As Leviathan City's star super-heroine the Matriarch, Sherry tries to balance work and home-life against a backdrop of friends, foes, and potential love-interests; aggressive alien thoughts made manifest deep within the earth; an entire army of monsters and villains; and a secret so startling it could mean the end of the world as we've known it...and the beginning of something entirely new.

“I love what Jim Burke has done to make the Standards less threatening and more useful for teachers. In particular, the indicators for what students and teachers should be doing, given the Standard, are extremely helpful; as are such a clear glossary and illuminating examples. All in all, The Common Core Companion is bound to be enormously useful and thus dog-eared!”- Grant Wiggins, President, Authentic Education, Hopewell, NJThat version of the...

Florida State Attorney General, Angela Arquielara has sent three-hundred minority gang members to death row for execution, while seeking fame, fortune, and notoriety within her corrupted system of justice of Palm Beach County. Her devious plan has worked to perfection, wherein her lust for power and prestige is tantamount beyond any code of judicial conduct or responsibility.Angela truly believes she will reach the pinnacle of success, and no one will interfere with her reaching he...

To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams — and those who play on them — our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball.During what Burk calls baseball’s “paternalistic era,” from 1921 to the early 1960s, the sport’...

Written by a hazardous materials consultant with over 40 years of experience in emergency services, the five-volume Hazmatology: The Science of Hazardous Materials, suggests a new approach dealing with the most common aspects of hazardous materials, containers, and the affected environment. It focuses on innovations in decontamination, monitoring instruments, personal protective equipment in a scientific way utilizing common sense, and takes a risk-benefit approach to hazardous ma...

"In my everyday system of living I have discovered many things that deal with the body, mind, and spirit of all mankind and a balance in health, wealth, and happiness. In my endeavors to fulfill the cosmic purpose of the self, I find deep importance in writing of the truth I know of the dawning new age of Aquarius," says Breeze.The patterns of world-peace lie before us. Understanding is our goal and as consciousness grows it will occupy minds that are now idle in paranoia, releasin...

Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas challenges the notion that in the twenty-first century, jazz can be restrained by a singular, static definition. The worldwide trend for jazz to be marginalized by the mainstream music industry, as well as conservatoriums and schools of music, runs the risk of stifling the innovative and challenging aspects of its creativity. The authors argue that to remain relevant, jazz needs to be dynamic, proactively experimental, and consciou...

As a young and impoverished child, author Dr. Robert E. Burke knew his lifes purpose was to become a physician. However, no one could have predicted the tortuous path he would travel in that quest and beyond. In Beyond the Quest to Become a Physician, he provides perspective on his life as he narrates his reflections on the influences that have shaped him throughout the decades.In this memoir, Burke weaves childhood, adolescent, and other personal experiences with the latest inform...

Old School is the story of retired heroes returning to the world at large, and how heroism, and ol' fashioned elbow grease, can still make a difference in today's world.

The Craft of Wargaming is designed to support supervisors, planners, and analysts who use wargames to support their organizations' missions. The authors focus on providing analysts and planners with a clear methodology that allows them to initiate, design, develop, conduct, and analyze wargames. Built around the analytic wargaming construct, organizations or individuals can easily adapt this methodology to construct educational and experiential wargames. The book breaks the wargame creatio...

This book provides sample exercises, techniques, and solutions to employ mathematical modeling to solve problems in Operations Research and Business Analytics. Each chapter begins with a scenario and includes exercises built on realistic problems faced by managers and others working in operations research, business analytics, and other fields employing applied mathematics. A set of assumptions is presented, and then a model is formulated. A solution is offered, followed by examples of how ...

This book presents an opportunity to learn difference and differential equations through a modeling-first approach. The text is meant as an introduction to those equations and not as a text only for modeling courses. No previous exposure to these equations is expected. Modeling in Introduction to Differential and Difference Equations through Modeling is presented as the vehicle for learning difference and differential equations.Although the topics in difference and differe...