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The main character, "Jack", is a compilation of stories that happened to me and to others. Some of it real, some creative writing. However, when you read this, know, that the title "Soldiers Promise" came from an actual promise made to the family and Soldiers that deployed with me. I designed this character "Jack" to show someone progress from selfish to selfless, as did so many others that I had the pleasure to serve with. To all of you I hav...

Eine kompakte Darstellung der Geschichte Österreichs von der ersten Besiedlung durch den Menschen in der Urzeit bis zum 21. Jahrhundert. Zahlreiche Völker wie die Kelten, Römer, Awaren, Slawen, Franken und Bayern haben hier ihre Spuren hinterlassen. Zwei große Herrscherdynastien - die Babenberger und die Habsburger - haben dieses Land beherrscht und geformt, das sich ab dem 20. Jahrhundert zu einem österreichischen Nationalstaat entwickelte. V...

Der polnische Mikrobiologe und Wissenschaftstheoretiker Ludwik Fleck gilt seit langem als Klassiker der Wissenschaftstheorie und erlebt derzeit eine Renaissance, die sich durch die verschiedenen Disziplinen zieht. Die neue Studienausgabe trägt dem Rechnung und versammelt bekannte und unbekannte Texte Flecks - zum Teil erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung - sowie biographisches Material und Briefe. Dokumentiert wird die ganze Breite von Flecks Den...

Classical statistical theory—hypothesis testing, estimation, and the design of experiments and sample surveys—is mainly the creation of two men:  Ronald A. Fisher (1890-1962) and Jerzy Neyman (1894-1981).  Their contributions sometimes complemented each other, sometimes occurred in parallel, and, particularly at later stages, often were in strong opposition.  The two men would not be pleased to see their names linked in this way, since through...

In the 1980’s, on the sidewalks of San Francisco, amateur astronomer John Dobson began showing throngs of people how to build and use large aperture scopes, often from scraps. The Dobsonian, ‘Dobs, ’ are now the best-selling large telescopes in the world. There are a great variety of different Dob styles, ranging from elaborate and decorative creations to simple mass market designs, and new models appear all the time. In this title, Neil Engli...

In its original formulation, 'culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating 'the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture has lost its missionary role and has become a means of seduction: it seeks no longer to enlighten the people but to seduce them. The function of culture today is not to satisfy existing needs b...

This is a practical handbook for designing and teaching hybrid or blended courses that focuses on outcomes-based practice. Starting with a brief review of the relevant theory, this addresses the practicalities of planning a hybrid course, offers criteria for determining the appropriate mix of face-to-face, online, and experiential components for a course, and guidance on creating social presence online.

This is a practical handbook for designing and teaching hybrid or blended courses that focuses on outcomes-based practice. Starting with a brief review of the relevant theory, this addresses the practicalities of planning a hybrid course, offers criteria for determining the appropriate mix of face-to-face, online, and experiential components for a course, and guidance on creating social presence online.

Documents cases of Pentecostal/charismatic-like spiritual events and encounters from all periods of Church history

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Overwhelmingly, Black teenage girls are negatively represented in national and global popular discourses, either as being "at risk” for teenage pregnancy, obesity, or sexually transmitted diseases, or as helpless victims of inner city poverty and violence. Such popular representations are pervasive and often portray Black adolescents' consumer and leisure culture as corruptive, uncivilized, and pathological. In She's Mad Real, Oneka LaBennett...

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An in-depth exploration of welfare fraud in America, focusing on both victims of complex public policy and those who manipulate the system

DCI Forsyth amd DS MacRae are called to a house from which a young lady has been kidnapped and where they find the sister and brother of the victim at loggerheads about the involvememt of the police. The first attempt to pay the ransom is aborted when the bug hidden in the money is found to have been removed by one of a small number of possible suspects. At the second attempt, the room in which the ransom is to be handed over is under surveill...

Sophie's in danger and running away with no destination in mind. When she gets word someone's willing to help her, never did she dream she'd fall into the arms of a man who would help her rebuild from everything she's lost.

Captain Chase Anderson is a distinguished war veteran, widow, and single mother in charge of Public Affairs at the base in Hawaii. After a Marine-81 helicopter-the very model her husband, Stone, was flying when he crashed in Afghanistan-goes down five miles off the coast of Oahu, Chase begins to suspect a conspiracy to minimize, even hide, the defects within the Marine-81. Despite threats to her career, Chase follows her hunch, and the search ...

Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of renowned scholars from around the world, the Handbook of Children and the Media is an all-inclusive, comprehensive analysis of the field for students and researchers. This book summarizes the current scope of research on children and the media, suggests directions for future research, and attempts to provide students with a deliberate examination of how children use, enjoy, learn from, and are ad...

Taken from their families and raised to be assassins, Moonlight and Tiger are the perfect weapons and secret lovers. Even when they are sent into service with different clans, their love remains pure and strong until a more insidious threat divides them. When Moonlight realizes his master is manipulating people for his own ends, the discovery threatens not only Tiger, but their entire society. Betrayed by a fellow assassin, the men are torture...

Peggy Rusike grew up in Zimbabwe. She was the chairperson of Zimbabwe Women Writers Harare Branch from 1997 -1999.This is Peggy Rusike's first novel. She has published short stories, and newspaper articles. The time she wrote this book she was living in the United Kingdom.