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Take an exciting trip through the Solar System. Join our two young brave astronauts and their trustworthy robot friend as they visit all the planets (and the Moon) and discover fun facts through rhymes and colorful illustrations.

The classic account of traditional Micronesian navigation and “the last navigator,” Mau Piailug, who fought to preserve it. For thousands of years, the peoples of Oceania have sailed unerringly across the Pacific without compass or charts, guided only by natural signs—stars, waves, and the flight paths of birds. In search of this secret knowledge, a young sailor, Steve Thomas, travelled to the tiny island of Satawal in Micronesia, home to Mau Piailug, one of the few surviving paliuw, or navigators. In The Last Navigator, Thomas tells how he convinced Piailug to accept him as his student and teach him the closely guarded Talk of Navigation. It is a remarkable book, offering at once a clear and precise account of Micronesian way-finding and the moving story of one man trying to preserve his culture against the tide of modernity. Now, 40 years after his original journey to study under Mau Piailug, Thomas has worked with a new generation of researchers, including natives of Satawal, to prepare this revised edition of The Last Navigator. All Satawalese words are rendered in the now-accepted orthography, and the islanders, originally identified by pseudonyms, appear under their true names. And throughout, Thomas has added a generous selection of colour photographs from his time on Satawal. The result is a lasting tribute to the spirit of the Satawalese, and to the Talk of Navigation.

The classic account of traditional Micronesian navigation and “the last navigator,” Mau Piailug, who fought to preserve it. For thousands of years, the peoples of Oceania have sailed unerringly across the Pacific without compass or charts, guided only by natural signs—stars, waves, and the flight paths of birds. In search of this secret knowledge, a young sailor, Steve Thomas, travelled to the tiny island of Satawal in Micronesia, home to Mau Piailug, one of the few surviving paliuw, or navigators. In The Last Navigator, Thomas tells how he convinced Piailug to accept him as his student and teach him the closely guarded Talk of Navigation. It is a remarkable book, offering at once a clear and precise account of Micronesian way-finding and the moving story of one man trying to preserve his culture against the tide of modernity. Now, 40 years after his original journey to study under Mau Piailug, Thomas has worked with a new generation of researchers, including natives of Satawal, to prepare this revised edition of The Last Navigator. All Satawalese words are rendered in the now-accepted orthography, and the islanders, originally identified by pseudonyms, appear under their true names. And throughout, Thomas has added a generous selection of colour photographs from his time on Satawal. The result is a lasting tribute to the spirit of the Satawalese, and to the Talk of Navigation.

A bearded wrecking ball rampages his way through 16 hilarious adventures.Monsters killed his parents, and Klondaeg is out for revenge. Wielding a talking battle-axe with a split personality, Klondaeg travels the world, teaming up with outlandish adventurers in search of new monsters to slay. He'll battle lycanthropic garden gnomes, gold-devouring demons, aliens from a long-dead universe, the mighty maxotaur, an apocalyptically misguided wizard, and much, much more on his tireless quest to track down and bury every monster he can find. Klondaeg may be the world's greatest monster hunter, but the world needs more than a monster hunter. It needs a hero."Kicking Axe and Taking Gnomes" collects the first three volumes of Klondaeg's outrageous adventures, including "Klondaeg The Monster Hunter," "Klondaeg and the Klondaeg Hunters," and "Klondaeg: Lord of Heroes."For fans of Discworld and Saturday morning cartoons.

Structured Query Language, or SQL, can be daunting to learn. There are many books available that purport to ramp the user up from mere mortal to godlike status. This book is not one of them. Having written and taught SQL lessons to many groups ranging from support to developers, it eventually dawned on me that all too often I was presuming a "base" knowledge of SQL and databases and I was losing the room from the first slide. I needed to back up and explain more about why users would want to combine tables and why data was not just put in one single table. From there we could move on to how to combine tables to get answers. It was good to see lights come on in people's eyes. This book is a distillation of those lessons.

Monsters killed his parents, and Klondaeg is out for revenge. Armed with a double-headed, double-minded battle-axe, Klondaeg travels the world, teaming up with its mightiest adventurers to battle every monster he can find. Klondaeg is the greatest monster hunter in all of history, but the world needs more than a monster hunter. It needs a lord of heroes. This omnibus edition collects all of Klondaeg's outrageous adventures, including "Klondaeg The Monster Hunter," "Klondaeg Saves Fromsday," "Klondaeg and the Klondaeg Hunters," and "Klondaeg: Lord of Heroes."

Carter Aimes is a twenty year veteran of the NYPD, and he's seen a lot in those years. When five year old dreams of murder begin to happen, it brings his dark past into the present, and he is forced to face the most difficult case of his life. Multiple murders, personal strife, an inexplicable connection to a serial killer, and his appointment to Lieutenant, conspire to bring Carter to the breaking point. He struggles to find perspective and to understand his connection to the events occurring around him, hunt down a serial killer, hold his family together and keep from getting fired. This book weaves a fast paced, page turning story of a dark hero's journey through a life of self doubt, unknowable occurrences, and impossible decisions, that compels him to face the inevitability of death and destruction, at the hand of the Dark Interloper.

Nonprofit organizations are dedicated to their causes and achieving their goals, but revenue remains the key to growth. Veteran fundraiser Steve Thomas will show you how to approach donors to build mutually beneficial relationships by emphasizing their desires over your nonprofit's. In Donoricity, Thomas shares strategies that will not only create more goodwill with donors than simply treating them as ATMs but will create deep relationships. Fundraising is a highly competitive field, and the best way to make yourself stand out from the crowd is by focusing on the donor and the difference they make, using specific, concrete messaging. By applying the principles and strategies in all your fundraising communications-from newsletters and social media posts to direct mail and digital email campaigns-you will create long-lasting partnerships with donors that will build your organization's future.

Crisis Chronicles Press is pleased to announce the publication of Steve Thomas' new book, The Strength of Flowers. Steve has been a stalwart of the Cleveland poetry scene for many years, and now, finally - this collection. It's about time ISBN: 978-1725142312. Poems include "Mapless," "When Miriam met Raymond Carver," Smoke dream, "Being moved unaware," "Contact in a contrary world," "Staring at Issa in the afternoon revisited" and many more. Cover art by Danielle Stull.

The M.E. Bible is a unique factual, truthful, and scientific book, which deals with the direct issues of the Neuro-Immune disease M.E. (Mylgic Encephalmyelitis) - often referred to as CFIDS in the U.S. M.E. is, and has been for decades, a scientifically proven 'Organic Disease' since 1956, and 'Registered' as such by the 'World Health Organisation (WHO - ICD-10.G93.3) in Geneva since 1969', as; a 'Neurological Disorder' which is 'Multi-systemic' - affecting most of the biological bodily systems in the human body.With over 5,000 Scientific Biological research papers on M.E., published by renown Scientists and Physicians, you may be wondering why so many millions of Human Beings, worldwide, have been left to suffer and die without proper Medical Treatment, or care. This book tells you why, who is benefiting with vast Multi-GBPmillions and Multi-$billions and why the various governments are 'doing nothing to stop this'. You will not like the answer, it is truly inhumane, Negligent beyond comprehension, and based on Greed. I am just one of these sufferer's, this book has taken me almost ten years to finish, but I Swore an Oath - That before my Severe ME degenerates into the final stage of the disease 'I would finish this book and publish it' so that the truth, science, crimes, facts, laws, and treatments that can cure M.E. are known to all. I truly hope that it helps you, or someone that you love. This book is my Legacy.

They have been called warlords, necromancers, demon-worshipers, torturers, and monsters. The Sangrooks ruled half the world before they were defeated, but they were not eradicated. The menace of the Sangrook clan lives on."The Sangrook Saga" tells the dark and bloody history of the Sangrook family through seven tales of murder, betrayal, forbidden love, unforgivable magic, and horror.