This, the first major study of Chinese women in Australia, is all about global journeys and perspectives. It is also a story of the various stories that connect Australia to the pathways of women of Chinese ancestory. Ryan interrogates issues of ethnicity, gender and identity to present the diversity of the women's lives.
Eine verlassene Station gibt der Enterprise Rätsel auf Vor fünfundzwanzig Jahres ist es Captain Picard gelungen, Kontakt zu den aggressiven, echsenähnlichen Gorn herzustellen und einen Krieg in der Galaxis zu verhindern. Jetzt eskalieren interne Auseinandersetzungen auf dem Heimatplaneten der Gorn, erneut droht Krieg. Picard soll als Unterhändler der Föderation eine Katastrophe verhindern. Auf dem Weg zur Konferenz entdeckt die Enterprise eine gigantische, offenbar längst verlassene Raumstation. Erste Sondierungen lassen keine Gefahr erkennen, doch als der Captain das Objekt persönlich untersuchen will, erwacht die Station zum Leben. Als der energetische Sturm abebbt, ist der Captain verchwunden.
Jonathan Edwards engaged in notable ways with the church in Germany through his writings on spirituality, theology and missiology, but this contribution has rarely been acknowledged in academic publications. In this book scholars who have an interest in both Edwards and the church in Europe offer contributions to a significant worldwide conversation on Edwards's texts and teachings. He found an ally in Martin Luther, sought out encouragement from German Pietists, and engaged with Western traditions of philosophy which proved useful in sharpening subsequent reflection on God's work in the world. Edwards was not just a remote colonial American pastor, but an active participant in the transatlantic republic of letters and contributed to the birth of the global missions movement, for which the church in Germany was itself a significant base.
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism is the first book to take a holistic approach to biosecurity with coverage of pathogens, prevention and response methodology. The book is organized into four thematic sections: Part I provides a conceptual understanding of biowarfare, bioterrorism and the laws we have to counteract this; Part II investigates known bioagents and the threat from emerging diseases; Part III focuses on agricultural terrorism and food security; Part IV outlines international, US, and local initiatives for biodefense and biosecurity. Case studies illustrate biodefense against both intentional terrorism and natural outbreaks. The authors bring an extraordinary combination of experience in academia and the clinical world, as well as real-world experience in technical and practical matters, to their writing. They make technical material clear and fascinating for readers with a basic knowledge of biology. Ryan and Glarum address the hazards in the context of vulnerability assessments and the planning strategies government and industry can take to prepare for and respond to such events. How are these agents used in biowarfare? How likely are we to face either a natural outbreak or intentional human/animal infection? How can we prepare for this effectively?
Born and raised in Chicago to Irish immigrant parents, Dr. Kate Ryan is forensic pathologist and medical examiner for the Chicago Crime Lab, consultant to Ireland's national police force the Gardia, and part time FBI profiler with the bureau's Behavior Analysis Unit. Kate was born with many ‘gifts' as her maternal grandmother ‘Grand' calls her psychic abilities. She and her fiance Tim “T.D.” Sullivan, a former member of the Chicago Police Department, are the perfect team to track down criminals using Kate's psychic gifts, their secret weapon, her guardian angel, and Tim's special link to the other side of the veil between the living and the dead. Tim is a ghost.
If you had the chance to heal and live a journey of unimaginable proportions, would you? SUNBLOOD is an extraordinary story that will change your life. SUNBLOOD lives an odyssey, not unlike Homer's Odyssey in its journey into the fantastical, or the Iliad, which deals with the truth of war in its tragedy and scope. SUNBLOOD is the story of a woman poisoned by an organic radical compound, NDMA. A corporate by-product which launches a journey of epic and fantastical proportions, the poison of the NDMA creating a sensory psychic and empath with untold knowledge, a woman who had to become secluded from the world because of her ability to feel atomic energy in the form of people's diseases and the world's pain. SUNBLOOD is the quest of a woman seeking to save her life, living a journey never before lived that brings a new understanding that will change the perceptions of 8 billion people with regard to politics, economics, medicine, religion, the environment, law and war. If you could change one perception of 8 billion people, a perception that would change the face of life on this planet, would you? Then read SUNBLOOD and you will have changed the world.
Jessie Wilson is an ordinary woman coping with life on her own yet the pressures she faces every day pale into insignificance when she buys a set of Egyptian shabti figures from a junk shop. From the moment she gets them home her world is thrown into chaos as Hathor, Horus, Sobek and Anubis pressgang her into their service. From being an independent and freethinking woman, Jessie finds herself having to act as handmaiden to four guardian shabtis, catering for almost their every whim, but every servant has her limits and even as the gods lay down the rules, she tells them exactly which ones she'll obey! Their mission is simple, to retrieve the soul of a mummy stolen from his tomb in the previous century and now on display in the British Museum. To ensure his souls eternal rest, the shabti's have to transport him to Egypt and return to the afterlife through a celestial door in Luxor Temple. Sounds easy? It would be if one of the gods didn't hate Jessie's guts, if she wasn't being followed by the police who think she's an antiquities smuggler and if she hadn't fallen in love with one of the gods along the way. Will Jessie and her gods make it to Egypt before she's arrested or will her shabti figures be confiscated, the mission fail and the soul be lost for all eternity? Baksheeshed is a book of journeys, the journey of a woman as she travels through her own emotions, the journey of a god as he discovers the pleasure and pain of true love, the journey of a detective as he follows his suspect to Egypt and the journey of a lost soul who touches them all.
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Grab your beach cruiser and head to the Majestic Hotel on Crown Island! Start a heartwarming family saga set in a charming beach town. April Raines is facing the end of her long-term marriage after her husband begins another family. Eager for a fresh start, she returns home with her grown daughters to Crown Island, just off the coast of Southern California. When Ryan Kingston acquires the historical Majestic Hotel, he is determined to bring the vintage Victorian beach resort back to life. But it could come at a steep cost to him and his carefully guarded privacy. Especially when April Raines, head of the new Crown Island Historical Society, captures his attention. Will they both get a second chance at life? From the USA Today bestselling author of the Summer Beach and Coral Cottage series, Beach View Lane is the first in the Crown Island series about a quirky small town with fascinating characters. If you love clean romance and women’s fiction with fun characters you’ll want as friends, this series is for you. Here’s what readers are saying about Jan’s books: “Plan on drinking a pot of coffee, ignoring your family, and putting off household chores!” “Thanks for writing clean romance with real women…of a certain age.” “This is a fun summer read with a positive vibe!” “A small-town beach series with all the good feels.” Available in ebook, paperback, hardcover, large print, and audiobook.
Improving Primary Mathematics provides primary teachers with practical ideas about how to bring these two worlds closer to improve children’s mathematics learning. Using a number of fascinating case studies focusing on children’s experiences of mathematics both inside and outside the classroom, the book asks: How do children use mathematics in their everyday lives? How can teachers use this knowledge to improve children’s learning in school? What activities can teachers use with parents to help share the ways that schools teach mathematics? What can parents do to support their children’s learning of mathematics? Tried-and-tested practical suggestions for activities to support and encourage children’s learning of mathematics include: making videos to share teaching methods; children taking photos to show how they use mathematics at home; inviting parents into school to share in mathematics learning; and numeracy-based activities for children and their parents to do together at home. All those involved in planning, teaching and supporting primary mathematics will benefit from new insights into how learning at home and at school can be brought together to strengthen and improve children’s learning of mathematics.
For reporter Irene Kelly it's a terrifying investigation -- because it's so personal. Her husband, Detective Frank Harriman, has been kidnapped by terrorists who call themselves Hocus -- deadly manipulators who give Irene three days to meet their demands before killing their hostage. But Irene's biggest shock is yet to come -- as she uncovers her husband's history, and learns of a horrific crime committed a decade earlier. As seconds slip away, Irene willingly steps into a trap set by two madmen with a score to settle. And when she does, someone is going to pay for the sins of the past.
Where the Truth Lies is an absorbing account of a case of suspected fraud involving the tragic career of the molecular biologist Franz Moewus that illustrates all that can go wrong in scientific knowledge-making. Jan Sapp follows Moewus' meteoric flight among the greatest scientists of the twentieth century, to his denunciation as the perpetrator of one of the most ambitious cases of fraud in the history of science. The author reopens the case not to vindicate Moewus, but to show the lessons that the controversy reveals to the scientist. Professor Sapp demonstrates how what counts as evidence is negotiated in science, and reveals the difficulties scientists face in objectively testing the validity of their results. The author emphasizes the creative nature of science, the rhetorical nature of scientific reports, and the fictitious elements inherent in the construction and maintenance of scientific knowledge-making and knowledge-breaking claims.
Narratives are everywhere—and since a significant part of contemporary media culture is defined by narrative forms, media studies need a genuinely transmedial narratology. Against this background, Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture focuses on the intersubjective construction of storyworlds as well as on prototypical forms of narratorial and subjective representation. This book provides not only a method for the analysis of salient transmedial strategies of narrative representation in contemporary films, comics, and video games but also a theoretical frame within which medium-specific approaches from literary and film narratology, from comics studies and game studies, and from various other strands of media and cultural studies may be applied to further our understanding of narratives across media.
Genes, Germs and Medicine explores the development of modern biomedical science in the United States through the life of one of the Twentieth Century's most influential scientists.Joshua Lederberg was a scientific renaissance man. He and his collaborators founded the field of bacterial genetics, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize at the age of 33 (the second youngest in history). He helped to lay the foundations for genetic engineering, made fundamental revisions to immunological and evolutionary theory, and developed medical genetics. He initiated the search for extraterrestrial microbial life, developed artificial intelligence, and was a visionary of the Digital Age. Lederberg coined some of the central terms of modern biology: plasmid, transduction, exobiology, euphenics and microbiome.A complex humanist who spoke out for social justice, Lederberg confronted racism, and denied a gene-centered view of humans. Pondering our social evolution outside of nature, he forewarned of the complex ethical issues arising from bioengineering. He sounded the alarm about coming pandemics at a time when few would listen, and warned of the peril of biowarfare and strove to prevent it. Lederberg was a man with a deep sense of social and intellectual responsibility, a trusted advisor to eight presidential administrations.
“Computing Action” takes a new approach to the phenomenon of narrated action in literary texts. It begins with a survey of philosophical approaches to the concept of action, ranging from analytical to transcendental and finally constructivist definitions. This leads to the formulation of a new model of action, in which the core definitions developed in traditional structuralist narratology and Greimassian semiotics are reconceptualised in the light of constructivist theories. In the second part of the study, the combinatory model of action proposed is put into practice in the context of a computer-aided investigation of the action constructs logically implied by narrative texts. Two specialised literary computing tools were developed for the purposes of this investigation of textual data: EVENTPARSER, an interactive tool for parsing events in literary texts, and EPITEST, a tool for subjecting the mark-up files thus produced to a combinatory analysis of the episode and action constructs they contain. The third part of the book presents a case study of Goethe's “Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten”. Here, the practical application of theory and methodology eventually leads to a new interpretation of Goethe's famous Novellenzyklus as a systematic experiment in the narrative construction of action - an experiment intended to demonstrate not only Goethe's aesthetic principles, but also, and more fundamentally, his epistemological convictions.
The first book to explore Jackie Kennedy's relationship with her mother illuminates often-overlooked aspects of the Kennedy family following the assassination of JFK.
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