Twenty young lobsters graduating from Lobster School emerge from the depths of the Gulf of Maine. They colonize the “Black Rocks,” three small rocky islands a quarter of a mile off York Harbor Beach. They are very excited, as they are free for the first time from parental supervision. Disaster strikes the following morning when they realize that Lancelot Lobster is missing. He is always ravenous and they assume that, despite all the warnings in school, Lancelot might have been tempted to e...

Barney the Dublin Fox is a historic fictional tale of a family of Irish country foxes who decided that it was time to move to the safety of a public park in the city of Dublin. When England banned fox hunting, hunters flocked to Ireland to pursue the Irish fox. Barney and family go on challenging adventures with many different critters as they search for a new and safer home. Children and young adults alike will enjoy this classic tale.

Frank the Newport Fox relates the tale of a family on Aquidneck Island facing disaster. Homeless after losing 2 dens in twenty-four hours, they are suddenly vulnerable to marauding packs of vicious coyotes invading the island. The fast moving story tells how Frank and his glamorous vixen, Terry solve one crisis after another. Coyote and skunk evictions, fly fishing, wild turkey hunting, ghosts and the Newport Bermuda race will keep young reader enthralled.

"Bearing aloft the flag of his country in the final charge" by Company A, 103rd New York Volunteers at the Battle of Antietam, Captain Henry Augustus Sand fell wounded. He penned a letter to his family in Brooklyn Heights while lying on the battlefield, and then three more before dying of his wounds six weeks later. His complete correspondence from the field, covering the first 18 months of the Civil War, paints a vivid picture of combat and life in a 19th-century German-Irish immigrant fa...

Reinforce your understanding of CCEA AS Unit 1: Introduction to Business and improve your exam technique for the CCEA Business AS Unit 1 assessment.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and answers with commentaries, this guide will help you aim for and achieve the highest grades.This Student Guide will help you to:- Identify key content for the exams with our concise coverage of topics- Avoid common pi...

Reinforce your understanding of CCEA AS Unit 2: Growing the business and improve your exam technique for the CCEA Business AS Unit 2 assessment.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and answers with commentaries, this guide will help you aim for and achieve the highest grades.This Student Guide will help you to:- Identify key content for the exams with our concise coverage of topics- Avoid common pitfa...

Reinforce your understanding of CCEA A2 Unit 2: The competitive business environment and improve your exam technique for the CCEA A2 Unit 2 assessment.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and answers with commentaries, this guide will help you aim for and achieve the highest grades.This Student Guide will help you to:- Identify key content for the exams with our concise coverage of topics- Avoid commo...

This volume explores recent scholarship on ancient Israelite religion, focusing on the deities of ancient Israel.

We’re In This Together: Public-Private Partnerships in Special and At-Risk-Education is a timely book that explores the use by public schools of private education companies to meet the needs of some of the nation’s most challenged and challenging students. The book examines variations of use by states as well as the cultural attitudes toward the private sector to address these core functions of public schooling. The book offers grounded and thought provoking perspectives on: the legal fram...

Special education in the United State is based on the concept of access—public schools are open to all children. But access is no longer a sufficient foundation. Approaches and accommodations that lead to academic success are increasingly demanded for those with learning disabilities. Functional, independent-living, and employable skills are requisite, but rare, for those with serious handicapping conditions. Since the last reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Act, four eve...

Since the publication of the first edition of this classic text, the major reforms in social work education resulted in the National Occupational Standards Framework (NOSF), which requires all social workers to demonstrate competence in a number of key areas.This practical text book covers all areas of the NOSF including social work ethics, residential care practice, child protection, risk analysis and protecting adults with learning difficulties. Numerous case studies effectively ...

Now in its fourth edition, The SAGE Dictionary of Criminology has established itself as an authoritative reference text for the key concepts, theories, and methods in criminology and criminal justice.Edited by two leading figures in the field of criminology, the book includes over 325 entries from 120 academics and practitioners from Europe, USA, Canada, China, Australia and New Zealand. All concepts are precisely defined, followed by a section outlining the concept’s orig...