From tundra to desert, from prairies to rainforests, the trade routes of Ganelerdos converge at Sparrenfor, Larpektis, Enelarmos, and Torg-ra-Honnet-the Merchant Cities. Fair exchange offers prosperity to the creative and industrious, both human and elemental... and unearned riches to the ambitious and greedy.Scorned by his father, mocked by his older brother, Woldirek Hansar rides with a caravan into a desolate wasteland. He emerges with a bo...
The cross Taiwan Strait clash has evolved from a regime challenge revolving around ideological confrontation between Taipei and Beijing into a conflict about Taiwan's nationhood. In Evolving Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations, Yana Zuo shows that Taiwan's future is still full of uncertainty and unpredictability. A mutually acceptable solution is not likely without the 'one China' principle as an independent Taiwan fundamentally chall...
Damn Katherine! Why can't I be the only woman who knows how to write?" Virginia Woolf Katherine Mansfield was, most of all, a passionate spirit. Her poems are sometimes traditional, sometimes outbursts of emotion, sometimes experiments akin to prose poems. In all she manages a strange alchemy, ordinary words are somehow transformed into powerful arrows of meaning. Into the world you sent her, mother, Fashioned her body of coral and foam, Combe...
Want to know what subject-verb-object REALLY means? Unsure about where to place your adverbs? Need to rearrange sentences confidently? This is the book for you. A complete foundation in word order and sentence structure for the English language, Word Order in English Sentences can be used both for reference and as a full self-study guide. From basic rules through to the many considerations of adverbial phrases, prepositions and complex sentenc...
Winter, Again: The WorldÕs Longest Hockey Poem is Book Two Of The Longest Poem In Canada, by Martin Avery. Winter, Again alludes to Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, And Spring, Again. It's an epic poem about waking up, working on enlightenment, while checking out hockey online. It incorporates the greatest in hockey history and a poet's connection to the game after years of Zen training.
For centuries the Five Magi have been trapped among the stars, unable to return to the living world. All that time they have been brooding, weaving their plans, and gathering mystical power from the cosmos. Soon they will return and unleash their dark forces in a war to enslave all mankind. Altor, a young warrior monk, is just starting out on life's journey. A dying man charges him with a desperate quest. To prevent the return of the Five Magi...
When Kathryn Leigh Scott's husband was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a neurological disease for which there is (so far) no cure, it was a devastating time for both of them, not least because so little is known about the cause or treatment of a disease that affects some 20, 000 Americans, a number similar to that of Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS).Last Dance at the Savoy is both a personal story about Scott's husband, Geoff Mi...
Antwerpen, eind negentiende - begin twintigste eeuw. De Schelde, de hoofdslagader van de stad, blinkt onder een gouden zon terwijl twee families verenigd door een rederij met hun schepen rimpels in het water trekken. In een stad waar naast zijn rivier ook mensen op de uren van de getijden in en uitstromen, voert Tot de duivel het schip keert je mee door zijn straten, huizen, kieren en achterbuurten om een familiegeschiedenis, die tegelijkertij...
Detroit debutante/investigative journalist Iris Edwards gets more truth than she can handle when she tackles her rich and infamous grandfather's tell-all biography. Partnering with his Ojibwa Indian doctor to find the old man's "unforgivable sin, " they unravel an eighty year-old web of Machiavellian intrigues from an Upper Peninsula ghost town to an insane asylum and the Henry Ford Museum-to find a murderer, a hero, and a deadly secret that w...
When China issued its paper on how the next Chief Executive of Hong Kong would be selected they decided what they thought was best for Hong Kong since its return and incorporation into China. However, the reaction to China's decision was probably not expected nor were the events that followed. With the protests the Hong Kong government had to react and when Occupy Central actually took place their reaction had to be stronger. This book deals w...
Ingrid Lundström, the daughter of a wealthy Swedish banker, has been a global roamer since she left school. An iconic blond, she resembles Agnetha Fältskog of Abba fame. These attributes dominate her existence, especially when she moves to Papua New Guinea, to work. Because of her connection to wealth, she becomes the target of criminals. Because of her appearance, she attracts special interest at every turn. When aspiring teacher Michael Mann...
The scholarly essays in this book focus on the theme of art and social change in Western art from the Renaissance to about 1950. The edited volume includes contributions by scholars with a range of professional backgrounds and affiliations. Their essays address some aspect of the theme and engage with one or more artworks in the collection of La Salle University Art Museum. Topics include religious iconography, portraiture, landscape, journal ...
The gospel of Jesus Christ is both true and transforming. The incarnation, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus are not legendary events in a fictional tale. They are firm historical realities on which the Christian faith stands or falls. Only those who repent of their sin and trust in Jesus Christ alone for salvation can stand before God without fear. There is nothing we need more than the gospel. Audio CD. Twenty-Five 30 to ...
