After the death of his son, a young college professor takes a sabbatical leave to regain his inner strength rocked not only by his son’s death but his own inner turmoil. He believes that he can reconnect with his distraught wife in London and stabilize their marriage, far from the site of their tragedy. Yet while his marriage continues to deteriorate, he finds his own salvation in a London gay pub with a rent boy named Audley in a liturgical journey of redemption.

The Mission Road: “And lo! A light from Heaven shown down, And I beheld through the briars The Mission Road of the Franciscan friars.” Early on the morning, April 6, 2013 while visiting the old Suwannee River crossing at Charles Spring, I saw this beam from the heavens shining as if to mark the trail for me. This digital image, entitled “Photograph of the Bellamy Road, Charles Spring, which is thought to be a part of the Old Spanish Trail,” was placed in the Viva Florida 500 statewide time...

A saga of three generations of a wealthy Main Line Family rent by religious strife and sexuality. The whole orchestrated by a resourceful and at times vengeful matriarch. A must read for all you with bossy Nanas and secrets.Robert Hurst's last novel was Audley's End

Tom O’Mally has to make a decision. The choice itself is a relatively minor one, but the consequences are enormous. It will lead him down quite different, treacherous paths until his odyssey finally ends at a gay pub in Oxford.

This book presents the importance of the role of creativity, particularly everyday creativity, in the lives of people on a mental health recovery journey.Through a review of historical and contemporary literature and research findings on the topic, the book starts by giving readers an idea of the state of play of conceptualisations of both creativity and recovery. The authors arrive at and present their own definitions of these concepts, using autoethnography to bring their own exp...

At the turn of the twentieth century, European colonial powers scrambled in Africa for trade, land and political advantage. When the First World War broke out, they were forced to contend with one another not just in trenches on the Western Front, but in East Africa's swamps and savannahs. In that unforgiving landscape, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and a small cadre of hardened German officers fought as equals with their African troops against the Allies, creating the first truly integr...

The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it was a river of truly global significance, attracting merchants, missionaries, mercenaries, statesmen, laborers and others from Europe, Asia and beyond. Hooghly seeks to restore the waterway to the heart of global history. Focusing in turn on the role of and competition between those who struggled to control the river--the Portuguese, the Mughals,...

Boris Bogachev's highly readable account of life as a young platoon commander during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 makes for a fascinating read. The son of a Soviet military commissar, Bogachev volunteered to fight as soon as reached the age of seventeen. Life in the Red Army was harsh, with food shortages, inadequate equipment and fear - not only of the well-armed enemy ahead, but also of the trigger-happy political officers behind. Bogachev fought in many campaigns throughout the wa...

How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support?This book sets out to show how disabled students experience university life today. The current generation of students is the first to move through university after the enactment of the Disability Discrimination Act, which placed responsibility on universities to create an in...

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITSAuthoritative and comprehensive textbook on the fundamentals of analog integrated circuits, with learning aids included throughoutWritten in an accessible style to ensure complex content can be appreciated by both students and professionals, this Sixth Edition of Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits is a highly comprehensive textbook on analog design, offering in-depth c...

Did you know that each child is unique in the family and has his or her own personality that is different from all the others?. It is your order of birth that determines who you really are. Your interactions with your siblings. mold your character. Dr. Robert V. V. Hurst wrote this book after following his orthodontic patients for over 40 years. What he found was the key to understanding all people, the Double Birth Order. This occurs when four or more years separate siblings or groups of ...

Did you know that each child is unique in the family and has his or her own personality that is different from all the others?. It is your order of birth that determines who you really are. Your interactions with your siblings. mold your character. Dr. Robert V. V. Hurst wrote this book after following his orthodontic patients for over 40 years. What he found was the key to understanding all people, the Double Birth Order. This occurs when four or more years separate siblings or groups of ...