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The heartwarming underdog story of the 1924 Washington Senators, who went from a second-rate ballclub to World Champions under the leadership of 27-year-old player-manager Bucky Harris and one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history, Walter Johnson.

Jockey Queen tells for the first time the legendary exploits of trailblazing female jockey Lillian Jenkinson Holder, who broke the unwritten rule that females could not be jockeys, no matter how low or high level the event.

Victoria Wieck details her journey starting a business from scratch and building it into a multi-million dollar success story. She offers practical, actionable, and accessible advice for starting your business, building it, avoiding the pitfalls, and making it successful.

The Glory of ¿86 tells the remarkable story of one of the most memorable years ever for sports fans across New England, when the New England Patriots, Boston Celtics, and Boston Red Sox played in the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, and World Series.

In a new CSIS report, Will Todman argues that renewable energy offers a different pathway with wide-reaching benefits. Based on over 175 interviews with representatives from donor governments, UN officials, local actors, and private sector implementers, Will evaluates the promise of distributed renewable energy in Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen and Lubna Yousef tackles Libya. Even in the most challenging environments, decentralized renewable systems can accelerate local economic development, advance environmental sustainability, and establish the foundations of better governance.

The annual Freedom in the World is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The methodology of this survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories.

A captivating look into the remarkable career and controversial life of a baseball Hall of Famer. Roberto Alomar was not just a five-tool Hall of Famer; he was a magician on the diamond, a generational talent whose defensive wizardry left teammates and opponents breathless. Yet, despite his twelve All-Star selections and ten Gold Glove awards, he has remained one of the most contentious and enigmatic characters in baseball¿s history.Roberto Alomar: The Complicated Life and Legacy of a Baseball Hall of Famer is the first complete, balanced biography of arguably the greatest second baseman in Major League Baseball. It covers Alomar¿s impressive career, his altercation with umpire John Hirschbeck and their eventual friendship, the allegations stemming from Alomar¿s personal life, never-before-heard stories about his conflicts with both minor and major league teammates, and his global influence.When Roberto Alomar retired in 2005, his place as one of baseball¿s all-time greats was unquestioned. But the controversies that always seem to follow him make Alomar¿s legacy far from clear. Drawing on dozens of personal interviews with Alomar¿s former teammates and opponents, Roberto Alomar pulls back the curtain on one of the most significant, divisive, and perplexing figures in baseball.

World War II was the largest and most costly conflict in history, the first true global war. Fought on land, on sea, and in the air, it involved numerous countries and killed, maimed, or displaced millions of people, both civilian and military, around the world. In spite of the alliances that bound many of the same participants, the war was essentially two separate but simultaneous conflicts: one involved Japan as the major antagonist and took place mostly in Asia and the Pacific; and the other, initiated by Germany and Italy, was contested mainly in Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic. This book focuses on the lesser known war, the war with Japan. It begins with Japan¿s seizure of Manchuria from China in 1931 and covers Japan¿s ambitious attacks on Pearl Harbor and other territories ten years later, the use of atomic bombs on Japan¿s cities, and the end of the Allied occupation of Japan in 1952. Although Japan renounced war in its 1947 constitution, conflict continued across Asia, as former colonies fought for independence and civil war engulfed other areas.Historical Dictionary of World War II: The War Against Japan, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries the military, diplomatic, political, social, economic, and scientific aspects of the war, in addition to the lives of the people who participated in and directed the war. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the war against Japan during World War II.

This collection explores the cooperation between the European Union and the Nordic states.It tracks its evolution from informal arrangements to highly legalised arrangements. Drawing on expert contributions, it gives a full understanding and elucidation of the impact of the interplay of these legal regimes and cultures. Each chapter takes a comparative Nordic perspective, combining it with the EU legal perspective. Drawing on both academic and practitioner perspectives, this important work offers fascinating insights into this unique relationship.

This book focuses on the connection between conversational analysis, a generative model of Radical Minimalism, and a biolinguistic theory of the human language faculty (including syntax and compositional semantics).

The Great Recession provided an opportunity to reconsider how to simultaneously enhance the well-being of individuals, corporations, countries, and the global environment. A half-century of vital environmental data demands examining several questions pertaining to the impact of a recession on sustainable environmental consumption. Does a recession provide an occasion for productive dialogue that might reconcile the ostensible incompatibility of economic and ecological rationales? Does it constitute an artificial ¿turning point¿ whereby appropriate incentives may induce productive change? Are post-recession environmental consumption patterns indicative of government encouragement, and corporate willingness, to pursue transformative environmental technologies? Alternatively, are the patterns illustrative of countries transferring their environmental consumption to other countries via international trade?Bret L. Billet argues that the simultaneous investigation of both the Ecological Modernization theory and the Ecological Unequal Exchange theory strengthens the present quantitative analysis, enhancing understanding of the recession, well-being, sustainable environment nexus. Each ecological theory is rooted in the politicized evolution of traditional theories of economic development. The introduction of an Aristotelean conception of development as well-being, an exceptionally large number of cases, and the analysis of multiple country subsets, results in a more robust inquiry as to the impact of the Great Recession on the global sustainable environment.

A unique handbook for collegiate faculty, instructors, administrators, and graduate students in education to help professional and technical students discover meaning, purpose, and vocation through their scholarship. College students are looking for more than instrumental career knowledge and skills, they are looking for something to care about and build their lives around: a vocation. The book provides recommendations to enhance and amplify collegiate professional and technical instruction and curricula to support student discernment of vocation. Teaching to Inspire Vocation begins by making a case for teaching for vocation and provides a historical perspective on vocation in Western education. However, the core of the book focuses on the specific elements for an instructional framework on teaching for vocation.

People always think a woman who thinks for herself, who speaks her mind is dangerous. So I didn't talk about my dreams or what was in my heart. And I was scared. Scared to let you follow your dreams. I didn't know how to. But keeping quiet didn't make my life better. It just made it lonely.The Johals are celebrating Sunita's birthday in Mum's new kitchen, and you're invited to the surprise party. It's not just the dhal that's bubbling under the surface - with decades of unfinished business, everyone's true selves start to burst out when they least expect it. And it's up to the family to pick each other back up and celebrate themselves for who they truly are.Unexpected guests, butter-free roti and skeletons in the cupboard aren't enough to stop them busting out some classic Punjabi shapes in the kitchen! Join the Johal family for a wild ride that will leave you laughing, crying, and talking all the way home. Put on your birthday party finery and get ready for a samosa saga, by writer and actress Harvey Virdi (Bend It Like Beckham, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, Citizen Khan).This edition was published to coincide with the Rifco Theatre Company UK tour in April 2023.

This book explores the dramatic identity and design of the American political thriller, tracking the close correlation between the evolution of the genre and the history of the United States from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the ensuing War on Terror.

Wellbeing is essential for Black women professionals who are experiencing racial and gender battle fatigue within White spaces and beyond. Strategies for maintaining and thriving are presented not only for them, but for White institutions to become more aware and active in helping to address necessary change.

Drawing together themes in Church of England history, the activity of second-generation leaders of the Oxford Movement, social change, secularization, and Victorian recreation, The Church of England and Victorian Oxford explains the difficulties faced by Churchmen who tried to use self-improvement and leisure to accomplish religious goals.

The aim of this book is to examine digitalized mass society through the new collective behaviors of people connected by smartphones and other electronic devices. It departs from previous works by rethinking the plausibility of invisible crowds and digital swarms that form in cyberspace to become commercially and politically expedient.

Critical Dimensions of African Studies emphasizes a critique of power structures, the promotion of human liberation, a commitment to social justice and transformation, and critical reflection on the politics of the production and circulation of knowledge of Africa.

Transitioning Education in Africa explores how transitions from education in emergency to post-conflict education systems are planned and managed at the national level. Using historical analysis of education policies, surveys, and interviews, Cromer shows how these transitions have been failing and how to improve.

Has postmodernism really changed the way the artist relates to their art and environment? Addressing the delicate entanglements between the ethical and the material, this book explores how ethics have figured in the generation of art and images in the 21st century. Starting from the premise that in the Anthropocene the work cannot rest upon its separation from the world, this book develops new ethical thought that acknowledges art and film in their material and immaterial environment. In drawing on new materialism and continental philosophy, the chapters prove just how relative ethics become when applied to artistic creation. Questioning the ethicalities at play in the relations between the human artist, the art, non-human beings and the environment, practitioners contemplate the singular entanglements of relations and non-relations before, during or after a work of art or film comes into being.

It's not stealing if it's from a dead person.Hours before their mother's funeral, the Yeung siblings gather in the family home for the first time in years, only to discover their inheritance is missing. With seemingly £44 to her name and her house due to be repossessed, where has all the money gone? Tensions escalate as they race to find it, uncovering ugly truths and shocking family secrets along the way.Inspired by true events, Joanne Lau's WORTH takes a darkly comic look at family loss and sibling rivalry. Straddling two cultures, this biting comedy asks the question - where do you put your worth?This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere of the New Earth and Storyhouse co-production at London's Arcola Theatre, in April 2023.

This book presents research on the teaching and learning of mathematics in multilingual settings from across multiple countries in Africa, including Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Malawi, Morocco, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. One of the distinguishing factors of the African continent lies in the fact that it has one of the highest linguistic diversities in the world, so multilingual classrooms are a norm rather than an exception. But beyond the issue of multilingualism in African classrooms is the fact that the language of instruction is rarely the first or home language for a majority of students who learn mathematics. The chapters explore language policies and their implementation in mathematics education; curriculum development and pedagogy issues; support and development of mathematical practices for teachers; language issues in teaching with mathematics register in indigenous languages and directions for future research.

This book is an interpretation of biblical narratives from an African context and insists that meaning is found in the context of the African reader.

Palestine in Interwar Period: Between Internationalization and Revolution (1918-1939)takes a comprehensive look at the political, social, and cultural climate that prevailed in Palestine during the turbulent years that followed the end of World War Ones. Topics coveredcomprise : political climate, society, culture, and economics. The book delves into the history of Palestine during the time between the wars (1918¿1939). This book traces the development of this impact along with the evolution of colonial powers' support for the Zionist movement, the Balfour Declaration and the Sykes-Picot Secret Agreement, the Peel Commission, the White Papers, the rise of Palestinian nationalism, the Palestinian revolution, and the internationalization of the question of Palestine. This is accomplished through a thoughtful and careful examination and analysis of both primary and secondary sources. This book provides readers with a nuanced understanding of the complex forces that were at work in the region during this time. Additionally, this book sheds light on the contemporary relevance of the Palestine question. The reader will also the historical context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.