In "Snowboarding’s Last Stand: A Samurai and The Slingling," connected to ancient traditions and powerful forces Ollie, a snowboarding samurai grappling with a past he seeks to amend, and Misty a female snowboarder and inventor, encounter an audacious Slingling with a fiery spirit and unwavering loyalty to snowboarders. As their paths unexpectedly intertwine, a gripping snowboarding showdown unfolds against the backdrop of an oppressive regime and a world shaped by PINPIN's sinister influe...

Enjoy this explosive, pulse-pounding action thriller series by USA Today Bestselling author Steve P. Vincent…There’s a new terror in paradise…Mitch Herron has left his past behind. With his evil masters destroyed and his sins absolved, he’s found peace in the South Pacific. But when he’s drawn out of the shadows, Herron is snared in a deadly trap.Soon, Herron finds himself in the middle of a brutal civil war between two corrupt factions. To escape a...

Enjoy this explosive, pulse-pounding action thriller series by USA Today Bestselling author Steve P. Vincent…The hunter is now the hunted.To save millions of innocent people from a brutal terrorist attack, Mitch Herron disobeyed his mission. Herron knows the cost of breaking faith with his employers – death, no matter what it costs them or how long it takes.Now, with elite killers on his tail, Herron faces his toughest test yet. Except, this time, h...

Enjoy this explosive, pulse-pounding action thriller series by USA Today Bestselling author Steve P. Vincent…Mitch Herron's business is death and business is good.An assassin without equal, Herron’s latest job is no walk in the park, because fanatics hell-bent on cleansing the planet ambush Herron and turn him into a walking bioweapon.With only days before he's used to spread the most lethal contagion in human history, Herron must hunt down the fana...

There are a few things that life doesn't prepare you for.Like what to do when a super-hot guy catches you sneaking around in his basement, or what to do when a mysterious package shows up with tickets to a hockey game (because, apparently, he's a professional athlete). Nor how to handle it when you get to the game and realize he's freaking famous, since half of the 20,000 people in the stands are wearing his jersey.I thought I was a well-adjusted ...

The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period, geography, or theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This volume aims to provide such a framework, by calling into question the problematic yet commonly accepted voca...

Featuring contributions from staff and associates of the Knowledge Media Institute at the UK Open University, this text provides a glimpse into the wide variety of projects undertaken in the development and assessment of distance learning technologies.

First published in 1985. Information technology can offer huge benefits to the disabled. It can help many disabled people to overcome barriers of time and space and to a much greater extent it can help them to overcome barriers of communication. In that way new information technology offers opportunities to neutralise the worst effects of many kinds of disablement.This book reviews the possibilities of using information technology in the education of the disabled. Commencing with a...

The Four Stars of Leadership unveils the hard-won lessons of 51 of America's most accomplished leaders-retired Four-Star Generals and Admirals-who led through crisis, commanded with integrity, and built teams that thrived under pressure. In an era of global uncertainty, rapid change, and deep societal division, great leadership is no longer a luxury-it's a necessity.Drawing from exclusive interviews and cutting-edge leadership research, Dr. Tom Collins dis...

Get an inside look at the American automaker that rose from the decline of a once-thriving independent auto industry to put up a valiant fight against Detroit’s Big Three automakers.In The Complete Book of AMC Cars: American Motors Corporation 1954-1988, authors Patrick Foster and Tom Glatch provide a thorough and fully illustrated review of all the production cars offered by AMC from its founding in 1954 to its demise in 1988, including:...

Enjoy this explosive, pulse-pounding action thriller series by USA Today Bestselling author Steve P. Vincent…The nightmare is back.Mitch Herron thought he’d destroyed The Enclave – the corrupt shadow organization he once killed for. But only hours after the victory that cost him so much, Herron finds out some enemies just don't stay dead. The Master is alive and he has his sights locked on Herron.With a new fight on his hands, Herron hunts his most ...

Continue this explosive, pulse-pounding action series by USA Today Bestselling thriller author Steve P. Vincent…The last three action thrillers in the USA Today bestselling Mitch Herron series: The Crisis Vector, The Gilded Disciple and the Final Gambit.Mitch Herron has fought, bled and almost died trying to be free of the shackles of his past. But when he returns home to the United States for the first time in years, he soon finds he’ll ha...