Winnie-the-Pooh and the Party is a charming rhyming adventure featuring the best-loved characters from the Hundred Acre Wood.It's Rabbit's birthday and that means party time in the Hundred Acre Wood! With all our beloved characters in attendance, name badges are a must. But spelling can be tricky, as Booh Pear, Tiddle and Wiglet find out . . .With gentle rhyming verse by bestselling author Jeanne Willis, inspired by A. A. Milne's classic poem 'Tedd...

What Shall We Do, Winnie-the-Pooh? is a delightful rhyming adventure, celebrating friendship and differences, and featuring the best-loved characters from the Hundred Acre Wood.Join Winnie-the-Pooh for a walk through the Hundred Acre Wood as he ponders over what to do about each of his friends. Poor, timid Piglet is scared of everything, Tigger is far too bouncy sometimes, and Eeyore is always gloomy . . . but Pooh soon realises that he loves his friends b...

In this 2023 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, writer Mark Matousek reminds us that In these times of chronic planetary, traumatic stress, we have access to the radical and relevant philosophy of the American treasure, Ralph Waldo Emerson.Emerson’s philosophy of self-reliance which, in his terms, was much more than standing alone as a self-sufficient individual. It is about paying attention to the well-being of the spirit and reliance on the divine intelligence that we all sha...

In this 2022 interview with Justine Willis Toms, long-haul commercial pilot Mark Vanhoenacker opens our vision to a more expansive landscape. He is a seasoned pilot and a brilliant lyrical writer about his journeys as experienced both from the air and on the ground where he chronicles for us some of the planet’s great cities. He is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for the Financial Times.He says, “I get to so see so much of the ...

Scientific materialism is the reigning paradigm of scientific inquiry. It is the notion that physical matter is fundamental in the universe. Materialism assumes that matter produces consciousness and holds that the brain produces consciousness. Therefore, when your brain dies, your consciousness dies. Gober has compiled extensive research that turns scientific materialism upside down and purports that consciousness is the fundamental basis of all reality, including matter. He gives example...

In this 2025 interview with Justine WIllis Toms, Nepo says "There are no shortcuts in navigating growing older." As we pass into the second half of our lives, we will face the challenge of accepting the forces of limitation. The reality of aging is that it is an apprenticeship into life with the invitation of new ways of seeing, feeling, and being. Here we explore the challenges and gifts of growing older. Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015 h...

Discover the magic of the Faraway Tree. Now a major movie!Silky's Story is the perfect introduction to the wonderful world of the Faraway Tree.Explore the Enchanted Wood with Joe, Beth and Frannie and meet their very special friends, Silky the fairy, Moonface and Saucepan Man. When a runaway elephant visits the tree, there's a lot of mess for the friends to sort out . . .Perfect for reading with 3-6 year-olds, this picture ...

The perfect introduction to the wonderful world of the Faraway Tree. Discover the magic! Explore the Enchanted Wood with Joe, Beth and Frannie and meet their very special friends, Silky the fairy, Moonface and Saucepan Man. When a runaway elephant visits the tree, there's a lot of mess for the friends to sort out . . .Perfect for reading with 3-6 year-olds, this picture book is a delightful way to discover the extraordinary world of the Magic Faraway Tree.This is a brand-ne...

In Advanced Control Foundation: Tools, Techniques, and Applications, the authors address key concepts and terminology needed to apply advanced control techniques in the process industry. This book targets process or control engineers who are familiar with traditional control but have limited or no experience in designing, installing, commissioning and maintaining advanced control systems. Each chapter aims to help readers quickly understand the technology and its applications. Exa...

Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama R...

The "graveyard orbit" hovering thousands of miles above the Earth is a chaotic swarm of dead satellites and spent rocket boosters. Capturing and safely de-orbiting these massive, tumbling pieces of metal using robotic arms is incredibly dangerous; a single misaligned physical impact can shatter the target, instantly worsening the Kessler Syndrome. Aerospace logistics firms are testing a radical thermodynamic approach to avoid kinetic contact altogether. Instead of grabbing the debris, salv...

While much recent attention has been focused on the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis, little has been said about its radically-disparate impact. Drawing upon history as well as insight into the current crisis, this book shows that this crisis is not an anomaly, especially for people of color; nor is it over. People of color have been excluded from wealth-building opportunities via homeownership continuously throughout United States history, from the outright denial of credit and res...