This book is about a temporary flying job that turned into a life changing career. Flying bush Alaska was far more interesting than being a general building contractor. It was a chance to fly thousands of hours over some of the most beautiful country there is. I was fortunate to meet many people including movie stars and famous sports figures. Even ordinary guys like me who were living their dreams to hunt and fish in Alaska. The flying was not always easy. I flew year around in wind, rain...

It's long, very, very long stretching from the McMaster campus right through Stoney Creek. It's old, dating back to the very roots of the community. It runs right through the heart of the city. It meanders through the city, running north of Main Street, then suddenly dipping to the south. And it's home - or has been - to many of Hamilton's finest buildings, grand churches, various hotels, old schools, several parks, as well as countless stores and commercial...

With Halloween Rapidly approaching Danny is excited about seeing a magic show at his school today.This is the start of an adventure that has Danny and his closest friends Cindy and Lacey combining their skills and courage to overcome a creature that mysteriously appears when a magic trick goes wrong.Danny and his friends are the only ones that saw this creature come into this world.Strange things start to happen to everyone soon after the show.One of the items used in the magic act holds t...

*2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Honorable Mention*'I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.' – Henry David Thoreau From Thoreau and Nietzsche to Aristotle, history’s greatest thinkers have long celebrated the healing power of the natural world. But forest bathing is more than just a walk in the woods – it’s the mindful practice of reconnecting with nature through your senses, and The Healing Power of Trees

Canada Unscripted: Conversations with Canadian Media Icons showcases twenty-one of the most influential voices in Canadian film and broadcasting. In these intimate and often surprising interviews, celebrated actors, journalists, directors, and producers share stories that are raw, funny, and deeply revealing. At the heart of the book are the CBC and the National Film Board: two institutions that helped shape Canada's cultural identity. These conversations offer behind-the-scenes i...

Rosalie has determined to begin a new life, but she is haunted by shadows of her unscrupulous past. She knows she needs to stay focused on the job at hand, and a lucrative one at that. When her insatiable need for male companionship leads her to unexpected happiness, she wonders if her dark past will eventually catch up with her.Serial killer Genevieve has never been out of Detective Al Rouse’s mind. She embarrassed him when she escaped his custody three years earlier and it has be...

Brothers David and Justin Freeman stumbled into success by turning their Moonshine hobby into a profitable enterprise. In fact, sales of their illicit booze have made millions for their partners in rural Wisconsin. But just as things start going a little too well La Crosse Detective Allan Rouse gets wind of the crimes. Rouse pursues the brothers through an underground chase, and the Moonshine business isn't the only thing left crumbled in ruins. A stand-alone book, author Gary Evans brings...

Recent years have seen a greater industrial emphasis in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the pharmaceutical and chemical sciences. However, textbooks have been slow to adapt, leaving the field without a text/reference that is both instructional and practical in the industrial setting – until now.A Handbook of Bioanalysis and Drug Metabolismis a stimulating new text that examines the techniques, methodology, and theory of bioanalysis, pharmacokinetics, and ...

What could possibly happen when two cultures meet for the first time?In WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, anything.WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE presents fourteen original stories where two different societies intersect and deal with the aftermath of that meeting. Will the conflicting cultures merge and adapt and find peace? Or will they clash, unable to either accept their differences or acknowledge their commonalities? Who will survive when the last of the Fae battles a world-killing AI? What h...

Explore the dark corners of the horror genre with this collection of spooky tales of witchcraft, ghosts, and the risen dead!Originally collected as a hardcover, these stories from the likes of Mike Mignola, Evan Dorkin, Jill Thompson, Gary Gianni, Robert E. Howard and more first appeared in the Dark Horse Book of Monsters, the Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft, the Dark Horse Book of Hauntings, and the Dark Horse Book of the Dead. No...

Making Music in the Primary School is an essential guide for all student and practising primary school teachers, instrumental teachers and community musicians involved in music with children. It explores teaching and learning music with the whole class and provides a framework for successful musical experiences with large groups of children.Striking the perfect balance between theory and practice, this invaluable text includes case studies and exemplars, carefully designed...

On the eve of SONIC/MEGA MAN: WORLDS UNITE comes "Prisoners of War": Dr. Wily built his Robot Masters as tools of war—but when war is over, what happens to these mechanical servants? Mega Man has hopes that they can become tools of peace! Of course, not everyone agrees with Mega Man’s positive point of view. Will his optimism lead to his destruction? Meanwhile, who is the mysterious Mr. X, and what connection does he have to the past, present and future of Mega Man? This story leads into t...