In the great floating city of Sanctaphrax, blizzards howl through the streets as the Edgeworld descends into an endless winter. Quint, the son of a sky pirate, has just begun his training at the Knights Academy—training that involves heading out over the Edge on tethers to develop his flying skills. But when Quint breaks the rules and heads out to Open Sky on his own, he runs into the great sky leviathans known as cloud-eaters and must use all his skill and ingenuity if catastrophe is not to strike the Edgeworld. . . .
Translating America is a collection of news commentaries that I have translated from Chinese to English for Watching America since I started contributing in 2009. I hope you will enjoy reading them as much as I have working on them. I also hope that this collection can give you new insights to the thoughts of the writers on key issues in the nation. --Edward Seah
Vocabulary Questions and Answers - Volume 2 (Audio & Text)
This audio is great way to improve your vocabulary quickly. A question is asked and almost immediately answer is given. In less than 1 hr around 500 questions are covered. The great thing about this is the words asked not only cover GRE, TOEFL, GMAT words but also words frequently used in newspapers, movies, novels etc. Listen multiple times for maximum benefit. PDF file is also included.
Rod Stewart The Great American Songbook 4 [2005] Great American Songbook is a term referring to the interrelated music of Broadway musical theater, Hollywood musicals, and so-called Tin Pan Alley, for a period that begins during about the 1920s and ending about 1960.
Do you make your own choices or have circumstances beyond your control already decided your destiny? For thousands of years, this very question has intrigued and perplexed philosophers, scientists, and everyone who thinks deliberately about how they choose to live and act. The answer to this age-old riddle is universally relevant to our lives.From the Stoics to Boethius, from Kant to Hume, from Sartre to contemporary philosophers, great minds have puzzled over this debate for centuries. Now you can learn the intriguing details of this fundamental philosophical question with Great Philosophical Debates: Free Will and Determinism, 24 fascinating lectures by Shaun Nichols
Do you make your own choices or have circumstances beyond your control already decided your destiny? For thousands of years, this very question has intrigued and perplexed philosophers, scientists, and everyone who thinks deliberately about how they choose to live and act. The answer to this age-old riddle is universally relevant to our lives.From the Stoics to Boethius, from Kant to Hume, from Sartre to contemporary philosophers, great minds have puzzled over this debate for centuries. Now you can learn the intriguing details of this fundamental philosophical question with Great Philosophical Debates: Free Will and Determinism, 24 fascinating lectures by Shaun Nichols
