Susan Meyer

For those who delight in combing unusual ingredients and preparing delicious meals, a career as a chef can be a great option. This instructive resource offers readers a look at what it's really like to work as part of a team of chefs in a hectic restaurant kitchen, as a private chef in someone's home, and in many other places where chefs can be found. Readers will learn about culinary school, apprenticeships, and other training options. With sidebars on celebrity chefs and profiles of restaurant owners who have capitalized on unique concepts for restaurants, this book is entertaining as well as illuminating.

From the news to school hallways, xenophobic rhetoric is sadly on the rise. This book provides an all-too-timely resource for students to understand what xenophobia is, remember to avoid xenophobic language, and most importantly, work to wipe out xenophobia. Through easy-to-follow text that is accessible even to struggling readers, the book provides key strategies for helping students to both recognize and confront xenophobia in their communities. Personal stories of teens and adults who both experienced xenophobia and helped speak out against it are also shared.

Isaac Newton was a revolutionary thinker who changed how we look at everything from gravity and optics to astronomy. He even invented a whole new type of math: calculus This book follows Newton's journey of discovery from his childhood on an English farm through his years learning and teaching at Oxford and working with the Royal Society. It provides in-depth biographical and science information and puts Newton's immense discoveries in historical context. Enthralling and accessible text allows students to gain a new understanding of important STEM topics while learning about Newton's many discoveries and the complex and fascinating man behind them.

Although Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, he perished before the trip was completed. Readers will learn about the challenges that his expedition faced on its long, arduous journey, as well as how this Portuguese explorer ended up leading a Spanish expedition in the first place. Other highlights include his travels as a young man, the discovery of the strait now named after him, and his partnership with astronomer Rui Falerio. This engrossing account of Magellan's life and fateful last voyage concludes with a consideration of Magellan's legacy.

All types of bullying are toxic, but one kind known as slut shaming can have particularly nasty consequences. Slut shaming supports a culture that tries to control women's choices. This culture leads to higher rates of sexual assault, depression, and even suicide. Women who are slut shamed online face additional harm to their reputations, particularly in their college and professional careers. This important resource will explain what slut shaming is, why it is so harmful, and how to stop feeding into the culture that supports it.

The impact Colorado's natural resources have had on its development as a state cannot be overstated. This book looks at how mining and ranching have helped shape the history, culture, and people of the Centennial State. From the Gold Rush to modern-day agriculture, the book considers how economy, industry, and the environment have all affected and been affected by the presence of these resources.

The impact Colorado's natural resources have had on its development as a state cannot be overstated. This book looks at how mining and ranching have helped shape the history, culture, and people of the Centennial State. From the Gold Rush to modern-day agriculture, the book considers how economy, industry, and the environment have all affected and been affected by the presence of these resources.

Colorado's path from a territory to being annexed as the 38th state in the United States is an important part of the state's rich history. This book looks at the events leading up to Colorado's annexation, some of the reasons Colorado was made a state, and what life was like in the newly formed Centennial State in the late 19th century. Engaging and accessible text is coupled with full color photographs and primary source documents to give students a full understanding of this important milestone in Colorado's history.

Readers may be familiar with the astounding innovations and ideas developed by the Ancient Greeks. They may not know, however, how truly repulsive some of the practices of the Ancient Greeks were. Be prepared for stomach-churning descriptions of the plumbing and hygiene of Ancient Greece, not to mention culinary delights like goat lung and brain omelets. Medical practices that would not be approved by the FDA today, such as bloodletting and vivisection, are also detailed. This totally disgusting--but entirely fun--volume will have students wondering what practices from their own lives will one day be described as "totally gross."

A student doesn't have to be a programming whiz kid to use innovative technology and tools to make a great multimedia presentation, demonstration, or collaborative learning project. Many digital programs and software are easy to use and help students find the best way to package and present their information. New social networking tools can also help students reach a larger and more targeted audience with their message. There are so many cool new Web sites, software, apps, and other digital tools designed just for creating, improving, facilitating, and showcasing multimedia presentations, demonstrations, and collaborative learning experiences, and they are discussed in great detail here. Any student can create an amazing presentation or speech. All that is required is imagination, creativity, a little help from the latest digital technology, and this superb guidebook to the readily available tools and their astounding capabilities. This text supports Common Core Standards for the reading of technical accounts and texts.

A student doesn't have to be a programming whiz kid to use innovative technology and tools to make a great multimedia presentation, demonstration, or collaborative learning project. Many digital programs and software are easy to use and help students find the best way to package and present their information. New social networking tools can also help students reach a larger and more targeted audience with their message. There are so many cool new Web sites, software, apps, and other digital tools designed just for creating, improving, facilitating, and showcasing multimedia presentations, demonstrations, and collaborative learning experiences, and they are discussed in great detail here. Any student can create an amazing presentation or speech. All that is required is imagination, creativity, a little help from the latest digital technology, and this superb guidebook to the readily available tools and their astounding capabilities. This text supports Common Core Standards for the reading of technical accounts and texts.

Futures trading has a three-fold purpose: to enrich traders, to guarantee farmers and producers a sale of their goods and manufacturers, and to provide suppliers with a guaranteed supply of the commodities they need to make their finished products. Both a highly pragmatic, workmanlike tool to arrange the flow of goods from producer to market and a complex, high-flying, high-stakes, big money gamble, futures trading is a fascinating world. This book draws readers into this obscure world that provides us all with our most ordinary, everyday products including orange juice, cereal, bread, bacon, steak, and corn syrup. Beginning with a history of the Chicago stockyards and emergence of its legendary commodities and futures markets, this book charts the global spread of futures trading, explicates its basic tools, mechanisms, and strategies, and traces how all of this complex and esoteric wheeling-and-dealing affects the ordinary consumer at the supermarket or gas station. Special features include "Myths and Facts" and "10 Great Questions to Ask a Financial Adviser."

How does a boy cope when he's excited but frightened? Matthew wants to go camping but so many things about the experience seem scary to him. Pretending his toy rabbit is nervous about these things, Matthew poses questions to his mother on Tall Rabbit's behalf. His mother's loving answers provide Matthew and Tall Rabbit with all the reassurance a boy could need.

The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each of these domestic novelists uses race relations as a metaphor through which to explore the relationships between men and women at home in England. In the fiction of, for example, Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens, as in nineteenth-century culture more generally, the subtle and not-so-subtle comparison of white women and people of color is used to suggest their mutual inferiority. The Bronte sisters and George Eliot responded to this comparison, Meyer contends, transforming it for their own purposes. Through this central metaphor, these women novelists work out a sometimes contentious relationship to established hierarchies of race and gender. Their feminist impulses, in combination with their use of race as a metaphor, Meyer argues, produce at times a surprising, if partial, critique of empire. Through readings of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss, Daniel Deronda, and Charlotte Brontë's African juvenilia, Meyer traces the aesthetically and ideologically complex workings of the racial metaphor. Her analysis is supported by careful attention to textual details and thorough grounding in recent scholarship on the idea of race, and on literature and imperialism.

The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each of these domestic novelists uses race relations as a metaphor through which to explore the relationships between men and women at home in England. In the fiction of, for example, Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens, as in nineteenth-century culture more generally, the subtle and not-so-subtle comparison of white women and people of color is used to suggest their mutual inferiority. The Bronte sisters and George Eliot responded to this comparison, Meyer contends, transforming it for their own purposes. Through this central metaphor, these women novelists work out a sometimes contentious relationship to established hierarchies of race and gender. Their feminist impulses, in combination with their use of race as a metaphor, Meyer argues, produce at times a surprising, if partial, critique of empire. Through readings of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss, Daniel Deronda, and Charlotte Brontë's African juvenilia, Meyer traces the aesthetically and ideologically complex workings of the racial metaphor. Her analysis is supported by careful attention to textual details and thorough grounding in recent scholarship on the idea of race, and on literature and imperialism.