Laura Thomas: 70 books

Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...

Viewpoints on Media Effects: Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers continues the ongoing research of media effects by illuminating not only the negative effects of media consumption, but also some of the pro-social aspects, with a special focus on social media. Recommended for scholars...

This collection charts the effects of hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; it does not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but explores the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it. These essays raise new questions about the representative genres that structure our stories and the ways stories reflect and produce culture and identity.

Calming the Storm presents diverse perspectives on some of the most vital questions raised by climate engineering: Who has the right to make decisions about such global technological efforts? What have we learned from the decisions that caused the climate to change that might shed light on efforts...

Novice Teaching English as a Second or Other Language (TESOL) teachers are often surprised by the full range of issues their jobs involve, and learning how to successfully address these issues takes considerable skill and experience, built up throughout a teaching career. This book is about such critical...

A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway. Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but...

When their children were young, several parents interviewed in this book were told “you can’t expect much from your child.” As they got older, the kids themselves often heard the same thing: that as children with disabilities, academic success would be elusive, if not impossible, for them.   How...

Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by approaches that were either pre-historic...

Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty,...

Reviews key advances and best practice in cultivation techniques across the value chain of organic farming  Discusses ways of monitoring and improving the environmental impact of organic crop production  Particular focus on ways of supporting organic farming in the developing world

„Eine Frau war aus den Schatten getreten.“ Erik Huyoff, Der Kreis der Sieben Nicht nur eine Frau tritt aus den Schatten: junge Mädchen, erwachsene Frauen und ältere Damen – sie alle leben grundverschiedene Leben, bestreiten Abenteuer, erheben Schwerter, Äxte und ihre lauten Stimmen. Vorbei...

This case-based clinical text is an exhaustive review of orthodontic problems in the vertical dimension, with evidence-based guidelines for successful diagnosis and treatment. A total of 21 cases address dental deep bites, skeletal deep bites, dental open bites, skeletal open bites, and posterior...

Dunkle Seiten werden zum zehnten Mal aufgeschlagen, um in Welten voller Dunkelheit zu führen. Geschichten, die dem Leser den verborgenen Wahnsinn hinter dem alltäglich Sichtbaren aufzeigen, von Orten, an denen das Böse regiert und von Dingen, von denen man besser die Finger lassen sollte. Denn...

Dein allerschönstes Geschenk Jedes Kind verdient es, Heiligabend in einem warmen Bett zu verbringen und am Morgen ein Geschenk unter dem Baum zu finden. Hilf mir, das auch diesen Kindern zu ermöglichen, fleht ihn Renée an, und Duke ist beeindruckt, wie die zierliche Sozialarbeiterin für ihre Schützlinge...