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Increase students' ability to comprehend spoken Spanish, express their ideas & opinions, and analyze cultural perspectives while challenging fixed beliefs and cultural stereotypes. These outcomes motivated the respected author team of Así lo veo, the first Intermediate Spanish program to use a documentary, filmed specifically for the program, as the basis for instruction and learning. Since a documentary captures real situations and personal p...

In the decade since the signing of the Ottawa Treaty, which banned the production and use of anti-personnel mines, governments have spent over $3 billion on clearing up and mitigating the security threat of mines, cluster munitions and other unexploded ordnance in the world's current and former war zones. However, this flow of cash into regions dominated by violent social structures raises numerous political issues. Through detailed archival a...

I have not come to bring peace, but a sword..."What do you do when you are chosen by God to speak a word that few may wish to hear?Johnnie Goolsby returns with "Resurrection". "Resurrection", the third book in the blockbuster series of books that give her personal testimony, ("Stone the Builders Rejected", "While I Kept Silence") continues with the emotional and powerful story of her life- and how God miraculously uses someone, with seemingly ...

At the end of its five hundred year life, the Phoenix builds a nest of spices, perches on it, and sings until the sunlight sets it alight, both nest and bird burn completely away and a new young Phoenix bird arises from the ashes.' The consequences of a mother taking the secret of her new-born child's paternity to the grave, are grave indeed.Joseph Elliot, Lizzibeth Buxton and Henry Ferguson, are unlikely childhood soul-mates through a fortuit...

This is a true story about love at first sight, it happened to a middle aged couple who fell in love and became an inspirational partnership which lead to a loving marriage. In their small little exhibition stand and graphic design studio, working hard together, having normal ups and downs like all businesses go through. When down, together their love, comfort and being always together got them over these problems. On the ups, they enjoyed the...

What kind of person would want to become a Lighthouse Keeper ? Spending weeks and months in a tower, miles from shore, and in the front line of the very worst of weather conditions. The sea crashes into the structure, and climbs to the very top, shaking the lighthouse tower, and quivering the crockery. With only the company of two others, wasn't it boring and monotonous? Did you ever fall out with each other? How did it feel to be stuck, overd...

Anyone can admire the first period of Tatiyana's life, from the time she was three year old, when was given by her mother to grand parents, to the moment she was able to work, in the beginning as a sanitary in a Medical Clinic, and further to work in the most hard conditions, at Nova Zemlya, close to the North Pole of the Earth, at the Russian Nuclear Facilities. Her love relations were a disaster, and all have finished in a tragic way. Her ba...

This book is about the thinking and courage to do what needs doing to innovate and build prosperity. It is a book about the benefits of individual freedom. Schools teach children to color, write and print between the lines, observe the rules, wrap their minds in a bubble of disciplines to discourage living out of a community box. Children learn to behave as members of a managed herd, avoiding challenging that which is accepted and established ...

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This book deals with the many problems we encounter as human beings. It deals with the pain we encounter in this life, whether it comes by the way of physical, emotional, sexual abuse or rejection. A lot of people don't realize where their pain originated. There are those who don't even realize they are in pain. They only know that they are failing miserably in life and would like to find a way to overcome. Reading this book will definitely po...

Kate loves horses. After a tragedy in her family, there are no longer any horses on their farm. Kate's father will not even consider getting any more horses. Kate meets a wild stallion, falls in love and names him Kon. She finds a mystery concerning Kon's past that she did not even know existed. Kate almost loses her life trying to save Kon. Has she gone too far? How will her father react to Kon?

Diane Pellicciotti Kone weaves an electrifying web of intrigue and suspense, carrying the reader on a thrilling adventure from the tranquil, serene splendor of the Finger Lakes Region of Central New York to the squalid, sordid streets of East Harlem. Susan Johnson's fatal death is shockingly proclaimed a "homicide". The popular, kind hearted teacher, still mourning the loss of her child, somehow becomes linked to gang members, drug dealers and...

Diane Pellicciotti Kone weaves an electrifying web of intrigue and suspense, carrying the reader on a thrilling adventure from the tranquil, serene splendor of the Finger Lakes Region of Central New York to the squalid, sordid streets of East Harlem. Susan Johnson's fatal death is shockingly proclaimed a "homicide". The popular, kind hearted teacher, still mourning the loss of her child, somehow becomes linked to gang members, drug dealers and...

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Knights' Tales is a collection of short stories, created by eight different authors, with each writer contributing a work of art, tempered by her own personal experiences. Their tales cover a gamut of themes, each one incisive and poignant, and each one articulating a basic human need. These writers may only be middle school-aged, but their minds and hearts are already delving into the fundamental needs of humanity. Knights' Tales is the secon...

Knights' Tales is a collection of short stories, created by eight different authors, with each writer contributing a work of art, tempered by her own personal experiences. Their tales cover a gamut of themes, each one incisive and poignant, and each one articulating a basic human need. These writers may only be middle school-aged, but their minds and hearts are already delving into the fundamental needs of humanity. Knights' Tales is the secon...

Arborist Matthew Largess began his forestry career by killing giant redwoods as part of an experimental helicopter operation in the Oregon wilderness. When he wasn't busy killing trees he could be found partying on Ken Kesey's bus, sawing through a crowded bar with his chainsaw in a drug and alcohol-induced rage, or hopelessly attempting to quench his sex addiction with some questionable act with a random woman.Treehugger is the story of how h...

In September of 1992, I entered into the United States Marine Corps boot camp, with zero military background and a desire to be challenged and see the world. My family in Jamaica were shocked, because I was a quiet young man, that loved a good book, and enjoyed being a dedicated Christian in my community. I did not need discipline, but what I got out of boot camp was life changing. After 13 weeks I was among the few the proud the Marines. Many...

Sometimes life requires us to make a leap of faith. Lee Murphy is a good runner - he finishes near the front in his local running club's races - but he thinks he should be better. He has tried everything he can think of to improve, but nothing works until a chance conversation with acquaintance and fellow runner Emily Dawson leads him to clinical psychologist Lucinda Gehringer, Emily's boss. Lucinda's instruction, Emily's friendship and Lee's ...

Just outside the wee village of Ballantrae, Scotland, lies Glenapp Castle, an abandoned manor with a tragic and mysterious past. When Eva and Andrew Campbell buy the fire-ravaged castle and its thirty-acre estate on a whim with plans to create an exquisite hotel by the sea, they dismiss warnings of ghostly spirits inhabiting their new home. It soon becomes clear there is indeed something mysterious within the walls of Glenapp Castle, something...