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 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 ...

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...

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 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...

Case Studies in Infectious Disease presents 40 case studies featuring the most important human infectious diseases worldwide. Fully revised and updated in this second edition, the book describes the natural history of infection from point of entry of the pathogen through to clinical management of the resulting disease or condition. A further 8 case studies have been provided online as supplementary material, and these can be downloaded by students.Five core sets of questio...

An FBI raid at Donald Trump's mar-a-lago estate in Florida on august 8th suggests that the investigation into his actions after leaving the administration has significantly intensified. trump and his followers are outraged by the unprecedented intrusion into the home of a former president who is considering a third run for office and will use it to their advantage in the political arena.It appears that the investigation relates to records that Mr. Trump may have smuggled into flori...

DISCLAIMERThe purpose of this book is to serve as a thorough overview of the original book rather than to in any way replace it.This is an independent author-publication that was written by Michael Cole, and it provides a full summary of the book.

L. S. Vygotsky was an early-twentieth-century Russian social theorist whose writing exerts a significant influence on the development of social theory in the early-twenty-first century. His non-deterministic, non-reductionist account of the formation of mind provides current theoretical developments with a broadly drawn yet very powerful sketch of the ways in which humans shape and are shaped by social, cultural, and historical conditions. This dialectical conception of development insists...

This special issue provides a set of articles written by former colleagues and friends of Jan Hawkins--a member of a talented group of graduate students who participated in the weekly seminars held in what was then referred to as the Institute for Comparative Development during the mid-1970s. The single theme that brought together this diverse group of scholars and that dominates the papers in this issue is the belief in the value of human diversity not only as a resource for understanding...