There is a chill in the air. Something is coming.Change is coming.It's a time to celebrate. It's a time to hide.It's a time to get ready for the things we don't expect.It's time to open up the Autumn Breezeway.Edited by Sam Knight. Associate Editor Bailey FinnStories by:Steve Ruskin, Jude Deluca, James Rogers, CJ Mattison, Arlo Sharp, P. Francis Smythe, AE Stueve, Sheila Hartney, Eve Morton, Grayson Wilson, Jessica McLain, Tanya Hales...

From the Foreword by Prof. Judith Curry of Georgia Tech:“Istvan’s insightful and incisive writing in Blowing Smoke tackles a diverse array of topics related to climate and energy that are highly relevant to the current public debate. His writing is accessible to the public who may not have the inclination, the time, or the ability to dig deep into the literature and emerge with a simple factual 'big picture'… Blowing Smoke is an important contribution to the public understanding of the deb...

Trying to land a spot on the South Side Middle School football team isn't the biggest challenge Matt Hill faces in the third installment of this popular series. Besides catching passes and dodging defenders, Matt also has to deal with the return of his estranged father following a ten-year absence. But while Matt comes to grips with forgiving his father and gets used to having him around, he must also help a teammate deal with the damage inflicted by his own overbearing and sometimes viole...

A string of peculiar deaths in the Brathwaite family—always in October, and always at their country home, Braithwaite Grange—rouses the interest of Jigger Masters, an American detective in much the same vein as Sherlock Holmes.

*Uzay “Are we gonna be all right?” A star once asked the moon. “You made it every day in this dark space all alone. So yes, my little star.” The moon answered. Uzay was the moon and I was the star. Uzay was a soul who hugged my heart but I never got the chance to huge him, or even to touch him in the real world. Uzay is a soul buried so deep inside of you, who needs to be found. Sometimes you just need to look closely at your soul. Each one of us has a different way to find it. And trust m...

School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education. Lunch, in this view, is about providing students the nourishment they need in order to attend to academic content and the tests that assess whether content has been learned. In contrast, the central purpose of this collection is to examine school lunch as an educational phenomenon in its own right. Contributing authors—drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including phil...

This edited volume provides a critical discussion of theoretical, methodological, and practical developments of contemporary forms of educational technologies. Specifically, the book discusses the use of contemporary technologies such as the Flipped Classroom (FC), Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Social Media, Serious Educational Games (SEG), Wikis, innovative learning software tools, and learning analytic approach for making sense of big data. While some of these contemporary education...

Fresh from a thrilling basketball season playing for the varsity team, Matt is looking forward to a new challenge: baseball. The South Side team seems to be strong this year—if only Matt can control his fear of being hit by an errant pitch. But when Matt's friend, Jake, the team's star, falls in with the wrong crowd, the entire season—not to mention their long-standing friendship—seems to be on the line.

From the Prairie to the Pacific is the story of one man's journey from rural North Dakota to the cockpits of U.S. Navy jet fighters and ultimately Captain of a flagship aircraft carrier. Gil Rud flew combat missions over Vietnam in A-7 Corsair II aircraft before taking command of his own squadron. His success as a Naval aviator led to the ultimate reward – "Boss" of the world-famous Blue Angels aerobatic display team, overseeing their successful transitio...

HowieBy: Madison RudA father finally agrees to let his ten-year-old daughter start fostering dogs for a local rescue. Howie is the story of a Jack Russell Terrier who takes this family on an Easter morning adventure. This is the first of many adventures for this family as they welcomed over twenty-four puppies and dogs into their home. Each one of them has a unique and loving story and left a pawprint in their heart..About the AuthorMadison Rud has spent her ...

MM Publication: Volume 00 - Inspiration for the Modern Magdalena is the debut volume of an annual women's anthology curated by Kristen Rud and published 5 Two Press. This powerful collection features raw, vulnerable, and deeply personal writing from women across the globe-offering essays, poems, and letters that speak to healing, identity, motherhood, loss, faith, and resilience.This volume launched a movement-inviting women to reclaim their voices and share their stories in the sp...

The Philippine Islands were discovered by Magellan in March 1521. This book presents the Peopling, the Agriculture and Industrialization of the Philippines. "Since the days when the first European navigators entered the South Sea, the dispute over the source and ethnic affiliations of the inhabitants of that extended and scattered island world has been unsettled. The most superficial glance points out a contrariety in external appearances, which leaves little doubt that here peoples of ent...