In 1958, South Africa was going through one of its most horrendous eras ? Apartheid. Andrina Abrahamse writes a riveting, personal account of her experiences growing up and working during this pivotal period. Drina, as she was known to her family and friends, suffered atrocities beyond comprehension as a child. Beatings were the norm and she sustained her sanity by telling herself, ?If I can learn something every time I cry, the tears will not have been in vain.? Her formative years were filled with memories of a system that turned peace-loving men into bitter and hopeless people; youth into …

With a comic outlook on life and a purely passionate and earnest trace, Agustina Guerrero takes us into the personal universe of a thirty-year-old woman in a striped t-shirt whose take on the world will bring out a smile in anyone.

The Volatile Diaries started out as an autobiographical blog in 2011 and in only a few months the Volatile, its main character, got thousands of followers and became an immediate success on the social networks.

Nowadays, she's got over 400,000 followers on Facebook and her stories are compiled in this book that also offers tons of unpublished material.

With a comic outlook on life and a purely passionate and earnest trace, Agustina Guerrero takes us into the personal universe of a thirty-year-old woman in a striped t-shirt whose take on the world will bring out a smile in anyone.

The Volatile Diaries started out as an autobiographical blog in 2011 and in only a few months the Volatile, its main character, got thousands of followers and became an immediate success on the social networks.

Nowadays, she's got over 400,000 followers on Facebook and her stories are compiled in this book that also offers tons of unpublished material.

It’s a black rainy night, and I am here thrown in the street, choking in my own blood and in my own madness. My white ’69 Camaro is broken in parts, and I am reliving every second of what happened. Well, people always say that you see your life flash near your eyes before leaving this world. Chosen by God and the Devil, Alexander has been deemed the savior or destroyer of humanity. Born in Italy, with pitch black long hair tied in a ponytail, gray eyes, and a shadowy beard, his family was murdered, killed by a series of …

"Daily fast-pace does not always allow us to stop and think about the direction of the educational task. However, the goal cannot be to return to "normalcy" because many children did not find it useful. We have to reimagine education as some - thing better than what it used to be. This book is an invitation to do so". Arne Duncan, former U.S. secretary of Education in the Obama administration "31 candid interviews with expert sources from all over the world. Decades of experience: Porres conducts a global cho - rus of voices that places children back at the center …

This book addresses the steel structures design according to procedures and provisions set in the Spanish Building Technical Code (CTE DB-SE-A). A large collection of worked examples develop in a practical way the principles and requirements that will provide safety and serviceability to most of the steel structures for buildings Members under tension, compression and bending are studied in order of increasing complexity, including flexural buckling and lateral-torsional buckling phenomena. Finally, step by step procedures for the design of bolted and welded connections are given, including column bases design All tables and mathematical expressions needed to follow every step of …

Astro-navigation from Square One to Ocean-master begins at the very beginning of this relatively complex subject and progresses logically through all the required "astro skills." Each new concept builds on UNDERSTANDING with no learning by rote. A 130-word glossary, 160 diagrams and 40 worked examples, all using 2011 Sun, Moon, planet and star data, are contained in 308 pages. The parts relevant to the RYA Yachtmaster Ocean syllabus are identified. In nine sections, the book begins with the basic concepts of great circles, Greenwich Hour Angle and Declination, describing a heavenly body's position on the celestial sphere which, with the …

Marcus Aurelius, one of the greatest Roman emperors, is remembered less for his military exploits than for his private reflections. His Meditations, as they became known, have been a major influence on Western thought and behaviour down through the centuries, proving that the pen is mightier than the sword. Seeking an alternative to faith-based religion, Alan Stedall came across the book and found rational answers to questions about the meaning and purpose of life that had been troubling him. Here too were answers to his concern that in the absence of moral beliefs based on religion, we risk creating a …