"A black policeman? It's against the laws of nature!"Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte has an Aboriginal father and a white mother. He tracks murderers by spotting an overturned twig or a crushed ant on the sand. He's a loner who never fails to crack a case. He's charming but arrogant, hates authority, is an expert burglar. He moves in a world of sunbaked claypans and in the deepest reaches of the Outback where no white person could survive.The "Boney" TV series, based...

Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science.A companion volume to A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, this gui...

A tribute to the golden age of radio from veteran producer Joe Bevilacqua and comic strip artist Donnie Pitchford, The 2nd New & Old Time Radio Collection is a series of new stories and parodies featuring beloved radio characters and shows.A Joe Bev Audio Theater Sampler, Volume 1This half-hour anthology represents more than forty years of storytelling by Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a Joe Bev, the award-winning actor, writer, producer, and director. Each half-hour...

A fascinating examination of the extraordinary life of Roger Casement, executed as part of the 1916 rising, fighting the empire that had previously knighted him.Roger Casement was a British consul for two decades. However, his investigation into atrocities in the Congo led Casement to anti-Imperialist views. Ultimately, this led him to side with the Irish Republican movement, leading up to the 1916 rising.Arrested by the British for gun trafficking, he was incarcer...

Les travaux d’Everett Mitchell Rogers sont marqués par une dimension empirique forte, à l’image de sa thèse publiée sous forme d’ouvrage en 1962, rapidement traduite dans de nombreuses langues, et mondialement connue sous le titre de Diffusion of Innovations. Afin de comprendre le cheminement scientifique de Rogers, il est indispensable d’identifier les bases théoriques et empiriques qui ont conduit sa réflexion jusqu’à sa conceptualisation. Dans un second temps, nous exposerons l...

Includes 25 illustrationsA short but detailed biography of the prophet of American military Airpower – Billy Mitchell.On July 21, 1921, Brig. Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell circled high above the rough surface of the Chesapeake Bay, exultant witness to an event he had orchestrated and produced. Shortly after noon, the mortally wounded, former-German battleship Ostfriesland began to roll, turning completely over while air escaping from the huge hull gave sounds that some presen...

Understanding Person-Centered Therapy Should Not Require an Academic DegreeCarl Rogers' approach to therapy is one of the most widely practiced and most persistently misunderstood frameworks in modern psychology. Students, trainee therapists, and helping professionals encounter unconditional positive regard, empathic understanding, and congruence in virtually every training program worldwide. Yet the books that explain these ideas are either dense academic texts pr...

The United States significantly undercounts the number of people who die in law enforcement custody each year. How can we fix this?Deaths resulting from interactions with the US criminal legal system are a public health emergency, but the scope of this issue is intentionally ignored by the very systems that are supposed to be tracking these fatalities. We don't know how many people die in custody each year, whether in an encounter with police on the street, during ...

He could tell you things! Things I've tried to forget; thing I never did know." Joseph Conrad "…his was a heroic nature. I should like to write upon him subtly, so that his enemies would think I was with them till they finished my book and rose from reading it to call him a hero. He has the appeal of a broken archangel." T.E. Lawrence British Consul Roger Casement was knighted in 1911 for his investigations into the genocide of trival peoples in the Congo Free State and Amazon rainforest. ...

Single Mama dating! It doesn't get anymore complicated than that. How can you find love when you have a career and kids? Where can you find that love connection? Is he on-line, in church, standing in front of the grapefruit in the grocery store? In these hilarious and heart-warming stories, you'll find single moms finding love in the most interesting of places, all while steering clear of the crazies, the lazies and definitely, the shadies. In Single Mama Dating Drama, seventeen talented w...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Afin de comprendre le cheminement scientifique de Rogers, il est indispensable d’identifier les bases théoriques et empiriques qui ont conduit sa réflexion jusqu’à sa conceptualisation. Puis, nous exposerons le cadre de référence de la diffusion des innovations, intégrant les questions d’adoption ou rejet des innovations, de prise en compte des acteurs et de facteurs de diffusion. La dernière partie s’arrêtera sur les bourgeonnements théoriques générés par les travaux de l’auteur.