A California school vanishes behind alien walls and wakes into a universe of shifting worlds.Cut off from Earth, the people of Flowering Branches must survive with what they have: horses, gardens, hard-won skills, stubborn humor, and one another. But the towering white walls around their campus keep opening onto new lands, each with its own dangers and possibilities.Lani Verrell, Raaf Herrick, Dean Hanna Lee, and a growing team of students become explorers, negotiators, res...

Originally published in 1988, Middle Tennessee Society Transformed marks a significant advance in the social history of the American Civil War—an approach exemplified and extended in Ash’s later work and that of other leading Civil War scholars. Winner of the Tennessee History Book Award and named by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book, it examines the Civil War in Middle Tennessee in light of conflict between African Americans and whites, the decline of insti...

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the works of Seneca the Younger (4 BCE–65 CE), the foremost rhetorician, tragedian, and philosopher of his time who had a major role in the politics and culture of the age of Emperor Nero.It provides readers with the historical, philosophical, and literary background to appreciate Seneca’s works, and advances representative critical readings of his treatises and tragedies. Chapters highlight his life, political theory, Stoicism, and dramatu...

***The***Bloomsbury Handbook of Microhistory provides the first detailed examination of a field which has rapidly expanded in the last three decades. Characterised by a focus on the very small, an obsessive thoroughness of investigation and an inventiveness of exposition, microhistory has matured significantly as an approach amongst historical researchers and practitioners over the past five decades. Consequently, an overview of this nature – surveying microhistor...

This book provides a contextualised collection of 150 newly translated primary sources on the history of Northern Eurasia that spans the period from 700-1917.** The selected documents decenter the traditional fixation on the primary Russian-language sources produced in the centers of power by government officials. At the same time, New Histories of Northern Eurasia, 700- 1917 preserves the panoramic perspective on the entangled historical processes and multiplici...

In 1969, young Army veterinarian Dr. Frank Lux arrived in Vietnam expecting to treat a few sick dogs and keep his head down. Instead, he finds himself stationed on Hill 327 outside Da Nang, one of the most active military working-dog posts in Southeast Asia. What follows is a year that will test his skill, his courage, and his heart in ways he never imagined. Surrounded by the chaos of war, Frank discovers that his patients are no ordinary animals. The German Shepherds who stand watch with...

A dark, dazzlingly original psychological thriller about a woman invited to an annual weekend getaway for the adult children of serial killers...but when one of the participants ends up dead, they begin to wonder if someone among them might be carrying on the family traditions.When Nicola Fischer’s father is arrested for the murder of five women—including her best friend—the entire world watches it unfold on To Catch a Killer, the hit true crime TV show ho...

Microsystems for Bioelectronics: Scaling and Performance Limits considers physical principles and trends in extremely scaled autonomous microsystems such as integrated intelligent sensor systems, with a focus on energy minimization. The book explores the implications of energy minimization on device and system architecture. It further details the behavior of electronic components and the further implications on system-level scaling and performance limits. In particular, fundamental scaling...

A fresh look at the conversations and interactions of Native Americans and French as recorded in writings from the New WorldPerceived in Print uses the published writings of adventurers and churchmen in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to unlock the impressions Americans and French expressed about each other—what people from a diverse range of Indigenous cultures thought about the French and how the French perceived the inhabitants of these Ne...

She kept the books for nineteen years. She just never thought to check what her sister was taking.Lorraine Pritchard is the steady one. The sensible one. The daughter who raised her little sister, the wife who pays the mortgage, the woman who keeps the family's accounts in a green ledger and drinks her coffee cold because someone always needs something before she gets to it. At forty, she has built her whole life on being the person everyone can count on.Th...

She set five places for the boss who was going to change their life. She didn't know the woman walking through her door was already her husband's wife.For eleven years, Carol has been the one who handles things. She keeps the household books, sets the Sunday table, and has quietly decided — carefully, the way she decides everything — that her marriage to Dale is doing all right. So when he brings his boss home for the first time, Carol wears the green blouse, makes...

Visual Literacy for Lawyers gives readers practical tools to shift into a mindset that treats design, structure, and language as inseparable parts of communication. It builds on the internationally recognized principles of plain language, now solidified in the ISO 24495 Plain Language Standard, and takes a deep dive into the design and structural choices that determine whether a document works for real people. This book treats clarity as a unified discipline, with words, structure, and vis...