It's what you have been wondering for years--just how many Buddhist monks CAN you fit into a 1970 ruby-red Buick Electra 225 convertible? Mid-life crisis meets puberty...It's 1990 and just another typical summer day in Mapletown, Indiana until Uncle Phat, The Reptile (or Uncle Mike, as he used to be called), who seems to have been in a mid-life crisis since he was born, wanders into the garage and gives his puberty-stricken 15 year old nephew, Galen Calcoun, only about an hour to pack. The...

Eco-fiction is fiction in which real earth ecology is a major component of the plot such that it goes beyond just the setting. Virginia Arthur.A lovely yet wry collection of eco-fiction short stories, part sheer pleasure, part humor, part grief and pain, part relentless social/political commentary, calls for change.The StoriesA Strangler Fig (Ficus macrophylla) Grows in EdenWhen a self-absorbed aging woman is pitted...

A consequence of getting older is current experiences inevitably get threaded to memories as Maybelline Emmons learns when she embarks on what she thinks will be a simple road trip to find an old friend that happens to be an old tree. Recently widowed, she doesn't have many friends left. She gets way more than she bargained for. The easiest way out is just turn around and go back to her comfortable townhouse in Santa Barbara, sip her Pinot and watch her hummingbirds. This was always enough...

Set at the dawn of America's environmental consciousness, late 1970's, early '80's, pretty Ellowyn Kelsey is a redneck girl living the pretty redneck life in rural Michigan, waiting for her husband to come around...Her self-imposed lobotomy ends when she shows up at the wrong time for a church picnic, meeting a bunch of birders instead. Watching a mating pair of bluebirds tending to one another causes something in her to break. Everyone recognizes what she's going through except her--the d...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers] - The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - The Woman in Whi...

Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.El Gran Gatsby por Francis Scott FitzgeraldEl Mago de Oz por Lyman Frank BaumCanción de Navidad por Charles DickensLos Muchachos de Jo por Louisa May AlcottEl Convivio por Dante AlighieriPersuasión por Jane AustenMansfield Park por Jane AustenEl Diccion...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a BoatJoyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJoyce, James: UlyssesKingsley, Charles: The Water-BabiesKipling, Rudyard: KimLa Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of ClèvesLaclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous LiaisonsLawrence, D. H.: Sons and LoversLawrence, D. H.: The RainbowLe Fanu...

CONTENIDO:Grito de Gloria [Eduardo Acevedo Díaz]Doña Berta [Leopoldo Alas]Clemencia [Ignacio Manuel Altamirano]Vida Loca [Domingo Arena]La mujer del porvenir [Concepción Arenal Ponte]La pista de los dientes de oro [Roberto Arlt]El cura de Tours [Honoré de Balzac]Los despojos [Charles Baudelaire]El pecado de Alejandra Leonard [José Pedro Bellán]Mare nostrum [Vicente Blasco Ibáñez]Sangre y Arena [Vicente Blasco Ibá...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Mon...

CONTENIDO:El Principito (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)Las Memorias de Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)Ben-Hur (Lewis Wallace)Amok (Stefan Zweig)Los Buscadores de Tesoros (Washington Irving)Las Razones de Georgina (Henry James)Más Allá del Bien y del Mal (Friedrich Nietzsche)Terror en Fontenay (Alexandre Dumas)Piratas y Mar Azul (Arthur Conan Doyle)¿Pueden Suceder Tales Cosas? (Ambrose Bi...

50 Clásicos que debes leer antes de morir reúne en un solo volumen una selección imprescindible de grandes obras que han marcado la historia de la literatura. Escritas por autores de diversas épocas, culturas y estilos, estas piezas representan lo mejor del pensamiento, la creatividad y la imaginación humana a lo largo de los siglos. Cada obra incluida ha influido profundamente en la narrativa, la filosofía, la poesía o el desarrollo de géneros literarios completos. Desde historias que exp...

Nachhaltigkeit kommunizieren ohne GreenwashingNachhaltigkeitskommunikation ist heute fast so komplex und herausfordernd wie Nachhaltigkeit selbst. Die steigenden Erwartungen an Transparenz und Nachvollziehbarkeit von Investor:innen bis zu Konsument:innen fordern, dass Unternehmen ihre Beiträge zu den europäischen Nachhaltigkeitszielen klar darlegen können – ohne Greenwashing zu betreiben.Geschrieben von erfahrenen Praktiker:innen, deckt das Praxishandbuch v...