In 1845, seventeen-year-old Amad Adebayo lives a peaceful life in a small West African village, unaware that fate is about to wrench him from everything he knows. Captured and sold into slavery, Amad Adebayo is torn from his homeland and brought to a plantation near St. Augustine, Florida, where he endures the brutal realities of servitude. But the spirit of freedom burns fiercely within him. Defying the odds, Amad escapes the bands of slavery and sets his sights on a bolder dream—freeing ...

In 1845, seventeen-year-old Amad Adebayo lives a peaceful life in a small West African village, unaware that fate is about to wrench him from everything he knows. Captured and sold into slavery, Amad Adebayo is torn from his homeland and brought to a plantation near St. Augustine, Florida, where he endures the brutal realities of servitude. But the spirit of freedom burns fiercely within him. Defying the odds, Amad escapes the bands of slavery and sets his sights on a bolder dream-freeing ...

Walking on Thin Ice, a memoir of love, hate, envy, and greed traces a young womans pursuit of stardom down a dangerous road that leads to shattered dreams and a harrowing fate.I found myself staring down the barrel of a revolver, and a wave of disbelief rippled through me ... An explosion blasted me into a nightmare. The room swirled slowly. Clickclick. The sound reverberated each time she pulled the trigger. I realized this woman was trying to kill me!In ...

In 1845, seventeen-year-old Amad Adebayo lives a peaceful life in a small West African village, unaware that fate is about to wrench him from everything he knows. Captured and sold into slavery, Amad Adebayo is torn from his homeland and brought to a plantation near St. Augustine, Florida, where he endures the brutal realities of servitude. But the spirit of freedom burns fiercely within him. Defying the odds, Amad escapes the bands of slavery and sets his sights on a bolder dream—freeing ...

The Book of Ulster Surnames has over 500 entries of the most common family names of the nine county province of Ulster, with reference to thousands more. It gives the meaning and history of each name, its original form, where it came from – Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales or France – and why it changed to what it is today. The index is an essential asset to the publication – providing nearly 3,000 surnames and variant spellings, cross-referenced to the main listing. The book includes not...

Russia, 1993. Certain Freedoms is an unforgettable novel set against the upheaval of a nation at a turning point in history. Award-winning author R. R. Bell brings readers into the lives of Russians and expatriates from the West caught up in Russia’s fight to realize its new freedom after the fall of communism. Set during the weeks leading up to the siege of the nation’s parliament, the novel explores the power of the past to threaten our future. In this richly textured rendering ...

Nor can I abide any tonguesThat will prattle and prate against reason,About that which doth not concern them;Which thing is no better than treason.Wherefore I'd wish all that do hear meNot to meddle with matters of state,Lest they be in question called for it,And repent them when it is too late.For this I will make it appear,And prove by experience I can,'Tis the excellen'st thing in the worldTo be a plain-dealing...

First published in 1977, Patterns of Education in the British Isles is the first modern discussion of the educational systems of the British Isles and the ways in which they influence each other. It is no arid account of administrative structures but the first major attempt to set the systems in their cultural, political, and historical context, and to relate them to each other.The book discusses the extravagant claims sometimes made for Scottish education, the often-negle...

Out of the Lyme Light and into the Sunlight tells of the journey undertaken by the author, Bob Bell, after developing a bizarre set of increasingly debilitating symptoms, eventually leading to a diagnosis of Lyme disease. He describes his experiences, including the various allopathic and complementary medical treatments he received, and his frustrations in dealing with a skeptical Canadian medical system, which resulted in him seeking out-of-country medical treatment.Amids...

Somewhere recently, a friend or a wealthy relative mentioned they're "an LP" in a venture fund. You nodded. You didn't ask what that meant, what they actually own, or when they get their money back.Venture capital has built some of the largest fortunes in modern finance. It hasn't built an instruction manual for the people funding it. Founders get accelerators and pitch coaches. Fund managers get conferences and trade press. The limited partners, the family offices, the angel inves...

In the spring of 1881, William Bell and his son-in-law Walter leave their families in Pickering, Ontario, and head west in hopes of securing land in what was then the North-West Territories. At fifty-six William is determined to keep a promise made to his dead wife, Annie, that they find land and settle where they can make a life for themselves on their own terms, a place where their family can forge a future beholden to none. And so it is that the two make their way first to Winnipeg, the...

This thesis exploits the ability of the linear-scaling quantum mechanical code ONETEP to analyze systems containing many thousands of atoms. By implementing an electron transport capability to the code, it also investigates a range of phenomena associated with electrical conduction by nanotubes and, in particular, the process of transport electrons between tubes.Extensive work has been done on the conductivity of single carbon nanotubes. However, any realistic wire made of nanotubes...