"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing-a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading."-Slate "Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." -The Boston Globe A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality-a brilliant reflection of humanity itself. The word "medieval" conjures images of the "Dark Ages"-centuries of ignorance, superstition, stasis, savagery, and poor hygiene. But the myth of darkness obscures the truth; this was a remarkable period in human history. The Bright Ages recasts the European Middle Ages for what it was, capturing this 1,000-year era in all its complexity and fundamental humanity, bringing to light both its beauty and its horrors. The Bright Ages takes us through ten centuries and crisscrosses Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them. We look with fresh eyes on the Fall of Rome, Charlemagne, the Vikings, the Crusades, and the Black Death, but also to the multi-religious experience of Iberia, the rise of Byzantium, and the genius of Hildegard and the power of queens. We begin under a blanket of golden stars constructed by an empress with Germanic, Roman, Spanish, Byzantine, and Christian bloodlines and end nearly 1,000 years later with the poet Dante-inspired by that same twinkling celestial canopy-writing an epic saga of heaven and hell that endures as a masterpiece of literature today. The Bright Ages reminds us just how permeable our manmade borders have always been and of what possible worlds the past has always made available to us. The Middle Ages may have been a world "lit only by fire" but it was one whose torches illuminated the magnificent rose windows of cathedrals, even as they stoked the pyres of accused heretics. The Bright Ages contains an 8-page color insert.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2018, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2018. The 51 full papers, 17 short papers, and 13 poster and tutorial papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The general theme of TPDL 2018 was Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. The papers present a wide range of the following topics: Metadata, Entity Disambiguation, Data Management, Scholarly Communication, Digital Humanities, User Interaction, Resources, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Recommendation.

Since slavery, Black women have struggled to liberate themselves from racism and sexism. Yet despite these hurdles and under the most difficult circumstances, they managed to achieve greatness. TRAILBLAZERS shines a light on these their accomplishments, which often led to widespread cultural change. TRAILBLAZERS is a six-volume series that examines the lives and careers of over four hundred brilliant women from the eighteenth century to the present who blazed uncharted paths in every conceivable way. Each TRAILBLAZERS volume is organized into several sections. Along with biographical information and powerful photographs, David provides a historical timeline for each section-written from the viewpoint of Black women-that maps out the significance of the featured women that follow. Volume 1 features an assortment of sixty-five activists, dancers, and athletes. We learn about the significance of activists like Ella Baker, Pauli Murray, Rosina Tucker, and Clara Day, who represent the hundreds of unnamed women who participated in the civil rights and labor movements. We re-discover dancers Jeni Legon and Margot Webb, who are honored alongside dance legends Josephine Baker, Katherine Dunham, Janet Collins, and a new generation of dancers including Misty Copeland, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, and choreographers like Camille A. Brown, and Cynthia Oliver. And then there are the Black women athletes who disrupted the world of sports, from the nearly forgotten tennis champion Ora Washington and Alice Coachman-the first to compete and win in the Olympics-to Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in Olympic history. Throughout the series, as David re-introduces many of these women into the public sphere, they are not always in predictable ways. For example, Debbie Allen makes a brief appearance in this volume, not for her acting or as a director, but rather as the dancer she initially trained to be, reminding us that Black women are multifaceted, multitalented, and complex. What binds these women together is that as they struggled on the front lines, they shook up the status quo of Black people in America. Throughout the volume, David also challenges the socially conditioned assumptions, stereotypes, and false binaries that denigrate Black women's bodies particularly in dance and sports, including the barriers they face in how they wear their hair. In this regard, David addresses the totality of Black womanhood: physically, culturally, and politically. With painstaking research, David has created an affordable, visually rich, and accessible reference book. From the foremothers who blazed trails and broke barriers, to the women who follow in their footsteps, TRAILBLAZERS offers powerful and inspiring role models for women and girls from all cultural backgrounds and for the intellectually curious. TRAILBLAZERS is a clarion call for recognition of the transformative work Black women have done and continue to do. Written in accessible prose that contains personal reflections for a broad audience, TRAILBLAZERS also serves as a vital reference guide for use in schools and libraries.

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Summer 2011 issue, "Summer Sixties Special," featuring poets Jeffrey Alfier, Victor Enns, Debbie Okun Hill, Ja A. Jahannes, Lisa Morriss-Andrews and Changming Yuan. Interviews of Janice Mikrikitani, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Aimee Suzara, Elizabeh Bradfield, Brian Roley, Jericho Brown, Melinda Palacio and Shane McCrae. Essays by John Tytell, Edward P. Morgan, Chude Pam Pader Allen, Jed Skinner, David S. Wills, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Jim McGarrah, Mimi Ferebee, and Blake Slonecker. Cover Art: Travis Smithlin.

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Fall 2011 issue, "Bridging the Cultural Divide: Remembering September 11th," features over 60 poets, including: Ada A. Aharoni, Elmaz Abinader, Nan Hunt, Naomi Shihab Nye, Neil Weisbrod, Penny Cagan, Philip Metres, Purvi Shah, Qais Arsala, Ronny Someck, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, J. J. Steinfeld, Jean Nordhaus, Jesus Papoleto Melendez, Kenny Fries, Lenard D. Moore, Lucille Clifton, Marilyn Hacker, Mbizo Chirasha, Saladin Ahmed, Samuel Hazo, Seree Cohen Zohar, Shonda Buchanan and Susan Rosenberg. Featuring interviews of Ammiel Alcalay, D.H. Melhem, Hayan Charara, Karen Alkalay-Gut, and Zohra Saed. Essays by Lisa Suhair Majar, Ranen Omer-SHerman, Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi, Bassam K. Frangieh, and Morris Dickstein.

He was a hedonist and a misogynist, a cynic and a narcissist. But that all changed when, on a seemingly regular day, in a seemingly normal tone, his "uncle" told him that he was immortal. The Immortalists is a story of one man's life and his transformation from materialism to spiritualism. It is an enlightening tale that shows how one man, against seemingly insurmountable odds, can make a difference in the lives of millions. Follow along on a journey that will illuminate the beauty and power of human compassion and morality.

He was a hedonist and a misogynist, a cynic and a narcissist. But that all changed when, on a seemingly regular day, in a seemingly normal tone, his "uncle" told him that he was immortal. The Immortalists is a story of one man's life and his transformation from materialism to spiritualism. It is an enlightening tale that shows how one man, against seemingly insurmountable odds, can make a difference in the lives of millions. Follow along on a journey that will illuminate the beauty and power of human compassion and morality.

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Spring 2011 issue, "Spring Has Returned: A Season of Renewal" features poets Walter Bargen, Wyn Cooper, Susan Deer Cloud, Linh Dinh, Rachel Hadas, Chloe Honum, Hope Houghton, Joe Jimenez, Yuri Kageyama, Suji Kwock Kim, Jay Leeming, Marjorie Maddox, Nathan McClain, Jen Palmares Meadows, Tony Medina, Jesus Papoleto Melendez, Shivon Mozaffar, Rich Murphy, Peter Pereira, James G. Piatt, Ray Succre, Don Thackrey, Sheree Renee Thomas, William Trowbridge, Craig Van Riper, Terence Winch. Featuring interviews of James Piatt and Kimberly N. Ruffin. Essays by Juliet Good Fox, Larry Hales, Susan Allen, Morris Dickstein, Debra Kang Dean, Petra Newman, Kenda Robertson, Steve Newman.

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Fall 2010 issue, "Ekphrasis: A Conversation Between Poets & Writers" featuring essays by Thom Donovan, Theresa Ann White, Ryan Welsh, Patricia Smith, Peter Laufer and Tim Wise, including a wide range of poets and artists.

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Summer 2010 issue, "The Lavender Issue: LGBT Literature Today" is guest edited by award-winning poet, Timothy Liu, featuring poets Eileen Myles, Edward Field, Mary Meriam, Roberto Tejada and others. Essays by Ana Louise Keating, David Bergman and NS.

Organizing and Organizations is well loved by students and lecturers for its accessible, conversational tone and insightful real-life examples introducing the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. Fineman, Gabriel and Sims, eminent academics in the field, cover a wealth of key concepts, research and literature leaving students informed and engaged. The Fourth Edition builds on the strengths of previous editions, to provide you with a textbook that continues to stand out from the rest. This new edition has been fully developed to include: - New chapters on Influence and Power, and Innovation and Change. - A new section within each chapter that highlights the theoretical links informing the chapters. - New review questions to test and apply your understanding of the ideas in each chapter. - New 'reading on' sections that direct you to free links to highly recommended journal articles relating to each chapter's coverage, and found on the companion website. - New critical review questions at the end of each chapter to encourage debate. - Each chapter is now enlivened with pictorial illustrations. - A fully updated glossary of key concepts in the study of organizations Organizing and Organizations integrates a strong critical approach throughout.

Organizing and Organizations is well loved by students and lecturers for its accessible, conversational tone and insightful real-life examples introducing the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. Fineman, Gabriel and Sims, eminent academics in the field, cover a wealth of key concepts, research and literature leaving students informed and engaged. The Fourth Edition builds on the strengths of previous editions, to provide you with a textbook that continues to stand out from the rest. This new edition has been fully developed to include: - New chapters on Influence and Power, and Innovation and Change. - A new section within each chapter that highlights the theoretical links informing the chapters. - New review questions to test and apply your understanding of the ideas in each chapter. - New 'reading on' sections that direct you to free links to highly recommended journal articles relating to each chapter's coverage, and found on the companion website. - New critical review questions at the end of each chapter to encourage debate. - Each chapter is now enlivened with pictorial illustrations. - A fully updated glossary of key concepts in the study of organizations Organizing and Organizations integrates a strong critical approach throughout.