A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, William Morris remains remarkably powerful and relevant today. But how do you teach someone like Morris who made significant contributions to several different fields of study? And how, within the exigencies of the modern educational system, can teachers capture the interdisciplinary spirit of Morris, whose various contributions hang so curiously together? Teaching William Morris gathers together the work of nineteen Morris schol...

The quality guidebook that takes you right through the Bernadette story, the Domaine and all the sacred sites associated with Bernadette in the town and area, together with all the practical information you will need for your Pilgrimage. The Bernadette story is told in its historical context. What to see in the surrounding area of the French and Spanish Pyrenees, coastal Aquitaine, the Basque Country, including Loyola, and stops along the Way of St James from St Jean Pied de Port to Pamplo...

In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.1735-ca.1809) wrote the only surviving eyewitness account of the slave trade by an African merchant. A leader in late eighteenth-century Old Calabar, a cluster of Efik-speaking communities in the Cross River region, he resided in Duke Town, forty-five miles from the Atlantic Ocean in what is now southeast Nigeria. His diary, written in trade English from 1785 to 1788, is a candid account of daily life in an African community at the height of Calabar's overseas...

Death and rebirth was of vital importance to early Christians in late antiquity. In late antiquity, death was all encompassing. Mortality rates were high, plague and disease in urban areas struck at will, and one lived on the knife’s edge regarding one’s health. Religion filled a crucial role in this environment, offering an option for those who sought cure and comfort. Following death, the inhumed were memorialized, providing solace to family members through sculpture, painting, and epigr...

From parks and libraries to pubs and schools, social infrastructures are the everyday places that bring people together, support community life, and foster connection. As interest in the concept grows, this timely and accessible edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of social infrastructure—its origins, development, and practical impact.Packed with innovative case studies from the UK, Europe, Australia, and the US, it highlights how these shared spaces can shape urban l...

The Homeland Security Police shot Grandpa in the back. A.D. 2081: When 15-year-old Adam Bakers family is murdered by federal agents, he seeks to escape the brutal regime that has commandeered a once great nation under the banner of Homeland Security. Adam sets out on a long and dangerous journey westward to China, which has evolved into a haven of prosperity in the eighty years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Along the way he falls in love with a young black woman and le...

This comprehensive reader chronicles the western engagement with the nature of knowledge during the past four centuries while providing the historical context for the postmodernist thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty and Hayden White, and the challenges their ideas have posed to our conventional ways of thinking, writing and knowing.