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In this insightful study, John McCain and Mark Salter examine the qualities that define great decisions. They also identify inspiring people who have engaged in difficult decision-making. Ranging from the political judgments made by Abraham Lincoln to the athletic trials faced by swimmer Gertrude Ederle, each chapter of Hard Call illustrates an exceptional choice made in challenging circumstances.

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Volume 59 in the Advances in Genetics serial provides nine chapters on the most advanced research on the differentiating behaviors among sexes. With more than 300 pages of articles from leading international scientists, this volume offers genetic behaviorial information related to drosophila, mice, birds, voles, and mammals. Hot topics include sex differences in brain and behavior, genomic imprinting and the evolution of sex differences, gene ...

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Some of my poetry is inspired by someone's action, some come by way of sight, sound or a feeling I may have. Some of my poems don't come at all. Those are the most challenging ones because they force me to go in search of them. I jot a poem because it's fun and it's a contribute to society. Even if no one knows I've penned the verse, it gives me pleasure knowing it has been created and at any time someone may read it. I can only hope they enjo...

Some of my poetry is inspired by someone's action, some come by way of sight, sound or a feeling I may have. Some of my poems don't come at all. Those are the most challenging ones because they force me to go in search of them. I jot a poem because it's fun and it's a contribute to society. Even if no one knows I've penned the verse, it gives me pleasure knowing it has been created and at any time someone may read it. I can only hope they enjo...

On September 5, 1945, Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko severed ties with his embassy in Ottawa, Canada, reporting allegations to authorities of a Soviet espionage network in North America. His defection , the first following the end of WWII, occurring less than a month after atomic bombs exploded over Japan , sent shockwaves through Washington, London, and Ottawa. The three allies, who until weeks earlier had been aligned with the Soviets, fe...

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Madeline Spencer is ready to start her new job as a veterinarian, but she isn't ready for the tumble her emotions take when Gavin Marshall shows up at her house riding his Harley. Madeline is trying to rid herself of the guilt she has carried since her brother's death in a motorcycle accident twelve years ago. Will this prove impossible for her now?

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When aspiring artist and purposefully single Sophie Montgomery mutters those four fateful words, her sexy neighbor, Jay Coltrane, pounces on the opportunity to prove she's not as immune to him as she thinks. Before she knows it, Sophie finds herself not only betting against a seduction, she's betting against her own ability to keep her dreams intact and a certain luscious landscaper out of them.

These articles lend themselves to active reading, giving kids a great place to annotate and work out their thinking as they read." --Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis In response to the overwhelming demand for more high-quality, age-appropriate nonfiction texts, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have developed the four-volume series Toolkit Texts: Short Nonfiction for Guided and Independent Practice. Each volume provides a library of age-appro...

Unable to break into the tenured groves of academe, despite a solid and well-received doctoral dissertation, Chamberlin spent several decades of his life working as a historian, archivist, university teacher, lecturer, poet, essayist and writer of longer and shorter fictions while living in Manhattan, Germany, France, Italy, Washington DC and Greece. In 2001 he retired from an executive position at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washing...

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The text begins with the explaining our molecular structure and how we are created with the same type of atoms but remain absolutely different one from the other. The author traces molecules from mother and father to the final birth of the baby with a new molecular structure. Searching for the "truth" reveals why people cannot agree on what the "truth" is. Word power is discussed to explain how various religions define themselves. Brain, mind,...

The function of this book is to help new Christians to understand the meaning and importance of the step they have just taken: 'to establish you alive and free in Christ through genuine repentance and faith in God.' Dr Anderson provides readers with a short, pithy summary of the main realities of spiritual life - the basics of Christian salvation, casting aside the spiritual entanglements of the past, seeing through patterns of deception, over...

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