This book is about the courageous story of Phoenix, a dog who suffered from abuse and neglect and was left to die by a neglectful owner. Phoenix was taken care of by many people over time for all sorts of conditions including many that ended up being worse than what some people originally thought.   This book is about the bond between a dog owner and a dog and how well a dog can recover when it is being supported by the right kind of caring person. The book shows just ...

British couple Hugh and Julia Pennington buy an old church to convert on a former cocoa plantation on a Caribbean island. When their estate agent fails to meet them at the airport, they accept a lift in a large American car from a charismatic local, Horatio. The couple are to become increasingly dependent on Horatio who ends up moving into their 'servants' quarters' but remains an enigma.Hugh and Julia want to 'get involved' in the life of their adopted island home. But they little...

In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of A New Map of Africa in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery—as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political struggle—was entangled with the production, circulation, and reception of geographical knowledge. The British empire banned the slave trade in 1807 and abolished slavery itself in 1833, creating a need for a new British imperial economy. ...

The West India Regiments were an anomalous presence in the British Army. Raised in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean in an act of military desperation, their rank-and-file were overwhelmingly men of African descent, initially enslaved. As such, the regiments held a unique but ambiguous place in the British Army and British Empire until their disbandment in 1927. Soldiers of Uncertain Rank brings together the approaches of cultural, imperial and military history in new and illuminating ...

 Pit bulls are exposed to a lot of controversies and debates. While some believe that they are harmless who are simply forced into becoming violent by their trainers and owners, others believe they are born violent and ferocious. But time and time again, you hear stories of their courage, loyalty and compassion, and it is these stories that make you wonder if they really deserve to be treated the way they are. This is one such true story about a ‘pit bull type dog’ who went fr...

This is the first title in this new series, which is aimed principally at secondary PGCE and BAEd students and school- and HEI-based tutors. Each book provides a digest of the central issues around a particular topic or issues, grounded in or supported by examples of good practice, with suggestions for further reading, study and investigation. The books are not intended as 'how to' books, but rather as books which will help students and teachers to explore and understand critical theoretic...

This book reveals the potential of geography to engage with citizenship. It provides:theoretical signposts in the form of short, digestible explanations for key ideas such as racism, values, identity, community and social exclusiona number of inset activities 'for further thinking'a critique of the discipline and the pitfalls to avoid in teaching citizenship through geographypractical teaching suggestions.All the contributions to t...

It's a world ruled by tyrants, where morality is a luxury, and existence is sometimes the only path forward. No pride is taken in tasks well done, and distraction becomes the only path to any happiness. It's a time where heroes are named and propped up by the rich. Adventurers have become jaded, and the world has become resigned to corruption and double-dealing. No one is looking for one, but everyone is in desperate need of a savior.Along comes a man who has lost all hope but has ...

The town of Stoughton has seen many changes since its incorporation in 1726. Stoughton families and fortunes were transformed in the mid-19th century as they prospered from the production of shoes, boots, wooden shoe lasts, and rubber goods. Farming dwindled, and industry was in full swing by the opening decades of the 20th century. Immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, and the Azores changed the cultural community as they started their own businesses and became a driving pa...

Free to a Good Home is about small farms and big dogs; farmers, their families and friends; bird feeders and feeders of birds; dust and rust; stone walls and other fences; New Hampshire’s First-In-The-Nation-Primary and other entertainment; a few laughs and a few tears.(excerpt)“...Janet, Maggie, and I lay between the rows of blueberries, listening to the slight rustling of the corn and the soft, endless chirp of peepers from the trees, enjoying the sweet, familiar...

Winner of the AAR's 2016 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies How Repentance Became Biblical tells the story of repentance as a concept. Many today, in both secular and religious contexts, assume it to be a natural and inevitable component of our lives. But, where did it originate? How did it become so prominent within Western religious traditions and, by extension, contemporary culture? What purposes does it serve? The book identifies re...

Mobility was central to imperialism, from the human movements entailed in exploration, travel and migration to the information, communications and commodity flows vital to trade, science, governance and military power. While historians have written on exploration, commerce, imperial transport and communications networks, and the movements of slaves, soldiers and scientists, few have reflected upon the social, cultural, economic and political significance of mobile practices, subjects and i...