The life-boat is well known to all sailors and a lifeline for all those the sailors leave on shore. This book is full of stories showing that unbelievable heroism that makes people go out into the worst storms to save others. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using...

A warm and wonderful collection of Japanese nature haikus show the creatures you might find in a garden one spring day.

Why Hire Jennifer? Is a modern manual that arms job seekers to find their first "real" job and every job thereafter. It is written for college students, grads, twenty-somethings, and all the people who know them. It's written and illustrated in an accessible and friendly style that's easy on the brain. Finding your unique positioning or brand, and communicating why its components are useful to t firms is the key to finding a good job. The problem...

In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, two teenagers, American Sarah and Acehnese Ruslan, meet and continue together their arduous climb inland, where Ruslan hopes to find his father and Sarah seeks a doctor for her brother.

Just before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an anti-American Muslim group gains power in Java, and Isaac, the twelve-year-old son of American missionary doctors, finds his world turned upside-down.

Delicate art and a musical score combine to create a fantasy world where the past is always fresh and the magic of childhood is stored in the attic of the wind.

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos interweaves Emily Levine's live performance with animation, appearances by scientists, and animated characters (John Lithgow as Sir Isaac Newton, Lily Tomlin as Ayn Rand, Leonard Nimoy as Sigmund Freud, Richard Lewis as Aristotle, Matt Groening as Aldo Leopold). The film uses physics, which explains how the universe works, to explain our metaphysics - the story of our values, our institutions, our interactions. Using her...

A patriarch of a powerful family suddenly dies, leaving his wife and daughter with a secret inheritance that threatens to destroy their lives.