At the height of Communist rule in Hungary, escape across the Iron Curtain was a desperate gamble few survived. In this heartfelt memoir, John Toth recounts the remarkable true story of his mother's courage as she risked everything to lead her young son to freedom. Fleeing oppression and uncertainty, they crossed into Austria, where compassionate strangers and newfound friends helped them begin rebuilding their lives. Through perseverance, hope, and sacrifice, they eventually found a new h...

This edited collection brings together scholarship from established and emerging scholars in HIV/AIDS studies, French studies, Visual Arts, and Dance. As French writers and artists from the past five to ten years have been revisiting the AIDS crisis and its attendant cultural amnesia, their work has brought about the necessity of foregrounding vulnerability, exposure, risk, citizenship, and trauma when considering disease. By way of probing “rawness” and its varying iterations, this volume...

A kata is much like a family jewel that has passed down through generations. It holds a significance that is difficult to decipher, and many dispute the meaning of every micromovement it contains. Each chapter in this anthology deals with the principles that guide kata practice.

Comprehensive review of the range of water resources, from groundwater and surface water to rainwater, floodwater and waste waterDiscusses advances in irrigation techniques, from surface irrigation to micro/drip irrigation and fertigationAssesses methods for optimising agricultural water use in rainfed and other systems

Tizenkilenc év telt el azóta, hogy Harry Potter, Ron Weasley és Hermione Granger megmentette a varázslóvilágot, és most ismét egy rendkívüli kalandban vesznek részt. Egy bátor új generáció tagjai csatlakoznak hozzájuk, akik csak most érkeztek meg a Roxfort Boszorkány- és Varázsló Szakiskolába. Míg Harry olyan múlttal küszködik, amely nem hajlandó ott maradni, ahova való, legfiatalabb fia, Albus egy olyan családi örökség súlyával küzd, amelyet soha nem akart. Ahogy a múlt és a jelen ütközik...

Alte Familienwunden erkennenDie ungarische Psychologin Noémi Orvos-Tóth klärt in ihrem Ratgeber den Einfluss alter Familienkonflikte auf unsere Psyche. Tiefe Traumata, Lieblosigkeit und festgefahrene Verhaltensmuster werden von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben. Solange wir die Auseinandersetzung mit unserem familiären Erbe aufschieben, geben wir die negativen Muster von Schmerz und Misstrauen unbewusst an unsere Kinder weiter. Aber was sind diese Muster genau? Wo sind sie zu f...

Consisting of contributions from a host of international scholars (in fields as diverse as literature, architecture, philosophy, and education), Alain Beauclair and Josh Toth’s Nature and Its Unnatural Relations: Points of Access intercedes in ongoing debates about accessing, defining, and respecting a world humans continue to misuse and misunderstand—and that, as a result, is becoming increasingly inhospitable. The chapters shuttle between a variety of aesthetic and philosophical...

Traveling through the southwest, Hood stumbles upon a small town with a monster problem! The locals refuse to discuss the mysterious force that keeps them inside at night, and advise him to leave before the sun sets. Hood soon discovers a killer big rig with a serious case of road rage! Who is behind the wheel of this deadly truck? Plus the story behind Kip’s lost love and a Fox co-feature.

Can you withstand the bloodcurdling terrors found within the thirteenth volume of Vampirella Archives? Take a guided tour of the Warren Publishing library with horror hostess extraordinaire Vampirella, perusing some of her finest (and most fear-fraught) capers from yesteryear, plus a delightfully devilish selection of the era's best horror and science fiction stories. Confronting tales of murder machines and winged demons, vivacious were-panthers and killer clones, adventurous readers will...

Originally published in 1866, Civil Disobedience asks when and in what circumstances an individual should actively oppose government and its justice system. Thoreau’s argument is that opposition is legitimate whenever government actions or institutions are unacceptable to an individual’s conscience. But he goes further, saying anyone who believes something to be wrong has a duty to resist it actively. While he was not widely known during his lifetime, the ideas he put forward in Civil Diso...