Most Popular Books by Elizabeth Edwards

Unravel the Mysteries of the Easter Isles Venture into the heart of the mysterious Easter Isles with "The Faceless Statues: Legends of the Easter Isles." This spellbinding exploration provides a window into the awe-inspiring legacy and enduring enigma of the majestic Moai statues. Perfect for enthusiasts of archaeology, history, and culture, this book is a comprehensive guide to the marvels of Rapa Nui. Discover the tale of a people who defied the odds to create an astonishingly unique civilization, embodying resilience, innovation, and spirit. Uncover the deeper meanings behind the stoic statues and the societal challenges that they faced. Written with engaging prose, insightful research, and illuminating stories, this book is for anyone who has ever felt an insatiable yearning to uncover the unknown. The Easter Isles await your curiosity and imagination-let this book be your guide.

This thesis examines the place of metaphor in biomedical knowledge about two major public health problems: cancer and coronary heart disease (CHD). Specifically, it considers why cancer is constituted by biomedicine in obviously metaphorical concepts that are also highly pejorative. Conversely, the metaphorical dimension of the biomedical knowledge concerning CHD is less obvious and less negative in its connotations. This thesis posits that the difference in linguistic styles associated with cancer and CHD can be accounted for by whether knowledge about them confirms or challenges the knowledge and value system of modernity.

ABSTRACT: The increase in online programs has been accompanied by the need for library instruction and support for online students. Students enrolled in off-campus and/or online programs have to be able to successfully access and use digital library resources to complete course requirements. Using and evaluating resources is an element of information literacy, a key component in critical thinking and lifelong learning, which is addressed by accrediting agencies. An embedded librarian project in an online graduate educational technology course demonstrated the feasibility of an embedded librarian for online graduate courses at the University of Florida, resulting in benefits for students and a pilot for this OnMed Embedded Librarian case study.

This collection explores, in the words of Australian writer Beverley Farmer, "the experience of being foreign". And whilst the majority of stories are rooted in some kind of travel experience, each sees its characters negotiating times of isolation or dislocation in their lives for which ''the voyage''--physical, emotional or psychological--is often a catalyst for entering into yet another ''new'' space. In the title story, "New feet", Mrs Butler seeks a self-imposed isolation from her native cultural milieu, literally erasing her own footprints in her attempt to construct a new life for herself; whilst in "Kill the old red rooster when she comes," two `intrepid women travellers'' in India complacently repeat the mistakes of their forebears until a natural event disorients them completely. For others, displacement, at least initially, occurs closer to home. The first-person narrator of "Dectomy" negotiates her way through a brief, disastrous, international marriage; and the children, Christopher ("Bubble-and-Squeak"), Mazie ("What any dog wants to hear") and Eddie ("What the sea wants") experience moments of foreignness that are disturbingly alienating. As an overall concept, New Feet attempts to investigate characters who step into being strange and who rarely, within the scope of each story, ''return''. In this sense, being foreign is not foreign in itself, but something which, like the skin of one''s feet, the characters across the collection must continually grow into and out of.