A comprehensive, accessible guide to the policies and practices of risk management in higher educationStudent affairs staff at all types of colleges and universities need to be equipped to help manage risk and protect their institutions, the people they serve, and their resources from unintended consequences. Risk Management in Student Affairs: Foundations for Safety and Success helps practitioners understand the sources of risk in their work, and the prac...

The July/August 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Our Dinosaur Theme Issue! Featuring new fiction by Sam J. Miller, K.M. Szpara, R.K. Kalaw, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry & A. Merc Rustad, Brooke Bolander, Brit E.B. Hvide, Alex Bledsoe, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Anya Ow, essays by Tobias S. Buckell, Alasdair Stuart, Marissa Lingen, and Tansy Rayner Roberts, and poetry by Mari Ness, Cassandra Khaw, Brandon O' Brien, Ali Trotta and Cynthia So, interviews with K.M. Szp...

Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment with the goal of identifying strategies that assist senior campus leaders as they respond to the challenges of a changing economic landscape and political climate. The contributors, experts in the field, bring to the forefront key issues relevant to advancing assessments in higher education-principles that culminate in impr...

Fantastic Universe started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. This is our third Fantastic universe Superpack. Collected in this over sized edition are more than 100,000 words of science fiction and fantasy. Escape back to the golden age of science fiction! 'Gods of the North' by Robert E. Howard ...

Almost every historian has set out by regretting how little is known of the early inhabitants of Great Britain—a fact which only the lovers of hoar antiquity deplore, since from all we can with certainty glean from the pages of contemporary history, we should find but little more to interest us than if we possessed written records of the remotest origin of the Red Indians; for both would alike but be the history of an unlettered and uncivilized race. The same dim obscurity, with scarcely a...

Master modern web and network data modeling: both theory and applications. In Web and Network Data Science, a top faculty member of Northwestern University’s prestigious analytics program presents the first fully-integrated treatment of both the business and academic elements of web and network modeling for predictive analytics.Some books in this field focus either entirely on business issues (e.g., Google Analytics and SEO); others are strictly a...

Some memories refuse to stay buried. Some forgotten places remember everyone who passed through them. And some unfinished stories continue breathing long after the final page.The Unfinished Files of Thomas Miller: Collected Volumes One–Three brings together the first nineteen files in Thomas Miller's haunting and deeply human short-fiction collection.Across forgotten motels, abandoned institutions, lonely rooms, troubled towns, war-torn landscapes, and places where the ordi...

The Best Work of Thomas Miller Vol. 2 brings together some of the author's most gripping, emotional, and chilling works. Known for his Southern Gothic style and haunting realism, Miller crafts stories where humanity's light and darkness collide—where forgotten towns hide terrible secrets, and ordinary people face extraordinary horror.This collection includes celebrated pieces such as The Collapse, Culling, and The Forgotten Friend at Asher and Brothers, alongside other fan-favorite works f...

The Mills family only wanted a quick stop — gas, food, and one night's rest at a bright little tourist trap off I-95 called South of the Border.But the exits loop back on themselves. The road signs lie. And the motel's neon lights never turn off.Inside the gift shops and diners, everyone smiles too wide. The food is always "on the house," and other travelers whisper warnings no one should ignore:Nobody leaves. Not really.Each free souvenir steals a little mor...

indness Murdered is a haunting, intimate literary novella that traces the slow, unflinching unraveling—and quiet reclamation—of a man's life beside the indifferent currents of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida.Thomas J. Melancholy, a once-generous writer now ravaged by end-stage heart failure, has retreated into a dim apartment where the fan blades slice thick air and ghosts of the past settle deeper with every breath. Years of one-sided kindness—loans t...

To succeed with predictive analytics, you must understand it on three levels:Strategy and managementMethods and modelsTechnology and codeThis up-to-the-minute reference thoroughly covers all three categories.Now fully updated, this uniquely accessible book will help you use predictive analytics to solve real business problems and drive real competitive advantage. If you’re new to the discipline, it will give you the strong foundation...

Drawing Fashion Accessories is a practical guide to illustrating footwear, millinery, bags and purses, cosmetic products and jewellery, offering a unique resource for students and professional fashion illustrators alike.Beginning with a discussion of the media available for drawing fashion accessories and how best to use them, together with a demonstration of various art styles, Miller then moves on to demonstrate the technicalities of drawing different products, including the spec...