Gretna, ist ein Kind der Liebe, da ihre Eltern heimlich heirateten mussten und von der Gesellschaft verstoßen wurden. Ihre Mutter Lady Rosemary, Tochter des Earl von Ledbury heiratetet ihre Liebe in Gretna Green, um den Häschern ihres Vaters zu entkommen, der sie mit einem älteren Adeligen verheiraten wollte. Sie wurden von der Familie verstoßen und die Familie lebte in Armut auf dem Land. Nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern und aus dem Haus vertrieben, versucht die sehr junge und bildhübsche Gretna...

The Social Change Model for Systems (SCMS) is a robust system for facilitating organizational change. SCMS integrates technical and social controls to ensure organizational effectiveness. This book introduces SCMS as an alternative to traditional control systems, emphasizing the interplay between diagnostic and interactive social controls to shape organizational belief and boundary systems. SCMS promotes a structured, evidence-based method for assessing organizational climate, addressing c...

The Reflexology Handbook: Unlock Your Body's Healing Power Through Touch!Hold the universe in your hands—quite literally! “The Reflexology Handbook: Unlock Your Body's Healing Power Through Touch” is your tactile ticket to a realm where fingertips are potent and every pressure point holds a promise. Let's weave through the maze of your body's enigmatic pathways, one touch at a time!The Mapping of Miracles: Learn about the intricate tapestry of reflex points residing in yo...

Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. (Maya Angelou)This booklet is a collection of heartwarming stories, godly counsel, witty words of wisdom, and advice to women from women. These true, inspirational narratives are written by Christian women from the United States, Canada, Tobago, Trinidad, Jamaica, Bermuda, South America, and St. Croix, Virgin Islands. The writers of these accounts are wives, mothers, daughters, grandmothers, pastor wives, sisters, a...

This edited volume explores the democratic dangers posed by a political press that emphasizes electoral competition, strategy, entertainment, and what Jay Rosen calls “savviness”—praising candidates for being politically smart rather than being honest—in its coverage of a political landscape dominated by a looming authoritarian threat. Contributors document how the American and global political press have failed to fulfill their role in elections and demonstrate how authoritarians have use...

There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farmers across the world, of which a considerable percentage of women. Despite their large numbers and important roles, women smallholders remain largely unsupported and their contribution to agriculture is often devalued because of their sex.Women and smallholder farming: Addressing global inequities in agriculture provides a comprehensive overview of the main obstacles and challenges women smallholders conti...

Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the centuries of systemic racism that already existed among European colonists but ...

Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the late Armstead L. Robinson’s magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the South lost the Civil War.Recent studies, while conceding the importance of social factors in the unraveling of the Confederacy, still conclude that the South was defeated as a result of its losses on the battlefield, which in turn resulted largely from the superiority of Northern military manpower and industri...

The life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis is among the most engaging and moving stories in the history of science. Childbed Fever makes the Semmelweis story available to a general audience, while placing his life, and his discovery, in the context of his times. In 1846 Vienna, as what would now be called a head resident of obstetrics, Semmelweis confronted the terrible reality of childbed fever, which killed prodigious numbers of women throughout Europe and America. In May 1847 Semmelweis was ...

New perspectives on Caribbean historical archaeology that go beyond the colonial plantationHistorical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism addresses issues in Caribbean history and historical archaeology such as freedom, frontiers, urbanism, postemancipation life, trade, plantation life, and new heritage. This collection moves beyond plantation archaeology by expanding the knowledge of the div...

Travel, houseparties, smugglers, spies--and a mysterious highwayman. Who is the infamous Captain Moonlight? And how many lives will he change--for good or for ill?

A road trip through Steinbeck’s America—revisited, reimagined, and reinterpreted.Steinbeck’s Uneasy America is the first collection of critical scholarship devoted to Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck’s best-selling, late-career travel memoir. In 1960, Steinbeck was a renowned man of American letters. Many considered him America’s troubadour of ordinary people, the conscience of the country. But weakened by two sma...