This book contains five legends from the German Middle Ages, presented in the Middle High German source language, with a modern English translation. These include the narratives of Veronica, Vespasian, Theophilus, Mary Magdalene and the miraculous history of the True Cross. Thisoutstanding and timely translation of these Middle High German texts will make them more accessible to an English speaking academic community.

The introduction provides an overview of Germanic legend research, discusses...

This volume is a collection of 19 articles in three sections reporting on recent research on the archaeology of shipwrecks, harbours, and maritime landscapes in the Mediterranean region. The shipwrecks section looks at excavated vessels from Mazotos, Modi Island, the port of Rhodes, Naples, and Narbonne, as well as a sailing reconstruction of the Ma‘agan Mikhael ship.

The harbours section includes articles on areas from the Levant to Seville looking at a variety of harbour defence systems a...

Jesus Is King!

It's personal...and business

quitting drugs and alcohol

starting to build a better life

then getting mental problems

and ending on the street

failing with my first company and

then starting a new company

asking for help and getting rejected multiple times

untill finally I get the help that I need

because my sister and a friend went with me

my last 10 years with a lot of tough times

maybe my experiences can help you

try it

Finding the right book for your desired topic has always been challenging sometimes. Everyone wants to learn something from someone with experience. Jasmine Hajro is the name that pops up in the mind when we hear the word 'Experience'. We find many books that we consider to be space-filler. However, sometimes some books not only connect the reader but also reflects an insight of the author. A turning point for a reader starts when he perceives the author's advice but act upon them too. A sing...

Joselyn is a Costarican engineer and artist who migrated to The Netherlands in 2020 in the middle of one of the biggest events of the century.

At the beginning of the lockdown when she and her family were separated because of the closed borders, she drew this book as a way to heal her mind of the unprecedented circumstances.

To Heal You and Heal Me is not just a coloring book, it is one of the most personal healing tools that the author could find in the middle of the storm.

This open access eBook documents an empirical inquiry into the number, value and duration of large commercial court cases in five countries from different parts of Europe: Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Norway. It is an exploratory study as for each country data had to be extracted from the case registration systems of the courts. The study shows that a substantial part of economic activity is ‘paralyzed’ by disputes that are fought out in the courts. This has broad negati...

Increasingly, teachers, youth workers, and social workers are being called on to ‘build resilience to radicalisation’. But, what does this actually mean? What is resilience to radicalisation, how can it be built, and whose role is it?

Drawing on an interdisciplinary analysis of policies and the perspectives of practitioners themselves, this book offers a fresh look at these questions. Through unpacking different ways of thinking about resilience to radicalisation, this book aims to bring ...

More than 10.74 million people globally are detained in penal institutions. An estimated 40% to 90% of these detainees suffer from mental illness. This makes the prevalence of mental disorder in detainees extremely high compared with the general population (18% to 29%). As a consequence, defendants and detainees with mental illness are not ‘yet another vulnerable group’ that should be ‘taken into account’ in developing laws and policies On the contrary, they are a dominant force and t...