One of Smithsonian magazine's Best Books About Travel of 2018The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables explores L. M. Montgomery's deep connection to the landscapes of Prince Edward Island that inspired her to write the beloved Anne of Green Gables series. From the Lake of Shining Waters and the Haunted Wood to Lover's Lane, you'll be immersed in the real places immortalized in the novels.Using Montgomery's journals, archives, and scrapbooks, C...

A "beautifully written" tribute to this tenacious and much-misunderstood creature of the wild (Bill McKibben).When Catherine Reid returned to the Berkshires to live after decades away, she became fascinated by another recent arrival: the eastern coyote. This species, which shares some lineage with the wolf, exhibits remarkable adaptability and awe-inspiring survival skills. In fact, coyotes have been spotted in nearly every habitable area available—including urban ...

Quietly powerful essays, weaving keenly observed insights into the mysteries of nature with those of family and community“It’s not easy,” Catherine Reid writes, “to love a person and a place in equal measure.” Love she does, however, as described in these intimate, lyric essays about the land and people around her. With the inside perspective of a native daughter combined with her outsider status as a lesbian, Reid explores such paradoxes as those that arise from h...

The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables explores L. M. Montgomery's deep connection to the landscapes of Prince Edward Island that inspired her to write the beloved Anne of Green Gables series. From the Lake of Shining Waters and the Haunted Wood to Lover's Lane, you'll be immersed in the real places immortalized in the novels. Using Montgomery's journals, archives, and scrapbooks, Catherine Reid also explores the many similarities between Montgomery and her unforgettable heroine, ...

A revolution is happening in education, with leaders and teachers now asked to focus on learning, to develop collaborative teams to impact on students, to use and raise professional standards, and to identify and esteem expertise in our profession. With new demands relating to technological advances, changing demographics, internationalism, and the inclusion of ‘twenty-first-century skills,’ there is pressure on schools to deliver greater and deeper success with more students.The T...

With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century’s accumulation of environmental deprivations. Arranged chronologically from 1974 to the present, the works have been culled from The Georgia Review, long considered an important venue for nonfiction among literary magazines published in the United States.The essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples of what was then...

Secrets and SeductionOnce Erin Turner and Cristophe Donakis set the bed sheets alight in a scorching affair, but he ruthlessly cut her out of his life. Now, Erin’s world is rocked again when Cristophe plans to make Erin pay back what he believes she stole and Erin’s about to drop two important bombshells!Athan Teodarkis suspects his sister’s husband of having an affair with the dangerously beautiful Marisa Milburne and will put a stop to it! His plan is sim...

Partitioned Lives: The Irish Borderlands explores everyday life and senses of identity and belonging along a contested border whose official functions and local impacts have shifted across the twentieth century. It does so through the accounts of contemporary borderland residents in Ireland and Northern Ireland who shared with us their reflections on and experiences of the border from the 1950s to the present day. Since the border is the product of the partition of the island and the creat...

Times are changing at historic house museums and no one is more aware of this than the fourteen contributors to Interpreting Historic House Museums. These respected museum professionals consider the history of house museums and the need to look at familiar issues from new perspectives and using new methods. If your site isn't using a comprehensive interpretive plan, how can you create one? While doing so, how do you address contemporary issues like race and gender? Don't forget the physica...

St. Catherine of Siena, a mystic, theologian, and Doctor of the Church, stands as one of the most significant figures in late medieval Christianity. Born in 1347 in Siena, Italy, she entered into the religious life at a young age, joining the Third Order of St. Dominic. Her life was marked by an intense spiritual devotion, an unwavering commitment to reforming the Church, and an extensive body of correspondence that serves as a window into her profound theological reflections. In her lette...

The Passionate Encounters Collection from Mills and BoonIncluding the titles:Passionate Encounters: Revenge is SweetPassionate Encounters: A Price Worth PayingPassionate Encounters: Risking it AllPassionate Encounters: Consequences of One NightPassionate Encounters: Second Chance SeductionPassionate Encounters: Tempted by the Boss

The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water quality.Biodiversity and Human Health brings together leading thinkers on the globa...