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This 1910 novel features Samuel Prescott, who leaves his small farming town to make his way in the world. But that world proves different from the small town he grew up in—his money and friends are gone, and the new people he meets are immoral.  Yet rather than return home, Samuel embarks on a new adventure.

The world is thrown into financial chaos by the ruthless manipulators of Wall Street. Businessmen create shell companies to bankrupt a rival trust, and the ripple effects include a stock-market crash, a bank run, and thousands out of work. It all traces back to the arrival of a new southern young lady named Lucy.

An introduction to text analysis using computer-assisted interpretive practices, accompanied by example essays that illustrate the use of these computational tools. The image of the scholar as a solitary thinker dates back at least to Descartes' Discourse on Method. But scholarly practices...

This revolutionary book is a practical guide for helping communities in any location or context - from a fishing community in England to a logging town in Canada to a farming village in India - to develop a collective vision of a prosperous and sustainable future and a road-map for mobilizing and...

The book began to be put into written form only after the author had been cajoled into doing it by a few of his colleagues who were constantly hearing the many stories of the crazy things that happened during his journey from New Zealand when traveling overland through Central and South America which...

This second volume continues with a description of the fine Georgian monuments of the Tao region, including Ihan, Ök Vank, and Haho. The Pontus region comes next, the centre of the medieval Greek empire of Trebizond. The many Byzantine churches of Trabzon itself are covered, including Aya Sofya and...

Museum Volunteers is a practical handbook on the use of volunteers as interpreters within museums. Drawing on key examples of outstanding practice from the UK and North America, this book forms a unique resource on volunteerism. This book: * reviews research on the changing priorities of museums *...

The Second Edition of this bestseller brings together basic plant pathology methods published in diverse and often abstract publications. The Second Edition is updated and expanded with numerous new figures, new culture media, and additional methods for working with a greater number of organisms....

This is a magnificent read, The author is clearly highly educated and a little crazy but in a nice way as he explains in detail why he ups and leaves his, what seems a mundane life to live on the road of adventure. Fact is stranger than fiction with the words from this philosopher. Peaceful Freeman...

If you want to learn Prezi, and specifically design within Prezi, this is the book for you. Perhaps you already know a bit about Prezi but have never used it, or perhaps you have used Prezi before but want to learn how to incorporate your own custom design elements. In either case, this book will get...

This Book was written to serve those interested in seed pathology. It is designed to serve as a textbook as well as a reference book for students, teachers, and researchers, and for seed health testing, seed production, and plant quarantine personnel. It is to be used as a guide to the literature....

The Ethics and Rhetoric of Invasion Ecology provides an introduction to the controversial treatment and ongoing violence routinely utilized against non-native species. Drawing from the tradition of critical animal scholars, Stanescu and Cummings have assembled a group of advocates who argue for a...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

Lorsque les barrières tombent et laissent place à la provocation… Alors qu’elle rentre chez elle après une longue journée de travail, Alyssa n’a qu’une idée en tête : s’écrouler sur son lit et dormir jusqu’au lendemain. Mais tandis qu’elle commence à se déshabiller, elle...