history of World War IIThe book offers the first wide-ranging study on the history of Vatican Radio from its origins (1931) to the end of Pius XII’s pontificate (1958) based on unpublished sources. The opening of the Secret Va...

The power of constant prayer and communion with god

This book explores how constant prayer and communion with God can enhance love, joy, peace, self-discipline, faith, and purpose. It emphasizes the underestimated power of continuous prayer in achieving personal fulfillment and success, offering practical principles to strengthen various aspects o...

When capitalists collide

Robert Vitalis's empirically rich study challenges the left-nationalist paradigm through which twentieth-century Egyptian history and politics has generally been interpreted. He argues with those who explain Egyptian economic development primarily in terms of class and of power struggles between ...

Sailing without ahab

Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville’s epic in bold new lightCome sail with I.We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod’s American voyage steers its course across the curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone a...

A trace for the next generation

This study, based on 18 months of ethnographic research in a high school E.L.L. classroom, explores how transnational Black youth navigate racism, justice, and education. It advocates for a lessons against white supremacies framework in critical pedagogy, centering counter-narratives and decoloni...

Education and sustainable development in the context of crises

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online Examining the relationship between education and international sustainable development, this book explores how education can adapt, respond, and contribute to positive change in the face of crises.

Aeffect

The first book to seriously identify how artistic activism works and how to make it work betterThe past decade has seen an explosion in the hybrid practice of “artistic activism,” as artists have turned toward activism to make their work more socially impactful and activists have adopted techniqu...

Merchants of knowledge

Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on knowledge from the Ottoman Empire, and the courts of Mehmed the Conqueror and Bayezid II greatly benefitted from knowledge coming out of Europe, merch...

Distance learning vol 18 issue 4

Distance Learning is a professional journal for leaders and practitioners in distance learning, e-learning, and telecommunications. It provides practical information for teaching with telecommunications technologies. Published quarterly, it features articles and columns by practitioners.

Elegant legal writing

Elegant Legal Writing helps attorneys elevate their writing from passable to polished. Drawing on ideas from cognitive science, stylistics, and litigation strategy, the book teaches practical techniques by example using fast-paced chapters. Readers will learn the essentials of effective legal com...

School-based interventions for struggling readers, k-8

The volume highlights best practices of literacy instruction for students who have difficulties in reading. From components of effective pedagogy to instruction for specific populations, this text offers an array of expert perspectives on how to engage, scaffold, and prepare students to meet the ...

Literary practice and social change in britain, 1380-1530

As a traditional site of historical criticism, medieval studies is particularly well placed to benefit from the recent reemergence of historicism in literary studies. But this new "critical historicism" differes from the traditional criticism in both method an interests, differences that are well...

Imagining the future

This book highlights the importance of visionary leadership for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to thrive. It offers ideas and advice from HBCU alumni, faculty, and researchers to ensure success for future generations. The book provides timely scholarship and perspectives for...

The time is now

This book highlights how artmaking and justice-oriented work empower high school students, teachers, and community members. It explores art as a vehicle for transformation, bridging relationships, and promoting social change. The authors emphasize collaboration, diversity, and inclusivity in thei...

Best literary translations 2024

Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work. Best Literary Translations 2024 features both contemporary and historical poetry and prose originally ...

The identity of education professionals

This book addresses the need for new educational responses to 21st-century challenges. It explores identity change in education professionals using the theory of the dialogical self, detailing changes for eleven key profiles, including teachers, mentors, principals, and researchers.

Opportunity and performance

This book chronicles historical turning points in achieving equity for children from poverty, offering policy recommendations and practical strategies for states, districts, schools, and teachers. It emphasizes a comprehensive approach to provide thriving education for impoverished students, invo...

Hope for the embattled language classroom

This book explores the impact of trauma on immigrant and refugee students' learning, emphasizing the importance of well-being. It offers interdisciplinary insights from critical language theories, neuroscience, psychotherapy, and Buddhist psychology.

Distance learning vol 18 issue 3

Distance Learning is a professional journal for leaders and practitioners in distance learning, e-learning, and telecommunications. It provides practical information for teaching with telecommunications technologies. Published quarterly, it features articles and columns by practitioners.

What’s hot in literacy

This book showcases hot topics in literacy, providing teachers with practices for literacy improvement. The international scholars which comprise the author line-up for this edited collection describe the evidence-based research findings from their research in K-12 schools to demonstrate how lite...

Redesigning courses for online delivery

Redesigning Courses for Online Delivery takes a unique approach to course redesign. Both scholarly and practical, the considerations and methods will assist readers in the development of high quality online experiences. It moves beyond the technology, driving course development to best fit the co...

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...

Sport, gender and development

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Sport, Gender and Development brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and lo...

Operationalizing culturally relevant leadership learning

This book guides leadership educators in creating inclusive, socially just learning spaces. It offers a comprehensive approach to culturally relevant leadership pedagogy, with personal narratives and practical insights. It encourages educators to integrate new insights and actively engage with th...