Clever Trevor is a heart-warming story for children about friendship and perseverance. When Bully the Bulldozer gets stuck in the mud, every-one tries to help pull him out. But it is Clever Trevor, a hard working little tractor who has often had to listen to Bully's bullying, who finally succeeds.

If life didn't challenge us, how could we know how strong we are? How would we learn who we are capable of becoming. This book is a compilation of inspiring short stories in which real people share how they put together the pieces of their life puzzles and learned from their experiences rather than being hindered by them. These authors hope that by sharing their stories, you will realize no matter how many pieces your life is in or what they look like, you can fit them together into a pict...

100 crazy stories of America's dumbest criminals.WARNING: The crimes you are about to read are true. The names have been changed . . . to protect the ignorant.Here is the ultimate collection of the most incredibly stupid and painfully dumb attempts at crime ever brought together.The woman who invalidated her winning $5,000 lottery ticket by altering it to match the $20 prize numberThe accused vending-machine thief who paid his $400 bail entirely in q...

La mise en évidence de la complexité du microbiote et de ses rôles en santé humaine est une des plus importantes découvertes en biologie et en médecine de ce début de XXI e siècle. Les connaissances dans ce domaine évoluent chaque jour, remettant en cause des paradigmes et idées préconçues de notre partenariat métabolique avec l'écosystème microbien. Faire un point à date est une nécessité. Sans être exhaustif, cet ouvrage reflète l'essentiel des connaissances en physiologie et en patholog...

The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack selects 25 more modern and classic science fiction stories, by talented authors new and old. Authors in this volume include: Mary A. Turzillo, E.C. Tubb, Murray Leinster, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jason Andrew, Henry Kuttner, Cynthia Ward, George H. Scithers and John Gregory Betancourt, Milton Lesser, John Russell Fearn, Harry Harrison, Isaac Asimov, Ayn Rand, and many moreComplete contents"Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads," by Mar...

The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves—and this was in 1921, 56 years after the Civil War. Williams was not alone in using "peons," but his reaction to a federal investigation was almost unbelievable: he decided to destroy the evidence. Enlisting the aid of his trusted black farm boss, Clyde Manning, he began methodically killing his slaves. As this true story unfolds, each detail seems more shocking, and surprises continue in the aftermath...

Many lay Buddhists struggle to carry the benefits of their studies and meditation practice into their twenty-first-century lives. How might our daily experience of both life and the Buddha's teachings shift if there were no separation between them?In A Whole-Life Path, Gregory Kramer invites us to see the noise, complexity, and challenges of today's world as doorways to fully embodied Dhamma wisdom. Drawing on decades of meditation, study, and teaching, he explores the ess...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Across eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century northern England, religious faith continued to affect the lives of men, women, and children in profound ways. Rather than abandoning their faith in the face of increasing urbanisation and industrialisation - as is of...

In Honduras’ “wild west” mountain jungles, Amanda Madrid found her calling as a medical doctor to poor farmers.When Amanda’s father rejects her dream to be a doctor, eighteen-year-old Amanda strikes out alone and enters medical school in Tegucigalpa.Her work as a medical officer, public health consultant, and director of an international holistic Christian ministry called Predisan could have resulted in prestigious luxury for her. Instead these experiences led Dr. Madrid to...

El presente de Camboya es la mezcla embriagadora de una historia esperanzadora y sombría a la vez. Desde templos sublimes hasta paisajes atemporales llenos de arrozales, pasando por la ajetreada vida de Phnom Pen, este país lo tiene todo.Incluye:.Capítulo sobre gastronomía camboyana e Infografía de Angkor Wat en 3D.. Información detallada

The Second Mystery Megapack selects 25 more tantalizing mystery tales, by modern and classic authors. Included are:FUNNY STUFF, by Ron GoulartPIT ON THE ROAD TO HELL, by John Gregory BetancourtWHAT IS COURAGE? by Mack ReynoldsJUST THE FACTS, by Meg OppermanTEN GRAINS OF SAND, by Christopher B. BoothMORE ALLISONS THAN I KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH, by Michael HemmingsonREFLECTION OF A DREAM, by Jean LorrahGRIM REAPER'S HANDICAP, by Fergus Tr...

« “La science-fiction est un puissant outil pédagogique, un véhicule idéologique non négligeable, et la plus riche expression de l’imagination créatrice.” Ainsi Ayerdhal (1959-2015) parlait-il d’un genre dans lequel il était tombé tout petit, par les mannes d’une bibliothèque paternelle stratosphérique, et auquel il consacra toute son œuvre ou quasi. Ayerdhal était un homme de combat, d’engagement. Un homme en colère, aussi. Contre l’injustice, la bêtise et le médiocre. Il ne cessa de défe...