What we feel about our neighbors goes back to the days of the Bible. They are not strangers. They are not family. Are they reliable partners in the community? Do I need to worry about them? These questions and more swirl in the average person's head on a regular basis. With As Folk Over Yonder, Brookes' captures the place, mood, questions and delivers the answers in clever twists and abundant humor.

Beginning with Thoreau, nature writers not only have influenced our appreciation of the natural world but also have helped to preserve the American wilderness, from the Maine Woods to Yosemite and the Sierra. Writer and activist Paul Brooks presents narrative portraits of great literary naturalists, offering a 200-year history of the country's movement toward conservation. Profiles of leaders in the fight to protect the environment and safeguard our natural heritage include John Burroughs,...

Heres a little info about my book. I have always been a dreamer, and it was usually that my imagination was the greatest while working and fishing. In my childhood days, things that I saw would get my attention so easily. And as always, they would give me ideas to further my imagination. As I carried on through my working years, some things in nature and places that I had been had gotten my attention, and they brought out ideas. And one day . . . it all came together. I started seeing thes...

Christopher Marlowe turns government spy in these four comedy crime dramasMurder and intrigue are all in a day's work for Kit Marlowe, England's leading playwright and undercover agent in Her Majesty's Secret Service. Amid the squalor and splendour of Elizabethan London, he probes a series of baffling mysteries, aided by his trusty underworld accomplice Bartholomew Ratsbane.The Curious Case of the Curs'd Quayside - Two of the navy'...

Like so many other professions, law is becoming increasingly influenced by an overwhelming amount of disparate, fragmented and complex data that can both help and hinder business. Data comes from a wealth of different sources, both internal and external, constantly changing, never still. Keeping control of all that data is one challenge; leveraging it to the greater good much harder. Despite the huge amount of data in the average law firm, data-driven decision-making is relatively new and ...

This Little Golden Book takes readers through the iconic Disney Parks' Jungle Cruise attraction!Climb aboard the Jungle Cruise and get ready for the adventure of a lifetime! Featuring terrifying tigers, mysterious ruins, and the eighth wonder of the world, readers can experience Disney Parks' world-famous Jungle Cruise attraction like never before in this new Little Golden Book, perfect for Disney and Little Golden Book fans of all ages!

This book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and sights of past water cultures. Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, is surrounded on three sides by sea, and has no major river to deliver clean, potable water. However, the cultures that thrived in this remarkable waterscape through millennia have developed and sustained diverse water cultures and a water delivery system t...

When the music starts playing, everyone can dance...except the ants. They can lift, build, and dig, so why can’t they twirl, dip, and jig? As the ants try to dance, they discover they are better together in this toe-tapping tale that shows the value of cooperation and teamwork. Readers will laugh (and dance) along with this whimsically illustrated story that encourages creative problem-solving and inspires even the littlest among us to pursue big dreams.

Katherine Shaw. Rich girl? Check. Spoiled and obstinate? Check. A sexy fireball who pushes every button ex-SEAL Jason Garrett has? That was not listed on the dossier he received when he was assigned as one of her bodyguards. The last thing he ever expected was that his tempting client would prove to be more sinful and dangerous than those he’s protecting her from. It’s been five years since a family tragedy tilted her world off its axis, and Katherine Shaw still relives the nightmares of t...

Death Defied, Life Defined is the true story of Paul E. Perkins, a heart and kidney organ recipient who died at least two medically confirmed times, yet lived to tell his fascinating tale.What does it feel like to die?Paul Perkins expected the final breaths of his life to feel different. Prior to a long-term illness that led to his double organ transplant, Paul didn’t want to waste his life obsessing over his death.However, there were some after-life things he wonde...

More than a century after L. Frank Baum first released this magical tale of a young girl, Brooke Shields entrances a new generation of young listeners with her narration of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks herand her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. To get home Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and ask for help from the myst...

When the music starts playing, everyone can dance...except the ants. They can lift, build, and dig, so why can’t they twirl, dip, and jig? As the ants try to dance, they discover they are better together in this toe-tapping tale that shows the value of cooperation and teamwork. Readers will laugh (and dance) along with this whimsically illustrated story that encourages creative problem-solving and inspires even the littlest among us to pursue big dreams.