The heavens are calling...wanted, one hero! A massive comet, tumbling through space since before civilization on Earth began, threatens our beautiful planet. Dr. Roy Thompson, an astronomer, is the first to discover the comet. In the meantime, his home is in total disarray; he and his family need a new housekeeper. Applying for the job is Madame Caidoz…a professional psychic who claims to have been drawn to the area and compelled to apply for the job. Thirteen-year-old, Jenny, is instantly...

An advanced civilization faces planet changing circumstances that will end their present way of life. Engineers and scientists scramble to save just a small portion of their population. Also on their minds is a centuries old discovery. A process was developed that made it possible to extend an individual's life indefinitely, and all that is required is a constant flow of human blood. Understandably reluctant to initiate this mind-blowing change to their way of life, the groundbreaking disc...

"The Snake Riders of Spacemark Four" is the second thrilling adventure of the "Jenny In Space" series. This episode continues the heroic efforts of a 13-year-old named Jenny Thompson. In episode one, a mysterious housekeeper named Relli is hired to bring order to a household in chaos. Relli quickly becomes Jenny's devoted friend, plus one more complication; she is able to predict the future. Relli reveals visions that change Jenny's life forever. "I see the name 'Jenny of Earth' emblazoned...

23 authors and 11 artists came together to create this aquatic horror anthology curated and edited by Tom Folske. Throughout history, tales of water monsters have fueled sailors' and swimmers' stories, bringing a new fear from the murky depths of the world's most unexplored regions. As it stands, we know more about space than what we know about what lurks at the bottom of the deepest trenches of the ocean and many other water systems. Urban legends, mythical creatures, and cryptids alike w...

Evil can’t be cured. It evolves.Gale Frye was a monster long before the experiments began—torturer, killer, pure evil without reason or remorse.Sentenced to death, he disappears into the hands of a secret corporation. Their lead scientist, desperate to prove her new serum, uses Frye as her human test subject.The result? Unthinkable.Frye transforms—his skin turning to scales, his teeth to razors, his hunger to something inhuman. Stronger. Fas...

In his raw and unflinching memoir, Michael Cole, co-star of ABC's iconic show, THE MOD SQUAD writes about his role as Pete Cochran in the groundbreaking program that dealt with issues never before seen on television - racism, drug abuse, child abuse, the Vietnam War.Michael gives an often humorous and always brutally honest account of his life, his career, his meteoric highs and suicidal lows. For the first time, he reveals what it was like to be famous, idolized by millions, and r...

In the book "How To Run For Local Office", you will learn insider tricks from twenty plus year political veteran, Michael Cole. He brings to you step by step instructions on how to look with a critical eye of the expert in planning, launching and executing a successful bid for local office.As Michael says in his book, elected office is for everyone that has a passion for public service, the secrets on how to run should not be hidden away for a few insiders, but for anyone with the ...

In its description of several years of painstaking classroom observations and carefully crafted experimental interventions, the 'construction zone' makes clear the cleavage lines between the everyday requirements of classroom teaching and the practice of experimental psychologists. The best intentions of researchers to improve education are often undermined by such differences. The 'construction zone' is the shared psychological space within which teachers construct environments for their ...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world and overturned assumptions that large-scale conventional war was inconceivable in the twenty-first century. On the other side of the planet, democratic Taiwan faces the rising threat of a military takeover by China a conflict whose impact on the international community would be catastrophic.Renowned Taiwan expert and former intelligence officer J. Michael Cole explains how this Pacific nation has become a tinderbox tha...

Here is a book that challenges the very basis of the way psychologists have studied child development. According to Urie Bronfenbrenner, one of the world’s foremost developmental psychologists, laboratory studies of the child’s behavior sacrifice too much in order to gain experimental control and analytic rigor. Laboratory observations, he argues, too often lead to “the science of the strange behavior of children in strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods o...

This book starts with the classification of the main views of different thinkers after the study of the original materials, which covers all the thinkers’ thoughts and conceptions. A major objective of this book is to reveal the ideas of the philosophers. Key ideological opinions are stated with the former discussion of exact questions and further clarification of their philosophical meaning, which enables the readers to better understand the meaning and value of the philosophical thoughts...

This book is a collection of 13 essays centering on supernatural serials such as television programs, video games, anime, and manga, featuring teen protagonists and marketed to teen audiences. These essays provide discussions of characters in teen supernatural serials who disrupt white, cisgender social narratives, and addresses possible ways that the on-screen depictions of these characters, who may be POC or LGBTQIA+, can lead to additional discussions of more accurate representations of...