When Mara Lawson inherits a lighthouse on the remote Dreadmoor Island, she expects to uncover family secrets. What she doesn't expect is the island's eerie pull—a force that seems to know her, to remember her. As she navigates a maze of forgotten memories, cryptic journal entries, and an ancient curse tied to the island's dark past, Mara must decide how far she's willing to go to uncover the truth. But with each answer comes a new mystery, and the island isn't the only thing keeping secret...

Learn how to use ArcGIS Pro with this best-selling, step-by-step workbook and desk reference.Getting to Know ArcGIS Pro 3.6 explains the basics of how a geographic information system (GIS) works as it teaches readers how to use ArcGIS Pro, the world’s most powerful desktop GIS software.Readers will follow simple step-by-step instructions, accompanied by more than 300 full-color images, to learn core analytic and mapmaking skills.Topics incl...

You never know what can happen on a spring day with a moose, a lawnmower, and a wild imagination.

Learn to use ArcGIS Pro confidently, quickly, and effectively with the newest edition in this best-selling series.Getting to Know ArcGIS Pro 3.2 introduces readers to ArcGIS Pro, the world’s most powerful desktop GIS. Geographic information system (GIS) software provides mapping and analytic capabilities that give people and organizations powerful location intelligence.Getting to Know ArcGIS Pro 3.2 walks readers through exploring ArcGIS O...

The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative period in Britain, and an important part of this was how Britons’ lives were changed when they began flying abroad for their holidays. In A World Away Michael John Law investigates how something that previously only the rich could afford became available to working-class holidaymakers.A World Away moves beyond the big players in the tourist industry and technical accounts of the airplanes used by tour operators to tell the...

Want to get up and running with ArcGIS® Desktop? Start here.Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop 10.8, sixth edition, is the classic textbook that introduces readers to the features and tools of ArcGIS Desktop, specifically ArcMapTM, the popular professional geographic information system (GIS) application from Esri. Rooted in the science of geography, GIS is a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data using map visualizations and location intelligenc...

The Septuagint is the term commonly used to refer to the corpus of early Greek versions of Hebrew Scriptures. The collection is of immense importance in the history of both Judaism and Christianity. The renderings of individual books attest to the religious interests of the substantial Jewish population of Egypt during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and to the development of the Greek language in its Koine phase. The narrative ascribing the Septuagint's origins to the work of seventy t...

How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the Rabbinic Hebrew Bible than to the Greek Bible of the early Church? The Septuagint, the name given to the translation of the Hebrew scriptures between the third century BC and the second century AD, played a central role in the Bible's history. Many of the Hebrew scriptures were still evolving when they were transla...

The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years. It shows that, contrary to those accounts that portray suburbia as static and boring, these suburbs were in fact at the heart of the adoption of private transport and new mobilities. Wealthier middle-class suburbanites enjoyed driving at speed on new arterial roads, visiting roadhouses for a transgressive night out, taking five-shilling flights from the local airport, and joining cycling ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When Mara Lawson inherits a lighthouse on the remote Dreadmoor Island, she expects to uncover family secrets. What she doesn't expect is the island's eerie pull—a force that seems to know her, to remember her. As she navigates a maze of forgotten memories, cryptic journal entries, and an ancient curse tied to the island's dark past, Mara must decide how far she's willing to go to uncover the truth. But with each answer comes a new myste...

When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his stud...

Did you know?In 1884 the Circle Line opened and was described in The Times as 'a form of mild torture which no person would undergo if he could conveniently help it.'According to one psychologist, Tube commuters can experience greater levels of stress than a police officer facing a rioting mob or even a fighter pilot going into a dogfight.Underground trains have only twice been used to transport deceased people in coffins: William Gladston...