Stan & Mags: Flight to the Past invites young readers to step inside the Fighterworld Museum in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, and solve a mystery hidden among historic aircraft.Stan, a thoughtful young koala, and Mags, a curious magpie, follow a trail of clues through hangars and exhibits-piecing together details, comparing evidence, and working as a team as the investigation deepens.Designed for close observation and critical thinking, the story e...

How to work with the chakra centers to heal unresolved psychic wounds• Reveals how psychic injuries become lodged within the energy body• Links one major developmental stage with each major chakra• Provides a detailed guide to healing and clearing the tensions each chakra holdsThe chakra system identifies eight centers in the psycho-anatomy of humans, each one associated with a different part of the physical or energy body. Susan J. Wright, a practicing sham...

"... all the cunning, intrigue, dark humour and darker deeds anyone could want, perfectly plotted and sublimely rendered!" —Iona Whishaw, award-winning author of the Lane Winslow MysteriesThe deadly games people play are on full display in fifteen short stories in the third anthology from Sisters in Crime—Canada West.Old friends feature in several, such as "On The Internet Nobody Knows You're a Dog," where a musician turns PI to track down a stalke...

While scholars, media, and the public may be aware of a few extraordinary government raids on religious communities, such as the U.S. federal raid on the Branch Davidians in 1993, very few people are aware of the scope of these raids or the frequency with which they occur. Inspired by the Texas State raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints in 2008, authors Stuart A. Wright and Susan J. Palmer decided to collect data on all the raids of this kind that have taken place in West...

In March 1987 a radical coalition of queer activists converged on Wall Street ... their target, 'Business, Big Business, Business as Usual!!!' It was ACT UP's first demonstration. In November 1999 a radical coalition of environmental, labor, anarchist, queer, and human rights activists converged in Seattle-their target was similar, a system of global capitalism. Between 1987 and 1999 a new project in activism had emerged unshackled from past ghosts. Through innovative use of civil rights' ...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work to reinforce one another. Understanding Inequality provides students and academics with the ba...

While on a misssion to save the planet Lessenar from environmental collapse, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise™is crippled by an emotional onslaught as the surviving aliens respond in anger and pain to the death of their comrade.Worf must overcome this alien influence and find the true killer with the destruction of the Starship Enterprise,the survival of Lessenar, and his Klingon honor hanging in the balance....

Have you wanted to pick up a new hobby? How does saving a few dollars, and eating healthier sound? What if I told you could could do all three, all at once?If this sounds good, then keep reading!Whу garden, уоu аѕk? How аbоut еnjоуіng thе bеѕt vegetables and fruіt you’ve еvеr eaten? If уоu’vе nеvеr tаѕtеd garden-fresh fооd, уоu wіll be аmаzеd bу thе ѕwееt, juісу flаvоrѕ аnd vіbrаnt textures. There’s аbѕоlutеlу nothing quite lіkе fresh vеggіеѕ, ...

Do you want to start a garden, but don’t have a yard? Is your space limited, and you’re just trying to figure out how to better grow food for yourself? Have you ever heard of raised-bed gardening?Then keep reading!In thіѕ bооk, you'll learn thе following:What exactly does “raised bed gardening” entail;Ideas for starting your own raised bed garden;How to build your own raised beds, and the optio...

After being divorced five times, my current husband and I have been married, divorced, and then remarried. I know that is something you never want to happen. That is why I have written this book because many of the struggles I have found within my marriage are what I have addressed in this book. One issue I have had in my marriage was the issue of technology being a hindrance. I needed to research ways to work around the issue of technology and relationships. Social media has been another ...