The oldest boy among 9 children, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was raised in the protective home of an Anglican churchman. He was then sent off to the notorious English public school system as an unprepared youngster, where terrible things were done to him. What emerged was a man filled with rage at the betrayal by his parents and the institutions they supported. While maintaining the facade of propriety throughout a life as an Oxford don, he wrote several nonsen...

The crimes attributed to Jack the Ripper have gone unsolved for over 120 years. No one who has attempted to solve them has succeeded, either due to the passage of time, lack of evidence, inconsistent facts, or faulty analysis. One of the weaknesses of those many works has been the inability to identify a suspect who had the prerequisite rage to commit such crimes.Jack the Ripper: "Light-hearted Friend" is the unexpected sequel to my first book The Agony of Lewis Carroll, which iden...

Marriage is a sacred covenant that calls two people to walk together in unity and purpose with Christ at the center.We Said, "I Do," Now What? The Biblical Blueprint Edition provides biblical wisdom, practical guidance, and reflection prompts that help couples strengthen communication, build trust, and grow together through God's design. Building on the original bestseller, this edition equips couples to live in alignment with God's plan for lasting love and partnership.

In The Pop Documentary Since 1980, Richard Wallace examines the representation of pop music, musicians and music-making in documentary film and television. He draws together conceptual frameworks from within and outside of film and television studies - including performance studies, musicology, celebrity studies and fan studies - to provide a critical interrogation of the central issues in this genre.A common criticism of the music documentary is that it l...

Ten years ago, a technological revolution swept through cinemas around the world, as analogue projectors were replaced with digital equipment. It was not just the plastic medium of film that was removed from projection boxes during this transformation; most cinemas took this opportunity to also evict the human projectionists who were hitherto in charge of screenings. Projectionists had been hidden from the sight of audiences for most of the history of photographic moving image projection, ...

East Kent - Services of the Golden Jubilee Era takes the reader on a journey along the routes of all the stage-carriage services operated by East Kent in 1968, just after the Company celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 1966/7 and immediately prior to the National Bus Company (NBC) taking full control. Supported by over two hundred and fifty photographs, most not published before, of nearly every bus route as well as most London express services and all the operational garages, this book revea...

Have you ever wondered what science has to say about the possibility of a Spiritual presence in the Universe? Is there any scientific verification that there is? This book offers many examples of the evidence that has been accumulating through recent scientific advancements. The series of essays in this book offers compelling support for the fact that the extraordinary and improbable Universe we are now experiencing is not just a matter of random chance but a Spiritual manifestation.

East Kent Road Car Company Ltd - A Century of Service, 1916-2016, celebrates one hundred years of a bus operation that is still very much recognizable for its origins. Unlike so many proud names that have diasppeared in recent times, the old identity of East Kent Road Car Co Ltd is still carried as the legal lettering on the Stagecoach-owned buses operating in the area today. This book takes the reader on a journey through those one hundred years. It covers the initial developments of the ...

While most people treat children properly, there are some individuals who take advantage of a child's innocence. In this story we follow a troubling time in Alicia's life when someone betrays her trust. We see her initial fearful reaction followed by her unwarranted self blame. This story shows how she pulls away from friends and activities she previously enjoyed. She is enveloped in fear, guilt and sadness until she reluctantly manages to trust someone again. And that person, a friend abo...

This book focuses on how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can impact the life of a child. Ethan and his mom had struggled to adjust to having his dad be away at war and then he finally returned. But instead of picking up where they left off before his deployment, it was almost as if a different person returned to their family. They soon learned that the numerous traumatic experiences he had in the field contributed to the development of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD...

This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television programmes make visible—through comedy—the performances that underpin straight documentaries and many of our public figures. Mockumentary Comedy focuses on the rock star and the politician, two figures that regularly feature as mockumentary subjects. These public figures are explored ...

The world in which early Christianity developed consisted of a complex of distinct communities and cultural 'layers', which interacted with one another, sometimes co-operatively, and sometimes in confrontation.The Three Worlds of Paul of Tarsus explores this world through the life of the apostle Paul, examining the three fundamental cultural 'layers':* the native cultures* the common Hellenistic culture which had been spread in the east as a result of the conq...