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This 1907 collection of English regional sketches revolves around the native lands of the Quaker leader William Penn. The countryside, monuments, churches, cottages, and burial grounds are landmarks through this charming ramble. Also included are other personalities such as John Milton, Edmund Burke, the Disraelis, Lord Grenville, and Frances Cromwell, Lady Russell.

Previous knowledge is required for all scientific studies or methods of instruction. Examples from Mathematics, Dialectic and Rhetoric. Previous knowledge as variously expressed in theses concerning either the existence of a thing or the meaning of the word denoting it. Learning consists in the conversion...

Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice! Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor who transforms...

The Development of International Monetary Policy traces the development of international monetary policy from mercantilism to quantitative easing. It has been structured to present some of the pressing issues in international monetary relations involving currency valuation, inflation, exchange rates,...

This book analyses the politics and political issues associated with Trade Unions and Trade Unionism in Western Europe.

Supranational regionalism and regional integration have for a long time been top-down processes, led by the few and imposed on the many. The role of citizens, especially those active in civil society, has been neglected by scholars, students, and commentators of regionalism. In reaction to the prevalence...

This book discusses many key topics in investment and risk management, the global economic situation and the shift in global investment strategies. It was largely written during the period of 2007-12, one of the most tumultuous times in global financial markets which called into question not only...

On a sunny July afternoon in the small fishing hamlet of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, the trawler Bountiful Princess quietly leaves its mooring for a night of shrimping in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. In the wee hours of morning, it silently slips back?minus its captain. Meanwhile, some miles away,...

On a snowy December evening during the Great Depression, a high-spirited college student impulsively decides to do some spying on a quiet classmate—with unexpected results. A short story both funny and touching, in which mischief brings about a small Christmas miracle. Some Christmas Camouflage is a short story, approximately 9,400 words long.

Internationally bestselling standalone within the 'Love by Numbers' series. I am a son. I am a brother. I am an artist. I am a student. I am her student. She was my first. First infatuation, first ‘real’ kiss, first love, first..... heartbreak. I gave her everything, including...

Funny, heartfelt, and engaging standalone in the internationally bestselling 'Love By Numbers' series. Thirteen... Unlucky for some. Including me. The woman I loved left me on the thirteenth. Thirteen months of living together and she walked out the door without looking back, straight...

The cities are dead. The valley floor is under sixty feet of salt water. This is California like you've never seen it before.     Journey with the survivors of an apocalyptic future through the rolling hills and muddy canyons of the Gold Country. Fly in a plane crafted from...

Originally published in 1963. The ‘Americanness’ of the American novel is as readily apparent as it is elusive of definition. It is the purpose of this study not to discover the reluctant formula, the comprehensive statement of national identity, but to examine the evidences of this identity in...

With the goal of a regime-change the Central Intelligence Agency believed that with Gearys insertion as a senior officer in the countrys military establishment he would be well placed to act as a CIA NOC a spy with no official cover. His mission was to covertly provide intelligence gathered through...