Cultural Humility in Libraries: A Call to Action and Strategies for Success explores some of the challenges that libraries and librarians face due to diversity and inclusion issues among library staff, as well as the patrons that they serve. Including more than 30 contributors, it offers best practice strategies, tempered by experiences and ......
Cultural Humility in Libraries: A Call to Action and Strategies for Success explores some of the challenges that libraries and librarians face due to diversity and inclusion issues among library staff, as well as the patrons that they serve. Including more than 30 contributors, it offers best practice strategies, tempered by experiences and ......
Explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority community in China threatened by climate change. China is experiencing climate whiplash-extreme fluctuations between drought and flooding-that threatens the health and autonomy of millions of people. Set against mounting anxiety over the future of global ......
The Fred Whitton Challenge, week-long tours and day rides
Guidebook to the Fred Whitton Challenge ride (179km/112 miles over 7 iconic passes) and an alternative 5-day tour of the Lake District, plus 15 tough day rides from Keswick, Ambleside, Penrith and bases to the southwest and southeast of the National Park, taking in the best of the areas road cycling.
Czech Social Attitudes in the European Context: In the Heart of Europe reflects the political, welfare, and general social attitudes in the Czech Republic, which has 30 years of existence, in European comparison. In nine chapters, the team of contributors address understanding and evaluations of democracy, discriminated group identity, ......
Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from the Twin Cities. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. With full trip-planning information, Day Trips from the Twin Cities helps make the most of a ......
The 80th Anniversary of D-Day falls on June 6, 2024 In the early hours of that morning, three divisions of paratrooper and glider forces descended on Normandy. Already assembling offshore was the largest seaborne invasion fleet in the history of the world, ready to unleash over 130,000 troops against Hitler's Atlantic Wall. More than 7,000 ......
Light from our Sun and other sources is all around, bringing colour, heat and energy. Over time, humans have harnessed light to create fire, fluorescent light and even scientific equipment like lasers. But light and colour are tricky.
Mathematical concepts are all around us — in nature, architecture, art, biology, computer science and in our everyday lives. Did you know that natural processes, such as how bees swarm, have been used as a model for computer algorithms, or that boomerangs work using similar aerodynamic concepts as aircraft?
