Close your eyes, kick off your shoes - and take a journey through the wonderful forest where you will feel soft moss under your feet, hear birds, streams and breezes through fir trees, gaze upon a deep blue sky and arrive at an inner peace you have so desperately needed. As you open your eyes at the end of this soothing journey, you will feel a sense of relaxation and calm that has been missing from the grind of everyday life.

In the face of the gradual saturation of US public education by the logics of neoliberalism, educators often find themselves at a loss to respond, let alone resist. Through state defunding and many other “reforms” fueled by austerity politics, a majority of educators are becoming casual labor in US universities while those who hang onto secure employment are pressed to act as self-supporting entrepreneurs or do more with less. Focusing on the discipline of writing studies, this collection ...

The IT executive's ultimate handbook for survival in a rapidly changing economyThe Practical CIO: A Common Sense Guide for Successful IT Leadership provides needed advice for modern executives competing in a challenging global environment.Proactively establish goals for ITHold all vendors accountableExtract maximum value from existing IT investmentsManage and market the IT brandBuild relationships up, d...

The Modern Fidelity Claim Deskbook is a practical guide to handling technology-driven fidelity and crime claims. As digital risks evolve, so do policies, case law, and coverage challenges. This book helps professionals navigate complex losses, understand emerging insurance products, and apply legal and technical knowledge in today’s fast-changing landscape.Table of Contents:Theft and Technology’s Role in Modern Crime Losses and Claim InvestigationsI...

Discover your inherent skills, abilities, and gifts to build the ultimate successful life!Yes, you can learn to harness the unlimited power of the mind and unleash your true potential!All you need a get rich sure strategy that comes from taking one step at a time, consistently. But that crockpot mindset takes discipline, effort, perseverance, sweat, time, delaying gratification and much more but I can sure as hell tell you, it lasts! And you want success and money that last...

Discover how to Get It Right in your Moments That Matter—when the situation is complex and relational—and the stakes are high. Transform the outcome of your most challenging situations and interactions when you feel—Threatened by charged emotions or uncertaintyParalyzed by fear of saying (or doing) the wrong thing (again)Defeated by a relationship that seems damaged beyond repairPerplexed about how to achieve the results you des...

Whenever you hear the prevalent wailing blues harmonica in commercials, film soundtracks or at a blues club, you are experiencing the legacy of the master harmonica player, Little Walter. Immensely popular in his lifetime, Little Walter had fourteen Top 10 hits on the R&B charts, and he was also the first Chicago blues musician to play at the Apollo. Ray Charles and B.B. King, great blues artists in their own right, were honored to sit in with his band. However, at the age of 37, he lay in...

DEATH VALLEY EARNS ITS NAME when a terrorist threatens to unleash lethal radioactive toxins in America's most fragile national park.Forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws embark upon a perilous mission to find and stop the terrorist. Mineral clues lead them deep into the desert, and the canyons, pushing them to their limits. The summer heat is brutal. The material they seek is hotter than the desert in August, and they are each vulnerable to its effects.The ge...

Antarctica is home to the world’s largest concentration of wildlife in the coldest, windiest and driest place on earth. Cruise the Southern Ocean for a wandering albatross, land on continental beaches to sit with thousands of penguins, keep a sharp eye open for humpback whales against a backdrop of snow-covered mountains soaring upwards from the sea, marvel at orcas harrying Weddell seals off ice floes, or gawp at a leopard seal as it grabs and flays a penguin. Visiting Antarctica means be...

DEEP BENEATH THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO, a murder victim is dumped at an archaeological dig. A note pinned to his shirt warns we will bury you.The question is, who is you?Desperate to learn what happened--and what might happen next--investigators bring in forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws. They have a reputation for reading the rocks with an X-ray eye, and unlocking a case.The key to this case is finding out where the victim took his final steps...

THERE ARE PLENTY OF WAYS TO DIE in the Grand Canyon.Forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws investigate one way: trouble on the canyon's Colorado River. Stranded raft. Life vests unused. Rafters missing.The only clue to the fate of the rafters is a bag of pebbles caught in the bowline. Following that clue, the geologists uncover a hellish scheme. Not only are the rafters in peril, but the river itself is under attack.The race to stop it takes Cassie and...

A MYSTERY AT SEA plunges forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws into deadly waters.When a boat is found deserted off the California coast, it looks to be a simple fishing accident. But there is nothing ordinary going on here. The geologists track the strange incident to an even stranger project. Someone with toxic skills is at work in this sea.Cassie and Walter are forensic pros--but they are up against a master in an undersea world where they don't belong. Th...