In Kingston's Legacy, the people of Weeping Cross have been living under a dictatorial government for seven hundred years. After an attack on the government capitol leaves the president disfigured, the people see their opportunity to move. As the rebellion gathers strength, different forces come into play, secrets begin to be revealed, and the future of this one small world begins to change dramatically.In Nothing but the Stars, the crew of a small cargo transport ship are stranded ...

Published in 1837 in Philadelphia, The Art of Dining; And the Art of Attaining High Health was originally published as a series of weekly articles titled The Original by social-activist author Thomas Walker. The collection is divided into three parts pertaining to the art of dining, achieving good health, and enjoying supper.Of dining, Walker states, "we are ordinarily content with the standard of mediocrity….Anybody can dine, but very few know how...

Published in 1837 in Philadelphia, The Art of Dining; And the Art of Attaining High Health was originally published as a series of weekly articles titled The Original by social-activist author Thomas Walker. The collection is divided into three parts pertaining to the art of dining, achieving good health, and enjoying supper.Of dining, Walker states, "we are ordinarily content with the standard of mediocrity….Anybody can dine, but very few know how...

Tommy is a rambunctious young pirate with an aspiring career on the high seas. With his first mate, Stella, he leads a mutiny against Captain Ted E. Bear. That is, until his father reminds him that he is actually a boy with a very messy room that was supposed to be cleaned. Tommy is sent to bed early for not cleaning his room.Mutineers do not clean rooms, and they certainly don't go to bed early because their parents said they should. It is in that room where Tommy's mattress gets ...

In "The Engineer's Sketch-Book," Thomas Walker Barber presents a meticulously curated collection of technical illustrations and sketches that provide invaluable insights into the art and science of engineering. The book is characterized by its clarity and precision, employing a unique blend of visual and textual exposition that makes complex concepts accessible. Its literary context lies at the intersection of art and engineering, celebrating the role of the sketch in the engineering proce...

Every successful engineer is a born inventor; indeed the daily work of an engineer in practice largely consists in scheming and devising from previous experience new and improved processes, methods, and details for accomplishing them, and for simplifying or cheapening old forms of machinery and the work they produce, to enable him to successfully compete with others, who are perhaps as ingenious and enterprising as himself. In the work of designing machinery the draughtsman has to rely mai...

An erotic novella. Renee is having the worst day ever. Stress at work and away from the job has sent her irritation level skyrocketing. Her husband has the power to relieve her tension, but James is reluctant to play with her tonight. Renee knows he'll eventually give in. He just needs the right kind of encouragement...

Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural Sustainabilities presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary filmmakers, musicians, artists, and activists, each asking a particular question or presenting a s...

Cultural Reform – Part One: The Invisible Kingdom, by Arnaldo Marion and Thomas Walker, presents a profound call for Christians to influence society through the values of the Kingdom of God. This book invites readers to look beyond the visible structures of culture and understand how the Kingdom of God works silently, yet powerfully, transforming people, communities, and nations. The authors propose that every Christian should recognize their role within their sphere of influence — whether...

In this fast-paced science fiction romance by Kellie Thomas-Walker, twenty-six year old gallery curator Joryn lives a peaceful existence after losing her mother and ending an abusive marriage. One night four strangers knock at her door. They reveal that she is actually a time-traveler, and Michael takes her on her first jump. She is meant to aid humanity while evading the ever-present danger of the Shadows who seek to destroy them. Along her journey in a bewildering world she never knew ex...

This book deals with those branches of Medical Psychology which have thrown most light on the problems of Psychical Research, namely, Hypnotism, Hysteria, and Multiple Personality. The greater part of the contents had already been published in the forms of papers contributed to the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research between 1910 and 1922 when the book was first released.

This book is intended primarily for those readers who have had no professional training in either Medicine or Psychology, but who are anxious to keep themselves abreast of modern thought in these departments of knowledge. At the same time I hope it may prove serviceable to professional students of these subjects as a preliminary survey of the ground they will have to cover should they desire to specialize in psychotherapies or in the psychology of the abnormal.The topics discussed ...