The book delves into Roger Ascham's Apologia pro caena dominica, highlighting its significance during the early Reformation and its response to religious debates at Cambridge University under Edward VI. Lucy Nicholas examines the work's historical context, content, and Ascham's independent stance, revealing Cambridge's crucial role in English religious reform. Despite its limited circulation, the Apologia offers valuable insights into Reformation dynamics in Tudor England. Nicholas also provides a modern Latin edition with an English translation, enhancing accessibility to this important text.
Between his billion-dollar sheets! Artist Willow's latest high-society portrait is set to make her career. Until the subject's son, Leonidas, demands it never sees the light of day! He's everything she isn't. And yet their negotiations can't halt her red-hot reaction to the Greek... A baby to unite them--for ever! Flora once strayed from her carefully scripted life and lost herself in the kisses of a Sicilian stranger. Overwhelmed, she fled his bed and returned to her risk-free existence. Now Raffaele has found her, and together they discover the unimaginable--she's pregnant!
TRUE STORIES OF ANIMAL ADVOCATES Meet 25 brave, compassionate scientists, veterinarians, activists, and others who fight for animal rights and conservation. Animal Allies takes readers all around the world--to the tops of trees and the bottom of oceans, deep into the jungle and high into the mountains. Swim with the sharks alongside Eugenie Clark, build bat houses with Amanda Lear, nurse a baby hippo to health with Christina Gorsuch, and protect endangered seahorses with Amanda Vincent and Heather Koldewey. With a foreword by zoologist Lucy King and activities curated by conservationist Bindi Irwin, this book is sure to inspire animal lovers everywhere. Plus, scannable codes let you listen to longer stories on the Rebel Girls App!
No rules. No limits. Untameable desire... Billionaire Max plays by his own
rules but there's one person stood between him and the truth of his birth:
tantalisingly tenacious private investigator Alex. Who's demanding they do
things her way!
In Search of the Romans is a lively and informative introduction to ancient Rome. Making extensive use of ancient sources and copiously illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and plans, now for the first time in colour, its opening two chapters guide the reader through the events of Roman history, from the foundation of the city to the fall of the empire. Subsequent chapters introduce the most important aspects of the Roman the army and the provinces, religion, society, and entertainment; the final two chapters focus on Pompeii and Herculaneum, the two cities destroyed by Vesuvius. New to this edition are sections on the Augustan principate, on the Roman army, on life in the provinces and on engineering innovations, while the existing text is revised throughout. The narrative includes descriptions of many individuals from the Roman world, drawn from a variety of social settings.Activity boxes and further reading lists throughout each chapter aid students' understanding of the subject. Review questions challenge students to read further and reflect on some of the most important social, political and cultural issues of ancient Rome, as well as to compare them with those of their own society. The new edition is supported by a website that includes images, maps and timelines, further reading and related links.
This book examines whether we are witnessing the resilience, persistence and
adaptation of masculinist discourses and practices at both domestic and
international levels in the contemporary global context.
