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  • Brown Bodies, White Babies

    The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy

    by Laura Harrison ...
    Series Book 9 - Intersections
    Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman - through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors - carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different race. Focusing on the racial differences between parents and surrogates, this book is interested in how reproductive technologies intersect with ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Dangerous amusements

    Leisure, the young working class and urban space in Britain, c. 1870–1939

    by Laura Harrison ...
    Series series Studies in Popular Culture
    In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the ‘monkey parades’. The beginnings of a distinct youth culture can be traced to the late nineteenth century, and the street and neighbourhood provided its forum. Dangerous amusements explores these sites of leisure and courtship, examining how young ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Losing Sleep

    Risk, Responsibility, and Infant Sleep Safety

    by Laura Harrison ...
    New insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safetyNew parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of “co-sleeping,” or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing Sleep, Laura Harrison uncovers the origins of the infant sleep safety debate, providing a window into the unprecedented anxieties ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Trailer-Training Your Horse

    Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-279

    by Laura Harrison McBride ...
    Series Book 279 - Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
    How do you train a horse to get in and out of a trailer safely and calmly? With the renowned trailer-training method taught by the late Dr. Edwin Goodwin, long-time equine professor at the University of Maryland, it's simple.In Trailer Training Your Horse, journalist and equine enthusiast Laura Harrison McBride brings to publication for the first time the lessons and advice of Dr. Goodwin. The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Teaching Your Horse to Overcome Fears

    (Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-280)

    by Laura Harrison McBride ...
    Series Book 280 - Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
    "De-Spook" Your HorseAn umbrella opening, a tree branch creaking, a tarp flapping in the wind, a dusty shadow in the back of the barn -- what seems benign to the human eye often terrifies a horse. His immediate response? Screech to a halt, buck, twirl, and run like the dickens! What can a rider do but hang on?In fact, there is plenty a rider can do to "de-spook" a horse, and Teaching Your Horse to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Interrupting Class Inequality in Higher Education

    Leadership for an Equitable Future

    by Laura M. Harrison, Monica Hatfield Price ...
    Interrupting Class Inequality in Higher Education explores why socioeconomic inequality persists in higher education despite widespread knowledge of the problem. Through a critical analysis of the current leadership practices and policy narratives that perpetuate socioeconomic inequality, this book outlines the trends that negatively impact low- and middle-income students and offers effective ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Teaching Struggling Students

    Lessons Learned from Both Sides of the Classroom

    by Laura M. Harrison ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book tackles the phenomenon of limited learning on campuses by approaching it from the point of view of the author, an educator who writes about the experience of being, simultaneously, a college student and a college professor. The author lays out her experience as a student struggling in an introductory linguistics class, framing her struggles as sites ripe for autoethnographic ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Alternative Solutions to Higher Education's Challenges

    An Appreciative Approach to Reform

    by Laura M. Harrison, Peter C. Mather ...
    Moving beyond critique, Alternative Solutions to Higher Education’s Challenges uses an appreciative approach to highlight what is working in colleges and universities and offers an examination of how institutions can improve practice. Drawing on examples and cases from real higher education institutions, this book offers a solution-focused framework that challenges the negative assumptions that ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Helping College Students Write

    A Guide for Educators

    by Laura M. Harrison, Becky Challenger, Erin Morgenstern, Oumarou Abdoulaye Balarabe ...
    Although many educators want to help their students overcome their writing challenges, most higher education instructors do not have formal training in teaching writing. This book provides a detailed roadmap for college educators to help students make substantial improvements in their writing, particularly in courses where writing is a component, but not the primary focus.This accessible guide ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Doing Working-Class History

    Research, Heritage, and Engagement

    Edited by Oliver Betts, Laura Harrison, Laura Christine Price ...
    Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class – especially discussion of the working class – to a broad audience across scholarship and social debate. This introductory volume shows how the history of the working class has, is, and can be researched, written, and represented.The book is structured in three parts: perspective, context, and application. Each offers an ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Advancing Social Justice

    Tools, Pedagogies, and Strategies to Transform Your Campus

    by Tracy Davis, Laura M. Harrison ...
    Tools and strategies to foster transformative change for social justiceMany believe that social justice education is simply the new politically correct term for diversity-focused intervention or multiculturalism. The true definition, however, is more complex, nuanced, and important to understand. Higher education today needs clarity on both the concept of social justice and effective tools to ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Egmont Key

    Digital Heritage and Engagement on the Disappearing Island

    Edited by Laura K. Harrison, Brooke Hansen ...
    Documenting and interpreting the intersecting pasts of a historic island before they vanish under rising tidesEgmont Key, a small island at the meeting point of the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay, was a pivotal site in US history. Now a Florida State Park and a National Wildlife Refuge, it attracts visitors for its beaches and wildlife—but is steadily shrinking due to erosion and sea-level rise. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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