"87 ROOMMATES...and Still counting" is a funny and informative true story about sharing your home with total strangers. Whether todays recession is pinching your budget or you would just like meeting some wonderful people, and some not so wonderful people, this could one day make you an author. As a Numerologist, I needed to prove my numbers since Im a skeptic at heart, and you never really know a person until you live with them. Well, I sure got their number and I became adept at my proff...

Sun Killers, Book One of the Felis Alliance Series, begins with a mystery: the most powerful person in the universe has disappeared without a trace and nobody knows where she has gone. Now it is the responsibility of her three Guardians to locate her and bring her home.What they do not realize is that there are forces working against them who do not want her to be found, and they will stop at nothing to prevent her from ever returning to the Allia...

This book explores the central importance of adolescents' own activities in their development. This focus harkens back to Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology and provides a theoretically coherent vision of what makes adolescence a distinctive period of development, with unique opportunities and vulnerabilities. An interdisciplinary and international group of contributors explore how adolescents integrate neurological, cognitive, personal, interpersonal and social systems aspects of developm...

The greatest fairy tales of all time.The 100 tales collected here throw open wide the gates to the realm of fairyland. Inside are princes and princesses, giants and dwarfs, heroes, heroines, simpletons, rogues, wizards, witches, ogres, trolls, elves, magical artefacts, and all manner of talking birds and beasts.As G. K. Chesterton has observed, fairyland is a place where happiness hangs upon a single thread: “Cinderella may have a dress woven on supernatural looms and blazi...

Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development addresses the impact of language and literacy on cognitive development.Top researchers examine the cognitive significance of the growth in children's ability to express themselves symbolically, whether that involves communicating linguistically, mathematically, logically, or through some other symbol system expressed in speech, gesture, notations, or some other means.The book contributes to refining and answering questi...

This book and the symposium on which it was based were designed to cross the boundaries of subdiscipline and theoretical orientation to address four critical issues in understanding development: explanation of change and development; the nature and process of change; forms of variability in performance; and the promotion of change through application.The chapters suggest that change and development in target systems from cells to selves, may not be explainable, assessable, or promo...

Shadows don't choose their humans. They're assigned.The moment a boy takes his first breath, Frank FIFO is born—woven from the glowing threads of the Shadow Loom and bound to one soul for life.He cannot speak. He cannot touch. He can only follow.And stay.Through every step. Every fall. Every silent night.Watching. Protecting. Loving in the only way a shadow can.But when darkness begins to break the bond between them, FIFO must discover someth...

Book Two of the Felis Alliance Series begs the question, “What is the cost of Vengeance?”Living in a world devoid of technology, in a continuum that appears completely alien to her, the Sovereign of the Felis Alliance consigns herself to the fact that all that she knows, all that she remembers, is of a life that no longer exists. If she wants to return to that which she recalls, the continuum she is certain she should be in, she must work with a man she barely knows to try and prev...

Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics brings together disparate feminist theoretical approaches to explore the formation of medieval female subject consciousness in writings by female mystics including Angela of Foligno, Catherine of Siena, and Margery Kempe, as well as secular writings of Christine de Pizan, and powerful female characters of Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer. The rise of what Amsel calls “medieval female subject consciousne...

Author of The Canterbury Tales and foundation of the English literary tradition, Geoffrey Chaucer has been popular with readers, writers and scholars for over 600 years. More than 4600 books, essays, poems, stories, recordings and websites pertaining to Chaucer were published between 1997 and 2010, and this bibliography identifies each of them separately, providing publication information and a descriptive summary of contents. The bibliography also offers several useful discovery aids to e...

Continuing the Best of Poetry series, this anthology brings together 150 of the finest passages from Shakespeare’s plays and poetic works. We hope our selection will allow readers to rediscover the brilliance of Shakespeare’s poetic inventiveness, and the depth and subtlety of his insight as he creates and explores the minds of the most fully-realised and autonomous characters in all of fiction.The beauty in these fragments is best unlocked by reading them aloud, savouring the rhyt...

Zombie cheerleaders. Murderous scarecrows. A haunted house high on the hill.Another world, another reality, hovers just beyond Chase Rey’s reach. He can see it sometimes. He can almost touch it.In that world, things are in balance. The dead stay dead and the creature-feature remains safely on the screen. In that world, the nightmares end when you open your eyes and people don’t glitch in and out of existence.Chase wants to get back to that world. Bu...