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Frontstalag 142
A moving account of what life was really like for women in a German internment camp.
Conqueror's Son
Duke Robert Curthose of Normandy was rebellious, but the fact remains that the throne of England was meant to pass to him on the death of William the Conqueror. William Rufus and Henry I were thus usurpers. This book redresses the balance of opinion on Robert Curthose.
Katherine Black Doesn't Dance
Young Single mother Kate Black develops a ruthless streak for her child's sake: she takes bribes from a gangster in her workplace; exploits her lesbian lovers for success in the media; and plagiarizes the work of one of those lovers for publishing success. When her son grows up, she tries to control his life-choices. The boy rebels and rejects the career Kate had wanted for him. Mother and son become estranged. Just at a crucial point in her 'celebrity' status the boy's father, Gerry Sweeney, returns and Kate determines to punish him for abandoning them almost two decades before, blaming Gerry for the boy's rebellious streak. Just when all the pieces of her schemes are fitting into place, th...
The Good Women of the Parish
There was immense social and economic upheaval between the Black Death and the English Reformation, and contemporary writers often blamed this upheaval on immorality, singling out women's behavior for particular censure. Late medieval moral treatises and sermons increasingly connected good behavior for women with Christianity, and their failure to conform to sin. Katherine L. French argues, however, that medieval laywomen both coped with the chaotic changes following the plague and justified their own changing behavior by participating in local religion. Through active engagement in the parish church, the basic unit of public worship, women promoted and validated their own interests and resp...
The Cockleshell Pilgrim
In 1986 the skeleton of a medieval man, dressed as a pilgrim, was found in Worcester Cathedral. Katherine Lack tells the story of the pilgrimage he might have made to Santiago de Compostela in 1423.
Stories of Mentoring
Describes mentoring of teachers and scholars in the field of composition and rhetoric.
Lessons from Katherine
What would you do when the beautiful baby you've adopted turns out to have serious disabilities? When the doctors tell you to "give her back"? When you're also struggling to build a business, finish school and hold your marriage together? Lessons from Katherine is a spiritual memoir about loving and parenting our disabled child amidst grief, financial difficulty, and marital discord. It's the struggle of every young marriage and family: to hold on, to form a family, to carve out a place in the world--but amplified. ,
Out With It
A fresh, engaging account of a young woman's journey, first to find a cure for a lifelong struggle with stuttering, and ultimately to embrace the voice that has defined her character. It offers a fresh perspective on the obsession with physical perfection.
Shakespeare: The Basics
Aimed squarely at the student new to Shakespeare, this volume provides a through introduction to the plays, based on the exciting new approaches shaping the field of Shakespeare studies. The author offers a refreshingly clear guide to Shakespeare's language; the plays as performance texts; the cultural and political contexts of the plays; early modern theatre practice; new understandings of the major genres.
