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Rochester (Paperback)
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The county seat of Fulton County, Rochester is a small rural town
in north-central Indiana. Its history includes many famous people.
Despite the mistaken trivia game answer, Elmo Lincoln, the first
Tarzan in 1918, was born in Rochester, Indiana, not New York. And
John Chamberlain, famous modern sculptor, was born here too. Clyde
Beatty, wild animal trainer extraordinaire, lived here while the
Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty Circus had its winter quarters in
Rochester in the 1930s. For a community with such a small
population, Rochester has harbored more than its share of famous
people.
You could have saved her. Sure as the tide against his
Highland shores, the refrain beats into Constable Angus ‘Dubh’
MacNeil’s mind. For years it has haunted him, accompanied by the
faces of those he could not save—the Burned Man, the Strangled
Woman, the Drowned Boy. All witnesses to a secret he cannot share
and a gift he now refuses to embrace. You could have saved
her. The refrain drives Angus to the seashore at dawn, where
a girl lies on the unblemished sand. She wears a green cloak and
cradles a corps creadha, a Highland voodoo doll. She has
suffered a ritualistic, three-fold death—her head bludgeoned, her
throat cut, and symbolically drowned. It is Faye Chichester,
daughter of an American billionaire whose mission to reintroduce
wolves to the Highlands has embroiled the village of Glenruig. But
even as media and police swarm the area, that refrain—you could
have saved her—echoes in all Angus’s thoughts. For he carries a
burden, a blessing, a curse, a secret—dà -shealladh, the
second sight of Gaelic lore. Gills MacMurdo, noted
folklorist, academic, and Angus’s oldest friend, confirms what
the dà -shealladh is warning. Just as Faye’s
death was three-fold, so must the murder victims fulfil the ancient
pattern. More will die, unless Angus does what he must—close his
eyes and see.
"I was living in a high-maintenance loneliness," Alice Fulton
writes of a devastating accident, and her poems express both
reverence and impatience as they search for a brightness palpable
as the dark. The result is a brilliant coloratura on the senses.
Fulton evokes phantom aromas of vanished perfumes, flowers fragrant
only at night, and the ozone scent of snow; marvels at velvet
paintings and chimerical colors outside the spectrum; and riffs on
a mixtape of ambient sounds: applause, clinking glasses, spectral
voices on the radio, and the whispers of a mother to her children.
Coloratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems extends
these tactile mysteries to existential questions of invisible
miracles, connection, and faith in the face of silence: "By praying
you, I create you," the poet informs an elusive God. Reveling in
the stunning possibilities of language, Fulton seeks joy to
counteract trauma and grief, empathizes with the silent pathos of
animals, and finds solace in art, friendship, and the mysterious
power of gifts. Without denying suffering, this enthralling volume
extends a fervent prayer for gratitude and healing.
As China's international political role grows, its relations with
states outside of its traditional sphere of interests is evolving.
This is certainly the case of the Gulf monarchies of Bahrain,
Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates,
which together comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). China's
levels of interdependence with these states has increased
dramatically in recent years, spanning a wide range of interests.
What motivating factors explain the Chinese leadership's decision
to forge closer ties to the GCC? Why have GCC leaders developed
closer ties to China, and what kind of role can China be expected
to play in the region as levels of interdependence intensify? This
book uses neoclassical realism to analyse the evolution of Sino-GCC
relations. Examining the pressures that shaped China's policy
toward the Gulf monarchies, it demonstrates that systemic
considerations have been predominant since 1949, yet domestic
political considerations were also always an important
consideration. Relations are examined across diplomatic and
political interactions, trade and investment, infrastructure and
construction projects, people-to-people exchanges, and military and
security cooperation. This book will appeal to scholars in the
fields of International Relations and International Political
Economy, as well as area specialists on China, the Gulf, the Gulf
Monarchies, and those working on foreign policy issues.
Related handbooks published to date are generally focussed on the
internal politics of the states of the Middle East. This book will
be unique in offering an international perspective on the growing
importance of Chinese power in the region. Brings together a mix of
established and emerging international scholars to provide
unparalleled analytical insight on China in the Middle East.
Responds to increased interest and attention in this topic area
amongst scholars, students, policy makers and diplomats.
Gulf stability is coming to play a larger role in the foreign
policy calculus of many states, but the evolving role of Asian
powers is largely under-represented in the International Relations
literature. This volume addresses this gap with a set of
empirically rich, theory driven case studies written by academics
from or based in the countries in question. The underlying
assumption is not that Asian powers have already become important
security actors in the Gulf, but rather that they perceive the Gulf
as a region of increasing strategic relevance. How will leaders in
these countries adjust to an evolving regional framework? Will
there be coordinated efforts to establish an Asian-centered
approach to Gulf stability, or will Asian rivalries make the region
a theater of competition? Will US-China tensions force alignment
choices among Asian powers? Will Asian states balance, bandwagon,
hedge, or adopt some other approach to their Gulf relationships?
These questions become even more important as the western
boundaries of Asia increasingly come to incorporate the Middle
East. The book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields
of International Relations, Security Studies, and International
Political Economy, as well as area specialists on the Gulf and
those working on foreign policy issues on each of the Asian
countries included. Professionals in government and non-government
agencies will also find it very useful. The Open Access version of
this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
Get ready for a refreshing and unique take on preparedness. This
essential guide is for regular people who want to handle disaster
situations confidently, without digging a network of underground
bunkers stockpiled with weaponry. From the really loud wake-up call
of the COVID-19 pandemic to the escalating climate crisis, the
world is becoming increasingly unpredictable. It’s time to buckle
up—but fear not! Army vet and sustainable organic farmer Bill
Fulton and Alaska adventurer and writer Jeanne Chilton Devon will
demystify the whole notion of "prepping" and make it accessible and
practical for everyone. In this comprehensive handbook, you'll
learn essential knowledge like water sourcing and purification,
long-term food storage, stocking a disaster pantry, creating a safe
home, assembling evacuation bags, and ensuring your family doesn't
drive each other crazy in the face of chaos. You'll also unlock
cool survival hacks to save the day when the lights are out, the
gas is off, the supermarket is closed, and everyone around you is
hunkered down like a mountain hermit. Unlike other prepping guides,
Survive and Thrive recognizes that what we need is a collaborative,
sustainable, and family-friendly approach to preparedness. Say
goodbye to doomsday paranoia and learn empowering information to
help you live better now and have a solid plan for whatever comes
tomorrow. SPOILER: That's how we all make it through the 21st
century! With an upbeat attitude, detailed instructions, how-tos,
checklists galore, and even historical survival recipes, city
dwellers and suburbanites alike will get organized and on the path
to sustainability and resilience—whatever may come!
As you take a deep breath and submerge yourself in the waters; as
you rise wet and warned and welcome, prepared to walk into Lent,
hear this: You are loved by God. Each and every one of you:
cherished, adored, liked - just as you are. God loves you, Jesus
loves you, the Spirit loves you: Three-in-One. No exceptions.
Follow Christ's footsteps, walk into the wilderness - and dance in
the desert. Beloved of God, come on a journey.
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Saxon Logan directs this 1980s British horror. When a rich couple
(Nikolas Grace and Joanna David) journey to the home of brother and
sister Alex and Marion Britain (Bill Douglas and Heather Page) for
dinner, they end up clashing with their hosts over their
contrasting social and moral views. A destructive storm ruins their
dinner plans so instead they go out to a restaurant where they meet
the establishment's strange owner (Fulton MacKay) and his employee
(Michael Medwin). As the foursome continue to argue over their
differences, the tension builds and the night takes a
blood-spattered turn for the worst.
Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in
commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar
Catherine Innes-Parker. Silence was a much-lauded concept in the
Middle Ages, particularly in the context of religious literature
directed at women. Based on the Pauline prescription that women
should neither preach nor teach, and should at all times keep
speech to a minimum, the concept of silence lay at the forefront of
many devotional texts, particularly those associated with various
forms of women's religious enclosure. Following the example of the
Virgin Mary, religious women were exhorted to speak seldom, and
then only seriously and devoutly. However, as this volume shows,
such gendered exhortations to silence were often more rhetorical
than literal. The contributions range widely: they consider the
English 'Wooing Group' texts and female-authored visionary writings
from the Saxon nunnery of Helfta in the thirteenth century; works
by Richard Rolle and the Dutch mystic Jan van Ruusbroec in the
fourteenth century; Anglo-French treatises, and books housed in the
library of the English noblewoman Cecily Neville in the fifteenth
century; and the resonant poetics of women from non-Christian
cultures. But all demonstrate the ways in which silence, rather
than being a mere absence of speech, frequently comprised a form of
gendered articulation and proto-feminist point of resistance. They
thus provide an apt commemoration and celebration of the deeply
innovative work of Catherine Innes-Parker (1956-2019), the
respected feminist scholar and a pioneer of this important field of
study.
This book provides a means of comprehensively grounding and
considering the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of
practice-based research epistemologies. By introducing readers to
the diverse array of methodological tools and concepts that are
necessary to underpin postgraduate research, this book develops an
understanding of the distinctions between practice-led research,
practice-based research and question-led research, and the
contextual significance of each, as well as enabling students to
comprehend the historical relationships between academic
disciplines and the value of reconnecting them at an
epistemological and philosophical level. Through illustrated
examples from applied practice across disciplines such as art,
social sciences and medical and allied healthcare sciences, readers
are encouraged to develop the capacity to not only think
conceptually about their own research, but to systematically
evaluate that of others. With this focus on descriptive studies
from practice, the book fosters higher-order critical thinking in
relation to implications for methodological implementation,
encouraging deep learning processes and the confidence to transcend
the limits of one's own discipline in order to work collaboratively
with researchers in different fields.
You could have saved her. Sure as the tide against his
Highland shores, the refrain beats into Constable Angus ‘Dubh’
MacNeil’s mind. For years it has haunted him, accompanied by the
faces of those he could not save—the Burned Man, the Strangled
Woman, the Drowned Boy. All witnesses to a secret he cannot share
and a gift he now refuses to embrace. You could have saved
her. The refrain drives Angus to the seashore at dawn, where
a girl lies on the unblemished sand. She wears a green cloak and
cradles a corps creadha, a Highland voodoo doll. She has
suffered a ritualistic, three-fold death—her head bludgeoned, her
throat cut, and symbolically drowned. It is Faye Chichester,
daughter of an American billionaire whose mission to reintroduce
wolves to the Highlands has embroiled the village of Glenruig. But
even as media and police swarm the area, that refrain—you could
have saved her—echoes in all Angus’s thoughts. For he carries a
burden, a blessing, a curse, a secret—dà -shealladh, the
second sight of Gaelic lore. Gills MacMurdo, noted
folklorist, academic, and Angus’s oldest friend, confirms what
the dà -shealladh is warning. Just as Faye’s
death was three-fold, so must the murder victims fulfil the ancient
pattern. More will die, unless Angus does what he must—close his
eyes and see.
Introduced in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has had
a significant impact within Asia and across other regions. This
book provides empirical case studies examining the relations
between China and the states in specific regional groupings,
including South-East Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, the Persian
Gulf, the Horn of Africa, and Central/Eastern Europe. At the
theoretical level, Buzan and Waever's work on regional security
complexes is used to develop a framework for analyzing the current
impact of the BRI and its potential future effects within these
regions, while the case studies explore the extent to which
different International Relations and International Political
Economy theories explain change in these relationships as the
regional security environment shifts. The contributors address
questions as diverse as the domestic political and economic drivers
impacting the level of BRI cooperation; the effects of cooperation
with the US; as well as the historical political and economic risk
considerations for China in pursuing BRI cooperation; and the
motivations of regional responses to the BRI and rivalries and
variations in those responses. This book will be of interest to
academics working in the fields of Chinese foreign policy,
International Relations, International Political Economy, and area
studies. Professionals in the corporate world and Governmental
practitioners and non-government agencies will also find the
contributions useful.
Wide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence
on many aspects of medieval culture. Medieval women were normally
denied access to public educational institutions, and so also
denied the gateways to most leadership positions. Modern scholars
have therefore tended to study learned medieval women as simply
anomalies, and women generally as victims. This volume, however,
argues instead for a via media. Drawing upon manuscript and
archival sources, scholars here show that more medieval women
attained some form of learning than hitherto imagined, and that
women with such legal, social or ecclesiastical knowledge also
often exercised professional or communal leadership. Bringing
together contributors from the disciplines of literature, history
and religion, this volume challenges several traditional views:
firstly, the still-prevalent idea that women's intellectual
accomplishments were limited to the Latin literate. The collection
therefore engages heavily with vernacular writings (in Anglo-Saxon,
Middle English, French, Dutch, German and Italian), and also with
material culture (manuscript illumination, stained glass, fabric
and jewelry) for evidence of women's advanced capabilities. But in
doing so, the contributors strive to avoid the equally problematic
view that women's accomplishments were somehow limited to the
vernacular and the material. So several essays examine women at
work with the sacred languages of the three Abrahamic traditions
(Latin, Arabic and Hebrew). And a third traditional view is also
interrogated: that women were somehow more "original" for their
lack of learning and and dependence on their mother tongue.
Scholars here agree wholeheartedly that women could be daring
thinkers in any language; they engage readily with women's
learnedness wherever it can be found.
Advent is close, expectation is holding its breath. The angels
hover high above. Come, begin your journey - Hope Was Heard Singing
can be used as part of a daily discipline for Advent, or as a book
to dip into. It is a collection for personal reflection, and a rich
resource, from an original voice, for congregations and small
groups searching for material relevant to the 21st century. There
are prayers, meditations, poems, a few wee plays thrown in for good
measure and Bible readings on Advent themes. Much of the material
was tried and tested at Dunblane Cathedral, where Sally is
Associate Minister. On the hillsides, hope was heard singing
unexpected Hallelujahs. In a Bethlehem backwater, hope hovered and
love was born. And now, as the wise journey and the powerful start
to pace the floor and mumble into sleepless nights, we gather - the
light of the world is here. The job now is to keep it burning.
Training Teachers in Emotional Intelligence provides pre- and
in-service teachers with foundational knowledge and skills
regarding their own and their students' emotions. Teachers are
increasingly charged with providing social-emotional learning,
responding to emotional situations in the classroom, and managing
their own stress, all of which have real consequences for their
retention and student achievement. Focused on the
primary/elementary level, this book is an accessible review of
children's emotional development, the role of emotions in learning,
teaching, and teachers' professional identity. The book provides
strategies for teachers to foster their emotional awareness, use
emotions to promote learning and relationships, foster emotional
competencies in students, and stay emotionally healthy.
First Published in 1988, this book offers a full, comprehensive
guide into the relationship between macrophages and Cancer.
Carefully compiled and filled with a vast repertoire of notes and
references this book serves as a useful reference for Students of
Medicine, Oncology and other practitioners in their respective
fields.
This book provides a means of comprehensively grounding and
considering the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of
practice-based research epistemologies. By introducing readers to
the diverse array of methodological tools and concepts that are
necessary to underpin postgraduate research, this book develops an
understanding of the distinctions between practice-led research,
practice-based research and question-led research, and the
contextual significance of each, as well as enabling students to
comprehend the historical relationships between academic
disciplines and the value of reconnecting them at an
epistemological and philosophical level. Through illustrated
examples from applied practice across disciplines such as art,
social sciences and medical and allied healthcare sciences, readers
are encouraged to develop the capacity to not only think
conceptually about their own research, but to systematically
evaluate that of others. With this focus on descriptive studies
from practice, the book fosters higher-order critical thinking in
relation to implications for methodological implementation,
encouraging deep learning processes and the confidence to transcend
the limits of one's own discipline in order to work collaboratively
with researchers in different fields.
Captured here for the first time is the richness of the Charlemagne
tradition in medieval Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Wales and
Ireland and its coherence as a series of adaptations of Old French
chansons de geste The reception of the Charlemagne legends among
Nordic and Celtic communities in the Middle Ages is a shared story
of transmission, translation, an exploration of national identity,
and the celebration of imperialism. The articles brought together
here capture for the first time the richness of the Charlemagne
tradition in medieval Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Wales and
Ireland and its coherence as a series of adaptations of Old French
chansons de geste. Emerging from the French sources is a set of
themes which unite the linguistically different Norse and Celtic
Charlemagne traditions. The ideology of the Crusades, the dichotomy
of Christian and heathen elements, the values of chivalry and the
ideals of kingship are among the preoccupations common to both
traditions. While processes of manuscript transmission are
distinctive to each linguistic context, the essential function of
the legends as explorations of political ideology, emotion, and
social values creates unity across the language groups. From the
Old Norse Karlamagnus saga to the Irish and Welsh narratives, the
chapters present a coherent set of perspectives on the northern
reception of the Charlemagne legends beyond the nation of England.
Contributors: Massimiliano Bampi, Claudia Bornholdt, Aisling Byrne,
Luciana Cordo Russo, Helen Fulton, Jon Paul Heyne, Susanne
Kramarz-Bein, Erich Poppe, Annalee C. Rejhon, Sif Rikhardsdottir,
Helene Tetrel.
South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters
between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United
States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays
collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two
powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the
Pacific, but the effect of those cultures on the Western cultural
perceptions of themselves and the wider world, including
understanding encounters and exchanges in ways which do not
underemphasize the agency and consequences for all participating
parties. The essays also provide insights into the causes,
unfolding, and consequences for both sides of a series of
significant ethnographic, political, cultural, scientific,
educational, and social encounters. This volume makes a significant
contribution to increasing scholarly interest in Oceania's place in
British and American nineteenth-century cultural experiences. South
Seas Encounters investigates these significant interactions and how
they changed the ways that Oceanic, British, and American cultures
reflected on themselves and their place in the wider world.
Highlights "the range and richness of scholarship on medieval
warfare, military institutions, and cultures of conflict that
characterize the field". History 95 (2010) Warfare on the periphery
of Europe and across cultural boundaries is a particular focus of
this volume. One article, on Castilian seapower, treats the melding
of northern and southern naval traditions; another clarifies the
military roles of the Ayyubid and Mamluk miners and stoneworkers in
siege warfare; a third emphasizes cultural considerations in an
Icelandic conflict; a fourth looks at how an Iberian prelate
navigated the line between ecclesiastical and military
responsibilities; and a fifth analyzes the different roles of early
gunpowder weapons in Europe and China, linking technological
history with the significance of human geography. Further
contributions also consider technology, two dealing with
fifteenth-century English artillery and the third with
prefabricated mechanical artillery during the Crusades. Another
theme of the volume is source criticism, with re-examinations of
the sources for Owain Glyndwr's (possible) victory at Hyddgen in
1401, a (possible) Danish attack on England in 1128, and the role
of non-milites in Salian warfare. Contributors: Nicolas Agrait,
Tonio Andrade, David Bachrach, Oren Falk, Devin Fields, Michael S.
Fulton, Thomas K. Heeboll-Holm, Rabei G. Khamisy, Michael
Livingstone, Dan Spencer, L.J. Andrew Villalon
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