What happens when your point of view proves too narrow for what you are seeing? When what you can explain from experience meets something else, beyond your experience or learning? When that something else in front of you becomes impossible to ignore? How often does that something else simply not fit in your world at all? This book is a telling of the first Easter and the conflicts faced by a player of the day. A soldier of the Empire.

River Tales presents thirty-two short stories from new writers around the globe. Several fishing tales, along with a few coming of age stories, even one from a fish's point of view, are sure to entertain.River monsters, murder, and redemption can all be found in these watery tales. From poignant to humorous, there is something for everyone to enjoy.

This edited volume both provides and examines different ways of engaging with critical communication pedagogies in an age of crisis acceleration, where crisis communication impacts social systems including political, economic, educational, cultural, and environmental systems.Building on the frameworks of critical communication pedagogy and critical/social constructionist approaches to crisis communication, contributors to this volume demonstrate the critical import...