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Author and playwright Victoria Kneubuhl returns with another thoroughly entertaining, yet complex, whodunit set in 1930s Hawai`i featuring the lead characters from Murder Casts a Shadow and Murder Leaves Its Mark. The pair of unlikely sleuths—part-Hawaiian Mina Beckwith and her fiancé, part-Samoan Ned Manusia—find themselves unraveling a deadly web of espionage and murder. As the story opens, Ned is in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, where he has been sent to rescue his friend Nigel, a British spy being ruthlessly hunted by the Japanese police. The action moves to Honolulu where Mina is embroiled with a group of eccentric artists whose numbers are being depleted in a series of dramatically ...
A communication skills course for Business English. Leads into Further Ahead.
Discover more than 825 scrapbook pages and a full year of month-by-month scrapbooking ideas to chronicle the lives of family and friends. In this value-priced, 288-page book in the Treasury of Favorites series from Creating Keepsakes scrapbook magazine, special sections are presented for babies, children, teens, and adults. There are fun ideas for every month, plus for every stage of life from birth to retirement. Included are extensive galleries of reader scrapbook pages, photo tips, and more. This colorful volume is packed with great ideas for faster family history pages and poignant suggestions for journaling family stories and traditions. Articles include Recording the Stories That Make Your Family Unique, Honor a War Hero, A Family Reunion With Flair, The Simple Charms of Childhood, and others.
Preserve the magic of the winter holidays Celebrate the season by capturing special moments on film?from cherishing the warmth of family traditions to ringing in the excitement of the New Year. Scrapbooking Christmas Memories features hundreds of scrapbook pages, organizational ideas and more. You'll love using fresh page accents ideas or photo tips for the perfect finishing touch on favorite layouts of your loved ones. Glean inspiration from its pages for scrapbooking those priceless photographs from Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, and the New Year and make the magic of the season last forever.
A 2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner At a time when many individuals and institutions are reexamining their histories to better understand their tangled roots of racism and oppression, Reckoning: Kalamazoo College Uncovers Its Racial and Colonial Past tells the story of how American ideas about colonialism and race shaped Kalamazoo College, a progressive liberal arts institution in the Midwest. Beginning with its founding in 1833 during the era of Indian Removal, the book follows the development of the college through the Civil War, the long period of racial entrenchment that followed Reconstruction, minstrel shows performed on campus in the 1950s during the rise of the Civil Rights move...
(Book). The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on television. The book examines the cautious beginnings of new roles for women in the late fifties, the rapid development of female action leads during the burgeoning second-wave feminist movement in the late sixties and seventies, and the present-day onslaught of female action characters now leaping from page to screen. The book itself is organized into chapters that group women warriors into sub-genres, e.g., classic Amazons like Xena Warrior Princess and the women of the Conan films; superheroes and their archenemies such as Wonder Woman...
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