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The rich tapestry of Alaska is threaded together by 365, 000 miles of waterways, from cascading mountain streams to meandering valley rivers, from the meltwaters of glaciers to broad rivers that empty into the sea. This guide profiles a wide variety of rivers from all over Alaska, concentrating on trips for intermediate boaters, and including a few major expeditions for the experienced river-runner. A section on gear outlines what to take into...

Londres, 2009, una secta siembra el pánico entre la sociedad. Junto a las víctimas, simbolos inteligibles y números. Norman Gordon, agente de la New Scotland Yard de Londres se verá forzado a encontrar a los asesinos, tras un trágico suceso que marcará su vida. No tardará en darse cuenta de que hay mucho más en juego que su propia vida y que lo que aparentaba un caso más sobre crimenes sectarios oculta un misterio mucho mayor.

a volume of poetry first copy shop published in 1989 entered into multiple poetry contests contents acknowledged but never printed. the third volume of a series of seven. transcribed from bar napkins, old journals and typed on a manual smith corona. a part of a seven book series based on past writing sophomoric as it may be this is the volume that turns the corner for me. here i believe as does my editor Pati Bubach the wonder of the sky is...

In this 3rd book, Vinny and Abner along with Wilbear sail the ocean Laska on Ee-lan-nid and discover ancient islands, secrets, and strange, frightening creatures. The second part of this new story, takes place on Shree. There are some changes being made there and new residents moving in. New friends are found and a possibility that Flask will have to fight once again for the planet Shree.

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Lost & Found in America, is the story of Akobo Adele, an immigrant from Africa, who, after the events of September 11, 2001, got caught up in both personal and socio-political circumstances that changed his perceptions about United States and transformed his relationships and well being. Lost & Found in America, explores the multi-faced circumstances of new African immigrants in the United States and provides unique lenses through which folks ...

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Examines how people live in remote spaces of the Northern peripheries of Europe in a global world of connectivity, interdependency, mobility and non-linear dynamics. This book demonstrates how specific relationships between mobility and place are crucial in the making of societies.

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Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformation studies. High-level research has tended to be confined within specific geographical, confessional or chronological boundaries. By bringing together scholars working on a wide variety of topics, this volume aims to counteract this centrifugal trend and to provide a broad perspective on the impact of the European reformation. The essays present new research from historians of politic...

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Deadly Therapy explores the implications of a dramaturgical approach to the therapy encounter and uses lessons from the theater to illustrate how to enliven psychotherapy. Every psychotherapy is an interpersonal system in which power and privilege lead to self-serving rules and categories that marginalize aspects of the system that are out of step with the "party line." Performance theory--encompassing audience engagement, dramaturgy, gender s...

This collection of essays by distinguished authors explores the present-day field of theological aesthetics: from von Balthasar¿s contribution and parallel developments to correctives and alternatives to his approach. A tribute to von Balthasar¿s own project expands into a dialogue with ancient and medieval traditions in search of revelatory aesthetics. The contributors outline challenges to his approach (including Protestant perspectives) and...

A Happy Holiday argues that overseas tourism offered people the chance to explore questions of identity during this period, a time in which issues such as gender, nation, and empire were the subject of much public debate and discussion.

Offering a fresh interpretation of Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, Robert E. Stillman's intellectually ambitious study challenges traditional scholarship by identifying the impact of his education by the followers of Philip Melanchthon-the so-called Philippists-on his poetics, piety, and politics. Sidney created the first Renaissance text to argue for poetry's pre-eminence as an autonomous form of knowledge in the public domain, and its cons...

Elizabeth Kraft radically alters our conventional views of early women novelists by taking seriously their representations of female desire. Reading fiction by Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Smith, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald in light of ethical paradigms drawn from biblical texts about women and desire, Kraft demonstrates not only the centrality of female desire in eighteenth-century culture...

This first full-length study in English on seventeenth-century Italian travel writing enriches our understanding of an unusually fertile period for Italian contributions to the genre. The intrinsic qualities of this literature can now be grasped in terms of the larger question of cultural identity in Italy. For Hester, the specifically literary characteristics of Italian travel writing¿including its humanism or Petrarchism¿highlight the classi...