What in the world is going on?What do you do when you find a classmate beaten up, his new bike taken from him by the school's most dangerous bully? If you're Neil Everheart, you agree to get the bike back from the bully, which means an after-school showdown in front of half the school. And that's just in the first few pages of Bikes and Bullies.Soon more new bikes are missing in Greenbelt, where Neil lives, even though Neil's father, the town's Chief of Detectives,...

This beautifully illustrated children's book, "The Woodland Jamboree" is about a boy who finds fun and adventure in nature as his animal friends, one by one, add their natural sounds and voices to the beat of a woodpecker's tapping. A woodland band forms and the end result is a rhythmic, wonderful earful of forest magic! Children will be serenaded by a frog, a Loon, a skunk, a hedgehog, a bee, an owl, and many more woodland creatures as they sing their way through "The Woodland Jamboree". ...

Australia is in the midst of a major social and economic experiment that centres on financial risks being shifted onto ordinary people. We are being asked to manage ourselves as if we are businesses, and these businesses are being squeezed tighter and tighter.Households are taking on more risk and financial stress, implicitly accepting demands that they be stable, secure payers. What is driving this, and how might we resist it?

One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix—a work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come. In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of both the Ice Man's discovery and his age, which was put at over five thousand years, fascinated scientists and newsp...

Bryan Welch, the publisher of Mother Earth News, is realistic about the American mindset, and the reluctance of the masses to give up the comforts of consumption in the name of sustainability.

Travel back to one of the most pivotal eras in history—— a time when devotion to the pagan gods was fading and the Roman Empire was being conquered by the sign of the cross.AD 309. Rome teeters on the brink of war. Constantine’s army is on the move. On the Rhine frontier, pagan Germanic barbarian Brandulf Rex joins the Roman army as a spy. Down in Rome, senator’s daughter Junia Flavia finds herself embroiled in antiChristian politics as she works on behalf of the church.As ...

In this book, Michael Huemer and Bryan Frances debate whether – and how – we can gain knowledge of the world outside of our own minds. Starting with opening statements, the debate moves through two rounds of replies.Frances argues that we lack knowledge because, for example, we cannot rule out the possibility that we are brains in vats being artificially stimulated in such a way as to create an illusion of living in the real world. Huemer disagrees that we need evidence against suc...

This book describes emerging and established industrial processes of biomining technologies used for the recovery of metals of economic interest from, e.g. mineral ores, mining and electronic wastes using microbiological technologies.Multiple chapters focus on engineering design and operation of biomining systems. Several industrial case studies from China, Chile, Peru, Russia/Kazakhstan and Finland are included, which emphasises the practical approach of the book. The reader not o...

Immigrants as outsiders in the two Irelands examines how a wide range of immigrant groups who settled in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland since the 1990s are faring today. It asks to what extent might different immigrant communities be understood as outsiders in both jurisdictions. Chapters include analyses of the specific experiences of Polish, Filipino, Muslim, African, Roma, refugee and asylum seeker populations and of the experiences of children, as well as anal...

**Journey to Avatar Aang: The Last AirbenderWitness the never-ending quest for balance as Aang and Team Avatar work to rebuild the Four Nations in stunning stories that enrich the world explored in the new Paramount+ movie —ideal for longtime fans of the Avatar Legends universe and newcomers alike.Aang and friends must join together once again as the four nations' tenuous peace is threatened by an impasse between Fire Lord Zuko and Earth King Kuei!**As the world head...

**The Legend of Korra continues in this collection of the entire Ruins of the Empire three-part story!This compact edition by the creators of the beloved animated series features a new cover by artist Michelle Wong!**To secure lasting peace for the Earth Kingdom, Korra must trust an unlikely ally.On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom’s future is endangered by its past. As Kuvira works to reclaim her honor, the devious commander Guan ...

Alone and forgotten, a mighty prophet languishes in a prison cell…The voice of God, which once spoke through him to rebuke priests and admonish kings, has now gone silent.In his hour of desperation, his heart cries out to know the truth. Was his mission and calling from Yahweh genuine? Or had he been wrong all along? Most painful of all, why had he been abandoned by the God he sought to serve?If you have ever doubted your calling from God…