This book represents one of the first attempts by a multidisciplinary research team, encompassing the social sciences, business, architecture and planning, engineering, and finance and economics, to help rural communities discover sustainable and self-reliant paths to development and transformation.The opening chapter outlines the background of the research, its importance in the context of China and other countries, the rationale for choosing the case study communities in rural Ch...

What is it? Few questions are more basic or more important that defining what a thing is. And yet, few questions are more confused. What is a human being? What is a man and a woman? What is marriage? And what is a family? Questions like these stand at the heart of modern ethics, and Christians who love their neighbors need to have good answers to them.In nine chapters, The Business of Is-Ness answers nine questions about how to live in t...

“Rich word choices and settings that blend speculative concepts with quotidian reality highlight this stellar anthology of prose and poetry from well-known editor Mike Allen (CLOCKWORK PHOENIX) and his wife and copublisher, Anita Allen ... This anthology is a winner from cover to cover.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred reviewThis new anthology from the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed CLOCKWORK PHOENIX series assembles beautiful poetry and strange prose from the first year...

**Winner of the 2020 Edward M. Bruner Book Award from the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group**"Leite, Castaneda, and Adams's volume is a beautiful retrospective of the enduring importance of Ed Bruner's work and legacy in our field, and we have no doubt that it will be used as a central historical, theoretical, and teaching text by many." - Prize CommitteeWhat does it mean to study tourism ethnographically? How has the ethnography of tourism changed from the 1970s to toda...

This anthology collects 26 original stories that will run in the fifth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. A metrics-driven approach for utopia, a fantastical YouTube challenge, a Lovecraftian Millennial thinkpiece, correspondence with a professor at a magical school, time trains, magical idols in a magicless place. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful, from contemporary authors both new and established.Half of the stories i...

An Alphabet of Embers is an anthology of unclassifiables – lyrical, surreal, magical, experimental pieces that straddle the border between poetry and prose. It lives in a place between darkness and sound, between roads and breaths, its pages taut with starlight; between its covers, words talk to each other, and have an occasional cup of tea.Edited by Rose Lemberg, featuring work by:Alvaro Zinos-AmaroAmal El-MohtarArkady MartineCeleste Rita Baker...

Imagine... an expanse of water vast enough to hide a thousand secrets...A creature lurking in the inky, hidden depths... A beast with the power of legend... A monster that's long, fierce, and scaly... A leviathan that's been hunted again and again...Without success. Until, perhaps, now...And for readers, a chance to track down the valuable Silver Ness, a hidden treasure, awaiting discovery...Read the book, find the clues, search for the Silver NessThe...

Speculatief is een viermaandelijks speculatief magazine, eerst gepubliceerd in 2022. Elk nummer bevat enkele vertaalde kortverhalen en gedichten, meestal bekroonde werken of van grote internationale namen. Onze uitgaven zijn ook beschikbaar als ebook edities en audio podcasts.Speculatief is een nieuw magazine met als doel om meer mensen kennis te laten maken met speculatieve literatuur. Al onze verhalen en poëzie kennen hun eerste Nederlandstalige verschijning in onze numm...

This book promotes Christian ecology and animal ethics from the perspectives of the Bible, science, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. In an age of climate change, how do we protect species and individual animals? Does it matter how we treat bugs? How does understanding the Trinity and Christ's self-emptying nature help us to be more responsible earth caretakers? What do Christian ethics have to do with hunting? How do the Foxfire books of Southern Appalachia help us to love a place? Does ...

Todd Hewitt ist der letzte Junge seiner Heimatstadt. Und diese Stadt ist anders. In ihr gibt es keine Frauen. Nur Männer. Und jedermann hört die Gedanken aller anderen. Rund um die Uhr. Es gibt kein Privatleben. Es gibt keine Geheimnisse. Oder doch? Nur einen Monat vor dem Geburtstag, der auch ihn zum Mann machen wird, stolpert Todd unvermutet über einen Ort, an dem absolute Stille herrscht. Und dort trifft er ein Mädchen. Doch das ist unmöglich. Oder haben ihn alle ein Leben lang belogen?...

Hunting Shadows is a gripping true crime memoir by Jane Hamilton, one of Scotland’s most experienced and well-known crime journalists. The book chronicles her decades-long career reporting on some of the country’s most harrowing and high-profile criminal cases - with a central focus on the chilling investigation into serial killer Peter Tobin.Following Tobin’s arrest, she was one of the first journalists to question whether his crimes were more extensive than publicly known. Her re...

In der Siedlung Prentisstown ist es niemals still. Ein Virus hat alle Frauen getötet und den Männern die Fähigkeit gegeben, ununterbrochen die Gedanken der jeweils anderen zu hören. Doch eines Tages vernimmt der junge Todd Hewitt etwas Ungewöhnliches: Stille. Die Quelle ist eine junge Frau namens Viola. Doch wie kann sie leben, wo doch der Virus alle Frauen getötet hat? Als Todd die grausame Wahrheit über dieses Rätsel erfährt, schwebt er in höchster Gefahr. Denn der Bürgermeister und ein ...