This collection of poems are the author's thoughts about love, nature, the human condition, freedom, responsibility and eternity, as well as children, marriage, passion, dreams and friendship. C. Griffith's thoughts are remarkable in their originality, representing a highly intelligent woman's reaction to an ordering of her private universe. The most striking feature about this collection is the perfect marriage of form to content.

During his childhood, C. D. Griffith lived on his family’s Indiana farm in the Eel River bottoms where he worked the land, hunted, and fished, never venturing further than twenty-five miles from home. But all of that changed during his senior year of high school when he was drafted into the US Army. In March 1943, with a brief stop at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, eighteen-year-old Griffith headed on a train to Camp White in Medford, Oregon, with a final stop in Japan. In a colle...

From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches all aspects of our lives, gamer and non-gamer alike. Business and entertainment, health and medicine, politics and war, social interaction and education, all fall under its influence.Virtual Ascendance tells the story of a formerly fringe enterprise that, when few were paying attention, exploded into a multi-billion dollar industry affe...

This book is dedicated to those of you who have decided to learn a second language on your own. It will get you started by helping you to select the tools you will need, then it will lay out a roadmap for you to follow as you learn, and finally it will provide you with some tips about the whole process to both inform and motivate you. This book is intended for first-time language learners but can still be of great benefit to more experienced language learners as well.

Jane Addams (1860–1935) was an inspired activist who struck at the roots of social injustice through persistent and thoughtful action, advocating for reforms in sanitation, housing and work conditions, and child labor. In 1915 Addams founded the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and in 1931 she became the first American female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Eighteen years after Addams’s death, members of the WILPF created the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award...

Certain it should be that, beyond and about this World of Length, and Breadth, and Thickness, there is another World, or State of Existence, consisting of these and another dimension of which only those beings who are privileged to enter or dwell in it can have any conception. Now, if this postulate be granted, it follows that a dweller in this State would be freed from those conditions of Time and Space which bind those beings who are confined within the limits of Tri-Dimensional Space, o...

FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF LGBTQ+ ROMANCE APRIL C. GRIFFITHElectra Rex, self-appointed ‘galaxy’s greatest starship captain’ and last known human, is going to save humanity or get rich trying!Electra Rex, the last human in known space, is broke—worse than broke, deeply in debt and out of options. After a desperate, drunken attempt to fix her faltering life, she finds herself in a deeper hole after stealing the most stylish starship she’s ever seen, but...

A resource directory for the sustainable, generous, and compassionate traveler featuring books, apps, blogs, travel providers, magazines, podcasts, international organizations, and packing gear.

INTRODUCTION This book was written to give you a glimpse into my personal life story, it’s about the trials, storms, struggles, and the setbacks, and my determination to continue with the help of the Lord to find my true life’s purpose and destiny. To focus on the future and not my past, pains, hurts, and sufferings, but to pursue after my God given goals that will help me to help others in their life pursuits. This book will help encourage and inspired you to continue no matter what comes...

Proceedings of an international symposium, with the focus on Prediction and Performance in Geotechnical Engineering held in Calgary, on the 17-19 June 1987.

The reliable quick-reference guide to clinical dermatologyRook's Dermatology Handbook condenses a wealth of clinical expertise into its accessible, user-friendly guide to the diagnosis and management of dermatological disorders. With its contents carefully selected from the much-respected Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology, this invaluable resource combines precise explanations with visual aids and a concise, quick-reference format to create an everyd...

Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich.Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century. Widely quoted in the Press and in academic publications, The Prince has direct relevance to the issues of business and corporate governance confronting global corporations as they...