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Alice in a World of Wonderlands: The English-Language Editions of the Four Alice Books Published Worldwide is a two-volume set, this is Volume 1 (Essays and Illustrations). Volume 2 (Checklists and Appendices) is available separately. This is a companion to the 2015 three-volume Alice in a World of Wonderlands: Translations of Lewis Carroll's Masterpiece. Jon A. Lindseth and Arnold Hirshon edited these volumes that explore the legacy of the ...

Discover The True Flavour of Brexit Whether you voted for your grandchildren to feel the icy chill and gnawing hunger of (what we thought were) bygone winters because you hate them, or because you were too stupid to see how you were being played like a cheap piano by the privately-educated elite, this book is for you! Now that we've imposed crippling trade sanctions on ourselves as if we've just lost a major war, and rid our majestic kingd...

Technology changes everything. Technology changes nothing. There is no denying that we're experiencing an unprecedented rate of technological change. This change has resulted in everything moving faster and in a more distributed fashion. Societies, organizations and individuals are struggling to find new equilibria. The missing element is how we fit into the picture. Breathless pronouncements of how technology will change the world focus too m...

It is 1869, and Emily Warren Roebling's father-in-law, John A. Roebling, the chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, has suddenly died and left the job to his son, Emily's husband, Colonel Washington Roebling. Washington succumbs to a mysterious illness at the beginning of the project, and Emily becomes a liaison and field supervisor for the bridge. She puts aside her own ambitions as an educated woman while devoting herself to her son, John, h...

The Sunken Restaurant and Other Verse is a light-hearted but incisive collection of comic verse written during the 1980's. We hear how a plan for a gourmet restaurant aboard a large boat is threatened when the boat slips its moorings and gracefully sinks below the water, what happens when a town in Georgia passes a law that everyone must own a gun, who complains when a city announces a ban on private ownership of lions, tigers or bears. These ...

This is a story of a family...at least a part of it. It is based on the memoirs of the author's grandfather, Frederick Maehle who was born in 1871. Frederick, known as Fritz, lived with his family in the city of Lodz. During WWI, when Lodz was under siege, the schools were closed, his work was erratic so he would tell his children stories about his ancestors, his childhood, and his youth. He began his memoirs in 1913. Although he ended writing...

Their Paths Are Peace tells the story of the creation of The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, a unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens each representing a different ethnic group/organization in Cleveland. First published in 1954 (and long out of print) this 65th anniversary edition presents the original content (with minor corrections) in a fresh layout.

Zane Verloren is a highly skilled musician, the front man for a house band in the city of Cincinnati. Damaceous is an angel, an investigator from the Powers Dominion, sent to earth to discover the truth behind the rise in local demonic activity. Little does Zane know, a fateful encounter between them would turn his world on its head, opening new realms filled with dreams and nightmares, love and ruin. Together, the two race to discover the evi...

Deep in the English Channel lies the wreck of a US Navy vessel sunk during the Battle of Normandy. Her rotting decks and silt-filled chambers once staged a human drama that may have inspired Herman Wouk's World War II novel, The Caine Mutiny. This is the true story of the USS Partridge and the real-life heroes who served aboard her in some of the most treacherous waters of the war. The crew's struggle to serve under a captain losing his grip o...

Encore is a collection of poetry and songs written by Marjorie E. Potter from 1969 to 2009 that chronicle events in her life as well as various imagined journeys, and often express her philosophies both spiritual and political.

It's 1965 and US State Department Officer Josh Ross has been sent to Turkey to settle a dispute between Turkey and Greece. While there his old friend Gabe Smith hands him a letter sent from Russia that starts him on an adventure that takes him around the world. While being pursued by both the Russians and Bulgarians (and helped by Israel's Mossad) can Josh uncover a family secret that goes all the way back to Czar Peter the Great?

On May 10th 2018, Jim Gibans, Nina's husband of more than 60 years died. In April of 2018, when Jim's health started to decline, Nina wrote to him, she wrote him poetry. She wrote him a poem almost every day. And she read them to him. Rosepetals: towards memory... is a collection of poetry by Nina Gibans in honor and celebration of her late husband Jim Gibans.

Award winning crime historian, author, & essayist Albert Borowitz has penned his autobiography. The twist is that he wrote it 73 years ago! Unearthed from his personal archive and published for the first time, this book chronicles the first 13 years of his life, from 1930 to 1944, and affords the reader a preview of a precocious writer that was yet to come and a fascinating look at the formative years of a young Jewish boy growing up in Chicago.

MAN OF THE WORLD is the gripping account of the first year of British adventurer Graham Hughes's daring Guinness World Record(TM) attempt to visit every country on Earth using only surface-based transportation, told with refreshing candour in his own words.Buckle up for a rib-tickling multinational caper of courage, tenacity, love, friendship, danger, panic, passport stamps and geo-politics, washed down with copious amounts of alcohol.The Odys...

Cryptic drawings, maps, strange symbols. This is what twelve-year-old Mike Hilliard discovers as he investigates the long-dead, ruthless millionaire Titus Morley. As these strange symbols and drawings hover in his dreams, Mike rambles through the listless Cleveland Heights summer with Billy Hayworth, a photography intern at the Western Reserve Historical Society, where Mike's uncle, Robert "Otto" Hilliard is an historian. After his death in an...

Associate Curator of European Art Joe Cocktail, is having a bad week. His boss just bought a forged painting and Joe's got all the top brass at the museum on his back for bringing the fact to their attention. Now, with the 100th Anniversary Gala for the museum just a week away the museum's universally disliked Director is making everyone's life miserable and to top it all off Joe's office is vandalized. With the help of some old friends and so...

The term "death play" describes "a stock strategy that buys stock on the belief that a key executive will die, the company will be dissolved, and shares will command a higher price at their private market value. " In the novel Death Play, the stock broker Tony Trask begins with stock strategy and ends with deadlier techniques.

An always insightful, often sarcastic, often hilarious, guide into the often enjoyable, often challenging, often rewarding trials and tribulations of innkeeping. If you're an innkeeper, if you've ever thought about becoming an innkeeper, if you've ever stayed at a bed and breakfast, or if you've ever thought about staying at a bed and breakfast you must read this book.

At the end of the 9th grade, Katie Terosie learns that her family is moving to St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. She is devastated about the move and leaving her friends in Minnesota. That is, until she meets her new neighbors, Seth and his sister, Lauren. While snorkeling, Katie finds a map in a bottle at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. Katie, her younger sister Anna, Seth, and Lauren decide to follow the map. They discover that they can ...

The Charmed Garden is a great introduction to herb gardening. The author lived on an herb farm and shares her knowledge on growing herbs. The book covers how to choose and prepare a site for an herb garden. There is also an extensive listing of herbs with details on their cultivation and use that will certainly be helpful in planning and growing an herb garden. The author also gives you great information on growing herbs in containers. There i...