Papa Lee is the happy grandfather of seven grandchildren. Tom Rather’s Christmas Tale was written for them. Lee served as a soldier and paratrooper with the 2nd battalion Royal Canadian Regiment and some of Tom Rather’s story is shared with the author’s own experiences. Lee likes to write, both in poetic and prose and hopes that adults and children alike will have fun reading about Tom’s adventure.

365 days, 365 ways to master mindfulness—a guide for beginnersStart your journey to living better, being present, and acting with intention today. A Year of Mindfulness for Beginners is the perfect choice for people looking to internalize the practice and develop beneficial, lifelong habits.Featuring daily doses of affirmations, exercises, meditations, and inspiring quotes, A Year of Mindfulness for Beginners helps you live in the moment a...

(1) IN PAPA'S ARMEN - Miranda Lee Daniel kán niet de vader van Tina's baby zijn... Een nacht met de mooie Tina zou hij zich immers wel herinneren, dus hij stuurt haar weg. Maar ze laat hem niet met rust tot hij zich over baby Bonnie ontfermt. Met succes, want langzaam maar zeker wil hij niets liever dan Bonnies vader zijn - én de man van Tina! (2) EEN ONVERVALSTE HELD - Trish Wylie Voor schrijfster Tara bestaan ware helden alleen op papier... Ter inspiratie voor haar nieuwste verhaal bespi...

Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to benefit human health and agriculture. Precise DNA modifications and gene drive have the power to make wild-type populations less harmful in ways that could never have been performed with previous tr...

Liam and Landen are fun-loving, high-energy boys, and when they play, they play hard. Smash! There goes a race car. Crack! A board game got busted. Whenever Nana and Papa come to visit, Papa has the DIY skills to fix the broken toys. Good as new, right? The boys are delighted. "Papa Can Fix It!"Until the day when Papa tells the brothers they're being careless and destructive with their toys. Liam and Landen are heartbroken! They didn't mean to misbehave. Fortunately, Nana has a big...

El presente libro pone en diálogo a dos de las figuras más importantes de la Iglesia Católica latinoamericana y universal: Ignacio Ellacuría y el papa Francisco. Este libro es fruto del estudio personal y en equipo de un grupo de especialistas en el pensamiento del jesuita Ignacio Ellacuría, rector de la Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA), quien murió asesinado por el ejército en El Salvador en 1989. Con él se pretende mostrar la actualidad y el carácter inspirador de su o...

L’origine de cet ouvrage date de l’époque où mes enfants étaient petits. Un jour, ma fille (qui était la plus petite) a demandé si toutes les mamans avaient du lait. Moi, j’ai répondu : « Bien entendu, c’est comme les tôles». Un de mes fils, subodorant le pire, s’est exclamé : «Oh non, encore une blague pourrie de papa !» Eh oui, bien sûr, les tôles ondulées...

Honorable Mention for the 2015 Book Award from the American Revolution Round Table of RichmondHonorable Mention for the 2015 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book AwardInNovember 1774, a pamphlet to the "People of America" was published inPhiladelphia and London. It forcefully articulated American rights andliberties and argued that the Americans needed to declare their independencefrom Britain. The author of this pamphlet w...

emerge 22 brings together ninety writers from Canada and beyond, who journey in fiction, speculative fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, investigating belonging, joy, fear, and fascination along the way. The work in this anthology is both deeply human and unflinchingly unexpected. In it, the body becomes a repository of stories, silence is a form of air pollution, and people turn into strawberries.Join us to paint redwood trees in the Yukon, organize a Muslim funeral in Toronto, and ...

In the footsteps of Charles Bukowski comes Hosho McCreesh's magnum opus of drunk poetry. Mammoth in size and scope, DrunkSkull books is pleased to release the audiobook version of A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst, a drunken, epic collection about death and love that is unlike any of McCreesh's previous work."Because writing and drinking go hand in hand, it may seem an impossible challenge for a poet to offer new perspective of this well-worn, symbiotic relationship. But Hosho Mc...

This Occasional Paper provides an overview of the main challenges facing Hong Kong SAR as it continues to become more closely integrated with the mainland of China. Section I provides an overview of recent macroeconomic developments and the main policy issues in Hong Kong SAR. Section II examines various aspects of the ongoing integration with the mainland, and the associated implications for the structure of the economy, and for macroeconomic and structural policies. Section III examines ...

A young girl describes what a typical day is like in her parents' Chinese store in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Recipient of a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor in 2000.From the clip, clop of the milkman's mule in the early morning to the clacking of her father's abacus at night, a young girl brings us into her home, which is also her parents' store. Located in Guatemala City, the store is filled with the colorful textures of cloth, threads, buttons, and t...