Dominic Dormouse, the country mouse hero, who goes to town and undergoes a transformational adventure - for him and for the other animals he meets.Only a household cat and the marauding warehouse rats remain immune to Dominic's infectious charm.An exciting and thought-provoking saga with wide-ranging appeal for readers aged 6 and above.Traditional but with a timely/timeless message for today.Join daring Dominic on an adventure that he - and you - will never forget.

Humanity is on the clock. A highly stressed modern humanity has normalized the growing calamities around u. What other choice de we have? Normalization is the arrival point of helplessness. A faltering humanity, fully chained to its evolutionary past, cannot fins its failure. Human degradation stops...now.

No human on Earth has a natural enemy. As we wage battles against long-dead predators, we will not survive perpetual conflict.Humanity is on the clock.What are we prepared to do?We now have a key. The Human Injury explores the immensity of evolutionary influence upon modern behavior. Gifts of nature that kept our ancestors alive are now a fatal blockade to human sustainability.Modern humanity, chained to its evolutionary past, cannot find its future. Human deg...

Outsourcing is a key issue for many organisations having moved from the contracting out of peripheral activities such as cleaning to more critical areas such as design and marketing. This report is for managers and people in finance and accounting functions and takes a practical approach in developing a framework and then applying this framework in an actual organisation which makes it easier for practitioners to understand.• This report provides a framework which incorporates both qualita...

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora - forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast fortu...

Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest of the Little Rock Nine, shares the true story about a girl, a dress, and the historic fight to attend an all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas.Carlotta can’t wait to wear her new dress on her first day of school. But when the moment finally arrives, she isn’t allowed to go. The year is 1957, and the people of Little Rock, Arkansas, don’t want Black students attending an all-white school and will do whatever it takes to keep ...

Following up on their previous volume, Called to Be Church: The Book of Acts for a New Day, biblical scholar Robert Wall and pastoral leader Anthony Robinson here join forces again.Featuring both exegetical study and dynamic contemporary exposition, each chapter of Called to Lead first interprets the text of 1 and 2 Timothy as Scripture and then engages 1 and 2 Timothy for today's church leaders. The book covers many vexing issues faced by church leaders then and n...

The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1871 as a serial in the Fortnightly Review. It is the third of the "Palliser" series of novels.In this novel, the characters of Plantagenet Palliser, his wife Lady Glencora and their uncle the ailing Duke of Omnium are in the background. The plot centres on Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace and is soon left a ...

Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires. Sent down from university in disgrace, his two sons quickly begin to run up gambling debts. His only daughter, meanwhile, longs passionately to marry the poo...

”No doubt the finite and meagre nature of our feelings does prevent us from extending our sympathies to those whom we have not seen in the flesh. It should not be so, and would not be with one who had nurtured his heart with the proper care…”When the eccentric and scholarly Reverend Josiah Crawley, impoverished curate of Hogglestock is accused of stealing a cheque for twenty pounds, the crime causes a public scandal, sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire....

In Anthony Trollope's 'Doctor Thorne,' the reader is transported to the genteel world of Barsetshire, where social class, love, and scandal intersect. Written in the 19th century, this novel blends elements of social critique, romance, and subtle humor, all in a beautifully crafted narrative style. Trollope's keen observation of human behavior and societal norms is evident throughout the book, making it a classic of Victorian literature. The story follows the lives of the characters as the...

The novel follows the lives of a large cast of characters, including financiers, politicians, and social climbers, as they navigate the worlds of high finance, politics, and society. At the center of the story is the character of Augustus Melmotte, a wealthy and powerful financier who is both admired and reviled by those around him.Melmotte's rise to power and influence is driven by his financial machinations and his ability to manipulate those around him. He is a symbol of the greed and c...