Called to Reckon offers a non-traditional history of Augustana College by centering the narratives of racially and ethnically diverse students and educators often overlooked in the institution’s past. The book traces how the college, founded by Swedish Lutherans with a mission to educate for the common good and “serve the neighbor so that all may flourish,” has been challenged to live up to these values over its 160-year history.

This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order.

The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation, and cuisine. This Element examines the 6,000-year history of urbanism through the archaeological perspective of food, using the analysis of cooking and eating vessels, botanical remains, and animal bones along with texts and iconographic evidence to understand the foodways that spurred and accompanied the growth of cities. Human-environmental changes took place as farmers became...

"A revelation of the drive and creative flux of the metropolis over time."--Nature"This is a must-read book for any city dweller with a voracious appetite for understanding the wonders of cities and why we're so attracted to them."--Zahi Hawass, author of Hidden Treasures of Ancient EgyptA sweeping history of cities through the millennia--from Mesopotamia to Manhattan--and how they have propelled Homo sapiens to do...

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...

This father-daughter tale reveals how the author’s father taught her how to fight and survive in an unfiltered America.Born in the early 1940s, her father was thrown into a world where he had no choice but to fight in many different arenas, including the boxing ring and the courtroom. He instilled in her his unrelenting drive and will to win. As a result, she went through life with his priceless survival playbook at her side. She became a corporate commerc...

The first full-length study of World War II from the Latin American perspective, this unique volume offers an in-depth analysis of the region during wartime. Each country responded to World War II according to its own national interests, which often conflicted with those of the Allies, including the United States. The contributors systematically consider how each country dealt with commonly shared problems: the Axis threat to the national order, the extent of military cooperation with the ...

With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of knowing when they will be released.In Refugee Tales III we read the stories of people who ha...

Includes:The Safeguarded HeartReal estate mogul Serafina Evans risks her heart on her handsome Italian client, only to discover her company is being sabotaged and her lover isn't who he appears to be. As she races to save the business she's built, she must decide if her gamble on this unpredictable relationship is worth the potential heartbreak that could leave her closed off to love forever.All of MeAfter l...

This book looks at analysis and modelling of active biopotential signal processing. It emphasises the real-time challenges in biomedical signal processing that occur due to the complex and non-stationary nature of signals in a variety of applications for analysis, classification and identification of different states for improvement of healthcare systems. The main focus of the book is on modelling; acquisition of biomedical signals for different disorders; implementation of methodologies a...

Born through the pain. Built through the process. Pressing on with purpose.Your Power to Press On is a soul-stirring journey of transformation for every woman who has ever felt like the fire might consume her-but chose to rise instead.Written by Master Peace-known to many as Sister Bria-this powerful debut is part memoir, part blueprint, and all heart. Through gripping storytelling, spiritual reflection, and unapologetic truth, she guides readers through her own tr...

Porque ha inclinado a mí su oído; por tanto, le invocará en todos mis días. —Salmo 116:2¿Cómo sabes que Dios te oye cuando clamas a Él? Me refiero a oírte de verdad.Puedo contar con los dedos de una sola mano las veces en las que a lo largo de mi vida, Dios reveló de manera específica y personal que, sin duda, escucha mi clamor.En cada momento, percibí cómo Dios se acercaba a asegurarme que, por cierto, Él oye. Y no sólo oye, sino que también responde.A pesar de...