An account of Martin Luther King's part in the campaign for civil rights in the USA.

"Will Jones' Space Adventures & The Money Formula" is a fun, exciting, space adventure story for five to eight year old boys and girls. It is the first book, in a series of eight, to be released. At the weekends and during the school holidays, Will Jones works for a farmer on Ozimoth. From afar, on the planet of Spectron, in outer space, and through very powerful technology, the friendly King of Spectron is observing how Will works with his money. The King is intrigued by Will's money formula and wants to know more! Will and Ben are mysteriously abducted from Ozimoth and now find they are on their journey into far out reaching space and to a planet they know nothing about! The spaceship safely lands on Spectron and all of the travellers safely leave the spacecraft. During their visit, both boys make many new friends. However, little does anybody realise, that the planet is about to be invaded! The invasion is happening! Will suddenly realises and thinks, '...I have left my money in the place!' Will runs up long winding corridors of inner Spectron. He is trying not to be seen; he slowly sneaks up to the outer planet and is suddenly caught by a very large warring soldier from the planet of Grigan. Will is grabbed by the scruff of the neck and taken into the inner, royal chamber of the palace. By Will showing the warring Grigan Leader and the King of Spectron how he works his money formula a major intergalactic war is avoided.

Soon after overthrowing the Tokugawa government in 1868, the new Meiji leaders devised ambitious plans to build a modern nation-state. Among the earliest and most radical of the Meiji reforms was a plan for a centralized, compulsory educational system modeled after those in Europe and America. Meiji leaders hoped that schools would curb mounting social disorder and mobilize the Japanese people against the threat of Western imperialism.

The sweeping tone of this revolutionary plan obscured the fact that the Japanese were already quite literate and had clear ideas about what a school should be. In the century preceding the Meiji restoration, commoners throughout Japan had established 50,000 schools with almost no guidance or support from the government. Consequently, the Ministry of Education's new code of 1872 met with resistance, as local officials, teachers, and citizens sought compromises and pursued alternative educational visions. Their efforts ultimately led to the growth and consolidation of a new educational system, one with the imprint of local demands and expectations. This book traces the unfolding of this process in Nagano prefecture and explores how local people negotiated the formation of the new order in their own communities.