The door to the Garden of Eden has been unlocked. An ancient bloodline haunts the world. Will humanity's origins be revealed?After a year spent in Special Operations, Jackson Stone is a man hardened by combat. He is recalled to Polaris and paired with Alabama for one more assignment. When the mission becomes Jackson's father, he leads an expedition to solve one of greatest mysteries of all time.Agent Alabama Wren has seven days to live. One artifact holds t...

We were never alone, and they aren't leaving. A priceless Egyptian artifact is stolen....Virginia's power grid is down....An 8.4 magnitude earthquake erupts at Mount Fuji....One choice will decide the fate of Earth.... Jackson Stone's life changed forever when he received a heart transplant. He's a man torn between those who saved him and his search for the truth. When Jackson interrogates a rogue operative, he uncovers a horrific worldwide conspiracy. The countdow...

A massive disc hovers near Fort Hood Army Base....Eight people are dead. Will a shocking discovery enslave humanity forever?Agent Jackson Stone has been searching for UFOs his entire life. When he's saved by a clandestine organization, he becomes their weapon. Desperate for answers, will he betray the agency to uncover his past? Agent Alabama Wren's uncanny empathic abilities set her apart from other agents in the field. She's tough, smart, and rem...

This book provides teachers and school leaders with practical, effective, and proven assessment strategies that are immediately implementable in classrooms. You’ll learn about 20 high-impact formative assessment strategies, with details on how they can be applied to a variety of content areas and grade levels, including mathematics, science, language arts, social studies, and various electives. In this accessible book, these experienced authors demonstrate the how and why,

This book provides a variety of strategies for creating, grading, and using assessments in the virtual setting.With more teaching and learning taking place online, teachers are adjusting their strategies for creating, grading, and using virtual assessments. This strategies-based book helps you understand the key challenges and solutions to delivering virtual assessments, including use of quizzes, digital worksheets, grading, preventing cheating, and considerations of equity, qualit...

Principles of Optics is one of the most highly cited and most influential physics books ever published, and one of the classic science books of the twentieth century. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of this remarkable book's first publication, the seventh expanded edition has been reprinted with a special foreword by Sir Peter Knight. The seventh edition was the first thorough revision and expansion of this definitive text. Amongst the material introduced in the seventh edition is a sect...

Look, Listen, Learn, LEAD: A District-Wide Systems Approach to Teaching and Learning in PreK-12 lays out the transformational journey of Hampton City Schools (HCS), an urban school division of 30 schools in southeastern Virginia. Our school district faces numerous challenges, such as 62% of students receiving free and reduced-price lunch and 14% of students holding an IEP, and in 2015-2016, Hampton City Schools’ state accreditation rate was approximately half the statewide rate and on a do...

Design thinking is a human-centered problem-solving process that organizations can use to address wicked and complex problems of practice. Within the PK-12 space, design thinking has been employed to engage educators in an innovative approach to address challenges like curriculum redesign, instructional engagement, and designing physical spaces. The use of design thinking in the PK-12 space is a result of the evolution of an organizational improvement process that puts people at the center...

Thomas Wolfe's 'Of Time and the River' serves as a rich tapestry of memory, longing, and youthful exuberance, encapsulating the author's distinct narrative style characterized by lyrical prose and stream-of-consciousness technique. This ambitious work, often considered a semi-autobiographical novel, intertwines Wolfe's own experiences growing up in Asheville, North Carolina, with the universal themes of time, identity, and the human spirit's quest for meaning. Set against the backdrop of e...

Now remembered primarily as Franz Kafta's friend and literary executor, Max Brod was an accomplishered thinker and writer in his own right. In this volume, he considers the nature and differences between Judaism and Christianity, addressing some of the most perplexing questions at the heart of human existence.“One of the most famous and widely discussed books of the 1920’s, Max Brod’s Paganism—Christianity—Judaism, has at last found its way into English translation to conf...

This book offers a comparative perspective on data protection and cybersecurity in Europe. In light of the digital revolution and the implementation of social media applications and big data innovations, it analyzes threat perceptions regarding privacy and cyber security, and examines socio-political differences in the fundamental conceptions and narratives of privacy, and in data protection regimes, across various European countries. The first part of the book raises fundamental legal and...