Case studies that show the importance of the Indian Ocean region to the emergence of modernity and globalization. This volume brings together a diverse range of specialists working in multiple areas of the Indian Ocean world, providing broad geographical coverage and comparisons across sites. Contributors use a historical archaeological approach, which bridges everyday life in the recent past with large-scale processes of globalization, to examine topics related to colonialism, labor, race, ethnicity, diaspora, human-environment relationships, and heritage. Case studies from Zanzibar, Mauritius and the Mascarene islands, India, Indonesia, Java, and other locations emphasize networks and connections across the Indian Ocean. Contributors apply a variety of disciplinary methods, including bioanthropology, analysis of medieval illustrations and colonial documents, architectural history, and anthropology of built space. They discuss the material history of domestic areas, religious structures, and colonial outposts; the structure of the slave trade; and the everyday implications of disease and health management within laboring populations. This volume decenters European narratives and actors to show the important ways this region shaped the modern world. By highlighting the experiences of ordinary people in East Africa and South and Southeast Asia, the research in these chapters contributes to a better understanding of histories in the Global South over the last four hundred years. Contributors: Mark Hauser | Julia Haines | Mick de Ruyter Ellen Hseih | Sakai Takashi | Krish Seetah | Stefania Manfio | Akshay Sarathi | Saša Čaval | Alessandra Cianciosi | Adria LaViolette | Neil Norman | V. Selvakumar | Brian C. Wilson | Chapurukha M. Kusimba | Supriya Varma 

A collection of short stories from one of science fiction and fantasy's brightest new authors, this volume of15 dark stories from the mind of Joseph Paul Haines will haunt, entertain and move you.These category-defying stories combine science fiction, horror, and fantasy in the most unpredictable of ways.From the fan favorite "Ten With a Flag," where a young woman must choose between her husband or the state controlling her destiny, with a price to be paid either way, to the magic of "The Man Behind the Curtain,"where a man struggles to reconnect with his older sister, and the magic that might save him, this collection of previously published and new stories establishes Joseph Paul Haines as a writer worth watching.

Lectio divina is Latin for divine reading. The Lectio Divina for Youth books are Bible studies that call students to slow down, read Scripture, meditate on it, and prayerfully respond as they listen to God through His Word. These powerful books expand on the successful Barefoot Ministries' Ancient Faith Series. They work perfectly with either small groups or individual Bible study.Each Lectio Divina for Youth Bible study incorporates the following approach: Reading (Lectio). Quieting ourselves prior to reading the Word.Meditation (Meditatio). We dig deep and explore the meaning of the Bible passage.Prayer (Oratio). We respond to God through praise, thanksgiving, confession, and agreement.Contemplation (Contemplatio). We come to a place where we rest in the presence of God and receive what He has said to us.Each chapter ends with a set of group study questions. Questions are designed for students to think about and discuss what it means to live out the Word in their community.

This work represents a detailed, researched attempt to investigate the role which the Probation Service might play in the field of trial and probation. Using an on-th-ground investigation of current practise, it looks at those services which can assist courts to release defendants on bail.