Phillip: 1250 books

Off-grid isn’t a state of mind. It isn’t about someone being out of touch, about a place that is hard to get to, or about a weekend spent offline. Off-grid is the property of a building (generally a home but sometimes even a whole town) that is disconnected from the electricity and the natural...

With so many different things competing for your attention, the last thing you need is one more issue contriving to keep you from a full night of sleep. Unfortunately, snoring--your own or that of another person--often does just that. This ebook is packed with useful information to help you get the...

This scholarly and conscientious book makes an important . . . contribution to the study and interpretation of Buffon, and so, too, to the Enlightenment generally. What Lyon and Sloan have done is present English texts under four headings, so that we have successively: a selection from Buffon's writings...

People look at the experience of life from the perspective of living in it. What this means is that during our short time here on Earth we try to live up to the expectation of others, the expectations we set for us plus the cold hard truth of how life works out. Standing Still makes the case for an...

An aging, conflicted man and his band of quirky booksellers toil in the modern retail world, where a lone customer (or fellow bookseller) can at anytime cause an uproar. Beyond work, this man must also navigate a homelife that is most often a wilderness of confusion.

Eighteen tragicomic short stories that explore love, tragedy, and loss. As he disassembles an infant's nursery, a father struggles for ways to tell his young daughter her brother is dead; a boy learns the truth about his parents' divorce; an out of work rock musician finds himself custodian of an abandoned...

In Christ's love and patience, EYAWTKAAS, after revealing why, corrects and instructs some of the "best" people on the planet (because Jesus has somewhat against them). EYAWTKAAS uncovers by far the largest and most hypocritical cover-up in the history of the Christianity. Far surpassing...

The duty of any educator is to enable and empower students to free their minds to such an extent they begin to take responsibility for their own learning. To think for themselves and question what they hold to be true. To do this requires an understanding of accepted academic principles and teaching...

This book is your ultimate Cesare Maldini 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 Cesare Maldini's whole picture right away. Get countless...

Education asks us to loosen our grip on reality, to let go of the past in the form of what we believed to be true and embrace a future created through applied knowledge and understanding. Learning isn’t just about the acquisition of new information; it’s also about re-evaluating what we have been...

Phil Jennings has been known for short science fiction since 1986, and has been published in Asimov's, Amazing Stories, F&SF, Aboriginal, Analog, Science Fiction Eye, and other magazines. His two books, Tower to the Sky and the Bug-Life Chronicles, won plaudits for their wealth of ideas. Phil...

Thoroughly revised in the light of the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent climate of fear and hostility towards Muslims, this new edition of the acclaimed "Unfolding Islam" sets out to present Islam to non-Muslim readers, and to describe for the general reader - whether Muslim...

In the last two decades, the LGBT movement has gained momentum that is arguably unprecedented in speed and suddenness when compared to other human rights movements. This book investigates the recent history of this transnational movement in Europe, focusing on the diffusion of the norms it champions...

In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora," madam of San Francisco's finest bordello. Judges and senators do her bidding; a vicious newspaper editor...