The new revised fifth edition of Natural Hazards remains the go-to introductory-level survey intended for university and college courses that are concerned with earth processes that have direct, and often sudden and violent, impacts on human society. The text integrates principles of geology, hydrology, meteorology, climatology, oceanography, soil science, ecology, and solar system astronomy.The textbook explains the earth processes that drive hazardous events in an unders...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

Erinnerungen an Jane Austen (1869) ist die maßgebliche Familienbiografie der Schriftstellerin, ein ruhig erzähltes, anekdoten- und dokumentengestütztes Porträt, das die häusliche, geistige und soziale Umwelt Austens rekonstruiert. In nüchternem, doch elegischem Ton arrangiert James Edward Austen-Leigh Erinnerungen, Stammbäume, Alltagsszenen und ausgewählte Briefe zu einem Bild, das die viktorianische Wahrnehmung der Autorin nachhaltig prägte. Spektakuläres wird gemieden zugunsten einer lei...

Helen Keller was not always deaf and blind. She was born a healthy baby girl, but after a serious infection as a toddler, she lost both her hearing and sight. Doctors told her parents that she would never make anything of herself in a hearing and seeing world. Determined, her parents ignored the doctors and enrolled their daughter in Perkins School for the Blind, where she met her life-long companion Anne Sullivan.Ms. Sullivan is largely credited with teaching Helen language by spe...

It was getting dark when Festing stopped at the edge of a ravine on the Saskatchewan prairie. The trail that led up through the leafless birches was steep, and he had walked fast since he left his work at the half-finished railroad bridge. Besides, he felt thoughtful, for something had happened during the visit of a Montreal superintendent engineer that had given him a hint. It was not exactly disturbing, because Festing had, to some extent, foreseen the line the superintendent would take;...

In the summer of 2013 the Central Intelligence Agency and the Clinton Presidential Library made an unprecedented declassification of more than 300 documents showing the role of intelligence in supporting American decision-making on Bosnia in the 1990s, and in particular the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, which brought an end to the fighting in Bosnia. The following spring, James Madison University hosted a conference in which scholars from all over the world assessed what the documents show ...

Rediscover the goodness and beauty of the Body of Christ.Winner of the 2025 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award and Church and Pastoral Leadership category; Winner of The Gospel Coalition's award for First-Time Author in 2025The evangelical church is hemorrhaging. Over 40 million Americans have dechurched in the last 25 years alone, and multiple generations have been raised to believe the most spiritual thing they ca...

Bloomsbury presents War Without Mercy: Liberty or Death in the American Revolution by Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin, read by Jason Keller.Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how and why the Revolutionary War descended into a brutal existential struggle.This engrossing history of the Revolutionary War conclusively shows that those caught up in it believed they had nothing to lose ...

How much do you know about the food you eat? Do you really know where it come from before it gets to your plate?Young Clare is full of questions, including about the foods she eats. In this book, Clare's Tomato, the author shares her adventures as she sets out to learn about how vegetables grow. She's trilled about growing her first tomato, but she is concerned about what will happen to it when it is nice and ripe.Clare's Tomato is an entertaining children's story. It's als...

The book is about a young girl, Clare who is full of questions, about the food she eats. In the book, the listener will follow her adventures as she sets out to learn about how vegetables grow.She plants and tends to the growth of a tomato plant and is thrilled when the first tomato appears, but she is concerned about what will happen when it ripens.Clare's Tomato is an entertaining children's story. It's also a chance for them to learn where food comes from and how they ca...

Rediscover the goodness and beauty of the Body of Christ.The evangelical church is hemorrhaging. Over 40 million Americans have dechurched in the last 25 years alone, and multiple generations have been raised to believe the most spiritual thing they can do is follow God by following their heart - right out of the church. Yet, this shift is happening right as society is hitting record levels of loneliness, stress, and anxiety. In The Reason for Church, past...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton