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Fresh Paint

by Flora Bowley & Lynzee Lynx

Discover and deepen your creative style through the process of creating 100 small mixed-media paintings.

In Fresh Paint, creative influencer, workshop leader, and author of Brave Intuitive Painting and Creative...

Spoonwood

by Ernest Hebert

After almost fifteen years, Hebert has returned to this rich literary landscape for a new novel of the changing economic and social character of New England. Hebert's previous Darby book, Live Free or Die, recounted...

The Big Book of Hand-Embroidery Projects

by That Patchwork Place

Sit back and unwind as you surround yourself in the art (and fun!) of hand embroidery. You'll find 52 projects including tiny treasures, tea towels, small quilts and runners, bags and pouches, and even note...

Sustainable Water Initiative for Tomorrow

by Frank R. Spellman

Sustainable Water Initiative for Tomorrow describes a forward-looking innovative solution to tackling various environmental issues related to water including dwindling ground water supplies and land subsidence....

Empirical Assessment in IHL Education and Training

by Jody M. Prescott

International efforts to ensure that armed forces meet the requirements of IHL so that the protection of civilians and detainees in armed conflict is increased continue to face implementation challenges that...

Monarchs, Missionaries and African Intellectuals

by Bhekizizwe Peterson

Much of the work in the field of African studies still relies on rigid distinctions of ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’, ‘collaboration’ and ‘resistance’, ‘indigenous’ and ‘foreign’. This...

Launching a New Worship Community

by Paul Nixon & Craig Gilbert

For many churches, the call to make disciples comes with a realization that the church's current worship opportunities do not reach certain groups in their surrounding community. New worship services offer the...

Supporting Shrinkage

by Michael P. Johnson, Justin B. Hollander, George R. Chichirau & Eliza W. Kinsey et al.

Demonstrates how residents can play a leading role in the positive transformation of their communities in the face of economic and population decline.

Supporting Shrinkage describes a new approach to citizen-engaged,...

Fracture Feminism

by David Sigler

Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.

Feminist writers in British Romanticism often developed alternatives to linear time. Viewing time as a system of social...

Mary Anning’s Grewsome Beasts

by Deshan Tennekoon & Linki Brand

This book tells the true story of a scientist named Mary Anning. The fossils she found helped invent the science of palaeontology. If you’ve heard of Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs or Pterosaurs you already know...

Encountering the Impossible

by Alexander Sergeant

The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking.

Hollywood fantasy cinema is responsible for some of the most...

Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity

by Sherrow O. Pinder

A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson’s ambiguous racial identity.

In Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity, Sherrow O. Pinder explores the ways in which the late...

Amorous Imagination, The

by D. Andrew Yost

Building on Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of love this book takes up the "question of the Other" and argues that through the interpretive activities of the amorous imagination lovers come to experience one...

Pangolin Plays a Prank

by Avril van der Merwe & Heidi-Kate Greeff

After a night of feasting on termites and ants, Pangolin bumps into Lion as she is returning to her burrow to sleep. Since she is not a fast runner, she has to think quickly to avoid being eaten. Being polite...

Mission of Malice

by Erika Bornman

In the 1980s, Erika Bornman’s family join, and ultimately move, to KwaSizabantu, a Christian mission based in KwaZulu-Natal, which is touted as a nirvana, founded on egalitarian values. But something sinister...

To the Bitter End

by Marcus Palliser

These are dramatic times in England's sea-faring history--the English and the French are battling it out for control of Canada in the frozen waters off the coast of Newfoundland. The year is 1708 and Matthew...

Millionaire in the Making

by Laurens Boel

Through a combination of factors, such as historically debilitating apartheid laws and a lack of financial education, many South Africans are crippled by generational poverty, where liabilities (like black tax)...

Live Free or Die

by Ernest Hebert

The struggle between the rural working class and the upper crust intensifies in this turning-point novel of the Darby Chronicles as Freddy Elman, son of the town trash collector, and Lilith Salmon, daughter...

Insight Guides US National Parks West (Travel Guide eBook)

by Insight Guides

From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this guide to US National Parks West is all you need to plan your perfect trip, with insider information on must-see, top attractions like 13th-century...

What Lies Beneath

by Cynthia Leal Massey

Unearth the Mysteries of Those Who Lie Beneath the Oldest Graveyards in the Lone Star State

Texas, the second largest state, both in land mass and population, has more than 50,000 cemeteries, graveyards, and...