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This rhyming children's book features Gerald the Fox, who takes a stroll one snowy winters day. When disaster strikes, he finds himself in a tight situation and he wishes he had listened to his Mummy! It is his woodland friends who come to the rescue in this exciting, poetic and richly illustrated children's book. This glorious new adventure from an author and illustrator team, delivers an encouraging healthy eating message to young children.
When Gerald the fox turns up at the Annual Woodland Creatures’ Ball, a few of the guests are a little concerned. After all, they’ve heard some rather alarming rumours about foxes and their appetites. But they needn’t have worried – Gerald is a vegetarian fox, and the life and soul of the party! In fact, he’s terribly friendly. A darkly funny story, with artwork from the creator of Great Bunny Bakes, Ellie Snowdon.
3000 Years of Urban Growth compiles urban population data acquired from large cities at different points in time throughout the centuries. This book describes the sources and methods used in historical urban studies, including an evaluation of the total size estimates, area, institutional factors, and volume of local activity. Illustrations of maps that locate large cities from several time tables and regions of the world are also provided. This text likewise covers the data sheets for ancient cities from 1360 B.C. to 200 B.C. and 100 A.D. to 622 A.D. The data sheets from 800 to 1850 A.D. provide estimates for countries such as Italy, Afghanistan, France, Brazil, India, and Russia. Other topics include the world's largest cities from 430 B.C. to200 B.C., top six cities in each continent from 800 to 1850, and whereabouts of unfamiliar cities not shown on the maps. This publication is a good source for sociologists, historians, and researchers interested in population studies.
R. Dennis Bevans started his federal career as a file clerk in 1960, and moved ahead rapidly into senior level positions during the most vibrant period of domestic policy expansion in history, while working closely with high-ranking officials. Over twenty-eight years Bevans helped shape and refine many programs which were based on the broad vision of President J.F.Kennedy, but enacted by Congress as the Great Society due to the imposing legislative skill and initiative of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Never better than when they were first launched, eventually politicians started to apply increasing amounts of money and less management oversight at failing federal programs, and to organizatio...
The basic theme of this story is based upon a poem I wrote about the corruption and greed controlling Wall Street entitled We the Elite. The two main characters are the oligarchs who call themselves the Order Elite, and the anarchists who have become impoverished by the corrupt system of economics described as corporatist, crony, and predatory capitalism. The anarchists rebel against the system and are exiled from the mainstream society, building a complete police state inside a secure area separated by security walls and security forces protecting property owned and controlled by the Trilateral Corporation (Vector, Solitaire, and Gamble). The third character is the Revolutionary, which was ...
"Examines the chronology of the Church’s acquisition of wealth, and particularly of landed property, as well as the distribution of its income, in the period between the conversion of Constantine and the eighth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Political party conventions have lost much of their original political nature, serving now primarily as elaborate infomercials while ratifying the decisions made by voters in state primaries and caucuses. While this activity hasn't changed significantly since the 1970s, conventions themselves have changed significantly in terms of how they are recruited, implemented, and paid for. American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions analyzes how and why cities advance through the site selection process. Just as parties use conventions to communicate their policies, unity, and competence to the electorate, cities use the convention selection process to communicate their merits to political p...