When you no longer believe in eternity, every moment counts -- A memoir of breaking free and reinventionFrom the outside, Tom Tilley's childhood seemed ordinary. The first son of a pastor, he grew up in a beautiful country town where life revolved around football, his loving family and their Pentecostal faith. But behind church doors, a strictly enforced set of rules included a looming ultimatum: if Tom didn't speak in tongues, he'd go to hell and be outcast from h...

From the outside, Tom Tilley's childhood seemed ordinary. The first son of a pastor, he grew up in a beautiful country town where life revolved around football, his loving family and their Pentecostal faith. But behind church doors, a strictly enforced set of rules included a looming ultimatum – if Tom didn't speak in tongues, he'd go to hell and be outcast from his close-knit, devout community. The older Tom became, the more he questioned the teachings of the church, especially around spe...

Wiek woont in Vonk, een luciferfabriek waar hij en andere weeskinderen hard moeten werken voor de verschrikkelijke Ma Boeman. Als hij op een dag een heel klein baby'tje in een eikelwiegje vindt, staan er 's nachts drie boswezentjes voor het raam: Hobs. Als dank voor het verzorgen van de baby helpen ze hem te ontsnappen uit Vonk. Wiek went snel aan het leven bij de Hobs en voor het eerst heeft hij een familie! Maar ook het bos is niet veilig: andere Hobsstammen zijn verdwenen en er is een r...

A magical tale for nature lovers and fans of adventure, from award-winning author-illustrator Tim Tilley.Winner of Best Children's Book 6+: Silver at the Junior Design Awards 2021."A charming fairytale adventure with an enduring ecological message." Peter Bunzl, author of CogheartWick has always lived in the dark and dreadful Harklights Match Factory and Orphanage, working tirelessly for greedy Old Ma Bogey. H...

Wick has always lived in the dark and dreadful Harklights Match Factory and Orphanage, working tirelessly for greedy Old Ma Bogey. He dreams of escaping, until one day a bird drops something impossible and magical at his feet - a tiny baby in an acorn cradle. As midnight chimes, Wick is visited by the Hobs, miniature protectors of the forest. Grateful for the kindness shown to their stolen child, they offer Wick the chance of a lifetime - to leave Harklights, and make a new start with them...

In this corporate history of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Nannie M. Tilley recounts the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds and the vast R. J. Reynolds tobacco complex with precision and drama.Reynolds’s rise in the tobacco industry began in 1891 when he introduced saccharin as an ingredient in chewing tobacco. Forced into James B. Duke’s American Tobacco Company in 1899, the Reynolds company became the agency for consolidating the flat plug industry. In 1907, as the government...

Will believes in witches and the stories he's grown up with - of mythical storm-lions, disappearing villages, and secret songs. Most of all, he believes the tales of magical treasure hidden in the Fens centuries ago. Treasure that he has to find, to solve the mystery of his Ma's disappearance. Then, in the eye of a storm, a witch arrives. She holds the key to finding the lost treasure: a powerful magical object that can summon storms. But someone else is searching for it too. If it falls i...

In this dramatic debut novel about relationships, six individuals' complicated lives are intertwined after a chance reunion.A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs. A high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause. A transgender adolescent male raised by his grandparents struggles to excel in a world hostile to hi...

In Lessons from Summer Camp, Jim Tilley takes a fifty-year retrospective look at a ten-year period during his childhood and adolescence to discover what summer camp was really about. In both a wistful and an appreciative look back on the days of our youth, the poems reminisce on the memorable events of those summers, from fire-lighting contests at Council Ring, to races in war canoes during Tribal Games, learning to swim, and writing letters home—to the inevitable sadness of depar...

Discusses latest research on sorghum structure, chemistry and physiologyReviews varied uses of sorghum as a feed and food grain, forage and energy cropIncludes case studies of key challenges facing sorghum cultivation in regions such as Asia, Africa and South America

Once each year, Marty Tilley was haunted by vivid dreams of destruction visions so intense they left her shaken long after she woke. After one especially disturbing dream involving chaos surrounding the Statue of Liberty, she turned to her professor for guidance. His response was simple: "Stay out of New York." In that moment, Marty realized she had gone to the wrong person for answers what she truly needed was the wisdom and healing of the Great Physician.From surreal images of fl...

Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. Africa as a Living Laboratory is a far-reaching study of the thorny relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertise—environmental, medical, racial, and anthropological—in the colonization of British Africa.A key source for Helen Tilley's analysis is th...