Fancy scrubbing a bridge with your toothbrush? Perhaps you'd like to count the maggots in the bin? What about spending the rest of your childhood catching enormous spiders with your bare hands?England, 1949. Nobody wants to live at the East Berkshire and District Home for Parentless Boys, least of all twelve-year-old Arthur. The war took his parents. It hasn't taken his hope.Then a travelling circus rolls into the village: a charis...

The gap between wanting to be dependable and becoming dependable is not filled by motivation. It is filled by a set of mental habits the army has spent 2 centuries refining, and they can be taught to a 17 year old just as surely as to a recruit at boot camp. This book takes the doctrines that build soldiers, stress inoculation, mission intent, the after action review, and translates them into actions a teenager can run before school, after practice, and on his worst day.The 55 stra...

Embark on an extraordinary adventure through the iconic streets, hidden gems, and vibrant culture of the world’s most dynamic city with The Exclusive Journey to New York City, USA 2024-2025. This meticulously crafted guidebook is your ultimate companion for exploring the city that never sleeps, offering an insider’s perspective on everything from timeless landmarks to the newest and most exclusive experiences with beautiful pictures and detailed maps.Wheth...

In Sharing the Burden of Sickness, Jonathan Roberts examines the history of the healing cultures in Accra, Ghana. When people are sick in Accra, they can pursue a variety of therapeutic options. West African traditional healers, spiritual healers from the Islamic and Christian traditions, Western clinical medicine, and an open marketplace of over-the-counter medicine provide ample means to promote healing and preventing sickness. Each of these healing cultures had a historical poi...

Alexi is an elderly woman, lying in a hospital bed on Christmas Eve, 2085, nearing the end of her life. As her pain medication causes her to drift, she thinks back to the true love she has never forgotten, even though those memories are more than seventy years old.In 2014, Alexi is eighteen, and although she doesnt know it, this Christmas will bring magic. She discovers she is able to walk through her mirror into another world, where she travels to a placed called Azure City and me...

Who is God?People have different concepts of who God is. Some believe He is a being that we will never really get to see. He was a creator that doesn't care about the affairs of the world. He is just a place of nirvana and peace. He is a judgmental god who wants to hurt and rain vengeance on the universe. Some may say He doesn't exist at all. But God says who He is. We don't have to guess or grasp at straws to find who God is, because He defines Himself. This book ...

Ethis is a vital issue for youth workers. Youth work projects are often established to encourage an ethical purpose among young people and this book helps youth workers to think about ways of developing ethical reflection in young people. It considers the establishment of organisations, by neighbourhoods and networks, to express an ethical purpose among young people. Youth work professionals will learn how to site their practice within the professional code and work in complex and unpredic...

This thesis describes novel devices for the secure identification of objects or electronic systems. The identification relies on the the atomic-scale uniqueness of semiconductor devices by measuring a macroscopic quantum property of the system in question. Traditionally, objects and electronic systems have been securely identified by measuring specific characteristics: common examples include passwords, fingerprints used to identify a person or an electronic device, and holograms that can ...

This book describes a structured sketching methodology to help you create alternative design ideas and sketch them on paper. The Five Design-Sheet method acts as a check-list of tasks, to help you think through the problem, create new ideas and to reflect upon the suitability of each idea. To complement the FdS method, we present practical sketching techniques, discuss problem solving, consider professional and ethical issues of designing interfaces, and work through many examples....

Set sail, explore lost worlds, and conquer the unknown with The Adventure Collection — a thrilling anthology of timeless tales by Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Howard Pyle, Rudyard Kipling, and Jack London. This complete adventure treasury gathers some of the greatest journeys ever written — stories of courage, discovery, and survival that have captivated readers for generations. Inside, you'll find: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift — a satirical voyage through strange lands ...

The classic tale of shipwreck and adventure in strange lands, Gulliver's Travels is also a wickedly clever satire on the nature of humankind'A masterwork of irony ... that contains both a dark and bitter meaning and a joyous, extraordinary creativity of imagination' Malcolm BradburyShipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and ...

Accessible Strategies for New or Well-Established InvestorsJonathan DeYoe invested a small sum in stocks at a young age — and then watched his money grow. Now a financial adviser and longtime meditator, he understands that stress plagues many would-be investors, and he has seen countless people make investment decisions driven by fear and wishful thinking. That mindset leads to costly mistakes, such as chasing “hot” stocks, buying when prices are high and selling w...