Let\'s discover our world together, with this set of joyful first books all about life on

The First World War holds a unique place in the nation\'s history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation\'s hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the author has engaged the most eminent poets to choose the writing from the Great War that touched them most profoundly. This book presents their

, In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love, power and the complicated nature of being human. Some say that hell is other people and some say hell is loneliness . . . In the thirteen darkly audacious stories of Parallel Hells we meet a golem, made of clay, learning that its powers far

The second spellbinding adventure in the magical middle grade series by the author of The Huntress, perfect for fans of Starfell, Nevermoor and A Pinch of

It includes selections from the 1830, 1832, and 1842 volumes, together with songs from The Princess and In Memoriam; complete poems from the middle period, including Maud, Enoch Arden, and nine Idylls of the King, including the Dedication; and a generous offering from the late period, 1872-92. The authoritative texts are based on the Cambridge Tennyson; additional selections have been taken from Sir

After suffering terribly at the hands of the Archbishop of Sloth Petelgeuse, Subaru has returned once more to the capital with his ability, Return by Death. Swearing revenge, he\'ll need to find allies and borrow their strength to strike back the the Witch\'s Cult and save Emilia. But how will he manage that when he has nothing to offer, powerless as he

This Handbook provides in one volume an authoritative and independent treatment of the UN\'s seventy-year history, written by an international cast of more than 50 distinguished scholars, analysts, and practitioners. It provides a clear and penetrating examination of the UN\'s development since 1945 and the challenges and opportunities now facing the organization. It assesses the implications for the

Want to change your life and also change the world? It begins with choosing kindness. In A Year of Living Kindly, Donna Cameron shows how we can overcome the barriers that impede both giving and receiving kindness--and how we can help others do the

In this book the author brings to light man\'s deep inner need for spiritual wisdom in life and helps the reader develop a new sense of reality that is based on love, power and compassion. He describes our relationship with the natural world in detail and discusses how we can harness its tremendous powers for our personal and mankind\'s benefit. It\'s Time to Come Alive challenges some of our most

Part I: Initial Setup1. Introduction2. Working as a DBA3. Creating Our Server4. Disk Layouts5. Installing Oracle6. Creating Our DatabasePart II: Using Oracle Database7. Recovery and Backup8. Security9. Connecting to Oracle10. Test CasesPart III: Learning Oracle Database 11. Tools12. Diagnostics13. Oracle Documentation14. Data DictionaryPart IV: Maintaining the Database15. My Oracle Support16. Social

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Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Ch vez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Ch vez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country\'s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Ch vez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and during

The Commandos were created by Winston Churchill in 1940 as a \'butcher and bolt\' raiding unit to destroy vital targets in German occupied Europe. Recruits for this \'special service\' were all volunteers, drawn from the British Army, and later from the Royal Marines and other Allied armies. Commando training was extremely demanding - men had to be physically fit and show initiative, mental toughness

The fourth volume of PeKo Publishing\'s photo-monograph series, Sturmgesch tz III on the battlefield 2, has the publisher\'s usual corporate image displayed. The hardcover, landscape formatted book\'s brief introduction is followed by more than a hundred mainly unpublished photographs, published in the highest possible quality. Both the introduction and the captions are bilingual (English /

Each book in this series focuses on a type of simple mechanism and examines how it is used to make different toys work. This book examines levers and uses simple language and labeled photographs to explain the scientific principles behind their

This Element addresses the viability of categoricity arguments in philosophy by focusing with some care on the specific conclusions that a sampling of prominent figures have attempted to draw - the same theorem might successfully support one such conclusion while failing to support another. It begins with Dedekind, Zermelo, and Kreisel, casting doubt on received readings of the latter two and highlighting

Calm Abiding and Special Insight presents an intimate and detailed picture of the intricacies of meditation so vividly that the reader is drawn into a Tibetan worldview of spiritual development. Geshe Ged n Lodr , one of the foremost scholars of Tibet, reveals methods for overcoming afflictive states and disorders to create a mind which is stable, calm, and alertly clear. This book illustrates the

This beautifully illustrated book provides an accessible introduction to the medieval manuscript and what it can tell us about the world in which it was made and used. Captured in the materiality of manuscripts are the data enabling us to make sense of the preferences and habits of the individuals who made up medieval society. With short chapters grouped under thematic headings, Books Before Print