Sometimes a big change is just the thing you need to help you decide what sort of person you will become. Mon-ki is a lowland gorilla, living in the rain forest of Central Africa. He is the son of the Alpha and believes that his high position entitles him to a life of fun and leisure. But when he is separated from his troop on their journey to their new settlement, the young gorilla must make new friends (a honey badger named Hannibal and a shoebill stork named Muuahk). With them in tow, h...

A romantic adventure of an ambitious American photographer who has an opportunity to document an archelogical site in the jungles of southeastern Mexico. The year is 1973 and photographer Spencer Golightly takes on the challenge with hopes of becoming a great photographer for National Geographic. Along the way he falls in love with a young native girl. In her defense of a horrible event both are told to leave the excavation site for good and then something horrible happens that forces the ...

A fictional tale of a thirty-something biker who becomes inadvertently involved in an illegal drug operation that goes bad. He escapes death by going overboard near an island, is rescued by vacationing sailors and returns to South Florida. There he contacts and is hired by a wealthy Palm Beach family to pursue locating their son who went missing after the failed drug operation. The missing son is involved with dangerous people running drugs from South America through the Caribbean to South...

All of the animals are afraid of the Selfish Crocodile - he never let's them into his river, and he's always so snappy!And so when the Selfish Crocodile finds himself in terrible pain, no-one wants to help him - after all, what if he gobbles them up? But, to everyone's surprise, there is one animal in the forest who is willing to help . . .A brilliant tale of friendship, The Selfish Crocodile has become a picture book classic.

Scaffolding is used in many industries every day, all over the world, in the construction industry; for commercial and industrial maintenance; the staging and entertainment markets; the shipbuilding industry; mining; industrial plants, including power plants; hydro and nuclear power facilities; pulp and paper plants; petrochemical plants; oil refineries; and offshore drilling rigs.This book serves as a guide to any person involved with scaffolding in any way so that they will have ...

The Reader's Guide to Judaism is a survey of English-language translations of the most important primary texts in the Jewish tradition. The field is assessed in some 470 essays discussing individuals (Martin Buber, Gluckel of Hameln), literature (Genesis, Ladino Literature), thought and beliefs (Holiness, Bioethics), practice (Dietary Laws, Passover), history (Venice, Baghdadi Jews of India), and arts and material culture (Synagogue Architecture, Costume). The emphasis is on Judai...

Are you ready to see what it takes to lace up the skates? Hockey Anatomy will show you how to improve on-ice performance by increasing muscular strength and optimizing efficiency of every movement.Dr. Michael Terry, the team physician for the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks, and Paul Goodman, the strength and conditioning coach for the Chicago Blackhawks, share 96 of the most effective hockey exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations t...

Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health workers became comrades who joined forces with people struggling for social justice, equity, and the right to health.Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown bring together a group of ...

Read the true story of the UBS whistleblower in his own words. Now available in the edited version of The Setup, 2nd Edition that has earned mostly 5-star ratings. This new edit tells an amazingly true story of how an English Teacher who went to Japan got caught up in a spy operation to test the Japanese security services. In an expose of a real life spy operation, the author tells the cerebral aspects of spy work. After making new "friends", he was told that UBS was laundering money and k...

This is war! Over 76 million American hostages suffer at the hands of this vexing villain, three quarters of these also battle depression. Added to these sad and startling statistics, many suffer loss of sleep, loss of focus and loss of work, which ultimately results in loss of income. This foul foe has long been described as ‘chronic pain.’ It does not discriminate when attacking. The dreadful devil goes after anyone. It targets all areas of the body. It even hits below the belt. The bloo...

Winter is on 1932's doorstep. The height of the Great Depression has seemingly transferred its malaise upon the society of fauna who dwell in the outskirts of Cumberland, Maryland and all throughout the Appalachian wild. Sadie, an American red squirrel, is convinced by her only friend Thu'jold, a great horned owl, to leave their comforts (or lack thereof) in exchange for the Great Lake Eden on the other side of the West Virginia divide. Neighboring predators, a search for a rare flower, th...