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John Stephens
A book about the magnificent construction of the Universe and the amazing design of life on Earth. It is based on recent scientific discoveries and is presented in short chapters…
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Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the 10 years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special…
An analysis of the religious experiences of the Greco-Roman sophist, Aelius Aristides. As a member of the cult of Asclepius, Aristides recorded his nocturnal dreams, waking visions and spiritual healings…
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This book establishes the ground for a dialogue in children’s literature scholarship between East and West about subjectivity, selfhood, and identity. Essays explore the theoretical concerns of globalization, multi-culturalism, and…
Employing international discourses in literary criticism, feminism, social sciences, film theory, psychoanalytic criticism, and queer theory, this title examines how contemporary debates on the concept of maleness is reflected and…
Given the substantial impact of feminism on children’s literature and culture during the last quarter century, it comes as no surprise that gender studies have focused predominantly on issues of…
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The purpose of this book is to decide where the achievement of Renaissance art and letters lay, by exploring the needs for which artists and humanists catered and by exploring…
It’s been six months since Kate, Michael and Emma confronted the Dire Magnus, but the trail to their long-lost family remains cold.
After the tumultuous events of last winter, Kate, Michael, and Emma long to continue the hunt for their missing parents. But they themselves are now in great danger, and so…
The first thrilling book in the most exciting children’s fantasy series since Harry Potter. They were taken from their beds one frozen night, when the world was covered in snow.
Scratchbuilt models in small scale of early steamers and ships that sailed on the Canadian Great Lakes. Photos and history of the original subject plus details of the scale models…
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In the final book of the Books of beginning trilogy, Kate and Michael must help the magical world prepare for the final war against the Dire Magnus, while Emma must…
The final instalment in the Books of Beginning series. Emma, Michael and Kate are locked in a race against time: to find their parents; When all three books are united…
Sometimes in life, you have to take your lashes.
Shirley Ann Baxter Winders
This book has been a heart warming journey as I have recalled various childhood experiences with many family members. John L. Stephens and Clara Polley Stephens raised a respectful family…
A priceless true story.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Peter O. Koch
Daring exploits and astounding achievements were common for two 19th century adventurers–John Lloyd Stephens, a New York lawyer and best-selling author, and Frederick Catherwood, a London architect and renowned topographical…
Archibald John Stephens
In The Case Of Thomas Byard Sheppard, Against William James Early Bennett. With An Appendix Containing Their Lordships’ Judgment.
John Stephens (Macquarie University, Australia)
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…
Henry John Stephen
A Handbook of the Law Relating to the Management of Parliamentary, Municipal and County Council Elections is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor…
John Stephen Strange
After leaving his sister's opulent Garden Party in 1927 Greenwich, Connecticut a naval inventor is shot dead while driving his Packard down a country lane beside the estate. Bill Adams…
The Yorke College football team is on the 10-yard line, with three minutes to go in the most crucial game of the season, when their coach slumps suddenly to the…