What Happened to Us is about searchers, dreamers, and second-chancers. From a firefighter with a secret, to a woman with a skin disease desperate for human touch, to a pregnant woman living on the streets, these are ordinary people striving with everyday hardships and joys. While the places may be familiar, the desires pulse with the extraordinary.

What Happened to Us is about searchers, dreamers, and second-chancers. From a firefighter with a secret, to a woman with a skin disease desperate for human touch, to a pregnant woman living on the streets, these are ordinary people striving with everyday hardships and joys. While the places may be familiar, the desires pulse with the extraordinary.These are beautiful stories, at once heartbreaking and hopeful, of people finding their way past the impossible, everyday trage...

Lab Manual for Social Science Statistics Using R is a hands-on, workbook-style text that introduces students to statistical analysis through active engagement with real data using R and RStudio®. Designed for introductory statistics and research methods courses, the book guides students step by step through the research process using data from the General Social Survey. Beginning with an orientation to R, RStudio, and data preparation, the text covers core statistical topics—inclu...

A helicopter dad nearly spins out of control as his sons struggle to master the knuckleball—and perhaps save baseball’s most storied pitch from extinction.The knuckleball is the only skill that can elevate an athlete without a superjock’s speed, strength, or explosive power to the Hall of Fame. Thrown without spin, it darts around unpredictably for reasons physicists and engineers labor to explain. It’s a secret weapon every pitcher should want to master, so why is...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Ossian McGinn, a traumatised ex-soldier from the Korean war, retreats to a remote island and a monastic community off the Scottish coast to wrestle with God and his demons. Not far from the island is the American nuclear base of Holy Loch.Written in the form of letters to Ossian’s psychiatrically confined younger brother, his correspondences reveal a growing paranoia that is both personal and political. Ossian interweaves day-to-day life on ...

This book examines, for the first time, how and why the Kop became the globally-renowned stand it is today.It is told through the eyes of Brian Reade, an award-winning journalist, Sunday Times best-selling author and Anfield regular for 60 years, the majority spent on the Kop where he is still a season-ticket holder. In that time he has witnessed, and written about, all the highs and lows of Britain's most successful football club.Reade traces the Kop's history bac...

Technology is everywhere. When used intentionally, it can be a powerful tool for connection, collaboration, and inclusion in early childhood classrooms. Connected Classrooms shows educators how to use digital tools in developmentally appropriate ways that enhance—not replace—human relationships.Written by a trusted expert in early childhood technology integration, this book shows how to utilize technology to support healthy social-emotional development. You’ll discover how...

What is the role of culture in human experience? How do we study it? This introductory cultural anthropology textbook helps readers explore and understand this crucial discipline from a Christian perspective. The third edition adds student engagement activities and has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout.This successful textbook covers standard topics in cultural anthropology with special attention given to Christian concerns, such as cultural relativism, missions, and s...

The 5th book in the Killer VHS Series, hailed as "the modern-day Goosebumps for Adults" by Horror Obsessive.She's making a list... and chopping it twice!In this sequel to the acclaimed slasher that Stephen Graham Jones called "a novella with a heart the size of a franchise," the survivors of the Christmas Eve carnage at the Thornton house head to the Church of Nodland to confront the local congregation. Little do they know that Candy Cain is coming to town ...

"A masterclass in slasher fiction." – FanFiAddict"A perfect book for gorehounds to devour on a cold Christmas night..." – Library JournalOh what fun it is to DIE!When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote cottage for Christmas, he’s less than thrilled about the forced bonding exercise. But after learning that their holiday getaway was the site of a horrific crime, this family on...

From a village in Southern Ireland to a hard-drinking, hard-loving and hard-living life in Hertfordshire and London - a time that seems long ago now, but is really only the recent past. Brian left the family cattle farm at fifteen, without any academic qualifications, and went on to have many hilarious exploits, all of which are detailed in this book (well, maybe not all). His tale is colourful, hilarious and not very PC, as you'll see when you read The Boy From Ballinamuck. Reviews: 'A bo...

This engaging volume in the People' s Bible Devotions series covers the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and 1 & 2 Samuel, a nearly 440-year history of God keeping his promises to his people. From the time of Joshua to King David, God was preparing his people' s hearts. He was setting the stage to fulfill the promise he made to their forefather, Abraham: " all peoples on earth will be blessed through you" (Genesis 12:3), a promise that pointed the descendants of Abraham by blood— and us, des...