London, 1847.Ever since scarlet fever nearly claimed her life, Edith Eleanor Ashford has been trapped in a frail body and kept far from the life she longs for. There is only one person who can make her feel truly alive: Eirik Varg, the young Scandinavian who was taken in by her family when he was little more than an injured boy with no past.Eirik has loved her for years, but he refuses to acknowledge it. Edith belongs to a wo...

Fiction,Thriller & Suspense | The Da Vinci Enigma | Kindle ebookWhen a stolen masterpiece resurfaces, so does a deadly conspiracy...Art restorer and former intelligence agent Gabriel Vernier has one rule: never mix the gallery with the battlefield. But when he's called to restore a long-lost painting suspected to be the work of Leonardo da Vinci, he stumbles into a tangled web of art theft, murder, and Vatican secrets.The discovery of a mutilated corpse in the canal...

The Essential Pope Benedict XVI is "an outstanding collection of texts that takes us straight to the heart of Benedict XVI's thoughts" (Alister McGrath).Introduction by D. Vincent Twomey, SVDOn April 24, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, the twenty-first-century successor of the Apostle Peter and the spiritual leader of more than one billion Roman Catholics. Through John F. Thornton and Susan B. Varenne'...

It's as if he's being mocked from beyond the grave.When John Nichols arrives to identify the body of an old friend, he is immediately caught up in the detritus of Alan Musgrave's life, the side of Paris the tourists don't see, where everyone has a past but very few count on a future. But what can he expect from a man who bled to death in his own excruciating S&M stage show?Now there's a maverick police lieutenant on the prowl who thinks that Musgrave's suicide was murder. G...

Every piece of clothing tells a story. After meeting for years, supporting each other's work, these colleagues decided to try something new—a collaboration. They dug into their closets and discovered that personal essays about clothes—on everything from fringe jackets and fishing vests to bridal tulle and Beatles T-shirts—have the power to evoke memories, not just for themselves, but for everyone that reads them.

Paris, 1900. Aileen Bowman arrives at the Exposition Universelle, where all the world has gathered to witness the birth of modernity. A journalist in her mid-thirties, unmarried and fiercely independent, she has been sent to cover the Exposition for the New York Tribune, and her arrival soon creates a scandal in the city of lights.But it seems the life she left behind on the distant Nevada plains may have followed her across the Atlantic, and before long Aileen finds herse...

Our everyday lives are increasingly being lived through electronic media, which are changing our interactions and our communications in ways that we are only beginning to understand. In Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media, editors Deborah Tannen and Anna Marie Trester team up with top scholars in the field to shed light on the ways language is being used in, and shaped by, these new media contexts.Topics explored include: how Web 2.0 can be conceptualized and theorized; ...

Une juge d’instruction désabusée rencontre une médium en garde à vue. Elle lui ouvre les portes d’un monde parallèle et troublant. Les premiers mots de la nouvelle :  Le plus long jour de l’année venait de s’éteindre. Juliette, accoudée sur le balcon du cinquième étage, un verre de chardonnay à la main, écoutait Paris résonner de l’écho des petits orchestres fatigu&e...

In this controversial work, Herv Varenne and Ray McDermott explore education as cultural phenomenona construct of artifice and reality we impose upon ourselves. Questioning how the American education system defines and measures success and failure, Successful Failure is a must-read for anyone interested in educational reform, the American educational system, and the anthropology of education. }In this controversial work, Herv Varenne and Ray McDermott explore education as cultural phenomen...

This volume investigates the ubiquitous education of everyday life as people contest the normal, settle on a new convention, and deal with the difficulties that arise. By documenting adolescent Dominican girls, young men in Silicon Valley, successful venture capitalists, and others imagining, explaining, and challenging the status quo, this book presents evidence that the proper starting point for education is struggle and play within and around institutionalized social and cultural condit...

The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Asia provides a rich study of human rights challenges facing some of the most vulnerable people in Asia. While formal accession to core international human rights instruments is commonplace across the region, the realisation of human rights for many remains elusive as development pressure, violent conflict, limited political will and discrimination maintain human rights volatility.This Handbook explores the underlying causes of hum...

"I'LL TAKE TWO!" That's what Bibi Branchflower says about everything. She has two houses, two hats (exactly alike), and two silly dogs. But she doesn't have a single friend. When she comes across a beautiful jewel box, of course she wants two of them. Though there's only one like it in all the world, inside two dancers spin. Perfect! The shopkeeper explains that the box is enchanted—all who look on the ballerinas will see sorrow in their faces. Soon Bibi becomes more concerned with her sad...