Warfare and the Provincial Soldier on the New England Frontier, 1689-1748
The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England. Most British officers and government officials viewed the colonial soldiers as ill-disciplined, unprofessional, and ......
A Korean American Thanksgiving story. What does Thanksgiving dinner look like when both sides of the family come together? When it's time to shop for ingredients, a girl makes two lists--one for the local market and one for the Korean market! Carrots for japchae and turkey stuffing. Whipped cream for the pumpkin pie. Shrimp for pajeon, short ......
A Study of Biblical Hebrew Terms for Writing Materials and Implements
In this book, Philip Zhakevich examines the technology of writing as it existed in the southern Levant during the Iron Age II period, after the alphabetic writing system had fully taken root in the region. Using the Hebrew Bible as its corpus and focusing on a set of Hebrew terms that designated writing surfaces and instruments, this study ......
Liturgies and Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor
A book of prayers, rituals, and liturgies that grows out of communities committed to abolishing poverty. Prayer has long sustained movements for social change. Ritual gives shape to our desire for justice, and liturgy lends power to our work. In We Pray Freedom, we learn from activists and movement builders the songs, stories, and ritual ......
How Students' Reading Achievement Has Been Held Back and What We Can DoAbout It
An engaging and evidence-based examination of how reading instruction has been misinterpreted and misapplied for decades and how to right the course to improve reading skills for all students In Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives, leading literacy expert Timothy Shanahan curates a lively tour of the history of reading instruction in the United ......
This volume provides the first full length English translation of the commentary on the Book of Job by Didymus the Blind. One of the earliest line-by-line commentaries on Job to survive from late antiquity, it covers the entirety of the first sixteen chapters of the LXX text of Job with a few unfortunate lacunae. It represents the third commentary ......
A Critical Companion to David Lynch builds on the vast debate of one of the most discussed and researched directors of the present era, with commercial and critical success across multiple mediums and genres. This edited volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of Lynch's films, practices, and collaborations, with nineteen original chapters ......
A Startling Journey Through Russia's Hidden Culture
An essential guide to the strange, sinister culture of contemporary Russia. Upon the invasion of Ukraine, Jonathan Fink set out to uncover through interviews the real heart of Russia, and uncovered a country besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia, where crime is scarcely ever met with punishment. This eminently readable book ......
Keir Starmer: A Life of Contrasts is a superbly written biography that delves deep into the antecedents explaining how the current Labour leader and potential future prime minister remains such an enigma. The Oxford Union at Starmer's alma mater voted that 'This House does not Know what Labour Stands For' on 24 Feb 2024, reflecting the ongoing ......
