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The third and final book in the bitingly brilliant and fangtastically fiesty middle-grade series THE VANQUISHERS by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron. Fans of The Breakfast Club Adventures, Goosebumps and Stranger Things will devour this fun, thrilling and heartfelt vampire adventure.Facing old friends and new foes, Malika 'Boog' Wilson and the Squad take their final stand against the undead.San Antonio is on lockdown, taken over by the new hive. No one can deny that vampires are back now, but the Vanquishers come to their own painful realisation when they learn that an old friend is behind the vampire attacks.As the Squad hide out at an abandoned combat training facility, honing their vampire-vanquishing skills, they begin to suspect that they're not alone. And when when a vial of Dracula's blood is stolen from the bunker, the Vanquishers race to recover it before it falls into the wrong hands.The Vanquishers have always been Boog's family, the ones she trusts the most. But what does it mean when a former Vanquisher, one of her heroes, is now hunting them?

This collection offers practical approaches to using literature as a lens for teaching about climate change. Contributors share their classroom experiences and reflections to urge educators at all levels to prepare students for the challenges of a climate-changed world.

In often mundane but sometimes quite obvious ways, persons belonging to groups routinely threatened with harm on the basis of gender and sexuality suffer restrictions to choice and action, impairing autonomy. Gender Violence: Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy shows that resistance to, and cultivating resiliency within, a culture of gender violence is key to fostering autonomy.Building on decades of research philosophically interrogating autonomy and its limits, and with a martial arts background spanning over twenty-five years, Professor Burrow develops a novel approach to autonomy development under everyday threats of violence. Appealing to empirical research to ground its philosophical analysis, the theory presented in this book establishes that cultivating self-confidence through self-defense training is a significant strategy contributing to resistance and resilience under threats of violence and hence, autonomy development.

This book examines millennials and Generation Z in the context of media and visual culture, considering three interrelated areas: how millennials and Gen Z use new media technologies in different contexts; what they do with media; and the relationship between media and the two generations that make up their target audience.

In 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed some 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft, causing a wave of suspects to flee into Spain and sparking terror there. Witnesses, many of them children, described lurid tales of cannibalism, vampirism, and demonic sex. One of the judges, Pierre de Lancre, published a sensationalist account of this diabolical netherworld. With other accounts seemingly destroyed, this witch-hunt has always been seen through de Lancre's eyes. The narrative, re-told over the centuries, is that of a witch-hunt caused by a bigoted outsider. Newly discovered evidence presented here for the first time paints a very different, still darker picture. Far from an outside imposition, witchcraft was a home-grown problem. Panic had been building up over a number of years and the region was fractured by factionalism and a struggle over scarce resources. The Basque Witch-Hunt reveals that De Lancre was no outsider; he was a local partisan, married into the Basque nobility. Jan Machielsen meticulously dissects events to show that, living at the Franco-Spanish border, the Basques were victims of geography; geo-politics caused a local conflict which made the witch-hunt inevitable, sending thousands of religious refugees from Spain to France where they, in turn, became new objects of popular fear and anger. The Basque witch-hunt is justly infamous. This book shows that almost everything historians thought they knew about it is wrong.

Jae Yang develops a Pannenbergian public theology by correlating Pannenberg's theological methods (postfoundational, eschatological, and trinitarian) with the aims and methods of public theology. He argues that Pannenberg's public theology engages not just the academic world, but also the political, economic, familial, religious, and cultural ones.

'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul ... A masterpiece' Elizabeth GilbertOne of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we might find paradise on Earth.It's so easy, I thought, to place Paradise in the past or the future - anywhere but here.After half a century of travel, from Ethiopia to Tibet, from Belfast to Jerusalem, Pico Iyer asks himself what kind of paradise can ever be found in a world of unceasing conflict. In a spectacular journey, both inward and outward, Iyer roams from crowded mosques in Iran to a film studio in North Korea, from a holy mountain in Japan to the sometimes spooky emptiness of the Australian outback.At every stop, he makes connections with unexpected strangers - mystics and taxi drivers and fellow travellers - and draws on his own memories, of time spent in a Benedictine monastery high above the Pacific, of regular travels with the Dalai Lama, of hearing his late mother speak of sunlit moments in pre-Partition India.By the end, he has upended many of our expectations and dared to suggest that we can find paradise right in the heart of our angry, confused and divided world.

This book explores the rising prevalence of anxiety disorders among children aged 8¿16 by examining the complex interplay of familial dynamics and parenting strategies. It advocates for early screening in schools, technological support, and the transformative power of communication to nurture emotionally resilient children.

This book provides a rich analysis of U2¿s songs, unveiling the light of hope amid the darkness of trauma and provide close interpretations of the band¿s lyrics and performances through the lenses of trauma and memory studies.

Explore the transformative potential of international students in shaping the politics of higher education. Moving beyond a focus on the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of the international student experience, this book breaks new ground by examining diverse forms of international student activism, advocacy, and political engagement.

Drawing off ninety years of survey data, Zachary Cook argues that younger voters, as a function of the life cycle, tend to believe that government should do more to regulate the business sector to help provide high quality jobs for all.

Hilary Putnam¿s Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life offers a faithful illustration of the trajectory of Putnam¿s thought to show how, despite the shifts in opinion on issues of central philosophical importance, his thought reveals a systematic backbone and strong continuities.

Autistic-Coded Representation and Autism Stereotypes: Looking for the Spectrum examines the stereotypes that often accompany representations of autism in literature, film, and television. It posits that coded characters offer more human, less one-dimensional representations of autistic people.

Twelve-year-old Edie embarks on an exciting and chilling adventure as she searches for a long-lost Viking hoard. But there are ghosts around Edie who want the past to stay buried, and will stop at nothing to keep secrets hidden. An emotional and spine-tingling adventure perfect for fans of The House with Chicken Legs, A Girl Called Owl and A Pocketful of Stars. It's October half term and twelve-year-old Edie and her younger brother Pip are forced to spend their holiday at Fortune Farm, high in the Irish mountains, with their estranged grandmother Lolly. Edie has been dreading it for months - not only is Lolly's isolated cottage on the shores of Lough Ivarr, the bleakest and most boring place on Earth, it's also the place where they spent all their holidays when Dad was alive. And Edie doesn't like thinking about Dad - the memories hurt too much.When Edie uncovers a clue that could lead her to a long-lost Viking hoard, it's just the adventure she needs to take her mind off of Dad. But the adventure soon takes an unnerving and dangerous turn, as Edie discovers that Fortune Farm has more secrets, ghosts and forgotten treasures than she had ever dared to dream. Not only must Edie protect Pip from the restless and vengeful spirit of a long-dead Viking chief, she must confront the painful memories she has tried so hard to bury deep within herself. As Edie races against time to follow the clues that will lead her to the long-lost Viking treasure, she must journey into her grief, her family's tragic and secretive history and the truth about Coco, Edie's mysterious new friend who is so much more than she seems.

This book explores why and how the design of architecture contributes to Christian pursuits of social and environmental justice. Edwards offers a new understanding of architectural design¿s relation to Christian ethics and proposes five moral commitments for orienting the design process towards the flourishing of humanity and God¿s creation.

Military expert Michael O'Hanlon examines America's major conflicts from the Civil War to Afghanistan. Now updated with to include the Revolutionary War and brief observations on three other conflicts in U. S. History, this unique book serves as an important treatment of America's military history at the strategic and theater of operations levels.

A discussion of White Limozeen, from Dolly's self-fashioning of her image to a rigorous critique of her genre.White Limozeen (1989) was a commercial recovery after Dolly Parton's first major failure two years previously with the release of Rainbow. This book is a case study in how an album is sold and a persona constructed. The album had a complex relationship to the country music genre at a time when the genre was in the middle of major sonic and cultural shifts, and it represents how country music saw itself. This question of identity was especially relevant since White Limozeen was produced by Ricky Skaggs, the bluegrass prodigy who was in the middle of his own genre widening experiments. The album reflects dense and complex production, shredding ideas of purity, studio craft, slickness, and authenticity. In it, Dolly seems to be imagining the limits of her own personae - the country girl, the blonde burlesque, the pop legend, the gospel singer.To study this album is to investigate Dolly's calculated role in self fashioning her image into the icon she is today.

Both a work of lyrical imagination and a warning about the dangers we will face unless we take immediate action' New Yorker 'An artist's ardent plea for change' Kirkus This earth that we love is in grave danger because of us. Forests are becoming legends, rare as unicorns...If we continue to live as we do now, there will be no world left for us to fix, Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri argues in this evocative collection. He imagines messages - sent to us from beyond the end, from those who saw it coming - exhorting us to change now.Combining fiction, essay and poetry, Tiger Work displays Okri's classic blend of storytelling, fantasy and magic.