In the title poem of Into the New World Robert Schultz takes the reader on a walk around the World Trade Center site shortly after its destruction. In response to this event, the book ranges through the extremes of war and peace, as well as backwards and forwards in time, searching for shards out of which to build an enabling, humane perspective. Schultz's voice is distinctive, yet he also has fashioned poems out of the nation-shaping prose of Emerson, Thoreau, and William James. Others ar...

Although human beings are technically part of the ecosystem, there still remains a conceptual conflict between technology and nature. These concerns highlight the idea of human superiority in which the priority is given to technology versus living in synchronization with nature. Technology versus Ecology: Human Superiority and the Ongoing Conflict with Nature explores the issues revolving around the conflict between technology versus human beings, the concern for the separation of human be...

1945: A World War II bomber mysteriously disappears in a storm and the wreckage was never found. All aboard presumed dead.Present day: Britten Garrett and fellow members of his salvage company get more than they bargained for when they search for the World War II bomber that went down in 1945 during a freak storm over the Teton Mountains in Wyoming and Idaho.Stumbling through an inter-dimensional portal, the salvage team find themselves struggling for survival on an alien w...

Deep in the clustered regions of the Spartus quadrant, the rogue planet Aster wanders, hidden from the searching fingers of the Colonian and Albion Empires. Here in exile, CJ Barker and Gunnar Conrad have established a base of operations. But Gunnar is determined to return to the planet Carolon in the Nulark system to retrieve the Asium crystals he and CJ left behind in their rush to escape the invasion forces of Queen Captain Drax Blair. With a full cluster of crystals, Gunnar’s Assault C...

You already know success is not about luck. So why does it still feel out of reach?The answer is simpler than you think, and closer than you realize. It starts with attitude, the lens through which you interpret every setback, every stressor, every choice you make from the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep. In Success 101: It Starts With Your Attitude, you will discover how to adjust your focus, reframe your problems, and respond to pressure...

In the aftermath of BLOOD HUNT, Marvel's newest team takes to the streets! Dagger! Elsa Bloodstone! White Widow! Hallows' Eve! They're hunting down the remaining vampires who threaten to spill innocent blood - including the deadly super-vamps of the Bloodcoven! But when a vampirized Miles Morales, A.K.A. Spider-Man, gets caught in the crosshairs…need we say it?! There will be blood! With Dagger in their clutches, the members of the Bloodcoven launch their endgame. Outnumbered and overwhelm...

This book integrates the growing clinical research evidence related to the emerging transdisciplinary field of occupational health and wellness. It includes a wide range of important topics, ranging from current conceptual approaches to health and wellness in the workplace, to common problems in the workplace such as presenteeism/abstenteeism, common illnesses, job-related burnout, to prevention and intervention methods. It consists of five major parts. Part I, “Introduction and Overviews,...

American Living Standards contends that the central problem of the U.S. economy has been for some years now, and for the foreseeable future will continue to be, the slowdown in the growth of living standards. This decline began in the early 1970s, was masked by a resort to overseas borrowing in the early 1980s, and now threatens to get worse in the years immediately ahead as the foreign debt bills come due. The editors and contributes to this volume seek to advance our understanding of the...

Sign of the Times and ConcreteIn Sign of the Times Bettys friend Carols c ARToons arent too popular in the school paper, but when Betty gets her to draw a sign for her bake sale, Carol may get a second chance at drawing a crowd! Then, in Concrete, Bettys traumatized when she hears her and Archies initials in the cement are about to be covered up! What ultimate gesture of his affection can Archie make to re-cement his love for Betty?

In Autobiography of a Baby Boomer you'll follow the journey of a post-modernist baby-boomer from Father Knows Best middle class Fair Lawn, New Jersey to the hippy trail through Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The overland journey in search of something more than he could find at Cornell University Medical College covers four years during a time when "dropping out," "turning on," and "free-love" were the gospel. Through his travels, drugs, séances, very far-out "Road People,...

Masters of New York is a story of one man conquering evil on behalf all of mankind. Joey Patroni has just returned to New York City after serving in Iraq. He has taken a job as driver for one of Americas most powerful men, David Rockefeller. As Joey travels through New York City along with brothers David and Laurance to meet the delegates of the ancient and highly secretive Red and Green Societies, they dare to cross paths with a gentleman from the oldest family of New York Citys eastern e...

Based on surveys with more than 5,000 gifted young adults, If I'm So Smart, Why Aren't the Answers Easy? sheds light on the day-to-day experiences of those growing up gifted. In their own enlightening words, teens share their experiences with giftedness, including friendships and fitting in with peers, school struggles and successes, and worries about the future. By allowing teens to share their real-life stories, the book gives readers a self-study guide to the successes and pitf...