J King: 154 books

More sulfuric acid is produced every year than any other chemical. It has a wide range of uses including phosphate fertilizer production, explosives, glue, wood preservatives, and lead-acid batteries. It is also a particularily corrosive and dangerous acid, with extreme environmental and health hazards...

Amazing debut science fiction fantasy from the nominated author in the WildSound Festival! Osana, a malicious king from Zaire, is told that his will to live has run its course. What can he do to survive as time is running out? Kavon Newman, a 4-year-old boy, is stripped of his childhood....

DAS SCHICKSAL RUFT - SIE FOLGEN ... In den dunklen Tiefen Tyrias sind die Alten Drachen aus ihrem jahrhundertealten Schlaf erwacht. Zunächst erhob sich Primordus und jagte die Asura aus ihrem unterirdischen Reich an die Oberfläche. Ein halbes Jahrhundert später erwachte Jormag und zwang die Norn...

Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth...

This is an analysis of the complex links between Black America and Africa in the period of 1880 to 1945. It examines an extended white attempt to pattern politics and education in colonial Africa upon the example of the U.S. South. This export of United States race relations to Africa was resisted...

Lies, secrecy and deceptions are the rule for this child, finding as she grew older, a twist of fate brought her the truth of her heritage and her death plot. Having seven children, and divorced, she had to handle it all alone. As a single parent and poor, the struggles were many and one guiding light...

Did you know that hurling is the oldest field game in the world, or that the Irish hero Cuchulainn got his name from his exploits with a hurley? Fact-packed but light-hearted in style, this reliable reference book and a quirky guide reveals such little-known facts, along with details of classic matches,...

Miracles are a natural part of daily life – we just don’t notice. According to your wants and needs life is trying to unfold in your best interest. But circumstances, thoughts, doubts, fears, emotions and many other things get in the way. Not all you hear, see, feel or know is beneficial… What...

This multi-author new edition revises and updates the classic reference by William G. Davenport et al (winner of, among other awards, the 2003 AIME Mineral Industry Educator of the Year Award "for inspiring students in the pursuit of clarity"), providing fully updated coverage of the copper production...

This book explores the way older women are represented in society. Through close readings of novels by major 20th century novelists, compared with the more dominant representations of female ageing to be found in popular culture it suggests that they offer a feminist understanding of the 'invisible' woman sometimes lacking in feminism itself.

Originally published in 1962. In this book the main problems of contemporary education are illustrated with fresh material from many countries and assessed in a context of rapid change in technology, society, and politics. Familiar educational concerns are carefully considered; but the altered status...

This book offers a new account of David Ricardo's political economy that is both scholarly and accessible. It provides a detailed overview of the secondary literature on Ricardo down to 2012, and discusses alternative perspectives on his work, including those of Marxians, neoclassicals and Sraffians.

By Knowledge Unsullied The way you gut a catfish, trim a sail, Or how a host concocts the perfect martini, What the blazes is a farthingale, The names of all the operas by Puccini, All this escapes mealong with winning at poker, Tiling a bathroom, cheating bees of their honey, Dancing beyond a score...

Set in the near future, ancient prophecies of the Bible come to life in real time. In a world shaken by disaster, Jack Ford’s comfortable life is suddenly turned upside down. Faced with grief and turmoil on an unimaginable scale, he comes face to face with his own eternal destiny. Meanwhile...