Ten-year-old orphan Maria lives in her ancestors\' crumbling mansion. Exploring the grounds one day, Maria discovers a wild, half-forgotten island in the middle of a neglected lake - and an extraordinary secret. For the island is home to a community of tiny people - the Lilliputians that Gulliver first met on his famous travels. But as Maria grows closer to her new friends, her own life is in grave

The contributors to Race and Performance after Repetition explore how theater and performance studies account for the complex relationship between race and time. Pointing out that repetition has been the primary point of reference for understanding both the complex temporality of theater and the historical persistence of race, they identify and pursue critical alternatives to the conceptualization,

Justice is sweet when a school bully gets a taste of his own medicine. A hilarious new Cookie Chronicles adventure that middle-school readers who love Wimpy Kid and Dog Man will gobble up with gusto. \"Impossible to resist.\" --Lincoln Peirce, New York Times bestselling author of Big Nate. When Ben\'s fortune cookie tells him that the best things in life are free, he believes he can get anything he

Straightforward strategies for achieving sustainable practices and business success in the modern organization In Clean: Lessons from Ecolab\'s Century of Positive Impact, a team of veteran sustainability experts delivers a practical toolkit for creating a forward-looking and sustainability-focused business. From Ecolab\'s origins in sustainability 100 years ago to its ambitious 2030 environment and

A practical approach to better customer experience through service designService Design for Business helps you transform your customer\'s experience and keep them engaged through the art of intentional service design. Written by the experts at Livework, this practical guide offers a tangible, effective approach for better responding to customers\' needs and demands, and provides concrete strategy that

In this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces has its own way of reading the black body and the black experience, and its own modes of visibility, invisibility, silence and amplification of black

Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural violence against animals hoarded in factory farms? Highlighting the frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights activists, this book examines how the \"madness\" of our relationships with animals intersects with the \"madness\" of taking animals seriously. The essays collected in this volume argue that \"animaladies\"

Part I: Initial Setup1. Introduction2. Working as a DBA3. Creating Our Server4. Disk Layouts5. Installing Oracle6. Creating Our DatabasePart II: Using Oracle Database7. Recovery and Backup8. Security9. Connecting to Oracle10. Test CasesPart III: Learning Oracle Database 11. Tools12. Diagnostics13. Oracle Documentation14. Data DictionaryPart IV: Maintaining the Database15. My Oracle Support16. Social

Carol Robertson shares her fascination with the country and its cuisine in lively journal entries and delightful drawings, while David Robertson\'s evocative photographs provide a look at the wonders of the Portuguese landscape and culture. The result is a personal travel book for lovers of good food. Portugal is blessed with a flavorful and complex cuisine that brings together influences from Europe,

The first comprehensive security guide for Churches, Synagogues, Mosques, and Temples and includes information on how to get financial help for

In this inspiring, life-affirming tale, Annabelle asks, \"What happens when we die?\" Aiden dreams of an afterlife with marshmallow shoes and chocolate kangaroos. But with the help of their dear friends like the Skeptisaurus and Tardigrade Tom, the children discover what we do know, and how worth celebrating it is. How our atoms rejoin the universe, which remains forever changed by our lives. How our

The fourth volume of PeKo Publishing\'s photo-monograph series, Sturmgesch tz III on the battlefield 2, has the publisher\'s usual corporate image displayed. The hardcover, landscape formatted book\'s brief introduction is followed by more than a hundred mainly unpublished photographs, published in the highest possible quality. Both the introduction and the captions are bilingual (English /

At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gast n R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material, historical, and affective ruptures

Title 26 presents regulations, procedures, and practices that govern income tax, estate and gift taxes, employment taxes, and miscellaneous excise taxes as set forth by the Internal Revenue Service. Additions and revisions to this section of the code are posted annually by April. Publication follows within six

Back then, humans and animals were fellow beings under the sky. Perhaps that\'s why it seemed possible for humans to change into animals. One in a series of tales that explore the deeper, darker side of our connection with the natural world. Be ready to feel a little bit of magic, and perhaps a few shivers down the

Explore the life of King George III.The wicked ways of some of the most ruthless rulers to walk the earth are revealed in these thrilling biographies (A Wicked History) about men and women so monstrous, they make Frankenstein look like a

Misakis dream of becoming a video game designeris sent off the rails when he meets a rival who brings out his very bestand his absolute