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Designed for viewing on colour devices, this is a richly illustrated, beautifully designed companion to anyone whose twin passions are travel and photography. The book contains tips, advice and anecdotes by experienced award-winning photographer and writer Tim Bird, illustrated with plenty of his...

Anthropologists have long looked to forager-cultivator cultures for insights into human lifeways. But they have often not been attentive enough to locals’ horizons of concern and to the enormous disparity in population size between these groups and other societies. Us, Relatives explores how scalar...

Secrète fascination, Jessica Bird En apprenant que Grayson Bennett passe quelques jours de vacances près de chez elle, Joy Moorehouse a du mal à cacher sa joie. Une joie vite teintée de nostalgie car elle sait que Gray, son ami d'enfance se contentera d'échanger quelques mots avec elle. Comme...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Like the glorious afterglow so often described in A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879), Isabella Bird's impassioned travelogue continues to delight us as it recounts escapades of blizzards, grizzly bears, and...

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography...

From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the NBA. These were the basketball epics of the 1980s — Celtics vs Lakers, East...

In his inimitable no-nonsense style, John Bird - founder of the Big Issue - shows us how to be successful in whatever we choose in just ten easy steps. No one is born deserving anything - you only deserve what you achieve by yourself. Drawing from this, John's philosophy is based on the idea...

Have you ever been part of a great team? Chances are that at some point you were part of a sports team, a social group, a work group, or a volunteer committee where the group performed incredibly well and, even under difficult circumstances or significant challenges, still prevailed. Take a...

A strategic plan becomes your team’s roadmap for the next one to three years. It clearly articulates what is important to your organization and why. Without a strategic plan, teams, departments, and organizations can float rudderless with no clear direction. Conversely, an organization with a well-communicated...

Bleu - L.P. Maxa Over the past few months Bleu and Maykin have become best friends. They hang out all the time, especially after Bleu punches a guy for trash-talking Maykin, and gets sentenced to community service at an animal shelter. Cuddling puppies leads to finally giving in to the attraction...

Cam has raised her daughter Aubrey alone ever since her ex left to join a cult. But now the bond between mother and daughter seems to have disappeared. While Cam is frantic to see Aubrey, a straight-A student, at the perfect college, on a path that Cam is sure will provide her daughter success and...

Young John Shay leaves his home in Kentucky to go west. He runs into trouble as he makes the journey. He finds his calling as he observes the injustice of a lawless land, he joins with an old sheriff in Wyoming territory to bring murderers to justice six gun style. **Please review this book**

Follow Your Heart to Hope Valley Inspired by best-selling author Janette Oke and the Hallmark Channel original TV series When Calls the Heart, these forty devotions from Hope Valley are about finding moments of grace, joy, and beauty amid the unexpected circumstances of life. In this...

"THE WOLF HUNTERS" is a plausible and adventurous story of three discharged soldiers who, in the early days, rigged out an outfit and pushed onto the buffalo plains to take pelts for the market. Except for the phenomenal shooting of Wild Bill Hickok, which very few people who know something...