Most Popular Books by James Riley

Do you love to color and relax? Enjoy 30 Beautiful full-page illustrations of Mandalas and their environments. Covered with paisleys, circles, flowers and other wild magical patterns, these wonderful mandala image scenes are from all kinds of backgrounds and witty designs. Let us take you on a journey designed to relieve stress and bring relaxation and fun for those who love to color from beginner to experienced colorists. Look out for more Coloring Books for Adults from this Author

Practice manuscript handwriting in a new way! The Trace-A-Story series publishes classic stories in traceable cursive and manuscript handwriting. This gives children extra practice in a more challenging setting and gives them a reason to complete the practice book. Every story is broken up into sections so that it''s not too intimidating. One section per day is ideal, but since every person learns at different speeds, more or less can be done per day. Story Summary: This is the original poem that was the first ever written about "Little Orphan Annie". All stories, movies, etc. were based on this poem. However, they didn''t stay true to the original poem and a lot was added. To find out what the real "Little Orphan Annie" was like, read this book. Also, in the back of the book is included a picture of the real "Little Orphan Annie" and the author who wrote about her.

Characters from the real and fictional worlds cross paths in the New York Times bestselling Story Thieves series—now available as a collectible paperback boxed set! Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world’s homework and chores. But everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen—his classmate Bethany climbs out of a book in the library. It turns out Bethany’s half-fictional so she can jump into any book she wants. AND she can take anyone with her! Including Owen!!! Jump into this action-packed adventure with the first three books in the series! This boxed set includes paperback editions of Story Thieves, Stolen Chapters, and Secret Origins.

The incredible true story of an American ship''s crew taken into slavery by the Muslim slave traders of North Western Africa after being wrecked on that continent''s west coast, has riveted, fascinated, and horrified readers since its first publication two hundred years ago. Captain Riley''s ship, the Commerce, was sailing from Gibraltar to the Cape Verde Islands when it was lost in fog and wrecked on the west Moroccan coast. There, the crew were seized by passing Berbers, who, after taking their food and pouring out their drinking water, carried off the white men deep into the Sahara desert. The book tells in shocking detail the events before and after their capture by marauding Sahrawi natives, and their mistreatment, which included beatings, heat exposure, and starvation (to the point where they were forced to drink their own urine just to stay alive). Eventually, the abused, underfed, and overworked captives were on the point of death when their masters sold them to yet another Arab slave trader. He had purchased the white men upon Riley''s promise of cash ransom and a gun. Riley promised his new owner that he had a friend on the coast at the town of Mogador (nowadays known as Essaouira) in Morocco, who would pay the ransom-something that was completely untrue. Incredibly, an Englishman-and total stranger-came to Riley''s aid in Mogador, and paid the ransom, allowing the survivors to escape captivity and return to America. Captain Riley''s detailed and horrifying descriptions of his experiences at the hands of the slave-trading Muslims of North Africa, typified the treatment suffered by more than a million Europeans who were captured by the Barbary pirates. This valuable account bears witness to a part of history that is now largely suppressed or ignored.

Three leading Christian educators offer a survey of faith formation from various perspectives: biblical, theological, pastoral, practical, and global. They present a biblical theology of faith formation for individual and congregational life and show how faith can be formed through the life and mission of the local church through practices such as communal worship, Bible study, and mission. They also explore the faces of faith formation in multicultural and global contexts. The book includes practical exercises for those beginning in ministry and reflection questions.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Practice cursive handwriting in a new way! The Trace-A-Story series publishes classic stories in traceable cursive and manuscript handwriting. This gives children extra practice in a more challenging setting and gives them a reason to complete the practice book. Every story is broken up into sections so that it''s not too intimidating. One section per day is ideal, but since every person learns at different speeds, more or less can be done per day. Story Summary: This is the original poem that was the first ever written about "Little Orphan Annie". All stories, movies, etc. were based on this poem. However, they didn''t stay true to the original poem and a lot was added. To find out what the real "Little Orphan Annie" was like, read this book. Also, in the back of the book is included a picture of the real "Little Orphan Annie" and the author who wrote about her.

180 word problems about interesting facts and everyday situations show kids how math applies to their daily lives! Kids will find the length of a day on Jupiter, measure earthquakes on the Richter scale, and figure out how much pizza their money will buy. They will build math skills day by day, level by level. Answers included. Each is spiralbound and stands on a handy easel.

Storybook characters collide in this trilogy of twisted fairy tales from New York Times bestselling author James Riley, set in the world of his popular Half Upon a Time series and now together in one paperback boxed set! Five and a half feet might seem pretty tall for a twelve-year-old, but it’s quite small when your parents are giants. As a human-sized giant in a world where humans and giants hate each other, Lena has never felt accepted for who she is. But when she runs away to the Cursed City hoping to find a place to belong among its enchanted inhabitants, she instead finds an even bigger problem. The Golden King and his Faceless army are spreading shadow magic across land, and his next target is the Cursed City. If the Last Knight is defeated, the only ones standing in the way of the king’s conquest will be Lena, her talking cat Rufus, new genie-in-training (with a questionable moral compass) Jin, and an arrogant prince who’s tiny even by human standards. But the Golden King isn’t the only danger in the land, and the history behind the shadow magic is darker than anyone knows. Lena’s giant-sized strength makes her the perfect person to face these challenges. But it takes strength of a different kind to tell right from wrong and stay true to yourself in the process. If she makes the wrong choice, that could mean the end of Happily Ever Afters for the entire fairy tale world! This paperback hardcover boxed set includes: Once Upon Another Time Tall Tales Happily Ever After

During the eighteenth century European governments began systematically using an international credit structure whose centre was the Amsterdam capital market. This book reconstructs that system and surveys its principal effects on the European and especially the Dutch economies. Eighteenth-century states borrowed chiefly to finance wars and, increasingly toward the century''s end, debts from earlier wars. Military and naval spending and debt service together consumed up to eighty percent of peacetime revenues and more in war. Borrowing on international markets stabilised previously disruptive deficit financing techniques and moderated the economic consequences of sharply irregular war spending. This development however, eased the problems of war-making more than it developed national economies or enhanced prosperity. The Dutch, heretofore seen as having squandered the advantage of cheap credit, actually faced the difficult problem of finding productive uses for their savings at satisfactory returns.

An intriguing, first-of-its-kind cultural history of the turn of the 1960s

In 1774 and 1775 the Loyalist Oliver family fled patriotic Middleborough mobs for the safety of Boston, leaving behind an industrial complex at Muttock that was one of the most productive in Massachusetts. Confiscated by the state, the former Oliver Iron Works were revitalized and expanded during the first half of the 19th century bringing prosperity to the surrounding village and its residents. The abandonment of shovel-making in the 1850s, however, led to the rapid decline of Muttock which remained forgotten for a century until the 1960s when Oliver Mill Park was created.An anthology of the best historical writings about Muttock as well as a guidebook to the history and architecture of the district, Muttock: Middleborough''s Revolutionary Village tells the fascinating story of a colonial New England village wracked by Revolutionary turmoil and 19th century industrial decline and how it was rediscovered a century later.

Do you love to color and relax? Enjoy 30 Beautiful full-page illustrations of Mandalas and their environments. Covered with paisleys, circles, flowers and other wild magical patterns, these wonderful mandala image scenes are from all kinds of backgrounds and witty designs. Let us take you on a journey designed to relieve stress and bring relaxation and fun for those who love to color from beginner to experienced colorists. Look out for more Coloring Books for Adults from this Author

"Initial testing and a preliminary calibration were conducted in the UMR supersonic variable Mach number axisymmetric blowdown wind tunnel facility. During initial operations problems were encountered with control valve seat failure, control valve response and stability, and automatic operation. After having brittle fracture failures with seats made of nylon, Teflon and Telfon-copper composite, a copper seat was found to perform satisfactorily with minimal valve leakage. Control valve response and stability were greatly influenced by the setting of the needle valve located between the total pressure probe and the controller. The needle valve setting was observed to depend upon the stagnation pressure, the supply pressure, and the rate at which the valve was stroked. The result of each of the various methods of automatic operation tried was a pressure overshoot, bursting bypass diaphragms. Through manual operation excellent repeatability of stagnation pressure was obtained. The tunnel calibration vats performed at a stagnation pressure of 180 psig. By means of schlieren flow visualization the free jet was found to be completely expanded at this pressure. From cone-shock angle measurements the test section Mach number was approximately 2.8. A more discreetly defined nozzle contour and improved machining and polishing techniques are needed to rid the flow field of Mach waves emanating from the nozzle. An estimate of the run time by an empirical quasi-steady isentropic analysis was found to be in good agreement with the experimentally determined value"--Abstract, leaf ii.

The project objective was to detail better ways to assess and exploit intelligent oil and gas field information through improved modeling, sensor technology, and process control to increase ultimate recovery of domestic hydrocarbons. To meet this objective we investigated the use of permanent downhole sensors systems (Smart Wells) whose data is fed real-time into computational reservoir models that are integrated with optimized production control systems. The project utilized a three-pronged approach (1) a value of information analysis to address the economic advantages, (2) reservoir simulation modeling and control optimization to prove the capability, and (3) evaluation of new generation sensor packaging to survive the borehole environment for long periods of time. The Value of Information (VOI) decision tree method was developed and used to assess the economic advantage of using the proposed technology; the VOI demonstrated the increased subsurface resolution through additional sensor data. Our findings show that the VOI studies are a practical means of ascertaining the value associated with a technology, in this case application of sensors to production. The procedure acknowledges the uncertainty in predictions but nevertheless assigns monetary value to the predictions. The best aspect of the procedure is that it builds consensus within interdisciplinary teams The reservoir simulation and modeling aspect of the project was developed to show the capability of exploiting sensor information both for reservoir characterization and to optimize control of the production system. Our findings indicate history matching is improved as more information is added to the objective function, clearly indicating that sensor information can help in reducing the uncertainty associated with reservoir characterization. Additional findings and approaches used are described in detail within the report. The next generation sensors aspect of the project evaluated sensors and packaging survivability issues. Our findings indicate that packaging represents the most significant technical challenge associated with application of sensors in the downhole environment for long periods (5+ years) of time. These issues are described in detail within the report. The impact of successful reservoir monitoring programs and coincident improved reservoir management is measured by the production of additional oil and gas volumes from existing reservoirs, revitalization of nearly depleted reservoirs, possible re-establishment of already abandoned reservoirs, and improved economics for all cases. Smart Well monitoring provides the means to understand how a reservoir process is developing and to provide active reservoir management. At the same time it also provides data for developing high-fidelity simulation models. This work has been a joint effort with Sandia National Laboratories and UT-Austin''s Bureau of Economic Geology, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, and the Institute of Computational and Engineering Mathematics.