Making Limonada is a memoir of life in a Mediterranean village during the last decade of Franco's Fascist Spain. In flight from her own family's tragedy, the American author discovers a country grieving its own terrible losses from the Spanish Civil War, (1936-1939). In addition to stories of raising her family in small town village life, she also relates stories of the villagers in the aftermath of the years of hunger and retribution that followed their war.
Teaching Recent Global History explores innovative ways to teach world history, beginning with the early 20th century. The authors’ unique approach unites historians, social studies teachers, and educational curriculum specialists to offer historically rich, pedagogically innovative, and academically rigorous lessons that help students connect with and deeply understand key events and trends in recent global history. Highlighting the best scholarship for each major continent, the text explores the ways that this scholarship can be adapted by teachers in the classroom in order to engage and inspire students. Each of the eight main chapters highlights a particularly important event or theme, which is then complemented by a detailed discussion of a particular methodological approach. Key features include: • An overarching narrative that helps readers address historical arguments; • Relevant primary documents or artifacts, plus a discussion of a particular historical method well-suited to teaching about them; • Lesson plans suitable for both middle and secondary level classrooms; • Document-based questions and short bibliographies for further research on the topic. This invaluable book is ideal for any aspiring or current teacher who wants to think critically about how to teach world history and make historical discussions come alive for students.
Lenni Serrano has approached adulthood with inflated expectations. But now she is at a loss to reconcile her youthful aspirations with the routine and predictability of the life she has actually lived. Desperate to break its tedium, she makes questionable choices-which later exact a painful toll on herself and those closest to her. When she becomes entangled with a brilliant, but volatile and menacing co-worker, she falls into a spiral of events that end in tragedy. Ultimately, Lenni and her husband, Aaron, must navigate the end of a twenty-year marriage that has balanced precariously on the contradictions of an enduring love and underlying incompatibility. A White Trail is a tale of love and loss, a struggle for self-knowledge, and in the end, acceptance. "Lenni's love of both passion and comfort is relatable, as is the idea that shelving one's dreams can come back to haunt you. Krantz...gives readers a protagonist to root for-one who finds herself torn between the life she's created and the one she's always thought she'd have. Krantz's focus on her characters' emotions gives the story an authentic feel, and the ending is surprising and satisfying. An adult coming-of-age story that puts a unique twist on a mid-life crisis." - Kirkus Reviews "The characters in this novel are people: real, fl awed, hurting. This made me sympathetic to them-even when they weren't on their best behavior. I believe everything that the author shows and tells us about them- because it all adds up, rings true. Everything that happens makes sense." - Alison Hicks, Founder and Director, Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio "With a delicate touch, A White Trail offers many emotionally moving moments, particularly between the two main characters, Lenni and Aaron. Lenni's visit to their house post-separation is one vivid example that I'll never forget!" - Janet Benton, Founder and Director, The Word Studio
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It is always appropriate to ask whether an expedient foreign policy is morally justifiable, just as it is always appropriate to ask whether a morally defensible policy is consistent with the national interest. The ongoing dialogue between morality and realpolitik gives much of foreign policy debate its characteristic bite. In this collection of essays, a distinguished group of philosophers, political theorists, and lawyers– including Russell Hardin and Marshall Cohen–explore these contrasting themes. In essays that are at once insightful and accessible, noted political thinkers examine the tension of the conflicting demands of morality and national self-interest in the context of the foundations of international order, the possession and use of nuclear weapons, recourse to war, and the prospects for peace. A final postscript addresses the question of the responsibility of intellectuals in the national foreign policy debate. This book will appeal to scholars and students in any discipline dealing with international affairs as well as to lay readers who wish to explore the implications of taking morality and reason seriously in foreign policy.
Simon's socks, hot from the clothes dryer, shrink on his feet and make him shrink as well, taking him on an adventure in which he swims in a pot of soup and rides on the back of a worm.
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