Your climate control is broken, the engine is overheating again, and the traffic has come to a dead stop amidst a swarm of horns. To top it off you're late for work. In a heartbeat, you find yourself in another place, another time. Just for a moment, your mind takes a break. Your subconscious decides to get out of the traffic and set sail along a coast of white sand beaches and palm trees. Later that night, you wake with a jolt but don’t remember what startled you. Your thoughts are racing...

He is one of the most highly regarded coaches in international rugby, but also one of the most controversial. Now you can read why ...John Mitchell’s rugby coaching career spans many years, several teams and various countries. He was assistant to Clive Woodward, who spearheaded England’s 2003 World Cup-winning campaign, for four years in the pioneering days of professional rugby coaching, and he took charge of the All Blacks and the Chiefs in New Zealand, the Western Force in Austr...

The Fireless Cook Book turns a simple idea into a remarkably practical system for the home kitchen: bring food to a boil, seal it in an insulated cooker, and let retained heat do the rest. Written for inexperienced cooks as well as seasoned household managers, it explains the science behind fireless cooking and shows how this method can save fuel, labor, utensils, kitchen heat, and money while improving flavor and freeing the cook from constant attention. The book traces the evolution from...

Does the idea appeal to you of putting your dinner on to cook and then going visiting, or to the theatre, or sitting down to read, write, or sew, with no further thought for your food until it is time to serve it? It sounds like a fairy-tale to say that you can bring food to the boiling point, put it into a box of hay, and leave it for a few hours, returning to find it cooked, and often better cooked than in any other way! Yet it is true. Norwegian housewives have known this for many years...

The Lettsomian Lectures on Diseases and Disorders of the Heart and Arteries in Middle and Advanced Life, delivered in 1900-1901 by Sir W. H. Broadbent, is a seminal medical text that explores the complexities of cardiovascular health in adults and the elderly. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and observation, Broadbent provides a comprehensive examination of the physiological changes that occur in the heart and arteries as individuals age, and the ways in which these changes predi...

For over twenty years, John Hanson Mitchell has visited Beaver Brook almost daily. This small, slow-flowing Massachusetts stream was of vital importance for early settlers and an indispensable resource for the Native peoples who lived and fished along its shores, but it has been largely forgotten in our own time. Revisiting the river's oxbows, bends, and marshes over the course of a year, Legends of the Common Stream combines a natural history of Beaver Brook with a study of the p...

The story is presented as a memoir written by Khan-li, a Persian admiral, recounting the discovery of the last surviving American, Captain Ishmael Ingots, who has been preserved in ice for centuries after a freezing accident. Ingots is revived and brought back to life in a futuristic world where Persia has become a dominant global power and the United States has long since disappeared.As the narrative unfolds, Captain Ingots, the titular "Last American," experiences the perplexing and vast...

For undergraduate and beginning graduate students, this textbook explains and examines the central concepts used in modern programming languages, such as functions, types, memory management, and control. The book is unique in its comprehensive presentation and comparison of major object-oriented programming languages. Separate chapters examine the history of objects, Simula and Smalltalk, and the prominent languages C++ and Java. The author presents foundational topics, such as lambda calc...

The astounding discoveries of Khan-li of Dimph-yoo-chur have thrown floods of light upon the domestic life of the Mehrikan people. He little realized when he landed upon that sleeping continent what a service he was about to render history, or what enthusiasm his discoveries would arouse among Persian archaeologists.

The story revolves around a young man named Willows, who is sent by his father to the fictional town of Lory, located in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Willows' father hopes that the clean air and rustic environment will help his son recover from a recent illness and find renewed vigor.Upon his arrival in Lory, Willows becomes enchanted by the natural beauty of the region, particularly the majestic pine trees that dot the landscape. He soon finds himself drawn into the lives...

Walking Towards Walden is an exploration of the sense of place, what it means, how it developed, and why it matters. Based on an eighteenth-century literary device in which a group of friends undertake a walking tour and discuss a certain subject, this wide-ranging story emerges from the author’s fifteen-mile bushwhack through woods, backyards, and marshes—from a hilltop in Westford, Massachusetts, to the town of Concord, Massachusetts—trespassing all along the way. A mock epic, complete w...

This remarkable novel by the founder of the legendary "Life" humor magazine combines romance, humor, adventure and science fiction in the story of a mysterious inventor and his claim to have discovered diamonds on the Moon.