Stevie, Jane and the Messy Surprise  is the exciting new installment of the secret door series. Stevie and Jane return with a new adventure. The book continues on in the theme of easy read chapter books and is designed to encourage children in their reading.  The first book of the series, Stevie, Jane and the Special Box was meet with a great response and request for more books. This new book is sure to win the hearts of children all over again.   Stevie, Jane and the Messy Surprise features an interesting and exciting story line ...

“Dandelion in the Wind” is a sensual love story of a coastal wind in a small port town who falls in love with Dessa, a young woman uncertain about her sexual identity. “Dandelion in the Wind” researches possibilities: What if winds could tell stories? What if winds could fall in love? What if rocks could fall in love? Or rivers? Or trees? Would that love be real or imagined? And how would the wind’s eternal soul survive the transience of time, the brevity of human life? What if the woman loved the wind? Would there be a way ...

The three main branches of the Russian initiating movement – Freemasonry, Martinism and Rosicrucianism – existed in the form of separate and independent organisations. However, they were led by the same person – G.O. Mebes, who initiated study of the Tarot Majors and Minors in St Petersburg, before, during and immediately after the Bolshevik Revolution. Nicolas Georgevich Rogalev Girs was born in Czarist Russia on June 15 1898 and at age 14 joined the military school of St Petersburg. He came under the spiritual tutelage of G.O.M., receiving ...

They say Manhattan never sleeps? Now I know why, cause I sure can't. Visiting New York City is not the same as living there, especially if you do not have millions to insulate you from how people really live. Having recently been a victim of downsizing and most of the action being in Manhattan why not live there for a year while looking for a new job. What an adjustment! Along the way I observed many interesting things and took in what you can do for free - or even get paid for. What an adventure.

Sixteen crossword puzzles with solutions.

“The world belongs to us now. The humans were amazing, but their day has passed. Oh, there’s still a few of them out there, trying to take back the world they squandered. But without claws? Without fur? Without scent? Heh. Good luck to ‘em.” Thirteen shared-world tales of future fantasy and solarpunk from some of the brightest stars of anthropomorphic literature. After calamity and a new dark age, humans return from their flying cities to reclaim the Earth from the sentient animals that are its new inhabitants. Love and danger, power ...

Now combined into a single volume, these three brief history texts provide a concise and eye-opening overview of the history of the Middle East. Each is written by a leading expert, and all have been hailed as outstanding introductions for the general reader. These texts have been widely translated and adopted at universities in Turkey, Norway, Italy, and Germany, as well as throughout North America.

"Lean Thinking" has dominated product development and project management for over a decade. Now, however, a six-year study by MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program led by Michael Cusumano and Kentaro Nobeoka finds that, in order to dramatically improve product portfolios, Toyota and other leading companies are moving beyond single-project management on which lean thinking is based. In Thinking Beyond Lean, Cusumano and Nobeoka show that single-project management can produce isolated hit products and "fat" designs that contain few common components and ...

In this multimedia study set, Swami Lakshmanjoo, the fully realized philosopher saint of the long concealed and secret tradition known as Kashmir Shaivism, translates and illuminates Abhinavagupta's Paramarthasara. Originally a work of Patanjali, Abhinavagupta chose to revise and update this revered treatise in order to reveal the profundities of the Trika Shaivite doctrine. In the conclusion of the Paramarthasara Abhinavagupta tells us, 'I have kept this Paramårthasåra, in brief words, in one hundred verses. But although it is only one hundred ...

初到美国还在上世纪八十年代。那时看人家是“老侨”，现在自己也成“老侨”了。二三十年前，新老侨民的社会处境和生活方式差别不大，多半度日惟艰。前几年，偶然看到新移民一来就买房买车；继尔发现中餐馆后厨“洗碗打杂”多半请不到中国人了。先是吓了一跳，然后意识到：时代不同了，起点不一样。大致地说，中国移民白手起家的辛酸史，到我等这一代可能就是最后一页了。 ...