Enchanted Orbit is a trio of tales that form a bridge between fantasy and science fiction. They explore themes of love, family, survival, and destiny. The Girl Whom the Dragon Tattooed is a a pure fantasy about a high school senior whose first tattoo transports her to a medieval world where dragons wage war on one another with human armies. Plague of Rainbows is a science fantasy that follows a survivor of a pandemic plague who has lost everyone he knows, and takes one last fishing trip be...

Kelli had waited so long for her eighteenth birthday so she could finally get a tattoo. Little did she realize her new ink would transport her to an upside-down realm where savage dragons ruled and humans served. Her arrival triggers a bloody struggle for power with her standing at its center. Now, she would give anything to get back home to her parents and their stupid rules!

I WISH THEY HAD TOLD ME THAT BEFORE I ENROLLED!Twin brothers Ocean and Sky inherit magical talent and dream of becoming wizards. They thought they had it made when they enrolled at a prestigious university of magic on a remote island. On graduation day a path to great magical power is laid before them. There's just one catch — they must give up their youth forever. They take the leap and become powerful wizards in the bodies of old men, but something goes wrong. Their disguise short...

Diamond Shine Basketball: Lightning-Fast Break That No One Is Teaching is a practical, experience-driven coaching guide that reveals one of basketball's most explosive and underused offensive systems—the Sideline Fast Break.Written by veteran player and coach Steven Simpson, this book draws from decades of success at the high school, junior college, and professional development levels. Simpson shares the exact fast-break system taught to him by legendary coach Bill...

'I believe this book will change the conversation in schools on children's behaviour.' - Dr Luna CentifantiA School Without Sanctions draws on practice developed in specialist educational settings to offer a relational, inclusive approach to behaviour and wellbeing. As mainstream schools develop inclusion bases and internal alternative provision, the principles in this book provide practical, transferable ways of creating belonging, reducing exclu...

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are two of the most influential and celebrated television scriptwriters of our time. Praised for inventing the sitcom, their own seminal creations are still standing the test of time with modern audiences - Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son are two of the most successful sitcoms ever made. This book is a charming tribute to their career in comedy, written in collaboration with Galton and Simpson themselves and with exclusive access to the...

In 2003, Methodists celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of their founder, John Wesley. Today, there are more than 300 Methodist denominations in 140 nations. Covering the activities of this group that plays an important role in the ecumenical movement through its many social and charitable activities in world affairs, this book offers more than 400 entries that describe important events, doctrines, and the church founders, leaders, and other prominent figures who have made notabl...

Health care needs assessment provides information to plan, negotiate and change services for the better, and to improve health in other ways. The first edition of this series established itself as a key source on health care needs for specific conditions supported by the Department of Health. Now in its second edition it provides vital updates taking into account how health care has moved on and how the structure of the UK's health service has changed. Each of the chapters follows the same...

This volume of essays centers on the theme of doing Christian theology in the present postmodern context, a consistent theme of the teaching of John D. Castelein. The work will celebrate and honor John's years of service by representing reflections of his teaching in the thought of his students and colleagues. The essays range over such topics as theological reflections on the postmodern philosophical themes, the relations between Christian theology and culture, the contributions of philos...

This new resource in the series provides vital perspectives across entire new disease and service areas not previously covered in other volumes. The books of the first and second series are well established as the key sources of data on needs assessment. Together, they describe the central role and aim of health care needs assessment in the National Health Service. The epidemiological approach to needs assessment is explained thoroughly, and is then applied to the effectiveness and availab...

What do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold’s Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal environmental philosophy? Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World provides a series of reflections by an environmental educator about lessons learned from time spent in nature. Originally conceived as personal letters to the author’s daughter, this collection presents ethi...

The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. Mutual trust and respect between generals and their corps commanders, though vital to military success, was all too rare: Corps commanders were often forced to exercise considerable discretion in the execution of orders from their generals, and bitter public arguments over commanders' performances in battle followed hard on the heels of many majo...