Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses—the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as more humble folk—have taken on a political life in the turbulent times following the end of Communist Party rule, and what roles they play in revising the past and reorienting the present. Enlivening and invigorating the dialogue on postsocialist politics, this imaginative study helps us understand the dynamic and deeply symbolic nature of politics—and how it can breathe new life into old bones.
Jerry Stannard assembled a legendary collection of materials on the history of botany from Homer to Linnaeus, and his mastery of the field was acknowledged as incomparable. However, his work was sadly cut short by his death, and so did not result in the ultimate synthesis he envisioned; this volume, and its companion, Pristina Medicamenta, bring together his important output in articles and studies.
The U.S. Coast Guard's Evergreen strategic foresight initiative works to identify emerging service challenges that require focus in the near term. This report describes an approach to developing future scenarios to aid in that process.
To identify strategies and make recommendations on improving the allocation and execution of Army installation facility sustainment funding, the authors compare Army practices with those in the other Services and in the public and private sectors.
The authors analyze characteristics and duty limitations of service members who transfer between active and reserve components and make recommendations to reduce the number of personnel who transfer with medical conditions that limit deployability.
The cult of St Katherine of Alexandria enjoyed great popularity throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, retaining a wide appeal right up to the Reformation; she appears in a wide variety of contexts, in association with concepts of royal and civic power, by the end of the period becoming identified as a British saint, and acting as a model of the ideal lay Christian and a paradigm of femininity and young womanhood. This study, the first full-scale interdisciplinary examination of a saint's cult in late medieval England, looks at the processes by which she came to have such a prominent place in the devotions of English men and women from across the wide social scale; using written and visual narratives of Katherine's life, in combination with documentary evidence provided by wills, inventories and gild returns, the author shows how devotees perceived and responded to her, and the various religious, social and cultural roles assigned to her. Dr KATHERINE J. LEWIS teaches at the University of Huddersfield.
Journal of Katherine Mansfield' is one of the great classics of 20th century literature. Compiled by her husband John Middleton Murry soon after she died and published in 1927, it consists of fragments of diary entries, unposted letters, and scraps of writing.
FAITH TO GO ON This story is full of love, hardships, troubles. It tells about the lives of two young girls with very different backgrounds and how they existed in the mid 1800's. Sara Jo Livingston and Alisa Beth Svenson met and became best friends. What happened in Cincinnati? Characters they met and loved? Who sought Sara out? Who succumbs to disease? What happened on the trip? WILLIAM MOSES AND THE ANGEL Teresa Huffman and Martin Moses met in the 1920's, fell in love and married. After a couple of weeks together, Martin was called into World War I. What happens next, you won't believe. Where was Teresa and William? Were they safe? Will Martin find his family? Is there really an angel? THE HUNT FOR DILLON Samantha Edwards was Dillon's older sister. He was lost in the wilderness of Colorado. She had to find him and live long enough to save him. Where and how did she find him? Who was he with? Under what circumstances did she find him? Who helped her? MOTHER MAUDE Maude Farris, born in 1860, loved all creatures, man or beast. She always tried her best to help anyone she could. She was known for sharing her many adventures about, the cave, the abduction, and a hunt, to name a few.
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