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The Tender Years is the story of Carl and Ardensa who, in the final days of their lives, find themselves alone, facing illness and the certainty of an approaching death. The magnitude of their ordeal, though as cruel as it may seem, is overshadowed by the strength and trueness of their love for each other-a love that refuses to yield to the painful demands of old age and the somber reality of impending death. It is at this time in their lives ...

Why should we strive to become rich? All that becoming rich means is that we want a fuller and more abundant life." From his opening lines, author Anthony Winston reminds us why we are working. Riches should not mean a fancy haircut or the newest car. True riches mean security and freedom. The only way to obtain, and keep, wealth is through the right mindset and practical steps. Reprogram your mind and understand that you are in control of you...

An interdisciplinary, peer reviewed publication, Journal of International Students is a professional journal that publishes narrative, theoretical and empirically-based research articles, study abroad reflections, and book reviews relevant to international students, faculty, scholars, and their cross-cultural experiences and understanding in higher education. The Journal audience includes international and domestic students, faculty, administr...

Set in the years after the potato famine two women struggle to make a new life. Elizabeth Brennan a woman who feels as if God had abandoned her. After losing her husband and two sons. She decides to make the journey home in Ireland, telling her daughters-in-law to go home. That is until her daughter-in-law Ruth says that no matter where Elizabeth goes she will follow. The two women move to Ireland and try to live their lives the way that God h...

The 20th century brought dramatic change to the closely knit yet independent-minded farming community of Pleasant Garden, North Carolina. Although descendants of the families who migrated from the Eastern Shore of Maryland still lived on the lands of their ancestors and attended Pleasant Garden Methodist Episcopal Church, which was organized in 1788, they welcomed progress. The community became home to one of the first state-supported high sch...

This book draws on criminology, sociology, psychology and neuroscience to offer a balanced perspective of crime, the criminal and criminality and is essential reading for courses on criminal and forensic psychology and psychological criminology.

Drama as a process-centred form is a popular and valued methodology used to develop thinking and learning in children, while theatre provides a greater focus on the element of performance. In recent years, offering drama and theatre as a shared experience is increasingly used to engage children and to facilitate learning in a drama classroom. This book is an amalgamation of theory, research and practice from across the globe, using drama and t...

This book provides an English translation of the descriptive parts of Ch¿r B¿gh-i-Panj¿b. Written by Ganesh Das after the annexation of Lahore by the British, the text is the only surviving contemporary work with significant information on the social, religious, and cultural life of Punjab (present-day India and Pakistan) the early nineteenth century.

Sustainable Urban Energy Policy debates the major public issue of developing a sustainable, clean and affordable energy system by adopting a distinctive focus on heating in cities. In this way, the book constructs an original account of clean energy policy, politics and provision, grounded in new empirical data derived from case studies of urban and multi-level governance of sustainable heat and energy saving in the UK and Europe. Offering an ...

Dramatic Realism, since its birth in the hectic late years of the nineteenth century, gave theatrical and thematic energy to the interaction between a play¿s text and the way that it looked on the stage. Characters began to find themselves in rooms and settings that played an active and changing role in the drama, and their dialogue and reactions evolved in time with these changes. Fred Miller Robinson¿s enjoyable and stimulating essays on thi...

The epic finale of the Ruin Saga... War. Decades after the End, which caused most of humanity to vanish in a single moment, civilisation is in danger of crumbling forever. Fires line the horizon, distant screams ring out from every direction, and a blanket of shadow descends over all of England. The last bastions of the Old World are cut off and surrounded. An army marching from the North, and a supernatural struggle between good and evil, thr...

You think it's murder, don't you?" "There is no proof of that as yet, sir, " Bobby answered cautiously. "No, I know, but it's what you think, " Glynne answered. After a pause, he added: "So do I." Viscount Byatt was found dead in his car without a mark on him. Millionaire Andy White's corpse was discovered in a remote cottage in Wales - no clue to the cause of death. When a grotesque-looking visitor calls on Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen in th...

Perhaps the victim had not been unconscious but had known her fate, had sent upwards from the black pit a cry that none but murderers had heard. Bobby takes the rare opportunity for a holiday - albeit a working one. Prompted by his fiancée Olive, he sets off to France to find out what happened to Miss Polthwaite's diamonds - and why her dead body was discovered at the bottom of a well. The local police have a ready-made suspect, it appears, bu...

Know him?" he asked. Bobby was for a moment too surprised to answer. He had thought of every one else but not of the man whose dead face now was staring up at him. "Yes. I know him, " he said. Bobby Owen's fiancée and milliner to the wealthy, Olive Farrar, has a problem. It concerns two competitive society matrons and a missing hat. But it becomes a case of murder when the butler of one of the ladies is shot dead, his body stabbed after the fa...

This volume brings together an international range of postcolonial scholars to explore four distinct themes which are inherently interconnected within the globalised landscape of the early 21st century: China, Islamic fundamentalism, civil war and environmentalism. Through close-reading a range of literary texts by writers drawn from across the globe, these essays seek to emphasise the importance of literary aesthetics in situating the theoret...

Painting Poetry is an anthology of poetic interpretations of art presenting thirty poems written by Adisa 'AJA' Andwele and images of paintings by seventeen artists. The artists are Ras Akyem, Ras Ishi, Ras Jahaziel, Omowale Stewart, Corrie Scott, Heather-Dawn Scott, Pierre Nigel and Jadisa Andwele from Barbados, the late Andre Normil and Frantz Zephirin from Haiti, the late Romare Bearden, Alaiyo Bradshaw and Chrissie Dowler from the USA...

Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South. This book revolves around conceptualisation of the 'gender-urban-slum interface' which explains key elements to understanding women's experiences in slum environments. It explores the variegated disadvantages of urban poverty and slum-dwelling from a gender perspect...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which `things¿, ranging from commodities, to works of art and precious materials, participated in the shaping of `globalisation¿ in the early modern period. By focusing on the European encounters with the Americas and Australia, this volume traces the movements of objects through human networks of commerce, colonialism and curiosity. Divided into four parts, the volume considers, Objects of Glob...

Mental Computation and Estimation answers a number of important questions including: what mental calculations and estimation are, why they are important and what other mathematical concepts and cognitive behaviors are they related to? What strategies are used on mental additions, subtractions, multiplications and divisions and how are multiplication tables learned? What are the new trends in the teaching of mental calculation and estimation? T...