Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals of musical theatre studies and highlights developing global trends in practice and scholarship.Investigating the who, what, when, where, why, and how of transnational musical theatre,The Routledge Companion to Mus...

Drawing on more than 150 in-depth interviews, Becoming Strong: Impoverished Women and the Struggle to Overcome Violence explores the diverse effects of trauma in the lives of homeless female victims of violence.Laura Huey and Ryan Broll closely examine the negative patterns common to cases of homeless female victims of violence and develop informed solutions for responding to issues that perpetuate cycles of female homelessness. Becoming Strong offers not only a c...

"Jaw-dropping . . . a feast for the eyes that will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers, from professional paper cutters to casual observers of the art." — Adult Books 4 Teens ( School Library Journal)There's a renaissance underway in the art form of cut paper, with an explosion of raw talent and an abundance of amazing work produced in the medium in recent years. This gorgeous volume features work from twenty-six contemporary international artists...

Aurora Bianchi will stop at nothing to make herself a widow.Max De Luca will rue the day he married her.Having taken her rightful place as don, Aurora is ushering in a new era in the Bianchi family. Clearing the organisation of traitors, declaring war on those who betrayed her, and destroying anyone who stands in her way.The Bianchi Bastards risked everything to save Aurora and stand at her side.They may be prepared to burn the world down fo...

Teenage Stella Grey has always felt an intense recurring sense of déjà vu … often plagued by strong dreams that feel more real than her waking moments. One ill-fated morning, her dream from the night before actually comes to life as she awakens and finds her house ransacked and her mother unconscious near their broken-in front door. Her next moments are scary, shocking, and earth-shattering as she is kidnapped and delivered to a Gothic mansion, the Manor de Rêves.Over the next few ...

Showcasing cutting-edge research in a dynamic area, this authoritative volume explores how people navigate psychological experiences that are fundamentally about the nature of existence. In 65 compelling chapters, preeminent editors and contributors describe the field's conceptual foundations, methods, and contemporary findings. The Handbook is focused on issues of "being and becoming" in mental and social life, including: time, aging, and death; freedom, authenti...

In 1807, Britain and the United States passed legislation limiting and ultimately prohibiting the transoceanic slave trade. As world powers negotiated anti-slave-trade treaties thereafter, British, Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian,French, and US authorities seized ships suspected of illegal slave trading, raided slave barracoons, and detained newly landed slaves. The judicial processes in a network of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice not only resulted in the "li...

In this first book-length study of D. H. Lawrence and Black writers, Laura Ryan examines connections between Lawrence and four key Black and mixed-race modernists – Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale Hurston – positioning all five as co-creators of modernism.Ryan investigates both the responses of these writers to Lawrence's writing and the ways in which Black modernist writers were frequently engaging in t...

The Love, Illness, and Recovery to survive Breast Cancer.From a poets view

Doctor Katerina Mancini is a force to be reckoned with.Surgeon by day and mob doctor by night. There's almost nothing she can't handle except maybe the man who's been assigned to deal with her stalker. It was so much easier pretending her dad's best friend wasn't everything she'd ever wanted before he became her permanent shadow.How dare he swoop in and rescue her!Stefano Tiero is a man possessed.He's spent years denying his...

The moon's rings illuminate the desert path before you. Up ahead a ridge rises, obscuring the horizon. You cannot go back. There is nothing to go back to. A hundred worlds lie behind you and a thousand more lie ahead. You smell smoke in the air and hear a hint of music somewhere far away. One foot after another, you head toward the horizon, beckoned by the mystery of what lies beyond. The fifteen stories in this collection portray remarkable worlds for you to visit. These are worlds unlike...

In Be Patient, Be Present, Be Joyful, Certified Professional Life and Self Leadership Coach, Ryan Stanley, takes some of the biggest concepts of personal growth and self-development, and condenses them down to a quick and easy to read, fun but poignant self-study guide. He provides the tools to patch up those feelings of stress, overwhelm and anxiety that we all experience, so they can heal on their own. People of all ages and backgrounds will benefit from carrying this first aid kit with ...