The Doctor's companions take centre stage in four exciting TV novelisations featuring the Fifth and Ninth Doctors, plus a spin-off story featuring K9 and Sarah Jane Smith.In Mawdryn Undead, by Peter Grimwade, the Doctor is reunited with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and meets Turlough, an enigmatic public schoolboy.In Terminus, by Stephen Gallagher, Nyssa falls into danger when the TARDIS merges with a drifting spaceship threatening to endanger the entire Universe.In...

What cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is harmful.What exactly is cultural appropriation? At one extreme are those commentators who suggest that any borrowing of elements outside of one’s own culture is cultural appropriation, and therefore, always wrong; at the other extreme, are those who argue that the history of human civilization just is cultural exchange, and therefore, never wrong. This book offers...

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators and lobbyists, novelists, activists, policy makers and politicians address the most critical issues facing the Catholic Church in the United States. Volume 2, American Catholics, American Cultur...

Designed to be used as a primary text in introductory research methods courses, Music Education Research: An Introduction aims to orient even the most novice researchers toward basic concepts and methodologies. Offering sustained attention to historical, philosophical, qualitative, quantitative, and action research approaches, the book includes overviews of how to read, interpret, design, and implement research within each framework. Readers will also find advice for conducting a ...

Deep within the Congo, a team of scientists prepares for the greatest event in the history of humanity, making First Contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial species, only the jungle is no place for doubts.Could First Contact be our last?

In this fast-paced sequel to the hot new action series, The Jake Stone Thrillers, Jake is lured into the underground Mexican compound of his deadly nemesis, Arianna Bradshaw, where he must choose between his love for Snowflake and saving his own skin. Helping him decide are three new butt-kicking female assassins, Sandy, Gumdrop and Penelope. Will Jake keep his cool and save the day, or will he once again find himself caught between warring factions in an ever widening international conspi...

During the American Revolution, Great Britain hired thirty thousand German troops to fight rebellious colonists. Five thousand of those troops marched across New Jersey from Princeton and Trenton all the way to the northern tip of Sussex County. Though popular legend would cast them as cold and vicious mercenaries, many were prisoners of war with little choice. Stories of their exploits still circulate in New Jersey, from the headless Hessian of the Morristown Swamp to the mysterious Ramap...

This qualitative study explores intercultural social dynamics among international Christian workers who are part of multicultural teams engaged in Christian ministries in a North African country. It seeks to understand these workers' lived realities at intersections of multiple cultural flows. Ethnographic methods were used to collect and analyze data, and forty-nine international Christian workers were interviewed. The findings of this study indicate that intercultural Christian workers g...

Who can you trust when everyone lies?After a routine transaction with LA gold dealer Andrea Moretti goes sour, London trader James suddenly finds himself entangled in a spider’s web of lies and crime.Moretti, a known member of the Mafia, has connections everywhere. Connections that include James’ own partner and lover, Jane. James pulls the thread and soon discovers that Moretti’s business transactions include far more than gold and precious metals -- he deals in drugs, hum...

Scholarship has painted many pictures of Augustinethe philosophical theologian, the refuter of heresy, or contributor to doctrines like Original Sinbut the picture of Augustine as preacher, says Sanlon, has been seriously neglected. When academics marginalize the Sermones ad Populum, the real Augustine is not presented accurately. In this study, Sanlon does more, however, than rehabilitate a neglected view of Augustine.How do the theological convictions that August...

A Selection of Short Stories by Teens for Teens Volumes 1, 2, 3 are compilations of the creative imaginations of teens captured in story form. Each volume comprises of five stories with adventure and excitements written by teen. Skaters- two sixteen-year-olds, Kyria and Aiden, were best friends who decided to enter a skating competition with their dogs. To her dismay, Kyria finds out that her friend Aiden was secretly plotting to conjure an accident that would force Kyria and Spot ...

The story likely revolves around Andy, a character who becomes part of a traveling circus, "The Greatest Show on Earth." As an aspiring acrobat, Andy might navigate the colorful and exciting world of the circus, encountering various challenges, making friends, and pursuing his dreams of performing as an acrobat.Peter T. Harkness's novel may showcase themes of perseverance, courage, and determination as Andy learns the ropes of circus life, develops his skills, and faces obstacles along the...