The Power of Song explores the music and dance of Franciscan and Jesuit mission communities throughout the entire northern frontier of New Spain. Its purpose is to examine the roles music played: in teaching, evangelization, celebration, and the formation of group identities. There is no other work which looks comprehensively at the music of this region and time period, or which utilizes music as a way to study the cultural interactions between Indians and missionaries.

Drawing on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition and chronicle the first formative global human rights movement. They also cast new light on the origins and development of the African diaspora created by the transatlantic slave trade. Engagingly written and attuned to twenty-first century as well ...

Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing.This book is both a snapshot of current academic practice and an attempt to sort through some of the problems scholars f...

Een intens, aangrijpend en herkenbaar verhaal over de zoektocht naar nieuw geluk na een periode van rouwNadat haar man Patrick tien jaar geleden omkwam bij een verkeersongeluk, was Kate zo diep in de rouw dat ze niet dacht ooit nog een nieuwe liefde te zullen vinden. Toch bleek de tijd inderdaad haar wonden te helen, en nu heeft ze het aanzoek van haar nieuwe vriend Dan geaccepteerd. Met een bruiloft in het vooruitzicht zou ze dus blij en vol verwachting moeten zijn. Waarom is ze da...

In the story of love, sometimes the best plot twist is the office flirt you didn’t see coming…I never thought I’d end up falling for the last guy in the world I should want—Connor Bryant, the resident office ladies’ man. I’m the quirky Pride & Prejudice-loving editor with a passion for big words and a wardrobe that screams “world’s least sexy librarian.”We’re complete opposites, and to make matters worse, we’re vying for the same job.No wor...

Parker, a quirky hipster novelist is pursued by a mysterious stalker. A story he can’t resist.Greysen, a genius inventor must erase his identity and flee the country to survive.When the two lives intertwine, chaos ensues.The Idea Man Boxed Set is a multi-point-of-view trilogy of comedic thrillers. These plot-twisting thrillers are a must for lovers of action-packed stories with a touch of awkward hilarity.T...

RT Book Reviews Reviewers Award Choice Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year.When she arrives home from school on Callisto, Talia Shindo finds two strange men in her house. They terrorize her, and kidnap her mother. The men leave Talia behind. She's thirteen, brilliant, and determined to find her missing mother.Retrieval Artist Miles Flint works a seemingly unrelated case, digging into files left him by his mentor. Only he finds a connection to the Shi...

dad Yu "recovers" things for a living. Things, not people, not animals. Things. Until he gets in trouble and must work for the alien Gyonnese. They want a person to answer for her crimes, and they want to use Yu to get her. He reluctantly agrees, and sets off events that will change his life and the lives around him forever. A companion piece to Recovery Man, The Recovery Man's Bargain explores the motivations of one of the stranger characters in the Retrieval Artist universe."Rusc...

Die Neuauflage des HK DS-GVO/BDSG von Schwartmann/Jaspers/Thüsing/Kugelmann bietet der Datenschutzpraxis eine topaktuelle Kommentierung am Puls der Zeit.Anlass für die Neuauflage waren umfangreiche aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Gesetzgebung, Rechtsprechung und Aufsichtspraxis, auf die sich alle Verantwortliche in der Datenverarbeitung einstellen müssen. Ganz besonders an Fahrt aufgenommen hat die Problematik rund um den Ein...

The Complete 2019 Christmas Collection from Mills & BoonA Collection of Christmas Romances from Mills & Boon, including:Christmas SecretsPostcards at ChristmasThe Billionaire’s New Year GiftHot Docs on Call his Christmas WishThe Midwife’s Christmas BabyTheir Twin Christmas SurpriseA New Year BrideThe Billionaire’s Christmas DesireHer Mistletoe MagicHer Christmas PrinceChristmas at his Chat...

Long before the world knew his name, the oceans whispered of his coming. Beneath the shimmering surface of the vast seas, a destiny was being forged—one that would change the course of history and restore balance to a fragile world. The ocean, with its mysteries and untold depths, had been both a cradle and a battleground, holding the secrets of life and death for eons. Now, it was dying.Pollution had poisoned its waters. The once-vibrant coral reefs, teeming with life, had turned ...

A writer hunted. An inventor on the run.Parker thought his running days were over. But the consequences for taking an advance to write the story of a wanted man, came at a much higher cost than he ever expected.Because Greysen’s location is secret, all the attention falls on Parker. He finds himself hunted by the men that want the protagonist from his novel killed.When the Marked Man contacts Parker to let him know about a coveted invention he cre...