A richly illustrated history of the flour factories that transformed the milling industry worldwide - and forever changed the culture and architecture of Minneapolis

Among the most consequential advances of the Industrial Revolution was the invention of the modern roller mill, which sent the traditional millstone into obsolescence and fundamentally changed the production of a key ingredient to feeding the world. The culture and landscape of its hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was altered as well, and Making Mill City tells the story of how revolutionary technologies originating at St. Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River put Minneapolis on the map and cemented its global status as "Mill City."

With deep historical detail and abundant illustrations, Robert M. Frame III charts the dramatic transformation of Minneapolis milling - and urban life - between the early 1870s and 1920s. Two machines propelled this change: the middlings purifier and the modern roller mill. Enabling millers to grind hard Upper Midwestern spring wheat, these innovations gave rise to the "mammoth mills" and ever-expanding flour factories that would soon dominate the Minneapolis riverfront. Prominent entrepreneurs like those who gave their names to the Washburn and Pillsbury A Mills were significant, but Frame foregrounds the crucial roles of the millers, millwrights, and engineers who designed and equipped the massive new factories, as well as the editor of the legendary weekly trade publication Northwestern Miller, to paint a picture of the vibrant and diverse culture that grew around this industrial phenomenon.

A rich narrative describing how Minneapolis became the largest producer and exporter of wheat flour for more than fifty years, Making Mill City captures a critical chapter in the history of the city. Art and architecture inspired by mills and millers stand today as National Historic Landmarks, and the development and success of the current thriving metropolis have strong foundations in its milling history.

This book presents an exploration and application of cognitive control skills and their components. It discusses the role of the brain in the execution of cognitive control skills, and practical classroom strategies for teachers. Six main components of cognitive control skills such as working memory, attentional control, cognitive flexibility, self-regulation, inhibition, and meta-cognition are presented, with their importance for academic success highlighted. This book substantiates the assessment of each of the six main components of cognitive control skills, and also emphasises the need for teachers' knowledge and skills in this area.

Reimagining sport beyond the gender binary, where movement and identity break free from tradition

Skating Away from the Binary takes a critical look at the ways gender binarism remains deeply embedded in sport, with a focus on pairs figure skating. Erica Rand examines the persistence of these traditional gender structures and explores why trans-hostile sports policies are on the rise, even among those who may otherwise oppose anti-trans rhetoric. Drawing on her own experience as part of a gender-nonconforming pairs team, Rand reveals how figure skating's historical gender norms intersect with racialized expectations to reinforce widely exclusionary practices in sport.

In 2018, Rand teamed up with Anna Kellar, a democracy advocate and skating journalist, to learn pairs skating. Charting this endeavor, Skating Away from the Binary highlights the challenges and joys Rand and Kellar encounter as they navigate a sport designed around rigid male/female roles. Through lively descriptions of their training and insightful comparisons to other physical activities like tennis, quadball, and ballet, Rand identifies the interconnected binarisms shaping athletic participation, from oversimplified distinctions between cis and trans to the artificial division between athletic and artistic.

Ultimately, Skating Away from the Binary is more than a critique of gender norms in sport-it's a call to transform them. Challenging readers to consider new possibilities for movement, connection, and collaboration beyond conventional gendered expectations, Rand offers a vision of sport as a space where all people can experience joy and freedom in their bodies and identities.

This book explores the online behavior and safeguarding of children with special education needs (SEN) in the digital world. Founded in research which evidences key stakeholder perspectives, this book informs and guides stakeholders towards sensibly balancing risk and opportunities online with an understanding that SEN children may face some unique challenges that can place them at greater risk. To develop a child-centered approach, the authors employ an ecosystems theory approach which considers child development as a system of interrelated relationships affected by multiple levels of surrounding environment, drawing upon Bronfenbrenner's seminal work and positioning the research within the field of education.

Universities worldwide play a pivotal role in shaping the future workforce by equipping students with the skills, knowledge, and attitude required to thrive in an ever-evolving job market. Transformative Approaches to Career-Ready Education addresses the critical challenge of aligning higher education with modern industry and national expectations.

This book brings together diverse perspectives from leading educators, researchers, and industry practitioners, offering practical strategies to enhance teaching and learning. Inspired by the Webinars in Engineering Education initiative, a collaboration between Griffith University, Australia, and SSN College of Engineering, India, this book explores innovative pedagogies, immersive learning environments, higher education goals, and assessment practices that foster critical thinking, problem-solving, and adaptability among students.

Organized into four thematic sections, the chapters delve into foundational skills for career success, practical approaches to career readiness, industry insights on graduate employability, and transformative innovations for higher education. Featuring case studies, evidence-based practices, and future-oriented discussions, this book showcases how universities can empower students to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving world.

Ideal for educators, policymakers, and industry leaders, this book inspires a reimagining of higher education to produce career-ready graduates who are not only prepared to enter the workforce but to excel and grow throughout their professional journeys.

This book is an examination of the confluence of social, political, and communicative forces animating recent teachers' uprisings, beginning with the accession of a militant slate to the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) in 2011 and continuing with myriad strikes, walkouts and other protest actions taken throughout the country since then. During this time, thousands of teachers have participated in protest actions in dozens of states and jurisdictions throughout the country, thus ending a lengthy period of relative dormancy on the part of teachers' unions as a political organizing force. This movement is situated amongst the other digitally-enabled "movements of the squares" that have occurred in recent years, including the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, which all emerge out of the ongoing crisis of neoliberal capitalism, though this book argues that the teachers' movement has been central to this wave of contestation due its institutional grounding. This book will be of interest to readers with a background in Political Sociology, Education Policy, Political Communication and related fields.

This collection focuses on transformations in the governance of education, paying attention to the trans-nationalisation of educational policies and the emergence of new actors in education. It focuses on the knowledge and instruments of government that shape education systems at different scales of governance. The book is a contribution to this field of research, focusing on the new roles and responsibilities of elites inside and outside the education state. It offers in-depth case studies based on an international comparison, examining the dynamics at work in the production and circulation of knowledge, the interplay of interests and power, and the ability of elites to define and lead public action programmes. The research and reflections presented in this book will help students, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers to better understand the transformations in decision-making at a time of globalisation and nationalism in education.

This book provides concrete pedagogical suggestions for teaching the translation of cultural items, including so-called 'untranslatables'. It is underpinned by sound educational theory and empirical data, and sheds light onto a complex and under-researched pedagogical area by testing the effectiveness of established teaching approaches. The book adds to the repertoire of translation pedagogy by presenting elements of learner psychology, positive psychology and humanistic education as vital parts of translator education, in particular when engaging with the great challenge posed by the translation of cultural elements and learner barriers and anxieties. The book argues that fostering knowledge building and training research skills will contribute to developing resilience and the ability to strategically engage with the challenge of translating cultural items in a holistic manner, i.e. as contributors to a text's achievement. At the same time, it cautions educators against uncritical and exclusive subscription to specific pedagogical paradigms. The book is of relevance to translation teachers and scholars, as well those engaging in wider educational research revolving around complexity and threshold concepts. It is of interest to translation students who would like to explore new perspectives in the area of practical translation of cultural items.

This book explores quality education in China from a retrospective policy perspective. It approaches the topic of quality education from multiple dimensions, such as the historical development of quality education policy, the quality education policy model, the assessment of quality education policy, the resource allocation of quality education policy, and quality education and personnel cultivation in China. This book highlights that the all-round implementation of quality education allows basic education to return to its original nature, and advocates transferring basic education from 'exam-oriented education' to 'quality education' in China.

We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here-and how we might escape.

From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology-the study of ignorance-can help us better grasp: Why don't we know what we don't know? What are the obstacles to knowledge, and how might those be overcome?

Ignorance has countless agents and authors; it gets deliberately manufactured and widely disseminated. In a provocative set of essays, this book engages climate change and public health, algorithmic amplification of misinformation, deep fakes and data obsolescence, the origins of free market fundamentalism and gun industry deceptions, along with the ignorance produced by military trauma, sugar and meat agnotology, environmental malfeasance, and the forgetting of the Nakba. It helps us better understand how and why knowledge gets erased, and how rectifying such ignorance can enlarge human liberties and planetary health.

Contributors: Nadia Abu El-Haj, Daniel Akselrad, Erik M. Conway, John Donohue, Hany Farid, Benjamin Franta, Peter Galison, Jennifer Jacquet, Caroline A. Jones, Robert Lustig, Naomi Oreskes, Robert N. Proctor, Rosemary Sayigh, Londa Schiebinger, and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

This book addresses the implications of artificial intelligence for teaching, learning and academic integrity in higher education. It explores policies about the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), describes how to teach writing in the era of GenAI, and how instructors can design courses and assessments that prevent plagiarism while building the necessary skills for critical thinking and writing. Together, the chapters include research results, case studies, teaching methodologies, course design ideas, analysis of power and gatekeeping, and best practices related to GAI from a diverse range of researchers from English and French Canada, the United States, England, Ukraine and Croatia. The authors approach the advent and rapid spread of GenAI in higher education by examining its use from different perspectives with a particular focus on its impact on academic integrity. Taking a communication studies approach, consideration is given to the role GenAI might play disrupting power structures in universities to improve access for students who are non-traditional or English Language Learners. The book also explores how reimagining teaching methodologies can help to mitigate academic integrity violations due to misuse of GenAI and to teach students to use GenAI with integrity as a research and brainstorming tool. Students need to learn how to assess the reliability of GenAI's output as the develop the skills for research and writing. Methods of teaching writing and research skills using GenAI are explored in an effort to ensure that critical thinking skills are developed successfully. Most instructors who use writing-intensive assessments believe that essential critical thinking skills are developed via the writing process; often, ideas become concrete as one writes about them. Teaching with GenAI can provide opportunities for instructors to guide their students into a deeper analysis and critique of their research.

This open access book shares a two-part conceptual framework for critical global learning which weaves together theory and practice. The author shares the outcomes of her research and experiences developing students' critical thinking skills within the context of global citizenship education. While rooted in literature and research findings, the book is personal and reflexive, as the author shares her experiences as a teacher trying, and sometimes failing, to support critical thinking development which allows readers to reflect on their own practice. The book will be of interest to academics working in higher education, initial teacher education, and global citizenship education.

The first comprehensive biography of the "Father of the Blood Bank" and a champion of civil rights and equal health care

Genius Unbroken is the first comprehensive biography to bring the extraordinary life of Dr. Charles Drew, the "Father of the Blood Bank," into focus. Born into Washington D.C.'s vibrant African American community at the turn of the twentieth century, Drew rose on the strength of extraordinary physical and intellectual talents to become a groundbreaking medical research scientist. He pioneered methods of blood and plasma storage, leading America's first large-scale blood bank: innovations that continue to save lives around the world. A gifted surgeon and educator, Drew also became an eloquent and powerful advocate of civil rights, especially equal health care, for African Americans. Tragically, while still a young man, he lost his life while travelling to a medical conference that provided free care to indigent patients.

Researched and developed through an intimate collaboration with Drew's daughter, Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis, Miller encapsulates the life of Dr. Drew in a profound exploration of one man's challenge to institutional barriers in creating lasting change. Readers will find in Genius Unbroken the story of Dr. Drew's seminal and life-saving work while his life offers an enduring lesson in resilience, intellectual triumph, and the transformative power of unwavering determination.

In this book, Stuart Jeffries analyses how we got into this parlous state and wonders if the stupid, like the poor, are always with us, or if, rather, stupidity is like Japanese knotweed, difficult to root out but to be exterminated with extreme prejudice. He considers what some of the greatest of minds - Socrates, Buddha, Voltaire, Arendt, and others - have to tell us about the slippery nature of stupidity.

During a narrative that takes us from ancient Greece to artificial intelligence, and accompanied by such heroes of stupidity as Flaubert's double act Bouvard and Pecuchet, Jeffries casts a sceptical eye on attempts to root out stupidity by such means as IQ tests, eugenics, gene editing, and racist education policies, finding each attempt to be more stupid than the stupidity they were ostensibly devised to eradicate. If today we are living in a fool's paradise, has our species become too dim to learn anything from its rich history of folly?

This open access book provides the first scholarly account of the role of hope and hopefulness from the perspective of social and cultural life in ancient, medieval and early modern societies. This edited collection brings together fourteen chapters based on case-studies from its contributors, along with a theoretical chapter that serves as the introduction. Throughout history, people have gone on with their lives despite many kinds of trials and tribulations. In this, hope, understood as a future-oriented positive disposition, has been a major driving force to manage uncertainty, mitigate despair, and to give meaning to living. This book analyzes these life situations and changing responses to them in the context of hope and futurity in a longue duree perspective.

Ronan McCrea's important book argues that this is no blip. Forces favourable to gay rights - such as the wider cultural shift towards greater sexual freedom - are weakening, while political developments, cultural changes and migration patterns mean that sources of opposition, both old and new, are gaining strength. The gay rights movement is ill-equipped to meet this challenge. Convinced that history is on its side, the movement has expanded its aims and made new enemies while refusing to consider whether elements of the sexual freedoms it fought for have had unforeseen downsides, including for gay people themselves.

For the gay rights revolution to endure, a fundamental reconsideration of its goals, its history and its limits is required. Anyone wanting to understand the challenges faced by gay rights and the wider liberal project needs to read this timely warning.

Education is generally promoted as the key to the future of Africa in global development discourses about the continent. Education's official story in Africa continues to be one of innocence and public good, yet, since colonial times, education has constituted an area of intense contestation. The Education Alibi asks if it is possible that while claiming to be doing one thing, education has also been doing another in African communities. The concept of the "alibi" shines an interrogative light on institutions' and actors' use of education to divert scrutiny from other effects. Through ethnographic research and critical analysis across the continent, this volume focuses on people's lived experiences to demonstrate how contemporary education systems in fact deepen economic, racialized, gendered, urban-rural, linguistic, religious, and other intranational and international inequalities.

A bold reimagining of life that bridges science, philosophy, cybernetics, and the complexities of biological existence

The Organism Is a Theory is an intriguing synthesis of decades of interdisciplinary research by eminent mathematician and biological scientist Giuseppe Longo. A unique collaboration between Longo and philosopher of technology Adam Nocek, the volume confronts foundational issues in the history of mathematics, computer science, physics, and theoretical biology.

Challenging conventional approaches that apply computational and formalist models to the biological world, Longo reveals how the limitations of these models hinder the understanding of organismic complexity, development, and evolution. Through a critique of dominant scientific paradigms, he emphasizes the need for a new biological theory that accounts for the temporal and spatial intricacies of life. Enhanced by Nocek's comprehensive introduction and a fascinating three-part interview with Longo, The Organism Is a Theory offers a bold rethinking of the biosciences, integrating the work of Alan Turing, Bernhard Riemann, Henri PoincarE, Kurt GOEdel, and others into Longo's vision of critical biology.

Bridging scientific and philosophical discourses, this book creatively applies insights from mathematics, physics, and computing into the study of the organism to present a new theoretical approach to understanding biological complexity that resists reductive mechanistic and informatic explanations.

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