Paint Brush In The Sky involves the story of two native Alaskan brothers living in the tundra exploring it\'s vast wilderness and it\'s unique beauty. Atu and Li use the power of imagination, like all children do, to discover the world in their own eyes. \'Paint Brush In The Sky\' teaches that there are no limits to what is possible. The brothers bounce ideas off one another to try and understand the

Absence does not always make the heart grow fonder, as Charlie Schultz discovers upon returning home from the army in 1914. Charlie\'s family has moved from his hometown of Guyandotte, to a farm in Ona, West Virginia. The girl he was planning to court rejected him for his best friend. To escape the mundane farm life, and the girl, Charlie decides to re-enlist. Set in the Appalachian Hills of West Virginia

pA timeless classic on Hell\'s latest novelties and Heaven\'s unanswerable answer, The Screwtape Letters has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life. C. S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of Our Father Below, the worldly-wise old devil, to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man who

The ancient maritime Silk Road that helped connect Asia and Europe has been reinvented as part of China\'s ambitious Belt and Road initiative. However, the seaborne international trade and shipping-lanes, that carry 80-90 per cent of world trade, were there long before China\'s intrusion on the scene. Even so, China\'s intention to build ports at key locations along these trade routes has caused considerable

br By 1,800 years ago, speakers of proto-Ch\'olan, the ancestor of three present-day Maya languages, had developed a calendar of eighteen twenty-day months plus a set of five days for a total of 365 days. This original Maya calendar, used extensively during the Classic period 200-900 CE, recorded in hieroglyphic inscriptions the dates of dynastic and cosmological importance. Over time, and especially

p bYour survival guide for graduate school.b ppWelcome to the university, where the Academic Hunger Games, fueled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. But Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life doesn\'t have to be so grim. A veteran of the university gig economy, Mewburn--aka The Thesis Whisperer--is perfectly

piNo, Alice, I don\'t want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman.i pIt\'s New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she\'s gay. But before she can hit send, her girlfriend reveals that he has always identified as a man and now wants to start living as one. pNow Alice must face a question she never thought she\'d ask .

Wiggy Sphynx is a cool, pretty kitty living in the big city. She has a passion for fashion. She gets wigged out, without a doubt, but wins in the end and becomes an academy award-winning star. She is anything but a dumb kitty and keeps life sunny. She is also a secret agent solving all kinds of dilemmas and problems. Her sharp kitty instincts and wit help her balance her amazing global presence. She

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Timber harvesting can be a dangerous occupation, and so can helping a friend in trouble. When reluctant sleuths Sarah Cassidy and Oliver Wendell combine the two, they find the result is downright murder. It all starts when boatbuilder Pearly Gaites persuades Sarah and Oliver to help a logger friend who appears to have been framed for murder. There\'s more to the logger than meets the eye, however,

pOur Animal Friends are at it again traveling homeward bound on a ship. Homeward bound they meet new friends and learn about new places. They meet Thomas the sea turtle and Alicia the albatross along with a pod of whales going to their home along the coastal waters of South Africa. Sebastian the owl tells us that home for each of us is where our heart is the happiest p

A horrific, killer tornado rips through Wichita Falls in 1979, launching 12 year-old DeLaine Reynolds into adolescence. Living in a tiny \'rattle-trap trailer\' with her abusive step-mother and step-brother and struggling with feelings of abandonment, DeLaine starts 7th-grade at the local high school. There she faces social hierarchy, bullying and the hint of first love. Can DeLaine face the changes

p\'Hardy opens a revealing window into the ills of Empire and the savagery that mankind can so easily revert to and delivers a true punch to the gut, with fascinating echoes of his Writers Guild screenplay for TABOO, the sequel of which many of us are still eager to see, and the murky jungle epics of Joseph Conrad.\'emppMaxim Jakubowski, Crimetime emppA finely-paced and haunting story of a man - himself

pNot everyone is ready for what I divulge. Some may think I go too far. People have asked me what the catalyst of my drug addiction was. I look inside myself and try to answer honestly. But there is no one thing. I believe it was a combination of many things starting with my lineage. Most have heard of Yin and Yang, Nature vs Nurture and Karma but these are only theories. In an attempt to answer the

H. F. Beaumont\'s newest novel digs deep into one\'s emotions. The chief\'s teenaged daughter falls in love with a local non-tribal residence named Jameson Brown. This relationship was frowned upon by not only the tribe but the local community outside of the reservation. Morning Dove became pregnant, looked down on by the tribe for violating tribal laws, while the non-tribal boyfriend was forbidden

The Battle of Sacramento has been shrouded in exaggeration and myth from the time it was fought more than 150 years ago. It is probable that few, if any, military engagements this small saw the beginning careers of so many future high-ranking officers. With a total of less than 500 men engaged, here three future generals and five future colonels began their rise to military glory. And while a small

pThe theme and motif of the city has had an enduring presence in the Arabic-Islamic tradition, from the classical and post-classical literary corpus to modern and post-colonial Arabic poetry and prose. Cities such as Mecca, Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Qayrawan, Marrakesh and Cordoba have served as virtual battlegrounds for some of the Arab world\'s most complex intellectual, sociocultural, and

pThis is an indispensable and authoritative guide to the most crucial ideas, concepts and debates surrounding the study and exercise of leadership. Bringing together entries written by a wide range of international experts, this is an essential desktop resource for managers and leaders in all kinds of institutions and organizations, as well as students of business, sociology and politics.ppTopics covered

The photograph found a home in the book before it won for itself a place on the gallery wall. Only a few years after the birth of photography, the publication of Henry Fox Talbot\'s The Pencil of Nature heralded a new genre in the history of the book, one in which the photograph was the primary vehicle of expression and communication, or stood in equal if sometimes conflicted partnership with the written

bCYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMSb pbThe 13 chapters in this book cover the various aspects associated with Cyber-Physical Systems CPS such as algorithms, application areas, and the improvement of existing technology such as machine learning, big data and robotics.b pCyber-Physical Systems CPS is the interconnection of the virtual or cyber and the physical system. It is realized by combining three well-known