As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often worked to distort the public discourse on important policy issues. Pope John Paul II's pronouncements on stem-cell research, the constitutional controversies regarding faith-based initiatives, the...

The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period, geography, or theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This volume aims to provide such a framework, by calling into question the problematic yet commonly accepted voca...

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions...

Peopled Leadership is a new dynamic model aimed at creating new leaders and new futures. It is people centric and people oriented with a focus on developing and empowering others, serving with humility, and expressing gratitude. Peopled Leadership provides the much-needed shift from accountability and outcomes focused driven leadership behaviors to behaviors that focus on people, while assuring accountability and organizational improvement. Peopled Leadership is a model which orients a lea...

From acclaimed folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor, an enchanting collection of the ancient myths that emerged out of the wonders—and disasters—of the natural worldMythopedia is a fun, fact-filled A-Z treasury of myths inspired by natural events. Bringing together fifty legends from antiquity to the present, this delightfully entertaining book takes you around the world to explore sunken kingdoms and lost cities, accursed mountains and treacherous terr...

Your toolkit for workplace survival, "Alice's Adventures in the Real World" offers candid, savvy and grounded advice from a veteran of two challenging careers. From making your résumé sparkle to acing the interview to surviving probation and dealing with Dodos, "Alice" has hundreds of tips and entertaining examples perfect for new grads, career-changers, and anyone else who has to work for a living.

The Rector’s Daughter is the story of Mary Jocelyn, a woman who fears life is passing her by. Having lost her mother and her beloved invalid sister, Mary shares her days in sleepy Dedmayne with her father, the severe and distant Canon Jocelyn. Then, with the arrival in the village of Robert Herbert, her quiet, ordered existence is changed forever.

"The Third Miss Symons" is a character-driven novel that explores the life of its protagonist, Henrietta Symons, who is the third daughter in her family. Henrietta is depicted as a woman who struggles to find her place in the world and feels overlooked and unappreciated by her family and society.The novel follows Henrietta's journey as she navigates the challenges of growing up and coming to terms with her own identity and sense of self-worth. It delves into her relationships with her fami...

Flora Macdonald Mayor was born on the 20th October 1872 at Kingston Hill in Surrey as one of a set of identical twins.Flora received her education at Surbiton High School before reading history at Newnham College, Cambridge.Upon leaving she pursued a career in acting but recurring bouts of ill-health forced her to abandon this path.She first published with a collection of short stories, ‘Mrs Hammond's Children’, in 1901 under the pseudonym Mary Strafford.Her...

The end is the path you choose… Social order and structure has fallen apart on planet Earth and life is not the same as Shane once knew it to be. The Dark Ones have brought darkness and gloom to a once thriving world. They say everything happens for a reason, and that reason will soon be discovered as Shane embarks on a final journey to discover answers he never even had questions for. His search for the light to end all darkness draws him closer to who he really is and the messages left f...

Political conflict in Western democracies has traditionally emerged from politics rooted in competing ideologies and interests. With the rise of politics of identity, political conflict is morphing as political parties align themselves with identities, rather than ideologies or interests.

This book deals with how sounds are produced.In most cases sound reaches the ear through the air; but air is not the only medium through which sound is carried. A loud noise will startle fish, and cause them to dart away, so we conclude that the sound must have reached them through the water. An Indian puts his ear to the ground in order to detect distant footsteps, because sounds too faint to be heard through the air are comparatively clear when transmitted through the earth. A ge...