A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture.Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveho...

Set in the milieu of New York’s Gilded Age aristocracy, Vadriel Vail vividly explores excesses and arrogance from the heights of glittering society to the depths of poverty in unimaginably horrific immigrant slums. Romance, secrets, and high stakes action, exceptional women and extraordinary men are swept into a whirlwind of love and forbidden desire.Armand de Guise, dangerous scion of a New York financial empire, is both handsome and loathsome. Wrought with guilt over an ...

The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy: Still Woke celebrates and reaffirms the power of Black feminist and womanist pedagogies and practices in university classrooms. Employing autocritography (through personal reflection, research, and critical analysis), the contributors to the volume boldly tell groundbreaking stories of their teaching experiences and their evolving relationships to Black feminist and womanist theory and criticism. From their own unique ...

In Managing Health in the Genomic Era: A Guide to Family Health History and Disease Risk, Drs. Vincent C. Henrich, Lori A. Orlando, and Brian H. Shirts discuss the practical considerations surrounding the use of genomic and genetic tests to manage patient health, to provide adult disease risk assessment, to improve diagnosis, and to support effective interventions and treatment. In 10 chapters, evidence-based information and case studies are described and examine the central place of famil...

Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence.Utilizing many staples of African American...

Get ready to infiltrate the dangerous, secret world of criminals and cover identities by way of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), where the world’s greatest undercover agents are known as RatSnakes.RatSnakes are rarely, if ever, visible to the public that they move among and risk their lives to protect. In fact, thanks to their cover personas, they are often assumed to be members of the clandestine criminal world that they investigate. Real-life underc...

It takes an argument and a car crash for Tawny Briggs to realize two very important things. First, she isn't insignificant and second, it's time to fight for what's hers. Who knew finally standing up for herself would uncover a tangled mess of lies and deceit, though? As she sorts everything out, an unexpected friendship develops with none other than the driver of the other vehicle. Is she strong enough to let it become more, or will their pasts create an permanent rift?A car accid...

From the bestselling author of The Power of Positive Thinking comes this book on how to have faith.When Norman Vincent Peale co-wrote this book he wanted to help everyone acquire spiritual skill, so that they could develop a useful, effective, and satisfying life.Most people would like to have the benefits given by faith. The trouble is they do not know how. They are ignorant of the techniques of faith and hence are unable to practice it. The avera...

Presents a narrative approach to ministry with young people, emphasizing the narratives of today's U.S.-born and/or -raised Hispanic young people, based on the fundamental proposal: The function of ministry is to uncover and nurture the salvific narratives in the lives of the people in our communities.

Fun in the sun turns to terror when a psychopath tries to use her in his twisted plot for revenge.Destiny "Dusty" Devane is headed to California for a relaxing vacation. This trip is the first thing she's done just for herself. Before it truly begins, she finds herself ridiculed by overnight acting sensation Nick Marshall. If that isn't enough to put a dent in a woman's ego, then becoming the next target of a deranged serial killer certainly is.Detective Don Cramer is tryin...

"SOV horror can be as simplistic, challenging, or offensive as any audience perceives it to be. It can also be enlightening, terrifying, and revealing...These are films that compare to no others in existence, and for that reason alone it’s long past time to accord them some measure of serious consideration." Long considered the dead-end of genre cinema, Shot-On-Video (SOV) horror finally gets its due as a serious filmmaking practice. Using classic fanzines, promotional materials, and espec...

Kierkegaard himself hardly requires introduction, but his thought con tinues to require explication due to its inherent complexity and its unusual method of presentation. Kierkegaard is deliberately un-systematic, anti-systematic, in the very age of the System. He made his point then, and it is not lost upon us today. But that must not deter us from assembling the fragments and viewing the whole. Kierkegaard's religious psychology in particular may finally have its impact and generate the ...