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A look at protecting America's wilderness and an explanation of the Wilderness Act.Author: Doug ScottPublisher: Fulcrum PublishingPublished: 08/01/2004Pages: 184Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.34w x 0.48dISBN: 9781555915278Review Citation(s): Choice 05/01/2005 pg. 1672About the AuthorDoug Scott is policy director of The Campaign for America's...

The Power of the Blood of Jesus is a devotional written by Andrew Murray on Christian spirituality as he applies examples from the Scripture. Andrew Murray was a South African pastor and Christian writer who considered missions to be the chief ed of the...

Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A mischievous boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang, the...

In December of 1929, the Great Depression is beginning to roll across America and so are men, riding trains and looking for jobs. When fourteen-year-old Lisenka helps her friend Albert serve soup to men in a hobo jungle, she doesn't suspect that homelessness could...

In 1864, General Grant tasked General David Hunter with raiding the breadbasket of the Shenandoah Valley and destroying the Confederate factories and supply lines. General Lee dispatched General William E. "Grumble" Jones, and the forces collided up the fertile fields of eastern Augusta County....

Over the past few years, PC gaming has reached the pinnacle of success and it continues to keep on going towards improvement. We can expect that games and machines will upgrade for the better when it comes to PCs and video games. However, the...

Dreaming of a life unlived is a collection of stories of women who have bravely documented their experiences, charting their journeys through grief to reclaiming their joy and finding a fulfilling life without children.Author: Yvonne JohnPublisher: BlurbPublished: 07/25/2016Pages: 114Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.00h x...

Are you struggling to lose weight? control your appetite? and get in shape no matter how hard you try? you may feel at a loss. The good news is, researchers have found the secret to many people's struggles with obesity. That secret is a...

Author Barry Monda had a life full of potential, but he ended up a crackhead. However, God doesn't make mistakes. Read how author Barry Monda went from a blessed life with possibility to becoming dependent on drugs. Wanting to be a professional athlete, Monda...

Overdue is Richie Tankersley's story of a killer on a ramage and the next victim on the list. Kathleen is working late in the library when someone returns five grisly books about death, all overdue. Then close friends begin having tragic accidents. Kathleen is...

St. Alphonsus writes: "a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery." Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatification of Blessed Maria Goretti: "There rises to Our lips the cry of the Saviour: 'Woe to the world...

During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for...

"Reinemo's Fishing Nantucket is the definitive journal on fishing the Island. He covers every aspect of the sport from where, when, how, with what - species by species and month by month. The priceless information is dead on and extends far beyond the shores...

The rise of black radicalism in the 1960s was a result of both the successes and the failures of the civil rights movement. The movement's victories were inspirational, but its failures to bring about structural political and economic change pushed many to look elsewhere...

Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discourse and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural "practice" (professionalism, profit, technology, design, craft,...

Borderless Voice: The Power of Telling Your Story and Defining Your IdentityWhether you come from Cape Verde or Chinatown, Little Italy or Lalibela, you are not so much the product of the environment from which you came, but the narrative that you give yourself....

This is a new edition of Locke's timeless classic.Author: John LockePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 08/07/2010Pages: 98Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.20dISBN: 9781453754276This title is not returnable

In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care--caused by slavery, racism, and discrimination--since the arrival of African slaves in America.Author: David McBridePublisher: Rowman &...

An Enemy of the People is a play that addresses the irrational tendencies of the masses and the corrupt nature of the political system that they support. It tells the story of a man and his strugle to do the right thing.Author: Henrik IbsenPublisher:...

Winner of the 2015 Adirondack Literary Award for Best Memoir presented by the Adirondack Center for WritingBorn just north of New York City, Edward Kanze traveled as far as the wilds of Australia and New Zealand, working as a naturalist, park ranger, and nature...