A surveyor's journey through the Australian outback tests the bonds of friendship and unearths a dark history.Western Australia, 1909. Fifteen-year-old William Watson joins his surveyor father on an expedition to map water sources in the Pilbara. The journey transforms William as he navigates the harsh landscape and forms unexpected bonds with his fellow travelers.But the outback holds dangers beyond the elements. A vengeful sergeant and the secrets of the ...

From the author of Man Gone Down—a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award—comes a deeply personal memoir of race, trauma, alcoholism, parenting, mental illness, and ultimately hope in a portrait of three generations of Black American men.In 2007, Michael Thomas launched into the literary world with his award-winning first novel Man Gone Down, a beautiful and devastating story of a Black fathe...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Hygge and lagom, your personal prescription for happiness and balance in an unhappy and out of control worldIf you are feeling as though you’ve lost your way recently, you’re not alone. Many of us feel disconnected from the world we live in.It’s no wonder, given just how fast the world moves these days. Technology brings so many benefits, but it comes at a steep cost. Our happiness.Let me...

Western Australia, 1909. William Watson's beloved father is set on an expedition to the north-west to map water sources in the Pilbara. Invited along as an assistant, fifteen-year-old William embarks on the outback journey of a lifetime. At sea and on land, William will forge lasting friendships with his fellow travellers, and transform his relationship with his father as together they face the darkness in some men's hearts - including that of the cruel and vengeful Sergeant Jardine. This ...

Moon MissionBy: Michael ThomasOur family invites the reader to come along with us on our expedition to Cascade, Idaho, to see the Total Eclipse of the Sun on August 21, 2017. We know millions of other families witnessed this event on that day; however, by the grace of God we were blessed to be in the perfect place and with the right equipment to be able to record fully our family’s experience of this amazing event for all now to enjoy and to relive for themselves.A T...

This book explores the implications of technology-mediated project-based language learning for CALL teacher development, focusing on the role of video-based instruction in elucidating challenges and opportunities to promote learner creativity in the language classroom.The volume builds on existing literature on project-based language learning by extending the focus on the affordances of machinima, digital video created by teachers and learners to capture experience in 3D immersive ...

This system design truly is almost worry free. The secret is allowing plenty of room for water storage, so the system will never overflow and the fish tank area will never run low on water.Follow along through this instruction and you will also have a worry free aquaponics system of your own, and the best part is that this isn’t difficult at all to build, but every piece in this system has a special purpose to keep everything in a happy balance. I will walk you thr...

Hygge and lagom, your personal prescription for happiness and balance in an unhappy and out of control world If you are feeling as though you’ve lost your way recently, you’re not alone. Many of us feel disconnected from the world we live in. It’s no wonder, given just how fast the world moves these days. Technology brings so many benefits, but it comes at a steep cost. Our happiness. Let me show you what's in this book: •7 simple rules that are essential to experience hygge •Why it doesn'...

In this book you will learn:That the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem is not the remains of a Jewish temple, but the remains of a Roman temple to Jupiter.That Jesus and his brother James were vegetarians who were opposed to all animal sacrifices.That Jesus and James worshipped at a Jewish temple in Egypt, and they lived a century earlier than the commonly-accepted time.That a chronological falsification has taken place in various biblical texts.That the bib...

The Book teaches about spiritual growth by living completely by faith with works, not wavering to any circumstance that this world has to offer, but becoming great over comers of victory in our lives.

On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged from his family, and living in the bedroom of a friend's six-year-old child. He has four days to come up with the money to keep his kids in school and make a down payment on an apartment for them to live in...

This book highlights the ways in which insights from technology-mediated project-based language learning research can contribute to our understanding of both learner interaction in specific cultural contexts but also of the role of technology in language learning more generally. The volume situates the discussion within the context of the development of the field, from task-based to project-based language learning, and how these have been shaped over time by the evolution of new technologi...