In a unique and personal exploration of the game and fish laws in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi from the Progressive Era to the 1930s, Julia Brock offers an innovative history of hunting in the New South. The implementation of conservation laws made significant strides in protecting endangered wildlife species, but it also disrupted traditional hunting practices and livelihoods, particularly among African Americans and poor whites.Closed Seasons highlights how hunting ...

Dieses Hörbuch wird von einer digitalen Stimme gesprochen.Beim Interview knistert es so heiß zwischen Emma und dem italienischen Milliardär Leonardo Ravenino, dass sie mit ihm die Nacht verbringt. Doch sie muss erkennen, dass sie ihm nichts bedeutet! Frustriert schreibt sie einen skandalösen Artikel über den erfolgsverwöhnten Tycoon – der irrtümlich gedruckt wird …

More so than any war in history, World War II was a woman’s war. Women, motivated by patriotism, the opportunity for new experiences, and the desire to serve, participated widely in the global conflict. Within the Allied countries, women of all ages proved to be invaluable in the fight for victory. Rosie the Riveter became the most enduring image of women’s involvement in World War II. What Rosie represented, however, is only a small portion of a complex story. As wartime production worker...

Dieses Hörbuch wird von einer digitalen Stimme gesprochen.Als Selfmade-Millionär Jaco Valentino erfährt, was seine ehemalige Assistentin Leah ihm verheimlicht hat, kocht er vor Wut. Unverzeihlich, dass sie damals Hals über Kopf sein Weingut verließ … aber ihm jetzt sein Kind verschweigen? Ein Fiasko! Denn mit einem Erben wird er für seine Feinde angreifbar! Um Leah und seinen kleinen Sohn zu schützen, entführt er sie auf seine Privatinsel im Mittelmeer. Doch das sinnliche Band zwis...

In Gwinnett County’s two hundred years, the area has been western, southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a national economy, a Populist uprising and Black outmigration, the entrance of women into the politica...

Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of New South investigates the social, architectural, and environmental history of sporting plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry and the Red Hills region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Although plantations figure prominently in histories of the post-emancipation South, historians have paid little attention to the redevelopment of plantations for non-agricultural use. By examining the two largest concentrations of sporting plantations ...

Lottie két év különélés után képtelen úrrá lenni a kíváncsiságán. Minden morzsányi pletykát mohó érdeklődéssel olvas férjéről, Rafael Revaldi grófról. A tudósítások azonban nem csak a félelmetes hegycsúcsok megmászásáról szólnak. Bőven esik szó nőkről is. Ezek után az asszony nagyon meglepődik, amikor a férfi egy majdnem végzetes balesetet követően magához hívatja. Biztosan válni akar, gondolja keserűen Lottie, de a valóság rácáfol a várakozására…

Le fils de l'amant grec, Julia JamesRevoir Anatole Kyrgiakis cause un choc à Tia. Il y a cinq ans, cet Apollon grec saupoudrait sa vie de magie, en lui faisant découvrir Athènes, puis Paris. À son bras, elle goûtait à un monde de luxe et de volupté. Mais c’était avant qu’il l’abandonne, lui laissant le cœur en miettes. Que lui dire aujourd’hui, alors qu’il la toise avec mépris ? Comment lui faire face, alors qu’entre eux plane le plus beau des secrets, un petit garç...

What is the relationship between education and reconciliation initiatives? Who encourages and enacts it and who discourages and detracts from it? Do reconciliatory educational practices offer any insight into the nature of reconciliation as a process?Drawing on international research in numerous countries, including Bosnia Herzegovina, Rwanda, South Africa, Jordan, Peru and the USA, the contributors consider, conceptually and empirically, the role of education in reconciling societ...

The field of public history is growing as college and university history departments seek to recruit and retain students by emphasizing how studying the past can sharpen their skills and broaden their career options. But faculty have often sought to increase course offerings without knowing exactly what the teaching and practice of public history entails. Public historians have debated the meanings of public history since the 1970s, but as more students take public history courses and more...

What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today's and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities across the lifespan. Readers will fully examine more than a dozen critical topics in the lives of people with severe disabilities; explore necessary reforms to policy and practice; and ...

Andie BrockInterjú az ördöggel„Titokzatos, ördögien ravasz, sikeres és szexi” – így jellemzi a bulvársajtó az olasz milliárdost, Leonardo Raveninót. Emma azonban egy komoly magazin munkatársa, és a megújuló energiákról szeretne interjút készíteni vele. Órákig vár rá a Raven Enterprises cég központjában, de amikor Leo végre megjelenik, csak egy késő esti találkozót ajánl fel neki az éjszakai klubjában. Emma még sosem járt ilyen elegáns helyen, és amikor a pezsgő kissé elbódítja, már csak a ...