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Based on the authentic diary of a young Englishman in 1859, and the journal of his wife to be, this story tells of the highs and lows of the year in which they get engaged, marry and have a child.

Recuerdos de soledad y amor, atisbos de pasiones fingidas y dolores mudos. Los versos de Aurelio Manuel Pérez dejan entrever la sensibilidad de aquel que ha sabido plantarle cara a la vida, sin renunciar a su rostro más humano. Quizá sea la faceta más cruel de nuestra existencia, pero su memoria nos acerca al ideal de identidad, escondido entre la multitud de sombras atemorizadas que dicen llevar nuestro nombre. A través de las soledades y los...

Loewen charts not only the dispersion of two rural communities, but follows their former residents as they reformulate their lives in new settings.

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Sport films have been central to American cinema, playing an increasingly important role in the communication of a commonsense understanding of race, gender, class, history, and social relations. Oddly, scholars have neglected sport films and their significance. Offering a comparative, theoretically grounded, and interdisciplinary approach, Visual Economies of/in Motion marks a novel and important point of departure in sport studies and cultur...

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The Authentic Assessment Primer introduces education students to the phenomenon known as authentic assessment. As such, it is the perfect antidote to high stakes testing, since it relies on performance and shows what a student «can do.» In an authentic approach, teachers see assessment as a means to educate and improve student performance, as opposed to simply auditing it on a one-shot test. Authentic tasks require quality performance connecte...

Molecular Biology in Narrative Form is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study that shows a connection between molecular biology and French narrative theory, and, from a unique perspective, bridges the gap between two disciplines that seem mutually exclusive. With many new insights on the link between science (in the form of DNA, a set of codes) and literature (in the form of language, another set of codes), this book looks at modern experim...

Today more than ever, we need an ethnography of spirit so we can identify and describe how spirit dwells and how it communicates. Our lives and our humanity depend on making the connection to spirit more visible and concrete to ourselves, to those we love, and to those we fail to understand. Educators have a special role to play in making the connection to spirit more visible and concrete. In this vital new book, a wide range of scholars and e...

In 1968, near the end of his life, Picasso made 347 etchings that show his interest in television and film, wrestling, and the female nude. Some of the prints refer to old Celestina, the cunning marriage arranger featured in Fernando de Rojas's play. Others investigate the aging process, voyeurism, the orientalized setting of the harem, and explicit lovemaking as the Pope looks on. When the etchings were exhibited in Paris, and later Chicago, ...

Crucial Issues in Caribbean Religions concentrates on the effects of intersections in the Caribbean of major world religions such as Christianity (both Catholicism and Protestantism), Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, with indigenous religions such as Caribs and Arawaks, and African-derived religions such as Lucumi (Yoruba/Santeria/Regla de Ocha), Regla de Palo, Vodun, Obeah, Rastafari, Orisa, or Shango in Trinidad. Closely examined are the social...

Crucial Issues in Caribbean Religions concentrates on the effects of intersections in the Caribbean of major world religions such as Christianity (both Catholicism and Protestantism), Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, with indigenous religions such as Caribs and Arawaks, and African-derived religions such as Lucumi (Yoruba/Santeria/Regla de Ocha), Regla de Palo, Vodun, Obeah, Rastafari, Orisa, or Shango in Trinidad. Closely examined are the social...

The book is the tale of my life. How I overcame adversity and attained success.

The Capitol Ghost is the story of ice skaters, street kids, coaches, criminals, and the ghosts that walk among them. Four children from the Preliminary Jazzicals Synchronized Skating Team enlist brainy teenager Karina Kowalski to help them hunt a ghost at the Capitol and save an elderly night watchman's honor. Karina uncovers the first clue, an ancient prayer, and begins to trace the ghost through nearly sixty years of history. But what will K...

The demolition of native states continues to fuel the expansion of the Roman Province of Britain. Compliant British rulers are supported while defiant ones are overthrown. The Order of the Druids, the single most important unifying institution among the Celtic tribes is being systematically destroyed. But, the introduction of a single currency, a common scale of weights and measures, a single official language, a common legal system and the op...

Critical Praise for Ted Thompson Ted Thompson's first collection of magical poetry and surreal paintings continues to win awards and extraordinary reviews. "Meetings with The Gods is one of the top ten books published in 1994."-Dusty Dog Reviews of Gallop, New Mexico "This man delights in musical ornamentation and he uses so unpretentiously and so easily that a certain sweetly delicious naiveté flavors the whole work. This is so enchanting and...

College is not out of reach (even if you have "just okay" grades, no clubs, no sports, no volunteer work and not a single AP class on your transcript). With Everybody Else's Guide as your navigator, you can still go to college...no matter how late you've waited. Everybody Else's Guide is filled with step-by-step plans, activities and resources that you can use to make yourself attractive to colleges, win admission to the college of your choice...

How to become Wealthy without working harder. Learn how to keep more money that you already earn and use those savings to create wealth. The purpose of this book is to provide tax and business strategies for the small to medium sized business. Some the strategies offered are specific in nature, such as home office usage and medical cost deductions. Some strategies are intended to add cash flow to the owner. The major strategy was created to pr...

A superb account of the American Navy's boldest and most tragically ill-fated effort to reach the North Pole. "A gripping tale, "--The Washington Post "Truly exciting, "--The Atlantic Monthly "Beautifully executed narrative, "--Kirkus Reviews "...Uncovers intriguing new information, including the reason the expedition's full story was never revealed."--The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Uncommonly stirring, "--John Barkham Reviews "On all levels, a b...

Zawadi was right: a puny woman who was still a political armature, operating from the equally punitive Zanzibar would not have interested a mighty giant like America. There was a deeper reason for their interest in Africa in general, that went far before Zawadi's time. In a futuristic world, an extraordinary woman named Zawadi becomes the first president of a united Africa. She lives in an undated "anything goes" era during which the world is ...