Looking for a diet that doesn’t deprive you of delicious recipes but also leaves you with varieties of recipes that are easy to prepare, improve your health and lose weight? The Mediterranean diet is just right for you!The Mediterranean diet is tailored after the eating pattern countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea and has remained the top most recommended diet in the world by leading health practitioners because of the numerous health benefits assoc...

This must-have anthology presents a collection of alternative approaches to reading the tarot for those looking to gain new and deeper insight—especially for marginalized folk who don’t see themselves reflected in traditional presentations of the tarot.Cassandra Snow’s groundbreaking book Queering the Tarot helped change the shape of tarot discourse for scores of new readers to reclaim this ancient practice in their own way. Tarot in Other Words opens doors for th...

Minnie Buford, an African American woman, finds herself pulled between the need for respectability and her love for James, who is white. They live in the Apple Hill area of Tennessee near Pulaski during a time when the Ku Klux Klan is instilling terror in the populace. Minnie's relationship with Henry, a man of African descent, proves to be as complicated as her affair with James. The story provides a courageous example of life during the Jim Crow era of the United States or America.

This original study examines the representation of the body in French New Wave films through discussion of a series of films by Jean-Luc Godard, perhaps the central figure of the French New Wave.Through analysis of À bout de souffle, Une femme est une femme, Le Mépris and Alphaville, alongside discussion of some of Godard’s lesser-known French New Wave films, the book explores the interrelation between bodies, books and bathrooms that they facili...

The fulfillment of Taylor Pickett's dream is lost when she sails for France with her children, Lily, James and Amanda. In 1914,Taylor and the three siblings face the outbreak of WWI separated. Unable to communicate, trapped in Belgium, France and Italy, they each must depend on the only weapon they have to survive--boldness, self-sacrifice, courage, or blind stubbornness.

In 1879, Josefina Taylor's ambitions are shattered by the Elders of their strict society. To escape she breaks their rules, then faces a life of desperation and fear. The pawn in a plot to destroy everything she values, she fights for her dream.

This book focuses on the complex issues of tourism development, governance and sustainability in the long-standing popular island destination, The Bahamas, where tourism remains one of the primary fiscal industries.The book achieves this by looking at the impacts of mass tourism development from social, economic and environmental perspectives; panarchy and resilience; assessing sustainability; moving towards a blue economy; impacts of climate change and innovative alternative touri...

Recent archaeoglogical work in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico has fueled a great deal of regionally specific research: archaeologists, faced with an avalanche of new and unassimilated data, tend to foucs on their own areas to the exclusion of the broader, panregional view. "Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory" advocates the larger f

Taylor Broderick has two things that matter in her life--Momma and the dream they share to find the gold-seeking father Taylor has never known. When an opportunity arises for them to continue their search for him, Taylor can barely climb the mountain fast enough to tell Momma. After announcing their fondest wish can be realized, Taylor learns the father, her hopes, trusting mother--everything she believes--is a lie. Taylor's quest to find her own "family" leads her halfway across the conti...

This book examines the state of the Open and Distance Learning (ODL)-based secondary education in India. ODL-based education has been a key resource for children in India who can neither cope with nor avail of regular schooling opportunities due to economic, health and disability, or other constraints.The volume uses large-scale empirical data collected from various Indian states and a sensitive theoretical framework to study the equity, efficiency, and effectiveness of the Nationa...