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Life on a Caribbean island brings both pleasures and pitfalls. For
Elaine Carpelan, there's a comfortable place for her on the Danish
Caribbean island of King Christian. Her love of old and exquisite
items blends well with her career as an antiques appraiser and
manager of a small auction house where she's worked with the owner
Tom Haskin for the last ten years.
With her African Gray parrot Barley and her mutt Zeke, Elaine
relishes island life and the surprises each day brings-both on and
off the job. She is well aware that auctions have drama, but when
an alligator crashes one of her auctions Elaine finds herself
fodder for the local newspaper. Then there's the local furniture
restorer who dies suspiciously and the fire at a recently restored
historic home. Drugs are uncovered at another auction, while
tourists continue to ignore the undertow warnings at a local
beach.
Elaine hasn't thought about leaving this idyllic setting until
Chay, a Londoner in his mid-sixties, offers her a lucrative
business proposition. Elaine wonders if she can leave this tropical
paradise and move to England. She remembers a friend telling her,
"You take yourself with you wherever you go, you know."
This fun, smart guide to the human body answers kids' questions and
engages them with amazing facts, photos, illustrations, and
diagrams. The kid-friendly journey travels through the body and all
its systems and is sprinkled throughout with plenty of health tips,
top 10 lists, simple experiments, and weird-but-true wacky details.
Young readers will learn about age-appropriate medical history and
body basics, from cells and DNA to growth and aging.
Life on a Caribbean island brings both pleasures and pitfalls. For
Elaine Carpelan, there's a comfortable place for her on the Danish
Caribbean island of King Christian. Her love of old and exquisite
items blends well with her career as an antiques appraiser and
manager of a small auction house where she's worked with the owner
Tom Haskin for the last ten years.
With her African Gray parrot Barley and her mutt Zeke, Elaine
relishes island life and the surprises each day brings-both on and
off the job. She is well aware that auctions have drama, but when
an alligator crashes one of her auctions Elaine finds herself
fodder for the local newspaper. Then there's the local furniture
restorer who dies suspiciously and the fire at a recently restored
historic home. Drugs are uncovered at another auction, while
tourists continue to ignore the undertow warnings at a local
beach.
Elaine hasn't thought about leaving this idyllic setting until
Chay, a Londoner in his mid-sixties, offers her a lucrative
business proposition. Elaine wonders if she can leave this tropical
paradise and move to England. She remembers a friend telling her,
"You take yourself with you wherever you go, you know."
King Abdullah played an active role in the partition of Palestine
and, as a result, has always been viewed as one of the most
controversial figures in modern Middle East history. This book is
the first in-depth study of the historical and personal
circumstances that made him so. Born in Mecca in 1882 of a family
that traced its lineage to the Prophet Muhammad, Abdullah belonged
to the Ottoman ruling elite. He grew up in Istanbul and returned to
Mecca when his father was appointed Sharif in 1908. During the
First World War he earned nationalist credentials as a leader of
the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. Owing to his alliance
with Britain in the revolt, he emerged afterwards as a contender
for power in a Middle East now dominated by Britain. Despite
grandiose ambitions, Abdullah ended up as Britain's client in the
mandated territory of Transjordan. His dependence on Britain was
exacerbated by his situation in Transjordan, an artificial creation
with no significant cities, no natural resources, and little
meaning beyond its importance to British strategy. Within the
constraints of British interests, it was left to Abdullah to make
something of his position, and he spent the remainder of his life
looking beyond Transjordan's borders for a role, a clientele, or a
stable balance of interests which would allow him a future
independent of British fortunes. He found all three after 1948
when, in conjunction with the creation of Israel, he came to rule
the portion of Palestine known as the West Bank.
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