This hands-on guide treats model yacht sailing as a serious craft, not a toy, and promises the knowledge needed to build a self-acting yacht that truly performs on the water. Drawing on deliberate experiments with yachts of equal length but different beam, rig, and ballast, the author shows why model vessels must be designed differently from full-sized ships, and why speed, balance, and automatic steering depend on practical testing rather than ornament. Beginning with the 3-foot model yac...

Caroline is nervous to start kindergarten. She has no idea how she'll explain her Cystic Fibrosis to the other kids. Will they be worried about her cough? Will they think she's weird? In this story, Caroline finds the courage to share her difference instead of trying to hide it."Caroline Goes to Kindergarten is an ideal segue for open and honest conversations with children about Cystic Fibrosis. Based on real-life experiences, Mari...

Give the bride-to-be in your life a gift with useful and proven insights to help with that transition into married life! The problem is not surviving the wedding; the problem is overcoming the emotional process that creates turmoil for the bride to be. Dr. Walton's Surviving the Wedding deals directly with the emotional side of getting married by combining communication strategies, psychological insights, and self-empowerment techniques with the immediate proven effectiveness of clinical h...

Topics include: How to Recognize and Move Through the Stages of Grief; How to Process Grief, Give It Meaning, and Grow from It; What Hypnosis Is and How It Can Help; Hypnosis to Relieve the Heartache and Find a Way Out; and Meditation to Heal the Grief.

According to author/life advice expert Suzannah Galland, everyone has the ability to be intuitive, it's just a matter of "tuning" into it. Intuitive Connection helps you to dig deep within and enhance your "gut instincts" to make pivotal and positive choices in your life--whether personal or professional. Calm your nerves, eliminate stress and find a quiet peace no matter where you are, as Inner Sanctuary taps into the inner strength we usually forget that we have, to battle those unexpect...

Anger is expressed in a myriad of ways, but one of the most dangerous is road rage, because it has the potential to be fatal to the perpetrator, the target, and even innocent bystanders. Let Dr. James E. Walton help you get the upper hand on anger behind the wheel, while life advice expert Suzannah Galland offers affirmations for gaining self-control with the goal of improving your life and connectedness to others.

Discover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America’s past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable.Born in segregated 1940s Georgia, McPherson graduated from Harvard Law School only to give up law and become a writer. In 1978, he became the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But all the while, McPherson ...

Discover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America’s past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable.Born in segregated 1940s Georgia, McPherson graduated from Harvard Law School only to give up law and become a writer. In 1978, he became the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But all the while, McPherson ...

The Vintage Science Fiction Collection 27The Greatest Stories of Science Fiction’s Golden AgeScience fiction’s Golden Age was a time when writers dared to imagine the impossible. Long before spaceflight became reality and computers transformed everyday life, they envisioned alien worlds, remarkable inventions, mysterious civilizations, and futures filled with both hope and danger. The Vintage Science Fiction Collection 27 b...

THE PERFECT QUIZ BOOK FOR BOOKWORMS!Which Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song?In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie's surname?What is heavy-drinking Rachel Watson known as in the title of a 21st-century bestseller?And what do you get if you add the number of Bennet sisters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to the ...

These are the adventures of Pik & Pok, two worms that live at the bottom of Mrs Bakewell's garden in rural Wiltshire.

This book tells the story of how I grew up in a Wilburite Quaker family in Ohio and attended Scattergood Friends School in Iowa. I give an overview of Quakers who originated as the The Religious Society of Friends in seventeenth-century England. I tell about Wilburite Friends, which are much different from most Quakers. Their practices are close to early English Friends. I tell how the Blackburn Family lived out Quaker beliefs. I tell about Scattergood Friends School in Iowa. I present my ...