"An impressively original novel. . . . comic in its vision [yet] serious, constantly surprising in its twists of plot and its reflections upon life." — Wall Street JournalMoving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855 with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising bees—undaunted by Missouri border ruffians, newly-minted Darwinism, or the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war.

In the early 1920s, nearly blind physics prodigy Mourly Vold finds out how to tap into the nation's long distance telephone lines. With the help of Alexander Graham Bell, Vold tries to warn the phone companies that would-be saboteurs could do the same thing, but they ignore him. Unfortunately, his taps do catch the notice of William Randolph Hearst, who hires Thomas Edison to get to the bottom of them—and the chase is on!

Après la lecture d’un ouvrage sur l’apiculture écrit par un certain révérend Langstroth, Gordon McKay décide d’emmener vers le Kansas, où il compte établir un élevage d’abeilles, sa femme, son beau-frère et un groupe d’horlogers allemands, qui construiront les ruches.Ainsi commence un parcours plein de rebondissements dans l’Amérique du milieu du XIXe siècle : l’achat d’un bateau à vapeur et le recrutement d’un capitaine pour remonter le fleuve ; l’acquisition de deux alligators (da...

What was life like for the scientists working at Los Alamos? Thomas McMahon imagines this life through the wide eyes of young Tim MacLaurin, the thirteen-year-old son of an MIT physicist who, inspired by a young woman named Maryann, worked on the project. Filled with the sensuous excitement of scientific discovery and the outrageous behavior of people pushed beyond their limits, Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry is a beautifully written coming-of-age story that explores the...

Thomas McMahon's photographs and reports from the southwest Pacific appeared in capital city and provincial newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, and globally in pictorial encyclopedia, books, magazines and postcards and in his own lantern slide lectures. He visited Papua and German New Guinea, the Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji, Nauru, Banaba, Norfolk, Lord Howe Island, Kiribati, and the Marshall Islands but the thousand photographs of the Islands that he published between 1915 and 1925, afte...

Bray seafront meets a garden of white roses. A migrant driver cleans his bus windows and a castaway lover follows new stars. Three sisters covet a tea-set and a stowaway rabbit escapes on the motorway. Fresh baked bread hugs a regretful holiday embrace and a cargo manifest reveals carefully boxed units of love and rage.This is what is washed to shore when eight writers and five photographers joined forces at the Mermaid Arts Centre. This is the cargo of our souls.The anthol...

C. Matthew McMahon is founder of A Puritan's Mind and Puritan Publications. Thomas Jollie (1629-1703) was a zealous puritan preacher with superior abilities, an active spirit, and humble disposition. Few of Jollie’s works survive today. This puritan gem on heavenly mindedness is exceedingly rich with Scripture, and dripping with praise to Jesus Christ. Jollie covers in this work the primary doctrine that, “the saints’ holy calling out of the world, and their afflicted condition in it is, t...

Thomas Gouge (1605-1681), was an English Puritan, (son of the famous William Gouge) and a powerful Reformed minister. This treatise is about reformation. It is set within the framework of being more holy, because reformation means “reformation of life” in light of Jesus Christ’s saving benefits and God’s abundant saving mercies. What makes this treatise so excellent is not only its theological and practical depth (and it is deep), but its vivid directness. Gouge, uncompromisingly from Ezra...

Can we truly address poverty without centring the voices of those who live it? Bringing together voices from academia, grassroots activism, NGOs and the UK voluntary sector, this timely and accessible book explores how participatory approaches to activism can drive genuine, inclusive change.Through short, focused chapters, the authors critically unpack the contested definitions of ‘co-production’, ‘participation’ and ‘lived experience’ while showcasing practice models from across t...

Since the publication of the first edition (1994) there have been rapid developments in the application of hydrology, geomorphology and ecology to stream management. In particular, growth has occurred in the areas of stream rehabilitation and the evaluation of environmental flow needs. The concept of stream health has been adopted as a way of assessing stream resources and setting management goals.Stream Hydrology: An Introduction for Ecologists Second Edition documents recent rese...

The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political theory; and as a special aspect of the volume, theorist-filmmakers make their thoughts known as wel...

Thomas Hodges (1600-1672) was a fiery puritan, a Covenanter, a dedicated minister of the Gospel and an active member of the Westminster Assembly. There are not many theological books which give themselves completely over to the topic of, “the glory of God.” This work by Hodges is a rarity. Hodges’ entire work surrounds the glory of God, and how the glory of God relates to Christians, ministers and magistrates. What is the glory of God? Hodges explains this most important doctrine from Psal...