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Substitute teaching is an opportunity to interact with and positively impact children's education without the responsibility of full-time teaching. Far from classroom supervisors, substitute teachers can have solid command over a class while still forming connections with students and advancing classroom content. Kim Bailey and Kristen Nelson's practical guide The Successful Substitute: How to Prepare, Grow, and Flourish as a Guest Teacher pre...

In 1939, a new Yiddish journal was published in Paris under the name »Oyfn sheydveg« (At the Crossroads). The Authors, primarily Eastern European emigrés, embarked on a quest for an intellectually appropriate response to the political events unfolding before their eyes. Many contributors who were active two decades earlier as Diaspora Nationalists in diverse Eastern European Jewish political parties and institutions now explored new avenues. T...

Through dozens of interviews, a detailed chronology and filmography, and a selection of Dorothy Arzner's own writings--including her unfinished autobiography--Dorothy Arzner: Interviews offers major insights into and an in-depth examination of the life and career of one of the few women to direct films during Hollywood's Golden Age. A key figure in Hollywood for decades, she directed more studio films than any other woman in history. Her movie...

Contributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu, Jonathan Najarian, Katherine Roeder, Noa Saunders, Clémence Sfadj, Nick Sturm, Glenn Willmott, and Daniel Worden Since the early 1990s, cartoonist Art Spiegelman has made the case that comics are the natural inheritor of the aesthetic tradition associated with the modernist movement of the early twentieth century. In recent...

Contributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu, Jonathan Najarian, Katherine Roeder, Noa Saunders, Clémence Sfadj, Nick Sturm, Glenn Willmott, and Daniel Worden Since the early 1990s, cartoonist Art Spiegelman has made the case that comics are the natural inheritor of the aesthetic tradition associated with the modernist movement of the early twentieth century. In recent...

In over thirty interviews conducted between 1982 and 2022, Conversations with Orhan Pamuk reveals a writer of intense literary and political engagement. Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952) is a foremost practitioner of the global novel today. His books have been translated into over sixty languages and sold over fifteen million copies globally. The interviews in this volume open windows onto Pamuk's everyday life, craft, and process, constitu...

In over thirty interviews conducted between 1982 and 2022, Conversations with Orhan Pamuk reveals a writer of intense literary and political engagement. Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952) is a foremost practitioner of the global novel today. His books have been translated into over sixty languages and sold over fifteen million copies globally. The interviews in this volume open windows onto Pamuk's everyday life, craft, and process, constitu...

Through dozens of interviews, a detailed chronology and filmography, and a selection of Dorothy Arzner's own writings--including her unfinished autobiography--Dorothy Arzner: Interviews offers major insights into and an in-depth examination of the life and career of one of the few women to direct films during Hollywood's Golden Age. A key figure in Hollywood for decades, she directed more studio films than any other woman in history. Her movie...

In See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition, author Christopher Michael Brown argues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing this throughline from the eighteenth century to the present, Brown demonstrates that engaging with legal culture in its many forms--including its conventions, paradoxes, and contradictions--is paramount to understanding Black writing. Brown ...

In See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition, author Christopher Michael Brown argues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing this throughline from the eighteenth century to the present, Brown demonstrates that engaging with legal culture in its many forms--including its conventions, paradoxes, and contradictions--is paramount to understanding Black writing. Brown ...

In many popular depictions of Black resistance to slavery, stereotypes around victimization and the heroic efforts of a small number of individuals abound. These ideas ignore the powers of ordinary families and obscure the systematic working of racism. Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom examines Black-authored historical novels and films for children that counter this distortion and dep...

In many popular depictions of Black resistance to slavery, stereotypes around victimization and the heroic efforts of a small number of individuals abound. These ideas ignore the powers of ordinary families and obscure the systematic working of racism. Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom examines Black-authored historical novels and films for children that counter this distortion and dep...

Seit fast genau drei Jahren liegt dieses Skript wohlbehütet und gut versteckt auf meiner Festplatte. Aus Angst vor Verurteilung und Scham rang ich ständig mit mir, damit in die Öffentlichkeit zu gehen. "Was denken nun alle von mir? Außer meiner Familie und meinem engsten Freundeskreis weiß niemand genau Bescheid. Meine Nachbarn, die Verkäuferin, mit der ich so gerne an der Kassa plaudere und die vielen anderen Menschen, denen ich tagtäglich be...

War rages across the elven kingdom of Kies Tor. In the capital, the exiled crown prince has returned, seeking to usurp the throne. Midst the bloodshed and chaos, Talin Zylvaris II must take her place as queen and lead the kingdom to safety. It's a heavy weight for the youngest Torrian ruler in a thousand years.There is, however, a glimmer of hope in an unlikely alliance to the west. Against her council's advice, Talin rides out with her myster...

A bilingual book of prose poetry in Irish and English, translated by the author. Themes span exile and displacement, loss and gain, immigration, shift, identity, love, connection to land and environment, memories of youth, nature, observations on life, philosophy and psychology.

Only 40% of family-owned businesses reach the second generation, 13% get to a third, and just 3% are passed down to a fourth generation or beyond. Using real-life case examples of successful multi-generational businesses, this book gives you everything you need to know to ensure your family business legacy. Charlie Leichtweis is one of those rare individuals who can help you understand WHAT your organization needs to be doing and HOW to do i...

Sunflower Brazil, like many individuals, grew up in less than desirable circumstances. Circumstances that one could only dream of successfully surviving. However, even as a young child she held fast to the alchemist within her. Day after day, moment after moment transmuting her lows into self-prophesying highs. Then transforming her highs into magical life exhilarating experiences, until she one day became a self-assured, confident, loving, sp...

Beauty from Ashes is fiction and is a compilation of stories written for the author's wife as she battled leukemia. This compilation is a continuation of the author's book, Harbingers of Spring, in that it presents the growth of a festival over several decades in the Sweetwater Valley of Brown County, Indiana. This area is a location where the author spent his childhood years, where his grandfather's farm was located. There is no festival loca...

The title to this book is Imagination: Seven Ways to Stop a Bully. This children's book was designed with written intent to help save our children. For the kids that cannot see, hear, touch, or smell the natural things in life, some of us may take for granted need our help. Everybody is not blessed with natural ability to inspire people, and this book is exactly what is needed in our day-to-day community and world of reality. Often the bully s...

Does the thought of watching over your kids alone while mom is away terrify you? Trust me, you're not the only one! As a father myself, I know how anxiety-inducing it can be to be left in charge when mom's away. It's not that we don't have the skills we need to take care of our kids. We've changed plenty of diapers and prepared several meals in the past. We've broken up fights and calmed emotional outbursts. But the reality is that mom is us...