In "The Girl, The Old Man, and The Bear," an unlikely trio finds themselves together in the midst of an early snowstorm in the mountains. The young girl, the old man, and the bear are forced to rely on each other and seek refuge in a cave. As the storm rages outside, inside the cave sparks profound conversations. Exploring themes such as luck and choice, wisdom and learning, regret and forgiveness, faith, the value of time and the worth of a life, and the interconnectedness of all beings, ...

This book combines experience in child protection with expertise in clinical pharmacology and forensic toxicology, to set out a broad contemporary understanding of child maltreatment with drugs. It explores presentations that range through ante-natal exposure, factitious illness, deliberate poisoning, drug accidents while in the care of drug-affected adults, misuse of therapeutic drugs and the drug-related death of a child. It describes how to recognise where deliberate drug exposure or pe...

The Ethical Educator: Pointers & Pitfalls for School Administrators is an accessible, nuts-and-bolts resource for education leaders at the school and district levels as they confront difficult ethical situations in their day-to-day work. The book features 100 real-life cases drawn from School Administrator magazine’s Ethical Educator column over the past ten years.The dilemmas encompass numerous aspects of administration, from First Amendment and religious liberty issues to personn...

90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1) assembles an expansive canon of world literature, placing philosophical dialogue, epic romance, social realism, Gothic speculation, detective fiction, travel narrative, lyric meditation, and the short story in productive proximity. Spanning antiquity to modernity, the volume reveals how enduring questions of freedom, desire, morality, class, imagination, and mortality assume strikingly different formal shapes. Its juxtapositions make both familiar clas...

High-Performance Training for Sports changed the landscape of athletic conditioning and sports performance when first published in 2014. Now the second edition builds on that groundbreaking work with the latest and most effective philosophies, protocols, and programs for developing today’s athletes.High-Performance Training for Sports, Second Edition, features contributions from global leaders in athletic performance training, coaching, and rehabilitation. This al...

Private, public, and voluntary organisations all provide services we either like to consume or require to lead a fulfilling and healthy life. As such, well-functioning service organisations are central to a productive and positive society.A central premise of this book is that, over time, customers come to negatively view service organisations. We have found, time and again, the failure to bring people together to achieve the purpose the organisation has been set up to accomplish is...

The memories of an ordinary man who lived a somewhat extraordinary life.This book describes a common man’s journey through life, written in a voice that is relatable and accessible. From an economically disadvantaged youth, the author takes the reader through a life that borders on fantasy. He survived teaching by Catholic nuns, family drug addiction, several serious accidents, a tour of duty in Vietnam, the death of his son, and financial losses from decisions based on poor judgme...

Mechanical Circulatory Support: Principles and Applications offers innovative approaches to complex clinical scenarios and represents the current state-of-the-art for managing patients on mechanical circulatory support devices. Topics are presented in a concise fashion, making it a practical resource for care givers who need a user's manual in the heat of the moment during patient care as well as a reference for a better understanding of the unique components of every device avail...

Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a plentiful life. The thought is intoxicating... and so is the cargo, which they sample. Inattention nearly brings them to grief in a sudden storm. This sobering experience is followed by another - apparently the dead officers had a similar ambition! - ...

H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946) In the Fourth Year is a collection H.G. Wells assembled in the spring of 1918 from essays he had recently published discussing the problem of establishing lasting peace when World War I ended. It is mostly devoted to plans for the League of Nations and the discussion of post-war politics.

The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902. Wells begins by distinguishing between "two divergent types of mind," one that judges and attaches importance principally to what has happened in the past and one that judges and attaches importance principally to what will happen in the future. To the former he attributes the adjectives "legal or...

H.G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month, Wells chronicles the unfolding events and public reaction as witnessed by the inhabitants of one house in rural Essex. Each of the characters tries in a different way to keep their bearings in a world suddenly changed beyond recognition. This book was published in 1916 while the...