Sometimes the key to unlocking your powers is one night in the forest.Magic has never come easily to me-And Neither have I. Frankly, I'm sick of it. So desperate times and all that, and I find myself actually going to a local Lupercalia festival, not a solitary witch's dream outing.I’m going for a power boost, but I end up finding a wayward Cupid and a lone Werewolf who've set their Lupercalia sights on me.I like being alone. I'm not lookin...

Without the support of airlift, the modern American military machine would be brought to a standstill. Since World War II--beginning with the Cold War and continuing up to the present day--the U.S. armed forces have come increasingly to rely upon airlift for mobility. The power to rapidly move and thereafter support a military operation--anywhere in the world, at any time--has become a foundational element of American defense policy. This work provides the reader with a comprehensive histo...

New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor Beasley's career and point to new directions of critical inquiry. The initial essays, which discuss Tobias Smollett, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Samuel Richardson, suggest new directions ...

Taking a Vygotskian sociocultural stance, this book demonstrates the meaningful role that L2 teacher educators and L2 teacher education play in the professional development of L2 teachers through systematic, intentional, goal-directed, theorized L2 teacher education pedagogy. The message is resoundingly clear: Teacher education matters! It empirically documents the ways in which engagement in the practices of L2 teacher education shape how teachers come to think about and enact their teach...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The lives of green-eyed Heath, sweet Lily Mae, and her son, three evil men, and two police officers, collide one cold snowy night.Sudden life-changing decisions have to be made, courage or cowardice, which affects all like ripples in a pond.This isn't a movie; the good doesn't always triumph..Many "sound effects" in this audiobook!

Transform Your Connections with EmpowermentDiscover the power of self-empowerment in "Empowerment: The Catalyst for Transforming Relationships." This insightful guide explores how embracing your personal power can revolutionize your connections. Learn to master self-empowerment by rewriting your life's narrative, breaking free from limiting beliefs, and adopting a growth mindset that fosters authentic relationships built on trust and mutual respect.Challenge negative self-nar...

Best-selling author Octavia E. Butler's acclaimed novels have won numerous awards, and she is a recipient of a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Parable of the Talents was selected as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of horrifying depravity. Assault, theft, sexual abuse, slavery, and murder are commonplace. Taking advantage of the situation, a zealous, bigoted tyrant wins his way...

Embracing a sociocultural perspective on human cognition and employing an array of methodological tools for data collection and analysis, this volume documents the complexities of second language teachers’ professional development in diverse L2 teacher education programs around the world, including Asia, South America, Europe, and North America, and traces that development both over time and within the broader cultural, historical and institutional settings and circumstances of teachers’ w...

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LEW WALLACE Premium Collection: Historical Novels, Poetry & Plays (Illustrated) gathers the range of Wallace's literary imagination, from the sweeping religious-historical vision of Ben-Hur to romances of empire, conquest, and moral trial. Written in the elevated, richly descriptive idiom of nineteenth-century historical fiction, these works combine antiquarian detail, dramatic incident, and earnest spiritual inquiry. The illustrated format further situates Wallace within the popular cultu...

Users Guide to Ecohydraulic Modelling and Experimentation has been compiled by the interdisciplinary team of expert ecologists, geomorphologists, sedimentologists, hydraulicists and engineers involved in HYDRALAB IV, the European Integrated Infrastructure Initiative on hydraulic experimentation which forms part of the European Community‘s Seventh F

A proven systems approach to driving innovation and strategy in complex technical organizationsThe call for corporate innovation is often celebrated in theory, but innovation is rarely achieved at scale within established technical organizations. Developing the Innovative Technical Organization: How to Implement a Systems Approach to Strategy addresses this challenge by exploring how the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) successfull...