Around the home, the wind and the birds whistle. Sunbeams, filtered by trees, limbo across the lacquered wooden floor.Some nights, danger lurks. Bandits. Gunshots in the wee hours of the morning. A thief sneaks into a neighbour's home.Despite the fears, mother and daughter create a haven.The mother is wise, kind to one and all. Yet she shoots words so sharp, she quells the petty thief and his foul-mouthed girlfriend into submission. The daughter wallows in self-depr...

The Author is a loving husband, father and a conscientious Kenyan (and global) citizen. In 18 years of legal practice, Saitabao ole Kanchory has helped countless marginalized persons and communities in East Africa in the struggle for their lands and land rights – often purely pro bono.Saitabao is credited with playing a major role in saving the world-famous Serengeti-Maasai Mara ecosystem known for its spectacular annual wildebeest migration termed the Eighth Wonder of the World.

The Dane Who Changed the Course of the Second World WarOn the 28th May 1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt placed a direct call from the White House to William S. Knudsen, Director of General Motors Corporation in Detroit. Roosevelt needed the right man to lead America's armament during the Second World War – and the president only had one candidate in mind for the job: the Dane known as 'Bill' to his friends and colleagues. For his efforts, Bill would receive just one dollar a ye...

This seminal work offers the liberating and powerful methods of Diamond Way Buddhism for readers seeking to incorporate Buddhist practice into their daily lives.

Mathematics is an activity—something we do—not just something inert that we study. This rich collection begins from that premise to explore the various social influences, institutional forces and lived realities that shape and mould the study and practice of mathematics, and are moulded by it in turn.These twenty-one essays explore questions of mathematics as a topic of philosophy, but also the nature and purpose of mathematics education and the role of mathematics in moulding citi...

An interactive introduction to musical instruments with 50 original compositions to listen to—from the kazoo to the bassoon.What does a double bass or a sitar sound like? What's the difference between bongos and congas? Which instrument has only one note? Which one takes just 30 seconds to learn?This book engagingly presents 50 common and uncommon musical instruments with practical and curious facts that will spark interest in music of all kinds. Each instr...

'He's reckless, irresponsible and can't - or won't - avoid getting involved in fights no matter what duty he's supposed to be carrying out!'That was the sort of comment which the senior officer of the Texas Light Cavalry might, with some justification, have made about the hot-headed Lieutenant Red Blaze during the War between the States. However, it was uttered by Colonel William Barrett Travis shortly before his departure to take command of the garrison at the Alamo Mission in San ...

Dolittle non è un dottore come tutti gli altri. Non va molto d’accordo con i suoi simili e trova più interessante la compagnia degli animali. Gli abitanti di Puddleby, d’altra parte, evitano la sua casa per non rischiare di trovarsi un riccio sul divano o un coccodrillo sotto al tavolo. Grazie agli insegnamenti del suo fedele pappagallo Polinesia, il dottore impara a comunicare con gli animali, a curarli e a risolvere i loro problemi. La fama del dottore gentile che sa parlare con gli anim...

Captain Jackson Baines Hardin had been given the task of ensuring the safe delivery of a five hundred caplock rifles, on which depended the success of the Texians' struggle to liberate themselves from the tyrannical rule of the Mexican dictator, Presidente Antonio Lopes de Santa Anna. Not only was he being pursued by a large contingent of the Arizona Hopi Activos Regiment, but it was likely that an even larger enemy force would be coming after him. So he found that devising a way of transp...

The Texans' defeat at the Alamo had embittered their bloody rebellion with the gall of revenge. But Major General Sam Houston was determined to meet Santa Anna's superior forces on his own terms. While the Mexican Army--fifteen hundred strong--camped on the banks of the San Jacinto, it fell to three men of the Texas Light Cavalry to even the odds. At their lead was the "Ole Devil" himself, Jackson Baines Hardin. If anybody could pull off a behind-the-lines mission--an impossible victory in...

On March 27, 1836, General José Urrea ordered the cold-blooded killing of almost four hundred Texian prisoners of war. When news of the massacre reached General Samuel Houston, commander of the newly formed Army of the Republic of Texas, he was placed on the horns of a dilemma. For political reasons, he couldn't permit any official reprisals to be taken against Urrea, but he knew that something had to be done to stop the madman from striking again ... There was just one man who could help ...

An American shipload of Caplock rifles has been unloaded on the Texas coast. This new-fangled firepower could be vital to the Texians fighting for freedom from Mexico … if it ever reaches its destination. There's only one man General Sam Houston trusts to escort the Caplock shipment, and that's Jackson Baines Hardin … the 'Ole Devil' himself. Ole Devil is a man to be reckoned with, and this time he's got a pistol-packin' girl and a sword-swinging Oriental in his corner. But he hadn't count...