WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S 2025 DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARDA multinational, interdisciplinary study illuminating how fortifications reshaped the Caribbean as a contested imperial borderland in the eighteenth century.A Fortified Sea illuminates the key role of military forts in the greater Caribbean during the long eighteenth century. The historical Caribbean, with its multiple contested boundaries at the per...

The Adventures of Angus the Mouse is a delightful children’s book written by bestselling author, Montice Harmon. Growing up in a large family, Angus did not fit into the family niche, and his siblings did not include him in play. On one bright, sunny day, Angus and his mother venture into town. He often liked to go off on grand adventures into the woods to see what treasures the humans had thrown into them, but on this fateful day, Angus would not return as normal to his mother. Once in th...

This volume explores the conflict between two forces: party polarization and party factionalism. The major change in America’s two political parties over the past half-century has been increased polarization, which has led to a new era of heightened inter-party competition resulting in stronger and more cohesive parties. At the same time, elections, particularly primaries, often reveal deep internal factional divisions within both the parties, and the 2020 election was no different. The De...

Skies darken. Sirens wail. Buildings tremble with each distant boom. You grasp your loved ones close to you. Any second could be your last.Howls From the Wreckage will push you to the edge of imminent disaster—and drown you in the heartbreak of its fallout.HOWL Society Press presents its thrilling anthology of disaster horror, fittingly introduced by Nick Cutter, acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep."Don't Play in the Closet...

Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures. The contributors review the history and impact of social media and television programming; analyze specific programs and the impact of related social media interactions; and scrutinize the past fan culture to anticipate how social media programming will develop in the future. The con...

Reality television remains a pervasive form of television programming within our culture. The new mantra is go big or go home, be weird or be invisible. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty, for example,are arguably two of the most compelling reality television programs currently airing because of their uniqueness and ability to transcend traditional boundaries in this genre. Reality Television: Oddities of Culture seeks to explore not the mundane reality programs, but rather those pr...

Welcome back to The Nightmare Library.Within these pages, the Nightmare Library unveils its latest acquisitions. These are not tales casually stumbled upon, but carefully curated dread, selected from the darkest corners of the human psyche and places far more unsettling than that.A man has a late-night encounter with a mysterious and terrifying mime.A man discovers breaking his rental's mysterious house...

The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated approach was tested in both the US and in Mexico. Two overview chapters cover related information on Cuba and on coastal zone management in Mexico. The comprehensive data on management pol...

In the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, the anarchist effort to promote free thought, individual liberty, and social equality relied upon an international Spanish-language print network. These channels for journalism and literature promoted anarchist ideas and practices while fostering transnational solidarity and activism from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles to Barcelona. Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu edit a collection that examines many facets of Spanish-language an...

LES MÉMOIRES D’UN MIRACULÉ DU GRAND BANDITISME DES ANNÉES 70-80 Il a connu les heures les plus sanglantes de la guerre des gangs entre le clan de Tany Zampa, auquel il appartenait, et celui de Francis Le Belge. Il a participé à la naissance, à la prospérité, puis à la chute de la célèbre French Connection. Il a même convoyé, de Marseille à New York, une cargaison d’héroïne à bord de l’une des fameuses DS trafiquées. Il s’est livré à de nombreux trafics dont celui d’une valise radioactive d...

Skies darken. Sirens wail. Buildings tremble with each distant boom. You grasp your loved ones close to you. Any second could be your last.Howls From the Wreckage will push you to the edge of imminent disaster—and drown you in the heartbreak of its fallout.HOWL Society Press presents its thrilling anthology of disaster horror, fittingly introduced by Nick Cutter, acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep.Foreword by Nick Cutter |...

Es die Aufgabe des Faches "Pädagogik bei Beeinträchtigung des Sehens und Blindheit", Beiträge zur Gestaltung hochwertiger, barriere- und diskriminierungsfreier inklusiver Lehr- und Lernsettings vorzulegen. Der Band ordnet diese Herausforderung historisch ein, legt nationale und internationale Anregungen zur progressiven Realisierung inklusiver Bildungssettings und zu curricularen und didaktischen Diskursen vor. Diese werden für die Teilhabe von Menschen mit komplexen Beeinträchtigungen und...