In the Federation of Democracy, unsettling events are unfolding. A dedicated special unit is tasked with unravelling the mystery, but they’re quickly ensnared in a web of murder, espionage, and dark cult secrets. What initially seemed like a straightforward mission becomes a perilous journey. With the aid of the police and by delving into the worlds that surround them, they uncover an even more ominous threat on the horizon. Now, unity is their only weapon. They must band together, not just to solve the mystery, but to survive the looming darkness. Dive into a tale of intrigue, danger, and the unyielding spirit of those sworn to protect.
Thane Wulf is a Hamrammr and beta of a wolf pack that guards and protects the town called Refuge. He is on his way home after a long year away when he suffers an accident on the road and is left comatose in a small town hospital. When he wakes, he finds that the town is overrun by creatures that make the night seem like an unpleasant place to dwell. He searches for survivors and takes them in as his pack, eventually leading them to his hometown where more chaos is about to start. The town of Refuge will never be the same.
Migrants have, for some time, engaged in the politics of their homelands from a distance, but, as this book argues, politicians are increasingly looking beyond their national boundaries for electoral and political support. While migrants rarely cast decisive votes in homeland elections, they are not marginal to homeland politics. Courting Migrants looks at how extraterritorial outreach by homeland states and parties alters the boundaries of political membership and intersects with migrant agency to transform politics at home. It addresses three specific questions: under what conditions and in what ways do homeland authorities reach out to migrants? How do these migrants respond? And, to what extent does their response affect homeland governance? Katrina Burgess argues that globalization and the spread of democracy since the 1970s have encouraged politicians in the Global South to reach out to migrants in search of economic resources, foreign policy support, and/or electoral advantage. They do so by cultivating feelings of loyalty that induce some kinds of migrant engagement while discouraging others. Whether or not these politicians succeed depends on where migrants are located, how many resources they have, what kinds of identities they value, and why they left their homeland in the first place. This interaction between outreach and engagement has implications, in turn, for how migrants are responding to the current wave of populism and authoritarianism around the globe. The book is based on in-depth research on state-migrant relations in four high-migration countries: Turkey, Dominican Republic, Philippines, and Mexico.
In Challenging the One Best System, a team of leading education scholars offers a rich comparative analysis of the set of urban education governance reforms collectively known as the “portfolio management model.” They investigate the degree to which this model—a system of schools operating under different types of governance and with different degrees of autonomy—challenges the standard structure of district governance famously characterized by David Tyack as “the one best system.” The authors examine the design and enactment of the portfolio management model in three major cities: New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Denver. They identify the five interlocking mechanisms at the core of the model—planning and oversight, choice, autonomy, human capital, and school supports—and show how these are implemented differently in each city. Using rich qualitative data from extensive interviews, the authors trace the internal tensions and tradeoffs that characterize these systems and highlight the influence of historical and contextual factors as well. Most importantly, they question whether the portfolio management model represents a fundamental restructuring of education governance or more incremental change, and whether it points in the direction of meaningful improvement in school practices. Drawing on a rigorous, multimethod study, Challenging the One Best System represents a significant contribution to our understanding of system-level change in education.
Thane Wulf is a Hamrammr and beta of a wolf pack that guards and protects the town called Refuge. He is on his way home after a long year away when he suffers an accident on the road and is left comatose in a small town hospital. When he wakes, he finds that the town is overrun by creatures that make the night seem like an unpleasant place to dwell. He searches for survivors and takes them in as his pack, eventually leading them to his hometown where more chaos is about to start. The town of Refuge will never be the same.
In the Federation of Democracy, unsettling events are unfolding. A dedicated special unit is tasked with unravelling the mystery, but they’re quickly ensnared in a web of murder, espionage, and dark cult secrets. What initially seemed like a straightforward mission becomes a perilous journey. With the aid of the police and by delving into the worlds that surround them, they uncover an even more ominous threat on the horizon. Now, unity is their only weapon. They must band together, not just to solve the mystery, but to survive the looming darkness. Dive into a tale of intrigue, danger, and the unyielding spirit of those sworn to protect.
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