Why fixing America’s housing crisis requires repairing older homes—and not just building new onesThe United States is in the throes of a housing crisis, framed by the media as a crisis of affordability. People pay too much for housing—and the solution, it seems, is to increase the supply to drive down the cost. But the national conversation on housing affordability ignores the issue of housing quality. Most people find affordable housing not through public subsidie...

Memories from a Time Machine!Within these pages you will read about one man's life from over seven decades, a life that has been lived to the full. It will touch one's very soul, for what we are and what makes us human.Adventure, Love, Happiness, Pain, Grief, Fear, and Humour even Para-normal events will capture our innermost thoughts. There is no escape.Read the book. It's all in here. Memories from a Time Machine!Within these pages you will read about one ...

Join the cadets Mira, Jay, Kai and Luna in Mythic Park as they learn to look after the mythical creatures that live there. In this story, the cadets are in the Mind Meadow, where a dream bird is acting strangely and making odd illusions appear. Could she be trying to send the cadets a message, and will they understand?Reading Champion Graphic readers is a new strand in the Reading Champion programme. Each story follows the adventures of the same set of characters in exciting comic ...

Join the cadets Mira, Jay, Kai and Luna in Mythic Park as they learn to look after the mythical creatures that live there. In this story, the cadets are in the Stone Valley for a rockfall drill. But the siren is much too loud and wakes up the enormous rumble beasts who start smashing everything! They must work together to calm the rumble beasts and help the shy pebble troll ...Reading Champion Graphic readers is a new strand in the Reading Champion programme. Each story follows the...

For those new to wine or for dabblers who could use some help deciphering foreign labels, Wine Basics brings unprecedented clarity to the world’s most ubiquitous libation.Whatever your wine IQ, keeping a handle on all the essentials of the world’s most captivating beverage is a sobering challenge indeed. Enter Wine Basics, written by a California-based expert. With 400 full-color photos, authoritative text, delicious recipes, and regional maps, this visually incom...

Let Churches Be Churches and Therapists Be TherapistsWe live in an age where "therapy culture" dominates our cultural milieu. Everywhere we look, therapeutic language and psychological concepts are popularized, misapplied,and lose their medical significance. Therapy and psychiatry are good practices, but when people begin to filter everything in life through a therapeutic lens, it becomes harmful rather than helpful.The church is not immune to this phenomen...

My King, Christ! You are the most beautiful; the beauty of the earth reveres Your handsomeness.Your face speaks of your glory, your head speaks of your power; your skin of your splendor, and your hair of your honor. Your eyes speak of your discernment, your forehead speaks of your wisdom; your sense of smell of your sensitivity; your mouth of your word, your tongue of your truth, your teeth of your purity; your ears of your mercy, and your cheeks of your beauty.Your chin te...

The human brain forms the lens through which we perceive ourselves and the world. Yet most of us don't understand how the architecture of the human brain shapes our perceptions. Waking Up From History takes a tour through the brain – the primitive layers, the limbic system or emotional brain – and the neocortex, who's most dramatic feature is being divided into two hemispheres. These hemispheres see the world in dramatically different ways. Our neural architecture has huge impacts on how w...

Evangelicalism is a favorite scapegoat of American public life. Christianity Today deputy editor Bonnie Kristian argues that the most common attacks fall apart under scrutiny, issuing a bold call for evangelicals not to be ashamed of their tradition and, instead, to preserve and deepen it.Evangelicals are subjected to a steady stream of criticism about what they believe and how they live out their faith in public. This isn’t new: Evangelicals have felt sli...

Dublin, 1937A gang of movie-mad kids meet at the Grand Central Cinema on O'Connell Street and form a club to make their OWN films!Jem, Juno, Sylvie and friends are thrilled to meet world-famous child actress Dottie Bright. But they soon learn it's not always good to meet your heroes. Dottie is a spoiled brat. There's no way she is going to help them with their own film.But then danger strikes, and Dottie needs the gang to be her rea...

The Nat Turner rebellion of August 1831, the iconic uprising of enslaved people in the United States, was much more extensive than we have understood. This powerful exploration of a Tidewater Virginia plantation reveals how the daily resistance of the enslaved was heightened by spiritual beliefs to seek the divine overthrow of a wicked world.Tower Hill draws on a previously untapped family archive to reveal the routines of daily life and the fraught family...

**How a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a halt—but ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation.From a veteran science writer, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and the coauthor of the acclaimed How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog).**In the 1870s, horses were the lifeblood of North American cities. New York, Boston, Chicago, and Toronto relied on tens of thousands of workhorses to power daily li...