Dominic Dormouse, the country mouse hero, who goes to town and undergoes a transformational adventure - for him and for the other animals he meets.Only a household cat and the marauding warehouse rats remain immune to Dominic's infectious charm.An exciting and thought-provoking saga with wide-ranging appeal for readers aged 6 and above.Traditional but with a timely/timeless message for today.Join daring Dominic on an adventure that he - and you - will never forget.

Humanity is on the clock. A highly stressed modern humanity has normalized the growing calamities around u. What other choice de we have? Normalization is the arrival point of helplessness. A faltering humanity, fully chained to its evolutionary past, cannot fins its failure. Human degradation stops...now.

No human on Earth has a natural enemy. As we wage battles against long-dead predators, we will not survive perpetual conflict.Humanity is on the clock.What are we prepared to do?We now have a key. The Human Injury explores the immensity of evolutionary influence upon modern behavior. Gifts of nature that kept our ancestors alive are now a fatal blockade to human sustainability.Modern humanity, chained to its evolutionary past, cannot find its future. Human deg...

"Moving and revelatory . . . puts Epstein front and center . . . . [and] settles once and for all the question of who the fifth Beatle was." — Salon.comWithout the determination, magnetism, vision, good manners, respectable clothes and financial security of Brian Epstein, no one would ever have heard of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. In Liverpool, in December 1961, Brian Epstein met the Beatles in his small office and signed a management d...

Outsourcing is a key issue for many organisations having moved from the contracting out of peripheral activities such as cleaning to more critical areas such as design and marketing. This report is for managers and people in finance and accounting functions and takes a practical approach in developing a framework and then applying this framework in an actual organisation which makes it easier for practitioners to understand.• This report provides a framework which incorporates both qualita...

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora - forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast fortu...

Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest of the Little Rock Nine, shares the true story about a girl, a dress, and the historic fight to attend an all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas.Carlotta can’t wait to wear her new dress on her first day of school. But when the moment finally arrives, she isn’t allowed to go. The year is 1957, and the people of Little Rock, Arkansas, don’t want Black students attending an all-white school and will do whatever it takes to keep ...

Following up on their previous volume, Called to Be Church: The Book of Acts for a New Day, biblical scholar Robert Wall and pastoral leader Anthony Robinson here join forces again.Featuring both exegetical study and dynamic contemporary exposition, each chapter of Called to Lead first interprets the text of 1 and 2 Timothy as Scripture and then engages 1 and 2 Timothy for today's church leaders. The book covers many vexing issues faced by church leaders then and n...

For an ambitious, keenly intelligent woman, lying proves to be the easiest way to get through life, in this Victorian-era classic.Lizzie Greystock is a woman of rare cunning and determination—both of which she uses to better her lot in life. This is especially true when she manages to convince the ailing Sir Florian Eustace to marry her shortly before his demise, leaving Lizzie both a wealthy widow and the mother to Florian's young son.A born deceiver, Lizz...

No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend, the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in England. Then they had gone abroad, taking with them their three children. The eldest, Lord Silverbridge, had been at Oxford, but had had his career there cut short by some more than ordinary youthful folly, which ...

"The Last Chronicle of Barset" concludes Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire with a deep exploration of honor and deceit. Reverend Josiah Crawley, beset by poverty, faces accusations of theft that threaten his reputation and his family’s stability. As old and new characters from Barsetshire weave through the narrative, their stories of love, resilience, and societal pressure intertwine. Trollope combines the personal struggles and triumphs of his characters with keen observations ...

In his novel "Doctor Thorne," Anthony Trollope delves into the intricacies of class, marriage, and morality within Victorian England. This richly woven narrative, marked by Trollope's characteristic wit and keen social commentary, traces the life of the principled but impoverished Doctor Thomas Thorne as he navigates the complexities of love and wealth. Through vivid characterizations and a keen awareness of societal structures, Trollope reveals the tensions between personal desires and th...