MATILDA'S ears were red and shiny. So were her cheeks. Her hands were red too. This was because Pridmore had washed her. It was not the usual washing, which makes you clean and comfortable, but the "thorough good wash," which makes you burn and smart till you wish you could be like the poor little savages who do not know anything, and run about bare in the sun, and only go into the water when they are hot.Matilda wished she could have been born in a savage tribe instead of at Brixt...

Edith Nesbit's 'The Complete Psammead Trilogy (Illustrated Edition)' is a timeless collection of fantasy novels that beautifully weave together themes of friendship, adventure, and the unexpected magic of childhood. Written in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Nesbit's storytelling style captures the essence of the era, while still resonating with modern readers. The trilogy includes 'Five Children and It,' 'The Phoenix and the Carpet,' and 'The Story of the Amulet,' each one followi...

THAT going to the seaside was the very beginning of everything—only it seemed as though it were going to be a beginning without an end, like the roads on the Sussex downs which look like roads and then look like paths, and then turn into sheep tracks, and then are just grass and furze bushes and tottergrass and harebells and rabbits and chalk.The children had been counting the days to The Day. Bernard indeed had made a calendar on a piece of cardboard that had once been the bottom ...

ment of those endocrine diseases encountered by the general surgeon. Opera tions on the pituitary gland are, therefore, specifically excluded. It should be most useful to general surgical residents and practicing surgeons, but we hope it will also prove useful to the wide range of physicians who deal with surgically correctable endocrine disorders. The book has four sections - Surgery of the Parathyroids, Thyroid, Pan creas, and Adrenals. Each section deals in a systematic manner with prac...

A clear and easy-to-use introduction to Mussar Yoga—a blending of Jewish and Eastern spiritual practices. Intended for the novice as well as the yoga expert and for people of all faiths, each exercise is accompanied by step-by-step instructions, helpful photographs, mantras and journaling exercises.

An important historical account of Tuskegee University’s significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide.Alabama’s celebrated, historically black Tuskegee University is most commonly associated with its founding president, Booker T. Washington, the scientific innovator George Washington Carver, or the renowned Tuskegee Airmen. Although the university’s accomplishments and devotion to social issues are well known, its work in...

The most authoritative resource for students and researchers, The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language has been thoroughly updated and extended. Enhancements include new chapters on the acquisition of words, processing deficits in children with specific language impairments, and language in children with Williams syndrome, new authors for the bilingualism and autism chapters, a refocused discourse chapter on written narratives, and a new section on reading and reading disorders, cementing ...

Organic Crop Breeding provides readers with a thorough review of the latest efforts by crop breeders and geneticists to develop improved varieties for organic production. The book opens with chapters looking at breeding efforts that focus on specific valuable traits such as quality, pest and disease resistance as well as the impacts improved breeding efforts can have on organic production. The second part of the book is a series of crop specific case studies that look at breeding ...

After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities. There has been a variety of research directed at the housing policies involved with these informal settlements, yet apart from the activities of Latin American Housing Network (...

Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland, moors and marshes, even along unlit roads extending into the new suburbs of London, the stories have been chosen for their quality of writing, imaginative range and diversity of character...

Secrets buried deeper. Darkness that bites back. Welcome to the third circle of horror… ️ In Volume III of the Book of Shadows series, the nightmare intensifies. This gripping collection of psychological thrillers and supernatural horror stories drags readers into eerie realms where nothing—and no one—is what it seems. Inside This Volume: Unraveling minds and sinister rituals Spirits that cling, and shadows that stalk ️️ A fusion of gritty psychological thrillers, occult suspens...

Black Cat Weekly #8 is now available, with an exciting mix of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, crime—and even a western! Here are:Mysteries & SuspenseMystery on Graveyard Head, by Edith Dorian"Kismet and the Baby Orchid," by Frank Lovell Nelson [short story, Carlton Clarke #8]"Awake To Fear," by Robert Camp [short story]"Look It Up," by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]"The Devil's Dooryard," by W.C. Tutt...