Sam Trencher is coming home. Six years ago, Rose 'Eddie' Alexander, the judge's son, framed him for drugs, and the police made him enlist. However, that didn't last. Since a night in the Round House, an off-limits Indian pueblo, where a younger Sam encountered the Midnight Sun, he's been cursed with The Glow: spontaneous human combustion. His touch is lethal, and to keep from bursting into flames himself, he has to maintain balance: same coins in each pocket and everythin...

"I'm just that kinda guy..."Pete Marlowe, a tiny but tough private detective, has had a bad day. Two mad scientists, Montez and Muck, abducted him, lopped off his pinky finger, and installed a red button that enables him to walk through walls. Targeting Pete because his con-artist Uncle Flynn secretly unloaded the Blarney Stone on the Pope, they send Pete in with his detachable finger to get it back, snaring him in a secret plot that involves the Vatican, church bells, a Mexican dru...

This work includes a foreword by lynne Maher. Head of Innovation Practice, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, University Of Warwick, Coventry. "Experience Based Design" (EBD) is a new way of bringing about improvements in healthcare services by being user-focussed. Facilities, healthcare professionals, carers, family and friends are all involved in the patient experience and systems and policies need to adapt to take this into consideration. By exploring the underlying concepts,...

Protestant evangelical Christian schools are the fastest-growing segment of American private school education. Despite their notable individual autonomy, these schools have retained a consistent belief system and mission over several decades. Private religious schools can be traced to our nation's earliest origins. Why is it that these unique educational institutions arose in twentieth-century America and have continued to thrive? A Christian America Restored seeks to delve into the beginn...

Jesus Unchained is a book about Jesus in his culture and context. It challenges us to stop making an idol out of Jesus and gives us a fuller picture of who he really is. Jesus Unchained will point us back to the true Jesus and inspire a faith that transcends politics, religion, and even our deepest questions about God.

Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives, treatment centres were a top-down NHS innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions to different local problems. This highly readable account of how and why they evolved with completely unforeseen results reveals clear, practical lessons based on case study research involving over 200 interviews. Policy makers, managers and clinicians undertaking any organisational innovation cannot afford to ignore these findings.

Supplementing theological interpretation with historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, The Weight of Love analyzes the nature and role of affectivity in medieval Christian devotion through an original interpretation of the writings of the Franciscan theologian Bonaventure. It intervenes in two crucial developments in medieval Christian thought and practice: the renewal of interest in the corpus of Dionysius the Areopagite in thirteenth-century Paris and the proliferation of ne...

Contributions by Sandra Bartlett Atwood, Nathan E. Bender, London Brickley, Eric A. Eliason, Noah D. Eliason, Tim Frandy, Robert Glenn Howard, Jay Mechling, Annamarie O'Brien Morel, Raymond Summerville, Tok Thompson, and Megan L. ZahayGuns are a ubiquitous part of life in the United States. Arguably more pervasive than physical guns is “gunlore,” which refers to the many folklore genres related to firearms. Gunlore: Firearms, Folkways, and Communities is the first book to ...

David was always different from his brothers. Born and raised in the midst of South Florida's music scene, he was labeled a sissy and mocked by neighborhood boys. Introduced to Miami's gay nightlife, drugs, and reckless sexual escapades, he wonders if this is where he truly belongs, here in the arms of faceless strangers. As David wanders from one shadowy scene to another, stacking shame upon shame, he chooses to ignore the concerns of his estranged family and a mysterious, but comforting,...

This book provides a case study on how to design and build an introductory geology course for non-science majors. The book presents a foundation with the status of geoscience education and research in geoscience conceptual development as a backdrop for the design process. It then describes the instructional goal-setting process and development of the structural components of the course based on the determined goals. The book presents the three historical narratives (the earth is a historic...

CFHI's first book on patient engagement. Case studies from healthcare delivery organizations in three countries, catalyzing improvement and innovation in healthcare illustrates patient engagement strategies and their impacts.

Applying a critical lens to language education, this book explores the tensions that Latinx students face in relation to their identities, social and institutional settings, and other external factors. Across diverse contexts, these students confront complex debates and contestable affirmations that intersect with their lived experiences and social histories. Martinez and Train highlight the pedagogic and ethical urgency of teacher responsibility, learner agency and social justice in criti...