CONTENTS:Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble“Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World,” Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby“Zemis and Zombies: Amerindian Healing Legacies on Hispaniola,” Lauren Derby“Poisoned Relations: Medical Choices and Poison Accusations within Enslaved Communities,” Chelsea Berry“Blood and Hair: Barbers, Sangradores, and the West African Corporeal Imagination in Salvador da ...

From the bustling ports of Lisbon to the coastal inlets of the Bight of Benin to the vibrant waterways of Bahia, Black mariners were integral to every space of the commercial South Atlantic. Navigating this kaleidoscopic world required a remarkable cosmopolitanism—the chameleonlike ability to adapt to new surroundings by developing sophisticated medicinal, linguistic, and navigational knowledge. Mary E. Hicks shows how Portuguese slaving ship captains harnessed and exploited this hybridity...

On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book, award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally un...

Lady Audley is universally adored: beautiful, kind and charming, she enamours all whom she meets. It is not until the strange disappearance of widower George Talboys that her behaviour takes an odd turn. George’s friend Robert Audley, Lady Audley’s nephew-in-law, is on the case; upper-class layabout-turned- detective, he is determined to get to the bottom of things. Mystery, mayhem, madness and despair: Lady Audley’s Secret, Braddon’s most successful work, is a gripping sensation novel.

More than 50% of America's schools today exist in rural settings. This book addresses the distinctiveness of rural school leaders, identifies issues encountered by administrators, faculty, and students, and concludes by proposing new standards for rural schools in general and their leaders. This book will be of special interest to everyone involved in the operation of a rural school district.

Popular media can spark the national consciousness in a way that captures people’s attention, interests them in history, and inspires them to visit battlefields, museums, and historic sites. This lively collection of essays and feature stories celebrates the novels, popular histories, magazines, movies, television shows, photography, and songs that have enticed Americans to learn more about our most dramatic historical era.From Ulysses S. Grant’s Memoirs to Abraham Lin...

Keep him begging for more . . .It’s nothing to be ashamed of. When it comes to performing oral sex, most people fall somewhere between fumbling and clueless. But now, in Blow Him Away you’ll find practical, easy-to-master techniques that will give you the confidence and skills you need to become an expert in the delicate art of fellatio.Inside you’ll find:• Exercises to whip your tongue, lips, and jaw into shape so you can perform with exquisite control.

Gateway communities that neighbour parks and protected areas are impacted by tourism, while facing unique circumstances related to protected area management. Economic dependency remains a serious challenge for these communities, especially in a climate of neoliberalism, top-down policy environments, and park closures related to environmental degradation or government budgets. The collection of works in this edited book provide bottom-up, informed, and nuanced approaches to tourism manageme...

It was a cold, snowy Christmas Eve, and all was quiet when the unexpected happened!Christmas in years past had a magical quality that made me long for that feeling, especially the spiritual connection. However, I now found myself caught in between past and present Christmas desires. Longing for the excitement of the festivities, the loved ones, the food, and the opening of presents can make the season seem so joyous. How can such anticipations overshadow the true meaning of this wo...

ECHOES FROM MY CHILDHOOD GREW LOUDER WITH EACH ENCOUNTER WHENEVER I WAS RESCUED FROM DANGER OR DETOURED FROM A SNARE.There was so much I didn't understand. Driven into valleys and even pits of despair, I was pulled upward, wrapped in warmth and care. What were those transparent arms supporting me that were captured in the photo? Where was the body of the hand grasping me? What did all this mean? Where did those young men come from, and how did they know my name? Where did they go i...

In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level language and cross-cultural communication proficiency that will serve them both professionally and personally in the global environment of the twenty-first century. At the same time, courses in business language and medical language have become more popular among students. Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), which encompasses these kinds of cou...

"The system does not care how skilled you are. It cares how much is coming in, how much can leave, and how fast."Every year, millions of patients step into a modern emergency room expecting a simple, unspoken vow: if you are sick enough, you will be helped. Instead, they are met with hours of unexplained delays, stretchers lining corridors, and exhausted clinicians struggling to keep up. It feels like a sudden crisis—a breakdown of human empathy or competen...