After doubts are raised concerning the trustworthiness of Magua, Cora and Alice Munro\'s Native American guide, the warrior slips away into the wilderness, and the vulnerable sisters turn to the scout Hawk-eye and the Mohicans Chingachgook and Uncas to lead them to Fort William Henry, where their father is in command. Yet Magua is sure to return with his fellow Huron warriors, and with the bloody conflict

When Frances Foggarty was nine her ten-year-old brother, Tom, was hit by a milk-float and killed. He returns after the funeral and Frances\' story is of her new relationship with Tom, the ghost and \'guardian angel\'. Frances wears a caliper as a result of polio and she and her young brother live with a rather tyrannical

By sharing the collective experiences of Latinas in Higher Education, this book provides a diverse range of empowering testimonies from Chingonas living on their own terms, who are defining professionalism for themselves.Chingona means \'badass\' and is a term that has been reappropriated by Latinas as an expression of empowerment both inside and outside of education. This anthology is a collection

A shift to the implementation of renewable energy and low-emission fuels has particular disadvantages, such as availability, storage issues, costs, etc., and therefore the potential for using clean fossil fuel technologies for the production of electricity should be reconsidered. These clean technologies can help prevent the greenhouse effect and, at the same time, guarantee energy security, as coal

An important resource for all makers and artists, this helpful guide supports artists and crafters with ways to maintain their most valuable tool: their body. Taking a creative and thoughtful perspective, this essential wellness guide motivates and empowers artists to alleviate pain and strain while working in the studio and at the workbench. Whether you\'re making jewelry, ceramics, weavings, needlework,

In a global economy, multinational companies often operate in jurisdictions where governments are either unable or unwilling to uphold even the basic human rights of their citizens. The expectation that companies respect human rights in their own operations and in their business relationships is now a business reality that corporations need to respond to. \" Business and Human Rights: From Principles

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** \"It\'s a mark of the highest honor when I say it\'s even more riveting than an episode of \'Dateline\'.\"--The New York Times From Paul Holes, the detective who found the Golden State Killer, Unmasked is a memoir that \"grabs its reader in a stranglehold and proves more fascinating than fiction and darker than any noir narrative.\" (LA Magazine) I order another

Hattie loves her family, but she hates hugs! While at a family reunion, Hattie wants to play horseshoes with Uncle Jake and Aunt Celia, but her boisterous relatives keep hugging her. Hattie\'s stomach squirms uncomfortably when she\'s hugged, but dodging and hiding from the open arms isn\'t working. Great-Grandma is the only relative who understands how Hattie feels. With Great-Grandma\'s help, Hattie

Discover a new and effective way to learn Hungarian. With 21 units covering the four key skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening, this bestselling course comprises a book and audio support which is easy to download to your computer or MP3

A first of its kind, this 420 Friendly Adult Coloring Book delivers smoking hot Manga girls eager to inhale all the color you can give them. From joints and pipes to bongs and 4-footers, you\'re invited to partake, one color stroke at a time. Individuals 18+ with a strong appreciation for boobs and bongs

This coloring book contains 25 images in line art: magical witches, whimsical faeries, falling leaves, pumpkin patches, cats, mushrooms and scarecrows, all autumn highlights in one book. A perfect gift to any autumn lover Sutable for grownup colorists both advanced and beginners. All the illustrations in this coloring book are printed on one side only, the book includes two test pages for you to try

Social media has been transforming American and global cultural life for over a decade. It has flattened the divide between producer and audience found in other forms of culture while also enriching some massive corporations. At the core of Social Media Freaks is the question: Does social media reproduce inequalities or is it a tool for subverting them?Social Media Freaks presents a virtual ethnography

Posters for Change is the kind of project that the world needs right now. - Shepard Fairey Make your voice heard with this collection of 50 tear-out posters created by designers from around the globe This collection of posters is made for--and by--people who want to make their voices heard in a time of unprecedented political activism and resistance. Stand up for: - Animal Rights- Child Labor- Civil

On its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed at Studio Ghibli by its co-founder Isao Takahata, and based on an autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka, this portrait of two Japanese children struggling to survive in the dying days of World War Two told its story with a gritty realism unprecedented in animation. It has since been hailed as

First published in 1957, this seminal work of film theory analyzes the process--\"the mysterious alchemy\"--by which novels are transformed into films. Beginning with a discussion of the aesthetic limits of both the novel and the film, George Bluestone goes on to offer close readings of six films based on novels of serious literary merit--The Informer, Wuthering Heights, The Grapes of Wrath, Pride

This collection of stories from Shakespeare\'s plays, with beautiful illustrations and quotations, is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare. Each story includes short details about the main characters, and famous and memorable quotations from the play. This is a fabulous book that will be referred to again and again, by both children and

The Second Edition of Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Computing, and Quantum Error Correction: An Engineering Approach presents a self-contained introduction to all aspects of the area, teaching the essentials such as state vectors, operators, density operators, measurements, and dynamics of a quantum system. In additional to the fundamental principles of quantum computation, basic quantum

On top of his day job--he was co-owner of a tannery in the Bohemian-Moravian Uplands of Czechoslovakia--Josef Binko (1879-1960) made time to create one of the most important photography portfolios of his era. He is the only amateur photographer with thousands of negatives in Prague\'s Museum of Decorative Arts, the country\'s most serious photography collection, and the only Czech photographer continuously

This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser\'s intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades.In order to answer what the mind-game film is, why they exist, and how they function, Elsaesser maps the industrial-institutional challenges and constraints facing Hollywood, and the broader philosophic horizon within which American cinema thrives