It is 1977 and the Cold War is at its peak. On an overland trip that will take her behind the Iron Curtain, Lily Maddison finds her sexuality conflicted, undermined by her kinky new best friend, Aysha. Under Aysha's tutelage, Lily comes to understand the unconventional, private world of bondage and discipline.Trapped in a blackmail sting in London's fashionable Hampstead, the submissive Lily's emotional loyalties are torn between Aysha and Lily's new employer, Aurelius Cole ??" bot...

First published in 1987, this book discusses the life and natural history of moral systems as seen through the eyes of a biologist. The volume offers a comprehensive introspective of the biology of a moral system by examining the evolutionary approach from perspectives of sociobiology and ideology. Morality in relation to conflicts and confluences of interest among humankind are further evaluated, with particular emphasis on the human psyche and the ontogeny of moral behaviour. Philosophic...

Not all people who came to America from foreign countries did so seeking a better life. Some came to this country as slaves. The transatlantic slave trade brought Africans to America in chains for over two hundred years. Readers learn important facts about the transatlantic slave trade, which is an essential topic in social studies curricula. Historical images and primary sources help give readers a sense of what happened to slaves on the journey to America as well as what happened once th...

In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues. Relying upon a variety of different text types and genres – including company websites, advertisements, press articles, speeches and lectures – Alexander interrogates how in the media, press, corporate and activist circles language is employed to argue for and propagate selected positions on the gr...

The history of Native American migrations in North America is filled with broken treaties, difficult struggles, and a desire to hold on to the lands and customs that have been a part of tribal life for hundreds of years. Readers discover the many reasons Native Americans moved across the continent. In doing so, they learn important facts that support essential social studies curriculum topics. From the Trail of Tears to the Battle of the Little Bighorn, important milestones in Native Ameri...

We live in a world of options, where we might do this or that if we feel like it. But for followers of Jesus, certain things are not optional, but necessary.Bishop Claude Alexander unpacks the Gospels' statements of what Jesus said he must do. He must be about his Father's business. He must go through Samaria. He must go to Jerusalem.Life in God is less about what you could do, and more about what you must do. Contrary to...

Many today have given up on church. But God has not and does not give up on the church. The church is God's idea. And once we truly understand what God has in mind for his people, we can become who he wants us to be.BishopClaude Alexander shows how the original Christians did not always understand what the church was supposed to be, but God worked in them anyway to become the community that he intended. After the resurrection of Jesus, his followers were transforme...

Whether by design, happenstance or an alchemical result of very rich people doing very strange things, there appears to be a global death cult dragging us all into their End Times insanity. Filmmaker and researcher Richard Willett explores the strange world of a global death cult whose ideologies appear to be playing out on the world stage right now, whilst most people have no idea what they truly believe. And what they believe is utterly deranged, insane and all too real, or at least they...

A fascinating look at the history and development of opera as an art form, looking at many famous examples.

Thirteen wacky, original, short screenplays:THE END: This script for a five-second film (and the film produced from it) is the most violent film script EVER, as measured by a number of deaths to film length ratio!A PERFECT WORLD: The NSA has nothing on you, your Boss, and your boogers.CHERISH THE BACON: Cherish it, Jimmy.GREATER MINDS: With whom do our post-apocalyptic discoverers sympathize, and are they indeed superior?IN THE FOUL SACRILIGE OF THY ...

A definitive account of the three-month air battle in 1940 between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe.The victory of the Battle of Britain ranks with Marathon and the Marne as a decisive point in history. At the end of June 1940, having overrun much of Western Europe, the Nazi war leaders knew that they had to defeat the Royal Air Force Fighter Command before they could invade the British mainland. With a finely-struck balance of historical background and dramat...

It is the inner meaning of Handel’s music, and its power of searching the profoundest recesses of the soul, that in the following pages I have endeavoured, so far as I am able, to elucidate. Its merely technical qualities have already been discussed enough and to spare. Books on Handel written by musicians already abound, but musicians as a rule take more interest in the means by which an end is attained than the end itself. They tell us a great deal about the methods by which a composer e...