At 57 years old, broke and friendless, Quentin starts a journey to change his life.

A collection of very short - often funny, often moving - stories and vignettes gathered during the writing of The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee that were not included in the main volume appear here in Northern East Cree, Southern East Cree, French, and English.

Intimate, in-depth portraits, interviews, and essays of America's black leaders-from the founding of the nation and Frederick Douglass to the 2008 presidential race and Barack Obama.

This book talks to kids, and teaches our youngest learners Mandarin! With the help of revolutionary paper technology, kids simply touch the paper in an eco-friendly, safety-tested board book, and TA-DA! it magically comes to life with 12 different camping-themed vocabulary words in English, native speaker pronunciation, and all-original music produced by 4-time Grammy Award winner Jesse Lewis, and featuring banjo legend Béla Fleck. Grab your flashlight and join two friends to see if their backyard campground transforms into an enchanted forest.

The History and Theory of Cut-out Animation surveys the history, theory and philosophy of the cut-out animation technique in early and contemporary media. Cut-out animation is a two-dimensional form of stop-motion animation that involves the manipulation of characters that have been constructed from 'cut-out' pieces of paper. It is an animation technique that has its own unique aesthetic and encompasses a remarkable history, having played a very important role from the very beginnings of cinematic animation. It has been translated into a number of digital animated series, most notably the South Park series. This book investigates the history, theory and philosophy of this unique form of animation. Although scholarly in its approach, it is presented in a very accessible form to appeal to everyone who has an interest in animation practice, history and theory.

This new, limited edition box set contains all 18 books in Tom Wright's best-selling New Testament for Everyone series of bible commentaries.

A new entry in the acclaimed Big Words series of picture book biographies, this time about Coretta Scott King.

Back to Black seeks to show us the long, powerful and painful history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis, the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter activists of today. At its core, the book argues that racism is inexorably embedded in the fabric of society, and that it can never be overcome unless by enacting change outside of this suffocating system. Yet Kehinde Andrews shows how Black radicalism has been diluted and moderated over time; wilfully misrepresented and caricatured by others; divested of its legacy, potency, and force.Immensely readable and shocking, Andrews traces the true roots of this tradition in this new edition, and connects the dots to today's struggles by showing what a renewed politics of Black radicalism might look like in the 21st century.

A deeply personal account of Laura's journey to Graceland, through the American South, exploring the role music played in saving her life.

The debut novel from Irish playwright, actor, and poet, Emmet Kirwan.

From populations to pandemics, official statistics are indispensable to thinking about modern society. Alex Fenton sets out a sociological approach to analysing how these powerful numbers are produced by government agencies and their fight over them. He shows how statistics extend the capacities of the state and represent social problems. Using archives, interviews, and official publications, he presents a detailed case study of the development of poverty and income statistics in Britain and West Germany. With this, the book demonstrates the importance of historical analysis and underlines the ambivalent position of official statistics between politics, government, and science.

The Minimalist Entrepreneur is the manifesto for a new generation of founders who would rather build great companies than big ones. Why bother chasing unicorns when you can build a profitable, sustainable business that customers love?

A THRILLING NEW DOCTOR WHO GRAPHIC NOVEL WHICH STARS FAN-FAVORITE CAPTAIN JACK HARKNESS AS HE GOES UP AGAINST THE TORCHWOOD INSTITUTE! In the midst of kicking alien butt - and looking good doing it – Captain Jack Harkness is suddenly transported through a time-window to 19th Century Cardiff… again! Realising there’s more than one thing afoot, he sets out to uncover what the Victorian-era Torchwood Institute team are up to behind closed doors, hoping to solve the mystery of why time-windows are cropping up everywhere. But what he finds is very unexpected, and will certainly leave him needing a hand from some old friends… Buy it, read it, then travel back in time to read it for the first time all over again…!

A unique look at the planets.

The Invention of Nature is a complete visual journey through humankind's depiction of animal and plant life, from the very first cave paintings made over 30,000 years ago to the present.With over 300 images covering cabinets of curiosity, illustrated herbaria, bestiaries, classical paintings, natural history illustrations, taxidermized specimens and photography, the book weaves together a fascinating chronological story of nature.

A must-have for anyone fascinated by space travel, rocketry, NASA, SpaceX, and more! A new era in spaceflight, led by SpaceX and other commercial rocket companies, is generating the kind of worldwide interest in space travel that we haven't seen since the space race of the 1960s. Kids are dreaming of becoming astronauts again. New feats, such as SpaceX's remarkable ability to land booster rockets, under powered descent, back on land or sea has galvanized a new generation of rocket enthusiasts. Yet none of this would be possible without the advances of rocketry over the past century. The Chinese were the first to develop black-powder fireworks and rockets centuries ago, but modern rocketry truly began with Robert Goddard's launch of a liquid-fueled rocket on a Massachusetts farm in 1926. That metal contraption-which flew just 41 feet high before arching over and streaking 184 feet into a cabbage patch-came just 43 years before Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. Armstrong's Apollo 11 mission was made possible by a giant 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket that used some of the same propulsion principles as Goddard's first tiny, crude rockets. The beginning of the "Space Age" is considered to be Russia's launch of the world's first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. But it was the pioneering human spaceflights of the 1960s that captured the imagination of the world and turned astronauts into heroes. Weapons of war-the Redstone, Atlas, and Titan II missiles-were converted into civilian launch boosters and led to the success of the Mercury and Gemini programs. All the while, Saturn rockets were being developed that would ultimately lead to the moon missions. Kids were so excited about these pioneering space flights that an entirely new hobby-model rocketry-was created to serve their interests. Small scale models of NASA's big rockets were ordered by the millions, generating a $100 million hobby at a time when there were no video games, no internet, and no cable, just three broadcast television networks. Now, the next generation of rockets from SpaceX and other commercial companies, along with NASA's new launch vehicles and Orion spacecraft, will lead the United States and the world into a new era of rocketry-beginning with crewed flights to the moon as early as 2024, and ultimately to Mars within the first half of this century.