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What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible...

This is a short picture story of a poor old woman who lived with her granddaughter Sona who wanted to go to the school. The story shows how the hard work of grandmother and the helping nature of Sona helped in getting all the necessary things required for Sona to go to the school. This story...

Treatment for lung cancer is like going to a casino. Some play big, some play small. A few won but many lost their hard earned fortune. A Russian physician, dramatist and author wrote, "The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill...

May Day: A Graphic History of Protest traces the development of International Workers’ Day, May 1st, against the ever-changing economic and political backdrop in Canada. Recognizing the importance of work and the historical struggles of workers to improve their lives, with a particular focus on...

Le monde aura toujours besoin d’être sauvé Kimberly Hart, désormais championne de gymnastique, croyait avoir laissé derrière elle sa vie d’héroïne protectrice du monde. Mais alors qu’elle se rend dans le petit village de Saint Moineau en France, son passé refait surface. Après...

Chipko Andolan is known as one of the most famous Himalayan resistance movement for the conservation of the hills. What is little known is the story of the brave women who lit the fire in the hills with her brave and bold decision to confront the armed contractors who had come to cut the forest. Gaura’s...

How Cheez Whiz Is Made is a collection of Tim Ayers' cartoons done over the last 30 years. Most have been published and a few have not. This is meant to be read with the sister book, It Is a Funny Faith, that is also available on Smashwords (or it will be as soon as I get the get up and go to do it).

This is a short picture story of two boys - Aman and Anand - who helped Genie to get his body back. This story helps children to learn about the human body bones and muscles. After reading the story, the children can ponder over the interesting questions to further enhance their learning and creative thinking.

In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taking Turns pulls back the curtain on life in the ward. A shining example of excellence...

The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller articles would be among his main contributions. He seems to have chosen the title and persona of...

★《日本人，搞不懂你ㄋㄟ！》暢銷改版，加料再發售 吃飯就是跟時間賽跑、 卯起勁來過外來節日、 雜七雜八的敬語禮節、 進入女廁也無法鬆懈、 全都縮小一號的房間、 讓人瞪大眼的搭訕方式、 看到降價一定要假裝正經…… 那些令人歪頭又噴飯的舉動， 我可是真正見識到了啊！ 一位在日本東京自助旅行，後來演變為半工半讀，現在進而在日本當起上班族的台灣女孩miho，在網路上分享她眼中所見的日本，特別是日本與台灣之間的微妙差異。絕非高下優劣的評斷，而是源自於生活文化的獨特體驗，系列文章引起網友迴響，並且深深感興趣，一連出了三本系列書籍，分享講不完的日本人小秘密。 在miho的細心觀察與逗趣文筆之下，一窺各種面向的日本樣貌，平日矜持謹慎的日本人，在這本書裡全都被洩了底。從「搞不懂」中發現台日文化的不同，是為了讓自己更融入當地生活！懷抱著一顆開放的心，跟著勇氣滿載的少女miho，痛快享受日本吧！ 【台日友好推薦】 《秋刀魚》雜誌總編輯...

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"Louie what?" John's dad, Pete, was already diagnosed with Parkinson's disease when he began to have some very strange experiences, not least of which was the little red-haired girl who followed him around the house. Eventually diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), his hallucinations...

Map of My Heart celebrates the twentieth anniversary of John Porcellino's seminal and influential comics zine, King-Cat Comics, which he started self publishing in 1989 and which has been his predominant means of expression. In this collection, while Porcellino is living in isolation and experiencing...