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The best introduction to multiethnic New World Discovery before Columbus. Nine true adventures featuring Hatshepsut, King Solomon, Xu Fu, Marco Polo, Nicholas of Lynn, Zheng He, Martin Behaim, Amerigo Vespucci, King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth, and Francis Drake. Includes first maize (Indian corn) in Egypt, early maps of America before Columbus, Roman Florida, Albertin di Virga's 1414 map of Peru and North America, ancient artifacts and faces of O...

Love between Heaven and World talks about an Angel and a human boy's love and how she helps her "human classmates" to be good people.

Talks about a girl's dream to be a violinist.

Obsession, Betrayal, Undying Love. Worlds collide in this coming of age tale of three teenages dealing with life in the town of Estherville, New York

My first 18 years living in Scotland. 1933-1950.

This book is the recorded experience of 9 mothers who believed God's Word that He would adopt their children during a period when their parenting role seemed to be overwhelming.

This unusual book, documenting the trials for witchcraft conducted in Shetland and Orkney, one of the most remote and superstitious parts of the United Kingdom. This book is a brilliant insight into how far sensible people will go when scared by something they do not understand. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these cla...

Humanitarian Engineering reviews the development of engineering as a distinct profession and of the humanitarian movement as a special socio-political practice. Having noted that the two developments were situated in the same geographical and historical space -- that is, in Europe and North America beginning in the 1700s -- the book argues for a mutual influence and synthesis that has previously been lacking. In this spirit, the first of two c...

All teachers know that there can always be a challenging pupil in any class. This book describes how teachers can recognize what 'behavior is communicating' really means. It shows teachers, step by step, what can be said and done using real case examples. It also addresses the role of parents.

This book captures the different ways in which independent women of African origin use migration as a means to escape from circumsatnces at their home countries which were adverse to their well-being. Escaping and leaving the familiar behind, these women were exposed to victimisation and discrimation during the apartheid era in South Africa. In an attempt to adjust to life in a Transnational space, these women have acquired both negative and p...

Dramatic Comedy 3m, 5f / Interior Set in Southern West Virginia in the 1990's when the last coal mines were closing, Business as Usual is a hilarious slice of human comedy based on economic hardship. Tom Woolwine, who entered the coal mining business at 16, is out of work after the closing of his mine in rural Gary, West Virginia. Despite facing poverty and an uncertain future, Tom does not want a severance check, nor welfare, nor a hando...

4m, 6f / Comedy A one-act about a young artist on a journey to create her one great masterpiece. On the way she learns lessons about life, art, flamingos, playing the tuba, Georgia O'Keefe, really fat ducks, monkeys wearing roller skates, and the joy of coloring outside the lines. A strong ensemble, poetic language, and expressionistic visual elements make Masterpiece perfect for students or adults. Winner of the 2005 Wells Fargo Spotlight on ...

Today, we live in a dynamic and inter-connected world. A multitude of "revision triggers" make it necessary to anticipate, prepare for, and continuously adapt to new realities. The key to dynamic adaptation we argue, is to become "super-flexible". Super-flexibility is defined as the ability to engage in a continuous balancing act: on the one hand, we need to withstand turbulence and create stable anchors, on the other hand, we have to transfor...

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