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My Grandfather Lived in a Tree
Grandparents continue to be a tremendous influence in the lives of children and are among the key adults who can help young children expand their imagination and creativity. In his bilingual book, My Grandfather Lived in a Tree, Grandpa Vic sets the stage with the child who expects a trick by the Grandfather. The child's imagination begins to create story lines about Grandfather, only to come back to the reality that Grandfather could not have lived in a tree. The surprise conclusion of the book presents the best Grandfather trick of all when the child and the Grandfather actually switch places and the child can live in a tree! The colorful illustrations by Eloisa White include some surprises as well as Eloisa incorporates some of her childhood imagination and creativity with a number of personal items as a child whose grandparents influenced her young life.
Nelson's Hero
Horatio Nelson's first captain was William Locker who recognised the exceptional talents of the young midshipman who was to become the most famous sailor in history. Thirty-seven years later Admiral Lord Nelson wrote to Locker 'I have been your scholar; it was you who taught me to board a Frenchman by your conduct It is you who always taught me to lay a Frenchman close and you will beat him. My only merit in my profession is being a good scholar'. Captain William Locker's career as a Sea Captain fighting the King's enemies on the high seas makes gripping reading and high drama.
The Day Sussex Died
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Nelson
An account of the British naval commander's life and career explores his leadership style, his victory against the Spanish fleet at Cape St. Vincent, and his relationships with women and family members.
The Edinburgh Review
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Gothicka
To explain the millennial shift away from the traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers twentieth-century Gothic masters H.P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, and Stephen King in light of both their immediate ancestors in the eighteenth century and the original Gothic--the late medieval period from which Horace Walpole and his successors drew their inspiration....
Gold and Silver Production Incentives
Considers S.J. Res. 44, to authorize the Interior Dept to make incentive payments to domestic gold producers and increase development and production and need for similar silver production incentives.
The Secret Life of Puppets
In one of those rare books that allows us to see the world not as we've never seen it before, but as we see it daily without knowing, Victoria Nelson illuminates the deep but hidden attraction the supernatural still holds for a secular mainstream culture that forced the transcendental underground and firmly displaced wonder and awe with the forces of reason, materialism, and science. In a backward look at an era now drawing to a close, The Secret Life of Puppets describes a curious reversal in the roles of art and religion: where art and literature once took their content from religion, we came increasingly to seek religion, covertly, through art and entertainment. In a tour of Western cultu...
