Unleash the laughter with We Are Dragons!Join four playful dragons on their hilarious journey through a fairytale kingdom, where fun turns into chaos at every turn.From dazzling at the Prince’s Royal Ball to mixing fizzing potions in a witch’s cauldron, these dragons can’t help but cause mischief wherever they go. This rhyming tale is bursting with humour and vibrant illustrations that will delight young readers. Discover the mayhem and laughter that await....

A hilarious retelling of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, with not one but TWO twists!Tom has a VERY important job; every day he climbs to the top of the hill and watches for pirate ships. But when he rings his bell and shouts "Pirates!" a few too many times - and there's NO pirate ship - the villagers begin to get tired of hiding. So what will happen when the pirates really do show up?Repeated phrases make it fun for young adventurers to join in with the s...

Uncover your innate capacity for love, presence, and wisdom with compassion training adapted from Tibetan Buddhism and contemporary psychology.Everything we care about—our mental and physical well-being, our relationships, our spiritual life, our ability to be useful to others—depends on our ability to access love and compassion within ourselves first. This clear, step-by-step guide offers a way to cultivate this power through an evidence-based meditation method ca...

Return for more laughter with We Are Fairies, the second book from picture book duo John Condon and Patrick Corrigan!Join four determined fairies on a hilarious clean-up adventure in their home, where fun turns into chaos at every turn.All these four fairies want to do is leave their attic home and help around the house. But when hoovering goes awry and bubbly baths get a little out of control, it seems they've caused more chaos than clean-up!...

Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually hold the majority of the world’s population, are either critically misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. This neglect not only biases scholars’ understanding of social and spatial dynamics toward very large global cities but also maintains a void in students’ learning. This book specifically explor...

Unleash the laughter with We Are Dragons!Join four playful dragons on their hilarious journey through a fairytale kingdom, where fun turns into chaos at every turn.From dazzling at the Prince’s Royal Ball to mixing fizzing potions in a witch’s cauldron, these dragons can’t help but cause mischief wherever they go. This rhyming tale is bursting with humour and vibrant illustrations that will delight young readers. Discover the mayhem and laughter that await....

While Japan has been on center stage of the world economy for decades, interactions between the Japanese and Westerners continue to be on the rise. Daily communication in both business and social settings is commonplace, and connections through the Internet and mobile media make what felt distant only a few years ago seem familiar. Our cultures and social norms remain vastly different, however, and professionals working in Japan are likely to confront new challenges every day. For example,...

From Darkness into Light tells the fascinating story of how a handful of intrepid cricketing soldiers helped save the game from oblivion. English cricket emerged from the Great War in a bruised and battered state. A four-year hiatus in the first-class game had left administrators, players and aficionados anxious about whether life on the field could ever be the same again. The state of Test cricket was even worse after the disastrous experiment of the Triangular Series of 1912. In...

Includes over 30 photos, maps and plans.The first major surprise of the post-World War II years came into play when in late June 1950, the United States found itself responding in crisis fashion to the North Korean invasion of the new republic of South Korea, just four years and nine months after VJ-Day. The nation became involved in Korea as a result of the Cairo and Yalta conferences in which the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to the concept of a free and independent po...

The hit anthology continues here, as fan-favorite JOHN ARCUDI (B.P.R.D.) and SHAWN McMANUS (Fables) introduce two online sleuths who investigate a murder that has more twists and turns than any message board could ever anticipate. Then, red hot creators CHRIS CONDON (THAT TEXAS BLOOD) and MARTÍN MORAZZO (ICE CREAM MAN) present the story of the ultimate comic book grail, one that might even be worth dying for...

In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountain-top airdrop. In a story that is stranger than fiction, it took them three trips through dense jungle to locate the heroin, but they only recovered one of the two packages. When narcotics agent John Shobbrook took on the investigation of this audacious crime, codenamed 'Operation Jungle', his career was on the rise within the Federal Bureau of Na...