Sisters Kate, Anne, and Sam had been anticipating an enjoyable week at the beach this summer with their husbands and parents, a tradition they had shared for years. But shortly after arrival it appeared their relaxing week was taking a drastic turn. Mother becomes ill, something about the beach house is not quite right and Blue makes it worst with his own inquisitiveness.

The girls, determined to find the cause of these strange events, enlist their husbands' help. Kate's Sphynx cat Blue joins in the fun as they begin investigating while trying to maintain the appearance of a normal week at...

A Governor and His Image in Baroque Brazil was first published in 1979. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.This seventeenth-century manuscript describes the life and death of Afonso Furtado, governor of Brazil from 1671 to 1675. The obscure author, Juan Lopes Sierra, was an eyewitness to many of the governor's activities and was clearly a great admirer of Furtado, whom he calls in his text "Our Hero." The manuscript is a useful cultural and...

This book provides the first in-depth overview of research and practice in GBV in universities. It sets out the international context of ideologies, politics and institutional structures that underlie responses to GBV in elsewhere in Europe, in the US, and in Australia, and consider the implications of implementing related policy and practice.