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How many frequent flyer points have the strawberries in your bowl collected? Did that salmon in the freezer enjoy its trip to China and back? Whether it is French' beans grown in Kenya or Cheddar' cheese produced in New Mexico, what we eat has notched up thousands of miles before landing on our plates. How on earth did this happen? In her quirky, fascinating and delightful book, Sarah Murray has toured the globe insearch of the stories behind food miles. Along the way, she has collected a series of astonishing facts

Part of a series for young African students and consisting of stories from all over Africa. The "JAWS" starters, which are at three levels, are intended to encourage children who are learning to read. In this story Simi helps Pa Ali to decorate his omolanke (hand cart) for the grand parade.

Snapchat. WhatsApp. Ashley Madison. Fitbit. Tinder. Periscope. How do we make sense of how apps like these-and thousands of others-have embedded themselves into our daily routines, permeating the background of ordinary life and standing at-the-ready to be used on our smartphones and tablets? When we look at any single app, it's hard to imagine how such a small piece of software could be particularly notable. But if we look at a collection of them, we see a bigger picture that reveals how the quotidian activities apps encompass are far from banal: connecting with friends (and strangers and enemies), sharing memories (and personally identifying information), making art (and trash), navigating spaces (and reshaping places in the process). While the sheer number of apps is overwhelming, as are the range of activities they address, each one offers an opportunity for us to seek out meaning in the mundane. Appified is the first scholarly volume to examine individual apps within the wider historical and cultural context of media and cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity and the everyday.

If there is one thing we know about men and sex it is that men are always in the mood. Any time, any place. Right? Wrong. Men’s sexual desire has long been depicted as high, simple, and unwavering. But the new research around men’s desire tells us this is far from true; and that good sex and relationships are suffering from these long-held misconceptions. In Not Always in the Mood: The New Science on Men, Sex, and Relationships sex researcher and relationship therapist Sarah Hunter Murray presents a lively, timely, and critical exploration of the newest, most surprising science on men and sex, shattering myths about men’s sexuality and helping today’s couples connect more deeply and authentically than ever before. One-by-one, Murray examines the most detrimental, deep-held beliefs we as a society promote around men and their desire, and dive into how they affect our intimate relationships daily – and what to do about it. Do men actually crave and enjoy sex more than women? Do men “do the wanting” and prefer the chase? Where do they stand on sexual rejection? What’s the deal with porn? Answering these questions and more, this is a book for modern women and men alike. Moving beyond typical “here’s what he likes” sexual tips, the book empowers readers and offers a completely new perspective on sexuality that will validate men’s experiences and help their partners to a greater understanding of the psychology and emotions surrounding them.

Demonstrates that the Oxford English Dictionary is an international product in both its content and its making.

This volume provides an in-depth, comparative examination of how primary mathematics education is influenced by national education reform, policy, local resources, and culture in three different countries. By drawing on first-hand observations and interviews, as well as analysis of policy documents and learning resources, the book considers the viability of transferring best practices in primary mathematics education across global contexts. Three diverse countries – Ghana, the US, and Singapore – are explored. Similarities and differences are highlighted, and the influence of national and regional initiatives related to pedagogical strategies, teacher education, and cultural expectations are considered, to offer an insightful examination of how best practices might be shared across borders. This book will benefit researchers, academics, and postgraduate scholars with an interest in international and comparative education, mathematics, and educational policy. Those with a specialization in primary mathematics education, including pedagogy and teacher preparation, will also benefit from this book.

This is the third volume of Rutgers Working Papers in Linguistics (previously known as 'RuLing Papers: Working Papers of Rutgers University'). It presents the work of professors, graduate students, and visitors at the Rutgers Department of Linguistics. Table of Contents:1. An Exploration of Truncation in ItalianPages 1-30Birgit Alber2. On Tense and Copular Verbs in Nonverbal Predications in SakhaPages 31-63Mark C. Baker and Nadezhda Vinokurova3. Sluicing and the Brazilian Portuguese Null CopulaPages 64-91Matthew Barros4. Definite Inner Antecedents and Wh-Correlates in SluicesPages 92-114Veneeta Dayal and Roger Schwarzschild5. Voicing Assimilation in CzechPages 115-144Vera Dvorak6. Complex-Predicate-Forming Operators with Mixed Adicity-Change Effects: Künu in MapudungunPages 145-178Carlos A. Fasola7. Calculating Vocalic Similarity through PunsPages 179-198Shigeto Kawahara and Kazuko Shinohara8. Anaphora without Pronouns: Centering in JapanesePages 199-221John G. Manna

This book provides an engaging and distinctive treatment for anyone seeking to understand the significance and interpretation of the Constitution.

The award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation’s racial regime. In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans were confronted with the fictions shoring up the nation’s racial regime and learned to disregard them. The true significance of this hidden history has gone unseen—until now. The surprising catalyst occurred in the nineteenth century when the Caucasian War—the fight for independence in the Caucasus that coincided with the end of the US Civil War—revealed the instability of the entire regime of racial domination. Images of the Caucasus region and peoples captivated the American public but also showed that the place from which we derive “Caucasian” for whiteness was not white at all. Cultural and political figures ranging from P. T. Barnum to Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois to Woodrow Wilson recognized these fictions and more, exploiting, unmasking, critiquing, or burying them. To acknowledge the falsehood at the core of racial order proved unthinkable, especially as Jim Crow and segregation took hold. Sight became a form of racial sculpture, vision a knife excising what no longer served the stability of racial hierarchy. That stability was shaped, crucially, by what was left out, what we have been conditioned not to see. Groundbreaking and profoundly resonant, The Unseen Truth shows how visual tactics have long secured our regime of racial hierarchy in spite of its false foundations—and offers a way to begin to dismantle it.