What does the future hold for us? This anthology of nineteen diverse stories from authors around the world shows us a future full of adventure, intrigue, fun, heart-ache, and wonder.A imprisoned space pirate from Phobos is given a last chance for freedom, but only if he's willing to kill his younger brother. Again.In post-climate change Italy, a deaf African-American woman and her native partner struggle to build a communal farm that can survive the new environment, a lasting...

New essays from foodways archaeology related to cuisine in social, cultural, and environmental contexts.This collection of original essays is the first to cover recent trends in foodways archaeology in the Midwest using the concept of cuisine: the selection of food ingredients and methods of food preparation, cooking, and serving/consumption in relation to their social, cultural, and environmental contexts. This work span the Early Archaic (9000 B...

The burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its meaningfulness for the emergence and shaping of the twenty-first-century world. This volume brings together an impressive array of scholars from various backgrounds and disciplines to explore the global significance of King—then, now, and in the future.Employing King’s metaphor of “the great world house,” the major focus is on King’s appraisal of the global-human struggl...

- A Greek god seeks out a woman he once seduced…- A tragic letter from 1910 chronicles a young woman's quest to find her lost love…- A terminally ill teen finds forbidden love...- A historian travels to the past and finds herself in the arms of Benedict Arnold.Enjoy these stories and many more in this passion-filled collection of short stories and poetry from the writers of WPaD.Love can be many things.For some, it's sweet and sensual. For others...

Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. It's not part of a sinister stratagem in the “gay agenda.” Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal intelligence, and foster critical consciousness.Queer elementary classrooms are those where parents and educators care enough about their children to trust the human capacity...

The Unarmed Witness: 30 Accounts of Civil War Behind the Lines gathers a compelling polyphony of civilian, medical, journalistic, and literary testimony from the American Civil War. Diaries, memoirs, letters, reportage, and retrospective narratives illuminate the war's domestic theatres: hospitals, occupied towns, refugee routes, households, prisons, and makeshift relief networks. Moving between Union and Confederate settings, the volume foregrounds the often-overlooked labor of care, endu...

The Unseen Frontline gathers thirty Civil War narratives that shift attention from battlefield strategy to the improvised labor of survival: nursing, refuge, relief work, captivity, displacement, and the moral pressures of divided communities. Diaries, memoirs, eyewitness chronicles, reformist testimony, and literary reflections create a formally varied archive of wartime experience. Accounts of hospitals, occupied towns, Confederate homes, Union relief networks, and African American servi...

An essential tool for little beginners and toddlers learning new simple first words.In this book, you will find 100 beautiful, contemporary pictures of simple first words to read and learn around the house, food, toys, clothes, some main gadgets, a different type of transport, vegetables, fruits, and animals. Each page with big, bold labels printed under the photo. Images divided into categories by type of the object. 4 illustration per page makes the learning process easier, a per...

A no-holds-barred story of what it takes to reach the top, and stay there, in the world's most dangerous sport - three day eventing.At the age of forty-seven Mary King won a Team Bronze at the Beijing Olympics. In the two 'Cavaliers' - 'Call Again Cavalier' and 'Imperial Cavalier' - she has two of the very best event horses in the world.Mary King's success in the world of eventing (now officially classed as the most dangerous sport in the world) has been ha...

Coming against cultural myths and empty traditions that have a form of godliness, yet deny the Power of the crucified, resurrected, and ascended Christ, which is demonstrated by the Holy Spirit through the Church which is His Body.Breaking down wrong mindsets and restoring truth for Anabaptist or other denominations needing the Fire Power of the Holy Ghost."For we reach the goal of fulfilling all the Commandments when we love others deeply with a pure heart, a clean conscie...

Illustrated Animal book for children about The Most Interesting And Fun Facts About Wild Exotic Animals.For those who recently became a parent for the first time, and maybe already second or third time, it is familiar that feeling when you are born again with the advent of a child. Together with him, you enter a new stage of life, and just like a child, every day you learn something new with him together. Every day I as a mother try to give new knowledge to my baby, I try to help t...

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THE HOLY GHOST? Was Jesus said to be filled with the Holy Ghost? When was the Holy Ghost given? What 2 people were involved with the first transfer of the Spirit? In the Old Testament and the New Testament who spoke by the Holy Ghost? Who gives the Holy Ghost today? What gift was Gideon given when the Spirit of the LORD came upon him? Who was the mother of the first baby born filled with the Holy Ghost? What was Samson’s gift from the Spirit of the LORD? Is the will of...