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Caught inside a realm totally unlike Earth, eighteen-year-old Micah Knight has traveled from his home on Earth in the 1990s to an ancient forest, where he must lead a few followers to save his younger sister. Wiped clean of the memory of his girlfriend, who was also captured, he must also save her. Calca, an all-powerful tyrant who is threatening Earth, is holding them hostage. He sends his forces to thwart Micah’s journey to find his sister and girlfriend. Calca needs something Micah has within him, but Micah must give it to him willingly. Obstacles, enemies, and even friends stand in the path of the weary travelers. Micah discovers through his travels that someone is training him for a higher calling. Micah Knight is a stubborn, arrogant, self-made young man with both skills and character flaws. A petty thief, street racer, womanizer, and protector of his sister, he is proficient at Taekwondo, meditation, and street fighting. Micah is A Knight for All Time: King Arthur’s Choice.
"Untangles the jargon and sets out the route-map for how the social network can enable us to become major contributors to the multiplatform digital age. The right message, the right time - this is the right book for taking advantage of it all." - Jon Snow, Channel 4 News The essential guide to understanding and harnessing the tools of journalism today, Meagan Knight and Clare Cook show you how to master the enduring rules of good practice and the new techniques of social media. The book gives a thorough guide to principles and practice, including: How to find, write and break stories with social media An online journalism toolkit to get you started Using crowdsourcing to find and follow stories Getting on top of user-generated content The ins and outs of copyright and ethics Building your brand and making money The new economy of journalism and how to get ahead. More than a simple ′how-to′ guide, this book takes you to the next level with its integration of theory and practice. It is a one-stop guide for students and practitioners of journalism.
She didn't expect to like him so much. A coming of age, sci-fi middle-grade story about a twelve-year-old girl who discovers a boy sending cosmic video transmissions from the mirror inside her locker. After hearing curious voices in her head, twelve-year-old Aubrey discovers a boy sending cosmic video transmissions from the mirror inside her locker. She quickly learns his world is collapsing and desperately needs her help. Aubrey heroically jumps at the opportunity but quickly faces the harsh realities of the seventh-grade: bullying, trumpet-solo-band-anxiety, zits, peer-pressure, and the Othello-3 Dark Matter Beast. Will Aubrey be able to save the intergalactic boy from his crumbling planet before it’s too late?
Frazellnap and Beetoo are Giddythumps, tiny creatures who live near the base of a tree and spend their time creating things out of materials they find around them. Frazellnap and Beetoo are dear friends, but—like most dear friends—they don’t always get along. When Beetoo releases Frazellnap’s beloved collection of songbirds from their cage, Frazellnap gets very angry. It seems as though Beetoo and Frazellnap might never repair their friendship—but then their friend Jess steps in to help. Join Frazellnap and Beetoo as they work with Jess to figure out something that humans and Giddythumps have in common: forgiveness.
Media and communication advancements allow individuals across the globe to connect in the blink of an eye. Individuals can share information and collaborate on new projects like never before while also remaining informed on global issues through ever-improving media outlets and technologies. Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Media and Communications provides emerging research on the modern effects of media on cultures, individuals, and groups. While highlighting a range of topics such as social media use and marketing, media influence, and communication technology, this book explores how these advancements shape and further the global society. This book is an important resource for media researchers and professionals, academics, students, and communications experts seeking new information on the effective use of modern technology in communication applications.
Contains addresses and telephone numbers for members of the House of Representatives, House committee members and their staff. In addition, it presents information on caucuses, coalitions and bicameral organizations; the Senate; the executive branch; and more.
Water - and its governance - is becoming a global concern partly because it is turning into a goods in short supply, with devastating effects on literally billions of people, but also because it is the "carrier" of global warming; whether through irregular weather patterns or through flooding, water is how global warming will be 'felt'. The lion's share of the globally available fresh water resources is to be found in transboundary systems. In spite of its significance, the generated knowledge on how to deal with transboundary waters is weak and leaves policy makers with seemingly unavoidable, trade-off dilemmas and prioritizations, often with detrimental effects. In order to disentangle thi...
Writing the Classroom explores how faculty compose and use pedagogical documents to establish classroom expectations and teaching practices, as well as to articulate the professional identities they perform both inside and outside the classroom. The contributors to this unique collection employ a wide range of methodological frameworks to demonstrate how pedagogical genres—even ones as seemingly straightforward as the class syllabus—have lives extending well beyond the classroom as they become part of how college teachers represent their own academic identities, advocate for pedagogical values, and negotiate the many external forces that influence the act of teaching. Writing the Classro...
Welcome to the world of the young and restless. Notorious playboy and billionaire Mika Kingsley plays the game of life just like he plays at business in the boardroom...hard, fast and taking no prisoners. What he doesn't already own, he conquers and masters, bending all comers to his iron unyielding will. However, after tragedy strikes Mika finds himself desperately searching for something he can hold on to when into his new world of chaos and disarray walks... nurse Raeva... From the very first moment he lays eyes on her, he set his mind and considerable resources to acquiring her body and soul, unaware that this is one conquest that may prove more than a match for his indomitable sense of ...
This volume collects essential writings in the field of writing center studies as it has blossomed and developed since the 1995 publication of Landmark Essays on Writing Centers. These writings offer a new generation of writing center readers' provocative ideas and research-based praxis on the topics covered in the book’s four parts: Writing Center History, Critical Perspectives on Current Practices, Writing Center Research, and Writing Centers in New Spaces. Its provocative chapters discuss issues including student agency, collaboration, social justice and marginalized populations, community engagement, and online writing instruction. Landmark Essays in Contemporary Writing Center Studies provides an up-to-date introduction to new students and a useful reference for long-time practitioners. It is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in composition and education, as well as writing center staff and directors.