You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Historian Royden Loewen has brought together selections from diaries kept by 21 Mennonites in Canada between 1863 and 1929, some translated from German for the first time. By skillfully comparing and contrasting a wide cross-section of lives, Loewen shows how these diaries often turn the hidden contours of household and community "inside out." The writers featured were ordinary rural people: young women and grandmothers, rural preachers and landless householders. They include a teenaged boy who immigrated from Russia to Manitoba in 1875 as well as a successful merchant, a traveling evangelist, and a devout, conservative church elder. An elderly grandfather recounted the daily circuit of his ...
Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Mystery Perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author of the Taken trilogy. After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project—including its members’ dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things ar...
Applying to study History at Oxford? The Ultimate HAT Guide is an essential resource for getting a great score in the History Aptitude Test. The HAT is a test of your skills at historical analysis, based on unseen texts, and is a key component in the application process for History at Oxford. This book give you all the close reading and textual analysis skills you need to succeed. Written by Oxford examiners and experts, The Ultimate HAT Guide contains an exhaustive guide to historical source analysis, with fully worked examples, as well as full mock papers in the style of the exam to help you prepare. Published by the leading Oxbridge and Law Admissions Company. It is the most comprehensive guide to the HAT exam, updated for 2020. It is also an invaluable resource for students siting the AHAA, ELAT, and any other essay based tests as they hone their skills. Hungry for more? Visit the Uni Admissions website for even more admissions test tips, personal statement resources, and application support.
The Oxbridge Collection is your Complete Guide to Get into Oxford & Cambridge from choosing your College, writing your Personal Statement, Preparing for your Interview. For: Medicine STEM Humanities Social Sciences Four Books in One to help you through each key stage of your application to Oxbridge. The Oxbridge Collection includes: Course Profiles Written by admissions tutors and current students giving a complete insight into the subject you want to apply to. Oxbridge College Guide Written by admissions tutors and students from each College at Oxford and Cambridge to help you in deciding which College is for you. Covering everything from the clubs, sports and societies available, the rooms...
Sam Jenkins joins a combined task force hunting a serial killer called The Riverside Strangler by the local media. Complications arise when the lead investigator, the county sheriff's chief deputy is arrested and charged with police brutality. ¿When Sam develops the evidence to arrest the Strangler, everyone should be pleased, but subsequent actions taken by his mayor and the city council affect everyone at the Prospect Police Department and suggest that life there will never be the same.
Report based on the establishment of a marine life conservation reserve at Kealakekua Bay on the Island of Hawaii with consideration of Kahe Beach Park, Makapuu Beach Park, Pupukea Beach Park, Koaie Cove, Kaneohe Bay, and Honaunau Bay as conservation areas.
Describes the structure and mechanics of a wide range of cellular materials in botany, zoology, and medicine.
This volume deals with the tracts - Latin and vernacular - published in the Netherlands on the comets of 1577 and 1618. Central to the book is the question of how these cometary appearances influenced the Aristotelian world view. This is the first lengthy examination of the decline of Aristotelian cosmology in the Netherlands. Its demonstration of the connection between cosmological and political views renders the book useful to historians of general Dutch history, as well as historians of science.