Only one man could build an empire and amass a fortune selling water to dogs-The Confident Man. Top Dog.Leave it to Black Patrick and his sidekick, Elmo, to turn a wholesome pet products manufacturer into a vehicle for civil disobedience, subversive political activity, and drug smuggling to dollar stores all over rural America. With a little help from the ghost of the Unabomber.Vending machine magnate Max and his used underwear-selling punk rock girlfriend, Pinkie, learn th...

The holiday season is the time for forgiveness, love, and family.That's why Drake has decided it's time to finally deal with the leftover baggage from his past. He thought he was ready. Two years should have been long enough to get over the hurt and wreckage his deceased father left behind.But Drake quickly realizes that's not really the case. The letter and the video he's kept locked away—the same ones that were supposed to set him free—only serve to confu...

This book presents the proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021), held online on June 13-18, 2021. By highlighting the latest theories and models, as well as cutting-edge technologies and applications, and by combining findings from a range of disciplines including engineering, design, robotics, healthcare, management, computer science, human biology and behavioral science, it provides researchers and practitioners alike with a comprehensive, t...

Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. This book offers a set of in-service resources to help teachers develop new classroom practices informed by sound research. It builds on previous work associated with ‘formative assessment’ or ‘assessment for learning’. However, it adds an important new dimension by taking account of the conditions within schools that are conducive to the promotion, in classrooms, of learning how to learn as an extension of assessment...

For fans of Ender’s Game, Red Rising,and The Hunger Games comes an explosive, epic science fiction debut...Cities vanished, gone in flashes of world-shattering destruction. An alien race had come to make Earth theirs, bringing a power so far beyond human technology it seemed like magic. It was nearly the end of the world—until we learned to seize the power, and use it to fight back.The war has raged for five centuries. For a cadet...

For fans of Red Rising, Starship Troopers, and Ender’s Game comes an explosive, epic science fiction debut...We never saw them coming.Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It seemed nothing could stop it—until we discovered we could wiel...

In the United States, federal judges occupy weighty positions. They interpret the Constitution, define people's rights and liberties, and apply laws and regulations to myriad cases. They also are older than ever. In 2023, the median age of a federal judge reached 70 for the first time. Nearly one-third of federal judges exceeded the age of 75. And ten percent were 85 years or older. The federal judiciary has become a graying judiciary. Recent advances in neuroscience show that cognitive ag...

An unsolved crime. A K-9 team on the case.Unexpected danger is closing in fast…When someone tries to run dog trainer Micah Landon off the road, Officer Lucy Lopez and her K-9 partner, Piper, show up just in time to make a rescue. Someone wants Micah dead—but why? Is this connected to Lucy’s weapon-smuggling case, in which she’s investigating Micah’s younger half brother? Or was Micah attacked because he started looking into the cold case murder of his stepmother? As threats...

Snowed in with a killer on the loose—and a baby to protect…K-9 officer Ethan Finnick’s investigation into a cold case disappearance takes a dangerous turn when the missing man’s wife is attacked—and an abandoned baby is found on her property. Now Ethan must team up with Casey Thompson to safeguard the infant from kidnappers and find out the truth about her presumed-dead husband. But as the danger escalates, they realize that a hidden killer lurks in Casey’s small town, ready to pro...

An unsolved crime. A K-9 team on the case. Unexpected danger is closing in fast…When someone tries to run dog trainer Micah Landon off the road, Officer Lucy Lopez and her K-9 partner, Piper, show up just in time to make a rescue. Someone wants Micah dead – but why? Is this connected to Lucy’s weapon-smuggling case, in which she’s investigating Micah’s younger half-brother? Or was Micah attacked because he started looking into the cold case murder of his stepmother? As threats agai...

A team of con artists travel the country, marrying rich, unsought women, only to clean them out on their wedding night. The only problem is their last mark's father happens to be a secret underworld kingpin now bent on avenging his homely daughter's broken heart.After Angie Robertson's new husband disappears with over $200,000 in wedding gifts and a brand new 911 Porsche convertible, her gangster father makes it his mission to seek retribution. Alongside him is Ang...

Next Plane to London explores the lengths we will go to protect those we love and the devastating consequences when the truth is finally revealed.When Ella's twin brother Oscar disappears without a trace, her plans for a fresh start in London with her boyfriend Sam are upended. Forced to confront her crumbling reality, Ella finds herself at the center of a dangerous mystery that threatens to unravel the very fabric of her identity. In her desperate search for answers, she begins to ...