Fünf Archäologie-Studenten fahren in ein Camp nach Bulgarien, um thrakische Artefakte auszugraben. Es ist Hochsommer, die Luft flirrt vor Hitze, doch kurz bevor sie das Camp erreichen, schlägt das Wetter plötzlich um. Es wird kühl und beginnt zu regnen. Und das ist nicht die einzige Überraschung, die sie erwartet. Das Camp scheint verwaist zu sein, bis auf zwei düstere Gestalten, die sich die Ohren versiegelt haben. Vom Ausgrabungsleiter fehlt jede Spur - ein angeblicher Arbeitsunfall. Um ...

Vier Freunde haben einen Traum - ein eigenes Restaurant zu eröffnen. Und jetzt stehen sie kurz davor, ihn zu verwirklichen. Alles ist bereit, es fehlt nur noch ihre Unterschrift auf dem Mietvertrag. Doch dann verunglückt ihre Vermieterin tödlich und die vier bekommen es mit ihrem Ex-Mann zu tun, der sich als unberechenbar entpuppt und ein sadistisches Katz- und Mausspiel mit ihnen treibt, das die vier Freunde an ihre Grenzen und darüber hinaus führen wird. Aus "alle für einen" wird mit ein...

Cracked Egg, a true story, begins at the earliest age remembered. It is based on memory as understood then and now. Marriage, at much too young an age, could have contributedand probably did contributeto the stumble resulting in problems that grew and grew.Feelings and beliefs are evident throughout each chapter that promotes considerate thought as to what is right, wrong, and good in life as seen in the cracked eggs family. The cracked eggs life and family picture how sin develope...

Voici, pour la première fois, le récit d’une gestation pour autrui (GPA) rédigé à quatre mains par des femmes d’exception : Sarah qui, après plusieurs années de mariage, ne parvient pas à avoir d’enfant, et Aimee, une fascinante Américaine qui acceptera de devenir mère porteuse. En confiant leurs joies, leurs peines et leurs espoirs déçus, Sarah et Aimee livrent au fil des pages un témoignage des plus intimes. Elles répondent en outre aux brûlantes questions que soulève la GPA. Sarah parvi...

In Do Parents Matter? anthropologists (and grandparents) Robert & Sarah LeVine investigate the diversity of parenting practices across the world - from the USA to Africa, Japan to Mexico - and come away with a reassuring conclusion: children tend to turn out to be the same well-adjusted adults all around the world no matter the parenting style.Japanese children sleep with their parents well into primary school, women of the Hausa tribe (largely based in Ni...

The Portrait is a satirical comedy revolving around an upper-crust dinner party, where a family's young bohemians "duel" their snobbish elder East Side counterparts over ownership of a rich ancestral portrait. This play, written by Sarah Levine Simon, was first performed at Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium and was later broadcast in 1993 on WBAI-FM in New York City.

Re: great-great uncle Cristoff's lost property read the subject line. He didn't want to be too specific. Privacy was the key. Using the mouse, he guided the cursor to the send button. He hadn't been in touch with his family across the Atlantic for years, and back when they were in touch the contact had been infrequent. The email would come out of the blue. It concerned family legend. Would the others even care? There were cousins and uncles on the other side the sender had never met—severa...

When it comes to parenting, more isn't always better-but it is always more tiringIn Japan, a boy sleeps in his parents' bed until age ten, but still shows independence in all other areas of his life. In rural India, toilet training begins one month after infants are born and is accomplished with little fanfare. In Paris, parents limit the amount of agency they give their toddlers. In America, parents grant them ever more choices, independence, and attention.

When it comes to parenting, more isn't always better-but it is always more tiringIn Japan, a boy sleeps in his parents' bed until age ten, but still shows independence in all other areas of his life. In rural India, toilet training begins one month after infants are born and is accomplished with little fanfare. In Paris, parents limit the amount of agency they give their toddlers. In America, parents grant them ever more choices, independence, and attention.

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers—all whose lives reflect changes...

The rousing seafaring classic of adventure, pirates, and buried treasure“Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From young Jim Hawkins’s first encounter with the sinister beggar Pew to the climactic battle with the most memorable villain in literature, Long John Silver, this novel h...

This volume culls scholarship on both what high literacy is and how it is developed. It embraces the call put forth by Langer and Applebee (2016) that high literacy must continue to be our aim and to see more research analyzing and identifying how teachers might promote literacy practices that promote deep thinking around important content. The editors offer a conceptual framework for high literacy that explicates how each component (i.e. reading, writing, dialogic engagement, and epistemi...