"IN the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 light rose out of darkness. Alfred, King of the English, was born in the royal 'vill' [villa regia] which is called Wanetinge [Wantage]." To later historians, as to the early chronicler who wrote these words, King Alfred has appeared as a phenomenon to be wondered at rather than to be understood, a lonely light shining in the midst of an impenetrable darkness.The ninth century, the time of the break-up of the Empire of Charles the Great, a...

Catégoriser l'espèce humaine en deux genres est un réflexe, une habitude évidente. Réalité biologique et physiologique immuable ? Socle sur lequel s'érige nos cultures ?L'état des recherches révèle que cette catégorisation peut être questionnée. Sexe et genre sont des concepts troubles, parfois ambivalents, que ce livre vise à déconstruire afin d'accompagner et de soutenir le processus de dépathologisation du vécu trans-identitaire.Si les personnes trans on...

Tenure at a Crossroads, Again? goes beyond the explication of tenure to explore the contemporary challenges facing academia at the K–12 and higher education levels. This edited volume is unique in the sense that it grapples issues from multiple viewpoints—that of the university/college administrator and professor, to the K–12 educator.The book examines increased expectations and how existing policies have spilled over into institutions of higher learning once high school graduates e...

WINNER OF THE ANNE B. AND JAMES B. MCMILLAN PRIZEA powerful collection of firsthand stories from the Tuskegee Institute High School Class of 1964—students who came of age in the crucible of the Civil Rights Movement. Their stories uncover the bold choices of their ancestors who chose to stay and help shape the South.Children of the Struggle and the Ancestors Who Stayed, edited by Sonjia Parker Redmond and Beatrice J. Adams...

The Beatrice books follow the lives of a number of characters, each of whom are connected directly or indirectly with the beautiful Beatrice, now in her mid thirties and forever looking for that next exciting moment with either a man or a woman. You will discover things you might have already come across in our earlier books, especially in the main Eros Crescent trilogy: The Fifi Code, Eros Crescent and Mount Eros. Discover the Sydney Swingers Club and its joyful members. And follow the re...

Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of "a heroic period, the age of feudalism and monasticism, of chivalry and the Crusades." The era opened "with gloomy prospects for Western Christendom. On every side danger threatened" from the Vikings, the Saracens, and the Magyars. But better things lie in store in this little volume as the Capetian dynasty is founded in France, the Holy Roman Empire becomes the political center of Europe und...

The ramifications of the trans-Saharan, trans-Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and domestic African slave trades are immeasurable, and they continue to disaffect black people from Africa to Haiti and Los Angeles to Lagos. Shackled Sentiments focuses on the memories and embodiments of slavery through case studies from western, eastern, and central Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The contributors to this collection examine the ways that memories of slavery have been internalized. Slavery an...

Princess Jasmina. A queendom in crisis. Blame finds a child.When Queen Yes disappears overnight, a curse begins to spread across the Land. Fear takes hold. Zealots call it divine punishment. Rather than seek the truth, the royal court chooses someone to blame.Twelve-year-old Princess Jasmina becomes the target.Seized by the Court and imprisoned in an ancient castle, she is cut off from all who might help her. As the kingdom fractures, her anguish se...

This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach on an international market versus the American one. Few resources currently exist showing the cross-disciplinary aspects of comics. Some of the chapters examine the use of Wonder Woman during World War II, the development and culture of French comics, and theories of Locke and Hobbs in regards to the state of nature and the bonds of community. ...

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the...

Tourism and hospitality services are highly prone to service-failure due to a high level of customer-employee contact and the inseparable, intangible, heterogeneous and perishable nature of these services. Service Failures and Recovery in Tourism and Hospitality, with its extensive coverage of the literature, presents an invaluable source of information for academics, students, researchers and practitioners. In addition to its extensive coverage of the literature in terms of recent researc...