El Paso�s African American community can trace its origins back to the 16th century, when the black Moor known as Esteban roamed the southwest and, more significantly, those Africans in the party of conquistador Juan de O�ate crossed the Rio Grande in 1598. The modern El Paso African American community began to take shape in the 1880s, as the railroad industry, military establishment, and agricultural community all had black Americans in their ranks. Black leaders and their followers estab...

How do children develop emotional intelligence? How do parents improve their ability to relate to others? How can parents and children think more creatively? What Do We Do? Questions on Psychology and Education for Parents addresses these questions and many more with insightful and entertaining articles. Dr. Michael K. Smith, an educational psychologist, and Dr. Kathryn R. Smith, a forensic psychologist, bring different perspectives to these issues of parenting and education. These article...

Superheroes, sexy ghosts, opinionated cats, kids with fairy tale parents and, and, and…Twenty stories jampacked with incredible characters on adventures you will want to read more and more of. Jump onboard!Mystery to fantasy to science fiction as well as stories set right here in our real world—all light stories, avoiding the darker side of life.Series Collide Volume 1 will sweep you away to worlds you can visit again and again with characters you’ll get to know lik...

Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch can find romance in almost anything and this collection proves it!Robots and mythical creatures run romantically amok, couples with (sex) timing issues, and post-romantic interlude recovery headline the unexpected romance stories in this "too strange for traditional" collection.With romantic elements in every story and a romance happily ever after in most, this great collection of romance stories will continue to surprise even af...

New York Times bestselling authors Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith love writing detective stories.The third volume of this incredible collaborative collection of crime fiction contains 650 pages of great reading focused on private detectives. The detectives in this volume range from dragons to cat-lovers, from time travelers to people with magical abilities, from hardboiled no-nonsense investigators to intellectuals who could rival one Sherlock Holmes....

Murder and magic and lawyers? Oh my!…and even a kidnapped dog (named Wicked).Explore the storytelling shadows in Series Collide Volume 2. With tales that will take a reader from dark to light, but not necessarily to a happy ending.Powerful cold-case mysteries, time-travel perils, and dark seaside creatures. Listen to the haunting music, taste the bitter grit of magic, and meet an array of lawyers, for good or for ill.Can you tell which is witch?Featu...

This book, written by academics across a range of disciplines, including healthcare and social sciences discusses the increasing use of the arts in healthcare research, which often stems from the recognition that for some topics of investigation, or when dealing with sensitive issues, the usual qualitative or quantitative paradigms are not appropriate. While there is undoubtedly a place for such approaches, arts-based research paradigms (ABR) offers, not only additional study and data-coll...

The Third Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith have been writing professional mystery short stories that have won awards and sold millions of copies, plus they have been acclaimed and enjoyed by fans over the entire world.Now, for the first time, they collect 100 of their mystery short stories into a five-volume series called Crimes Collide. Fifty sto...

What if Dreamtime is real?In Boulder, Colorado former foster-kid Kairi Johnson's dream is to start a family of her own but, instead, she ends up trapped twenty years in her past. She discovers she can time-travel but it's not as simple as it first appears. Each successive time trip results in more and more people getting hurt: she loses her fiance and her best friend and discovers she's the reason for her parents' deaths. All seems lost until she meets a fascinatin...

For every good fortune, there's an equal and opposite misfortune.As a brilliant young computer scientist working on her master's degree, Ella Hote doesn't believe in luck. But when bizarre accidents, insane coincidences, and weird encounters with improbably handsome strangers start to happen all around her, even hardheaded Ella has to change her mind.She comes to realize she's inadvertently created a luck generating computer that can make even the longest of long shots pay off.Unfortunatel...

Romance always equals magic and so does this collection.Romance Magic! Spells, real life fairy tales, cats and Santa Claus? Oh, yes and some mythological gods and goddesses, too.Fantastical magic mixed with heartwarming romance.Featured stories include DeanWesley Smith's "Cat in Love," and "Sleeping With The Goddess," and one of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's most popular stories, "Nutball Season."The volume also features two Kristine Grayson novellas, a popular f...

The Final Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith wrote professional science fiction short stories that won awards and sold millions of copies.Now, for the first time, they collect together 120 of their science fiction short stories into a six-volume set called Colliding Worlds. Sixty stories total from each author, with ten stories fro...