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In this 10th anniversary edition, Piper offers us practical encouragement for holding onto the only source of true and lasting joy: God himself. Redesigned with an updated cover and new preface.

In this remarkable pseudo-documentary and biography, Sara Macel followed her father, a traveling salesman, on his trips across the US.

Homeplace tells of hard toil and the declining role of the family farm in our economy.

All the Queens Men is a decades-long photographic project that explores the rites, rituals, and relationships of men.

During the interwar period Osa and Martin Johnson became famous for their films that brought exotic and far-off locations to the American cinema. Before the advent of mass tourism and television, their films played a major part in providing the means by which large audiences in the US and beyond became familiar with distant and 'wild' places across the world. Taking the celebrity of the Johnsons as its case study, this book investigates the in...

Saving More Than Seeds advances understandings of seed-people relations, with particular focus on seed saving. The practice of reusing and exchanging seeds provides a foundation for food production and allows humans and seed to adapt together in dynamic socionatural conditions. Combining original ethnographic research with investigation of an evolving corporate seed order, this book reveals seed saving not only as it occurs in fields and garde...

This books offers both a narrative and an analysis of the influence of British imperial involvements on history writing since 1750. -- .

The history of exploration and establishment of new lands, science and technologies has always entailed risk to the health and lives of the explorers. Yet, when it comes to exploring and developing the high frontier of space, the harshest frontier ever, the highest value is apparently not the accomplishment of those goals, but of minimizing, if not eliminating, the possibility of injury or death of the humans carrying them out. For decades sin...

This inspiring compendium pays tribute to the 21st century commuter, bringing the world of London travel up to date with facts and fictions, poems and propaganda, statistics and self-help advice. For instance, did you know that John le Carre, Mrs Beeton and Henry VIII were commuters? And that Waterloo station sees more than 94 million people pass through its doors every year? *STOP PRESS OCTOBER*

Sex.We live in a world that loves it without understanding it. This book clearly explains the truth about sex and winsomely responds to society's evolving views on human sexuality and gender.From marriage to birth control, homosexuality to singleness, What is the Meaning of Sex? sets forth a distinctly Christian perspective, equipping you to engage our confused culture with a God-glorifying vision of human sexuality.

A selection of original but traditional war poetry in by a current poet , with illustrations. Mainly refers to the Great war (1914-1918) but relevant to conflict and Remembrance in all eras.

Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism, the pursuit of global equality and justice. Several staple classroom texts, such as Things Fall Apart, provide detailed examples for teaching practices.

Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study explores the formation and diffusion of the cult of Saint Michael from c. 300-c.800.

The work of Paul Sietsema (born 1968) might be described as a sequence of multimedia suites, each of which begins with a phase of intensive research into historical-political themes, and which results in a body of interrelated sculptures, photographs, drawings, collages and films that propose an "exploded" model of historical progress. In general, these suites, such as Empire (2003) and Figure 3 (2008), have been discussed and exhibited indivi...

Klassische Optimierungstheorie geht davon aus, das es eine einzige Zielfunktion gibt, die optimiert werden soll: Finde die günstigste Lösung, oder die schnellste, oder die mit der besten Qualität. Tatsächlich suchen wir in der Praxis häufig Lösungen, die sowohl günstig sind, als auch schnell zu erreichen, und obendrein eine gute Qualität haben. Meist stehen diese mehreren Kriterien freilich im Konflikt - es wird keine Lösung geben, die in alle...

In Law & Equity, specialists in the field examine the curious dual structure that shaped the law of England and Rome. Why did this dual structure come about and how did it influence historical developments in substantive law?

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Undressed is a collection of short fiction, flash, poetry and prose. The anthology contains the authors own memories, thoughts and experiences. The collection of excerpts from published, unpublished and work in progress are raw, emotional, 'naked'. This one is for the fans.

Based on the original and authoritative Revels texts, Plays on women brings together four plays which dramatise the lives of women in Shakespeare's England The only available anthology focusing on women and including the four plays most often discussed. . . .