Take a dive into the history and story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster!In The Story of Chernobyl, an international tragedy is examined after three decades of study and investigation. Michael Robinson provides an educated lens on the background and context of the Chernobyl explosion through exposition, analysis, and testimony. Each chapter addresses the what, where, when, who, how, and why of a significant stage in the emergency. Through thorough and approachable explanation, Robi...

Enjoy all three books in this series:Exploring the Fruits of the Spiritwith JoyLove, Joy, & PeaceLongsuffering, Kindness, & GoodnessFaithfulness, Gentleness, & Self-ControlRelevant and engaging for children of all ages. Use this book to teach, empower, and talk to your children about making Jesus' PEACE a reality by choosing to be full of jo...

Sid expressed what he thought was love, sexually, but after the immediate pleasure he felt nothing. Ambitious, his working career continued to advance but his relationships seem to end empty. Over time Sid makes gains in the concept of love, only to have tragedy enter and set him back. Sid finds out he has not one, but two boys and they become the love he had always been seeking. Eventually Sid even finds his one true love.

Students often approach math the same way they approach other courses. Read the book, take some notes, look them over, then hope for the best when the test comes. And, if the test doesn't go well, very little is approached differently the next time around. Math Study Strategies is an easy-to-use resource that helps students learn and implement strategies that are useful during each part of the class 'cycle': choosing a class (in college), preparing for class, participating in class, doing ...

The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death `Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century. The five plays translated here are those on which Strindberg's international reputation as a dramatist principally rests and this edition embraces his crucial ...

The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death `Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century. The five plays translated here are those on which Strindberg's international reputation as a dramatist principally rests and ...

Cardinal Newman died on August 11, 1890 at the age of 89.Although his mind remained lucid to the end, his body declined to the point that in the summer of that year it became evident to all that the end was near.However, on the evening of August 9 he staged a remarkable rally which was recorded by Father William Neville, his secretary and caregiver in his final years. Not recognizing his youthful step he was surprised when Newman entered his room, and he was-unbent, erect to the fu...

Photography Guide to Port DouglasBy Tracey JonesDiscover the beauty of Port Douglas through the eyes of a photographer.From the golden sands of Four Mile Beach to the lush rainforest of Mossman Gorge and the vibrant coral gardens of the Great Barrier Reef, Photography Guide to Port Douglas is your essential companion for capturing the tropical wonder of Far North Queensland.Written by local photographer a...

The book was written to give children and grandchildren an account of the life of their father/grandfather. It is divided into four parts that chronologically follow the author's life. Part One; The Early Years, dwells on recollections of events and stories surrounding parents, brothers, other relatives and friends in different locales from California to Hawaii to Texas. Scouting, selling encyclopedias, the Marines, going to college and Peace Corps were all very formative in this period. P...

This book is an attempt to reduce the barrier to entry for the key tools of homological algebra and develops the basic notions of homological algebra by emphasizing concrete, elementary, and computational examples in finite dimensional vector spaces. Linear algebra is the study of linear maps between vector spaces.The broad success of linear algebra in applications is due to the dimension theorem and the algorithms that exploit it, like Gaussian elimination and QR factorizations.

That Peace Lovers' Groundbreaking Novel!Tired of the unceasing stream of death and destruction in popular media? Want intelligent, believable, entertaining books about peace?Revel in this detailed, realistic, creative science fantasy of a horse-loving American teenager’s spiritual time-travel to a nurturing, welcoming future age. Go with Abby to an engaging future world of fun, art, and discovery, where school really IS cool, living is simple, religions agr...

Michael Robinson is the winner of the 2009 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and the 2023 Tom Collins Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Tom Collins Poetry Prize in 2007."An x-ray poet, looking beneath and beyond appearance to the reality...Powerful and disturbing...Yet atonement is here as well...This is clarion call poetry, with all its evocative and gritty language."- Ian Keast, Studio."Combines serious social concern with keen perception of both the beauty and the...