In situ remediation techniques have experienced a boom over the last few years, thereby producing a wide range of valuable experiences.Their results have demonstrated that in situ techniques are a mature alternative to conventional remediation techniques. Irrespective of future policy developments, it is impossible to imagine future remediation practice without the use of in situ techniques.The book presents an overview of recent developments in the field of in situ soil reme...

Published in cooperation with the American Library Association, an insider’s look at one of the most prevalent, yet commonly misunderstood institutions!Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly of librarian William Ottens’s experience working behind service desks and in the stacks of public libraries, most recently at the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas. In Librarian Tales, published in cooperation with the American Library Association, readers will learn ...

"Take power of your wealth and help it grow."Are you ready to have more money than your parents could ever dream of?More and more people are going into debt without the tools to get out or the knowledge of how to avoid it in the first place. Unfortunately, debt can last a lifetime and can lead to a stressful, unfulfilled life.A Smart Guide to Building Wealth: Money Moves Your Parents Wish They Had Made is a quick introduction to gr...

An imaginative, fascinating and heartwarming debut novel about the age-old question: what happens when we die?Spencer Ross is a talented mixologist working at a local nightclub in River Falls. His aspirations of a promotion are destroyed when he’s brutally murdered while defending his ex-girlfriend Lexi Rowe. Instead of dying, though, Spencer is catapulted into an afterlife he could never have imagined.Advisor Hazel Thompson leads a team of guardia...

In the skies over France during the Great War, the life expectancy of a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps is measured in days. Captain Elliot "Ash" Bainbridge is certain he'll be the next pilot sent spinning to earth in a ball of fire. Not because the Germans will shoot him down, but because God will punish him for daring to love another man. When Ash met Lieutenant Harry March, their attraction was instant. But Harry hates Ash's fatalistic attitude. He believes in capturing the moment. Can ...

ISIS’s genocidal attack on the Yezidi population of northern Iraq in the summer of 2014 brought the world’s attention to followers of a faith with a long history of persecution. Large numbers of men were executed, while thousands of Yezidi women were taken to the Islamic state to be sold as chattel for ISIS fighters. The headlines have moved on, but many Yezidi women and children remain in captivity. Their mass abduction is here conveyed with extraordinary intensity by the first-hand repor...

Gracie McBride isn’t looking for love; she’s looking for respect. But in this man’s world of Civil War medicine, Gracie is expected to maintain her place changing beds and writing letters. Her biggest nemesis is the ward surgeon, Doctor Charles Ellard, who seems determined to woo her with arrogant kisses and terrible jokes. Charles is an excellent surgeon. He assumed he would be well received by an army at war. He was not. Friendless and alone, he struggles to hide the panic attacks that p...

Alexander Worthington understands he will eventually succumb to the same evil madness that consumed his father. Despite a strict regimen he’s unable to stop his decline. Desperate, he contrives a plan to make certain he will never become that man. Ivy is a prostitute. Facing the possibility of death at thirty in a back-alley crib addicted to opium and covered with pox, she has a plan to save herself. But she needs money. When Alex comes to her rescue one morning, he sees the perfect person...

A fresh and more capacious reading of the Western religious tradition on nature and creation, Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking puts medieval Irish theologian John Scottus Eriugena (810–877) into conversation with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). Challenging the biblical stewardship model of nature and histories of nature and religion that pit orthodoxy against the heresy of pantheism, Willemien Otten reveals a line of thought that has long made room ...

From NFL defensive star Trey Hendrickson and John Otten, co-author and co-founder of the Brave Like Me Foundation, comes a heartwarming, rhyming children's picture book about belonging, confidence, and discovering your purpose.Long before Friday night lights, rivalry Saturdays, and Sunday battles on the gridiron, there was one ball who had no idea where he belonged. Finnegan is shaped a little differently than the other balls, and that difference leaves him bouncing from place to p...

Michael Balint’s work grew out of a desire to analyze the doctor-patient relationship and improve diagnosis and treatment, and is now known and implemented internationally. In The Theory and Practice of Balint Group Work Heide Otten presents a practical guide to Balint groups and their relevance to clinicians in the modern world of internet diagnoses, distant patients and teams of specialists.The book begins with a history of the therapeutic relationship and its influence ...

Fleeing her abusive husband, Victoria Van der Beck is captured by down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, Ryder MacKenzie. As she comes to love this man who hides his face in shadows, she wonders if he could be the valiant knight for whom she's been longing. Is he the champion who would save her from the evil prince, or is MacKenzie just a paid lackey determined to return her to her husband? Ryder MacKenzie never believed anyone could love him, for he was cursed the day he was born. He only wants ...