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 Realism–regarding things at they are. To be realistic. What makes one real? Is it to simply exist, to be one self, to be loyal to facts, the ability to examine the world in real time, and to comprehend the actuality? Realism is the time ability to remain true despite outside influences, illusions...

In early childhood, the most important period of learning and human development, young children often achieve developmental milestones in a short time. Learning from Young Children: Research in Early Childhood Music presents research on the importance of fostering musical growth during this period. These studies discuss: _

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

The five authors of Finding Healing in Times of Grief and Loss all speak to the ways that we can enter into the experience of grief and come through with hearts and spirits renewed by the cherished memories of the ones we’ve lost. Whether the passing of a dear one is recent or further in the past,...

Imagine Imagine someone with a mind so healthy that he doesn’t need to see a psychiatrist. Ever. Yet that person runs the gauntlet of taunting, mockery and false accusations. People turn against him. Friends disown and desert him. He stands alone. Amazingly, two thousand years after...

This book is your ultimate Amartya Sen resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Amartya Sen's whole picture right away. Get countless Amartya...

With the events that are unfolding in our world today, people want to know more about biblical prophecy, especially the sequence of the many important events that the Bible says will occur during the end times. The Most Asked Prophecy Questions answers the most frequently asked questions about the...

This eBook edition of "The Victory at Sea: History of the Naval Combat in WW1" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This 1921 Pulitzer Prize awarded history has been written in response to a demand for some account of the generally...

Does religion have the power to regulate human behavior? If so, under what conditions can it prevent crime, delinquency, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, or joining cults? Despite the fact that ordinary citizens assume religion deters deviant behavior, there has been little systematic scientific research...

Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 is a collection of more than one thousand transcribed advertisements from Charleston’s daily newspaper. Each advertisement portrays, in miniature, a human drama of courage and resistance to unjust authority....

Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country's problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt and to pull...

The Alliance is desperate to avoid a war with an enemy that outnumbers them. To alleviate their personnel shortage, Captain Solear embarks on a mission to evaluate humans’ fighting potential. The results astonish him. If he tells the Alliance Senate the truth, the enemy will try to conquer Earth...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

PREFACE If ‘Dagonet Abroad’ is found to be mainly a record of personal adventure, my excuse must be that I have always endeavoured to attend to my own business and leave other people’s alone. I have described the cities and peoples of Europe entirely from my own personal observation....