Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under

\"An extremely useful parenting handbook... truly outstanding ... strongly recommended.\" --Library Journal (starred review) \"A tremendous resource for parents and professionals alike.\" --Thomas Atwood, president and CEO, National Council for Adoption The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, present unique challenges. Welcoming these children

Climate change, the resource constrained economy, and sustainability in general are amongst the hottest and most problematic topics in contemporary business today. Increasingly, new enterprises are being established to address key twenty-first century environmental challenges, incumbent industries are implementing new strategies to comply with stringent legislation to retain their licenses, and multi-nationals

Since the advent of agriculture and animal husbandry, the human population has multiplied by about one thousand in a \'demographic explosion\'.However, in recent years, global fertility rates have begun to decrease significantly, and this is one reason to make a case for humans being becoming an endangered species. Many of the possible interpretations of this dramatic U-turn in the history of mankind

Perishable products such as fruits and vegetables account for the largest proportion of food loss due to their short shelf life, especially in the absence of proper storage facilities, which requires sustainable, universal and convenient preservation technology.The existing methods to prolong the shelf life of food mainly include adding preservatives, irradiation, cold storage, heat treatment and controlled

Starla Jean and her pet chicken, Opal Egg, return in this side-splitting third chapter book, just in time to solve a puzzling mystery that takes them on a chase through the neighborhood! Have you ever walked a chicken on a leash? Well, chicken expert Starla Jean will let you know first hand, it\'s not easy. But that doesn\'t stop Starla from taking her pet chicken, Opal Egg, and her baby sister, Willa,

Kids will want to read this book again and again, it\'s fun all the way and packed with awesome illustrations. Busy with fantastic detail, this book is beautifully illustrated highlighting 120 fantastic words to get kids started on their reading journey. From a trip to the beach to fun on the farm, 11 engaging full-color scenes will set kids imaginations racing and get them learning lots of new words.

Appel\'s precise still lifes reinvent the genre\'s formal vocabularyGerman painter Helene Appel (born 1976) depicts everyday objects--pasta, grains of rice, fishing nets, twigs, plastic bags or puddles--with high precision on untreated canvas. Despite the realistic representation, Appel\'s cropped, frontal works attain a high degree of

\"The Dog adopted the Ancsas in the spring of \'48\" so the story begins. The Ancsas are a middle-aged couple living on the outskirts of Budapest in a ruinous Hungary that is just beginning to wake up from the nightmare of World War II. The new Communist government promises to set things straight, and Mr. Ancsa, an engineer, is as eager to get to work building the future as he is to forget the past.

A boy. A wolf. A legend of all time. The second book in the internationally bestselling WOLF BROTHER (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) series by renowned author Michelle

Make the leap and become an entrepreneur today Are you living for the weekend? Are you dissatisfied at work? Are you itching to do something that is important to you? How can you avoid the pitfalls that many first-time entrepreneurs have fallen into? How do you explore whether entrepreneurship is right for you without giving up your day job? Employee to Entrepreneur is your guide to leaving your job

Philosophical Writing: An Introduction, 4th Edition, features numerous updates and revisions to A. P. Martinich\'s best-selling text that instructs beginning philosophy students on how to craft a well-written philosophical essay. Features an entirely new chapter on how to read a philosophical essay, new sections on quantification and modality, and rhetoric in philosophical writing, as well as more

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick\'s critically acclaimed Epistemology of the Closet. Working from classic texts of European and American writers-including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde-Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century

The Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales series is a collection of some of the best known stories from around the world carefully adapted for children to read themselves. This story is based on a traditional tale from South America. In the deep, dark forest, a Monster is waiting to trap Monkey\'s friends. How will Monkey save

Michelin\'s Zoom collection are characterized by the high precision of their detailed scale, specially adapted for very touristy areas or with a high density road network, including new developments and industrial areas. Scales from 1:53,000 to

\"This present momentThat lives on To become Long ago.\" For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from Paris and Tuscany to the shrine at Delphi, from Santa Fe to Sella Pass, Snyder lays out these poems as a map of the last decade. Placed

In an era of significant geopolitical shifts, unrelenting violent confrontation, nationalism and identity politics, the institutions in which Canada and its allies have invested significant capital such as trade, political, and security organisations are being tested and stretched to the limit. This proposed edition will look back on Canada\'s approach to encouraging democracy abroad, it will consider

On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon\'s shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This rare celestial event--a total solar eclipse--offered a priceless opportunity to solve some of the solar system\'s most enduring riddles, and it prompted a clutch of enterprising scientists to brave the wild frontier in a grueling

\'A dramatic start to a gripping new series . . . meticulously researched and beautifully told by one of our most prolific and talented writers\' - Santa Montefiore on The Last Summer A reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets . . . It\'s the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children, her father has made it clear he can\'t