This book provides a needed new interpretation of the complex cultural meanings of the late medieval, guild-produced, biblical plays of York and Chester, England, commonly known as mystery plays. It argues that the plays are themselves a "drama of masculinity," that is, dramatic activity specifically and self-consciously concerned with the fantasies and anxieties of being male in the urban, mercantile worlds of their performance. It further contends that the plays in their historical performance contexts produced and reinforced masculine communities defined by occupation, thus visibly naturalizing the world of work as masculine. The book offers welcome insight into a significant, canonical genre of dramatic literature that has been studied previously in devotional and civic contexts, but not yet in its role in the cultural history of masculinity.

This book is written by International experts in their field and should appeal to students and seasoned researchers, to scientists and to clinicians. No prior knowledge of the topic is required to appreciate this text and yet the book charters new territory. New perspectives are given on how our knowledge of cancer development might lead us to reconsider our clinical approach to early detection and prevention of cancer at an individual and population level.

This book is written by International experts in their field and should appeal to students and seasoned researchers, to scientists and to clinicians. No prior knowledge of the topic is required to appreciate this text and yet the book charters new territory. New perspectives are given on how our knowledge of cancer development might lead us to reconsider our clinical approach to early detection and prevention of cancer at an individual and population level.

This study argues that late medieval English 'mystery plays' were about masculinity as much as Christian theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Performed repeatedly by generations of merchants and craftsmen, these Biblical plays produced fantasies and anxieties of middle class, urban masculinity, many of which are familiar today.

As nationwide calls for educational rigor and accountability continue across the U.S., many states have made the edTPA®, a teacher performance assessment, a requirement for teacher certification. The edTPA® is a subject-specific performance assessment that requires aspiring teachers to plan, implement, assess, and reflect upon a learning segment, while demonstrating pedagogical skills related to their disciplines. While it is designed to promote teaching excellence, the edTPA® can drive already-stressed teacher candidates to their breaking point, as it places them in an unfamiliar classroom and asks them to quickly display their knowledge and savvy.     This book is here to help teacher candidates not only survive the challenge of the edTPA®, but also thrive. It maps out precisely what steps aspiring secondary education teachers should take to ensure successful completion of the edTPA®. Demystifying the language used in the assessment, it uniquely connects edTPA® requirements with what teacher candidates learn within their teacher preparation programs, showing them how the assessment relates to what they are already doing in their classrooms. The strategies in this book draw on both academic research and practical experience to guide student teachers as they plan for their edTPA® portfolios and for their teaching careers beyond.

As nationwide calls for educational rigor and accountability continue across the U.S., many states have made the edTPA®, a teacher performance assessment, a requirement for teacher certification. The edTPA® is a subject-specific performance assessment that requires aspiring teachers to plan, implement, assess, and reflect upon a learning segment, while demonstrating pedagogical skills related to their disciplines. While it is designed to promote teaching excellence, the edTPA® can drive already-stressed teacher candidates to their breaking point, as it places them in an unfamiliar classroom and asks them to quickly display their knowledge and savvy.     This book is here to help teacher candidates not only survive the challenge of the edTPA®, but also thrive. It maps out precisely what steps aspiring secondary education teachers should take to ensure successful completion of the edTPA®. Demystifying the language used in the assessment, it uniquely connects edTPA® requirements with what teacher candidates learn within their teacher preparation programs, showing them how the assessment relates to what they are already doing in their classrooms. The strategies in this book draw on both academic research and practical experience to guide student teachers as they plan for their edTPA® portfolios and for their teaching careers beyond.

When readers think of the destructive nature of tornadoes, they often think of Kansas. The Sunflower State has certainly earned the nickname, "The Cyclone State," on and off since territorial times. The movie, the Wizard of Oz, has not helped the state's image of wild weather in the heart of tornado alley and the subsequent widespread death and destruction. Now, Sound and Fury provides a comprehensive look at the many tornadoes that visited Kansas. Over a hundred of the best-known tornado events are documented here, including the famous Irving tornado of 1879; the Udall tornado that killed dozens of residents while they were sleeping; the first $100,000,000 tornado-the Topeka tornado-of 1966; and recently, the famous Greensburg tornado which wiped out the entire community in 2007. Sound and Fury is four hundred pages of stories with over a hundred illustrations and maps of significant tornado paths.

This is the second volume in the Ghost Towns of Kansas series. Originally published in 1979, this 30th anniversary reissue documents the histories of a hundred exciting Kansas ghost towns that grew, prospered, and died. This volume received numerous awards and accolades after it was released, including six related news emmy nominations and a rock album. The 30th anniversary reissue has been lovingly edited and it includes a brand new introduction by the author. The book has been out of print for over twenty years.

Take a journey with a young sailing lad who meets a an East Indian princess that persuades him to consider Buddhism, together they seek out the many wonders found in the tangled waterways of Discovery Passage.

This is the new 2nd Edition of the popular Sound and Fury: A History of Kansas Tornadoes, 1854-2012. This volume documents the history of the most significant tornadoes that occurred within Kansas. The new edition adds recent tornado events that have occurred within the last few years, including additional tornadoes in Chapman, Reading, and elsewhere. Thanks to the Weather Channel and a sudden increase in tornado events, readers have become fascinated with the most violent force of nature known to man. This book combines a history of significant tornado events with common scientific logic on how we viewed and understood tornadoes in the Midwest. The 342 page book is packed with over 100 images and maps. This is the primary resource for anyone wanting a history of Kansas disasters or tornado events.

As the Air Force continues to lose its knowledge base through retirements and downsizing, the need to get maximum use from the remaining knowledge base becomes increasingly important. In their efforts to help the Department of Defense and the Air Force Chief Information Officer (AFCIO) meet their knowledge management goals, Air Force Material Command (AFMC) has been working to implement the use of communities of practice. A primary goal of AFMC/DRW, the Air Force Knowledge Now (AFKN) program office, and the office of the AFCIO is to increase effectiveness and participation within communities of practice (CoPs). The goal of this research is to identify factors from the literature that may affect knowledge transfer, information sharing, and technology acceptance, and compare those factors with AFKN hosted CoPs exhibiting high and low levels of participation. Additionally, factors of interest identified in interviews with AFKN personnel were researched. This research used a cross-sectional research instrument to survey CoP members within all AFKN hosted CoPs containing 20 or more members. This research suggests these factors positively correlate with high use CoPs: Trust, Willingness to Share, Security Constraints, and Facilitator. Additionally, factor analysis confirmed the Security Constraints factor and produced a Job Performance factor that also positively correlated with high use CoPs. The results of these findings may allow AFKN to focus on these factors when the goal is to improve participation in future CoPs.

The steamboat was the great civilizer of the West. This transportation source was responsible for moving emigrants, settlers, and freight from the edge of the frontier. The Missouri River was the highway. For twenty years, 1840-1860, the frontier line of settlement moved up the Missouri River to the Kansas-Missouri border. Here it stopped briefly. In those two decades, a boom occurred that was fuelled by a variety of factors. Towns were established along every bend of the Missouri River that catered to the whims of everyone that stopped at their banks. This was the Golden Age of steamboat navigation. Everyone speculated in town lots and real estate. Some became wealthy but everyone tried. Then, almost as quickly as the boom hit, the Panic of 1857 took everything away. Towns, people, dreams, even the steamboat itself, came and went, leaving an empty void. The railroad took over, and any town built on a narrow line of track suddenly took over the boom. This book documents a fascinating age, a time that came and left in two decades, never to return. Using primary accounts and sources, historican Dan Fitzgerald documents this boom and bust era---the dreams, the fortunes, the profit, and the eventual loss. Come aboard for the ride.

The book that started the series: Ghost Towns of Kansas Volume One was the enormously successful first release of a six volume series that spanned four decades. This book was produced in 1976 when the author, Daniel Fitzgerald, was a senior in high school. It documents the histories of 115 different Kansas ghost towns that prospered and died in the state's history. This release is lovingly edited and restored, and it includes 19 ghost towns that were pulled from the author's unpublished notes and released here for the first time. Ghost Towns of Kansas Volume One has been out of print for over twenty years. The book also includes a brand new foreword and an extensive index.

This is the third volume in the original Ghost Towns of Kansas series. Originally published in 1982, this 28th anniversary reissue documents the histories of a hundred exciting Kansas ghost towns that grew, prospered, and died across the state. These hundred ghost town histories are organized by topic, such as boom towns, mining towns, free state/ pro-slavery towns, county seat towns, and railroad towns. This series won numerous awards and accolades, including several news emmys. This third volume has been lovingly edited and restored with a new foreword by the author.

Over 6,000 ghost towns have existed in the history of Kansas. Many of these were boom towns that evolved into major communities overnight, and disappeared just as fast. Some of these fascinating places were mining towns, steamboat towns, trail stops, railroad hubs, and county seat contenders. Their stories are all exciting, and many of their locations are mostly forgotten. Daniel Fitzgerald revisits over a hundred of these mysterious ghosts. Like a detective sorting through the dusty, dark corners of the state's history, he brings them back to life in his sixth and last volume of all new material. Ghost Towns of Kansas: 6 is an epic finale spanning 35 years. It is one of the longest-running and most successful Kansas history series ever created. It promises to be Fitzgerald's most exciting chapter yet.

The thirty-fifth Governor of Swan Isle desperately needs an heir after his wife was severely crippled in a horse riding accident. He turns his attention to the lovely Roxanne. After five hopeful years, she gives birth to twin sons out of wedlock in mysterious circumstances. Sadly, Roxanne dies in childbirth and the children are brought up separately, but unknown to each other that they are brothers. A programme of radical reforms to reverse centuries of oppression is commenced by the Governor. As he wishes his first born to be heir, he changes the Isle's constitution. The twins become renowned cricketers and meet unknowingly at a cricket match thousands of miles away in a village called Sleepy Meadows. Both twins excelled in the match. The victor is sensationally charged with having unlawful carnal knowledge of the other's fiancee, Mary. Will he be convicted and incarcerated? Also unknown to them in their childhood they confronted each other whilst playing for the mystical Black and White Swans. After a series of horrific nightmares the younger of the twins attends both a psychoanalyst and a leading medium and what they reveal terrifies him. Will their predictions come to fruition? Will the brothers be re-united?

Rupert fallt aus allen Wolken, als er erfahrt, dass ein alter Vertrag noch immer Gultigkeit besitzt und bestimmt, er solle die Verlobte seines verstorbenen Bruders heiraten. Sowohl er als auch sein Grossvater, der Herzog von Dinston, sind von dieser Verbindung alles andere als begeistert, konnen den Vertrag jedoch auch nicht einfach ignorieren. So bricht Rupert mit dem Plan, Margaret von der Ehe abzubringen, nach Wiltshire auf. Dort geht zunachst alles schief: Er kusst die falsche Frau, und die richtige, fur die er eine unerklarliche Leidenschaft empfindet, kann ihn nicht leiden. Insgeheim ist Margaret dem unerwunschten Verlobten jedoch gar nicht so abgeneigt, wie sie es vorgibt. Doch eine erzwungene Ehe? Soll sie nicht besser ihrem Gewissen folgen und ihn fur ihre Schwester freigeben? Und dann ist da noch etwas, was sie Rupert unter keinen Umstanden sagen kann, eine Ehe jedoch in jedem Fall verhindern wird ... (Schriftgrosse 11,5Punk