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Sequel to Triane's Son Fighting Bitter Moon Saga: Book Four From the moment Torrant Shadow realized Consort Rath murdered his family, he's lived a dual identity: a healer and poet by nature, a predator out of necessity. It's not just exhausting, it's perilous. In the deadly city of Dueance, Torrant must succeed in both lives, because while the predator may save the Goddess's folk from Rath's brutal policies, it is the poet who will sway the mi...

Description: Tension in the Tank meets us where we are on a faith journey that includes doubt and pain. Here is a voice that speaks to the beauty and value of interfaith understanding and liberal social values while digging deep into the heart of Christian mysticism. If we are living a spirituality that matters, it will affect the way we treat ourselves and the way we treat each other. Tension in the Tank is about faith that is relevant, secur...

English translations of four mid twelfth-century novels from Constantinople, with notes and commentary.

In this book, Peter Shoenberg, Jessica Yakeley, and their contributors discuss two different teaching approaches developed at University College London to help medical students understand the role of emotions in illness, communicate more effectively, and gain a deeper understanding of the doctor patient relationship. The benefits of Wolf and Treadgold¿s Student Psychotherapy Scheme are considered alongside Schoenberg and Suckling¿s Balint Sche...

Rigorously and objectively examines the evolving context within which great ape and gibbon habitats are increasingly interfacing with extractive industries.

This book examines the history and impact of suicide protest, which has been increasingly used as a protest tactic since World War II. It offers a combination of historical and contemporary cases analysis from South Asia, where different iterations of this tactic have been used extensively throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. Focussing on the success or failure or a particular action relevant to the movement¿s broader mobilizat...

Selected as one of two best novels for the year - 5 Star Review. Author of this series is being compared to Mark Twain. It's a coming of age story beginning with a summer vacation, climaxing on a full moonlit Halloween night. They're teens now - and their club president, Mary Crane, decides to follow her teacher's suggestion of getting a Pen Pal for the summer. She writes to a boy her mother had read about in the newspaper - a Pennsylvania lad...

A comprehensive resource, this book summarizes recent technical research accomplishments in the area of thermodynamics, characterizations, and applications of polymer blends. It begins with an overview of thermodynamic behaviors of non-equilibrium polymers, then covers properties of polymer blends, including surface tension, transition, crystallization, morphology, and flow behaviors. It also discusses miscibility and molecular characterizatio...

One of the few great writers of our time' Auberon Waugh

The book consists of articles from East European Politics and Societies, a journal published in the United States that first appeared in 1987. This selection is composed of papers written by the journal's founders and early authors, among them Zygmunt Bauman, Tony Judt, Katherine Verdery, Vladimir Tismaneanu, Elemer Hankiss, Vesna Pusic, Maria Todorova. The first section Before the Change consists of texts written in the late 1980s, its author...

As we approach the seventieth anniversary of the first appearance of Mary Poppins, interest in P. L. Travers' most famous creation is still strong and the time is right for a reassessment of a work that is rich in meaning for child and adult readers alike. This book attempts to analyse some of the reasons behind the longevity and the ongoing appeal of the Mary Poppins material, with particular reference to intertextuality and the presence of w...

Kalifornien 1976: College-Abbrecher und Hippie Steve Jobs hat eine Vision: Eines Tages soll jeder U.S.-Bürger einen Computer besitzen. Diese Vorstellung, an die zunächst keiner glauben mag, wird sich als wegweisend und revolutionär für die moderne Computertechnik und -nutzung erweisen. Nach der Gründung von Apple Computer Inc. in der berühmten Garage von Jobs Eltern kommt es zu Spannungen mit dem charismatischen Gründer. Diese enden mit Jobs u...

Here, essays use the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world cinema and theater respond to Bollywood's representation of Shakespeare. In this collection, Shakespeare is both part of an elite Western tradition and a window into a vibrant post-national identity founded by a global consumer culture.

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The installation "Upper Room" comes from over three years of exploration into the concepts of image, self-worth and beauty. It has been an incredible journey producing the work. For many of the women who took part it has been a road into self-evaluation and liberation. The dialogue that is contained within the piece tells the story of this and is flooded with the excitement and enthusiasm that had been part of the collaboration required to pro...

Malcolm X at Oxford Union tells one of the great unknown stories from the Civil Rights era, capturing the powerful oratorical gifts of Malcolm X and the changing world of racial politics - all from the vantage point of an old debate hall on the campus of Oxford in 1964.

Presents an analysis of the status and scope of Sustainability Appraisal/Assessment (SA). This guide highlights how SA can be used to integrate the key environmental, social and economic pillars of sustainability into decision-making at various levels, from policy to project to investment, by government, or business and industry.

This book emphasises the significance of patterns of communication between children as they work together to solve problems, providing an important account of how children develop through different kinds of social interactions.

This book assesses India's role as a major power in the Indian Ocean. Many see the Indian Ocean as naturally falling within India's sphere of influence but, as this book demonstrates, India has a long way to go before it could achieve regional dominance. The book outlines the development of Indian thinking on its role in the Indian Ocean and examines India's strategic relationships in the region. The book then discusses India's ambivalent rela...