Authentic Voice and Speech by Louis Colaianni and Peter Marciano offers a ground breaking, student-centered approach to voice and speech training that celebrates individuality and diversity.This book moves beyond traditional, prescriptive methods to empower readers to embrace their unique voices as reflections of their identity, culture, and personal journey. Drawing inspiration from Kristin Linklater’s transformative teachings, Rosina Lippi-Green’s sociolinguistic insight...

The practical guide for the people who actually run the tribunal."A very complete book ... very useful for anyone who is newly appointed to work in a tribunal ... very clear and at the same time very accurate."- Dr. Felix Menendez, JCD, STLWorking in a Catholic marriage tribunal is a unique ministry, one that demands both legal precision and genuine pastoral sensitivity. Tribunal officers are entrusted with the stories of people navigating ...

A Christmas Carol por Charles DickensThe Little Prince por Antoine De Saint-ExupéryThe Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe por Daniel DefoeThe Secret Garden por Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Ice-Maiden and Other Tales por Hans Christian AndersenFive Children and It por Edith NesbitThe Adventures of Pinocchio por C. CollodiThe Nursery Alice por Lewis CarrollTHE TALE OF BENJAMIN BUNNY por Beatrix Potter

In ancient Egypt, the immensely wealthy Roman Publius Sabinus Lucius embarks on a journey through Egypt, traveling up the Nile from Alexandria to Memphis, past the Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza, and eventually beyond the cataracts to Ethiopia. His large entourage includes, among others, his uncle Catullus, who lives off his nephew's fortune; his slave and tutor Thrasyllus; the young African slave Tarra; and the Greek slave Cora. Cora is secretly in love with Lucius, but he does not retur...

Louis Sullivan was one of the most important architects working at the turn of the 20th century. His most well-known work was done in Chicago as part of the firm of Adler and Sullivan, but he also designed well-regarded buildings in cities like Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Buffalo. He has been called both the "father of the skyscraper" and the "father of modernism," as well as being the progenitor of the famous maxim "form follows function."Building in the seething crucible of prog...

It takes a hardy people to survive farming the harsh lands of the French Canadian wilderness, and Maria Chapdelaine must choose either to remain Québécois in this unforgiving land that has broken her heart, or to pursue a softer urban life in foreign New England.French writer Louis Hémon wrote Maria Chapdelaine during the two years he lived in Quebec, and it's based on his experiences working on a farm in the Lac Saint-Jean region where the novel is set. It was his only wo...

A guided descent through the Gothic tradition, beginning with haunted places and psychological unease, moving through vampires and uncanny doubles, and culminating in the genre's most enduring monsters. Included works: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) — The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) — The Haunted House (Charles Dickens) — The Canterville Ghost, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) — The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) — Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (M...

Une collection captivante de recits d'aventure signes par cinq maitres du genre : Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Howard Pyle, Rudyard Kipling et Jack London. Voyages en mer, iles mysterieuses, jungles indomptees et grands espaces sauvages composent cet ensemble intemporel, ideal pour les amateurs d'aventures classiques.

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by life's unpredictable challenges? Do you want to build an unshakeable foundation that allows you to thrive under pressure, rather than survive?True resilience isn't about avoiding adversity—it's about mastering your internal landscape so you can handle whatever comes your way. This book offers a transformative blueprint for breaking free from stress, cultivating fierce self-discipline, and unlocking your true potential.This is a highly...

Secrets simmer in a small town, longing stirs beneath the surface, and something wild waits to break through.Bradley Holt's life is coming apart. His husband is gone, his Silicon Valley job is slipping, and the future he counted on no longer feels secure. Then, at Beltane, an ancient spring festival marking one of the cross-quarter days between seasons, he meets Daniel, a warm, enigmatic presence from a seaside monastery in San Lucca, Bradley's old hometown.

Robert Louis Stevenson emerges here as a writer of uncommon warmth, vitality, and moral force, moving with ease from lyrical celebration to searching reflection. These essays and poems explore memory, beauty, fame, nature, and the hidden life of the mind, while tracing a larger philosophy of joy grounded in simplicity, observation, and courage. Stevenson contrasts the cramped habits of city routine with the liberating pleasures of open air, walking, travel, and the disciplined imagination ...

This incendiary political pamphlet turns the Peace of Paris into a battlefield of reputation, diplomacy, and national loyalty. It opens with the Devonshire instructions, where freeholders claim the right to direct their representatives and demand inquiry into grave public grievances, then follows Dr. Musgrave of Plymouth as he urges an impartial investigation into a hidden national injury. Musgrave says he brought secret intelligence and documents from Paris to Lord Halifax in 1765, only t...