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Pikeville was founded in 1824 inside a bend in the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River at the foot of Peach Orchard Mountain. It was a river town for most of the 1800s with huge log rafts being floated downstream to the Ohio River and steamboats carrying people and goods back and forth. Three momentous events in Pikeville's history all occurred in 1889. The school that became the University of Pikeville opened, construction was completed on the...

San Francisco is well-known for its beautiful vistas and fascinating destinations. However, many places that were once part of the San Francisco experience have vanished from the land--lost to earthquakes, fire, development, and other forces that led to their disappearance--but not from memory. Sand dunes have been replaced by buildings and streets, homes now cover previously desolate areas where cemeteries once stood, and beloved buildings ar...

Straddling a major railroad with plenty of open prairie, 1890s Aldine offered an ideal real estate development to enterprising land agent Ferris Colby. Colby platted a townsite and marketed acreage to Northerners looking for a warmer climate. Advertisements by Colby, as well as Eugene Robertson, touted Aldine's agricultural potential. Satsuma oranges and magnolia figs provided early cash crops. Entrepreneur John Carpenter started a fig canning...

For over 60 years, the Tennessee Central Railway spanned 296 miles, linking western Kentucky with middle and east Tennessee. Visionary businessman Jere Baxter consolidated several railroads over the course of five years. By 1904, his new railway was serving numerous coal mines on its eastern end. The colorful regional road was loved and revered by citizens in the cities it served. The scrappy homespun railroad would spend most of its existence...

New England's Connecticut River meanders 410 miles south from the Canadian border to Long Island Sound. After thousands of years of peaceful habitation by Indigenous people came 400 years of development around European settlements, farmsteads, shipping ports, and manufacturing mills. Farmers, boatbuilders, quarrymen, and industrialists benefitted from the river valley's fertile plains, geological resources, and waterpower. Ready access to mark...

Texte intégral. Cet ouvrage s¿inscrit dans un projet de sauvegarde et de valorisation de bibliothèques et de fonds patrimoniaux anciens, rares ou oubliés, appartenant à la littérature des 19e et 20e siècles. Une collection de grands classiques, d¿écrits pour le théâtre, de poésie, mais aussi des livres d¿histoire, de philosophie ou d¿économie, de récits de voyage ou de livres pour la jeunesse à re-découvrir via les librairies en ligne ou à lir...

Sherlock Holmes has vanished! A duplicate Holmes has taken the place of Holmes. Like it or not, Doctor Watson has no choice now but to try and work with the stranger. His name is Steampunk Holmes. A genius like Holmes, but loud, obnoxious, and more willing to use his fists and guns than just to analyze and figure things out. Watson must find discover where Holmes has vanished to, so that he and his good friends can find Holmes and brin...

A very logical mind, Lark Lauren suffered a traumatic event. He is describing his path to awakening after this event which made him realize there is something else there, beyond the obvious. Follow the inspiring journey that opens him to the truth and puts him on the path of achieving the ultimate Joy. Spirital - A Real Soul Evolution Experience is exploring concepts, feelings, realizations, and sensations from a practical perspective, the ex...

IF YOU LOVE SEINFELD HUMOR, YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK! If you like clever, well written romantic comedies you will absolutely cherish this novel! If you love to let your mind drift back to the eighties, this is a MUST READ! Larry is an ambitious, Ronald Reagan loving salesman who adeptly engineers clever solutions for challenges that unfold. Susan is a John Lennon loving, left leaning democrat. She cherishes her vintage Corvette, teaching high s...

In dieser Habilitationsschrift geht es um die wissenschaftstheoretische, methodische und inhaltliche Bedeutung formaler Modellierung in der Psychologie. Vor dem Hintergrund einer semantischen Theoriekonzeption wird argumentiert, dass valide psychologische Messoperationen nicht unabhängig von substanzieller formaler Theorie definiert werden können. Theoriebildung wird dabei nicht als statistische Modellierung, sondern als Formalisierung allgeme...

Fifteen-year-old Toaole¿ has always been jealous of his sister. But when he accidentally sends her to the underworld, he must learn to overcome his own insecurities and cross the ocean to find her, before it's too late. Dysfunctional family dynamics come to life in this fantastical world inspired by the myths of ancient Polynesia. At its core, Shadowed By Moonlight is a tale of gods and demons, self-love, self-hate, and the depths a young ma...

Spend some time with your young one enjoying these sweet rhymes to help teach the shape and sounds of the alphabet. Each letter has its own spread featuring sweet illustrations and a simple poem that invites your child to take part in the reading.

Spend some time with your young one enjoying these sweet rhymes to help teach the shape and sounds of the alphabet. Each letter has its own spread featuring sweet illustrations and a simple poem that invites your child to take part in the reading.

Texte intégral. Cet ouvrage s¿inscrit dans un projet de sauvegarde et de valorisation de bibliothèques et de fonds patrimoniaux anciens, rares ou oubliés, appartenant à la littérature des 19e et 20e siècles. Une collection de grands classiques, d¿écrits pour le théâtre, de poésie, mais aussi des livres d¿histoire, de philosophie ou d¿économie, de récits de voyage ou de livres pour la jeunesse à re-découvrir via les librairies en ligne ou à lir...

Either way, we seldom pause to reflect on why the Indian State works the way it does.

Alors commença la quête du Saint Graal, quête pour laquelle Merlin avait créé la Table ronde. Des chevaliers, parmi les plus preux, les plus courageux, les plus loyaux, quitteront la cour, souvent sans espoir de retour. Mais, ce qui doit être sera, et le Saint Graal sera retrouvé par le meilleur d'entre eux. Ainsi s'achèveront les Temps Merveilleux de la Bretagne Bleue... Puis viendra celui des hommes, le temps de la trahison, du mensonge et d...

Situées en des temps et lieux aussi divers que l'époque du quaternaire et un avenir lointain, en Amérique, à Tahiti ou au Mexique, ces huit nouvelles portent l'écho d'une seule et même plainte. Celle de l'homme écrasé par un système économique implacable. «La force des forts»: Aux temps préhistoriques, le vieux Barbeenlong décrit à ses petitsfils l'évolution qui a conduit le clan des Mangeursdepoissons de l'organisation individuelle de chaque ...

Ce récit, inspiré d'un voyage réellement effectué par Jules Verne, nous conte une traversée mouvementée, riche en péripéties, de l'Atlantique, à bord du Great Eastern. Le narrateur, qui ne se nomme pas, effectue une traversée de l¿Atlantique sur un gigantesque paquebot, le Great-Eastern. Au cours de cette traversée, il rencontre sur le même navire son ami, le capitaine McElwin, qui est à la recherche de sa fiancée mariée contre son gré à un ri...

This clear-eyed vision for a more compassionate world will inspire you to take action in your own community." -Kelly McGonigal, PhD, author of The Willpower Instinct What would happen if the systems within our society focused on care and healing instead of growth and profit? In A Case for Compassion: What Happens When We Prioritize People and the Planet, Sara Schairer-a leader in the compassion field-examines five of our most influential s...

, , Animals with Love book teaches kids about kindness and empathy for animals!" "Animals with Love" is a wonderful coloring book for kids who love animals and Valentine's Day. This book comes bundled with 49 fun and unique coloring pictures, each depicting a cute animal in a Valentine's Day love scene. Kids will have the opportunity to explore the animal world through their creativity, coloring sweet kissing cats, cuddly bears holding hands,...