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In this mystery in the award-winning series featuring a
twelfth-century Benedictine monk, Brother Cadfael must travel to
the heart of a leper colony to root out the secret behind a savage
murder. Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside
Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind
than the grand wedding coming to his abbey. But as fate would have
it, Cadfael arrives at Saint Giles just as the nuptial party passes
the colony's gates. When he sees the fragile bride looking like a
prisoner between her two stern guardians and the bridegroom-an
arrogant, fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather-he
quickly discerns this union may be more damned than blessed.
Indeed, a savage murder will interrupt the May-December marriage
and leave Cadfael with a dark, terrible mystery to solve. Now, with
the key to the killing hidden among the lepers of Saint Giles, the
monk must ferret out a sickness not of the body, but of a twisted
soul.
This volume expands the chronology and geography of the black
freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the old South
and the years between 1954 and 1968. Beginning as far back as the
nineteenth century, and analyzing case studies from southern,
northern, and border states, these essays incorporate communities
and topics not usually linked to the African American civil rights
movement. Contributors highlight little-known race riots in
northern cities, the work of black women who defied local
governments to provide medical care to their communities, and the
national Food for Freedom campaign of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee. Moving to recent issues such as Ferguson,
Sandra Bland, and Black Lives Matter, these chapters connect the
activism of today to a deeply historical, wide-ranging fight for
equality.
Christmas Eve. While the world sleeps, snow falls gently from the
sky, presents await under the tree ... and murder is afoot. In this
collection of ten classic murder mysteries from the best crime
writers in history, death and mayhem take many festive forms, from
the inventive to the unexpected. From a Santa Claus with a grudge
to a cat who knows who killed its owner on Christmas Eve, these are
stories to enjoy - and be mystified by - in front of a roaring
fire, mince pie to hand.
Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this
volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors
that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to
consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future
expansion of other renewable technologies.
This integrated collection of perspectives on the spaces of
teaching and learning uses 'learning space' to place educational
practice in context. It considers the complex relationships
involved in the design, management and use of contemporary learning
spaces. It sheds light on some of the problems of connecting the
characteristics of spaces to the practices and outcomes of teaching
and learning. The contributions show how research into learning
spaces can inform broader educational practices and how the
practices of teaching, learning and design can inform research. The
selection of chapters demonstrates the value of gathering together
multiple sources of evidence, viewed through different
epistemological lenses in order to push the field forward in a
timely fashion. The book provides both a broad review of current
practices as well as a deep-dive into particular educational and
epistemological challenges that the various approaches adopted
entail. Contrasts and commonalities between the different
approaches emphasise the importance of developing a broad, robust
evidence-base for practice in context. This is the inaugural book
in the series Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice.
Students Experiences of e-learning in Higher Education helps
higher education instructors and university managers understand how
e-learning relates to, and can be integrated with, other student
experiences of learning. Grounded in relevant international
research, the book is distinctive in that it foregrounds students
experiences of learning, emphasizing the importance of how students
interpret the challenges set before them, along with their
conceptions of learning and their approaches to learning. The way
students interpret task requirements greatly affects learning
outcomes, and those interpretations are in turn influenced by how
students read the larger environment in which they study. The
authors argue that a systemic understanding is necessary for the
effective design and management of modern learning environments,
whether lectures, seminars, laboratories or private study. This
ecological understanding must also acknowledge, though, the agency
of learners as active interpreters of their environment and its
culture, values and challenges.
Students Experiences of e-learning in Higher Education reports
research outcomes that locate e-learning within the broader ecology
of higher education and:
- Offers a holistic treatment of e-learning in higher education,
reflecting the need for integrating e-learning and other aspects of
the student learning experience
- Reports research on students experiences with e-learning
conducted by authors in the United States, Europe, and
Australia
- Synthesizes key themes in recent international research and
summarizes their implications for teachers and managers.
In the twelfth century, merchants gather at a summertime fair-but
when one of them is found dead in a river, a crime-solving monk
must step in. St. Peter's Fair is a grand, festive event,
attracting merchants from across England and beyond. There is a
pause in the civil war racking the country in the summer of 1139,
and the fair promises to bring some much-needed gaiety to the town
of Shrewsbury-until the body of a wealthy merchant is found
murdered in the river Severn. Was Thomas of Bristol the victim of
murderous thieves? And, if so, why were his valuables abandoned
nearby? Brother Cadfael, that shrewd but kindly monk, offers to
help the merchant's lovely niece Emma. But while he is searching
for the killer, Thomas of Bristol's wares are ransacked and two
more men are murdered. Emma almost certainly knows more than she is
telling-as others will soon realize. Cadfael desperately races to
save the young girl, knowing that in a country at war with itself,
betrayal can come from any direction, and even good intentions can
kill.
Christmas is a time of goodwill to all men ... or is it? As the
nights draw in, throw another log on the fire and settle back into
your armchair to enjoy this collection of ten classic Christmas
mysteries, in which crime's best known sleuths, from Rebus to
Holmes and Cadfael to Father Brown, uncover murder and mayhem
galore. Whether it's a Christmas goose with a surprising secret
cargo, a murdered pantomime dame, or a killer who departs the scene
of the crime without leaving a single footprint, these stories will
puzzle and delight in equal measure. And along the way, there'll be
enough carols and Christmas pudding, mistletoe and mulled wine, to
warm the heart of a stone-cold killer ... perhaps.
It's the middle of summer. On Cornish sea-fronts, happy children grip melting ice-creams. In the south of France, sunlight filters through leaves as families picnic in the shade. And in the fashionable resorts of the Mediterranean, the beautiful people sun themselves on picture-postcard beaches.
And in those long, hot summer nights ... murder walks abroad. Away from familiar surroundings, and as the temperature rises, old grudges come to the surface, new hatreds reach boiling point - and clever minds start to make dangerous plans. These ten classic mysteries, from some of the finest crime writers, prove that no matter where you travel to - there's no rest for the wicked.
Outside the pale of the abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in
September of the year of our Lord 1140, a priestly emissary for
King Stephen has been reported missing. But inside the pale,
Brother Cadfael's attention is turned on Meriet, a proud,
secretive, nineteen-year-old novice who has been delivered to the
abbey by his over-bearing father the Lord of Aspley, to begin a
religious vocation. Meriet, meek by day, is so racked by dreams at
night that his howl earns him the nickname of the Devil's Novice.
Shunned and feared, Meriet is soon linked to the missing priest's
fate. Only Brother Cadfael believes in Meriet's innocence, and only
the good sleuth can uncover the truth before a boy's pure passion,
not evil intent, leads a novice to the noose.
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