The in-laws are aghast when Rose Westmoreland boards a train alone, bound for the far edge of the country in search of her missing husband. Unthinkable for a lady in 1911. Now she's in El Paso, a city holding its breath, anticipating a spectacle. A decisive battle of the Mexican Revolution is about to erupt right across the Rio Grande. Rose's husband, Leonard, sent there by his employer, Stoneman Petroleum, apparently first went native, then disappeared, leaving behind a fiery mistress and...

El contenido del libro lo integran trabajos presentados por algunos de los más importantes filósofos anglosajones del derecho penal, todos ellos profesores en aquel momento en el Reino Unido. Dichos trabajos fueron discutidos por penalistas, filósofos y criminólogos de habla hispana provenientes de España, Argentina y Chile. En este sentido, el workshop ejemplificó también el tipo de acercamiento que los distintos mundos académicos, en este caso el mundo anglosajón y el hispano, o de forma...

Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan past trying to consume the present, the contributors to this collection posit folk horror as being able to uniquely capture the anxieties of the twenty-first ce...

Bring the beauty of Craftsman-style furniture into your home with these 17 stunning projects from the editors of Woodworker's Journal . Includes detailed plans, expert instruction, and helpful tips for building an immediate classic. Inspired by the Greene and Greene, Stickley, Arts and Crafts, and Mission styles and the trusted techniques, tips, and instruction for success.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promoting health, wellbeing and sustainable development.This comprehensive handbook provides a...

It was August of 1947 when two little girls met for the first time, spotting each other across back yards. Little did they know it was the beginning of a lifelong journey. In Sandra and Me, author Phyllis Strickland shares the memories of a lifetime friendship spent with her best friend, Sandra Miller, who passed away from cancer. Together, they shared the fun, mischief, and playtime of early childhood. They skipped merrily through their adolescence, delighting in their adventures and over...

In an immensely varied and thoughtful collection of true life reflections on love, marriage and the single life, 26 authors with autism share their experiences and knowledge about successful (and unsuccessful) relationships. Digging deep into the many and varying ways in which autism affects feelings and relationships with others, these honest and intelligent testimonies give the insider's perspective on love on the spectrum. Whether you're a serial dater, hopelessly romantic or happily si...

Bob Jones University is a Christian, fundamentalist, nondenominational liberal arts school in Greenville, South Carolina. BJU was founded in 1927 by Christian evangelist Bob Jones Sr., who was against the secularization of higher education and the influence of religious liberalism in denominational colleges. For most of the twentieth century, BJU branded itself as the “World’s Most Unusual University” because of its separatist culture. Many BJU students come from fundamentalist communities...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Payroll specialists job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much...

Dit verhaal kent twee beginpunten. Een daarvan is op een landingsbaan in Alaska. Het andere is aan de oever van een meer, waar de regen als mist op me neerdaalt, terwijl de houten resten van de blokhut nog nasmeulen. Ik zal je beide versies vertellen: wat er gebeurde voordat mijn vader stierf, en wat er daarna gebeurde. En wanneer ik daarmee klaar ben, of te zwak ben om nog door te schrijven, dan zal ik dit notitieboek achterlaten op de plek waar de hut heeft gestaan. Mocht iemand ons, of ...

Bruno de Meer ist tot! Kaltblütig ermordet! Eine Nachricht, die sich eigentlich in Windeseile über alle Quantenfunkverbindungen in sämtliche Systeme der Interstellaren Koalition verbreiten müsste, schließlich handelt es sich beim Mordopfer nicht nur um den alleinigen Besitzer des de-Meer-Minenkonsortiums mit Schürfrechten auf mehr als tausend Monden und Asteroiden, sondern auch um den letzten echten Patriarchen der Menschheit. Eigentlich? Ganz genau. Aus Angst vor politischen Unruhen und P...

Literal Life Lessons is a collection of poems capturing the tender, hauntingly human frailties of the poet and the persons she has observed over the years. The poems draw the reader into real life, familiar experiences and into thought-provoking realizations. Nothing is spared in depicting the underbelly and vulnerabilities of humanity. Author's Bio Mother, veteran, former interpretative national park ranger, retired educator, poet and activist, Sandra Nelms-Ludwig was born and raised in r...