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Outside Japan, the term ’manga’ usually refers to comics originally published in Japan. Yet nowadays many publications labelled ’manga’ are not translations of Japanese works but rather have been wholly conceived and created elsewhere. These comics, although often derided and dismissed as...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

• 125 of the best trails throughout the Los Angeles metro area • Easy-to-use, well-organized guide to hiking in the greater Los Angeles area • Hikes feature ocean views, waterfalls, coastal canyons, native grasslands, rocky peaks, desert wildflowers, and more In Southern California, the city...

As increasing global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a rising tide of forced migration, many countries and local communities are responding by building walls—literal and metaphorical—between citizens and newcomers. Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border...

The capacity for reasonable argument about practical and political matters is important to our daily lives. Yet what does arguing really involve? Often, our very concept of what it is to argue seems systematically distorted. Practical, political arguing is too often stylized as hyper-cognitive, ending...

A beginners guide to crochet - teaches about tools, materials and basic techniques.

Sometimes seeing doesn't mean believing... After a stint in Hollywood, out of work actor, Bryn Matthias, is headed back to the UK. Back to the home he turned away from several years before. Back to the land of legends and myths. Dante Grimm's illusion was a good one, but Bryn wasn't...

Four friends take a journey to the house on Atticus Lane, a haunted house talked about for generations in the neighborhood.  They take the chance of maybe never returning to society and possibly getting lost in the house.  What will they find? Will the stories be true or false? Follow Jacques, Cora, Jerica, and Ronald as they discover the hauntings of The House on Atticus Lane.

This book explores the experience of small farmers, labourers and graziers in provincial Ireland from the immediacy of the Famine until the eve of World War One. During this period of immense social and political change, they came to grips with the processes of modernisation. By focusing upon east...

His Key Works follows the authors personal journey of several decades in order to share the universal message of love and spiritual fulfillment. In a world of outer complexity, the core teaching within the book is to keep things inwardly simple and love God the most.

Scholars of the Civil War era have commonly assumed that veterans of the Union and Confederate armies effortlessly melted back into society and that they adjusted to the demands of peacetime with little or no difficulty. Yet the path these soldiers followed on the road to reintegration was far more...

In Resilience, Dr. Emad Rahim invites us on an inner journey of transformation, sharing how the S.A.L.T. model was a necessary component along the way. Rahim, a genocide survivor and refugee of the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields of Cambodia, developed the S.A.L.T. model as a means of helping him overcome the struggles of his youth.

The United States of America will likely be devastated by earthquakes within the next twenty years. That is the startling conclusion of the authors of this book, all of them leading experts in the geophysical effects of climate change. They make a strong case for a link between the suns cycles of...

The first of its kind, this book offers readers a rare glimpse into the darker side of country life. A Jesse James inspired shooting spree, mysterious murder-suicides, outlaws on the run, and a fatal fight over bacon, are just some of the true stories that have taken place in the outlying parts of the Thunder Bay District.