The dreams, the pain, the longing, the alone, the fears, the abuse, the love, the forgiveness of the survivor. The beauty, the strength, the memories of ordinary people in our lives. A homeless woman and her friends who abandoned her. A young man who cannot leave his room for fear. A "special" friend who whispers he did not think "special" was a good thing. Poems telling a story of fear, love, hatred, abuse, mental illness, depression, homelessness, the pain of loss, and the beauty of the ...

Judgment and critical faculties are central concerns of many Western educational programs. However, the promotion of critical thinking requires specifically developed and didactically coherent concepts. This book therefore attempts to provide a philosophically and empirically sound as well as application-oriented introduction to the concept and didactics of critical thinking. Especially the higher education space is defined by critically questioning knowledge and practice and thereby produ...

In this military thriller, a US Marine Corps sniper’s quest for vengeance traps him in a Mexican prison, and only his brothers in arms can rescue him.James Murphy is a Marine Corps sniper. He’s done two tours in Afghanistan. He’s considered an American Hero. And James is out for revenge.Alejandro Rocha, a massively powerful drug kingpin who operates out of La Paz, Mexico, is responsible for the death of James’s sister, and James intends to make Rocha pay fo...

Something is happening all over the world; something is happening to humanity. People are getting strange feelings while driving on the freeway, there are reports of people moving things with their mind, and there are increasing sightings of ... monsters. The Crack approaches.A software engineer in Seattle experiments with a secret power. The Nelsons grapple with the weird in the office and on the school bus. The elderly Bonners deal with horror and housekeeping in rural Illinois, ...