The Sci-Fi and Fantasy of Tomorrow Selected by Masters of Today
28 Award-winning Authors and Illustrators
Get ready to get carried away . . . to places no one has ever gone before.Turn the page . . . from dark fantasy to dystopian nightmare, from magical realism to military science, from paranormal urban fantasy to post-apocalyptic power trips . . . and beyond.Take flight on a starship powere...

This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements:Links to videos of teachers demonstrating autonomy-supportive instructional behaviorPop-up explanations that help readers better understand chapter key conceptsThis is a book about teachers’ classroom motivating styles. Motivating style is the interpersonal tone and face-to-face behavior the teacher relies on when trying to motivate students to engage in classroom activities and procedures. The o...

As the first two books of poems published by Chipminka clearly showed, John has experienced severe mental problems due to a savage sexual assault and rape. This volume shows the therapeutic and cathartic value of the act of writing in overcoming such problems. This is a good example of attention to the daily habit of creativity. John, in this volume, clearly demonstrates how writing has transformed a series of major personal problems into opportunitiesabove all, the opportunity to transfor...

This is a collection of poems created at odd moments, day and night. This is the seventh in a series that began a number of years ago when John was savagely raped in the workplace. The book means so much to John. There is a constant sense of pure delight and fascination with words in this. John here distils his own idiosyncratic sense of the word and the world he finds himself in.

MANAGING YOUR OWN HEALTH CRISIS is an essential guide designed to empower families with the knowledge and tools to confidently handle both common and complex health issues.Packed with comprehensive, well-organized, and balanced insights, this book covers critical topics such as inflammation, allergies, irritable bowel syndrome, fatigue, hormonal imbalance, and more. It also offers scientific explanations for everyday struggles like exhaustion, anxiety, and depressi...

This second volume explores Jung’s understanding of synchronicity and argues that it offers an important contribution to contemporary science. Whilst the scientific world has often ignored Jung’s theories as being too much like mysticism, Haule argues that what the human psyche knows beyond sensory perception is extremely valuable.Divided into two parts, areas of discussion include:shamanism and masteryborder zones of exact sciencemeditat...

Get the other side of the argument. Was St. Patrick part of a Celtic Church that was separate from the See of Rome?Did he come under the jurisdiction of the Church of Britain, a Celtic form of early Christianity or did he submit to the Pope? Was St. Patrick a proto-Protestant?Like the Early Church after the Apostles, and like every Christian movement down through history like the Novatianists, Donatists, Waldenses, Moravians and Anabaptists, Protestant and Evangelical Chris...

This book examines the Eurozone crisis and the possibility of fiscal and political union in Europe, with contributions from some of the most respected experts on these topics. The book explains the complex, multidimensional crises in competitiveness, fiscal matters, banking and politics. During the crisis Germany has been criticized for misjudging the causes, focusing too much on fiscal deficits and insisting that the solution is fiscal consolidation and austerity. For many, especially tho...

It is one thing to study history and its quite another to have lived it. John J. (Pat) Ryan, a retired USAF lieutenant colonel has done just that. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1920, he grew up during the Great Depression. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Pat applied for and was accepted into the U.S. Army Aviation Cadet program. To fly had been his lifelong dream and WWII gave him his chance to make it come true. He was one of the blessed ones that survived combat in WWII, the Korean...

This study examines the concept of battle command from a modem historical perspective. It analyzes the decision making and leadership displayed by Lieutenant General Franks during the planning, preparation and execution of Operation Desert Storm to determine if General Franks exhibited the principles of battle command. Decision making and leadership are the two major components of battle command, a concept championed by Franks following Desert Storm, and, as such serve to frame the discuss...

Compliant parents are what Julianna loves most about her job. Thankfully, most patients listen to her. After all, she is a nurse. Yet even the most well-intentioned parents can push back, especially when it comes to vaccinating their children. Paulina and Reuben Gonzalez wrestle with the decision whether to vaccinate their new baby for hepatitis B and, eventually, fifteen other diseases. The very mention of infectious disease strikes fear into the heart of every parent, so they want to mak...

This book, intended to commemorate the work of Paul Dirac, highlights new developments in the main directions of Clifford analysis. Just as complex analysis is based on the algebra of the complex numbers, Clifford analysis is based on the geometric Clifford algebras. Many methods and theorems from complex analysis generalize to higher dimensions in various ways. However, many new features emerge in the process, and much of this work is still in its infancy.Some of the leading mathe...