Dominic Dormouse, the country mouse hero, who goes to town and undergoes a transformational adventure - for him and for the other animals he meets.Only a household cat and the marauding warehouse rats remain immune to Dominic's infectious charm.An exciting and thought-provoking saga with wide-ranging appeal for readers aged 6 and above.Traditional but with a timely/timeless message for today.Join daring Dominic on an adventure that he - and you - will never forget.

Humanity is on the clock. A highly stressed modern humanity has normalized the growing calamities around u. What other choice de we have? Normalization is the arrival point of helplessness. A faltering humanity, fully chained to its evolutionary past, cannot fins its failure. Human degradation stops...now.

Outsourcing is a key issue for many organisations having moved from the contracting out of peripheral activities such as cleaning to more critical areas such as design and marketing. This report is for managers and people in finance and accounting functions and takes a practical approach in developing a framework and then applying this framework in an actual organisation which makes it easier for practitioners to understand.• This report provides a framework which incorporates both qualita...

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora - forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast fortu...

Following up on their previous volume, Called to Be Church: The Book of Acts for a New Day, biblical scholar Robert Wall and pastoral leader Anthony Robinson here join forces again.Featuring both exegetical study and dynamic contemporary exposition, each chapter of Called to Lead first interprets the text of 1 and 2 Timothy as Scripture and then engages 1 and 2 Timothy for today's church leaders. The book covers many vexing issues faced by church leaders then and n...

No human on Earth has a natural enemy. As we wage battles against long-dead predators, we will not survive perpetual conflict.Humanity is on the clock.What are we prepared to do?We now have a key. The Human Injury explores the immensity of evolutionary influence upon modern behavior. Gifts of nature that kept our ancestors alive are now a fatal blockade to human sustainability.Modern humanity, chained to its evolutionary past, cannot find its future. Human deg...

Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest of the Little Rock Nine, shares the true story about a girl, a dress, and the historic fight to attend an all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas.Carlotta can’t wait to wear her new dress on her first day of school. But when the moment finally arrives, she isn’t allowed to go. The year is 1957, and the people of Little Rock, Arkansas, don’t want Black students attending an all-white school and will do whatever it takes to keep ...

A dystopian future Earth is thrown into turmoil by the imminent arrival of extraterrestrials in this alien-contact novel by the author of The Forever War .Hugo and Nebula Award–Winning AuthorWith The Coming, science fiction Grand Master Joe Haldeman ingeniously combines a troubling dark vision of a dystopian near-future with an alien first-encounter tale as thrilling and thought-provoking...

The delightful crime-solving and aristocratic social adventures of an American antiques expert and a British feline with finesseIt's love at first sight when a businessman visiting London meets a silver-gray cat named James in the lobby of his apartment house. The two begin meeting regularly for cocktails—single-malt whiskey, neat, for James—and attending posh parties, where James first makes a name for himself by cracking the case of a priceless jewel scam.S...

A young man must fight—literally—to journey to the stars in this thrilling coming-of-age tale from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author and his brother.A towering young giant growing up on a high-gravity world of perilous plants and savage creatures, Carl Bok is thrilled when he's offered a one-year scholarship to Starschool. As a new student aboard the space-traveling institution, Carl will get the opportunity to visit and learn from sixteen colonized worlds. ...

Adventurous maidens and sinister mages clash in these magical tales by a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and "one of the all-time masters" (Peter Straub).Three different young women, each endowed with extraordinary abilities, pit their powers against warriors, wizards, and royal intrigue to preserve their worlds and stem the tide of evil.Mirror of Destiny: Transformed by a powerful talisman, the orphaned apprentice Twilla defies her ...

Humans are caught up in an alien war in this epic trilogy from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye .For millennia, the Weave, an alliance of species, have fought to resist the telepathic Amplitur, who strive to unite all self-aware life-forms in their great "Purpose." The Weave is slowly losing ground, but for both sides, warfare fo...