In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely's seminal 1984 work, Ambivalent Legacy, inspired an earlier generation to ta...

Syntheses of the geology of major areas of the Earth's crust are increasingly needed in order that the features of, and the problems associated with, the secular evolution of the continents can be understood by a wide audience. Southern Africa is fortunate in having a remarkable variety of geological environments developed without many breaks over 3. 8 Ga, and many of the rock groups are household names throughout the geological world. In one respect the geology of Southern Africa is parti...

CAST OUT TO A PLACE OF UNKNOWN, five young warrior horses awaken in a world unlike anything they have ever imagined. Stripped of the comforts of Heaven, they must now fight to survive in a rugged, untamed realm—where every path is perilous, and every mistake could be their last.This new planet is more than harsh land and shifting skies—it is a living trial. Guided by a strange and mysterious creature, the warriors are thrust into a journey built like levels of an endless game. Each...

THROUGH THE SHIFTING CURRENTS OF TIME AND SPACE, five warrior horses find themselves at their lowest—broken, weary, and searching for the path forward. In a strange and perilous land, every step brings new challenges: bizarre creatures, haunting phenomena, and an unrelenting struggle for survival.Once gifted with every necessity in Heaven, the five now must learn the harsh truth of labor, sacrifice, and trust. Water, food, and shelter are no longer given freely—they must be earned....

This book of poems is about life experiences. There are poems about love and lost, about hope and faith, about motivation and inspiration, and even life and death. It is about change and coping as well as family relationships. The reader can expect to experience a range of emotions as he or she reads this poetry. For as the Poem for Jack denotes, Life is sandwiched between birth and death and is a happy, haunting journey.

Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins explores the limitations of the transnationalist approach to feminism and questions the neoliberal emphasis on individual freedom and consumer choice as the central goals of feminist activism. The contributions to the volume discuss such varied topics as fiction by Edwidge Dandicat, Judith Ortiz-Cofer, and Diamela Eltit; visual art of Laura Aguilar and Maruja Mallo; films directed by Lucrecia Martel; a TV serie...

When an undercover police officer is killed and a deadly shipment of pure heroin hits land, it looks as though the operation to bring down Brighton's biggest drug dealer is compromised. But the investigation is in more trouble than either Detective Sergeant Minter or his boss, Tom Beckett, could ever imagine.Embarking on a bloody journey that will set him on a collision course with his team, Minter is pulled back into his own troubled past - to a childhood spent in care and the vic...

Cambridge, UK, 1947. Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher, is cycling through an intersection on his way to give a lecture when a speeding car strikes and kills him. Shortly afterwards, Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter - an Austrian-born cockney Jew, whose parents were interned during the war as enemy aliens - stands over the body of Friedrich, contemplating the age-old question: who did it? Friedrich might have been one of the finest minds of his age, but he was problematic: arrogant a...

Queenscliff, Victoria, 1951. It's a cold Monday morning. Midwinter. A deserted beach. No swimmers in sight. And there on the sand, a neat pile of clothes. Almost like a coded message waiting to be deciphered. Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, an Austrian-born Cockney Jew, always destined to be an outsider, takes up the case...

Vietnam took Jerry Fellows away from Minter, WI and returned him in a body bag. Thirty-five years later Matt Bratzman begins to remember a life he lived before he went to Vietnam. In that life he was Jerry Fellows. When DNA testing proves he isn't Matt, he returns to Minter to find out the truth about who is buried in the grave with the name Jerry Fellows on the marker?Thirty-five years ago, on Christmas Eve, Betsy Connor received a call telling her that her husband was dead. Now w...

Kate Armstrong, has to return to college in order to keep her job. Along with her computer courses, her boss has arranged for her to take a course in Romantic Literature. On her first day of classes, she learns Denny Bostian, the jerky jock from high school who gave her fits, will be her professor. Her hope is to sit in the back and not be noticed.Denny Bostian has taught Romantic Literature for years in the UW system. With the loss of his wife, he wants a new start and asks to be ...

If evil comes knocking don't sell it a death curse.Nicole Scott possesses a unique gift. She can see and hear ghosts. When a body turns up at her Aunt Patsy's doll shop, Nicole recognizes the victim. The woman is - or was a client of Nicole's estate liquidating company.Early evidence points to a death curse spoken by her aunt the curse wielder. Nicole disagrees, but talking to the deceased is out of the question. Murder victims can’t remember their last mom...