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All it takes is one missed step for your life to change forever.Luca Mason knows exactly who he is and what he wants: In six months, hes going to be accepted into the Australian Ballet School, leave his fancy private …
Within the Enchanted Walls of the Hotel Splendor Lies the Truth That Juliette is Desperate to FindWhen Juliettes sister, Clare, returns from her birthday week at the magical hotel upon a hill, she comes back changed. All at once, it …
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Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
What better locale to consider for spooky happenings than the home of the Salem witch trials? From mysteries at sea to ghosts and unexplained footprints, you'll shiver your way through these mesmerizing tales. Set in the state's historic towns, charming …
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Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
The eastern side of the Smokies abounds with spooky tales, like the story of a Shadow Woman who appeared to a farmer each morning and evening to beg for a cup of milk. Skinned Tom is another East Tennessee haunt, …
View book details for Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon
Art, History, and Empire
Considered by critics to be Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Barry Lyndon has suffered from scholarly and popular neglect. Maria Pramaggiore argues that one key reason that this film remains unappreciated, even by Kubrick aficionados, is that its transnational and intermedial contexts …
Late in the Reagan years, three young men at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University formed the Christian rap group dc Talk. The trio put out a series of records that quickly secured their place at the forefront of contemporary Christian music. …
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Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror
Mastering Fear analyzes horror as play and examines what functions horror has and why it is adaptive and beneficial for audiences. It takes a biocultural approach, and focusing on emotions, gender, and play, it argues we play with fiction horror. …
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Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema
From early twentieth-century stag films to 1960s sexploitation pictures to the boom in 1970s porno chic, adult cinema's vintage forms are now being reappraised by a new generation of historians, fans, preservationists, and home video entrepreneurs-all of whom depend on …
View book details for Women of Ice and Fire
Gender, Game of Thrones and Multiple Media Engagements
George R.R. Martin's acclaimed seven-book fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is unique for its strong and multi-faceted female protagonists, from teen queen Daenerys, scheming Queen Cersei, child avenger Arya, knight Brienne, Red Witch Melisandre, and many more. …
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Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Womens Cinema
Winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Prize 2018Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined …
View book details for Fodor's Essential Europe
The Best of 26 Exceptional Countries
Whether you want to eat your way across France, see the Renaissance art of Italy, or take in Oktoberfest in Germany, the local Fodors travel experts in Europe are here to help! Fodors Essential Europe guidebook is packed with maps, …
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Reconsidering Theology and Human Experience
Theological anthropology often brings psychology to bear on the contingent nature of human existence in relationship to God. In this volume, Sally Stamper articulates one modern trajectory of theological recourse to psychology (comprising Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, and Tillich) as the ground …
View book details for The Disciple's Prayer
The Prayer Jesus Taught in Its Historical Setting
Christians around the world recite the Lords Prayer daily, but what exactly are they praying forand what relationship does it have with Jesus own context? Jeffrey B. Gibson reviews scholarship that derives the so-called Lords Prayer from Jewish synagogal prayers …
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A Lutheran Theology from Latin America
Until his untimely death in 2018, Vitor Westhelle's incisive and probing thought on the church, Luther, and theology shaped a generation. As a continuation of that rich legacy, presented here for the first time in English, is a collection of …
View book details for Pedagogies for Student-Centered Learning
Online and On-Gound
What comes to mind when you hear student-centered learning? Do you immediately see a classroom without a teacher? Do you see students teaching other students? How do you know which pedagogies to use when designing the best learning environment? The …
View book details for Joy and Human Flourishing
Essays on Theology, Culture, and the Good Life
Joy is crucial to human life and central to Gods relationship to the world, yet it is remarkably absent from contemporary theology and, increasingly, from our own lives! This collection remedies this situation by considering the import of joy on …
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Unlocking the power of personal and business coaching through a captivating story
This enchanting story uses Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to explain personal and business coaching in a magical and entertaining adventure. A host of fanciful characters show readers how to have an effective coaching conversation from start to finish, …
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How to Build a Secure Financial Future in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
YOUR GUIDE TO SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE AI ECONOMY.No one can be completely sure what the future of work is going to look like, but it will likely be completely transformed by artificial intelligence. That means an uncertain future …
Markham has returned to Seattle, searching for Katarina, the girl who, a decade ago, touched his soul, literally tearing it from his body. But what he discovers upon arriving is dark magick of a most ancient and destructive kind! An …
View book details for Celebrating Planet Earth, a Pagan/Christian Conversation
First Steps in Interfaith Dialogue
Celebrating Planet Earth, a Pagan/Christian Conversation will appeal to Pagans and Christians interested in making connections; academics and students in Religious Studies taking courses on inter-faith dialogue, Paganism or Christianity; and anyone with an interest in inter-faith activities. Contributors include …
'I've felt for a long time that there must be more in the call to Baba Yaga's cottage than the fairytales tell us. Natalia Clarke has drawn on her Siberian heritage and personal insights in this powerful piece to show …
The Art of Ritual takes you through every step of ritual format from the basics to the more unusual. What ritual is, how to create it, work with it and all the different aspects and stages of putting a ritual …
View book details for Faiths in Green
Religion, Environmental Change, and Environmental Concern in the United States
Faiths in Green addresses the complex and fraught relationship between religious identity and environmental concern in the United States, particularly how that relationship has changed over time. Examining the effects of religious upbringing, belonging, and disaffiliation on environmental concern across …
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Exploring the State's Most Spectacular Back Roads
Pack up the car and enjoy thirty-five drives through some of the most spectacular scenery in New Mexico, where the culture, terrain, and climate are as diverse as the Land of Enchantment itself. This indispensable highway companion maps out short …
View book details for The Right and Radical Right in the Americas
Ideological Currents from Interwar Canada to Contemporary Chile
Studies of the right and radical right have proliferated since the rise of European nationalist and populist parties in the 1980s. Yet, the literature on the right and the radical right has a largely Euro-American bias and has been limited …
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