This fully revised seventh edition of Kinship and Gender: An Introduction explores kinship in today’s globalized, increasingly mobile world, and how family structures continue to influence the varied roles that men and women play in different cultures.Written to engage students, each chapter provides key terms and useful generalizations gleaned through research on the interplay of kinship and gender in both traditional societies and contemporary communities. Detailed case ...

Although it was illegal, secret, and against the express commands of his famously mad father, King George IV of England married twice--once for duty and once for love. While Caroline of Brunswick eventually became his lawful queen, it was the beautiful Maria Fitzherbert, recognized as his wife by the Catholic Church but not by the laws of England, who claimed his heart. In the hands of author Diane Haeger, their relationship becomes a mesmerizing love story, filled with intrigue and passio...

A psychic sleuth and her partner travel to an alternate universe to investigate an Elf's murder in this fantasy by a New York Times– bestselling author."A first-rate murder mystery." —The SF SiteLos Angeles prosecutor, sleuth, and forensic lanthanomancer Lee Enfield relies on her mystic Sight to gather the truth from suspects and crime scenes. But when she investigates the shooting death of an Alf...

Covering nearly one hundred years of Zulu military history, this book focuses on the creation, maintenance, development, tactics and ultimate destruction of the Zulu army. It studies the armies, weapons and tactics under the rule of the five Zulu kings from Shaka to Dinizulu. The rule of each of the five kings is examined in terms of their relationships with the army and how they raised regiments to expand their influence in the region. All the major battles and campaigns are discussed wit...

This biography of the iconic blues musician features interviews with family members, fellow musicians, and those who knew his best.Born on a cotton plantation in 1925, Riley B. King would grow up to be one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, being crowned "The King of the Blues." Never wavering from his vocation, King gathered other musicians together and melded them into the unique blues sound that would become his signature.In this intima...

A missing child. A tormented detective. A ticking clock.Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed ‘Mister Whisper,’ earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process.Now, he spends his days working in Glasgow’s Major Investigations Team, and his nights reliving the horrors of what he saw.And what he did.When another child disappears a hundred miles north in the Highlands, Jack...

Why aren't you healed?Do you ever feel like you continually struggle with certain emotions? Do hurt, rejection, anger, and anxiety rise up in you, causing an overreaction and taking on a life of their own? Maybe you've tried personal prayer, standing in faith, counseling, and various ministries, yet no matter what you do, nothing seems to work.If traditional prayer and deliverance hasn't cut it, you might be dealing with soul fragments. When we experience a...

The mate bond isn't supposed to hurt. But when the alpha you were destined for looks you in the eye and walks away, you learn real fast that fate isn't always kind — and healing is a choice you have to make every single morning.Wren Calloway didn't come back to the small mountain town of Hollow Creek to fall in love. She came back to rebuild — a quiet life, a steady job, and some semblance of peace after the rejection that shattered everything she thought she knew about herself. Th...

Evernote is a powerful piece of software that is highly misunderstood and highly underused. When you hear the name Evernote you think of a small program where you can take notes and refer back to them every once and a while.Well I am here to tell you that this is far from the truth. Evernote is a very powerful program that can do more than just take notes it can run your life. Within the pages of this book we will give you an inside look at what makes Evernote tick. We will talk ab...

Flora spends her days happily wandering her endless labyrinth of a house, breathing with childhood memories and pulsing with dreams. She is plagued, however, by an elusive yearning to capture the security anchors of her childhood - her dad who’s passed away, and the book whose title she can’t remember.Only a few miles away, and yet worlds apart, two very different women are on their quest for identity and expression. Invisible threads of a long forgotten bond bind Flora to the loca...

Licht, Sand, Hitze. In diesem lebensfeindlichen Milieu ist ein Beduine seit jeher mit seiner kleinen Karawane auf einsamer Mission. Zur selben Zeit befinden sich ein Krieger, ein Junge und ein Wolf auf ihrem eigenen Weg. Jeder mit seinem Ziel – doch die Richtung ist ungewiss. Jeder für sich – und dennoch gemeinsam. Jeder auf der Suche – beginnen sie diese zuerst in sich. Und finden dort etwas, dass sie nicht erwartet hätten. In Licht, dem Auftakt zum Romanband Schattenseiten, kommen die Pr...

"A fascinating psychological study of an unrepentant murderer" from a New York Times bestselling author (Library Journal).Battle Creek, Michigan, is famous as the birthplace of breakfast cereal, and the nearby suburb of Marshall is as wholesome as shredded wheat. Well-known for its colorful Victorian mansions, this stately slice of nineteenth-century Americana became infamous on a frigid night in February of 1991. Newscaster Diane Newton King was ...