Animal Creativity and Innovation explores theories and research on animal innovation and creativity, comparing and contrasting it with theory and research on human creativity and innovation. In doing so, it encompasses findings from psychology, biology, neuroscience, engineering, business, ecology, and education. The book includes examples of animal innovation in parrots, dogs, marine mammals, insects, and primates, exploring parallels from creative play in children. The book defines creat...

Allison compiles and contextualizes Raemaekers' work, showcasing how his cartoons were not only a form of artistic expression but also served as potent propaganda that influenced public opinion regarding the war. The illustrations depict various aspects of the conflict, including the horrors of battle, the suffering of civilians, and the moral questions surrounding warfare. Raemaekers' keen observational skills and biting humor provide a critical lens through which readers can understand t...

Jimmy Peters has a heart of gold, but an IQ of only 51. He lives by himself in a one-room flat, works, eats at a diner down the street, attends church when he remembers, and lives to go to the zoo on Saturday. Satisfied with his lot in life, because he knows nothing any different, he only asks God for one thing—a chance to live outside the city where he can see animals all the time, but he is afraid God doesn't have time for him. Then one day a longhaired, unshaven man in rumpled clothes m...

Allison compiles and contextualizes Raemaekers' work, showcasing how his cartoons were not only a form of artistic expression but also served as potent propaganda that influenced public opinion regarding the war. The illustrations depict various aspects of the conflict, including the horrors of battle, the suffering of civilians, and the moral questions surrounding warfare. Raemaekers' keen observational skills and biting humor provide a critical lens through which readers can understand t...

In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native Americans in the Northern Plains had successfully blocked the efforts of powerful energy corporations to develop coal reserves on sovereign Indian land. This challenge to corporate and federal authorities, initiated by the Crow and Northern C...

His favorite flower was a snapdragon. It was a tall, lovely flowering plant with spikes of flowers, but when pinched slightly, would open and make a face.Dad was like that flower. He was tall and good-looking but snapped like a dragon and scowled more than he smiled, especially at his daughter.In this father-daughter saga of real-life drama, the rubber meets the road, and family relationships are slugged out in the trenches of everyday life.Just as a diamond has man...

An older man, a younger woman, an irresistible attraction.My BFFs and I made a pact the last month of high school: No one was going to college a virgin. The only question was, who would we choose? I knew exactly who I wanted. My teacher, Mr. Parker.I might have just graduated, but I was still his student. But Mr. Parker isn’t teaching me anything in that boring civics textbook any longer. He’s bossy. He’s demanding. He’s so much older than I am. And he’s opening my eyes, te...

Carter: She’s mine. I want her. I need her and I’m tired of waiting.Emma: He’s all I think about, but I can’t wait for him any longer. Tonight’s the night. I’m punching my V-card.I might be a f#cking saint waiting for her to be ready for what I want to give her. When I overhear she’s going to ditch her virginity with some random bar guy, I decide she’s not giving those soft curves and luscious mouth to anyone else.After tonight, she’ll never doubt who she belongs to...

Uncover a riveting story of palace intrigue set in a sumptuous Asian-inspired fantasy world in the breakout YA novel that Publisher's Weekly calls "elegant and adrenaline-soaked."*In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still hau...

This agenda-setting collection critically reflects upon a decade of contributions to the social scientific ‘mobilities turn’ in order to propose new trajectories for the future of this interdisciplinary research field. The chapters are all exemplars of how the past decade of research has opened up new insights into the place of mobilities in societies. They also highlight how attempts to look forward towards new conversations, understandings, and interventions in a mobile world will emerge...

This war of hearts will have no victor.JaxonMessing with Logan Kent at a college rager is the perfect way to get under his skin. But when I steal my stepbrother's girl, it becomes a different ball game. Changing the play might be the dumbest thing I've ever done.RyaKissing Jaxon Ledger to get over my best friend should solve all my problems. But when I discover they're rivals, our dynamic becomes complicated...

The hunter is hungry, and I'm his prey.I never dreamed I'd be a sorority girl, but from the moment I arrived at my mother's alma mater, the sisters of TZE have welcomed me with open arms. Unfortunately, Kingston University has hidden monsters of its own.I thought I'd be safe here, but I'm not. My past has found me, and it intends to chase me down.These brutal boys of SIN have a singular focus—making my life a living hell. I don't deserve the hate th...