Laird: 199 books
by Elizabeth Laird
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal
Shortlisted for the Children's Book Award
Red Sky in the Morning is the only of Laird's many YA novels to be taken from her life experience, with the character of Ben based on her younger brother Alastair, born with congenital hydrocephalus
by Elizabeth Laird
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Paradise End by Elizabeth Laird, author of The Fastest Boy in the World, is the story of an unlikely friendship between two girls who both long for a different life.
Carly often finds herself gazing through the gates of Paradise End. She fantasizes about discovering that she was swapped at...
by Laird Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This book contains six of the eighteen fairy tales from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889). The stories have been rewritten sentence by sentence to make them accessible to 21st century American children. The 6 stories include Toads and Diamonds, Beauty and the Beast, Snow-white and Rose-red, Why...
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard A. Lupoff, Laird Long
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
"Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" returns with issue #16, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual column by Dr John H. Watson, plus the following works: The Ironic Story of The Stevenson-Doyle Letters by Gary Lovisi The Contributions of William S....
Not Just Spirited
A Mom's Sensational Journey with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What would you do if your child suffered with something so severe it affected every aspect of her life?
And what if your cries for help fell on deaf ears at every turn? You'd follow your gut and fight until someone listened. And that's what Chynna Laird did. When she was just three months old,...
The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti
An Edition and English Translation of His Dialogue on Mechanics, 1576
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Mechanics has long been recognized as the pivotal science in the decline of Aristotelian natural philosophy and the rise of the new, mathematical physics of the Scientific Revolution. Less well known, however, is the earlier transformation of mechanics from a practical art into a theoretical and mathematical...
Sacred Symbols of the Dogon
The Key to Advanced Science in the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Dogon cosmology provides a new Rosetta stone for reinterpreting Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Provides a new understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs as scientific symbols based on Dogon cosmological drawings
• Use parallels between Dogon and Egyptian word meanings to identify relationships...
The Mystery of Skara Brae
Neolithic Scotland and the Origins of Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
An investigation of the origins of the Neolithic farming village on Orkney Island
• Reveals the striking similarities between Skara Brae and the traditions of pre-dynastic ancient Egypt as preserved by the Dogon people of Mali
• Explains how megalithic stone sites near Skara Brae...
The Cosmological Origins of Myth and Symbol
From the Dogon and Ancient Egypt to India, Tibet, and China
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Reconstructs a theoretic parent cosmology that underlies ancient religion
• Shows how this parent cosmology provided the conceptual origins of written language
• Uses techniques of comparative cosmology to synchronize the creation traditions of the Dogon, ancient Egyptians, and ancient...
by Tessa Laird
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Bats have been maligned in the West for centuries. Unfair associations with demons have seen their leathery wings adorn numerous evil characters, from the Devil to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. But these amazing animals are ecological superheroes. Nectar-feeding bats pollinate important crops like agave;...
by Laird Long
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #23 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. Here are:
Features:From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D.Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson
Non Fiction:Screen of the Crime, by...
by Enid Laird
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
When her beloved elder brother, a WWII hero in the RAF, passed in October 2013, Enid Laird began an exchange of correspondence with her niece. This brought powerful memories flooding back, and as a matter of urgency Enid’s autobiography erupted from her mind and onto paper. A Letter to my Niece...
by Elizabeth Laird
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Everyone knows the devil is real.
Everyone knows that witches exist.
Everyone knows that saying the wrong thing can get you hanged . . .
When fourteen-year-old Maggie's grandmother is accused of witchcraft, Maggie has to run for her life. But Scotland is in the grip of terror...
Point of Origin
Gobekli Tepe and the Spiritual Matrix for the World’s Cosmologies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Reveals Gobekli Tepe as a center of civilizing knowledge for the ancient world
• Details how symbolic elements at Gobekli Tepe link a pre-Vedic cult in India to cosmological myths and traditions in Africa, Egypt, Tibet, and China
• Discusses how carved animal images at Gobekli Tepe...