Introduces the life of John Muir, the naturalist who formed the Sierra Club to help preserve the Sierra Mountains.

When Erin arrives for class at Oshawa Secondary, she learns that her friend Marcel has been badly beaten up. She immediately wonders whether it was a gay-bashing, or whether he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Marcel is in a coma, so she has no clues to help her. As far as she knows he doesn't have any enemies, but there are plenty of guys at school who don't hide their hateful feelings for gay people. When the police investigation of Marcel's attack comes up against a brick wall, Erin decides she'll have to track down the guilty parties herself. Her search takes her on a dark journey through throbbing dance clubs and back alleys in a desperate effort to discover the truth. Truth and Lies is a gritty, suspenseful story that examines the prejudice and hatred faced by gay people in our society, both within school walls and beyond them.

Nineteen contributions from international scholars and social justice leaders consider issues of race and racism as they affect people of African descent in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States. A sampling of topics includes whites experiencing loss of privilege in South Africa, race and the women's movement in the U.S., nonracialism in Brazil, and racial discrimination as a violation of international law. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Undici racconti in cui sono concentrati umorismo, gusto del macabro e del terrore. I personaggi di queste avventure sorprendenti, anche se soggetti patologici o criminali incalliti, diventano degli indimenticabili compagni di divertimento. Don, un fotografo in crisi, dą un aiuto decisivo quanto bizzarro a due giovani nel giorno delle loro nozze; un giovane scrittore si sente perseguitato da Stephen King; Marc Pearson ha buone ragioni per credere che suo padre sia il cavaliere elettrico...

Research on the organizational culture in higher education affirms that congruent cultures are better than fragmented ones, and that managing culture is oxymoron. Such analyses often lead to the assumptions that unity of purpose is essential and leadership is impossible. This book reframes rather than suppresses these notions, and by respecting the differences, builds a commonality between them.
Using data on faculty socialization in academe, the authors consider how the work of cultural leadership becomes interpretation and facilitation rather than management. Through a series of interviews using experimental forms of ethnographic presentation, Tierney and Bensimon articulate salient problems of tenure-track faculty, especially women and faculty of color, and address the issue of individuals voluntarily leaving the tenure-track. They offer a new paradigm to delineate ways in which the academic community can help socialize younger faculty, and honor differences more readily.