When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows...
Draws a touching picture of children's incredible strength and clarity under very difficult circumstances.
An intriguing study of a fluid cross-border area over several decades
This volume takes stock of these trends by canvassing the globe to generate new conceptual, empirical, and theoretical contributions.
Millions of baby boomers are facing one of life's most poignant challenges -- they are becoming parents to their parents.It is a turning point that Mary Pipher illuminated in her...
This book is essential reading for those seeking a new understanding of the multiple and shifting experiences of place.
I didn't have a demo tape I was shoppin' you know, none of that,” Johnson said to us in an interview. But when he found out that Stephen Hill, a programming executive at BET, liked his work and voice while with the NAACP and requested a ...
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his...
In Places in Need, social policy expert Scott W. Allard tracks how the number of poor people living in suburbs has more than doubled over the last 25 years, with little attention from either academics or policymakers.
This book explores how the notion of a learning society has developed over recent years: the changes that have given rise to the requirement for flexibility, and the changed discourses and practices that have emerged in the education and ...
Featuring more than ninety black-and-white and one hundred color reproductions of photographs, plans, and sketchbooks, A Life Spent Changing Places is Halprin's own account of how a young boy who listened to the fireside chats of FDR on the ...