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A classic early reading book for Steiner-Waldorf Classes 1 and 2 (age 6-8).

Massachusetts, 1973: Drei Tage vor ihrer Hochzeit wird Diana Opfer eines Amokläufers. Ihr Verlobter Joe fühlt sich verpflichtet, bei ihren Eltern Ben und Jojo zu bleiben. Während die Eltern das tragische Ereignis verdrängen und sich in Sarkasmus und blinden Aktionismus flüchten, will es Joe allen Recht machen. Er wird zum Ersatzkind der beiden, doch schon bald kommen ihm Zweifel. Gehört er wirklich zu ihnen? Als er sich dann auch noch in die s...

The Old Man Said "Good Morning" is a charming collection of short stories and poems covering a variety of subjects gleaned from the author's life experiences.One story is about the Scottish Bravehearts at El Alamein. There is also a poignant story for cat-lovers and humorous 'Tales from the Pub'.The poems range from beautiful prose describing life in the country to one which is for the soldiers in Afghanistan to whom we owe so much.A delightfu...

Peppered with memorable anecdotes about spectral curiosities, THE SUN'S HEARTBEAT is a robust narrative that explores the sun's birth, its life as a self-sustaining ultra-H-Bomb fusion explosion, and its spectacular future death. Did you know that scientists are beginning to think that the sun is safer than sunscreen? That whenever we see the sun on the horizon, it's actually a phantom image because the sun has already set? That career pilots ...

THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON A book that entertains, informs and suggests startling parallels to today's world. _____________________________________________________________________________ Join such historical figures as King Charles II whose far-seeing plan rebuilt a city, Samuel Pepys whose diary told the tale, and Christopher Wren whose architectural genius brought London back to life. __________________________________________________________...

New York Times bestselling author and CNBC commenter Keith Boykin expands on the "It Gets Better" project by bringing together 25 essays by men of color on the topic of surviving growing up gay. In 1974, playwright Ntozake Shange published a choreopoem called For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. The book/play/poetry would go on to inspire legions of women for decades and would later become the subject and ...

Description: The world has been completely thrown on its head. A nobody from Nazareth, who was brutally executed by the Roman Empire, has conquered all the empires of mankind and brought freedom to all its slaves. A world of ecosystems and communities of life headed towards death is being rescued. You are being called to follow in this movement, sacrificing everything that you have and are. Will you flee or will you follow? Endorsements: ...

Description: This diary is a fine-grained, often daily, theological reflection on the author's final ponderings on his ordeal with a serious illness, a concluding sabbatical, a last year of teaching, a culminating lecture, presiding at Eucharist, and summarial notes about "what God is doing in the world." Amid all these meanderings it holds the lectionary of the biblical and liturgical calendar in one hand and the newspaper in the other (K. B...

Amy Michaels moves to the small town of Lucky Harbor, where her grandma hiked the Pacific Northwest rain forest for one glorious summer some decades prior, hoping for the same life-changing experience. She gets life-changing alright, in the form of a sexy forest ranger Matt Bowers. She also gets something she never knew she wanted much less needed - love.

Description: A sixteen-year-old girl named Elspeth wakes one night to find a hatchling dragon in her father's bed. Elspeth's father, a hunter named John Fletcher, tells her she's had a bad dream, one she must not tell anyone about. Things deteriorate. The dragon reappears, each time growing in size and potency. As this happens, her father becomes increasingly angry, then violent. This is the story of their journey into family violence, and ...

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith was first published in the momentous year of 1776. It is this, his last work, which is usually known by its abbreviated title 'The Wealth of Nations', which is considered Smith's magnum opus. It is rightly hailed as the first modern work of economics. During his lifetime Smith gained a fully justified reputation as a brilliant social philosopher and is also widely ci...

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith was first published in the momentous year of 1776. It is this, his last work, which is usually known by its abbreviated title 'The Wealth of Nations', which is considered Smith's magnum opus. It is rightly hailed as the first modern work of economics. During his lifetime Smith gained a fully justified reputation as a brilliant social philosopher and is also widely ci...

Cultural criticism meets poetry memoir-a contemporary master reflects on a life dedicated to poetry.

An epic poem divided into ten sections, with an explanatory foreword and afterword, detailing the author's hallucinatory impressions of his hometown of Roanoke, Virginia -- both positive and negative -- that took just over two years to complete.

21 income streams, inflation-proof strategies, and more!

The characters in David Constantine's fourth collection are delicately caught in moments of defiance. These bewitching, finely-wrought stories give us permission to escape, side-step the inexorable traffic of our lives, and take possession of the moment by marking out a space for resistance.

The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.

Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people.

Third-grade Arthur fans ready to read on their own can take their own adventure with Arthur as he ducks the amorous attentions of a friend. Illustrations. B&W, illustrations.

This book examines the ways in which questions of culture and diversity impact on the values and ethics of social work. Using detailed case studies to illustrate key points, it discusses how social workers can develop cross-cultural engagement in practice and work creatively with the tensions it sometimes involves.