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Dogs mistake enthusiasm for character. Birds confuse noise with presence. Fish are furniture with maintenance demands. Rabbits are destruction in soft packaging. Reptiles require explanations no civilised person should have to give.In Basil Has Thoughts: On Other Pets, Basil offers a refined and unsentimental review of household pets, the animal kingdom beneath him, and the curious humans who keep lowering domestic standards to accommodate them.A short, fun...

A guest is merely a temporary problem with luggage.Basil had hoped domestic order was already settled.Regrettably, humans continue to invite other humans indoors, where they proceed to ring doorbells, abandon shoes, occupy chairs, comment on food, ask where the cat is, and linger long after silence should have been restored.In Basil Has Thoughts: On Houseguests, Basil turns his calm, cutting attention from other pets to the even mor...

Rarely accessible beyond the limits of its people, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning and mystery, as broad, as deep, and as innately appealing as the mythologies of Greece, Rome, Egypt, and other civilizations. In Ojibway Heritage, Basil Johnston sets forth the broad spectrum of his people’s life, legends, and beliefs. Stories to be read, enjoyed, dwelt on, and freely interpreted, their authorship is perhaps most properly attributed to the tribal storytellers who have carrie...

Basil has thoughts about modern media. Unfortunately for humans, he has been paying attention.Television. Facebook. Instagram. X. Snapchat. TikTok. YouTube. Podcasts.Humans have created more ways to communicate than ever before. They have also found more ways to argue with strangers, photograph their dinner, shout instructions at professional athletes, lose entire evenings to their phones, and watch other humans doing things they could quite easily do thems...

The present population of the globe is believed to be about fifteen hundred millions, of which seven hundred millions are nominally progressive and eight hundred millions are stagnant under the law of custom. It is difficult to choose terms that even approach scientific accuracy in these generalizations, for, as Mr. H.G. Wells has remarked, if we use the word "civilized" the London "Hooligan" and the "Bowery tough" immediately occur to us; if the terms "stagnant" or "progressive," how are ...

Ojibway Ceremonies provides a unique and fascinating glimpse of Ojibway culture before its disruption by European civilization. It is the story of the Ojibway told through the ceremonies which dominated the most important occasions and stages of their existence. As a young boy grows up, we see him develop through his involvement in the many rituals so important to the Ojibway way of life. From the Naming Ceremony and the Vision Quest to the War Path, from the Marriage Ceremony to ...

Bearded diary is collection of short poems written by the author when he was younger. Most of the poems deal with emotions like love, pain and existential crisis. Though the tone of the poems are generally light hearted and simple, the depiction of pain and frustration in some poems might tend to be a bit unsettling.

What if you could text with Martin Luther King, Jr.?Alex, a curious child, gets to do just that! Alex texts with Dr. King and learns about the man who helped lead the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Dr. King texts Alex about how he led bus boycotts, sit-ins in Birmingham, and gave his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. It's a biography for kids that uses modern day texting bubbles children understand and enjoy!***A Black History Month b...

"Mahon has written a first-rate book on Maxwell's science and legacy."—New ScientistThis is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the nineteenth century — and his discoveries went on to sh...

"What are you looking for, sir?" he said."Bloodstains."Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, courtesy of the many forged papers and documents found with him.The trail leads to France, where we discover why a French milliner chose to ride in a laundry basket, why the two American men are so interested in their wives' hat trimmings, and why it is so difficult ...

Basil Miller traces the life of John Hyde from beginning to triumphant climax. We see God moulding Hyde’s soul into an instrument t for His use. We hear John speaking the language of heaven to the eager men and women of India. Paramount in the biography is the power of prayer in the life of this great missionary. Courageously Hyde placed his petitions before God and inspired others to do the same.In the autumn of his life this consecrated missionary to India saw the gleaming harves...

Poioumenon of Self is a collection of poetry written over the course of more than a decade. It displays the coming-of-age of a young adult who struggles with mental health, romantic relationships, sexuality, gender, abuse, addiction, and learning how to cope with the world around them.