London is the next pitstop in Adele's rollercoster life, hoping some souvenirs she pick's up along the way are a hotshot career, a size 8 figure and finger's cross a man. Unluckily for Adele she picks up neither, expect a spare tyre helped by her love of eating, and a perment hangover and a shoe habit. Ecasping a old life to reinvent a new one is not as easy as it look's on the soap's.With her own problems creating bumps in her life, and working for failed designer Cassie Lush adding to the rocky ride. Will Adele finally hit the top? Will she finally meet the love of her life? Will the past finally catch her up? Lastly will a size 8 be a reality or just a label in a dress? Adele may just be thankful for that spare tyre in this well heeled road of her life..

Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 and through the twentieth century expanded from a single parade to over two hundred events spanning a ten-day period. Laura Hernández-Ehrisman examines Fiesta's development as part of San Antonio's culture of power relations between men and women, Anglos and Mexicanos. In some ways Fiesta resembles hundreds of urban celebrations across the country, but San Antonio offers a unique fusion of Southern, Western, and Mexican cultures that articulates a distinct community identity. From its beginning as a celebration of a new social order in San Antonio controlled by a German and Anglo elite to the citywide spectacle of today, Hernández-Ehrisman traces the connections between Fiesta and the construction of the city's tourist industry and social change in San Antonio.

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices. A worthwhile theory, according to Grimes, must be practice-oriented, and practices are most effectively studied by field research methods. The Craft of Ritual Studies melds together a systematic theory and method capable of underwriting the cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of ritual. Grimes exposes the limitations that disable many theories of ritual--for example, defining ritual as essentially religious, assuming that ritual's only function is to generate group solidarity, or treating ritual as a mirror of the status quo. He provides a guide for fieldwork on complex ritual events, particularly those characterized by social conflict or cultural creativity. The volume includes a case study, focusing on a single complex event: the Santa Fe Fiesta, a New Mexico celebration marked by protracted ethnic conflict and ongoing dramatic creativity. Grimes develops such themes as the relation of ritual to media, theater, and film, the dynamics of ritual creativity, the negotiation of ritual criticism, and the impact of ritual on cultural and physical environments. This important book, the capstone work of Grimes's three decades of leadership in the field of ritual studies, is accompanied by a set of online videos, as well as appendices illustrating key aspects of ritual studies.

This book is about my Uncle, Mr Norman Moors who was in the Royal Navy in the second World war. He was on the M. S. Rodney Battleship the only surviving ship in the Mediterranean. He received a Malteasse medal from Sir Whinstan Churchhill and became a Hero of his time. He asked me to promise to write and have this book published in his honour after he passed away in 2015. So I promised to do as he requested and to include my testimony to share with people that our God is a loving and faithful God. This book is the result. Wishing every blessing to all who read it. Yours Truly Catherine J M Hughes

Scandi-noir? Welcome to the world of Derry-noir! Join DI Liam McLaughlin and his team of have-a-go heroes--young upstart DS Nancy D'Arcy, ladies-man-in-his-mind DC Tom Lyons, tech whiz DC Fern Hawkins and newbie DC Henry 'Hens' Cahill--as they grapple with unmasking the most heinous of Derry City's murderers for the Major Investigation Team of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Here are three exciting cases for you to sink your teeth into: You'll Get Yours, Death in Small Measures and Three Times A KIller. The Derry Murder Mysteries is a series of gripping NUMBER ONE thrillers with jaw-dropping twists and a touch of Gerald Hansen's signature dark humor.

The interviews collected in this book preserve the old Santa Fe, the one people are still looking for. The interviewees represent a cross-section of Santa Fe during the best of times: native Santa Feans, both Spanish American and Anglo, artists, immigrants, those who came by accident, those who came intending to stay, those who fought to preserve the older cultures' traditions and values.

From the national bestselling, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Bad Land comes “a lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self” (The New York Times Book Review). Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage–which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982-into an occasion for meditations on his country, his childhood, and the elusive notion of home. Whether he’s chatting with bored tax exiles on the Isle of Man, wrestling down a mainsail during a titanic gale, or crashing a Scottish house party where the kilted guests turn out to be Americans, Raban is alert to the slightest nuance of meaning. One can read Coasting for his precise naturalistic descriptions or his mordant comments on the new England, where the principal industry seems to be the marketing of Englishness. But one always reads it with pleasure.