More than half the children aboard Titanic died in the sinking, calling into question the notion of "women and children first." In The Lucky and the Lost: The Lives of Titanic's Children, historian John Boileau tells the stories of the children who fortunately escaped in lifeboats and those who tragically did not. It also examines the heart-breaking circumstances of the victims' deaths as well as the fascinating stories of survivors' lives. Uniquely, The Lucky and the Lost tells the storie...

As Violet's final week alive ensues without the knowledge of her friends and family, she attempts to complete a list of tasks. Will She accomplish everything she wants? Or will she die with unfinished business?

Nicolas Boileau-Despr√©aux's "Le Lutrin'ÄîAn Heroick Poem" is a masterful blend of wit and literary critique, embodying the spirit of 17th-century French classicism. Written in heroic couplets, the poem artfully critiques the emerging literary pretensions of the time while celebrating the nobility of poetic form. Utilizing allegorical characters and rich imagery, Boileau navigates themes of vanity, ambition, and the transformative power of art, all framed within a mock-heroic narrative tha...

On 31st October 1517, Martin Luther pinned ninety-five theses on the Castle Church door, Wittenberg, criticizing the Church of Rome; they were printed and published by Lucas Cranach and caused a storm. Nine young nuns, intoxicated by Luther's subversive writings, became restless and longed to leave their convent. On Good Friday 1523 a haulier smuggled them out hidden in empty herring barrels. Five of them settled in Wittenberg, the very eye of the storm, and one of them - Katharina von Bor...

Every Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne, an ambitious doctor, and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan.Drugging Mireille, the pair drown her in a bathtub, but in the morning, before the "accidental" death can be discovered, the corpse is gone-so begins the unraveling of Ferdinand's plot, and his sanity...This classic of French ...

In a Parisian apartment window, a woman and her husband can be seen battling an intruder. Under the eyes of the crowd below a fatal shot is fired. The police rush to the scene, but the murderer has vanished into thin air. Six more locked-room crimes follow, and the authorities are baffled. But private detective André Brunel is on the case: these seemingly insoluble mysteries are connected, and it's up to him to piece the puzzle together...

In a rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are rethinking how they invest in employee development. The Power of Fractional Learning and Development Services offers a practical and visionary look at how businesses—especially small and mid-sized enterprises—can leverage the power of fractional Learning & Development (L&D) leadership to drive real results.Drawing on real-world case studies and firsthand experience, author Kirsten Boileau introduces the role of th...

Sustainability education has typically centered the human-focusing on the changes and paradigm shifts needed to ensure a sustainable future for humans. Yet nonhuman beings, specifically plants and animals, are and have always been central to our lives, prompting wonder, curiosity, sensitivity and awe, as well as being important in their own right. In Multispecies Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond: Teaching for a Sustainable Future the contributors discuss the importance of seek...

Mental Health Symptoms in Literature since Modernism looks at various ways of treating symptoms of psychological disorders in the literature of the long twentieth century. This book shows that literature can, in its questioning of commonly accepted views of this lived experience of psychic symptoms, help engender new theories about the functioning of subjective cases. Modernism emerged at about the same time as Freudian psychoanalysis did and the aim of this book is to also show t...

While suburbs provide a rich field of research for sociologists, architects, urbanists and anthropologists, they have not been given much attention in literary and cultural studies. The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives sets out to enrich the limited existing body of critical analysis on the subject with a landmark collection of essays offering a far larger perspective than the books or collections published so far on the topic. This interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach includes li...

This volume of eight essays written by French scholars analyzes Daniel Mendelsohn's first three volumes of nonfiction (The Elusive Embrace, 1999; The Lost, 2006; and An Odyssey, 2017) and includes an illustrated interview (2019) in which Mendelsohn tackles various aspects of his work as a literary and cultural critic, as a professor of classical literature, as a translator, and as a memoirist. The essay discussing The Elusive Embrace (1999) argues that, in addition to offering a subtle ref...

This is my journal of thoughts, ideas and life philosphies. As well as, a journal of writings of a lost boy embracing the heartbreaks, lows in life and the acceptance of his flaws. Hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoying writing it.