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Few things are more essential to the success of an academic institution than vital faculty members. This book is a rich combination of findings from the literature and practical tools, which together assist academic leaders and faculty in implementing and participating in a successful formal mentoring...

In coastal seas, from the tropics to the poles, seaweeds supply the energy required to support diverse coastal marine life and provide habitat for invertebrates and fish. Retaining the highly successful approach and structure of the first edition, this is a synthesis of the role of seaweeds in underpinning...

Temptation lurks around every corner in worlds sometimes dark, sometimes lurid. Giving in is both dangerous and satisfying, though never in the ways one expects. While these enticements offer a vast range of benefits and boons, the cost is a soul and the devil expects his due. Sometimes suave and...

This book outlines and analyses the legal framework governing the free movement of persons between Switzerland and the European Union, looking at it from an Italian perspective. The intention is to provide not only students but also a broader gerneral public with a handful tool of basic information...

This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. The volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning...

Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats....

¿Cómo lograr que la lectura de un gran libro se convierta en una sugerente y fecunda lección de ética? El autor proporciona claves para adquirir esa capacidad de análisis literario, al hilo de Sartre, Camus, Saint-Exupéry, Anouilh y Beckett, cinco grandes escritores con distinta orientación...

Consciente de la enorme capacidad formativa de la música, Beethoven intentó abrir un camino hacia la felicidad. Su Novena Sinfonía es una festiva proclamación de la unión fraterna y el respeto al Creador. Escuchada así, no solo emociona su alegría: sobrecoge también el mensaje de esperanza...

Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation, displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as...

A collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2013 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.

The California “Diggers” A History of some Primitive Californians. "In the Santa Clara Valley, near the southern end of San Francisco Bay, some five miles south of Stanford University, there stands a fine old deserted abode, formerly a well-known station on the road from the Santa...

These are a collection of poems, and musings from the unique perspective of a Black man born and raised in the south. As an Active duty Army Soldier I have decided to take time out to write down a collection of my thoughts for all to appreciate. Thanks to all who support creative self expression.