The author proposes a "workable" pathway for the US to achieve net zero CO2 emissions from the transportation and electrical power sectors of the US by 2050. The intent is to describe in straightforward terms what it will take to achieve such a goal. Providing basic background information on the measures necessary to transition from a fossil-fuel-based power source to one based on renewables will provide the reader insight to the enormity of this goal.The author attempts to outline...

Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. This selection of his poems is a short walk through the variety of his simplistic natural themes and complex social understandings.

Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave. He was so impressive that he became a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, as well as one of the most famous abolitionists of the nineteenth century.

Help your children develop moral character with this updated, 30th anniversary edition of the perennial classic The Book of Virtues.Almost 3 million copies of the Book of Virtues have been sold since it was published in 1993. It is one of the most popular moral primers ever written, an inspiring anthology that helps children understand and develop character—and helps parents teach it to them. Thirty years ago, readers thought that the tim...

A novel portraying the grim reality of how the Aborigines, the original inhabitants of Australia, were treated during the early days of European settlement.The story digs into the heart of colonialism and the hearts of those involved in this epic period of history. Aborigines, who had occupied the continent for 60,000 years, suddenly found themselves embroiled in a conflict which threatend their very existence.The tragedy, as witnessed by members of the Mossman River tribe ...

Marcella, a young and beautiful mixed-raceIsland Princess is kidnapped from NewCaledonia in 1870 and taken to Australia.Enslaved by Captain Oliver Morgan, sheis hidden away on his country estate till apolice raid forces him to offload her to theowner of a sugar cane plantation. Havingpaid good money for the transfer, theplanter’s wife positions Marcella to becomethe wife of her drunkard son. Marcella,despite harassment a...

In 1877 young Barney Simpson leaves colonial Sydney town in search of his fugitive father who, as farrier for the police, murdered a trooper two years earlier.His journey takes him to a gold rush town in northern Australia where thousands of fortune seekers are digging for gold. Barney becomes immersed in life on the frontier, witnessing its highs and lows.While employed as leading hand at the Cavalier hotel in Cooktown he conducts his search. His investigations take him to...

Sometimes, we become so wrapped up in our day to day affairs, we forget to stop and look at what is going on around us. What reasoning did we use before we did this or that? Questions we need to ask ourselves and decide if we made the right decision and if not, do we have the guts to admit it and try to change or merely make excuses for ourselves. After all, life is not easy for any of us. These poems are a reflection of lifes experiences, my analogy of things around me. May they reflect s...

Psychiatry and Med-Surg Nursing are unusual backgrounds for investigating, learning and eventually teaching a new alternative technique for allergy elimination.The journey of Robert Prince MD and Iris Prince RN took them to Europe - in the year 2000 to Holland and later to France - where practitioners eagerly embraced NAET (Nambudripad;s Allergy Elimination Techniques.)In 2007, it was reported there were over 1200 NAET practitioners in Europe and over 9,500 worldwide.One mother in ...

This new history of the Royal Navy, published to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of the White Ensign Association, is a full and exciting account of all the many campaigns, operations and deployments conducted around the world from the Cold War and the Cod Wars to the Falklands War and the Gulf Wars. It has been written and compiled from privileged access to secret and confidential Admiralty Plans and Commanding Officers' reports and contains a wealth of previously unpublished material. Th...

This book explores new and leading edge marketing research approaches as successfully practiced by visionaries of academia and the research industry. Ideal as either a supplementary text for students or as a guidebook for practitioners, this book showcases the excitement of a field where discoveries abound and where researchers are valued for solving weighty problems and minimizing risks. The authors offer rich, new tools to measure and analyze consumer attitudes, combined with existing da...

Ordained as an apostle in 1906, David O. McKay served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until his death in 1970. Under his leadership, the church experienced unparalleled growth—nearly tripling in total membership—and becoming a significant presence throughout the world.The first book to draw upon the David O. McKay Papers at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah, in addition to some two hundred interviews conducted by the...