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\"Snapshot\" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by \"The Phoenician,\" a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap.

Provides the knowledge and tools needed for the future of survey research The survey research discipline faces unprecedented challenges, such as falling response rates, inadequate sampling frames, and antiquated approaches and tools. Addressing this changing landscape, Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research introduces readers to a multitude of new techniques in data collection in one of the fastest developing areas of survey research. The book is organized around the central idea of a \"sociality hierarchy\" in social media interactions, comprised of three levels: broadcast, conversational, and community based. Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research offers balanced coverage of the theory and practice of traditional survey research, while providing a conceptual framework for the opportunities social media platforms allow. Demonstrating varying perspectives and approaches to working with social media, the book features: * New ways to approach data collection using platforms such as Facebook and Twitter * Alternate methods for reaching out to interview subjects * Design features that encourage participation with engaging, interactive surveys Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research is an important resource for survey researchers, market researchers, and practitioners who collect and analyze data in order to identify trends and draw reliable conclusions in the areas of business, sociology, psychology, and population studies. The book is also a useful text for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level courses on survey methodology and market research.

\"In this ... collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen ... tales of supernatural suspense, including \"In the tall grass,\" one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the ... feature film from Netflix ... Featuring two previously unpublished stories, and a brace of shocking chillers, [this] is a darkly imagined odyssey through the complexities of the human psyche. Hypnotic and disquieting, it mines our tormented secrets, hidden vulnerabilities, and basest fears\"-- Provided by publisher.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now,Give My Poor Heart Easeputs front and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs of the musicians and their communities and including a CD of original music and a DVD of original film, the book features more than twenty interviews relating frank, dramatic, and engaging narratives about black life and blues music in the heart of the American South.Here are the stories of artists who have long memories and speak eloquently about their lives, blues musicians who represent a wide range of musical traditions--from one-strand instruments, bottle-blowing, and banjo to spirituals, hymns, and prison work chants. Celebrities such as B. B. King and Willie Dixon, along with performers known best in their neighborhoods, express the full range of human and artistic experience--joyful and gritty, raw and painful.In an autobiographical introduction, Ferris reflects on how he fell in love with the vibrant musical culture that was all around him but was considered off limits to a white Mississippian during a troubled era. This magnificent volume illuminates blues music, the broader African American experience, and indeed the history and culture of America itself.

Tyler and Kinsey learn the true story of the Locke family and travel through time, while Zack Wells assumes a new form.

Carefully curated to highlight research from more than twenty countries, the International Critical Pedagogy Reader introduces the ways the educational phenomenon that is critical pedagogy are being reinvented and reframed around the world. A collection of essays from both historical and contemporary thinkers coupled with original essays, introduce this school of thought and approach it from a wide variety of cultural, social, and political perspectives. Academics from South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and North America describe critical pedagogy’s political, ideological, and intellectual foundations, tracing its international evolution and unveiling how key scholars address similar educational challenges in diverse national contexts. Each section links theory to critical classroom practices and includes a list of sources for further reading to expand upon the selections offered in this volume. A robust collection, this reader is a crucial text for teaching and understanding critical pedagogy on a truly international level. Winner of the 2016 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award The Internationalization of Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction Antonia Darder, Peter Mayo & Joao Paraskeva SECTION 1: CRITICAL PEDAGOGY & THE POLITICS OF EDUCATION Critical Pedagogy & Postcolonial Education (Saudi Arabia) Ayman Abu-Shomar (2013). From the Critical Theories to the Critique of the Theories (Brazil) Inês Barbosa de Oliveira & Maria Luiza Süssekind (2015) Critical Pedagogy and Gender Studies in Spain (Spain) Ana Sanchez Bello (2015) Genesis and Structure of Critical Pedagogy in Italy (Italy) Domenica Maviglia (2015) Mass Schooling for Socialist Transformation in Cuba and Venezuela (Cuba/Venezuela) Tom G. Griffiths & Jo Williams (2014) Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies , V.7. N.2. (31-49) 　 Further Readings SECTION 2: GLOBALIZATION, DEMOCRACY, & SCHOOLING The Challenge of Inclusive Schooling in Africa (Africa) George J. Sefa Dei (2005) Neoliberalism and Its Impacts (United Kingdom & India) David Hill and Ravi Kumar Critical Pedagogy and Democracy (Greece) Maria Nikolakaki (2011) Critical Pedagogy and the Idea of Communism (Canada) Jerrold L. Kacher Further Readings SECTION 3: HISTORY, KNOWLEDGE, & POWER Education in Liquid Modernity (Poland) Zygmunt Bauman (2014) Images Outside the Mirror? Mozambique & Portugal in World History (Africa) Maria Paula Menesas (2011) Theorizing from the Borders (Argentina & Russia) Walter D. Mignolo & Madina V. Tlostvana (2006) History and Memory From-Below and From-Within (Palestine) Nur Masalha (2014) Predicaments of ‘Particularity’ and ‘Universality’ (Japan) Keita Takayama (2011), 　 Further Readings SECTION 4: SOCIETY, POLITICS & CURRICULUM Curriculum and Society: Rethinking the Link (Mexico) Alicia Alba (1999) The Constructivist Curriculum in Turkey in 2004: In Fact What is Constructed? (Turkey) Kemal İnal, Gazi, Güliz Akkaymak, & Deniz Yıldırım (2014) Justice Curriculum and the Formation of Teachers (Spain) Jurjo Torres Santomé Indigenising Curriculum: Questions Posed by Baiga Vidya (India) Padma M. Sarangapani (2014) Further Readings SECTION 5: CRITICAL PRAXIS & LITERACY Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices (Brazil) Vanessa de Oliveira (2015) Postcoloniality, Critical Pedagogy, and English Studies in India (India) Kailash C. Baral (2006) Critical Pedagogy in a Conflicted Society: Israel as a Case Study (Israel) Moshe Levy and Yair Galily (2011) Toward an Empowering Pedagogy: Is There Room for Critical Pedagogy in the Educational System of Iran (Iran) Parvin Safari & Mohammad R. Pourhashemi (2012) Critical Pedagogy & A Rural Social Work Practicum in China (China) Hok Bun Ku, Angelina W.K. Yuan-Tsang, Hsiao Chun Liu (2010) Further Readings 　 SECTION 6: CRITICAL PEDAGOGY & THE CLASSROOM Critical Theories and Teacher Education in Portugal: For New Understanding of the Possibilities of Teacher Education to Make a Difference (Portugal) Fátima Pereira (2015) Striving for a Better World: Lessons from Freire in Grenada, Jamaica and Australia (Grenada/Jamaica/Australia) Anne Hickling-Hudson (2014). ‘Queer Goings-on’: An Autoethnographic Account of Experiences and (Australia) Practice of Performing a Queer Pedagogy Mark Vicars (2006) Turning Difficulties into Possibilities: Engaging Roma Families and Students in Schools through Diologic Learning (Spain) Ramón Flecha & Marta Soler Further Readings SECTION 7: CRITICAL HIGHER EDUCATION & ACTIVISM The University at a Crossroads (Portugal) Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2012) Higher Education & Class: Production or Reproduction (Greece) Panagiotis Sotiris Local Struggle: Women in the Home and Critical Feminist Pedagogy in Ireland (Ireland) G. Honor Fagan (1991) You Say you Want a Revolution: Suggestions for the Impossible Future of Critical Pedagogy (Luxembourg) Gert J.J. Biesta (1998) Further Readings Contributors Permissions \"The brilliance of the International Critical Pedagogy Reader is its audacity to de-colonize the taken for granted 'Center-Periphery' exporting model of critical pedagogy—creating, instead, a powerful place for subaltern voices to be heard. This comprehensive, illuminating, and timely edited book re-inserts the centrality of both the 'critical' and political coherence, remaining loyal to principles of liberation and emancipation. The International Critical Pedagogy Reader makes it powerfully clear that critical pedagogy is a way of life that does not require courage to be critical but simply demands coherence, humility, and ethics.\" -- Donaldo Macedo, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Education, University of Massachusetts Boston \"Intellectually engaging and emotionally inspiring. Relevant global coverage to inform reflective practitioners, and a scholarly companion for educators motivated by social and pedagogical justice.\" -- Juliana McLaughlin, Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Past President, Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society \"With such a comprehensive blend of particulars and universals, local and global, this reader assumes an inimitable encyclopedic significance. Indispensable for educational professionals, researchers, and students, it will engender innumerable milestones in educational research across the globe.\"-- Dev Pathak, Assistant Professor of Sociology, South Asian University, India \"Curating essays from over 20 countries around the world, the International Critical Reader shows how critical pedagogy is being reframed and reinvented philosophically, politically, and pedagogically in relation to contextual, cultural, social, and economic sensibilities and specificities. Widening the critical pedagogical lens beyond Western countries, this reader is an essential reference source for all students, academics, social activists, and researchers who subscribe to the view that the ‘struggle for freedom, equality, and social justice is never an act of courage, but an act of intellectual honesty.’\" -- Juliet Perumal, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, South Africa \"This reader is destined to become a pivotal book in critical pedagogy. It will reshape the field by extending critical pedagogy’s geography and issues. A must-read for educators committed to decolonizing pedagogy.\" -- Carmel Borg, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Malta \"Paulo Freire has said that critical pedagogy can transform the world for the benefit of humanity. This volume shows the extent to which critical pedagogy has itself now become a global phenomenon and the impact it has made on the theory and practice of radical education around the world.\" -- Mike Neary, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom \"The International Critical Pedagogy Reader holds the keys to the forthcoming evolution of this discipline in the near future. Indispensable not only for professors, students and researchers of critical pedagogy but also for critical sociology, cultural theory, and cultural studies professionals.\" -- Eugenio-Enrique Cortés-Ramírez, Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha, Spain \"This book brings us a powerful discussion on critical pedagogy from around the world. All concerns exposed in this collection are the same concerns held by many critical scholars to empower public education and teachers. It is a crucial book for graduate and undergraduate students in education, as well as for public school teachers.\" -- Alvaro Moreira Hypolito, Associate Professor, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil Antonia Darder holds the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University and is also Professor Emerita of Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Peter Mayo is Professor of Education Studies at the University of Malta and a member of the Collegio Docenti for the doctoral research program in Educational Sciences and Continuing Education at the Università degli Studi di Verona. João Paraskeva is Chair of the Department of Education Leadership and Director of the EdD/PhD in Education Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

\"Jon Hill and Joe Oliver introduce the Acceptance and Commitment Coaching (ACC) model with clarity and accessibility, defining it as an approach that incorporates mindfulness and acceptance, focusing on committed, values-based actions to help coaching clients make meaningful changes to their lives\"-- Provided by publisher.

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