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Lawrence Hill was born in Ontario, Canada of a black father and a white mother. He is the author of a memoir, Black Berry, Sweet Juice, a work of non-fiction, The Deserter's Tale, and two other novels. His third novel, The Book of Negroes (published in the US as Somebody Knows My Name) was a no.1 bestseller in Canada, and won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book.

Presents the adventures from women who have travelled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. This title enables the readers to: discover the hidden magic of Flamenco in Spain, walk the night and its terrors in Benin, travel the darker side of the Hawaiian fantasy, and, draw a map of Argentinian tango.

Long before the political mass-murders witnessed in the present century, western Europe experienced another kind of holocaust--the witch-hunts of the early modern period. Condemned of flying through the air, changing into animals, and worshipping the Devil, over a hundred thousand people were brutally tortured, systematically maimed and burned alive. Why did these persecutions take place? Was it superstition, irrationality, or mass delusion th...

Building on the previously published work of John Landis--the 1922 "Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations After the Landing"--Mrs. Roser's work provides an accurate and reliable summary of all that is presently known about the passengers of the Mayflower for the first three generations in America--names, dates, places, spouses, children, etc. Unique to the Roser work, each third generation listing includes references to...

22 classic AC/DC rockers arranged for ukulele! Complete with full lyrics, chord boxes, and all your favorite high-voltage riffs in tablature! Songs include: Back in Black * Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap * For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) * Highway to Hell * Moneytalks * T.N.T. * You Shook Me All Night Long * and more.

Thousands of Americans can claim the Marbury family's lineal connections to their royal and noble ancestry, from William the Conqueror through Edward I. These ancestors include John, King of England, who signed the Magna Carta in 1215 at Runnymede, as well as many of the barons who witnessed his signature on that famous document. All later kinds of Spain, Holy Roman and Austrian emperors, most later English and French kinds, all kings of Pruss...

The 10, 000 vital records in this work were drawn from the marriage and death columns of five western New York newspapers published before 1850: the Republican Advocate of Batavia, the Steuben Farmers Advocate of Bath, the Geneva Gazette, the Jamestown Journal, and Palmyra's Wayne Sentinel. Birth announcements were not published in these early newspapers, but many of the marriage and death notices mentioned birth years, birthplaces, and parent...

This work is concerned mainly with early Palatine immigration and contains 319 ships' passenger lists with a total of 30, 000 names. The arrangement is chronological according to date of arrival, listing the names of the ships on which the passengers arrived and the places from which they emigrated. In addition, the appendices list over a thousand early settlers who landed at some port other than Philadelphia, but who afterwards came to Pennsy...

Author's description: My life is an example of following in the footsteps of Jesus, while practicing yoga disciplines and applying the principles of "A Course in Miracles." I am a "monk in the world, " not a father with children. Yet, as every father, I would like to leave behind an inheritance. This autobiography is my inheritance, but it is simply a reminder of our Father's inheritance---His gift of Himself---to all of His children. The only...

Marjory Wentworth says in a poem her grandmother spoke seven languages fluently. I don't know how many languages Wentworth can speak, but I do know she can write/speak one language superbly: American English. Her poems sing, dance, and see with sharpness things of the world that, for seeing them, make us more human." - Thomas Lux, author of The Cradle Place and God Particles

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Chicu the Amazon parrot's adventures--from capture to being reunited with his soul mate, sailor Big Blue.

This is a story of the struggle to create beauty. A novice may find it useful in building an adobe house-how to mix the mud, how to grade a pipeline, how to tell a two-by-six from a one-by-ten: such details abound. But above all, it tells of a man's triumph over every obstacle to achieve something delightful. When the author undertook to build a home for his family in the spring of 1964, he had no building experience and very little concept of...

The content of this book is the findings of a case study undertaken in an early childhood education and care setting in urban Auckland, New Zealand. This study explored the foundational mathematical thinking and behaviour of children aged between 12 months and three years while engaged in unstructured outdoor play experiences. The discussion regarding the findings of the case study shows how very young children (toddlers) explored their outdoo...

An exploration of the relationship between mathematical theories and physical observations.

The most important work of 18th-century French political theory, and a commentary on Louis XIV's rule.

These specialist essays show how the study of nomadic pastoralism can contribute to understanding the forms of human existence.

The main focus of this book is the construction and analysis of an integrated macroeconomic model.

The Wealth of States is the first sustained analysis of the overlap between historical sociology and international relations.