This book is about Florence, a Bermudian, whose life was fundamentally changed in the 1950s. The hardships and pain that she and her family had to endure and their struggles to survive. It was her tenacity and courage that helped her family during their darkest days.

Almost every golfer struggles with consistency in their game. Typically, a player might hit a few great shots followed immediately by several disastrous ones, without being able to discern any change at all in their swing. It can be incredibly frustrating. The cause of this problem is most frequently found in the moments before and after impact, which are key to building a perfect swing. Once your finish has been refined, the backswing and downswing can be blended into a consistent, seamle...

The Chinese Buddhist canon is a systematic collection of all translated Buddhist scriptures and related literatures created in East Asia and has been regarded as one of the “three treasures” in Buddhist communities. Despite its undisputed importance in the history of Buddhism, research on this huge collection has remained largely the province of Buddhologists focusing on textual and bibliographical studies. We thus aim to initiate methodological innovations to study the transformation of t...

Many people with Down syndrome—one of the most common genetically-linked developmental disabilities—experience difficulty developing spoken and written communication skills. In this groundbreaking book, discover how augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) can enhance communicative competence and improve outcomes for people with Down syndrome across the lifespan. The newest volume in Beukelman and Light’s respected

The Greatest Feminist Classics in One Volume' encapsulates an extraordinary array of feminist voices, weaving together a rich tapestry of literary styles from the pens of some of the most influential writers from the 18th to the early 20th century. This collection offers a panoramic view of the evolving themes of gender equality, social reform, and the personal struggles and triumphs of women. From the eloquent advocacy of Mary Wollstonecraft to the poignant narratives of Kate Chopin, and ...

bell hooks—feminist scholar, teacher, activist—implored instructors to see the classroom as a “radical space of possibility” where students and teachers work as partners in the pursuit of education as “collective liberation” from structures of domination. hooks’ call takes on more urgency today, as oppressive and dominant ideologies continue to perpetuate racial, economic, gender, and other social inequities both within the classroom and society at large. Through critical commentary reflec...

A Rebels' War assembles forty-seven personal accounts of the Confederacy, placing battlefield recollection beside diary, memoir, political testimony, naval narrative, and reflections on civilian life. Its varied prose ranges from formal military reportage to intimate domestic observation, revealing how war was experienced, remembered, and subsequently narrated by Confederate participants. Campaign accounts, prison and espionage episodes, and striking records of the home front together illu...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...

The first in the Jessica Daniel series, Locked In is the number one bestselling crime thriller from Kerry Wilkinson.When a body is found in a locked house, Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel is left to not only find the killer but discover how they got in and out.With little in the way of leads and a journalist that seems to know more about the case than she does, Jessica is already feeling the pressure – and that's before a second body shows up in ...

The Woman in Black is the third gripping Jessica Daniel novel from bestselling sensation, Kerry Wilkinson.Someone has left a severed hand in the centre of Manchester and the only clue Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel has to go on is CCTV footage of a woman in a long black robe placing it carefully on the ground.With a lengthy missing persons list and frantic families wondering if the body part could belong to their absent loved ones, she has plent...

Don't miss the pulse-pounding thriller from the NUMBER ONE bestselling author of The Girl in Seat 2A! ✈️☀️ If you love Freida McFadden and Lisa Jewell, you will love The Girl on the Balcony!A fresh startA dangerous obsessionAnd a past that won’t stay buriedJade’s new life in Spain is unravelling. Broke, scared and haunted by the past, she is forced to rent out her apartment.Her te...

Down Among the Dead Men is a Manchester crime novel from bestselling crime writer, Kerry Wilkinson.'I'm going to do you a favour: I'm going to tell you my name and then I'm going to give you thirty seconds to turn and run. If any of you are still here after those thirty seconds, then we're going to have a problem.'Jason Green's life is changed for good after he is saved from a mugging by crime boss, Harry Irwell. He is then drawn into Manc...