This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has transformed the traditional understanding of the relationship between higher education and society. This has important implications for the relations of state, as education has not only become an object of national development policy but f...

Constructed in 1904, the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman covers 20,000 acres, forty-six square miles, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Originally designed like a private plantation without walls or guard towers, the prison farm has been slowly transformed over the decades into a modern penitentiary. In 1994, photographer R. Kim Rushing was the first outside photographer in Parchman's history allowed long-term access to inmates and the chance to photograph them in their cel...

Time is a precious and finite commodity. Are you stewarding it well? As a pastor, your work moves fluidly between study and solitude, counseling and crisis care, administration and leadership, plus a series of daily interruptions, not to mention your family and home life. How do you manage time effectively in a role without predictable hours, where you encounter the needs of others at every turn?With biblical principles and pastoral care, Shepherding Time enables pastors t...

***Perfect for fans of Black Mirror and The Handmaid's Tale*********In an America governed by Christian extremists, women's bodies are no longer their own. So when private investigator Felix Strange agrees to take on the case of a young girl indicted for murder after a miscarriage, he doesn't know where it might lead.Nor does he know the dangerous path along which America is now heading...The Fall is a short story prequel t...

Racism never got off the bus . . . On a rainy night in Houston, in a ratty apartment as dark as his dreams, retired bus driver Frank Granger wakes in a cold sweat convinced a stranger with a gun lurks at the foot of his bed.And he's right.In this riveting tale of suspense and revenge, Carter offers a vivid look back at one of the darkest times in our nation's history.BONUS STORY: Road Gamble"Whipping around sharp bends, tires squealing on wet asphalt . . . "...

Crime expert Linda Fairstein reveals the sinister ways that rapists select and attack their victims, and what you need to know to protect yourselfFrom the man who haunted midtown Manhattan's high-rise office buildings, to the stalker in the wooded suburbs near Nashville, serial rapists often have one chilling trait in common: They operate in "comfort zones." Sometimes they find their own comfort zones, such as the stairwell of a familiar office building. Other times...

Crime expert Linda Fairstein reveals the surprising locations where women are most vulnerable to attacks, and what they can do to stay safeLeaving work, riding in a taxi, even sitting in the comfort of one's own home, these places are linked by one harrowing feature: They are where women often feel most at ease, and they are among the most common locations where abductions of and attacks against women occur. In The Five Most Dangerous Places for Women, Lin...

From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s daughter, Dr. Bernice A. King: “My father’s dream continues to live on from generation to generation, and this beautiful and powerful illustrated edition of his world-changing "I Have a Dream" speech brings his inspiring message of freedom, equality, and peace to the youngest among us—those who will one day carry his dream forward for everyone.”On August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, Martin Luther K...

The odds were stacked against her in just about every possible way, but thousands and thousands of people called her their leader. Why? Because they could not escape the power of the Law of Respect.

You’ve probably never heard of the man who stole his neighbor’s window curtains only to hang them on his own windows, perfectly visible from the house he burgled. Maybe you never read about the woman who robbed a BP gas station by threatening to infect the clerk with her destructive bacteria. These are the stories amassed in News of the Weird’s “Least Competent Criminals.” And while the woman who robbed the gas station got away because of perhaps the world’s least competent clerk,...

This is a true story about a double murder that occurred in Alabama, as told to me by fellow inmates at a women's prison in Alabama and as presented in Alabama newspapers. It is a story of the relationships between inmates and the woman convicted (along with her husband) of the murder.This story is just one of the collection of short stories in the series "Women-in-Prison Short Stories".A second short story is included to deal with the issue of forgiveness, from the perspec...

The notorious true crime story of a sex party that ended in double murder in the woods of Chattanooga County, Georgia.On December 12th, 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. Then they brutally murdered their hosts.Dr. Charles Scudder had been a professor of pharmacology at Chicago's Loyola University before he and his boyfriend Joey Odom moved to Georgia and built their own home in the Chattaho...