In Guyana a man will pay three hundred dollars for a bag of mango he does not want rather than say two words to a vendor. He is not weak. He has calculated, correctly, that the cost of speaking is higher than the cost of paying — and he has run that calculation so many times that he no longer notices running it.This is a book about fear — the inherited, rational fear of two peoples who each believe that to be ruled by the other is more dangerous than to be robbed by their own. It is about ...

"April, 1865. The country was in turmoil. The U.S. Civil War had come to an end, thousands of Union prisoners of war had recently been released, and President Lincoln had just been assassinated. The steamship 'Sultana' left New Orleans on April 21st, traveled to Vicksburg, Mississippi where it took on 1,965 federal soldiers and 35 officers, all recently released prisoners of war, most of them held at the prison camps of Cahaba (or Cahawba, near Selma, Alabama) and Andersonville (in southwe...

How much mayhem can one lie wreak? After being separated by an unforgivable lie, a dying father tells his son about the con men who cheated him of all he had - and the small North western town called Mission that spurned him. Now it is time for revenge. What follows is a twisting story of guile and brutality, mud and gold, as the old man's enemies are played by a young man who has nothing to lose and everything to gain. . .

The greatly anticipated conclusion of Derek and Sofia's journey!Everything Sofia believed to be true has crumbled before her very eyes...Secrets will be revealed, loyalties tested and trust broken.Are you ready to return to The Shade?

In this captivating lecture, Robert G. Ingersoll delves into the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, the revered American president who guided the nation through the tumultuous Civil War. Ingersoll's eloquent words paint a vivid portrait of Lincoln's character, his unwavering determination, and his profound impact on American history. Through anecdotes and insightful analysis, Ingersoll illuminates Lincoln's humanity, his struggles, and his enduring legacy as a symbol of unity, compassion,...

Welcome back to The Shade..."Of course you know who I am. I'm a daughter of the darkness just as surely as you are his son..."Ever since his brief encounter with Emilia at The Shade, Derek's thoughts and dreams have been haunted with images of the mysterious, beautiful brunette. Plagued with guilt, he struggles to understand why he is so drawn to this dark stranger from his past.When Emilia suddenly appears again on the island, Derek is both terrified and intrigued....

Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success discusses a variety of strategies and approaches for using social and mass media as tools through which teachers might improve schooling.While there is a vast body of literature in this field, editors Edward A. Janak and Denise Blum have created a text which differs in two substantive ways: ...

A thriller and love story set in 10th-century Japan.Lady Shonagon is an imperial courtesan, living at the court of the Japanese Emperor in the 10th century. When a series of disturbing thefts within the palace walls throws the court into confusion and unrest, Shonagon is appointed guide and assistant to Lieutenant Yukinari as he investigates.Together, Shonagon and Yukinari must solve the mysteries and escalating crimes that plague the Japanese court, and their romance bloss...

Your firm is already using AI — unevenly, one person at a time, ahead of any plan. Steering the Rollout is the practical guide to getting a real Caribbean business from ungoverned AI to a rollout that is safe, owned, and measured — in about thirty days, without a tech team or a big budget.Following a single 35-person Guyanese distributor from its first anxious decision to a governed, whole-firm rollout, Robert D. Forrester turns hard-won advisory practice into a sequence a...

At a few minutes past ten o’clock of the morning of November 11, 1918, the Secretary of War in Washington received from General Pershing a communication informing the Government that eleven o’clock a.m. that day, French time, an armistice with Germany had gone into effect. No message more momentous had ever come to the American War Department. The World War was at an end. It was peace. It was victory.Over there on that American front which had penetrated the supposedly impregnable A...

More than a hundred years after his birth, Pablo Neruda’s poetry is as vital and beloved as ever.This collection presents fifty of the most essential poems by one of history’s greatest poets in dynamic new translations, the result of an unprecedented collaboration among a team of poets, translators, and the world’s leading Neruda scholars.A definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth of Neruda’s various styles, themes, and periods, The Essential Neruda ...

The greatly anticipated conclusion of Derek and Sofia's journey!Everything Sofia believed to be true has crumbled before her very eyes...Secrets will be revealed, loyalties tested and trust broken.Are you ready to return to The Shade?"This book reaches out and touches the heart. Through tears and laughter it keeps you interested." - Ann Marie Madseb ★★★★★"Wow. Just Wow! Bella Forrest has opened up a world for young and old alike. A place where there ...