From strollers to subways to cars, humans have found many ways to get from place to place. This nonfiction book about various modes of transportation helps early learners connect with the world around them and gives adults the tools to balance structured learning time and free play. Explore the diverse types of transportation used across one person’s lifetime with this wordless nonfiction book, which connects to early learners’ daily lives with vibrant, full-color photographs. Perfect for ...

Do you know how baby animals grow? Lambs become sheep, cubs become tigers, and tadpoles become frogs! This nonfiction book about how baby animals grow and change helps early learners connect with the world around them while giving adults the tools to balance structured learning time and free play. Discover how different animals change over time with this wordless nonfiction book, which connects to early learners’ daily lives with vibrant, full-color photographs. Perfect for at-home learnin...

Taking care of a garden requires a lot of hard work…you have to be willing to get your hands dirty! This nonfiction book about what it takes to grow a garden helps early learners connect with the world around them while allowing adults to balance structured learning time and free play. Explore some beautiful and diverse gardens in this wordless nonfiction book, which connects to early learners’ daily lives with gorgeous, full-color photographs. Perfect for at-home learning or any preschool...

Throughout the history of the church, many excellent books have been written addressing the theological significance of Christian identity. Such works have delineated important doctrines such as adoption, justification, and sanctification. While these studies of being "in Christ" have been fruitful, and numerous, they have often neglected one of the most useful tools in understanding Christian identity, namely, the use of metaphor. A search of Scripture reveals that Jesus and his apostles ...

Be Equipped to Prepare and Deliver Engaging, Biblical, and Effective Topical SermonsSooner or later, every preacher will come upon a situation where they need to preach a topical sermon. Yet few are taught to preach topically. Even preachers who are gifted in expositing the Scriptures may struggle to deliver a topical sermon that is engaging, culturally relevant, and true to the biblical text. Worse, many pastors worry these messages undermine confidence in the Bib...

Be Equipped to Prepare and Deliver Engaging, Biblical, and Effective Topical SermonsSooner or later, every preacher will come upon a situation where they need to preach a topical sermon. Yet few are taught to preach topically. Even preachers who are gifted in expositing the Scriptures may struggle to deliver a topical sermon that is engaging, culturally relevant, and true to the biblical text. Worse, many pastors worry these messages undermine confidence in the Bib...

The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. All of Earth's ecosystems now face the spectre of the accelerated greenhouse effect and rates of change in climatic regimes that have hitherto been unknown. In addition, multiple use forestry – where forests are managed to provide for both a supply of wood and the conservation of biodiversity – can change the floristic composition and vegetation structure of forests ...

The Early Development of the Aviation Industry: Entrepreneurs of the Sky provides an introduction to the world of the early aviation industry and the business endeavours of the original aviators.Many of the first pioneers who flew heavier-than-air planes went on to develop considerable industrial concerns. In doing so they exhibited a number of entrepreneurial qualities, which provide useful case studies for those interested in studying how successful entrepreneurs create ...

First published in 1999, this volume explores how the cities of central Europe, among them Berlin, Budapest, Hamburg, Vienna and Prague, went through a period of phenomenal growth during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their rapid expansion and growing economic importance made citizens aware of the need to manage the fabric and culture of the urban environment, while burgeoning nationalism and the development of local and international tourism constructed cities as showcases ...

Spring 1905, England.When Helen Schlegel goes to stay at Howards End - the country home of the Wilcox family, her own life, along with that of her sister Margaret, is changed forever. This is the tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes, the gentle, idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.Frequently cited as E. M. Forster's finest work, Howards End brilliantly explores class warfare, conflict...

Penguin Audio presents E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread, adapted for listening and now available as a digital audiobook as part of the Penguin English Library series. This abridged version is read by Stephen Fry.'I had got an idea that everyone here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects they didn't care for, to please people they didn't love; that they never learned to be sincere - and, what's as bad, never learned how to e...

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny, and bitterness.Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence, and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.