Some desires don't stay private for long.Carnal Confessions collects five explicit stories told in the voices of people who have stopped keeping secrets. A woman alone in her new apartment for the first time, finally free to be as loud as she wants. Two online lovers who meet in a Japanese restaurant and barely make it to dessert. A man writing everything he wants to do to the woman he loves. A married professional who follows a stranger off a train and into something she ...

Abraham A. Fraenkel was a world-renowned mathematician in pre–Second World War Germany, whose work on set theory was fundamental to the development of modern mathematics. A friend of Albert Einstein, he knew many of the era’s acclaimed mathematicians personally. He moved to Israel (then Palestine under the British Mandate) in the early 1930s. In his autobiography Fraenkel describes his early years growing up as an Orthodox Jew in Germany and his development as a mathematician at the beginn...

New Day Begun presents the findings of the first major research project on black churches’ civic involvement since C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya’s landmark study The Black Church in the African American Experience. Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the scale and scope of African American churches’ civic involvement have changed significantly: the number of African American clergy serving in elective and appointive offi...

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume Three of this landmark series on African cinema spans the past century and is devoted to the documentation of decoloniality in cultural policy in both Africa and the Black diaspora worldwide. A compendium of formal resolutions, declarations, manifestos, and programmatic st...

The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and, in so doing, complicates the notions of race, belonging, desire, and identities assumed and presumed in revealing portraits of Black experiences in a European context. In focusing on contemporary intellectual currents and themes, the cont...

Sensual Shadows is a scorching anthology of five erotic romance short stories where longing collides with surrender. From the sultry streets of New Orleans to storm-lashed Ireland, this collection delivers passionate encounters, forbidden desire, and emotionally charged intimacy.Inside, lovers who waited months for one perfect weekend finally meet. An architect's goodbye note sparks a frantic chase. Best friends cross the line during a blackout. A woman watches her...

They all knew what they wanted. They just took their time getting there.Five explicit MF erotica stories for readers who want heat with patience behind it. A midnight decision in the dark. A shower that never really ends. A Sunday afternoon that has nothing to do with football. A hidden beach and an incoming tide. A friends-with-benefits arrangement finally put to rest, permanently and thoroughly.No rushing. No holding back. Completely ravished.

Some pleasures can't be planned. Others can't be resisted.Forbidden Fruit gathers five explicit stories built around the electric pull of desire that arrives without warning. A chance meeting at a restaurant that ends far from home. An ex at the door with nothing under her coat but nerve. A wife alone in the house making the most of her morning, until she isn't alone anymore. A pool bet that nobody actually loses. And a bartender who thought she was over him until he sat d...

Not every desire needs to be loud to be unforgettable.Five explicit MF erotica stories for readers who want heat that feels personal. A setup that goes exactly to plan. A kitchen, a chair, a second-person voice that walks you through every moment. A spanking story told from both sides of the hand. A woman who takes what she can get and finds it's more than enough. A man who ties his partner to the bed posts before she wakes up.Five stories. All of it whispered. None of it f...

When her mother dies at the hands of a silver-haired figure in black, six-year-old spirit-walker Cora Bloux hides out in her own body. Twenty years later she's still there, fiercely maintaining an outwardly stable, conventional life.But when her own daughter is hit by a car, Cora is forced to spirit-walk again—and discovers that the spirit world has been waiting for her.In the extraordinary, fast-paced world of spirit-walkers, body-swappers, rock bands and second chances, C...

A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic. Two Gods in Heaven reveals the long and little-known history of a second, junior god in Judaism, showing how this idea was embraced by rabbis and Jewish mystics in the early centuries of the common era and casting Judaism's relationship with Christianity in an entirely different light.Drawing on...

The Autism Nest Model is a successful and much-praised program adopted by the New York City public school system as well as the top-ranked Danish school system. It has engaged and educated autistic children and their neurotypical peers for more than 20 years. The book's change in title from The ASD Nest Model to The Autism Nest Model is indicative of the evolution not only of language but also the understanding and practice that the new edition re...