Toying with the fabric of reality, scientists have unleashed another unspeakable horror upon the universe. When crossing dimensions of time and space, alien animals and soldiers are twisted into unreal and violent forms so distant that when they arrive they no longer retain their original natures.Whom do we have to defend us? Our elected leaders aren't what they seem, we've got a parking lot full of bizarre space ships locked up in a facility in the southeastern United States, and ...

Problem-based learning (PBL) represents a widely recommended best practice that facilitates both student engagement with challenging content and students' ability to utilize that content in a more flexible manner to support problem-solving. This edited volume includes research that focuses on examples of successful models and strategies for facilitating preservice and practicing teachers in implementing PBL practices in their current and future classrooms in a variety of K-12 settings and ...

With the growing advances in technology and transformation to digital services, the world is becoming more connected and more complex. Huge heterogeneous data are generated at rapid speed from various types of sensors. Augmented with artificial intelligence and machine learning and internet of things, latent relations, and new insights can be captured helping in optimizing plans and resource utilization, improving infrastructure, and enhancing quality of services.A “spatial data ma...

On a cool early morning, science teacher Destin Kelly made his way to work. He didn't know they had escaped. He didn't know they would overrun the town. He didn't know they would change his life forever. Deep red, soft lovable fur. Fiery breath exploding across his classroom. Can he keep them a secret?A science experiment has gone wrong, and the science teacher and his family that find themselves in the middle of it all when rabbits under experiment at a local lab burst out and inv...

Welcome to Crescent View, a sleepy mountain town cloaked in fog and holiday cheer—but all is not as it seems. Nancy Charming never planned to spend her Christmas investigating paranormal mysteries. Still, when a logging crew is savagely attacked under a full moon, and the evidence vanishes beneath supernatural regrowth, she realizes this trip will be far from ordinary.With her spectral mentor, Zack, and her ever-pragmatic father, Ted, in tow, Nancy must unravel the town's eerie secr...

Presenting time‑tested standards as well as validated emerging knowledge on threaded fasteners and bolted joints, this updated edition covers how to design, select parts and materials, control assembly processes, predict behavior, and solve on‑the‑job problems.This handbook examines key issues affecting bolting in the automotive, pressure vessel, petrochemical, aerospace, energy, and structural steel industries. The editors have successfully created a useful rather than scholarly h...

A King Without a Face. A Hunter Without a Choice. A Battle Beyond the Grave.On the planet of Memphis, King Ronald Tiberius—Rev to his foes—rules with a skeletal fist, his flesh long rotted but his hunger for power more potent than ever. When Zed, a hardened zombie hunter, is dragged into Rev's lair, escaping with his life—let alone his soul—will take more than firepower.Meanwhile, fearless warrior Nancy Charming races against time to uncover ancient secrets in cursed tombs. A...

From the early 1960s to the 1970s, the province of Ontario witnessed an explosion in university enrolment. So dramatic was the increase that there were neither the institutions nor the faculty in place to meet the demand. In response, a dozen new universities from Trent in the southeast to Lakehead in the northwest were established, and faculty had to be recruited wherever they could be found. It was the events and developments of this decade, many argue, that created the university system...

Holding Forth the Word of Life is a collection of essays offered to honor Tim Meadowcroft on his retirement from Laidlaw College. An international authority on Daniel, over the last twenty-five years Tim has established himself as one of New Zealand's leading biblical scholars. While specializing in Old Testament, Tim has taught and published in New Testament as well as hermeneutics and theological interpretation of Scripture. Beyond academic work he has also remained committed to the chur...

A collection of three novellas and two short stories, Longevity and Other Stories, is an eclectic sample of John Saye's style. Learn how warped and confusing it might be to live forever. Follow a twisted tale of deep-dwelling aliens set against the backdrop of a London populated with rats and frogs in waistcoats and top hats. Find out what it's like to run away with the monster you love.Contained are:LongevityShadow StreetThe Monster of Blueberry F...

Flint has to change or die. He's a police officer on the beat for the last seventy years, still physically young due to advances in medical science, it's all he's ever known.Around him, all the new recruits have robotic partners who do their paperwork and chase down the more agile criminals for them.After he loses his partner, he's got to choose. To continue on the force, he'll have to take on one of these new androids, but he doesn't it's forced retirement.To avenge h...

Written to honour the life and work of the late Peter N. Oliver, the distinguished historian and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History from 1979-2006, this collection assembles the finest legal scholars to reflect on the issues in and development of the field of legal history in Canada.Covering a broad range of topics, this volume examines developments over the last two hundred years in the legal profession and the judiciary, nineteenth-century prison hi...