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Found unconscious on Southwest Oregon's shore in June, 1861, a shipwrecked young Scotsman, Frank Ross, is nursed to health by a rancher Adam MacLean, Adam's Indian wife, Lillie, and their teenaged daughter, Robin. After an aborted attempt to gain ship's passage back to the British Isles, Ross accepts MacLean's offer to work at the Ranch, being smitten by Robin encouraged his decision. Ross adapts quickly to this new environment and with natura...

Jimmy Burton was quite an ordinary boy, and led quite an ordinary life - that is until he found a pair of magic sneakers...

What's a person to do when she starts having re-occuring dreams about 3 women from the past? Every dream is trying to warn her about something. Will she understand in time...or will she suffer the same fate they did?

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The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, and it is one of the world's most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the ruling class of bourgeoisie and to eventually bring about a classle...

This book is another in the series of Official Alaskan Artists Series Puzzle Books, made in Alaska, by Alaskans. The books feature a wealth of information about Alaska, nature, animlas and all Alaska has to offer. In this book, you'll learn about moose while being entertained with very easy Sudoku puzzles for both young and old. Alaska Artists Series: Moosin' Along with Easy Sudokus! is all about enjoying the wonderful beast the Moose is and c...

If you love Sudoku, and enjoy a variety of Sudoku puzzles for all levels, plus you want to learn a few things about Moose, this is the book for you. Written and illustrated by Alaskan authors who have run into a few moose or two in their time, this book has over 100 Sudoku puzzles, plus just as many interesting, rarely known moose facts to keep you entertained. It's the perfect gift book for anyone who loves moose, loves Alaska, and loves Sudo...

This book is another in the popular series and overnight success in the Official Alaskan Artists Series Puzzle Books, made in Alaska, by Alaskans, for everybody! The books feature a wealth of information about Alaska, while offering lots of fun puzzles for both young and old. Sudoku Gold Rush! is the perfect book for anyone who loves Sudoku and is crazy about Alaska. It's stuffed full of Sudoku puzzles and tons of Alaska trivia, trivia you don...

Scholars of Plato are divided between those who emphasize the literature of the dialogues and those who emphasize the argument of the dialogues, and between those who see a development in the thought of the dialogues and those who do not. In this important book Russell Dancy focuses on the arguments and defends a developmental picture. He explains the Theory of Forms of the Phaedo and Symposium as an outgrowth of the quest for definitions canv...

This book provides a fully documented history of Ireland and the Irish between the fourth and ninth centuries AD, from St Patrick to the Vikings - the earliest period for which historical records are available. It opens with the Irish raids and settlements in Britain, and the conversion of Ireland to Christianity. It ends as Viking attacks on Ireland accelerated in the second quarter of the ninth century. The book takes account of the Irish bo...

In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of ‘, cognitive film semiotics’, , a neglected branch of film theory that combines the insights of cognitive science with those of linguistics and semiotics, he investigates Michel Colin’, s cognitive semantic theory of film, Francesco Casetti a...

This book is a study of the second-edition version of the ‘, Transcendental Deduction’, (the so-called ‘, B-Deduction’, ), which is one of the most important and obscure sections of Kant’, s Critique of Pure Reason. By way of a close analysis of the B-Deduction, Adam Dickerson makes the distinctive claim that the Deduction is crucially concerned with the problem of making intelligible the unity possessed by complex rep...

Formal representations of values and norms are employed in several academic disciplines and specialties, such as economics, jurisprudence, decision theory and social choice theory. Sven Ove Hansson closely examines such foundational issues as the values of wholes and the values of their parts, the connections between values and norms, how values can be decision-guiding and the structure of normative codes with formal precision. Models of chang...

This study of innovation - its intensity, the sources used for knowledge creation, and its impacts - is based on a comprehensive survey of innovation of Canadian manufacturing firms. Attention is paid to the different actors in the system, who both compete with and complement one another. The study investigates how innovation regimes differ across size of firm and across industries. Owing to the high degree of foreign investment in Canada, spe...

Wordsworth’, s Reading 1800–, 1815 lists all of the authors and (where possible) books known to have been read by William Wordsworth during the years which saw the composition of some of his greatest poetry, including Poems, in Two Volumes, The Thirteen-Book Prelude, The White Doe of Rylstone and The Excursion. The information is presented in an easy-to-use form, and includes dates of reading and full discussions of evidence. It draw...

Newspapers are a vital component of print and political cultures, and as such they informed as well as documented the social and political upheavals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, despite the huge influence attributed to them by both contemporary observers and historians, our knowledge of the nature and function of the newspaper press itself remains scant. Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America,...

Wordsworth's Reading 1770–, 1799 lists all of the authors and (where possible) books known to have been read by William Wordsworth from his childhood until his move to Dove Cottage in 1799 at the age of twenty-nine. This information is presented in an easy-to-use form - in alphabetical order by author - and includes dates of reading and full discussions of the evidence. It draws on analyses of Wordsworth’, s manuscripts contained in ...

An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800–, 1920 provides a comprehensive account of Dutch history from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, examining population and health, the economy, and socio-political history. The Dutch experience in this period is fascinating and instructive: the country saw extremely rapid population growth, awesome death rates, staggering fertility, some of the fastest economic growth...