Mary Shelley reappraises the significance of Frankenstein alongside other works by Shelley which could be considered to revise the significance and fluctuating meanings of `Gothic' during the Romantic period. It offers scholarly, fresh readings of the 1818 and 1831 editions of Frankenstein, as well as chapters upon the fiction that Shelley composed in between both editions, and during the same decade as its second edition.In its broader examination of Mary Shelley's work, this stud...

In her book, Angela Reddock-Wright, a prominent employment law attorney turned mediator, arbitrator, workplace, and Title IX investigator, draws upon her decades-long expertise working with employers and employees to help them create healthy, dynamic, and thriving workplaces. At a time when businesses and individuals were forced to embrace massive changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Reddock-Wright's book sheds light on issues that are critical to organizational success - at the height...

When the networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden on Saturday, November 7, 2020, people from coast to coast exhaled—and danced in the streets. This quick-turnaround volume, a collection of 38 personal essays from writers all over the country—“many of America’s most thoughtful voices,” as Jon Meacham puts it on the back cover—captures the week Trump was voted out, a unique juncture in American life, and helps point toward a way forward to a nation less divided.

A locked room. A brutal murder. One obvious suspect.When billionaire Adrian Cole is found dead during an exclusive alumni gala, all the evidence points to investigative journalist June Bennett. Her fingerprints are on the weapon, her jacket is stained with blood, and a threatening message appears to seal her fate.The public is convinced. The police think the case is closed.But Detective Marcus Hale isn't so sure.As buried secrets, fabricated evidence, and po...

You've watched all his films, you've coloured him in, and, let's face it, you've tried out how your signature would look with 'Cumberbatch' at the end of it - now it's time to get stitching! Benedict Cumberstitch is your unofficial guide to creating a series of amazing cross stitch designs featuring the Cumberbatch in all his glory. Beginners can quickly pick up the simple yet addictive art of cross stitch, and seasoned stitchers will be delighted by the range of designs on offer. Whether ...

This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823). While drawing upon, consolidating and enriching the critical impulses reflected in Radcliffe scholarship to date, this collection of essays, composed by a range of renowned scholars of the Romantic period, also foregrounds the hitherto neglected aspects of the author's work. Radcliffe's relations to ...

Critical Religious Education in Practice serves as an accessible handbook to help teachers put Critical Religious Education (CRE) into practice. The book offers straightforward guidance, unpicking some of the key difficulties that teachers encounter when implementing this high-profile pedagogical approach.In-depth explanations of CRE pedagogy, accompanied by detailed lesson plans and activities, will give teachers the confidence they need to inspire debate in the classroom...

Worship. That intimate, face-to-face encounter with our most wonderful God, where we lavish our love upon Him... hear His heart... and simply, BEHOLD. Worship the King is a book compiled by authors who know what it is to have their hearts entwined with His in the intimacy of worship. Come; respond to the calling of the deep and share the mysteries in this secret place... Worship the King. Nic Bilman begins with examples and an exhortation about how we can function like thermostats vs. ther...

In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the continuing connections between Gothic literature and France through the realms of translation, adaptati...

An autobiography of a young girl whose life was quickly turned upside down by an event that took her mother not only down a path of deep depression but right into the hold of a doomsday cult that would in the end be her mother's undoing and the undoing of her family. Living years of uncertainty inside the cult, never good enough as a daughter, wife, and sister, a series of events led her to a path that walked her right outside the doors of the cult and into a whole new world. Sadness, unce...

This second volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in British, American and Continental European culture, from the Romantic period through to the Victorian fin de siècle. Here, leading scholars in the fields of literature, theatre, architecture and the history of science and popular entertainment explore the Gothic in its numerous interdisciplinary forms and guises, as well as across a range of different international contexts. As much a cul...