Most Popular Books by Andrew Peters

Traditional scary stories from various countries.

This book offers everything you need to know about selecting and implementing the best integrated library system (ILS) for your library, whether you purchase and install it yourself or hire a consultant to assist you. This is the book you''ve been waiting for. Integrated Library Systems: Planning, Selecting, and Implementing is an all-inclusive guide to acquiring a new ILS. Detailed and practical, the book covers every step of the process, from cost-benefit analysis, to evaluating software, writing the request for proposal, and implementation and training. You''ll learn about different types of integrated library systems—standalone, turnkey, hosted, software-as-a-service (cloud computing), and open-source—and how to assess your facility and staff to find the best fit. The book also covers evaluation of software and hardware; third-party add-ons, such as RFID; and writing successful budget proposals and justification statements. There is even specific, headache-saving advice on working with sales reps, such as the warning not to ever accept the statement: "The vendor will not be held accountable to the contents of the RFP." Even if you''re working with a consultant, this book will help you understand the process and make informed decisions.

Who holds the seeds to save a sky-high world?Arborium is at risk, the sharpened blades of rival Maw poised to saw off its bark and branches. What can a poor plumber''s apprentice armed with little more than a monkey wrench do to stop the chopping?Carved into a massive, mile-high canopy, the forest kingdom of Arborium stands upon the tallest of trees. Within them, 14-year-old Ark holds the lowest of jobs: unclogging toilets. He''s already up to his elbows in gunk when he REALLY steps in it. He overhears a plot echoing through the pipes: Maw, a ruthless glass-and-steel superpower, is scheming to wield its axes of evil to strip Arborium of its wood -- a natural resource now more precious than gold.The fate of a kingdom in the filthy hands of a plumber boy?Plunged into danger, Ark must make the treacherous climb down to the darkest roots of RAVENWOOD if there''s any hope of rescuing his threatened tree home!

How can flower seeds help a king find an heir to his kingdom?

This book is a detailed comparative study of the decorative work figurehead, topside ornamentation and stern gallery design carried by the ships of the major maritime states of Europe in the zenith of the sailing era. It covers both warships and the most prestigious merchant ships, the East Indiamen of the great chartered companies. The work began life in the year 2000 when the author was commissioned to carry out research for an ambitious project to build a full-size replica of a Swedish East Indiaman, which produced a corpus of information whose relevance stretched way beyond the immediate requirements of accurately decorating the replica.In tracking the artistic influences on European ship decoration, it became clear that this was essentially the story of the baroque style, its dissemination from France, and its gradual transformation into distinct national variations in Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. It is an inherently visual subject and the book illustrates developments with numerous photographs of contemporary ship models, paintings and plans, as well as the author''s own interpretive illustrations of details.As the first major work on the topic for nearly a century, it will be of obvious appeal to ship modellers and historians, but with comparative examples drawn from architecture and sculpture, it also makes a broader contribution to the history of the applied arts.

Insulted when his youngest daughter compares him to salt, the king banishes her until he realizes the true meaning of what she said.

All About Geography invites students to explore and investigate important issues in our world today. Features include: - Triggers deep thinking and helps raise essential questions - Gives students skills to investigate issues in a purposeful, critical manner - Highlights the diversity of the world while maintaining awareness of its fragility - Based on the geographical inquiry approach, encouraging students to collect and analyse primary and secondary data for their reasoning and evaluations.

How were skateboards invented? What tricks do skateboarders do and what competitions can they enter? Find out all about this sport, packed with exciting photos and written by Andrew Peters.

Ark est un jeune apprenti plombier vivant dans la cité d’Arborium, construite à des kilomètres du sol, dans les arbres géants de la forêt du même nom. Un jour où il se trouve chez le Haut Conseiller Grasp pour débloquer un tuyau d''égout, il surprend une conversation entre ce personnage détestable et Lady de Fenestra, émissaire secrète d''un autre pays. Ils sont en train de fomenter un coup d’état contre le roi d''Arborium afin de livrer la citée aux mains de l’Empire de Maw, pays de verre et d’acier qui exploitera les ressources naturelles de la forêt et ses habitants, les Dendrens. Mais les deux comploteurs surprennent Ark, et notre héros n’a dès lors plus qu’une chose à faire : sauver sa vie, la forêt et son peuple. Aux côtés de son meilleur ami et de la jolie Flo, la folle et fabuleuse poursuite commence... Pendant les 7 jours qui le séparent du coup d’État, Ark découvre qu’il possède en lui une puissance magique mystérieuse, liée aux corbeaux. Il l''a reçue en héritage de la fondatrice de la Cité, Diana, une scientifique ayant fui la folie des hommes pour venir créer sur cette île une forêt géante, où régnerait la puissance des arbres et l’harmonie entre l’homme et la nature.

Ark vive no alto das últimas árvores que restam no mundo. E, já que mesmo em um país suspenso como Arborium alguém precisa desentupir os canos, ele tem uma profissão: aprendiz de encanador. É enquanto está ocupado com o vaso sanitário de um político poderoso que o garoto se torna testemunha de algo que vai mudar sua vida. Sem querer, Ark entreouve a conversa de conspiradores que pretendem destruir seu país. Uma perversa enviada de Maw, o império inimigo, feito de vidro e metal, planeja tomar as ricas árvores de Arborium e transformá-las em matéria-prima, fazendo de seu povo, os pacíficos dendrianos, nada mais que escravos de seu plano maligno. Flagrado, Ark precisa fugir para não ser morto, e terá de percorrer o gigantesco arvoredo e chegar à sombria Floresta dos Corvos, onde talvez esteja sua única chance de proteger seus amigos e seu lar.

As in previous collections, Andrew Peters'' fifth volume derives meaning from memories and reflections of nature and literature. Here is poetry that paints scenes and images that appreciate every moment of living.

These poems written mostly in free verse celebrate the natural world and encourage awareness. Light is a major thread running through the book both as a natural phenomena and as a resonant archetype. But light isn''t light without darkness, and so there is darkness here, too, questions of direction and purpose that don''t assume answers.

Inspired by Wordsworth''s concern for human relationship with nature in the context of spiritual speculations, this collection of poems examines the threads of every day human living woven to the larger sublime mystery joining all of life to this beautiful planet. At their heart, the poems point to the importance of an awareness of moment by moment passages.

Correspondence to and from Peters which consists of a letter from his uncle James A. Chute of Newburyport, Mass., enclosing a clipping on Andrew Peters, a family ancestor; a letter by Peters to "Dear Sir" concerning a deed; and a typed letter to his grandmother on her 50th wedding anniversary.

Afin d''éviter de tomber sous les dents effilées du tigre, un sage fait appel au jugement de la faune et de la flore. Malheureusement pour l''homme, les habitants de la jungle ont une piètre opinion des êtres humains. Alors qu''il n''arrive plus à trouver des prétextes pour repousser l''heure de sa mort, un chacal vient à sa rescousse... -- Conte indien, illustré par des aquarelles aux couleurs vives, abordant le thème de la ruse. [SDM].

Autograph letter signed at Bangor, Me., to Joseph Williamson, discussing a law case.