This family memoir is my back story. A Locked Safe with 5 ‘Nazi’ passports was found after my mother died in 1996. My father had died 16 years earlier. Although we knew he was a German Jewish professional engineer fleeing Nazism in 1936, we did not know the details of how his family fled. The help of my mother’s family, the Leas, was essential. They had fled from pogroms in Ukraine/Russia in the late nineteenth century. Some were also caught up with Japanese internment camps in China, illu...

Since second-wave feminism of the 1970s, women's rights and opportunities in education and employment have increased across the globe, but has equality, whether social, political or legal, really been achieved?In this fascinating book, Miriam E. David, a well-known and influential feminist in higher education, celebrates the achievements of international feminists as activists and scholars. She provides a critique of the expansion of global higher education masking their pioneering...

Higher Education is in a state of ferment. People are seriously discussing whether the medieval ideal of the university as being excellent in all areas makes sense today, given the number of universities that we have in the world. Student fees are changing the orientation of students to the system. The high rate of non repayment of fees in the UK is provoking difficult questions about whether the current system of funding makes sense. There are disputes about the ratio of research to teach...

Published in 1994, Mother’s Intuition? examines the process of choosing secondary schools in two inner London boroughs. The research is based upon detailed interviews with parents as well as questionnaires filled in by pupils themselves. The authors address several important dimensions in the choosing process which had not been investigated by previous research. The book particularly focusses on the main question arising from the interviews; who does the choosing – mother, father ...

The Toxic: Don’t let your In-Laws ruin your marriage is a guide created to inspire you and not to perspire you! I am of the opinion that if you are informed, you cannot be deformed. With this in mind, the first thing you should know is this; not all Toxic in-laws are aware that they are Toxic. As funny as this sounds, it is true. This is why I want to enlighten people about this sensitive subject matter.As such, living with toxic in-laws can put a considerable amount of undue stres...

In the late 1980s football was in a state of crisis. Falling attendances and a genuine unease among potential spectators about going to live football matches suggested that, without radical changes, the game would soon become a minority spectator sport. Originally published in 1989, reissued now with a new preface, Football in its Place presented a new approach to the problem that concentrates on the spectators’ experience of football and on the places where it is played.This appro...

These stories are bound to elicit some naughty feelings in the reader. In this new collection of spicy stories, you may learn about fresh and exciting ways to have fun in bed, or just indulge in the wicked wants of others.What are you looking for? A book with titillating tales is what you need. Get ready for your heart to pound and your face to light up. True Sex Stories are waiting for you.

Jim faces his fears of making a friend on his first day of kindergarten."When Pa was taking Jim to school for the first time, Jim said, “Will I have a friend at school?” “I think you will,” said Pa.But even his father’s gentle reassurance doesn’t make Jim feel any better. The other children in kindergarten are scary strangers to him. He’s sure that he’ll never find a friend...until naptime, when he discovers someone who feels the way he does."

A Glimpse Through The Window Of My Soul will take you on a journey of love, self worth, to finding peace and happiness within yourself. It looks into the many issues of our world today through Christian eyes, and allows the reader to reevaluate their own lives.A Glimpse Through the Window Of My Soul encourages readers to stop and think about the roads they have traveled in life. It helps them to understand that the choices they make affects not only them, but society and the world. ...

This volume addresses the question ‘What role does religion play in the maintenance, revival and/or shift, of languages?’ The chapters in this volume explore the complex and dynamic relationship between religion and the maintenance, revival and/or shift of languages in different multilingual multicultural contexts, under diverse sociopolitical conditions, at different points in time. The 12 chapters cover data from Algeria, India, Israel, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, UK, USA and Uganda an...

This two-volume anthology brings much of the rich heritage conveniently together for your reading. In this first volume, prepare yourself to sit at the feet of the main representatives of the Chen Village, including Chen Xiaowang, Chen Xiaoxing, and Wang Xi’an. Perhaps of greater importance are the clear explanations outlining each step in the learning process toward mastering Chen-style t’ai chi. Chapters included here clarify what proper training entails and why much tim...

Kafka’s finest works adapted for BBC radio – plus a biographical play, three discussion pieces and the award-winning Kafka The MusicalA lawyer by day, Franz Kafka spent his nights writing visionary stories and novels exploring bureaucracy, power and alienation – iconic fiction that gave the world the adjective ‘Kafkaesque’.This BBC anthology showcases his most famous works. Metamorphosis tells the tale of Gregor Samsa, who...