*When you buy a book, a book will get donated to a school*Embark on a colorful vibrant journey with simple and engaging text about workers in our community in this heartwarming children's picture book. This is an inspiring read that sparks curiosity and respect for all the incredible workers who shape our community.Workers-Firefighter-Police Officer-Singer-Athlete-Chef-Farmer-Construct...

A transformative account of Māori society during World War II.Te Hau Kāinga unveils the untold stories of the Māori home front during World War II, exploring how this pivotal conflict reshaped Māori communities, culture, and identity. Through vivid narratives and meticulous research, the authors shed light on the challenges and triumphs of Māori whānau as they navigated wartime mobilization, economic shifts, and social change.Discover how Māori lea...

During the years when all seemed well with the Irish economy, a scandal bloomed in front of our faces but went mostly unnoticed: the scandal of public waste. Vast overspending on infrastructure (including a number of white elephants), extravagant use of overpriced consultants, the creation of dozens of quangos whose primary purpose seemed to be jobs for the boys, the culture of junketry that took hold in the semi-state sector and the Oireachtas - these and other dubious practices flourishe...

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection!This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes:A COWGIRL FINDS HOMEThe Blackwell Bellesby USA TODAY bestselling author Carol RossThey’re enemies for life…Or for as long as it takes to fall in love...

Although Kentucky was not subject to reconstruction as such, the period of readjustment following the Civil War was a troubled one for the Commonwealth. Violence begun by guerillas continued for years. In addition, white "Regulators" tried to cow the new freedmen and keep them in a perpetual state of fearful submission that would assure the agricultural labor supply.Their attacks produced exactly the effects whites least desired: the blacks became all the more determined to leave t...

Phillip is a little boy with a lot to talk about; he has had a very busy day. At the end of every day, Phillip and his mother sit down together at bedtime and talk about his day. Phillip tells his mother all about the wonderful things hes done today.He splashed in puddles, drew pictures, ate his lunch, ran with friends, flew a kite in the park, and talked to his grandmother on the phoneas well as lots of other things! Phillip remembers all the things that filled his day before drif...

Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, insightful handbook written as if intended for her original Regency Era readers, and illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolors. When Anna, Jane Austen's young niece, sent her a novel for ""literary comment," Jane loved everything about it, except its utter disregard for the manners of the day. The resulting and tender correspondence between the two serves as the foundation for this instructional book.Etiquette ...

The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the development of chaos theory from one of the world’s most influential living theorists, Michel Serres.Focussing on the largest text still intact to reach us from the Atomists - Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Serres mobilises everything we know about the related scientific work of the time (Archemides, Epicurus et al) in order to demand a complete reappraisal of the legacy. Crucial to his reconception of the Atomists' thought i...

From Trumpocalypse to Brexit Britain, brick by brick the walls are closing in. But don’t despair. Bulldoze the borders. Conquer freedom not fear. EXIT EARTH explores all life – past, present, or future – on, or off – this beautiful, yet fragile, world of ours. Final embraces beneath a sky of flames. Tears of joy aboard a sinking ship. Laughter in a lonely land. Dystopian or utopian, realist or fantasy, horror or sci-fi, EXIT EARTH is yours to conquer.EXIT EARTH includes the short f...

Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how—if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind—it can so perfectly explain the physical world.Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as it is. From ...

This book is a collection of the finest mystical writings of the great physicists of the 20th Century. They are Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, Eugene Wigner, David Bohm, and Freeman Dyson. The essays are written in nontechnical language and will be of absorbing interest to a wide range of readers.The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion w...

The Holy Grail of mathematics revealed in a truly 17th-century numerical and geometrical proof as a letter by Fermat to a colleague. This will withstand all challenges.