Utilizing contemporary accounts of India, China, Siam and the Levant, this study provides rich detail about these exotic lands and explores the priorities that shaped and motivated these bold envoys and chroniclers. Ames and Love offer a fascinating look at the symbiotic nature of cross-cultural interaction between France and the major trading regions of the Indian Ocean basin during the 17th century. During this period of intense French interest in the rich trade and cultures of the region, Louis XIV and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert in particular were concerned with encouraging French travelers, both clerical and lay, to explore and document these lands. Among the accounts included here are those of Francois Bernier, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, and Francois Pyrard. Because these accounts reflect as much about the structures and priorities of France as they do about the cultures they describe, Ames and Love hope their analysis bridges the gap between studies on early modern France and those on the major Asiatic countries of the same period. Their findings challenge the current thinking in the study of early modern France by demonstrating that overseas expansion to Asia was of considerable importance and interest to all segments of French society. Specialists in traditional "internal" French history will find much in this study of European expansion to complement and supplement their research.

Key Features: Provides clear and authoritative recommendations for managing fire in ecological and social contexts Authors are all international leaders in their fields and include not only academics but also leaders of Indigenous communities Explains Indigenous cultural and knowledge systems to a degree that has rarely been accessible to lay and academic readers outside specialized disciplines like Anthropology Responds to growing need for new approaches to managing human-ecological systems that are in greater sympathy with Australia's natural environments/climate, and value the knowledge of Indigenous people Timely for scholarly and interest groups intervention, as the Australian government is again looking to 'develop the north' Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia sets out a vision for developing North Australia based on a culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable land sector economy. This vision supports both Indigenous cultural responsibilities and aspirations, as well as enhancing enterprise opportunities for society as a whole. In the past, well-meaning if often misguided policy agendas have failed - and continue to fail - North Australians. This book helps breach that gap by acknowledging and harnessing Indigenous cultural strengths and knowledge systems for looking after the country and its people, as part of a smart, novel and diversified ecosystem services economy.

Recommendations of evaluation standards for the use of contractors and possible long-term initiatives to reduce dependence on traditional "outside" contractors.

Home for the Horror Days is a collection of short horror stories exploring a range of holidays that will make you fear what you've never feared before. They are gruesome tales that will make you wonder if you can ever look at the holidays the same again. After all, what would the holidays be without a little blood and guts and terrifying things that creep into your house while you sleep? Each story is unique from hair raising monsters to bone chilling fantasy characters you once thought were cute.

There are things so terrifying that come from the darkest places in the human mind that should never be allowed to escape. Minds that are so gnarled and morbidly deranged they should be lobotomized. They are tales that your mother warned you about from the place where nightmares are born. Things that once heard or seen will only grow into fears you never thought could exist.

Additional Contributing Authors Include E. T. Bell, Richard Bellman, Herbert Busemann, And Many Others.

Additional Contributing Authors Include E. T. Bell, Richard Bellman, Herbert Busemann, And Many Others.

Bites and Pieces is a gathering of wicked tales from four authors with different perspectives on horror. Each one is equally twisted but some more morbid than the others. Enter the mind of a crazed mother who kills more of her children than she does the zombies, or try to imagine being in the mind of a fool who can fix even the most unfixable things. See the tooth-fairy as you've never seen her before. There's a little something for everyone.

This volume, which is a compilation, contains the only two works of Michael Molinos known to exist: The Spiritual Guide and Frequent Daily Communion. It also contains three of Francois Fenelon's most beloved works: Spiritual Progress, Maxims of the Saints, and Spiritual Letters. This material, some of which has not been published in over 80 years, has been updated for ease of reading. However, it remains unabridged, preserving the tone and style of the original works so that they might live and communicate with a new generation. Michael Molinos and Francois Fenelon are unequivocally two of the most influential figures to emerge from the Quietist movement. They paid a high price to bring their ideas to life so that others might have a clearer path to follow. As a result, thousands of spiritually minded individuals have adopted their teachings and been transformed. Sit at the feet of two of the greatest masters of the spiritual life and read some of the most inspiring works of devotional literature ever written.

The richness of Victorian theatre has often been neglected because of the era's most celebrated productions of Shakespeare's plays. Judith L. Fisher and Stephen Watt present a vigorous collection of eighteen essays covering the vast expanse of this "other" theatre, including social dramas, Christmas pantomimes, and adaptations of Gothic novels such as "Guy Mannering" and "Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags."
Reflecting both the longings and values of the public and the theatrical conventions of the times, Victorian productions could capture audiences with the historical verisimilitude of William Charles Macready's production of "Richelieu "or incite a storm of public outrage with the too explicitly fallen woman in Olga Nethersole's interpretation of "Sapho." Playwrights worked at adapting such popular classic works as "The Count of Monte Cristo" or devising new melodramas such as "Rent Day" and "Luke the Labourer." Pandering to the tastes of an expanding middle-class audience, theatre bills reflected popular fascination with the daily newspapers' stories of social maladies. Transposed to the stage, "bad" men and women could be punished for wrongdoings in a way that was unlikely or impossible in real life. Emphasizing the variety of stagecraft in the Victorian age, the contributors to "When They Weren't Doing Shakespeare" present a composite portrait of the vibrant theatrical worlds that existed in both nineteenth-century New York and London.