The purpose of this Dignity of the Calling is to share other stories of faculty entry into higher education.  These stories focus on the deeply personal nature of the new academic. Framed around the idea of curriculum being contextual and how life experience guides what we do, this collection of memoirs, recollections, and personal narratives allows the reader to share these lived experiences. Although I was a teacher prior to the entering the professoriate, I was not ready for the gargantuan professional and personal transition to higher education. ...

These lively and candid letters from Rose Macaulay to her first cousin Jean Smith are previously unknown. Macaulay was one of the most versatile, successful, and significant writers in the first half of the twentieth century, Smith a talented but diffident and depressive poet who was briefly an Anglican nun before converting to Roman Catholicism. The letters throw fascinating and often amusing light not only on the writer's private life, unconventional character, and varied career, but also on the lively literary and social circles in which she moved. They ...

Two species that have always kept themselves separated are about to collide and create a new world. Humanity almost managed to do itself in. Ravaged by wars and plagues, the human population on earth has been bordering on extinction, although pockets of people have been forging on over the past few hundred years. It's a hard life, and one Aaron Olsen fears he doesn't fit into. As a son of a village leader, there are pressures on him he can't manage, and things he keeps hidden, desires he doesn't know how to express that keep him up many nights as he worries ...

Novas cepas bacterianas multirresistentes têm sido um grande problema no tratamento clinico atualmente. Tal problema torna crescente a necessidade pela busca de novas moléculas com ação antimicrobiana, moléculas que possam permitir uma melhoria no tratamento de infecções causadas por organismos patogênicos resistentes ao tratamento clínico. No sentido desta busca, derivados de sistemas cíclicos podem servir como novos protótipos para a descoberta de antimicrobianos. Diferentes sistemas ...

De Ratione Stoica In Persii Satiris Conspicua est liber a Mauritio Ernesto Houck anno MDCCCXCIV editus. In hoc libro, auctor Stoicam philosophiam in Satiris Persii investigat et explicat. Houck Stoicorum doctrinam cum Persii poesi comparat, ut ostendat quomodo Persius Stoicam philosophiam in suos versus inseruerit. Liber hunc valde eruditum est, et idoneus est ad intellegendam Stoicam philosophiam et Persii poesim.This Book Is In Latin.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library ...

This tale is ideal for children and teens, from the moment the main character hears the singing of a cricket on a farm, to when he is taken to the marvelous Kingdom of the Insects. On the other hand, adults and the elderly are marveled by the awkward and difficult situations Geordano faces in a succession of episodes that occur between him and the Amazing Talking Cricket. This book could one day be made into a G-rated film that would be healthy entertainment for the entire family.

A Study Guide for Anthony Doerr's "All the Light We Cannot See", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Sono trascorsi oltre duemila anni dall'evento glorioso della nascita del Salvatore, che abbiamo riconosciuto come Figlio di Dio, ovvero Cristo Gesù. Nel corso dei secoli e dei millenni, la Cristianità, sin dalle primissime comunità fondate dagli Apostoli, ha diffuso e predicato in ogni dove possibile l'Evangelo della Grazia e del Regno, "acquisendo" e convertendo, nel tempo, tantissimi esseri umani. Un popolo, forse molto più vasto e "allargato" di quel che si pensa, il quale non è dimentico della grande promessa profetica ...

" ... a touching story about love with all the odds against it." -Ann Garvin, USA Today bestselling author of I Like You Just Fine When You're Not Around Mom-of-three Sadie Rollins-Lancaster struggles with a crumbling marriage she had hoped to salvage. Though her husband, Theo, initiated the divorce, he's now having a change of heart that's difficult to reconcile as he fights against PTSD demons within. When a chance encounter with a stranger resurrects emotions in Sadie she never expected to feel again, her world is turned upside down. Will Sadie ...

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