The specific—and varied—ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern, particularly as educators are increasingly called on to implement these processes for improvement, accountability, or curricular development purposes. Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education showcases contemporary research that explores innovative uses of assessment and evaluation in a variety of educational c...

Trey Bennett's an ex-con. Loren Williams is an East Coast socialite.He saves her life when they're stranded in a blizzard, but she could make or break his.Will love make it all right in time for Christmas?A sweet romance about the healing power of love, this wholesome, clean-read novella is part of the Green Pines Romance series.

When a supermodel with a string of bad news boyfriends "wins" a volunteer firefighter at a charity bachelor auction, Rose and Ryan might both discover they've found their perfect Christmas match.A fun and romantic holiday tale set in the fictional town of Green Pines, Illinois.

People demonstrate leadership whenever they take responsibility for change in their environment, because they believe things can or must be different. Leaders have a personal story to tell. About the challenges in the real world. About their striving for higher ideals and their quest for a better future. They question the status quo, hold themselves and others up to the mirror, take the first steps towards change and further develop themselves as an example and instrument of that change. T...

This book presents a thorough and critical evaluation of the monetary and financial system prevalent in Western economies. Further, it seeks to explain why this system so often leads to financial crises and why they have been dealt with unsatisfactorily in the past.In order to provide answers to these questions, the book investigates the monetary and financial system from a multidisciplinary perspective, with a strong focus on the ethical value choices which throughout history have...

Let these Six Isolated Futures take you on a thrilling ride through different universes that will have you turning pages faster than the speed of light. All six stories in the series in one volume with a preface from the author.#1: Forced to be FreeA near-future techno thriller novelette.Young and brilliant hacker Sam takes a job at a defence contractor to fight for his freedom in a Europe that is about to be overrun by the Russian Federati...

LGBT rights have become increasingly salient within the EU enlargement process as a litmus test for Europeanness. But the promotion of these norms has provided a basis for political contestation. This book interrogates the normative dimensions of the EU enlargement process, with special reference to LGBT politics. Reconceptualising Europeanisation, it argues that EU enlargement is a process of negotiated transformation in which EU policies and norms are (re)defined, translated and transfor...

WINNER: CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2015 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Category (1st edition)Many organizations approach customer-centic marketing and innovating their business strategy in isolation to one another, missing groundbreaking opportunities for advancement. Customer Innovation, second edition, turns this on its head by starting with the customer, innovating around their needs, then building a customer led business...

What we do in life often does come back to us. This is not all that comes our way in life. We can only control what we initiate.In My Egotistical Opinion is a collection of what author Harlen Koen would want to say to his children if he had teenage or older children. This book is for teenagers, young adults, adults, and seniors. Hopefully those who read this book will not have to spend a lifetime to learn what he learned the hard way. It includes talk about sex, narcotics,...

Bo Jacobs has quit his well-paid job in the Netherlands and emigrated to Dubai to become a private investigator. After successfully completing his first major assignment – tracking down a Dutch oil products trader – he is asked by Paul Walker to investigate whether money laundering is taking place in his real estate agency. Soon after a visit to the Dubai Marina Bo is threatened with a weapon, and two days later an employee of Paul Walker is found murdered on Palm Jumeirah. Together with h...

SHORT READ: A near-future techno thriller novelette.Young and brilliant hacker Sam takes a job at a defence contractor to fight for his freedom in a Europe that is about to be overrun by the Russian Federation.With time running out, Sam finds out who his real allies are. Fighting betrayal and his inner demons, he must pull out all his clever hacking tricks to stop the advancing army.Can he stop the invasion, and if so, at what price?

One girl discovers what it means to be human in a world ruled by ancient technology in this riveting high tech sci-fi adventure by breakout author Koen MartensYoung Tlana, unaware of the totalitarian convictions of those she admires and emulates, is a promising student of human consciousness and devout scholar of the holy texts governing society.But when she is chosen to be this year’s sacrificial lamb and die for the common good, cracks appear in her convi...