Pel, a young pelican, is hoping to get toys on his birthday, but all he gets is books.That is until he receives a $500 check from his grandparents, who tell him to use the money wisely. Pels dad, an eagle, says he should invest the money in the stock market so he can buy whatever he wants when he gets older.To learn more about stocks and how they work, Pel and his parents take flight to visit the Coca-Cola Co., and when they arrive, they find one of the companys employees.

Un zoo dont les pensionnaires servent de garde-manger pour nourrir une créature terrifiante… Un professeur d’université qui voyage dans le temps pour affermir sa foi vacillante… Six mille mètres au-dessus du sol, un démon tapi sur l’aile d’un avion met en pièces son moteur… En route pour San Francisco, un automobiliste est pris en chasse sans raison apparente par un camion fou… Ces nouvelles en sont la preuve : lorsque Richard Matheson entre en littérature, le fantastique entre, lui, dans ...

Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan. Divided into 12 chapters, it examines the human-plant entanglements on the island. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, such as the imperial plant explorations, the military casuarina afforestation, the mangrove conservation movement, the ecofeminist rooftop garden, the Indigenous millet restoration, the underground mycorrhizal network in urban Taipei, etc., it discloses the phyto-pol...

In this book, Yuxia Qian and Rukhsana Ahmed explore health acculturation, which they argue is a complex, multidimensional communication process involving concerted efforts from migrants, health professionals, researchers, community members, policymakers, and the media, rather than a unidimensional process synonymous with assimilation. Qian and Ahmed examine individual migrant health acculturation experiences, community-based culturally-centered health interventions, and cross-cultural heal...

Frühling und Herbst des Lü Bu We' ist ein umfassendes, aus unterschiedlichen Überlieferungen zusammengesetztes Kompendium der Weltweisheit aus dem 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr., der Spätzeit des Taoismus. Aufgeteilt in 26 Bücher und über 150 kürzere Kapitel behandelt es die ewigen Fragen des menschlichen Daseins, von den Belangen des Alltags, der Politik und Gemeinschaft bis zu den Rätseln der Religion, des Lebenssinns und der menschlichen Seele. Vielfach werden Legenden, Gleichnisse und Anekdote...

This first Australasian edition of the popular text Management across Cultures explores the latest approaches to cross-cultural management, presenting strategies and tactics for managing international assignments and global teams. With a clear emphasis on learning and development, the text encourages students to acquire skills in multicultural competence that will be highly valued by their future employers. As more and more managers find themselves becoming global managers, and in a world ...

The Myth of War in the Taiwan Strait: Elite Perspectives from Beijing, Taipei, and Washington amid the Yizhou Dilemma proposes a new framework of the “Yizhou dilemma” to capture the conundrum faced by a hegemony (the U.S.), a rising power (Mainland China), and the weaker third entity (Taiwan) crucial to the rising power’s ascendance. Taiyi Sun and Dennis Lu-Cheng Weng, drawing evidence from the assessments and perceptions of directly involved elites from Beijing, Taipei, and Washi...

A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleNew scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-AtlanticThis groundbreaking volume explores the archaeology of African American life and cultures in the Upper Mid-Atlantic region, using sites dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Sites in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New...

C’est désormais sur la lointaine planète Solaria qu’Elijah Baley et R. Daneel Olivaw vont exercer leurs talents d’enquêteurs. Sur ce monde, les hommes n’acceptent plus de se rencontrer physiquement mais se « visionnent » par le truchement de projections télévisées. Or, un meurtre a été commis, un meurtre apparemment impossible puisque aucun Solarien n’aurait assez de courage pour s’approcher d’un de ses compatriotes. Qui plus est, tout semble indiquer qu’un robot est impliqué. Absurde ! Le...

Vern Poythress, one of today's leading Reformed theologians, has made many vital contributions to evangelical scholarship— particularly a vision to glorify Christ as Lord over all areas of human life in order to redeem all realms of human thought.In honor of his many years of faithful thinking and writing, twenty evangelical scholars have come together to produce a set of essays on topics of importance throughout his ministry: biblical exegesis, the doctrine of the Trinity, worldvi...

Southeast Asian Ecocriticism presents a timely exploration of the rapidly expanding field of ecocriticism through its devotion to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asian countries. While ecocritics have begun to turn their attention to East and South Asian contexts and, particularly, to Chinese and Indian cultural productions, less emphasis has been placed on the diverse environmental traditions of Southeast Asia. Building on recent scholar...

Iris Smythe-Smith a l’habitude de passer inaperçue en société… sauf lorsqu’elle monte sur scène avec ses cousines pour massacrer Mozart. Et c’est justement à l’occasion du traditionnel concert familial que sir Richard Kenworthy la remarque. Quelques jours plus tard, il demande sa main. Mais Iris n’est pas idiote. Quel homme séduisant aurait le coup de foudre pour une fille aussi insignifiante qu’elle ? Sir Richard a une raison cachée de l’épouser, et elle entend bien découvrir laquelle. Sa...