This is a story of murder in the pursuit of the wealth and recognition which significant scientific discovery can bring. In the busy research lab of Dr. Yvette Bilodeau, the harmony of her scientific team, is fatefully disrupted when a young graduate student, Mike Desfleur, is found murdered at his lab bench. Detective, Brandell Young, has been taken away from his usual big city street crimes, to work the case and quickly learns about the significance of the labs focus and the ramification...

La richesse et la puissance de la littérature américaine font pâlir d’envie. Son histoire est brève, cela va de soi, mais déjà jalonnée de grandes dates, de grandes œuvres, de grandes écoles, de grands auteurs, à un rythme rarement atteint, toutes nations confondues. Dans ce volume, toutes les époques et tous les auteurs seront convoqués à travers des œuvres anciennes ou récentes. Essentiellement récentes. Sous la plume des rédacteurs et rédactrices de la Cause Littéraire, se recompose un ...

The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development: the harmonizing of individual desires and societal norms in the formation of a well-rounded liberal subject. But what happens when this Enlightenment blueprint for self-cultivation runs up against the particularities of a colonial society riven by nationalism, revolution, and uneven modernization?The Irish Bildungsroman provides the first comprehensive study of how this quintessentially bourgeois a...

Gender Diversity and Inclusion: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives offers a rigorous analysis of comparative gender-sensitive policy and perspectives regarding gender justice and equity at global, national, and local levels. Presenting and analyzing case studies from countries around the world, including the United States, Northern Ireland, India, Bangladesh, and Iran, the essays in this collection posit that gender equity dialogue and policy advancement are the main key components t...

When released in 2003, The Room, an obscure, self-financed relationship drama by an eccentric self-taught filmmaker named Tommy Wiseau, should have been completely forgotten. Yet nearly two decades later, "the worst movie ever made"—as many a critic would have it—has become the most popular cult film since The Rocky Horror Picture Show.In You Are Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!, contributors explore this priceless cultural artifact, offering fans and film buffs c...

A charity anthology of dark fiction and poetry exploring the life, death, and regenerative forces of Nature, with all proceeds donated to Defenders of Wildlife. . Ranging in mood from macabre to mystical, these works evoke the sentient lives of animals and plants, their emotions, impulses, conflicts, and interrelationships. Their struggles to survive, often violent, demonstrate the tenacity and resilience of Nature in all its forms.Contributing Authors: Alison Armstrong, Pixie Brun...

So many things come to mind when you think of the word dark. Horror, death, bleak, mire, and topics that most people brush over because they are too dreary to think about. The Beauty in Darkness was an anthology concept that was thought up in collaboration with the late TS Woolard when we had made plans to go in together to run Dark Moon Rising Publications. It was his idea to showcase darkness and allow people to see below the surface to witness the ethereal enchantment humanity shies awa...

Testing and Inclusive Schooling provides a comparative perspective on seemingly incompatible global agendas and efforts to include all children in the general school system, thus reducing exclusion. With an examination of the international testing culture and the politics of inclusion currently permeating national school reforms, this book raises a critical and constructive discussion of these movements, which appear to support one another, yet simultaneously offer profound contradictions....