Pitcairn is 4.6 square kilometers with no airport, no harbor, and no beach where a ship can dock. To land you must wait for calm, board a longboat, and run a narrow crack in the rocks called Bounty Bay while 40 people watch. If swell is 2 meters, you turn back and wait 48 hours.Those 40 people are the smallest national population on Earth. In 1937 more than 230 lived here. Today the median age is above 45, no child has been born on island since 2012, and the Island Council lists re...

You picked up this book because financial stress lives in your chest at 2 in the morning when bills replay and an unknown number might be another collector. You believe God is faithful, and you still wonder how the lights will stay on next month. Maybe debt feels heavier than hope, or income dropped overnight, or you and your spouse cannot talk about money without blame. Whatever pressure you face, you share a hope this book was written for, that God wants to meet you where anxiety lives, ...

From our modern perspective, it's difficult to imagine a time when the earth still contained mysteries and men headed out in wooden boats on journeys into the unknown. But that was not the case during the Age of Exploration. The Great Explorers tells the dramatic stories of the four men whose expeditions helped define this era: Bartolomeu Dias, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, and Ferdinand Magellan. They were demanding and imperfect leaders, single-minded in the pursuit of their goals...

When Wendy and her brothers meet Peter Pan, the boy who never wants to grow up, he takes them to Neverland. There, they meet the Lost Boys and discover an island full of magical adventures. But there is a great danger waiting for them in Neverland: Captain Hook, a famous pirate who is not afraid of anything… except for one thing! Vocabulary included

Somewhere in every person who has ever owned a toilet is a voice whispering that someone else could be made to pay for the privilege of using it. That voice is how the landlord fantasy begins, and this book is the friend who pulls you aside before you sign the papers. It is a funny, insider's tour of the rental empire dream, written by someone with two decades inside the industry, and it will hold every cheerful assumption up to the light: the passive income, the mailbox money, the sleep. ...

Now published by Wisehouse Classics, this is the unabridged Anniversary Edition of the original 1911 published novel "Peter and Wendy" (or "Peter Pan") with the original therteen illustrations by F. D. Bedford."Peter and Wendy" or "Peter Pan" is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited ...

The Complete Works of J. M. Barrie (Illustrated) gathers the remarkable breadth of Barrie's fiction, drama, and shorter prose, revealing an imagination far larger than the enduring fame of Peter Pan alone suggests. Across novels, plays, sketches, and fantasies, Barrie moves between Scottish domestic realism, Edwardian theatrical wit, and lyrical dream-logic. His style is at once delicate, ironic, sentimental, and psychologically acute, situated between the late-Victorian fascination with c...

This book J. M. Barrie was to the last generation what "Alice in Wonderland" was to the one before. Written with all that indescribable charm that has endeared him to thousands, it tells the story of how Wendy and her brothers flew to the "Never Never Land" with a boy who never grew up; of the adventures that there befell with wolves and redskins and pirates; of the building of Wendy's house, and the delight of the little boys who now had a mother at last. In short, it is the narrative of t...

When beauty disappears as a central motivating good, we become obsessed with truth as a substitute, producing the mindset of "culture wars" rather than cultural renewal.For two thousand years, Western thinkers understood that beauty is what moves us toward the good and the true. In The Lost Tradition of Beauty, Matthew J. Smith argues that the loss of this idea is the source of our cultural fragmentation today, as he recovers a vision of beauty as a moral,...

This illustrated ultimate collection gathers the remarkable range of J. M. Barrie's achievement: fourteen novels alongside more than eighty short stories, plays, and essays. Far beyond Peter Pan, it reveals a writer moving fluently between Scottish realism, Edwardian fantasy, domestic comedy, social observation, and theatrical experiment. Barrie's prose is supple, ironic, and emotionally elusive, often balancing whimsy with melancholy; his dramatic works helped shape modern popular theatre...

Peter Pan makes night-time calls on the Darlings' house in Bloomsbury, listening in on Mrs. Mary Darling's bedtime stories by the open window. One night Peter is spotted and, while trying to escape, he loses his shadow. On returning to claim it, Peter wakes Mary's daughter, Wendy Darling. Wendy succeeds in re-attaching his shadow to him, and Peter learns that she knows lots of bedtime stories. He invites her to Neverland to be a mother to his gang, the Lost Boys, children who were lost in ...

Now published by Wisehouse Classics, this is the unabridged Anniversary Edition of the original 1911 published novel "Peter and Wendy" (or "Peter Pan") with the original therteen illustrations by F. D. Bedford. "Peter and Wendy" or "Peter Pan" is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mer...