Book Two of the Felis Alliance Series begs the question, “What is the cost of Vengeance?”Living in a world devoid of technology, in a continuum that appears completely alien to her, the Sovereign of the Felis Alliance consigns herself to the fact that all that she knows, all that she remembers, is of a life that no longer exists. If she wants to return to that which she recalls, the continuum she is certain she should be in, she must work with a man she barely knows to try and prev...

Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics brings together disparate feminist theoretical approaches to explore the formation of medieval female subject consciousness in writings by female mystics including Angela of Foligno, Catherine of Siena, and Margery Kempe, as well as secular writings of Christine de Pizan, and powerful female characters of Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer. The rise of what Amsel calls “medieval female subject consciousne...

With The Everything® Kids’ Science Collection learning has never been so easy—or fun!Inside, you’ll find:The Everything® Kids’ Astronomy BookThe Everything® Kids’ Human Body BookThe Everything® Kids’ Science Experiments BookThe Everything® Kids’ Weather BookYou’ll have so much fun conducting experiments and completing activities, you’ll forget that you’re actually learning about science!

Sun Killers, Book One of the Felis Alliance Series, begins with a mystery: the most powerful person in the universe has disappeared without a trace and nobody knows where she has gone. Now it is the responsibility of her three Guardians to locate her and bring her home.What they do not realize is that there are forces working against them who do not want her to be found, and they will stop at nothing to prevent her from ever returning to the Allia...

"In the greenconscious world we live in today, parents realize the importance of teaching the lessons of green living, early on. With this book, parents can encourage their children to be ecologically friendly with fun lessons such as:The three Rs: reducing waste, reusing materials, and recyclingWhy we should keep the air, oceans, and forests pollutionfreeWhy organic food is tastierùand betterùfor youHow to protect plants and animalsEar...

Author of The Canterbury Tales and foundation of the English literary tradition, Geoffrey Chaucer has been popular with readers, writers and scholars for over 600 years. More than 4600 books, essays, poems, stories, recordings and websites pertaining to Chaucer were published between 1997 and 2010, and this bibliography identifies each of them separately, providing publication information and a descriptive summary of contents. The bibliography also offers several useful discovery aids to e...

The greatest fairy tales of all time.The 100 tales collected here throw open wide the gates to the realm of fairyland. Inside are princes and princesses, giants and dwarfs, heroes, heroines, simpletons, rogues, wizards, witches, ogres, trolls, elves, magical artefacts, and all manner of talking birds and beasts.As G. K. Chesterton has observed, fairyland is a place where happiness hangs upon a single thread: “Cinderella may have a dress woven on supernatural looms and blazi...

Continuing the Best of Poetry series, this anthology brings together 150 of the finest passages from Shakespeare’s plays and poetic works. We hope our selection will allow readers to rediscover the brilliance of Shakespeare’s poetic inventiveness, and the depth and subtlety of his insight as he creates and explores the minds of the most fully-realised and autonomous characters in all of fiction.The beauty in these fragments is best unlocked by reading them aloud, savouring the rhyt...

A demonic crow. Psycho slashers. And a very big, bad wolf.Since the beginning of time as we know it, the Councils of Seventy-Two have maintained a careful balance in our world. Dark against light. Good against evil. Order against chaos. While one side might tip the scale briefly, the other is quick to right the balance.Chase Rey is caught in a nexus between two worlds. His mind is in Haddonwood, where his fate is tied to that of Zophiel, the agent of Good. ...

Zombie cheerleaders. Murderous scarecrows. A haunted house high on the hill.Another world, another reality, hovers just beyond Chase Rey’s reach. He can see it sometimes. He can almost touch it.In that world, things are in balance. The dead stay dead and the creature-feature remains safely on the screen. In that world, the nightmares end when you open your eyes and people don’t glitch in and out of existence.Chase wants to get back to that world. Bu...

There are 200 poems to explore in this collection—poems about love, and war; songs of the sea; tales of magic and adventure; rhythmic rhapsodies; nonsense verse; descriptions of the world (and the creatures in it), and of the seasons, and the soul.Many of the poems here will be familiar to you already. We have ransacked the common treasure hoard of “classics”, collecting those best-known, and best-loved masterpieces that have long stood the test of time. But we have also explored f...

This book and the symposium on which it was based were designed to cross the boundaries of subdiscipline and theoretical orientation to address four critical issues in understanding development: explanation of change and development; the nature and process of change; forms of variability in performance; and the promotion of change through application.The chapters suggest that change and development in target systems from cells to selves, may not be explainable, assessable, or promo...