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This book argues that independence in the classroom should be seen as beneficial for learners and also for teachers. Jill Williams makes a compelling case for a climate in which decision making is valued, where children are enabled to solve problems and where children and adults respect each others point of view, arguing that this will be a climate in which independence flourishes. In turn the benefits in terms of teaching and learning will be apparent for both the children and the teachers.
In book one, the radical environmental organization HOPE (Help-Our-Planet-Earth) secretly developed and deployed a virus designed to wipe out the entire world population. In book 2, HOPE is on a mission to completely eliminate the pitiful few survivors. The submarine USS Minnesota has been under water throughout the course of the virus and has not received any new orders. The sea is devoid of human activity and the submarine is low on supplies. The crew is about to surface into a completely different world than the world they left behind at the beginning of their tour. Tanya was on the cruise of a life time. Now her dream vacation has turned into a nightmare. She is now in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a 1000’ long death ship. Without any help on the horizon, she must somehow try to get back home to discover the fate of her family. Tanya, the crew of the USS Minnesota, and a small group of virus survivors must form an alliance for their mutual survival. HOPE has the antidote to the killer virus and they are not about to share it.
A young freelance photographer, searching for information about her deceased family, Jillian uncovers an unscrupulous scheme with shocking revelations. An unexpected image in a photograph ignites suspicion and prompts Jillian and her friends to investigate. Crawling on the closet floor and feeling ahead of her in the darkness, Jillian's hand came into contact with a bundle of clothing. Her heart nearly stopped when she realized it was a body. Baffled by Ro's warning to stay close to Anton, Jillian wondered what it was that someone would go to such horrendous extremes to acquire? "The sooner you and Anton leave town, the safer both of you will be," Alex warned.
Scott Michaels is a young black detective who has a reputation for getting the manor womanhes after. In his current case he comes in contact with the main suspect through an FBI agent who is undercover at the company. At first sight of her photo he is smitten with her, but knows that his job is more important. Once he meets her in person and has more and more contact with her, he is more drawn to her than he expected, which puts his job and the case at risk. But things take a turn for the worse and he could lose both thier jobs. Jade Raymond is a young black businesswoman on a mission of her ownto find her father. Then along comes the one person she could not resist and he turns out to be a fake. What could she do, who could she turn to but her boss, who ends up being the person shes looking for? Now the covers are pulled off the lies and the secrets all around her. Now to begin repairing all their lives and her broken family.
Presents advice on throwing a themed bridal or baby shower, covering such topics as invitations, decorations, table layouts, games, and entertainment.
In the twenty-first century, cyberspace and the ‘real world’ have become inseparable. The stability and security of cyberspace therefore affect, in increasingly profound ways, the economies, international reputations, national security, military capabilities and global influence of states. In their short history, operations in cyberspace have already been used extensively by states and their non-state supporters for many purposes. They are an inevitable aspect of contemporary international affairs while carrying significant risk. In this Adelphi book Marcus Willett, a former deputy head of GCHQ, argues that there is no coherent or widely shared understanding of what cyber operations real...
Robert walked towards the hospital emergency entrance. The smell of death was over powering. Many of the cars blocking the ambulance entrance had their lifeless occupants slumped over the steering wheels or their heads propped against the car windows. The sliding doors were propped open by more bodies of virus casualties. Robert looked deeper into the dark hospital and turned around. The hospital was not receiving more patients. Jillian stared over the city of Hong Kong from the eighteenth floor of the luxury hotel. Although it was the middle of the day, the entire city was dead. Not a car, boat or person was moving. The hotel had no water, phone or electricity. Despair washed over her as she thought of her children. She prayed that her two boys survived the virus. The problem was that they were a very large ocean away. Adapting to the new world was difficult. Finding and protecting your family was an even greater challenge.
Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food and spend more time with the people they love. But jobs and responsibilities got in the way: their chooks died, their fruit rotted, and Pip ended up depressed and in therapy. So they did the only reasonable thing - they quit their jobs, pulled the children out of school and went searching for la dolce vita in Italy. One Italian Summer is a warm, funny and poignant story of a family's search for a better way of living, in the homes and on the farms of strangers. Pip sleeps in a tool shed, feasts under a Tuscan sun, works like a tractor in Calabria and, eventually, finds the good life she's always dreamed of - though not at all where she expected.
Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the (gendered) phenomena of war. Women have participated in the making, fighting, and concluding of wars throughout history, and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21st century. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers, as fighters, as civilians, as caregivers, as sex workers, as sexual slaves, refugees and internally displaced persons, as anti-war activists, as community peace-builders, and more. This book at once provides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readers the tools to understood women’s (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life.
Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online. It shifts the moral responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.