This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Experience the simple pleasure and calming magic of baking with The Joy of Baking , a delightful guide to creating stress-free desserts that bring happiness to your kitchen and beyond. Discover the therapeutic benefits of baking as you stock your pantry for success, master essential techniques, and perfect timeless treats like cookies, cakes, pies, and tarts. Whether you're whipping up no-fail cupcakes or conquering flaky pie c...

Transform your church with grace.Doing Justice Together introduces a process using Scripture as a souce of inspiration and instruction for pastors and church people to move through together, to re-envision and reorient themselves away from old, harmful habits. Beck and Hand show pastors how they can, over time, lead the congregation to become a place where racial harmony, justice, and liberation are intrinsic to the structure and life of the church. The au...

An early Spanish explorer’s account of American Indians.This volume mines the Pardo documents to reveal a wealth of information pertaining to Pardo’s routes, his encounters and interactions with native peoples, the social, hierarchical, and political structures of the Indians, and clues to the ethnic identities of Indians known previously only through archaeology. The new afterword reveals recent archaeological evidence of Pardo’s Fort San Juan--the earliest site of sustained inter...

Forging Southeastern Identities explores the many ways archaeologists and ethnohistorians define and trace the origins of Native Americans’ collective social identity.Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries—and focuses on a common theme of identity. These ess...

Bastrop, Texas: a picturesque community of modest size located at the edge of the Lost Pines Forest in Central Texas. Yet, from its vantage point on the banks of the Colorado River, this town boasts 131 sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying the community for its label: “Most Historic Small Town in Texas.”In Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas, local historian and researcher Robbie Moore Sanders has collected the stories behind nearly a hundred o...

Following the introduction of student loans and tuition fees, the situation of students and new graduates has changed considerably. Set in this context, Graduate Citizens is a thought-provoking, and insightful look at the current generation of students' attitudes towards citizenship and matters of social and moral responsibility.Drawing on small-scale case studies of students in two universities, the authors explore students' changing sense of citizenship against the backdr...

"Der Weihnachtsmann kommt", auch bekannt als "Der Besuch vom Nikolaus" oder, auf Englisch, "Twas the Night Before Christmas", dürfte im englischsprachigen Teil der Welt das bekannteste Weihnachtsgedicht überhaupt sein. Jemand schrieb sogar eimnal, es seien "wohl die bekanntesten Verse, die je von einem Amerikaner geschrieben wurden". Das Werk, das ursprünglich Clement Clarke Moore zugeschrieben wird, ist maßgeblich für einige der Vorstellungen des Weihnachtsmanns von der Mitte des 19. Jahr...

The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to “tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back.”The poets in this book represent and describe a wide range of experiences. They write about encountering the world anew through their children; intersections of parenting and race; single parenting; adoptive, foster, and step-parenting; life with ...

Einst waren sie unzertrennlich, seit fünf Jahren sprechen sie nicht mehr miteinander, doch die eine wacht insgeheim über die andere. Jetzt aber ist die Lage bedrohlich geworden: Mickey, Streifenpolizistin in Philadelphia, findet ihre drogenabhängige Schwester Kacey nicht mehr auf den Straßen der Blocks, die sie kontrolliert und auf denen Kacey für ihren Konsum anschaffen geht. Gleichzeitig erschüttert eine Reihe von Morden an jungen Prostituierten die von Perspektivlosigkeit und Drogenmiss...

Pirates have always stoked our collective imagination with their fearless quests, roguish independence, and promises of hidden riches waiting to be claimed. The groan of the timber deck beneath a pirate's boots, the whip of sails overhead, and the thunderous boom of cannon fire evoke an era when open waters were filled with both danger and limitless possibility. Now, when all mysteries have lost their spell and everyday routines kill our spirit, the thrill and legend of secret harbors, cry...

Embark on an epic literary voyage with "140 Sea Adventure Novels", a meticulously curated anthology that captures the essence and thrill of nautical escapades from some of the greatest minds in classic and adventure literature. Spanning a wide range of literary styles from the fantastic tales of Edgar Allan Poe to the intricate and action packed stories by Jules Verne, this collection invites readers into uncharted waters teeming with pirates, shipwrecks, and heroic exploits. From the haun...

This book is made up of a selection of writings from an international team of scholars, highlighting the contribution made to the field of educational policy and educational policy research by Basil Bernstein's work on the sociology of pedagogy. These contributors explore, analyse and engage with contemporary political reforms of education, contemporary pedagogic debates and the changing nature of professional knowledge, relationships and structures. The subjects covered include:...