An indispensable guide to the international history of illustrated images, from 1750 to the present day.Illustration: A Concise History is a dynamic visual journey through the landscape of illustration that maps the evolution of the discipline from the industrial revolution to the postdigital age and showcases over 180 of its most iconic practitioners, including Laura Knight, Antonio Lopez, Käthe Kollwitz, and Hayao Miyazaki. By contextualizing the subject...

The ancient seers are dead, or so everyone believes. But the visions that shape Kyra’s dreams and the mysterious Watcher who invades them are more than just a nightmare. Pursued by Morkai assassins, Kyra flees into the Broken Lands, where she hopes to find clues that will reveal her true heritage. Soon Kyra is drawn into a battle between otherworldly powers, and the fight for control of her mind becomes the least of her problems.

More than anything in the whole wide world, Amy Pickett want to be a chicken. Her family aren't to keen about that. The clucking would get on their nerves. Even her best friend Clarice thinks she's unhinged. Then Madam Marvel comes to town and strange feathery things begin to happen. Nothing for any of them is ever going to be quite the same again...

In the last months of the American Civil War, the upper Texas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was often considered an isolated backwater in the conflict, the Union's pervasive and systematic seizure of Southern ports left Galveston as one of the only strongholds of foreign imports in the anemic supply chain to embattled Confederate forces. Long, fast steamships ran in and out of the city's port almost every week, bound to and from Cuba. Join author Andrew W. Hall as h...

In a future built on engineered perfection, the most human heart belongs to a machine.Felix was created to follow rules, not to form attachments. But when confronted with the destruction of a naturally delivered infant—dismissed as a biological error—he makes a choice that no machine is meant to make. He saves the child. He raises him. And in the quiet spaces between protocol and survival, something like love begins to take shape.Twenty years later, the lif...

This book offers ethical and political approaches to issues that nonhuman animals face. The recent ‘political turn’ in interspecies ethics, from ethical to political approaches, has arisen due to the apparent lack of success of the nonhuman animal movement and dissatisfaction with traditional approaches. Current works largely present general positions rather than address specific issues and principally rely on mainstream approaches. This book offers alternative positions such as cosmopolit...

Born Maurice Micklewhite, son of a Billingsgate fish porter and a charlady, Michael Caine's life has been an extraordinary rollercoaster: from washing dishes and fighting on National Service, to winning two Oscars and being knighted by the Queen.With more than eighty films to his name, he has starred in some of the classics of modern cinema: as an action anti-hero in "Get Carter", a Cockney Lothario in "Alfie", and a disillusioned alcoholic academic in "Educating Rita". He is an en...

The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi describes the journey to eternal life as going through a gate of ordinances and traveling a “straight and narrow path.” Twenty-three authors took that gospel roadmap passage as a prompt to write “a Mormon story.” They responded with a surprisingly wide range of realistic and fantastic tales. Many are human reactions to unexpected steps on the path: a lifetime of faith in a patriarchal blessing’s unfulfilled promise, a survivor of violence calling a divided ...

In Kids Who Feel Better, Do Better, authors Donovan Taylor Hall and Margot C. Hall, M.Ed., Ed.S., with a proven, combined track record of over thirty years of experience in education and youth development; explain, clarify, and offer actionable strategies, practical approaches, and relatable anecdotes for any adult working or interacting with children and young adults. Based on Donovan's track record as a teacher, youth advocate, and beloved public speaker and Margot's extensive r...

This edited collection advances critical scholarship about the complex interrelationships between disability and place. Developing theorising around place-making as a relational, everyday practice, it draws on disabled people’s lived experiences to explore the myriad ways in which they encounter, negotiate, and (re)make place.Offering novel insights drawn from research in eight countries, and refracted through diverse experiences of impairment, disability and embodiment, the text d...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Throughout history, the concepts of honesty and truth have often been conflated. Many people mistakenly believe that honesty inherently means conveying the absolute truth. If you were to engage a conspiracy theorist, after an elaborate and impassioned explanation linking seemingly unrelated ideas, they would likely assert that there’s always more lurking beneath the surface. Yet often, they find themselves mistaken. The essence of "truth" is usual...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Newlyweds Jack Ryder and Ruth Mont were promised a quiet countryside honeymoon—what they got instead was a charming disaster. From misplaced luggage to runaway livestock and confused hotel staff, Some Honeymoon! by Charles Everett Hall is a lighthearted romantic comedy brimming with Edwardian wit and endearing misadventure. As the couple attempts to navigate the quirks of newly married life and the peculiarities of their rural inn, each...