*A Today Show Gift Guide Pick!* Lucy is having a terrible day. She’s falling down a mountain. As she passes various characters—a mountain man, a bungeeing duck, and a pile of shuffling bears—she tries to ask for help. But everyone misinterprets her requests. As Lucy gains velocity, the story grows in silliness. Ending eventually in a giant, rolling snowball that lands Lucy safely at a hot-chocolate chalet. No harm done! With a perfect blend of Looney Tunes–style comedy and breezy short text from Kevin Cornell, Lucy Fell Down the Mountain offers a simple solution to bad days: Just roll with it! In the tradition of When Sophie Gets Angry and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible . . . Very Bad Day, Lucy's ability to face the day head-on—and then move on—will prove itself a new classic.
A collection of comics, drawings, sketches, doodles, puzzles, and articles culled from the sketchbooks and website of illustrator Kevin Cornell. Featuring never-seen-before work, as well as old favorites from www.bearskinrug.co.uk. Densely interwoven with humor and art, Six-Penny Anthems, Vol II. is best placed somewhere convenient and accessible, where one might dip into it every now and then, in order to raise the spirits, or gain a brief respite from one's labors.
An Amazon Best Book of the Month One fine morning, the people of Puddletrunk wake up to find their bridge has collapsed. They are not surprised. After all, termites have destroyed the last 200 or so bridges. Luckily, the people of Puddletrunk have a bridge-building expert in their town: the fabulous Mortimer Gulch, who will gladly rebuild their bridge for a pretty penny. But when a newcomer to Puddletrunk does not want to pay for the repairs, Mortimer is displeased. To make matters worse, this unusual foreigner has some innovative ideas that threaten to upend Mortimer Gulch's entire business . . . Here is a whimsical yet timely picture book allegory about what new people with new ideas can bring to communities.
A collection of sketches, drawings, comics and inane commentary provided by one man: German Chancellor Otto Von Bismark. Wait... no... Kevin Cornell! Kevin Co-
Four young men called forth by destiny. A council of elders and their quest to protect the land against an ancient evil. The supernatural link that binds them both together through the barrier of time. Troubling times have come to Charm City, Maryland. A demonic alliance has been formed, and a dark era is approaching. Only the Elementals—those born of fire, air, earth, and water—can prevent the destruction of all they hold dear. But what happens when one of their own breaks the pact and turns against them? Devin and his friends head off to college, ready to pledge to a fraternity during Rush Week. Soon, they begin having strange dreams that hint at their mystical lineage. With the help Devin’s cousin, Misty, and her Wiccan coven, they begin to unravel a tangled web of supernatural conspiracies plaguing the campus. Along the way, Misty begins to understand that her cousin may have powers that he does not suspect… WELCOME TO CHARM CITY, the first installment in Kevin Cornell’s THE ELEMENT SAGA series, is a wildly entertaining tale full of sassy witches, ancient sorcerers, fire-breathing dragons, and one very twisted professor, all coming together in a contemporary blend of urban fantasy and comedy that will leave you wanting more.
“Can't we just get through one day of college without someone trying to kill us?” Devin is the first Dandridge male in generations to display the gift. As the child out-of-time, it is foreseen in the prophecy that he will be the one to wield the Essence Scepter and become the most powerful Descendant in the entire bloodline. The only problem is that Devin’s just trying to live a normal life. Not so easy to do when his cousin, Misty, and her Wiccan coven have to keep saving him and his friends from sinister forces out to eat them alive and possess their power. In the distant past, the Elemental Lords—led by the powerful sorceress, Mystica—have a major problem on their hands. Thanks to the death and destruction caused by Pyron, the Dark Fire Lord, the people of Charm City have revolted against them. Their only hope of stopping his reign of evil is to find the Essence Scepter before he can. Aunt Cassandra, the matron of the Dandridge Coven, is the bridge between two worlds. As the keeper of the Dandridge family secrets, her wisdom is essential. But when she reveals the dark side of the prophecy to Misty, it causes a domino effect that threatens to tear the coven—and the entire Dandridge family—in two. The hunt for the Scepter is on in RISE OF THE DESCENDANTS, the thrilling, action-packed second installment in THE ELEMENT SAGA, by Kevin Cornell Johnson!
If you are looking for some down-home southern-style soul food, then look no further! My food comes from deep within my Maryland roots, inspired and influenced by the most amazing cooks and chefs in my family. Inside you'll find Fried green tomatoes, Crab cake stuffed shrimp, BBQ meatballs, Seafood chowder, the list goes on and on. All of my recipes are quick and easy and I also include links to my YouTube so you can follow along with me in the kitchen, Let's create some memories and traditions to pass along to our next generation of chefs in your family. Nothing unites us all more than food and tasty drinks, so like I tell all my friends to remember one important thing "Ya gotta eat!
Sixty pages of comics from the Ambidextrous series, as featured on www.bearskinrug.co.uk. Contains private conversations transcribed word-for-word, completely inaccurate depictions of nature, gross violations of physics, and inappropriate use of the cursing spear. Do not give to friends or cherished mentors.
An illustrated parody of fictional superheroes and their superpowers, including the Male Pattern Baldness Eagle, the Guardin' Gnome, and the Health Inspectre, documents their battle for supremacy.
The third installment in the Ambidextrous collection. This edition deals with such cosmic questions as where luggage is, how to overcome one's fear of dogs, and the many uses of time-traveling soup.
An introduction to slavery in the world today, in rich and developing nations alike. Clearly and concisely written for young adult readers. Twenty-seven million people — young and old, men and women — are locked in bondage worldwide. Slavery Today traces the products created by this inhuman system from the jungle and farm through the global markets and into our lives and homes. Co-authored by the world's leading experts on modern slavery, it unpacks the controversies over prostitution and the buying back of slaves while setting out solutions and demonstrating how readers can get involved in the global anti-slavery movement. "[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." — Globe and Mail
A nation's grand strategy rarely serves the best interests of all its citizens. Instead, every strategic choice benefits some domestic groups at the expense of others. When groups with different interests separate into opposing coalitions, societal debates over foreign policy become polarized along party lines. Parties then select leaders who share the priorities of their principal electoral and financial backers. As a result, the overarching goals and guiding principles of grand strategy, as formulated at the highest levels of government, derive from domestic coalitional interests. In The Political Economy of Grand Strategy, Kevin Narizny develops these insights into a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of security policy.The focus of this analysis is the puzzle of partisanship. The conventional view of grand strategy, in which state leaders act as neutral arbiters of the "national interest," cannot explain why political turnover in the executive office often leads to dramatic shifts in state behavior. Narizny, in contrast, shows how domestic politics structured foreign policymaking in the United States and Great Britain from 1865 to 1941. In so doing, he sheds light on long-standing debates over the revival of British imperialism, the rise of American expansionism, the creation of the League of Nations, American isolationism in the interwar period, British appeasement in the 1930s, and both countries' decisions to enter World War I and World War II.
In this ambitious book, Kevin M. F. Platt focuses on a cruel paradox central to Russian history: that the price of progress has so often been the traumatic suffering of society at the hands of the state. The reigns of Ivan IV (the Terrible) and Peter the Great are the most vivid exemplars of this phenomenon in the pre-Soviet period. Both rulers have been alternately lionized for great achievements and despised for the extraordinary violence of their reigns. In many accounts, the balance of praise and condemnation remains unresolved; often the violence is simply repressed. Platt explores historical and cultural representations of the two rulers from the early nineteenth century to the present, as they shaped and served the changing dictates of Russian political life. Throughout, he shows how past representations exerted pressure on subsequent attempts to evaluate these liminal figures. In ever-changing and often counterposed treatments of the two, Russians have debated the relationship between greatness and terror in Russian political practice, while wrestling with the fact that the nation’s collective selfhood has seemingly been forged only through shared, often self-inflicted trauma. Platt investigates the work of all the major historians, from Karamzin to the present, who wrote on Ivan and Peter. Yet he casts his net widely, and "historians" of the two tsars include poets, novelists, composers, and painters, giants of the opera stage, Party hacks, filmmakers, and Stalin himself. To this day the contradictory legacies of Ivan and Peter burden any attempt to come to terms with the nature of political power—past, present, future—in Russia.
This book relates the fortuitous discovery of a significant historical figure: George Washington Fields (1854-1932). Fields was known to have entered with the first law class of Cornell University and earned his LL.B. degree there in 1890. But his back story before college was unknown, and hence the significance of his life after graduation was unappreciated. It turns out, although the university's records were previously silent on this, that Fields not only was the new law school's first African-American graduate, but also was in the first graduating group of African Americans from Cornell University as a whole. Even more distinctively, he was the only ex-slave ever to graduate from that august university. Fields' significance is not so locally confined, however. Born into slavery in Hanover County, Virginia, he started at the bottom. But he, along with his remarkable family, made a historic escape to Hampton at the height of the Civil War. He next worked to support the family, and still pursued an education at the storied Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. Later going North, he worked for nearly a decade, including stints as manservant for various luminaries, before completing his legal studies. He then went home to Hampton where——though blinded in 1896——he continued to overcome, eventually becoming a leading attorney of the region. Most important, in his later years, he wrote an autobiography. This book presents in full form that hitherto unpublished work, rediscovered in the archives of a Hampton museum. The autobiography ranks as a major slave narrative. It is an incredible document, telling a riveting tale of escape and triumph, while conveying a sense of this great and greatly likeable person. He recounts his story with a special blend of humor and wisdom, laying out in no uncertain terms the set of values that guided him through his fascinating times. Before and after that autobiographical centerpiece, the other parts of this book provide context and fill gaps in the five-act life story: the wrenching antebellum life of a slave family, the dramatic escape during wartime, the rebuilding of family life during the South's Reconstruction, the necessary move up to the North for more work and schooling, and finally the return to Hampton for a largely happy and very productive life. The resulting book has potential for use by history, Africana, and law students, and should have appeal for Civil War and Virginia history buffs. Yet it is, if nothing else, a great read for just about anyone.
Billions of people throughout the world are paid for their work. This book was written to explain why they earn what they earn and, in doing so, to help readers understand how they can earn more in both the short and long run. It describes wages, wage differences across groups, wage inequality, how organizations set pay and why, executive and 'superstar' pay, the difference between pay and 'total rewards' (including benefits, opportunities for growth, colleagues and working conditions), compensation in nonprofits, and the differences between the cost of compensation to organizations and the value employees place on that compensation. It also offers tips on what an individual can do to earn more.
The primary objective for this trip was to collect new germplasm of native plants including Quercus, Ilex, Magnolic and Rhododendron, including specifically Stewartia ovata and magnolia macrophylla. Many of the collections centered around and in Cumberland Falls State Resort Park."--page 9.
This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that Southern California of two and three generations ago, now that a dramatically diferent society has emerged in its place," writes Starr. As he recreates the "lost California," Starr examines the rich variety of elements that figured in the growth of the Southern California way of life: the Spanish/Mexican roots, the fertile land, the Mediterranean-like climate, the special styles in architecture, the rise of Hollywood. He gives us a broad array of engaging (and often eccentric) characters: from Harrision Gray Otis to Helen Hunt Jackson to Cecil B. DeMille. Whether discussing the growth of winemaking or the burgeoning of reform movements, Starr keeps his central theme in sharp focus: how Californians defined their identity to themselves and to the nation.
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