PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review).Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of th...

Forty Years of Ink is an anthology celebrating the Estevan Writers Group.Contributors: Joanne Bannatyne-Cugnet, Joyce Beggs, Bessie Brekke, Kyle Brokenshire, Marie Calder, Katina Chapman, Nicole Flaman, Maggie Mae Holmes, Elaine Hjorteland, Victoria Koops, Ashley Lilley, Andrea McClelland, Betty McGillivray, Suzanne McNabb, Scott Miller, Norm Park, Kathleen Ricard, Irene Roy, William Sinclair, Danita Stallard, Rhonda Stock, Shauna Stock, Maureen Ulrich.

The true story of one museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld: "Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." — Vanity FairShortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews, and ...

**A BEST BOOK OF 2021 FOR THE GUARDIAN * FINANCIAL TIMES * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT * MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE * THE TIMESHailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany**Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected...

Three experts in Human Resources introduce a measurement system that convincingly showcases how HR impacts business performance.Drawing from the authors' ongoing study of nearly 3,000 firms, this book describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm's overall strategy—what the authors describe as an HR Scorecard—and measuring its activities in terms that line managers and CEOs will find compelling. Analyzing how each element of the HR system ...

Jessie McIntyre, 14, is new to Estevan Junior High, and she's having trouble fitting in. By signing her up with the local girls hockey team, her parents hope to give her a fresh start and help her make new friends, but bullies can be found everywhere-including the dressing room. Power Plays, a gritty tale about the problems facing today's teens, is sprinkled with humour, heart-pounding hockey action, life lessons, and positive female role models. Power Plays is the first book in the Jessie...

ორენოვანი საბავშვო წიგნი (ქართული – ინგლისური)ანდერსენის "გარეული გედები" ტყუილად არ მოხვდა მთელ მსოფლიოში ყველაზე ხშირად წაკითხული ზღაპრების სიაში. იგი ეხება ყველა დროის შესაბამისად , ადამიანურ დრამებს და გრძნობებს,როგორიცაა: შიში, გულადობა, სიყვარული, ღალატი, განშორება და კვლავ შეხვედრა.Bilingual children's picture book (Georgian – English)"The Wild Swans" by Hans Christian Andersen is, with good reason, one of the world's most popul...

• Includes new practical exercises and contemplations to help you immediately create positive changes in your everyday life• Explores the process of practical forgiveness and how to use Ho‘oponopono to transform personal problems, resolve relationship conflicts, and heal the past• Looks at how to use Ho‘oponopono on a collective level to bring peace to the worldHo‘oponopono is the ancient Hawaiian method for transforming personal problems, resolving interpersonal co...

Discover your voice, cultivate mindful awareness, and inspire creative growth with photographyIn The Mindful Photographer, teacher, author, and photographer David Ulrich follows up on the success of his previous book, Zen Camera, by offering photographers, smartphone camera users, and other cultural creatives 55 short (1-5 pages) essays on topics related to photography, mindfulness, personal growth, creativity, and cultivating personal and social ...

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably shaped the cultural and intellectual life of the Habsburg Empire. This was particularly evident in the era’s colonial utopian writing, and Tropics of Vienna blends literary criticism, cul...

From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary.”—The GuardianGleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved fr...

ATP: From Neurotransmission to Cancer Therapy delivers a comprehensive discussion of extracellular ATP biology and its communication role in both homeostasis and pathologic states. It explores the function of ATP across the nervous, sensory, musculoskeletal, cutaneous cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, urinary, reproductive, exocrine, haematopoietic and immune systems. The book considers ATP in the context of various disease states, including cardiovascular, respiratory, psychiat...