The essays in this volume rethink Much Ado About Nothing from the standpoint of the New Awareness. Scholars today are by necessity both the products and the producers of this awareness. Moreover, the essays in this collection touch upon problems that are germane to the political climate today and similar to the concerns reflected in this play. Three essays discuss epistemology and determining real information from its simulation. Other essays concern issues that are central to the #MeToo M...

A TRUE STORY is a story of deception and truth. It is a story about the nature of reality and the intrinsic unreliability of perspective. It is allusive literary fiction disguised as a cheap, pulpy crime novel where You, the reader, become the detective and the story itself becomes suspect. Nothing exists outside of the frame of the narrator. No character can have a true voice—only impersonation. The difference between truth and lies becomes meaningless; everything becomes a reflection of ...

Life in the Colony of Maryland is no sinecure—as Alex and Matthew Graham well know. But nothing in their previous life has prepared them for the mayhem that is about to be unleashed upon them.Being labeled a witch is not a good thing in 1684, so it is no wonder Alex Graham is aghast at having such insinuations thrown at her. Even worse, it’s Matthew’s brother-in-law, Simon Melville, who points finger at her.Not that the ensuing hearing is her main concern, because nowadays ...

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Posthumous Editing of a Great Master's Work: Special Focus on the Writings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada examines how a leading figure's hallowed written and published works, which remain so important to the religious community, should be editorially treated following the leader's departure from this world. The volume addresses the theological, ethical, social, and legal implications of posthumous editing—and even improving—a great master's works.This book focuses...

Anna May Wong remains one of Hollywood’s best-known Chinese American actors.Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, and Warner Oland. Her life, though, is the prototypical story of an immigrant’s difficult path through the prejudices of American culture.Born in Los Angeles in 1905, she was the second daughter of seven children...

Die beliebtesten Reiseziele der deutschen – ein Naturparadies? Allerdings! Dieser einzigartige Reiseführer kombiniert beeindruckende Fotos und mitreißende Beschreibungen mit allen praktischen Informationen, die Du brauchst, um Dich auf den spanischen Mittelmeerinseln abseits der Touristenströme zu begeben. Mit einsamen Stränden und smaragdgrünen Buchten, einsamen Bergwanderungen Höhlen und antiken Ruinen. Perfekt für Familienabenteuer, Camper-Reisende, Wanderer und Wild Schwimmer: •Entdeck...

In their rural home in the Colony of Maryland, Matthew and Alex Graham are still recovering from the awful events of the previous years when Luke Graham, Matthew’s estranged brother, asks them for a favor.Alex has no problems whatsoever ignoring Luke’s sad plea for help. In her opinion Matthew’s brother is an evil excuse of a man who deserves whatever nasty stuff fate throws at him. Except, as Matthew points out, Luke is begging them to save his son—his misled Charlie, one of the M...

Anna May Wong remains one of Hollywood's best-known Chinese American actors.Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, and Warner Oland. Her life, though, is the prototypical story of an immigrant's difficult path through the prejudices of American culture.Born in Los Angeles in 1905, she was the second daughter of seven children...

The deep and personal story—told through history, poetry, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations todayMore than a hundred years have passed since the Sámi were forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Norway and Sweden, a hundred years since Elin Anna Labba’s ancestors and relations drove their reindeer over the strait to the mainland for the last time. The place where...

When reluctant time traveler Alex ended up at the feet of Matthew Graham in 1658, her life changed dramatically. It changed again when the Graham family moved to the American Colonies to escape religious persecution. Maryland offered them an opportunity to make a new life, but with a new land came new enemies. Also, despite all the years in Maryland, Matthew Graham still longs for home, so when an opportunity arises to return to Scotland, he takes it, never mind that it tears Alex in half ...

Matthew Graham committed the mistake of his life when he cut off his brother’s nose—however much he deserved it. In revenge, Luke Graham has Matthew abducted and transported to the Colony of Virginia, there to be sold as indentured labor—a death sentence more or less.Matthew arrives in Virginia in May of 1661, and any hope he had of finding someone willing to listen to his tale of unlawful abduction is quickly extinguished. If anything Matthew’s insistence that he is an innocent ma...