The Sandman Stories by Koos Verkaik is an exciting collection of stories for the young ones. The stories will take you on an adventure with the Mighty Sandman, the magic gnome who travels around the world helping people with its magical sand. From kings to dragons, from raging knights to miserly innkeepers, from exhausted gatekeepers to timid mayors, from clowns to all sorts of animals, these stories will enable your children's imagination and keep them thoroughly entertained.

From the outside, you have it all: the advanced degree and fulfilling career, the loving family and nice home. But inside, it's a different story. Student loans and credit card debt still follow you around, and living paycheck to paycheck feels like you've missed an important memo only your financially free counterparts received. You're relying on the next promotion and big raise to feel better about your finances, but what if making more money isn't the solution you need? What if you coul...

Over one billion people under the age of eighteen live in territories affected by armed conflict. Despite this, scholars and practitioners often lack a comprehensive knowledge of how children both struggle within and shape conflict zones. Children and Global Conflict provides this understanding with a view to enhancing the prospects of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. This book presents key ideas and issues relating to children's experiences of war, international relations and intern...

Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age, edited by Carolyn Cunningham, offers critical inquiry into how identity is constructed, deconstructed, performed, and perceived on social networking sites (SNSs), such as Facebook, and LinkedIn. The presentation of identity is key to success or failure in the Information Age, especially because SNSs are becoming the dominant form of communication among Internet users. The architecture of SNSs provide opportu...

Stillwater, the beloved Zen panda, now in his own Apple TV+ original series!Caldecott Honoree and New York Times bestselling author/artist Jon J Muth takes a fresh and exciting new look at the four seasons!Eating warm cookieson a cold day is easy water catchesevery thrown stone skip skip splash With a featherlight touch and disarming charm, Jon J Muth--and his delightful little panda bear, Koo--challenge readers to stretch their minds and imaginati...

Prince John reigns over England now that his brother Richard Lionheart is not there. He exploits the people and wears Richard's crown. Everyone fears this mean prince except for men like Robin Hood and girls like Angie!Angie roams the country on the back of her wonder horse Silver and comes across the most odd persons. She runs into knight Rush and his little son Arthur; she meets a merry rat catcher and finally returns to the camp of Robin Hood.Prince John then organizes a...

The further evolution of the European Union is mainly dependent on how its citizens relate to their fellow Europeans speaking a score of languages and belonging to a variety of cultures. This book addresses the question of whether a new sense of collective self-identification, labeled “European identity,” a special form of socio-territorial identities, is emerging.Collective identities are works in progress, they entail a salient strategic—activist and future-oriented—dimension. Di...

Thisis an inspiringnarrative that follows a devout Catholic family as they run a bookstore in Southern California. The story captures their spiritual journey, the challenges they face, and the miraculous events that unfold along the way. Through their unwavering faith and dedication to the church, the family experiences numerous blessings and divine interventions. One of the most captivating parts of the book is the family's pilgrimage experiences. The vivid descriptions of their journeys ...

Turbulent times in England, where Prince John temporary sits on the throne of his brother, Richard the Lionheart. This prince, so turned out soon, was rather busy to enrich himself than reign over his land in an honest way. King Richard the Lionheart joins the crusade and Prince John, who can count on the support of Norman knights, is out on money and power and imposes the highest taxes.Angie, a poor Saxon girl, gets involved in all these events when she tries to keep Silver, her fa...

Old Jacques, and young Vic, his grandson, share one passion – the history of Cro-Magon man and the Neanderthal tribes who once shared their territory in France. After a life of successful business ventures, Jacques decides to tell his grandson on how he became one of the wealthiest men in France.It has all to do with the mysterious way of life of the Neanderthal man.Earlier, old Jacques Poiron was an amateur archaeologist and discovered a cave where a group of Neanderthal people met a horr...

A gospel of the mountains which puts the natural-spiritual events, which are still completely unknown to our science, and the so often misinterpreted meteorological phenomena in the high mountains, as well as their overall geophysical function, and the nature and rule of the nature spirits in the mountain realm, in the center of contemplation and instruction. In the end the reader is lead to the recognition of the mountains as places of divine revelation and as mirrors of our own inner bei...

Being born in poverty with all life odds against him... poor, black, and male made him fair game to the savagery to what was deemed worst ghetto in America, 1970's The Bronx, NY, home to the infamously corrupt Fort Apache Police Dept. and the hunting grounds who at the time was one of the most notorious serial killers in American history, the .44 Caliber Killer - Son of Sam. But if surviving that Create Jungle as a child is not inspiring enough... His fight against being branded as...