Will your agency or students have the training to use the Internet in practice?Human Services Online: A New Arena for Service Delivery focuses on ways that Human Services are using the Internet for service delivery, community education, collaboration, advocacy, social change, and resource development. This valuable book highlights the array of innovative services now being offered on the Internet and provides guidelines and cautions for human service professionals in using the Inte...

A fresh look at school improvement from the perspective of professional development. There are many things that teachers can do to improve the conditions for learning and teaching in their own schools. This book shows how staff can take the initiative and identify areas in their school in need of attention, and tackle them. It provides case-study accounts of schemes in a number of schools, together with accounts of the action research based development work undertaken by teachers to improv...

It is six months since the Battle of Hawaii. The war to defend Taiwan has become World War III, and the surviving pilots of a rested and refitted Aggressor Inc. are thrown back into the fight as it moves across multiple fronts.On Japanese Kunashiri Island, the crew of a single Japanese Infantry Fighting Vehicle tries to hold back an entire Russian airborne company, while marauding Russian fighters pour into the skies overhead. A Chinese hacker captured off San Luis Obispo B...

The battle lines have been drawn.China has unleashed a new weapon of mass destruction on the world, and the US-led Coalition has no way to counter it. Sheltering in bunkers in the mountains south of Taipei, Taiwan’s government considers suing for peace. Taiwanese fisherman, Lin Hungyu, may have the answer. But his neighbors think he is mad, and the military won't take his calls.Who will listen to him?After losses in the Taiwan confl...

"The pacing is great, the character development is fabulous and the tech is both believable and terrifying" - JAF, former US Navy intel, drone pilot.It is six months since the Battle of Hawaii.The war to defend Taiwan has become World War III, and the surviving pilots of a rested and refitted Aggressor Inc. are thrown back into the fight as it moves across multiple fronts.On Japanese Kunashiri Island, the crew of a single Japanese Infantry Fighting Vehicle tries to ...

The night is always darkest before the dawn. For the surviving Aggressor Inc. pilots, dawn can't come fast enough.The Taiwan government is on the brink of collapse. From their hiding place on Xiuguluan Mountain, a United States-Taiwanese special ops team prepares to wage guerilla warfare. Their mission may demand the ultimate sacrifice, but could change the course of the war.The fog of war has become a pea soup.And from the fog, a m...

It is April 1 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced, it can disrupt the balance of power in the region.But what pilot would be crazy enough to run the Chinese blockade to deliver it?AGGRESSOR is the first audiobook in a new series that looks at the conflict that could spark the next World War, through the eyes of soldiers, sailors, civilians and aviators on all ...

Take a trip through the imaginations of 18 visionary writers as they explore the future of trucking in this new science fiction anthology! There's something for every genre fiction fan in this follow-up to the hit "18 wheels of Horror - a Trailer Full of Trucking Terrors."From the back cover: An alien fuel additive shows just how fast a big rig can go... A disembodied driver wages war on self-driving trucks... A haul through time takes an unexpected turn... Reality shatters for a t...

`Their book will be of interest to teachers who wish to be proactive rather than reactive. It will be important reading for anyone who wishes to undertake school-based research′ - Times Educational Supplement`This is a book which places teachers at the heart of inquiry for improvement. The realism, experience and optimism of each of the writers, shines through each page of the text. It is a "can-do" book which combines discussion of principles, practices and contexts with practical...

Bibliometrics in Social Work examiness the cross-disciplinary field of bibliometrics, including the multiple techniques and applications that have been described in the scholarly literature. Moving beyond this general overview, the authors examine applications of bibliometrics in social work. Subsequent chapters detail how the technique can be used to demonstrate the eventual impact on the field of publications in selected journals. These analyses are conducted using the bibliometric techn...

"I would place Holden with the best of the best military thriller writers . . . " —JAMIE MICHELE, READERS' FAVORITE, 5 STARSWith United States troops and aircraft on Taiwanese soil, and missiles flying across the Taiwan Strait, the world prepares itself for the war that has been building since the turn of the century . . .Will China back down, or double down? Will the fragile Western Coalition hold? Will regional conflict tip over into a global war? And wha...

It is April 1, 2038. Day sixty of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced, it can disrupt the balance of power in the region.But what pilot would be crazy enough to run the Chinese blockade to deliver it?Aggressor is the first novel in a new series that looks at the conflict that could spark the next World War, through the eyes of soldiers, sailors, civi...