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...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

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' ...

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...

Santa's Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends' encapsulates an extraordinary range of literary styles, themes, and individuals, highlighting the diverse manners through which the essence of Christmas has been captured in literature. From iconic carols that echo through the ages to poignant tales that embody the spirit of giving, this anthology masterfully compiles works that span centuries, cultures, and literary movements. Noteworthy pieces not only entertain bu...

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....

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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...