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Sixteen essays by a group of emerging and established international scholars examine Paris as a thriving transnational arts community during a period of burgeoning global immigration. They address the experiences of important modern artists as well as foreign exiles, immigrants, students and expatriates within the larger trends of international mobility. In doing so, they explore the structures that permitted foreign artists to forge connectio...

The Hostile Environment: Students Who Bully in School analyzes seminal and current research on childhood risk factors, legal issues, cyberbullying, and associations between bullying and mental health to suggest preventative practices.

This multidisciplinary, multi-voiced book looks at the practice and pedagogy of generic, across-campus support for doctoral students. With a global imperative for increased doctoral completions, universities around the world are providing more generic support. This book represents collegial cross-fertilisation focussed on generic pedagogy, provided by contributors who are practitioners working and researching at the pan-disciplinary level whic...

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This multidisciplinary, multi-voiced book looks at the practice and pedagogy of generic, across-campus support for doctoral students. With a global imperative for increased doctoral completions, universities around the world are providing more generic support. This book represents collegial cross-fertilisation focussed on generic pedagogy, provided by contributors who are practitioners working and researching at the pan-disciplinary level whic...

A monumental work of collaborative scholarship providing a comprehensive compendium of statistics from over 1, 000 sources recording every aspect of the history of the United States from population to prices, from voting patterns to Vietnam veterans, from energy to education, from abortions to zinc and everything in between. Over 80 scholars have contributed their efforts and expertise to select, assemble, and document the data, to write the i...

Perennials play a central role in today's gardens, but choosing among the available riches can be daunting. "Perennials: A Gardener's Reference" can help, with sumptuous photographs and information on more than 2, 700 plants in 250 genera, making it one of the most comprehensive guides available.

The Hostile Environment examines the latest psychological and educational research providing evidence that anti-bullying programs and school-based interventions lack intensity and a strong behavioral focus. This book includes information on characteristics and risk factors of bully perpetrators and victims, current laws and legal aspects of bullying, vulnerable populations of students such as students with disabilities and who are LGBT, and cy...

Excerpt from Art Suggestions From the Masters: Selected From the Works of Artists and Other Writers on ArtI have omitted, from Sir Charles Bell's An atomy of Expression, most of the technical measurements and history of the muscles, for these can be found in any hand-book of anatomy, and I have confined myself to his observations on expression and the more subtle and difficult analyses of people and animals which could only come from long stud...

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Most people discover they are victims of identity theft months after fraudulent activity occurs. Perhaps the most unsettling aspect for victims of identity theft is the unknown. How much of your information does the thief have? How was it stolen? What other ways might he or she try to use it? What can you do to prevent it from happening again? We wanted these answers and so should you, whether you've been the victim of identity theft or not. I...

Using stories from her 35 years of advocacy to springboard into a discussion of the larger issues at hand, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter crafts an intimate and powerful account of a subject previously shrouded in stigma and shadow, offering insight and hope for the future.

The first thing you need to know is that life isn't over. "The good news, " writes Mrs. Carter in Helping Someone with Mental Illness, "is that with proper diagnosis and treatment, the overwhelming majority of people with mental illness can now lead productive lives." Based on Mrs. Carter's twenty-five years of advocacy and the latest data from the Rosalynn Carter Symposia for Mental Illness, her book offers step-by-step information on what to...