Graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1901, Lily Paxton is out of funds and at loose ends. With no immediate family, not raised to work, and no husband in sight, she becomes a "visiting girl, " going from home to home among her married friends in Philadelphia. When the visiting circuit pales, Lily disappears, leaving her best friend Caroline a note saying she is off to an adventure out West. Lily keeps to herself that she is three months pregna...
This open access international scientific study provides an analysis of how the educational strategy of Universal Design for Learning can stimulate the process of inclusive education in different educational-cultural contexts and different areas of the educational system. The findings of the research deepen the conception of inclusive education and present an analysis of factors that are significant for developing the educational system as wel...
The ten-volume set LNCS 12949 - 12958 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2021, which was held in Cagliari, Italy, during September 13 - 16, 2021. The event was organized in a hybrid mode due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The 466 full and 18 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 1588 submissions. The books cover such top...
With the newly introduced 2 Term Examination Pattern, CBSE has eased out the pressure of preparation of subjects and cope up with lengthy syllabus. Introducing Arihant's CBSE TERM II - 2022 Series, the first of its kind that gives complete emphasis on the rationalized syllabus of Class 10th & 12th. The all new "CBSE Term II 2022 - Science" of Class 9th provides explanation and guidance to the syllabus required to study efficiently and succeed ...
A young mother of a two-month-old son, informed that her son's Father was murdered. The news set off a chain of life-changing events. Catapulting her into a new reality that threatens the life of her son. Marooned amid danger, desperation, and rejection, she learns her that only chance of survival lies in her faith in God. What begins as an unimaginable tragedy, leads to her joining the NYPD, and ultimately discovering her purpose in life.
A true lover will always find a way to cover themselves with Love.The reason why you should read this book:Open your heart, your emotions to the melody verse of love and what you feel inside of yourself. Each of these poems you will see the words that speak to your life in sad times, good times and love's time . . . and only you will know the time of your life that touches you in these words. Remember real love creates, it never destroys.Autho...
This story explores the extremes, the darkest aspects of narcissism left unchecked in a young, intelligent and attractive man who uses these attributes to rise to influence in southern Maryland and DC's political scene. Follow his life as he and a local journalist explore the life of James King, the darkest of the dark side.
Are you tired of hoping that those beholden to the wrong people will do the right thing? Decades of electoral work and activism have failed to bring us sustainability, peace, or a just society. Blessed Disillusionment shows that there is a reason: the political system operates to absorb discontent while averting the fundamental change we urgently need. This short book (140 pages before appendices) explains why the crises and upheaval we see in...
After the attacks of September Eleventh, the Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Independent Commission lobbied for a credible account of what happened without preconceptions about its ultimate finding. The government stonewalled for 14 months, then created the 9/11 Commission. Its senior staff produced an outline of the inquiry's Report, prescribing what it would conclude prior to the investigation. The families presented over a thousand q...
This up-to-date textbook of global vegetation ecology, which comprises the current state of knowledge, is long overdue and much-needed. It is a translation of the textbook "Vegetation der Erde" (Springer-Spektrum, Heidelberg). A short introductory chapter deals with the fundamentals of vegetation ecology that are of importance for the delimitation and characterization of the global vegetation presented in this book (chorology, evolution of pla...