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The aim of this book is to inject more intercultural understanding and education into people's lives. This is achieved by focusing on key aspects such as geography and culture, geography and citizenship, pedagogic implications and future directions for inter-cultural learning, understanding, and education. This publication demonstrates how the study of geography can assist people in different social and cultural groups to sustain their lifewor...

Includes an excerpt from Inherit the word.

Once again, S. A. Gerber has laid out some pieces for your perusal and hopefully, enjoyment. For his second volume, he has sifted from thirteen years of tattered notebooks. The pieces cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from depression, elation, feast and famine. From religious faiths to political views, and from observation to obituaries. Many of these pieces have received praise in poetry venues in different cities. As "a present day wr...

In the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy level, they wrote letters, explains David A. Gerber in this path-breaking study of British immigrants to the U.S. and Canada who wrote and received letters during the nineteenth century. Authors of Their Lives analyze...

This work aims to enrich studies of American immigration history by combining and comparing the experiences of both European immigration, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean, and African immigrations in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This work aims to enrich studies of American immigration history by combining and comparing the experiences of both European immigration, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean, and African immigrations in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The aim of this book is to inject more intercultural understanding and education into people's lives. This is achieved by focusing on key aspects such as geography and culture, geography and citizenship, pedagogic implications and future directions for inter-cultural learning, understanding, and education. This publication demonstrates how the study of geography can assist people in different social and cultural groups to sustain their lifewor...

Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics.

Jenna Hart moved back to Crystal Cove, California, to recapture her joie de vivre and to help her aunt Vera run the local culinary bookshop and cafe.But it's hard to follow a simple recipe for relaxation when murder gets thrown in the mix... The Cookbook Nook is set to host the town's upcoming Grill Fest, a tasty tradition which pits local amateur chefs against one another to concoct the most delicious dishes. This year's challenge: grilled ch...

Halloween in Crystal Cove, California, is a big deal, involving a spooky soiree where the Winsome Witches, a fund-raising group, gather to open up their purse strings and trade superstitions. But party magicians, fortune-tellers, and herbalists are only the beginning of this recipe for disaster... Jenna Hart has packed The Cookbook Nook chock-full of everything from ghostly texts to witchy potions in anticipation of the annual fund-raiser lunc...

The American Bystander is a new all-star print humor quarterly in trade paperback format. With material from writers from The Simpsons, The New Yorker, Saturday Night Live, Monty Python, and National Lampoon, as well as work from America's most beloved cartoonists, It's just like the classic humor magazines you remember… only better. Large format (8.5x11), full-color, 150 pages, this one-of-a-kind collection is worthy of a spot in any comedy-l...

Issue #2 of the all-star print humor quarterly in trade paperback format! This one has stuff from writers from The Simpsons, The New Yorker, SNL, The Onion, SPY and National Lampoon, as well as illustrations and cartoons from Kate Beaton, Roz Chast, Shary Flenniken, Charles Barsotti, Jack Ziegler, M.K. Brown and 60 others. Full-color, large format (8.5x11) and 126 pages, The American Bystander #2 is a must-have for comedy fans.

Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics.

The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. "Livestock in a Changing Landscape" offers a comprehensive examination of these important and far-reaching trends. The books are an outgrowth of a collaborative effort involving international nongovernmental organizations including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organizatio...

The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. "Livestock in a Changing Landscape" offers a comprehensive examination of these important and far-reaching trends. The books are an outgrowth of a collaborative effort involving international nongovernmental organizations including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organizatio...

Analyzes the cycle of correspondence between immigrants and their homelands

A thoughtful look at immigration, anti-immigration sentiments and the motivations and experiences of migrants.