"What does celibacy mean for individuals and for the people around them? What cultural and social purposes does it serve? This is the first cross-cultural inquiry into the practice of celibacy around the world and through the ages, among groups as diverse as Kenyan villagers and U.S. prisoners, Mazatec Shamans and Buddhist nuns and monks, Shaker church members and anorexic women. The examples of celibacy described here ill ..."
"The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose makes available not only extensive selections from the works of canonical writers, but also substantial extracts from writers who have either been neglected in earlier anthologies or who have only relatively recently come to the attention of twentieth and twenty-first-century scholars and teachers. Popular fiction and prose nonfiction are especially well represented, includin ..."
"As we enter the twenty-first century, scholars, activists and others concerned with social change increasingly realize that in order to transform society effective coalitions among different groups working for social justice need to be created and maintained. However, most of the research and writing about coalitions provide rather limited approaches to the study and understanding of radical alliances; i.e.: coalitions whose goals are t ..."
"Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors―some eminent, some less well known―who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, racially, geographically, and in sexual ori ..."
Witchcanery by SandraBell Published 2006 by Fantasyfic.Com ISBN-13: 978-1-59971-836-1, ISBN: 1-59971-836-7
"... Snowghost, Dr. Cath Andrews, Zhark and Leorah, Malygris and Wertaf, and all
the others who read Witchcanery and kept on encouraging me; and finally to
Chris Baty and the people at NaNoWriMo for helping me find out I could write a
lot ..."
Plant by SandraBell 48 Pages, Published 2005 by Dorling Kindersley Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-4053-2670-4, ISBN: 1-4053-2670-0
"From carniverous leaves to the magic of pollination, plants are vital to life on earth. Packed with fun facts and dramatic photography, Eye Wonder Plants is great for projects and homework or just for fun."
"In this volume Constantin Iordachi and Kirstof Van Assche take an interdisciplinary look at the history, policy, and culture of the development and politics of the Danube Delta."
"This day, as ever, the Devil laboureth to hinder my profitable hearing of the word
and calling upon God, but the Lord, for his mercy's sake, strengthen his children
to resist and overcome. [...1 Tuesday 28 In the morning, after private prayer, I
read of the Bible, and then wrought till 8 o'clock, and then I ate my breakfast, after
which done, I walked into the fields till 10 o'clock; then I prayed, and not long after
I went to dinn ..."
Accessible Transport in East London Moving in the Right Direction by SandraBell, David Hurdle Paperback, 175 Pages, Published 1998 by Centre For Independent Transport Research In London ISBN-13: 978-1-870073-09-7, ISBN: 1-870073-09-6
"Friendship is usually seen as a vital part of most people's lives in the West. From our friends, we hope to derive emotional support, advice and material help in times of need. In this pioneering book, basic assumptions about friendship are examined from a cross-cultural point of view. Is friendship only a western conception or is it possible to identify friends in such places as Papua New Guinea, Kenya, China, and Brazil? In seeking to ..."