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"Mrs. Winkler's telescope looks not into the night sky, but instead into the hearts of men and women." Humorous adventures with spiritual lessons. Brilliantly illustrated with beautiful classic style fine-line black and white drawings, reminiscent of Wind in the Willows. Twelve stories, nothing scary--very lovely and imaginative. Stories revolve around Mrs. Winkler's amazing candy shop and bakery, with her observatory upstairs called "The Contemplatorium." Several adventures involve a flying ice-cream truck. Two children, Annie and Arthur, are her constant companions, and she has many unusual...

In many ways the French Revolution--a Series of revolutions, in fact, whose end has arguably not yet arrived--is modernity in action. Beginning in reform, it blossomed into wholesale attempts to remake society, uprooting the clergy and aristocracy, valorizing mass movements, and Setting secular ideologies, including nationalism, in motion. Unusually manifold and complicated, the revolution affords many teaching opportunities and challenges. This volume helps instructors seeking to connect developments today--terrorism, propaganda, extremism--with the events that began in 1789, contextualizing...