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Brett Tompkins leaves his home in Baltimore to spend his twelfth summer with his father in a logging town named Snow Shoe, West Virginia. His father, a banker by trade, has taken over the family logging company at the request of Brett's grandfather who is no longer able to operate it due to failing health. But mother is not happy with this and gives him only a year to try it out. Reluctantly, she allows her son to spend the summer with his fat...

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When Thomas Reynold's best friend, Daniel Russell, a slave by birth, was in danger of being taken from his kindly owner and sold by a heartless bank owner, Thomas and his pa devised a dangerous plan to help Daniel escape westward into Indian Territory. Set during the early days of the Civil War, in the spring of 1862, in the northwest corner of Arkansas, "West to Freedom" is the story of that journey and the dangers encountered along the way.

When Thomas Reynold's best friend, Daniel Russell, a slave by birth, was in danger of being taken from his kindly owner and sold by a heartless bank owner, Thomas and his pa devised a dangerous plan to help Daniel escape westward into Indian Territory. Set during the early days of the Civil War, in the spring of 1862, in the northwest corner of Arkansas, "West to Freedom" is the story of that journey and the dangers encountered along the way.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This volume features over 50 of the world's natural wonders, described and presented in a collection of 800 colour photographs. It includes marvels from every continent, including Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Africa's Victoria Falls and Namib Desert, and Asia's rain forest in Borneo.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

An introduction to interval analysis for scientists and engineers interested in scientific computation, especially using INTLAB/MATLAB(R).

Kendrick Lamar understands and employs blues, jazz, and soul in his music, which makes it startling. His work is more than merely brilliant, it is magic. - Toni Morrison Kendrick Lamar has been described as the poet Laurette of hip-hop, perceptive, philosophical, unapologetic, fearless, and an innovative storyteller whose body of work has been compared to James Joyce and James Baldwin. He is a visionary who will go down as history as one of th...

Examines gang activities in East Los Angeles. This book is written by the author of "Mexican Americans" and co-author (with Leo Grebler) of "The Mexican American People.

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Aspiring mycologists are led through the world of fungi with this helpful guide to mushroom variants and characteristics.

Joannie Waters, unlucky in love, had settled into a quiet lifestyle in her cottage she had inherited. Since graduation she had worked at the local newspaper, that is until her best friend from high school offered her a chance at a new life beyond Harrisville, NC. Her life had done a 180-degree turn in the happiness she found. Yet, when she inherited the newspaper and property, plus a new home, more money then she'd ever dreamed of, she moved b...

In dealing with the intricacies of human nature, society, politics, ethics, theology, racism, and international relations, Reinhold Niebuhr, the teacher, preacher, philosopher, social critic and ethicist, may have been the most important American thinker of the twentieth century. This book distils Niebuhr's disparate and heretofore difficult-to-access work on international relations into one volume. Drawing from the well-springs of Niebuhr's C...