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This is a story about the adventures of a cat named Kitt and a dragon named Flask. Vinny is a human and owns a huge estate that has been in her family for generations. One of her friends gave her a dragon egg, which she cared for until it hatched. On the estate, there is a large cave with several unexplored tunnels, or so they thought. While cleaning the main cave, Flask starts hearing unusual noises. He follows them as the tunnel twists an...

The Seed of the Guardians is the story of a highly advanced race of beings from the inner arm of the galaxy that had developed a long life span and submitted to mental control to weed out their violent emotions. The plan worked and they spread their non-violent philosophy thru their section of the galaxy, over-seeing the other peoples they came in contact with. They were known as the Guardians. They became so passive that when they came in...

Born in Tehran in 1930 into a mixed family of a Tartar mother and an Azerbayjani father, Haideh Ahmadzadeh started dancing at the age of seven in a country that was struggling to keep up with modern times. Dancing for girls was not an accepted or desirable occupation. Her love of dance made her overcome many obstacles and with the approval and backing of her mother and later her husband Nejad, she got to the top of her profession. With a great...

Ikechukwu and Anabella, meet in the university, fall in love and plan to marry. But they commit a serious error of judgment because: ".....they failed to realize that their love was so exclusive that it shut out a society whose tradition they had ignored and which fought back.....

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Hypnotherapy provides a powerful tool for utilizing the power of the mind to reduce distress and suffering. This guide provides readers with a source of ideas on starting hypnotherapy practice, and thinking seriously about hypnosis as a powerful adjunct to psychotherapy and medical interventions.

When Harvard football team tied Yale in 1968 by making up a 16-point deficit in less than a minute, the Crimson the following morning carrried this headline: "Harvard Beats Yale, 20-29." This and twenty other unlikely comebacks are the subject of this books, froom the 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers to the 1914 Boston Braves.

Why is it that so many gifted and passionate leaders end up on the sidelines of ministry rather than finishing well? How can you avoid the pitfalls that face those who serve Christ and his church? What steps can you take that will propel you forward into a more faithful and fruitful ministry than you ever dreamed? These questions and more are addressed in Leadership from the Inside Out.

Complete with production and classroom notes, this modern recasting of the Socrates story will make riveting reading both inside and outside the classroom.

Writer/comedian T. Brad Hudson brings his hugely popular blog to paperback! Come along on his adventures, read his rants, follow his debates and learn all you can from the good "Doctor" on dating, relationships and sex. T. Brad truly has a way with words and is a wizard at making his point and putting things into his own unique perspective. Read his views on abortion, God, network news, one night stands, stupid people and just about everything...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers, a development that some critics have called the Native Renaissance. In Before the Country, Stephanie McKenzie explores the extent to which this growing body of literature influenced non-Native Canadian writers and has been fundamental in shaping our search for a national mythology.In the context of Northrop Frye's theorie...

This book deals with British involvement in the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. Encompassing a wide range of topics -- including Britain's imperial legacy, Palestine, Israel and the Jews, and the contemporary Middle East -- it examines Britain's role in Egypt, the Levant, the Fertile Crescent, and the Gulf. The twenty scholar/contributors are renowned specialists, and have contributed original research in...

The beautiful, yet icy Musidora Sinclair hides a deadly secret. Once radiant and exuberant, her manner has become unnaturally cold and reserved. Even when wooed by King Henry VIII, who proposes to make her Queen of England, she responds only with seeming indifference. What is the explanation for her unusual behaviour? And then there is another mystery, much more terrible. On the Isle of Wight stands the ruined Castle of Danvers, whose forbidd...

A delightful collection of folk tales from West Africa including 18 Anansi tales, as well as 17 others. Includes the story of how the tales came to be called Anansi tales. In the olden days all the stories which men told were stories of Nyankupon, the chief of the gods. Spider wanted the stories to be about him. Nyankupon agreed, on one condition, namely that he bring him three things: a jar full of live bees, a boa-constrictor, and a tiger. H...

The first edition of Frans de Waal's "Chimpanzee Politics" was acclaimed not only by primatologists for its scientific achievement but also by politicians, business leaders, and social psychologists for its remarkable insights into the most basic human needs and behaviors. Twenty-five years later, this book is considered a classic. Featuring a new preface that includes recent insights from the author, this anniversary edition is a detailed and...

The industrialist trying to obtain an Honour for himself, the Earl with a novel tax-avoidance scheme, the retired ladies feuding over the Village Show: all of them, and the rest of the village - not to mention the British Government - are affected, one way or another, by Fred, the elderly inventor and general disaster area. "I wept with laughter over 'Fred's Electric Budgerigar'. It is extremely funny and beautifully done" - Submissions Editor...

A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. But their practice is hardly of only local interest: the Gnawa have long participated in the world music market through collaborations with African-American jazz musicians and French recording artists. In this first book in English on Gnawa music and its global reach, aut...

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Saddle up and enjoy these 14 new tales of hot lead, cold hearts, and more leather-slapping action, adventure, and edge-of-the-seat danger than you could ever hope to find on either side of the Mississippi. The writers within these pages range from seasoned Western scribes to those new to the field, but all are united by their love of the legends of the Wild West. Most write for the Black Horse Westerns series published by Robert Hale, Ltd., on...