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Paperback. Zustand: New. With La nostalgia ferita [Wounded Nostalgia], Eugenio Borgna develops another term in his personal lexicon of emotion. Here he describes wounded nostalgia, with its constellation of keywords: memory, time, homesickness, childhood. But there is also nostalgia for death, for a face that, as Rilke wrote, haunts us, sometimes impossible to find, as well as nostalgia for life when we are afflicted by illness. Nostalgia that is open to hope is different from nostalgia that remains frozen in the past. These are some of the words thematized in this book. There is nostalgia wounded by pain, and nostalgia spared from it. Naturally, Borgna refers to Leopardi and Proust, but also to Emily Dickinson and Guido Gozzano. Ultimately, nostalgia can be understood as a salvaging of the past, as its gift of meaning; and as an antithesis, too, to the dragon of indifference that leads to an emotional wasteland. With a preface by Michele Dantini.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Phenomenology allows us to consider psychiatry not only as a natural science, but also a human one, where treating the wounded self takes places along a path of knowledge built on kindness and sensitivity, ethics and humanity, exploring areas that seem beyond the realm of psychiatry but actually share a common emotional ground. Wounded emotions are a part of all kinds of psychic suffering, not only depression. But whether we like it or not, emotions follow us in every circumstance of our lives, in good times and bad, not only when we are unwell, even if we are not always aware of them. In La follia che è anche in noi [The Madness That is Also in Us], Eugenio Borgna brings together his reflections on the past, present, and future of psychiatry with moments from his own life that are "rhapsodic and winding, where experiences near and far in time have flowed together." With a preface by Stefano Redaelli.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Hope allows us to look at reality with eyes not clouded or obscured by appearance or habit, convention or repetition; it allows us to open ourselves to the future, freeing us from the rigid cage of the past and present. In Speranza e disperazione [Hope and Despair], Eugenio Borgna follows the concept of hope through moments in literature, on the one hand, and his work in psychiatry on the other. Hope may be fragile, but it is the only way to pull human beings out of loneliness and the darkest depths of the soul. Consistently listening to patients, and in close conversation with the poetry of Cesare Pavese, among others, he paints a portrait of the slender figure of one of life's most revolutionary forces. With a preface by Ilaria de Seta.

Paperback. Zustand: New. A Course in Applied Linguistics for Arab EFL/ESL Students has been developed keeping in view the academic needs of native-Arabic speakers learning English as a second/foreign language. The book in the process of understanding how students acquire second language, sheds some light on how children acquire their first language. It reviews the observations of theorists on Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis and Interlanguage as main factors that influence learners' performance. Some examples from real performance of Arab EFL/ESL learners are discussed and analyzed. The book reviews the observations of linguists and psychologists on the role of extrinsic and intrinsic non-linguistic factors that affect SLA. The book also gives good consideration of the views of experts on the efficacy of strategy training.At the end of each chapter, there are study questions to provide an opportunity for the readers to test their proficiency. Similarly, projects are also added for the students to practice. A list of references is added at the end of each chapter for further reading. The book has a rich Glossary to provide students with definitions of the most important terms.

Paperback. Zustand: New. In the third decade of the 21st century, Europe is facing several serious challenges to its prosperity and freedom. Those include economic, financial and productive decline compared to the rest of the world, demographic stagnation, the effects of climate change, energy dependence from other continents and exclusion from technological innovations.This book proposes the creation of a federal European state that would replace and succeed the EU, its member states and other willing European countries. This is the only way for Europe to successfully address all those challenges and stay at centre stage in world affairs, in the century of globalization, climate change and the fourth industrial revolution. But addressing Europe's existential challenges is not the only reason to move in that direction. A federal Europe would also become a major, self-sufficient geopolitical power, as strong as orstronger than the USA, Russia or China. It would be a model for other regional federations around the planet.The book is not restricted to the analysis of why we need a federal European state but further suggests substantial policies for many different sectors: economy, banking, foreign affairs, defence, education, health, social security, immigration, human rights, agriculture, fourth industrial revolution, circular economy and climate - to name some of them. At the end, it presents a rough budget estimation to show that such a federation would not only be desirable but also be feasible.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Attempts to conceal grammatical gender, dictated by the "inclusive" desire to overcome the simple distinction between masculine and feminine (gender binarism) and make room for the neutral, affect the national languagesof a variety of Western countries with increasing frequency and intensity, with the risk of weakening or compromising the functioning of the languages' supporting structures. A grammatical innovation has a very different impact from a neologism, and when that innovation, under the excuse of inclusion, ends up infiltrating a public act, or any other text issued or produced by a public entity, penetrating it in a pervasive way, the institutional endorsement should set off the alarm bells. In our case, simplicistically overlapping two levels that must instead be kept distinct - one "structural" (technical-linguistic) and the other "superstructural" (socio-cultural) - means that, in the growth economy of an entire community of speakers and writers, the structures of an idiom, above all if stratified over time, are bent to accommodate the desires of those who, against all logic and the most elementary common sense, expect immediate changes that would upset or crack the linguistic system. This ends up making even the simple decodingof information difficult.

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Paperback. Zustand: New. Europe has to come to terms with its increasing cultural diversity. In current debate migration is typically presented merely as a social burden. This book envisions a future in which 'native' Europeans and those with a migrant background - together the New Europeans - come to the conclusion that they should build a new society jointly.An inclusive European society can be generated by launching a common project as an alternative to neoliberalism, developing an economy that is at the service of society. For this, democratic ownership should be the lever. In that process, migrants will be important and resilient catalysts. The book sets out a roadmap for what the future could look like, presenting a vision of Europe at the end of the 21st century as a 'real Utopia'.This book bucks the trend of depressing accounts on migration from outside Europe. It offers a promissory narrative for the continent's long-term future. Drawing on political, sociological, economic and philosophical insights, the author sticks his neck out, provokes perhaps, but always with the invitation for a constructive dialogue.

Paperback. Zustand: New. In this research monograph, two empirical studies are presented, whose aim is to explore the linguistic cues to deception in written English and Spanish using computational tools like ALIAS WISER and LIWC. The tools have been tested on ground-truth data. After the automated text analysis, statistical classifiers are used to determine the best protocol for computational classification of true and false statements, and the role of emotional involvement is analyzed in low-stakes deception. The results demonstrate that, in our corpora, there is a real difference between "laboratory-produced" lies told in an experimental setting and high-stakes lies told in a police investigation.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Georges Pompidou and Edward Heath marked a milestone in the centuries-old relationship between France and the United Kingdom, one shaped by rivalries and mutual stereotypes but also strategic convergence, especially in times of crisis. They formed a 'Franco-British couple' at a time when the French president was assessing the transformation of the global economic and monetary system, and when the British Prime Minister was successfully convincing both Parliament and public opinion of the opportunity offered by the EEC for Britain to anchor itself within Europe.The fiftieth anniversary of Georges Pompidou's death and Edward Heath's departure from Downing Street, and the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale (2024), naturally invite us to reflect on this historical turning point and its long-term consequences, particularly in light of archival materials recently made available at the French National Archives and the Weston Library in Oxford, which open up broad avenues for research.This volume brings together several articles by French and British specialists covering the various dimensions of the Franco-British relationship in Europe-from strategic cooperation to culture-while highlighting the evolution of the United Kingdom's political and economic situation.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Since the end of the Second World War, the role of the United States in the international arena has been closely linked to the stability of its security alliance system. For strategic reasons, one of the major goals for the U.S. foreign policy has always been preventing the rise of a hegemonic power in Eurasia. Actually, history and geopolitics tend to show that the global balance of power strictly depends on dynamics, threats and acting players in Eurasia. Despite China's growing global influence, it is in Asia-Pacific that the Chinese quest for power has played out more vividly. In this framework, the partnership between Russia and China represents a source of worries for the West as a whole and, more specifically, the gravest strategic threat to U.S. overseas interests.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Much has been written about the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but one story remains untold: that of the grassroots activism that maintained local communities in the face of violence. This book speaks through the voices of the activists themselves, drawn from both sides of a divided society. It records their memories of community organising and work on social issues, as well as their insights into surviving the politics of the period and contributing to peacebuilding. Providing a vivid account of how politics touched people's lives, the book celebrates the energy, imagination and determination of community activism. It also examines the challenges faced by policymakers struggling to make sense of conflicting community narratives and official government positions.There are vital lessons here for organisers, activists and policymakers working in any contested society, particularly those operating at the interface between social need and peacebuilding. Informed by an oral history approach, this book argues that conflict transformation is possible and that community activism has a major contribution to make in creating alternatives to violence.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Love, longing, despair, and anguish. Falling in love. An abundance. Falling in love with a city. Is this even possible? If so, what would that look like? This book is about falling in love with New Orleans. Socrates says if you want to be educated go to the city. Morris suggests if you want to be educated, go to New Orleans. The Vieux Carré is seductive. She is as if a woman. She will seduce you. You will not want to leave. If you leave, you will return. Can education bear the language of seduction?

Paperback. Zustand: New. Social-emotional learning plays a crucial role in children's mental health, fostering emotional regulation, empathy, and responsible decision-making. This book provides a comprehensive guide for teachers to integrate critical literacy with social-emotional learning, encouraging them to write customized children's books that address their students' socio-emotional needs. Through an in-depth exploration of literacy frameworks, classroom strategies, and teacher empowerment, this book equips teachers with the tools to create meaningful literature that supports both learning and emotional well-being.In this timely text, Dr. Guha creates a unique and potentially powerful method, steeped in research-based practices, for centering children and their families in engaging literacy activities. She has designed a step-by-step guide to help teachers learn how to create appealing and personalized children's literature that centers on their students' lives in and out of school. This contribution to the field of education provides ways for educators to build children's literacy skills while attending to their social and emotional needs.-Mary Beth Schaefer Associate Professor, Adolescent Education Department of Curriculum and Instruction St. John's University, School of EducationThis is an excellent recourse for educators who are looking for new pedagogical methods that can resonate deeply and build strong relationships with the students they serve and their families.-Gloria E. Miller Emeritus Professor University of Denver.

Paperback. Zustand: New. In this groundbreaking study, Misinformation Finds Them unearths how the perceived threat of misinformation effects on other people is just as potent -if not more so - than the actual impact that hybrid media systems have on democracy and community in the heartland. Here, it is not that rural Americans are particularly vulnerable to misinformation; they are highly active media consumers, but they generally rely on news to "find me" rather than actively critically engaging with a diverse set of sources. This passive News Finds Me approach to media engagement, coupled with their belief that others are more susceptible to receiving and spreading misleading or false narratives, gives rise to distrust and polarization.The Misinformation Finds Them (MFT) perception is particularly potent as algorithms and AI are increasingly embedded in news distribution systems that seek to maximize user engagement with personalized content. The perceived threat of misinformation can exacerbate polarization, but the notion that misinformation radicalizes rural populations simply is not accurate, and rural Americans show no meaningful differences to their more urban counterparts in terms of knowledge and media use. "Vogts and Groshek offer fascinating insights into the polarized media ecosystem of rural America, an under-researched area that is meticulously addressed in this innovative book. It empirically provides an understanding of the way many rural Americans in Kansas distrustfully view media, and the impact of social networks on them, especially their beliefs in misinformation itself. The authors cleverly attempt to go beyond the standard discussion of misinformation, offering a more nuanced view with their origination of the "Misinformation Finds Them" concept. It is a must read for any citizen or scholar interested in better understanding the contemporary media environment of rural America." - Ahmed al-Rawi, Associate Professor Simon Fraser University "A timely, unflinching investigation into how misinformation quietly radicalizes rural America. Misinformation Finds Them doesn't just expose echo chambers. It humanizes them. Vogts and Groshek's essential read challenges stereotypes, connects hybrid media, bonding social capital, news finds me perception, and other media theories to real lives, and urges us to rethink how truth, identity, and democracy intersect in USA's heartland." - Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Distinguished Professor University of Salamanca and Pennsylvania State University.

Paperback. Zustand: New. This book presents StrataPlay, an innovative post-qualitative methodology that blends academic inquiry with playful, narrative-driven gameplay. Grounded in posthumanism, post-qualitative research, and psychoanalytic theories, the book guides readers through a series of game-like challenges designed to explore fluid, fragmented identities, the intersections of power and autonomy, and the absurdities of modern academia. Each chapter invites readers to step into immersive worlds where they confront complex philosophical questions through narrative and metaphor. By offering an interactive approach to knowledge creation, this book pushes boundaries and encourages a dynamic and ever-evolving relationship between theory, identity, and storytelling.

Paperback. Zustand: New. This book explores the evolution of the university, moving from its classical focus on Bildung and its symbolic association with ruins, to the contemporary struggle to define the role of values in shaping society through education and research. Education and research are presented as crucial phenomena for societal development, while individualism is highlighted as a key factor in understanding the interaction between society and the surrounding world. We briefly examine the international and multidisciplinary nature of modern education and research, emphasizing the influence of technological progress on their aims and practices. By linking educational philosophies from various cultural epistemes, this book reviews contributions from Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (Swiss educational reformer), Friedrich Froebel (German educational reformer), John Dewey (American pragmatist), Miguel de Unamuno and Ortega y Gasset (Spanish intellectuals), Paul Natorp (neo-Kantian pedagogue), Maria Montessori (creator of the Montessori method), Jean Piaget (who connected epistemology with psychology), and Bertrand Russell (British philosopher and educator). The book contextualizes the role of social factors in shaping educational practices across cultural contexts. Foundational ideas from Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel are discussed, along with contributions by Natorp and Herbart to social pedagogy and individual ethics. Subsequent sections delve into three core areas: ethical issues in education, the conceptualization of education as a value, and the influence of modern technologies on educational practices. The chapter on research provides a historical overview of how science has been integrated into universities in the West and developed externally in the East. It examines ethical issues in research, positions research as a value, and evaluates the transformative role of modern technologies in scientific inquiry. The discussion transitions to the modern university, tracing its historical mission and organizational models through the perspectives of Vernadsky, Ortega y Gasset, and Russell. Topics such as academic citizenship and the significance of public health research are explored as integral to contemporary university functions. The book also investigates the impact of technological progress on education and research, emphasizing the pivotal role of university-driven public health research. The following chapter, Case Study: Teaching and Research in Georgia, examines authors' experience with the organization and management of teaching and research in Georgian universities. This case study highlights the challenges faced by universities in a rapidly changing world and reflects on how classical approaches to education and research can be transformed when these institutions become both products of mass consumption and centers of excellence. Georgian universities offer a lens to understand current dynamics and envision the near future of academic life. The final chapter, Hu.

Paperback. Zustand: New. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated deep-rooted health inequities, disproportionately affecting marginalized communities. While the immediate crisis has passed, there remain long-term impacts on people's physical, mental, and social health. This edited collection applies a health justice framework-rooted in social justice-to examine the pandemic's effects on various populations, including people experiencing homelessness, youth, and students in health education. In doing so, this collection offers evidence-based recommendations across healthcare, policy, and education. This collection can help address educators, healthcare workers, policymakers, and other key stakeholders address ongoing and emerging health inequities.

Paperback. Zustand: New. In education, as in other areas of human endeavour, we often strive for what is easiest, least troubling and most certain. We want clear, definitive answers to our questions. Ambiguity and complexity may be viewed as impediments to our progress as learners, and doubt will sometimes be portrayed as a sign of weakness. This book pushes back against these tendencies. Informed by the work of Giacomo Leopardi, Arthur Schopenhauer, Simone Weil, Maxine Greene, Miguel de Unamuno, and Simone de Beauvoir, it explores some of the uncomfortable, unsettling, less frequently visited 'edges' of education. These conceptual and lived spaces often blur the boundaries between the possible and the impossible, setting limits while also opening up unexpected opportunities for teaching and learning. They are there for us all to experience, if only we can open our eyes to see them and muster the courage to investigate them.

Paperback. Zustand: New. New. Throughout the history of human civilization, the definition of the animal and its relationship to humans have been contentious issues. This book investigates the notion of what constituted an animal in Early Medieval English culture as well as how the animal-human interaction is portrayed in the Anglo-Saxon literary corpus. In this regard, the animal's portrayals in the Exeter Book Riddles and of monstrous creatures in the Wonders of the East provided a fertile field for research because these texts, rarely connected to allegorical readings and offering viewpoints that might be seen as complementary, deal with fundamental issues regarding what it meant to be human for Early Medieval English society.This study offers fresh insights into the characters and themes explored in the Exeter Book collection and in the Wonders of the East, looking for the spaces of Anglo-Saxon thought in which animality and humanity appear to meet. The author not only discovers the peculiar features in the definition of humanity with regard to animal and non-human figures, but is able to demonstrate that a strong anthropocentric vocation can coexist with an outlook that recognizes a close affinity among different species.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Sigmund Freud's theories and clinical practices focused primarily on individuals. As such, they are rarely considered when critiquing collective behavior or symbolic re-presentations. However, as the founder of depth psychology - a field of study that considers how unconscious components of the human experience influence psychological conditions - Freud understood the collective nature of thought and behavior. While his ideas are not typically a perspective applied to the study of media and popular culture, of audiences, or of content creation, once unpacked through a psychoanalytic lens, Freud's theories shine a bright light on human motivation and expression.This book is the first presentation of his ideas within this context. It is primarily an introduction to Freud and his theories intended for a communication studies audience. In addition to summarizing Freud's major concepts, how/when/if they are taught in psychology programs, and the resultant "Freud Wars," this book offers examples of application of his ideas to cinema, advertising, public relations, and other forms of expression and recommendations for future research.There are implications and applications to the everyday world as well for anyone interested in how theories of human development, beginning with childhood personality construction through adult sexuality, repression, and expression, can be understood through a contemporary lens."Of all of the contentious and oft-misconstrued figures in the history of ideas, few provide such a thorny and frustrating subject as Sigmund Freud. In this short-butsubstantial book, Deb Merskin gives us a considerate and approachable understanding of Freud's work. She begins with a biographical sketch of Freud, builds on this foundation to outline the full spectrum of Freud's theoretical interventions. With the basic rhythms and motifs established, Merskin then combines all of these elements to develop a symphonic sense of what Freud's ideas can contribute to communication and media studies, with emphases on social theory, film theory, advertising, political communication, media psychology, and cultural studies. Here is a true introduction to Freud's ideas as they relate to communication and media studies."-David W. Park, Lake Forest College.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Sacred words often provide succor, summoned to comfort individual victims and entire communities ravaged by acts of violence. History also demonstrates, however, that religious discourse, like rhetoric itself, functions as a pharmakon-both a remedy and a poison. Religious discourse evoked to incite or justify violence functions as a kind of rancor or intense partisan anger that distorts reality, exacerbates harm, and eschews the accountability of its perpetrators. Moreover, a third function of religious rhetoric synthesizes sacred succor and rancor to express the productive tension of righteous indignation employed by speakers to decry violence and demand social justice.This compendium of both historic and contemporary speeches on the intersecting themes of religion, rhetoric, and violence endeavors to complicate the rhetoric/violence binary by interpolating religion (another foundational and cultural belief inextricably entangled with both rhetoric and violence) into the dialectic.

Paperback. Zustand: New. In an era dominated by technological advancement and standardization, phenomenology offers crucial insights into teacher and learner experiences. This book explores how phenomenological perspectives can transform educational understanding, particularly in African contexts. The contributors examine phenomenology's intersection with various educational dimensions, from music to artificial intelligence. Moving beyond empiricist-rationalist frameworks, they illuminate lived experiences in educational settings, revealing hidden classroom dynamics and offering fresh perspectives on challenges.The work combines theory with practice, addressing positionality, AI's impact, and institutional transformation, with a focus on African education's unique challenges. It reconceptualizes education as an 'act of care' while acknowledging historical influences and proposing pathways to transformation This accessible text bridges philosophical depth with practical insights for teachers, postgraduate students and researchers, contributing to global discourse on authenticity and technology in education.

Paperback. Zustand: New. For the student: This is what you should demand.For the institution: This is what you should provide.Disability and the University: A Disabled Students' Manifesto, 2nd edition is a guide to what students with disabilities need to know about attending university, as well as to the essential supports and rights universities should provide. Each chapter represents a benchmark for students to follow as they travel through the institution, and lays clear what they should expect in the post Covid world.Written by those who have traversed the terrain of higher education, this book is not about disabled students, but instead is a manifesto, a call for change, a call to action. It is guide book, blueprint, and tool for both students and universities.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Douglas Kellner's Re-Visioning Education: Cultural Studies, Critical Media and Digital Literacies, and Democracy provides a comprehensive account of his critical theory of education that combines his work in philosophy of education, cultural studies, and media and digital literacies aimed at a critical theory of education and radical pedagogy for the 21st Century. Kellner also engages the battle for Higher Education in the contemporary moment, taking on rightwing attacks on education, and defending progressive concepts of education and democracy advocated by John Dewey and his pragmatist cohort, Paulo Freire and his movement of critical pedagogy, and Herbert Marcuse who calls for a radical critique and transformation of education in the contemporary era. Clearly written and documented for teachers, students, and citizens Kellner provides discussion of key issues challenging education today and calls for transformation of education to provide more democratic, inclusive, equalitarian, and culturally relevant education for the future.

Paperback. Zustand: New. This book explores the margins of journalism: the peripheral journalists and media organisations who have been overlooked in our efforts to understand a changing journalistic field. Seeing local journalists as unmapped agents of the journalistic field, this book provides a comprehensive study of local journalism in the post-socialist, post-transitional Czech media system, and conceptualises these actors as unique agents within the journalistic field. Informed by Pierre Bourdieu's field theory, it adopts an inductive approach, presenting the stories of specific journalists derived from interviews and participant observation in the places where they work, alongside surveys of local newspapers. From these studies, this book systematically maps these peripheral, journalistic actors and their positions in the journalistic field, accounting for their relationships and the trends shaping Czech journalism to give voice to those who are not usually heard - journalists on the margins. ". a fine-grained examination into the struggles and successes of local newspaper journalists adjusting to a digital era. It demonstrates how shining a light on their unique - often underexplored - practices can provide broader learnings for the future of journalism." Professor Kristy Hess, Deakin University, Australia. "This rich and insightful contribution directs our attention to the important but often under researched margins of journalism, and as such it contributes to a wider understanding of what it means to be a journalist." Professor Agnes Gulyas, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Métis Coming Together invites readers to witness the knowledge exchanges that occur in community. Diverse perspectives from Métis across the homeland help us convene a dynamic and generous thinking space to broaden our individual and collective understandings of Métis-ness. Topics addressed from a Métis lens include relationality, kinship, history, storytelling, language revitalization, poetry, futurities, sexuality, feminisms, geographies, religion and spirituality, self-determination, and sovereignty. The collection provides opportunities to learn contemporary Métis ways of knowing and being.

Paperback. Zustand: New. These authors offer a text that is a vast improvement over the other available alternatives for both classroom instruction and for active coaches and competitors in speech and debate activities. This text should be required reading for all new coaches at both high school and college levels. -Dr. Amorette Hinderaker, Texas Christian University An essential textbook for students, coaches, and instructors, this unique book breaks down the fundamentals of oral interpretation, making the discipline accessible to all competitors who want to compete at the national level. Providing step-by-step instructions, simple explanations, and real-life examples - from creating a topnotch manuscript to producing a final, polished performance - this book also establishes a developmental foundation and defines the discipline's unique origins, history, theories, and framework. Part one outlines a theoretical and historically-rooted perspective to teaching the art of oral interpretation. The book then directs readers' thinking and analysis to the goal of persuasion through argument. Part 2 focuses on the performance, working through preparation and analysis to rehearsals and warm-ups. Thus, this book comprehensively brings performative and competitive activities back into partnership with the theoretical origins of the discipline.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Envisioning a Critical and Liberatory Approach to Trans and Queer Center(ed) Diversity Work offers innovative and contemporary approaches for working with and for trans and queer (TQ) campus populations. By taking critical and liberatory perspectives, each chapter offers ideas that will inspire those called to serve TQ communities how to engage in practices to transform campuses, diversity work, and ourselves.Through unabashedly critical, liberatory, and intersectional lenses, Catalano, Duran, Jourian, and Pryor and the chapter authors challenge readers to use this text to resist the oppression TQ lives face in higher education: "we must envision what we hope to transform our campuses into and use that vision as our compass" (Introduction). The editors have crafted a path toward a future already in progress; rich with insights, the book is accessible at all levels across higher education. It is a love letter that speaks with and to TQ center(ed) diversity work(ers), acknowledging the history and ongoing-ness of our struggle, while remembering that we will always be. This text is essential reading for those whose imaginations are bold enough to embrace it.- D-L Stewart, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Higher Education Department, University of DenverThere has never been a more urgent moment for Envisioning a Critical and Liberatory Approach to Trans and Queer Center(ed) Diversity Work. The editors bring together cutting-edge thinkers to address the nuances of TQ-centered diversity work across campus locations. As opposition to DEI intensifies, understanding the foundations presented here is critical for educators committed to equity for TQ students, staff, and faculty.- Kristen Renn, Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Mildred B. Erickson, Distinguished Chair Emerita Michigan State UniversityCatalano, Duran, Jourian, Pryor and their contributors have created a testament to the transformative power of education when grounded in liberation. It reminds us that transformative change is both possible and necessary, offering affirming pathways forward. Since our book in 2002, no comprehensive volume has explored LGBT student services or TQ-centered work with such depth. This is a must-read for scholar-practitioners, educators, and activists invested in institutional change.- Sue Rankin, Retired Associate Professor of Education and Associate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the Pennsylvania State UniversityThoughtful and creative scholarship on transgender identities in higher education has long been limited. This essential book champions critical, intersectional, and liberatory TQ-centered engagement, sparking imagination and offering support for the vital work being done on campuses. Congratulations to the editors for their insight and their passion as they move far beyond anything my colleagues and I could have envisioned decades ago.- Ronni Sanlo, Playwright, author, and LGBT historian. Former director of the UCLA LGBT Ce.

Paperback. Zustand: New. How can poetry help us live our lives? From Shakespeare's time to the present, poets have faced the questions of love, discovery, centering, parting, forgiveness, and our common, mortal destination. They have much to say to us, and they say it well. This is a book for the general reader who seeks solace and inspiration in the words poets have left us.