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Improving Agricultural Impact: Empowering INGOs to Establish and Enhance Their Food Security Programs is a transformative resource designed to equip international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) with the tools, strategies, and insights necessary to improve food security in developing communities. With a strong emphasis on practicality and impact, this comprehensive guide navigates through the complexities of designing, implementing, and managing agricultural development programs that yield meaningful results.Examining the core aspects of successful INGO-led agricultural development, this book presents a holistic framework that empowers communities to achieve lasting transformation. From crafting a clear mission statement to establishing outcome-driven goals, every step is meticulously outlined to ensure that the program's purpose remains steadfast and impactful. The Logic Model approach serves as the foundation, facilitating systematic planning and strategic alignment that resonates with both local contexts and overarching objectives.Written by the international agriculture experts at IDEA, their extensive experience in international development unveils a wealth of insights and practical methodologies that underline the importance of community engagement and stakeholder buy-in. Grounded in real world experiences and data-driven insights, the guide illustrates how strategic planning, innovative tactics, and well-defined activities synergize to build local capacity, enhance livelihoods, and foster community resilience. This manual guides readers through the nuanced process of creating an effective exit strategy, ensuring that the positive changes catalyzed by the program are sustained beyond its conclusion."Improving Agricultural Impact" transcends theoretical discourse by providing practical templates, case studies, and step-by-step guides that INGOs can apply in diverse contexts. It demonstrates how strategic choices impact outcomes, encourages adaptive learning, and embraces innovation as a catalyst for progress. With a robust emphasis on sustainability and impact assessment, this book serves as a trusted companion for INGOs seeking to make a meaningful difference in agricultural communities. Whether you are a seasoned development professional or a newcomer to the field, "Improving Agricultural Impact" provides an actionable roadmap for igniting positive change and fostering prosperous agricultural communities worldwide.

Die fantastische Welt der Science-Fiction ist voller Geschichten, erfundenen und wahren. In diesem Band hat der Journalist und SF-Fan Norbert Fiks einige seiner Beiträge zur Geschichte und Gegenwart des Genres versammelt, die er in verschiedenen Magazinen, Fanzines, Conbüchern und in seinem Blog veröffentlicht hat.Es geht um bekannte und fast vergessene Künstler und Autoren, um Arno Schmidt und Walter Ernsting, um Flüge zum Mond, um Roboter und Raketenpioniere. Zeitlich erstrecken sich die Themen von der Gründerzeit bis ins 21. Jahrhundert.

For more than 80 years, Glamour has been the preeminent women's empowerment brand in America. But until now, no one has told the extraordinary story of its origins and the famous names who helped shape the magazine into the global powerhouse it is today, and Glamour's many historic firsts. Glamour was the first American fashion magazine to feature a Black cover star, the first to present Gloria Steinem's writing, and the first to feature groundbreaking reporting on reproductive rights

Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives examines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction¿specifically addressing the themes of authorship, sexuality, and criminality in the context of the Victorian age in British and American cultures. This book explicates the complicated relationship between the Victorian past and the turn to Victorian modes of thought on literature, history, and morality. Additionally, Sarah E. Maier aims to determine if the appeal of neo-Victorian young adult fiction rests in or resists nostalgia, parody, and revision. Given the overwhelming prevalence of the Victorian in the young adult genres of biofiction, juvenile writings, gothic, sensation, mystery, and crime fiction, there is much to investigate in terms of the friction between the past and the present.

Der zentrale Forschungsgegenstand dieser multimethodischen Fallstudie ist der Königsteiner Schlüssel, ein inzwischen standardmäßig verwendeter Verteilungsschlüssel zwischen den deutschen Bundesländern. Wesentliche Problemperspektive ist die Übersetzung räumlicher Gerechtigkeit in einen Indikator. Es wird argumentiert, dass Indikatoren häufig nicht unter Laborbedingungen entstehen und wirken, sondern diversen, oft nicht-intendierten Veränderungen unterliegen. Anhand historischen Materials wird die Etablierung als Standardinstrument in den Blick genommen. Der Bedeutungswandel im öffentlichen Diskurs wird durch inhaltsanalytische Auswertung eines Zeitungsartikelkorpus mit Hilfe computergestützter Topic-Modellierung gezeigt. Die Untersuchung der administrativen Verwendung als Verteilungsschlüssel für Asylbewerber erfolgt über Experteninterviews mit Entscheidern der Asylverwaltung bei der überregionalen Verteilung sowie der lokalen Unterbringung und Unterkunftsakquise.

This book examines The Thousand and One Nights by Abol-Hassan Khan Sani¿ ol-Molk Ghaffari (1813/1814-1867), of the content of the illustrations of the main story, the story of Shahrzad and Shahrbaz, as well as a codicological study of the manuscript. It intends to explain how Sani¿ ol-Molk complicates the visual frame by adaptive strategies that build on the relationship between presented objects inside an illustration and the meanings that could be conventionally attributed to them from outside of the image. Examining the illustrations of the manuscript shows how Sani¿ ol-Molk¿s visualization of the main story of The Thousand and One Nights adds to the narrative and adapts it to convey meaning(s) that transcend the story the illustrations refer to.

"Featuring in-universe content as written by Captain America and his friends, allies, and foes from across the Marvel Universe, this new archival collection delivers an unprecedented glimpse into the life and mind of an American legend-and is the perfect read for any Cap or Marvel fan."--

"Pulling from pulp, sci-fi, gag cartoons, fantasy, and thrillers, and populated by goblins, astronauts, magical thieves, and talking owls, CF's comics break apart genres and forms, then reassemble them into one-of-a-kind stories that reveal an immense imagination and boundary-pushing talent. Christopher Forgues (better known as CF) roared onto the indie comics scene in the early 2000s, producing some of the most exciting and influential work of the decade. His output was startlingly original and impressively prolific: his collaboration with Ben Jones, Paper Radio; his multi-part epic, Powr Mastrs; and the shorter comics and zines now collected for the first time in Distant Ruptures. These comics--created using scratchy pencil and brilliant color, smudged Xeroxes and scraps of notepaper--capture the extraordinary range of CF's work"--

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.

Elevates in systematic ways the importance of organizational thinking about sustainability and emphasizes the importance of cultural organizations in facilitating societal sustainability goals.

"The book explores the lasting legacy of Christian ambivalence towards Jews in Western secular law and engages with broader questions about the cultural foundations of Western secular law, the politics of religious freedom, the racialisation of religion, and the ambivalent nature of legal progress"--

The postcards in this volume, all from the Robert N. and Susan Donahue Collection, tell the story of this community from its founding to the late twentieth century. Businesses, houses of worship, educational, health care and recreational facilities, public buildings, landmarks and homes are all represented. For many, these views will spark nostalgia; for others, they will be totally unfamiliar. Either way, this is Norwood.

Celebrate America's zaniest and most subversive magazine in 26 essays and comix from all-star contributors, including Roz Chast, Jonathan Lethem, and Grady Hendrix. Before SNL and the wise-guy sarcasm of Letterman and Colbert, before The Simpsons and online memes, there was . . .  MAD. A mainstay of countless American childhoods, MAD magazine exploded onto the scene in the 1950s and gleefully thumbed its nose at all the postwar pieties. MAD became the zaniest, most subversive satire magazine ever to be sold on America's newsstands, anticipating the spirit of underground comix and 'zines and influencing humor writing in movies, television, and the internet to this day. Edited by David Mikics, The MAD Files celebrates the magazine's impact and the legacy of the Usual Gang of Idiots who transformed puerile punchlines and merciless mockery into an art form. 26 essays and comics present a varied, perceptive, and often very funny account of MAD's significance, ranging from the cultural to the aesthetic to the personal. Art Spiegelman reflects on how he "couldn't learn much about America from my refugee immigrant parents--but I learned all about it from MAD"Roz Chast remembers how the magazine was "love at first sight. . . . It was one of my first inklings that there were other people out there who found the world as ridiculous as I did."David Hajdu and Grady Hendrix zero in on MAD's hilarious movie spoofsLiel Leibovitz delves into the Jewishness behind the magazine's humorand Rachel Shteir amplifies the often unsung contributions of MAD's women artists.Several essays are admiring profiles of the individual creators that made MAD what it was: Mort Drucker, Harvey Kurtzman, Al Jaffee, Antonio Prohias, and Will Elder. For longtime fans and new readers alike, The MAD Files is an indispensable guide to America's greatest satire magazine.

"This ... collection of first-person tales from Upworthy will provide comfort and inspiration to anyone who could use a dose of joy"--

“Engrossing and suspenseful." —The New York Times“Expertly pulls readers in.” —The Guardian   “Smith sharply chronicles the revolutionary moment.” — Financial TimesThe origin story of the post-truth age: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Nick Denton of Gawker Media and Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American societyIf attention is the new oil, Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and the perceptible impact of climate change. The curtain opens in Soho in the early 2000s, after the first dot-com crash but before Google, Apple, and Facebook exploded, when it seemed that New York City, rather than Silicon Valley, might become tech’s center of gravity. There, Nick Denton’s merry band of nihilists at his growing Gawker empire and Jonah Peretti’s sunnier team at HuffPost and BuzzFeed were building the foundations of viral internet media. Ben Smith, who would go on to earn a controversial reputation as BuzzFeed News’s editor in chief, was there to see it, and he chronicles it all with marvelous lucidity underscored by dark wit.  Traffic explores one of the great ironies of our time: The internet, which was going to help the left remake the world in its image, has become the motive force of right populism. People like Steve Bannon and Andrew Breitbart initially seemed like minor characters in the narrative in which Nick and Jonah were the stars. But today, anyone might wonder if the op­posite wasn’t the case. To understand how we got here, Traffic is essential and enthralling reading.

"A richly detailed and well-informed month-by-month accountingof all the major Polish customs and traditions practiced over the centuries.Ms. Knab stirs and reawakens our ancestral memory." ―The Kosciuszko Foundation Newsletter Now in a paperback edition with illustrations, historical blackand white photographs, and color photographs throughout the book! Thisunique, well-researched reference is arranged by month, showing the variousoccasions, feasts and holidays prominent in Polish culture―beginning withDecember it continues through Holy Week Customs, superstitions, beliefs andrituals associated with farming, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, midsummer, harvestfestival, wedding rites, Name Days, birth and death. There is also a chapter onPolish pastimes and games for children. Many of the customs and traditions described in the book havebeen lost even in today's modern Poland. World wars, massive immigration, theloss of the oral tradition, urbanization and politics have changed the face ofa once agrarian people and their way of life throughout the calendar year. Thechanges, however, have not been able to erase the memory of that way of lifecompletely. Manycommunities of the Polish diaspora throughout the world still feelconnected to Poland and choose to reenact harvest celebrations, remindingthemselves of their ancestors' reverence for the grains and gifts of bread. Thesharing of oplatek, the Christmas Eve wafer, and the words of love whiledoing so, continue to bind family and friends together. Although thepurpose and meaning may have been lost and forgotten, the oczepiny ceremony(the unveiling) is still the mainstay of almost every wedding where the bridedeclares Polish heritage. This invaluable resource isperfect for anyone who claims Polish ancestry, diligently practicing that whichthey learned at their parents' and grandparents' knees. It is for families whowish to teach Polish heritage and customs to their children, and for anyoneseeking to learn more about their Slavic roots.

'So, verily I say unto you, brothers and sisters - cast aside your digital rosary beads and look more closely at the world around you. Or better still, roll up your trouser legs and join me for a paddle through the shallow water at the edge of the future. Be curious, be positive, and embrace your inner sceptic!' Do you really understand the world around you? Do you know how crowdsourcing works, what terraforming does, and what alternative currency is? Do you believe Google is great - or is there a sneaky feeling in the back of your mind that it might know way too much about you? And, by the way, just what happened to the great promises of the future, the paperless offices, the Jetsons-style commutes? Come with guide and host of Radio National's Future tense, Antony Funnell, as he unravels the mysteries of the world we've created, cuts through the mumbo jumbo, warns of the dangers and laughs at the hype. Smart, articulate and refreshingly humorous, tHE FUtURE AND #RELAtED NONSENSE delivers the answers to things you should know - but were too busy or too confused to ask.

An immersive exploration of fifty years of Dungeons & Dragons through the art and lore of the worlds, planes, and settings that have captivated players throughout D&D’s decades of adventures and campaign storytelling.Each chapter of this sumptuously illustrated guide focuses on an iconic world or setting in the D&D multiverse, narrated by legendary mage Mordenkainen and filled with official artwork curated from fifty years of source books and adventures.Mordenkainen muses on each location’s unique features, unmistakable characters, and magical mysteries based on his experiences traveling across the planes. Written by Adam Lee, worldbuilding expert and former D&D game designer, this lavish tome also features original cover and chapter opener illustrations. Daily life in each world is creatively explored through exclusive stories penned by Jasmine Bhullar, Geoffrey Golden, Jody Houser and Eric Campbell, and Jaleigh Johnson. From the more familiar worlds of the Material Plane to the strange and intriguing Parallel Planes, and the truly mind-bending worlds and planes beyond, both longstanding and recent D&D fans will gain new perspectives on the most beloved and memorable places in the game.

Delve into one hundred key artifacts that encapsulate the Marvel Cinematic Universe in all its multifaceted magnificence.Explore Marvel Studios' prop archives and discover the compelling stories of iconic items such as Iron Man's Mark I Armor, Ant-Man's cybernetic helmet, and Captain America's vibranium shield - as well as lesser-known but highly intriguing objects from the MCU.Explore the Marvel Cinematic Universe through its iconic props and objects:Official full-color photography and images for each object, with an accompanying essay that profiles its significance.Go behind the scenes of your favorite MCU films and uncover the significance of Doctor Strange's Cloak of Levitation, Thor's hammer Mjolnir, and much more.Perfect for MCU and Marvel Comics fans aged 12 and up.Marvel Studios 100 Objects takes fans deeper into the exciting Marvel Cinematic Universe, with full-color images that illustrate every entry in striking detail. With in-world insights into crucial events and characters' lives accompanying each entry, this book will captivate MCU fans old and new.(c) 2024 MARVEL

This book presents Maingueneaüs notion of paratopia and its application to literary discourse. Unlike most discourse analysts, who pay little attention to literature, the author argues that a discourse analytical perspective allows us to challenge the usual separation between textual and contextual approaches to works. Considered as an impossible belonging, paratopia is a condition of possibility of literature, of the subjects who occupy a writer's position and of the use they make of language. To find their place as creators, writers must elaborate their own paratopia, they must give it shape and meaning. Their works must both construct a certain world and, through paratopic shifters, reflect and legitimise the conditions of their own appearance. Paratopia is an invariant of literature, but it takes different forms throughout history: writers draw on their paratopic potential to appropriate the resources made available tothem by literary discourse in their own time. Today, the development of digital technologies and research on gender prompts us to take a different look at traditional forms of paratopia. The corpus includes canonical and recent texts, mainly from Western literature. It will be of interest to students and scholars in literary studies, discourse studies (discourse theory and discourse analysis), and sociology of culture.

This book defines a straightforward way to analyse fictional characters through data. It shows how a data-led approach can produce rich analyses of characters, their surrounding storyworlds, and their authors across time and different types of media. It uses the Marvel Comics¿ character, Doctor Doom as its main case study, and demonstrates the advantages of this approach by comparing the results to those taken from a survey of fan attitudes. It also uses the methodology to analyse the differences between the American and British characters who share the name "Dennis The Menace". Finally, it offers a range of further uses for the tool. All datasets and tools are made available to download, so that other researchers can use the methodology and compare their own results to those generated in the book.

The year 2021 marked the five-hundredth anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines. With over 90% of the Filipin@s (Filipino/as) in the country and more than eight million around the world identifying as Christian, they are a significant force reshaping global Christianity. The fifth centenary called for celebration, reflection, and critique. This book represents the voices of theologians in the Philippines, the United States, Australia, and around the world examining Christianity in the Philippines through a postcolonial theological lens that suggests the desire to go beyond the colonial in all its contemporary manifestations. Part 1, ¿Rethinking the Encounters,¿ focuses on introducing the context of Christianity¿s arrival in the archipelago and its effect on its peoples. Part 2, ¿Reappropriation, Resistance, and Decolonization,¿ grapples with the enduring presence of coloniality in Filipin@ religious practices. It also celebrates the ways Christianity has been critically and creatively reimagined.

How can we understand and respond to past and present entanglements of Christianity with colonisation? What kinds of theological perspectives and approaches are needed in the wake of colonisation and its impact? Unsettling Theologies includes responses to these questions from Aboriginal, M¿ori, Pasifika and White scholars.

Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces by focusing on their representation in literary narratives but also in visual and performing arts. Across a range of geographical contexts, this volume builds on the new mobilities paradigm developed by literary scholars, sociologists and human geographers. The different chapters employ a cohesive framework that is sensitive to the intersecting dimensions of power and discrimination that shape urban kinetic features. The contributions are divided into three sections, each of which places the focus on a different aspect of urban mobility: Itinerant Subjects, Modes of Transport and Places of Transit, and Urban Liminalities.Chapter 7, "Alienation, Abjection and the Mobile Postcolonial City: Public Transport in Ousmane Sembène¿s ¿Niiwam¿ and Yvonne Veräs Without a Name" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book identifies and examines new forms and paths of Eastern European migration to Australia since the 2000s, and provides updated trends of contemporary migration movements of Ukrainians, Hungarians and Czechs to Australia. With chapters highlighting the diversities and complexities of these new accelerated waves of Eastern European migration to Asia-Pacific, this book offers novel insights to enrich our understanding of East European mobility in the 21st century. The book will appeal to students, scholars and policymakers in the fields of migration, sociology, political science and international relations.

This edited collection is the first book-length critical study of the Showtime-Sky Atlantic television series Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), which also includes an analysis of Showtime¿s 2020 spin-off City of Angels. Chapters examine the status of the series as a work of twenty-first-century cable television, contemporary Gothic-horror, and intermedial adaptation, spanning sources as diverse as eighteenth and nineteenth-century British fiction and poetry, American dime novels, theatrical performance, Hollywood movies, and fan practices. Featuring iconic monsters such as Dr. Frankenstein and his Creature, the ¿bride¿ of Frankenstein, Dracula, the werewolf, Dorian Gray, and Dr. Jekyll, Penny Dreadful is a mash-up of familiar texts and new Gothic figures such as spiritualist Vanessa Ives, played by the magnetic Eva Green. As a recent example of adapting multiple sources in different media, Penny Dreadful has as much to say about the Romantic and Victorian eras as it does about our present-day fascination with screen monsters. Hear the authors talk about the collection here: https://nrftsjournal.org/monsters-all-are-we-not-an-interview-with-julie-grossman-and-will-scheibel/

Dieser Band gibt einen Überblick darüber, wie Computerspiele sich zu einem populären Massenmedium entwickeln konnten und welche Mythen über ihre individuellen und gesellschaftlichen Nutzungsweisen und Wirkungen tatsächlich von der Forschung belegt werden können (und welche nicht). Von PacMan, Space Invaders über Super Mario, Tomb Raider bis hin zu den Blockbustern Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty oder Fortnite, aber auch zu Candy Crush und Roblox haben sich Computerspiele in den letzten gut vierzig Jahren zu einem populären und erfolgreichen Unterhaltungsmedium entwickelt. Sie sind dabei, ähnlich wie Filme oder Musik, mittlerweile zum Kulturgut geworden. Für die zweite Auflage wurde der Band überarbeitet und aktualisiert.

Ever since his first appearance in New York City in 1932, Art Tatum has been regarded as the most important pianist in the history of jazz. His technique took the breath away even from concert pianists of the calibre of Horowitz, his touch was of unparalleled lightness and elegance, and his improvisations across the entire harmonic spectrum put him decades ahead of his time. For the first time this book in detail reconstructs the often blurred traces of the life of the Afro American piano virtuoso from Toledo, Ohio. Based on the stories of many contemporaries and fellow musicians and on countless reports in the daily press and jazz journals, a fascinating portrait emerges of a unique artist and the pulsating world of jazz of his time."The late Fats Waller, no mean keyboard genius himself, halted a show at the Greenwich Village Inn in New York one night to announce dramatically in the presence of his friend: 'I play the piano, but God is in the house.'" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1947)"Art Tatum showed what it is like to live in a world where all doors are open." (Tom Piazza, 1996)

Pædagoger, sosu’er og sygeplejersker er for grådige og skal bare arbejde noget hårdere – eller er det nu også sådan? Kvindefag er en bog om forestillinger om og fordomme mod kvindedominerede velfærdsfag. Den er et forsøg på at identificere de strukturer, der skal brydes ned for at komme dem til livs.Kvindefag tager afsæt i den aktuelle omsorgskrise for at undersøge de kvindedominerede velfærdsfags historie og udvikling. Fra dengang kvinder passede børn og plejede de syge i hjemmet, til opgaven blev professionaliseret og en del af velfærdsstatens hjerteblod. At kendefagenes rødder giver et fundament for at forstå, hvorfra og hvorfor de mange forestillinger om velfærdsfagene kommer.Gennem udsagn fra den offentlige debat og ikke mindst fra velfærdsmedarbejderes hverdag sættes fokus på nutidens dilemmaer. Her kommer medarbejderne selv til orde, og deres fortællinger viser, hvordan fordomme har en direkte virkning på hverdagen.Ideen til bogen udsprang under sygeplejerskernes strejke i sommeren 2021. Bogen handler dog bredt om de såkaldte kvindefag – det traditionelle velfærdsfag, som også omfatter pædagoger, sosu’er og andre, der ”arbejder med mennesker”.