After catastrophic earthquakes occur along all the world's major fault lines and fault zones, some kind of new world appears to be forming. Governments and news agencies are unable to describe it. This is where the adventure begins

Our journey of love began long before either of us realized that we were being groomed for one another. We've experienced many pivotal points prior to being brought together, to make this dream a reality. We knew we needed an extraordinary love to withstand past relationship experiences, everyday bad choices and our past hurts. From the very beginning, our relationship was predisposed to twists and turns, unthinkable for most couples. Suffice it to say, growing up, we've traveled very diff...

Colonel William Byrd II (28 March 1674 - 26 August 1744) was a planter, slave-owner and author from Charles City County, Virginia. He is considered the founder of Richmond, Virginia. His works are among the earliest of Virginia literature and his diaries are considered as classic documents. This diary shows the progress of Byrds visit to North Carolina, where Charles Eden was Governor 1713 - 1719.

Colonel William Byrd II (28 March 1674 - 26 August 1744) was a planter, slave-owner and author from Charles City County, Virginia. He is considered the founder of Richmond, Virginia. His works are among the earliest of Virginia literature and his diaries are considered as classic documents. This diary tells about the iron mines that Ex-Governor Spotswood opened.

The History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina is an account by William Byrd II of the surveying of the border between the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia in 1728. Byrd's account of the journey to survey the contentious border with his chief surveyor William Mayo included such nuggets as the derivation of the name of "Matrimony Creek," so named because of its 'brawling' waters. (from wikipedia.com) Colonel William Byrd II (28 March 1674 - 26 August 1744) wa...

This theoretical and empirical study of market-oriented reforms in Chinese industry since the late 1970s focuses on the expansion of the market mechanism in the allocation of industrial products and the concurrent decline of directive planning - a strategy that is a crucial component of the ambitious overall reform "package" that Chinese reformers are trying to implement. The expanding role of Chinese industrial goods has had major implications for the functioning and importance of plannin...

Strengthening the banking system and expanding its role in resource mobilization and allocation have been key components of recent economic reform policies in the People's Republic of China. This study of China's financial system focuses on new policies and reforms undertaken since 1976, including institutional restoration, proliferation, and decen

A smaller version of the harpsichord, the virginal enjoyed wide popularity during the 16th and 17th centuries. Based upon a 1591 manuscript of keyboard works, this collection features 42 pieces in modern notation — a vast amount of neglected concert material for modern pianists and harpsichordists — plus historic and analytic notes.

Petite Classics for Easiest Piano Booklet U3Popular Classics for Beginner and Novice Pianists by SilverTonalities!Letter Names Embedded in NoteheadsFor Quick and Easy Reading!Booklet U3 includes:Flight of the Bumble Bee by Nikolai Rimsky KorsakovO Mistress Mine by William ByrdPeople With Long Ears from the Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint Saens

This is a story of a man-child in God's Promised Land who grew under His protection and favor while in complete ignorance of His dominion, power, and authority. It is the biography of a young man who came of age during the Civil Rights era who rose from a working class upbringing, skirting drugs and violence to become the first African-American optometrist, O.D. (Doctor of Optometry), in the state of Delaware. This is the odyssey of one man's ascent to the upper echelons of black society o...

A short memoir of a father introducing his daughter to backpacking on the Appalachian Trail.

After the thrilling scenes through which the Colony of Virginia passed during its earliest days, the most portentous, the most dramatic, the most picturesque event of its seventeenth century history was the insurrection known as "Bacon's Rebellion." All writers upon the history of Virginia refer to it, and a few have treated it at some length, but it is only in quite late years that facts unearthed in the English public records have enabled students to reach a proper understanding of the c...