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The human mind has many amazing characteristics. It is logical and creative and able to make great leaps of imagination and turn many of its ideas into physical reality.In this volume our authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Winifred Holtby, Bernard Capes and many others bring forth creations and contraptions that are both amazing and abstract as well as diabolical and delightful.1 - Inventions - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - The A...

Winner of the 2025 French-American Translation Prize in Fiction • Finalist for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation • Finalist for the 2025 Cole Foundation Prize for Translation • A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring TitleDon Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge.A hockey game in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula. W...

One morning, two years after Petey Myshkin Stephenson's mysterious adventures in "Otherwise," he and his best friend Chace Fusillade, who is very skeptical about this place "that both does-and doesn't-exist," are both swept away to sea and abducted by pirates in a world that has hardly changed in two and a half centuries, and where there is no U.S.A. because the original colonies lost the war against the British. There the boys discover they have been locked in together with a beautiful Ch...

What factors contribute to tourism and recreation development? How can we characterise stakeholder rationales and organisation modes to enhance tourism resources and foster tourism and recreation services? To what extent do tourism and recreation contribute to regional development? What changes are taking place in terms of new destinations, stakeholders, policy objectives? Bringing together scholars from the fields of planning, economics, sociology, management studies and geography, this b...

Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted, by:Charles Birkin - John Blackburn - Michael Blumlein - Mary Cholmondeley - Hugh Fleetwood - Stephen Gregory - Gerald Kersh - Francis King - M. G. Lewis - Florence Marryat - Richard Marsh - Michael McDowell - Christopher Priest - Forrest Reid - Bernard Taylor - Hugh Walpole'The things were there and...

While global warming and its consequences on humanity are being fiercely debated at the global scale, deliberate and pragmatic reflections on the subject in Sub-Sahara Africa remain muted, though this phenomenon is negatively impacting the livelihoods of her people. The unprecedented degradation of her natural resources, i.e., water, biodiversity, and soils are seen to be intricately linked to her increasing inability to meet the basic needs of her people. This book examines how global cli...

The privatization of water supply and wastewater systems, together with institutional restructuring of governance – through decentralization and the penetration of global firms in local and regional markets – have been promoted as solutions to increase economic efficiency and achieve universal water supply and sanitation coverage. Yet a significant share of service provision and water resources development remains the responsibility of public authorities. The chapters in this book – with c...

One Boy. Three Countries. A Thousand Reasons to Quit.In a world that often dismisses the pursuit of dreams as a mere luxury, for Junior, it was an all-out war between life and death.Growing up in the heart of poverty in Haiti, a world vividly described in this memoir, Junior embarked on an unprecedented journey—from surviving a heart-wrenching car crash to desperate street begging in the Dominican Republic. Then came the Haiti earthquake, a relentless force...

This book is about how the Holy Spirit told me to depict an abstract church in which Jesus is on a cloud passing out commune in his great mansion with many rooms. John the revelator and I are parallel in the sense that both of us created an imaginary image of a phenomena with many depictions seen in the tree hoods clouds of sapphire to eternity not to infinity a fallacy. See, five plus five does not equal ten, but an angle at 180 degrees circle equaling the idealism of the special philosop...

In this sequel to Bernard Suits’ timeless classic philosophical work The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, published in its full and unabridged form for the first time, Suits continues to explore some of our most fundamental philosophical questions, including the value of sport and games, and their relationship to the good life.In Return of the Grasshopper, Suits puts his theoretical cards on the table, exploring the in-depth implications of his definition of u...

First, I would like my audience to know that I am an Afro American psychology student pushing for a degree of honorary, and I made my first million dollars in donation, gifts, my name, and work in the field. As Apostle Paul did as a missionary, I was going from door to door, building to building, bookstore to bookstore, and library to library to empower more student of laws to acknowledge that love did not stop making a good person. I have empowered polynomial people to come to love the es...

With an approachable, reader-friendly style, A Thinker's Guide to the Philosophy of Religion provides up-to-date themes in contemporary, analytic philosophy of religion. This provocative collection of readings stimulates clear thinking and careful attention to the reasons for taking up views on religious questions.