“A glimmer of hope for the reader! An excellent read for those looking for their next fantasy novel.”—MORGAN L. BUSSE, award-winning author of The Ravenwood Saga and Winter’s MaidenABOUT DARKFELL, the #1 New Release in Christian FantasyHis is a life of books and peace …Until a dying warrior’s touch ignites an ancient magic within his blood.For years, Thom Darkfell has used his cartography skills to ...

**The Agatha Award-winning mystery inspired by the Wright Brothers’ real-life sister!While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive – especially when it comes to solving crimes – in this radiant historical mystery by USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower.**December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright’s flying machine is quite literally taking of...

THE BEAUTIFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER AND AUTHOR OF WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK NIGHTINGALE POINT‘A sharp, funny, wonderful writer’ Diana Evans, bestselling author of Ordinary People‘A beautiful novel. It was a real pleasure to read’ Jing-Jing Lee, author of How We Disappeared‘Every character in the novel is observed...

In the first two seasons of the HBO series Westworld, human guests pay exorbitant fees to spend time among cybernetic Hosts—partially sentient AI robots—and live out often violent fantasies. In Theology and Westworld, scholars from a range of disciplines within religious studies examine the profound questions that arise when the narrative of Westworld interacts with the study of religion. From transhumanism and personhood to morality and divinity, this book contributes to, confounds, and c...

Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education. But, as the essayists in Sound Pedagogy show, the structural aspects of music study in higher education present obstacles to caring and kindness like the entrenched master-student model, a neoliberal individualist and competitive mindset, and classical music’s white patriarchal roots. The editors of this v...

The equally brilliant real-life sister of the famous flying Wright Brothers, Katharine Wright, investigates an unsettling death at the 1904 World's Fair in this radiant new historical mystery in USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower’s Agatha Award-winning series.Summer 1904. Katharine and her best friend from Oberlin College, Margaret Goodwin Meacham, are thrilled to attend the St. Louis Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, for the centennial c...

"Este libro compila buenas prácticas de gestión académica, pedagógica y de investigación derivadas de las actividades o proyectos que se desarrollan en Instituciones de Educación Superior colombianas y extranjeras para el fomento de la Internacionalización del Currículo. Se presentan aquí los resultados de estrategias, esquemas de gestión o modelos para la internacionalización que pueden adaptarse tanto a las experiencias en aula como al campo de la investigación y la extensión universitar...

Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment, but powerful socializing agents that shape and reflect the world and our role in it. Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation brings together a diverse grou...

Introducing: Sensational Writers + Holiday RecipesA Festive Collaboration of Storytelling and Culinary DelightNow Available – Optimized for viewing on color tablets and large screens.Join us in celebrating the holiday season with Sensational Writers + Holiday Recipes, a heartwarming and delicious collaboration featuring personal stories, short essays, and cherished holiday recipes from a vibrant com...

Security studies, also known as international security studies, is an academic subfield within the wider discipline of international relations that examines organized violence, military conflict, and national security. Meant to serve as an introduction to the field of security studies, Contextualizing Security is a collection of original essays, primary source lectures, and previously published material in the overlapping fields of security studies, political science, sociology, j...

This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa’s pre-colonial story.

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...