Mason: 1593 books
Beijing & Shanghai Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
The city of Beijing has been the capital of China for over 800 years and shows many aspects of China’s imperial past. Beijing offers many of the nation’s most significant sites including the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, the Summer Palace and the Temple of Heaven—just to name a few. Shanghai...
The Book of Seconds
The Incredible Stories of the Ones that Didnt (Quite) Win
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
DID YOU KNOW that the second man to swim the Channel drank 20 drops of champagne every hour? Or that the second crew to land on the Moon danced to a pop song in zero gravity? Or that the second man to run a sub-4-minute mile once stopped to check on a fallen rival - but still managed to win the race?
You...
Myanmar & Bangkok Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
Myanmar (also known as Burma) is an emerging tourist destination in Southeast Asia. It lies on the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea coast with Bangladesh and India to the west, China to the north, and Laos and Thailand to the east. Bangkok is the heart of Thailand and the pulse of the nation. A sprawling...
The World in Brooklyn
Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to...
Philosophy and Geography II
The Production of Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1997
The future of public space is uncertain. Although public spaces have become increasingly shabby and crowded, novel alternatives have appeared in the form of fantastic, semi-public pleasure grounds, developed by well-heeled, crowd-pleasing entrepreneurs and devoted to profit, consumption, and self-indulgence....
Transparency in Global Environmental Governance
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A critical assessment of whether transparency is a broadly transformative force in global environmental governance or plays a more limited role.
Transparency—openness, secured through greater availability of information—is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of...
Meditation for Beginners
Secret Meditating Techniques to Unlock Your Hidden Potential
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In today's fast-paced world, many people are seeking a way to get away from it all and relax. Meditation, which is essentially a method to obtain a level of deep thought and relaxation, is one way to find inner peace and tranquility. Many people think of monks or other spiritual types...
by John W. Mason
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This book charts the history of the last fifty years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867 to 1918. it reveals that the Habsburg Monarchy, though not in a healthy state before 1914, was not in fact doomed to collapse. The author examines foreign and domestic policies and reveals the weaknesses...
The Spanish Anarchists of Northern Australia
Revolution in the Sugar Cane Fields
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
In 1901, the year the six Australian colonies federated to become one country, revolution was being plotted across the world. Publicised in the newspapers and carried by migrants along global trade routes, the anarchist movement appeared prepared for a long period of power as one of the world’s...
by Felicia Mason
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Susan Carter has her hands full raising twins and running the Galilee Women’s Shelter—she doesn’t need darkly handsome pastor Gabriel Dawson complicating her life. But she can’t avoid him, not after she opens his eyes to the plight of the battered women in his parish, whose drug-addicted men...
The Single Dad Finds a Wife
A Single Dad Romance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The Doctor's New Family
Doctor Spring Darling has everything she needs. A wonderful family and a busy job helping the children of Cedar Springs, North Carolina. She's given up on adding love to that mix. Until the moment David Camden and his adorable son appear in her exam room. Spring assumes...
by Felicia Mason
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Wayside, Oregon:
Population 17,800
For caterer Amber Montgomery, Wayside, Oregon, is the perfect place to heal from her past abusive marriage and start a new life. For police chief Paul Evans, it's an ideal spot to raise his orphaned niece and nephew.
But when a misunderstanding...
by Lucy Mason Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Having been a passionate writer all her life, Lucy began to write regularly for the local paper, after she settled in Soledad, CA. Window on the World began in 2003 as a weekly newspaper column in The Soledad Bee. Lucy wrote about her life and about life as she saw it. Friends, family, animals, the world...
by Frederick A. Leve, Brian J. Hamilton, Mason A. Peck
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
The goal of this book is to serve both as a practical technical reference and a resource for gaining a fuller understanding of the state of the art of spacecraft momentum control systems, specifically looking at control moment gyroscopes (CMGs). As a result, the subject matter includes theory, technology,...