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We share trauma and despair. Yet, we conquer these demons with strength not ours alone. In the faces of our brother and sisters who sustain us, we experience the divine. Every age needs reminder of immutable divine law. This story is one reminder.

Echoes of the Past tells the true story of the author's search for freedom and her journey through struggle and separation towards healing and love. From the Christian Missions in China and the turmoil of war-torn Germany, to the dangers faced in Communist East Germany, and finally onto new opportunities in America, Anita's story is compelling. It is the story of families and faith, love and loss. Yet it speaks of the self-determination and fa...

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We share trauma and despair. Yet, we conquer these demons with strength not ours alone. In the faces of our brother and sisters who sustain us, we experience the divine. Every age needs reminder of immutable divine law. This story is one reminder.

A heart rending story of the lives of a few inhabitants of a small American town and the massive effect of one very violent death.

Guilty Pleasures - a work of fiction with a self-help twist - is a story about a young woman name Simone Miller who struggles to overcome Social Drama (SD), as she journeys for inner peace. But, it is her own guilty pleasure that keeps her in the midst of SD holding on to hope in a doomed relationship. Simone¿s psychiatrist never told her trying the same thing over and over again expecting a different result from men who never knew love is ins...

In the book Invisible Me I share the in-patient experiences I had in a "State Mental Hospital" - committed after a few attempts at suicide. My life's challenges caused me to feel deep despair. The loss of all hope kept me feeling powerless. The first chapter starts at the beginning of my four year hospital stay. I felt as though I had actually died and was reborn into a new and different world. Middle chapters continue on about my experience a...

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Visit the author's website at www.theadventuretree.com Come with Willow and Zak on an adventure. Travel with them to a mysterious island. Meet a monkey that can talk. Then make your own adventure. The Adventure Tree is the first of a series of books that will follow Willow and Zak to places you never imagined. . .but can.

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The 'food scare' concept took on new meaning in 1996, which opened with variant CJD emerging as the human form of BSE, and closed with Britain's worst E.coli O157 outbreak in central Scotland. As people died, so did trust in government and science. This book tells the story of these events, what led up to them, and what has happened since. It breaks new ground by dissecting these tragedies alongside catastrophes like Aberfan, Piper Alpha, Cher...

By examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Classical Attic Greek. A representative range of registers, technical languages, sociolects, and (comic) idiolects is described and analyzed. Stylistic and statistical observations are combined and supplemented by typological comparisons with material drawn from sociolinguistic research on modern languages. The res...

Images of children in Roman society abound: an infant's first bath, learning to walk, playing with pets and toys, going to school, and--all too often--dying prematurely. Children and Childhood in Roman Italy argues that in Roman society children were, in principle and often in practice, welcome, valued and visible. This study builds on the dynamic work on the Roman family that has been developing in recent decades. Its focus on the period betw...

This book brings together essays by leading political, legal, and educational theorists to re-examine the requirements of citizenship education in liberal-democratic societies. The chapters in the book evaluate demands by minority groups for cultural recognition through education, and also examine arguments for and against citizenship education as a means of fostering a shared national identity.

This book presents the wide range of topics in two-dimensional physics of quantum Hall systems, especially fractional quantum Hall states. It covers the fundamental problems of two-dimensional quantum statistics in terms of topology and the corresponding braid group formalism for composite fernions, and the main formalism used in many-body quantum Hall theories, the Chern-Simons theory. Numerical studies are introduced for spherical systems an...

This text discusses the fundamental physical concepts involved in understanding charged particle and photon beams. The presentation is unified, particle dynamics in linear and circular accelerators are discussed in common language, as are the evolution of particle and laser beams. This book is aimed at the advanced undergraduate student, and contains numerous illustrative exercises.

Based on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in 20 years to examine the dynamics of the American-European relationship since 1945. Lundestad examines how the relationship between the United States and Europe is becoming increasingly strained, and offers a topical view of the future of this relationship.

Like many of his fellow playwrights, Shakespeare turned to national history for inspiration. In this study, Dominique Goy-Blanquet provides a close comparison of the Henry VI plays and Richard III with their sources, demonstrating how Shakespeare was able to meet not only the ideological but also the technical problems of turning history into drama, how by cutting, carving, shaping, and casting his unwieldy material into performable plays, he ...

Written by one of the leading critics in medieval studies, this new book explores the representations of madness in medieval French literature. Drawing on a range of modern psychoanalytic theories and an impressive range of texts from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, Sylvia Huot focuses on the relationship between madness and identity, both personal and collective, and demonstrates the cultural significance of madness in the Middle Ages.

This volume is a comprehensive and authoritative comparative analysis which asks whether Muslim States can comply with international human rights law whilst adhering to Islamic law. The traditional arguments on this subject are examined and responded to from both international human rights and Islamic legal perspectives. Through this analysis, it offers a clear vision of the realisation of international human rights within the application of I...