An essential guidebook on innovation in higher education—and how we can ensure student success in college by looking to the history of American invention.Invent Ed is a much-needed contribution to the broad ecosystem of innovation, creativity, and higher education in America. Our country’s many generations of inventors, from Benjamin Franklin to modern visionaries like Steve Jobs, have made important new discoveries by putting existing knowledge into unexp...

Most professionals, especially those who own all or part of their firm, find it difficult to think about retirement. Many of those who practise their chosen profession into their sixties and seventies are reluctant to contemplate life without the mental stimulation, companionship, excitement and sense of fulfilment that their work provides. To a great extent, we are what we do; winding down raises questions about self-esteem and our value to society. Professional life increasingly conditio...

Originally published in 1997. This book presents a practical way of addressing business planning in the special school. It provides examples of ways in which the business planning process can be structured, coordinated, and linked to the budget. It offers advice on the most appropriate tools and techniques used for developing a plan so that the school can capitalise on the full benefits of business planning but avoid many of the common problems. It contains a set of overheads and includes ...

Bringing together the current international body of knowledge on key issues for educating for well-being in law, this book offers comparative perspectives across jurisdictions, and utilises a range of theoretical lenses (including socio-legal, psychological and ethical theories) in analysing well-being and legal education in law. The chapters include innovative and tested research methodologies and strategies for educating for well-being. Asking and answering the question as to whether law...

First published in 1998, this volume seeks to examine a range of policing techniques which are new, if not in their conception, then at least in their importance to the form of police enquiries in the late 20th century. Some of them are beginning to be discussed under categories of 'proactive' or 'covert' policing: others are termed 'technological' because they depend intimately on the development of the new information technologies.In much of Western Europe and North America the n...

The words of Unknown Warriors resonate as powerfully today as when first written. The book offers a very personal glimpse into the hidden world of the military field hospital where patients struggled with pain and trauma, and nurses fought to save lives and preserve emotional integrity.The book's author was one of a select number of fully trained military nurses who worked in hospital trains and casualty clearing stations during the First World War, comin...

First colleagues… then parents!Pilot Miranda is too sick to fly her plane, and she must face the truth: she's pregnant! She knows that her boss, Cleve is still grieving for his late wife. To escape and think, she heads to her sister’s Mediterranean palazzo. But Cleve turns up with a dramatic offer: a convenient marriage as soon as it can be arranged! It may be the sensible answer…but is it enough for Miranda?•Senior paediatric surgeon Alice believes s...

Six charming holiday season romances from award-winning and best-selling authors.The Bluestocking Belles and Friends brighten your holidays with:A beleaguered uncle whose wards have run off every governess--what he needs is a wife, if only he can persuade the latest applicantA country solicitor who becomes an earl and then finds a secret that changes everythingA very proper clergyman battles very improper urges when he and a lady w...

I've rebuilt my life from the ground up. My business is thriving, my best friends and family stand by my side, and I'm healing, day by day, from a devastating breakup. I don't need love. I don't need distractions. I want a sweet, simple life.Then there's Beau "Big Daddy" Boone. Tall, dark, devastatingly handsome, a professional football player, and a single dad who worships his little girl, he's everything women dream about. But not me. At least, that's what I tell myself....

Travel, houseparties, smugglers, spies--and a mysterious highwayman. Who is the infamous Captain Moonlight? And how many lives will he change--for good or for ill?

The Unexpected Surprises Collection from Mills and BoonIncluding the titles:Unexpected Surprises: A Royal HeirUnexpected Surprises: A Forever FamilyUnexpected Surprises: New BeginningsUnexpected Surprises: One Miracle NightUnexpected Surprises: Their Surprise Gift

When a storm blows off the North Sea and slams into the village of Fenwick on Sea, the villagers prepare for the inevitable: shipwreck, flood, land slips, and stranded travelers. The Queen's Barque Inn quickly fills with the injured, the devious, and the lonely—lords, ladies, and simple folk; spies, pirates, and smugglers all trapped together. Intrigue crackles through the village, and passion lights up the hotel.One storm, eight authors, eight heartwarming stories.