Michael Powell

If you’re struggling in the modern world, or you just want to increase your repertoire of timeword life skills, what better place to look for inspiration than the past? Its easy to believe that we have all the answers, but there’s a whole heap of stuff we have forgotten that folks from days gone by actually knew how to do. You’ll be captivated by the ancient tips, careworn advice, and bygone suggestions inside this book. Step-by-step instructions...

If you spent your school days in a haze and you feel like you're missing some essential bits of knowledge, here's the perfect pocket guide to bring you up to speed. Within these pages are easy to read refreshers on basic knowledge in English, math, science, history, geography, the classics, and music, including: • Algebra, geometry, numbers, angles, and ratios • Literary terms, Shakespeare, great poets and novelists, and the rudiments of spelling...

Forty strange-but-true historical happenings-from a thirty-eight-minute war to the time when a top-hat caused a riot-from the author of Lies You Learned in School. Here are forty of the most curious events in world history. Though they span the centuries and circle the globe, they share one common trait: all were too peculiar to make it into the standard history books. Read these fascinating accounts and learn about: • The craze for consuming powdered...

You just accepted Jesus as your Savior. So what happens next? What does walking with Christ look like? That's exactly the question I asked myself days after I invited Jesus in to my life. I knew I wanted to attend as many church services as I could, but what about the other six days of the week? All I knew was I wanted to honor and please God and I had no clue how to do that! The purpose of this book is to quickly equip you, the new believer, with...

Create twenty unique and whimsical Christmas cross-stitch designs with this latest addition to the Twenty to Make series. Emulate Michael Powell's distinctive cross-stitch style to make Christmas cards or samplers as special gifts for friends and family. Designs range from festive candle arrangements to vintage winter street scenes, and each design is accompanied by an easy-to-follow stitching guide.

Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the vast 17.5-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is passion, passed from grandparent to parent to child. Rez Ball is a sport for winters where dark and cold descend fast and there is little else to do but roam mesa tops, work, and wonder what the future holds. The town has 4,500 residents and the high school arena seats 7,000. Fans drive...

Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.

A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.

Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry that his age and military experience are held in contempt,...