Revealing the shocking and detailed accounts of how adult women stalk, sexually assault, and even rape adult men, this book portrays an eye-opening reality: women can act as aggressive predators and victimize men.Crimes of a sexual nature perpetrated by adult females against males constitute a serious problem in our society. A woman can rape a man, and this crime occurs far more often than most imagine. This book addresses an entire range of crimes beyond ...

Resistance to German-led Axis occupation occurred all the way across the European continent during the Second World War. It took a wide range of forms – non-cooperation and disinformation, sabotage, espionage, armed opposition and full-scale partisan warfare. It is an important element in the experience and the national memory of the peoples who found themselves under Axis government and control. For over thirty years there has been no systematic attempt to give readers a panoramic yet det...

On 1 September 1909, American explorer Frederick Cook caused one of the biggest sensations in exploration history when, after a year with no word from him, news arrived that he had not only survived his Arctic expedition but had become the first person to ever reach the North Pole.Cook was instantly transformed into one of the heroes of the age. With his boat due to arrive in Copenhagen a few days later, journalists from across Europe scrambled to get there in time...

After purchasing a new mid-range device like the Samsung Galaxy A16, what's next? Many questions might come to mind: How do I operate this device? How do I transfer files to my new device? How can I download apps and listen to podcasts? If you're facing any of these questions, your search ends here! We've put this book together to help you get started easily.Who can read this book?This book is suitable for both beginners and experienced readers.

Why does the top one per cent of the population capture such a disproportionate amount of the wealth? Why do top athletes win dozens of sponsorship deals, yet competitors who finish just moments behind struggle to attract a single deal? Why does one product become a runaway success, while others flounder and fail? The answer is the rise of 'winner-take-all' markets, in which small differences in performance lead to huge differences in reward.More relevant today than ever before, thi...

A Jake Muller movie? Why not?When Jake takes his nephew Peter to Louisiana to see the filming of a movie about him, they also make plans to visit some friends. Julienne Cormier, who changed the course of his life, is one of them. So is his former Captain, whose health has taken a surprising turn.So why are young people disappearing? And what has driven Julienne’s best friend to apparent suicide? And what is all this talk about zombies?Battle lines are being drawn, a...

American pirate, frontiersman, fur trapper, fur trader, hunter, and explorer Hugh Glass (1780-1833) once made his way crawling and stumbling 200 miles (320 km) to Fort Kiowa, in South Dakota, after being abandoned without supplies or weapons by fellow explorers and fur traders during General Ashley's expedition of 1823. The Revenant - Some Incidents in the Life of Hugh Glass, a Hunter of the Missouri River by Philip St. George Cooke is the key historical document supporting the re...

Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as "New." What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and values remain rooted in the 1970s and 1980s or have they also transformed? What directions might or should it take in the new millennium?The New (Ethno)musicologies seeks to answer these questions by addressing and critica...

Scenes and Adventures in the Army: Or, Romance of Military Life was first published in 1857.Cooke, then a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, described his extensive military service on the American frontier and included a detailed account of the various Native American tribes he encountered there. A West Point graduate and a lawyer, Cooke fought in both the Black Hawk War (1832) and the Mexican War (1846–1848).In addition, he helped to protect settlers on t...

An award-winning guide to one simple way of loving ourselves and our planet. Learn how to cook delicious summer meals outdoors using only the energy of sunshine!Why heat up your kitchen (and planet Earth) by turning on the stove when it's hot outside? You don't have to, you know. Most Americans, including those who live in Seattle, Minneapolis, Boston, and New York City, can cook outdoors with sunshine all summer long. Using a simple box or panel solar cooker to ma...

Winner of the James Beard Award for Best Book in Food Issues and AdvocacyImmigrants have left their mark on the great melting pot of American cuisine, and they have continued working hard to keep America’s kitchens running, even during times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. For some immigrant cooks, the pandemic brought home the lack of protection for essential workers in the American food system. For others, cooking was a way of reconnecting with homelands th...

Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and then individualism in the twentieth century.These essays boldly challenge not only the exclusionary framework and self-assured teleology, but also the metaphysical cer...