Alex is horrified to learn his brother forced himself on a helpless girl. Tormented by guilt, Alex marries her and intends to raise the child she carries. Soon after the wedding, Alex discovers that Annie, the "idiot" daughter of a local judge, is not mentally handicapped but deaf. As Alex learns to communicate with Annie, he awakens her unexplored self to a world of love.
Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Mexican States (SB)
Arranged by 28 consistent subheadings so students can quickly compare facts, Encyclopedia of Mexican States provides up-to-date information on each of Mexico's 31 states. Topics covered include climate, plants and animals, population and ethnic groups, religions, transportation, history, state and local governments, political parties, judicial system, economy, education, arts, media, tourism, sports, famous people and much more.
Ian Rankin - Dead Souls A call from an old friend brings back memories and more than a little guilt for DI John Rebus. An old schoolfriend's son has gone missing, the ghost of Jack Morton is inhabiting Rebus' dreams, a part-time poisoner is terrorising the local zoo and a freed paedophile rouses the vigilantes.
Local Identities - Landscape and Community in the Late Prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt Region
Gerritsen's study investigates how small groups of people--households, or local communities--constitute and represent their social identity by shaping the landscape around them. Examining things like house building and habitation, cremation and burial, and farming and ritual practice, Gerritsen develops a new theoretical and empirical perspective on the practices that create collective senses of identity and belonging. An explicitly diachronic approach reveals processes of cultural and social change that have previously gone unnoticed, providing a basis for a much more dynamic history of the late prehistoric inhabitants of this region.
Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform - Cholera, the State and the Royal Navy
David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of local and national government to combat cholera in nineteenth-century Britain. Based on a unique cache of documents, McLean's account exposes the struggles between local and national governments as they grappled with the enormity of the problem and the conflict between policies of laissez-faire and state intervention.
