She's a big city math genius who's flunking at love. Add a rugged, smal town carpenter to the equation and it's a problem she can't work out.Jessica Channing is wired differently. Once a math prodigy, she was groomed by her academic parents to excel, except where it matters most…with people.She may be brilliant when it comes to her high-tech career in New York City, but Jess is socially inept when it comes to men and the illogical concept of romanc...

He's a self-reformed playboy who has sworn off women.His new officemate?A woman.An alluring woman.Having recently completed a stint in a treatment center, Dylan Blackard is back in the small town of Hera, New York, hoping to live a quiet life, simple, like a monk who's daily regimen consists of nothing more than running, working, and sleeping. Abandoning h...

Megan is sad about moving and leaving her friends, but she soon discovers the positive aspects of living in a new place.

The new edition of this popular, evidence-based guide compiles and reviews all the latest knowledge on assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of childhood maltreatment – including neglect and physical, sexual, psychological, or emotional abuse. Readers are led through this complex problem with clear descriptions of legal requirements for recognizing, reporting, and disclosing maltreatment as well as the best assessment and treatment methods. The focus is on the current gold standard approach...

Take one pretty chef with confidence issues…Add one sexy restaurateur with blind ambition…Untested recipes are always a risk … is this one worth taking?She's going to ask the arrogant hottie for a special favor…Talia Madej, a personal chef, has kept a recent harrowing crisis secret from her friends and the local gossips in her small town. She has enough ba...

She's a small town waitress who's fed up with men and wants more out of life.He's a former FBI agent who wants less of everything…except for her.Imogene Walsh has always been unapologetically confident and ruthlessly opinionated with people, particularly men. No one is spared from her unfiltered mouth, but it hasn't seemed to deter Cooper MacKenzie. Although he is not the clean-cut, businessman type she's always thought sh...

Are you one of the thousands of Canadians who work or volunteer with children and youth? Do you know:• how to respond effectively when a young person behaves aggressively?• what kinds of aggression are considered normal for a young person’s age and stage of development?• what kinds of aggression may suggest that a young person has a problem that needs specialized intervention?Acting Out aims to help you answer “yes” to these questio...

Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity. Increasingly, they are also active participants in the creation of the social and political conditions necessary to create a thriving community. The Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions series is a focused analysis of how developments at the local and regional level affect these three key determinants of future prosperity. Growing Urban Economies s...

As a parent, you want practical, accurate and user friendly information to help raise your teen. You want to know what’s considered normal adolescent behaviour, how to determine whether your child is on a good path, how to encourage your teen’s healthy development, and how to get help when problems arise. What Parents Need to Know about Teens is an easy-to-read booklet that addresses these issues. Author David A. Wolfe is a clinical psychologist who has worked with children and teens for m...

In a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, innovation and creative capacity lead to economic prosperity. Starting in 2006, the Innovation Systems Research Network began a six year-long study on how city-regions in Canada were surviving and thriving in a globalized world. That study resulted in the “Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions” series, which examines the impact of innovation, talent, and institutions on sixteen city-regions across Canada. This volume expl...

From a field developed out of the need to train military personnel at scale to its current role in enabling virtual learning and training experiences, instructional design has developed into a complex, multifaceted discipline.The modern instructional design process goes by many names (e.g., learning experience design, learning engineering, training and development, organizational development) and continues to adapt with continual changes in society and skill development needs. From...

This textbook is designed to give an engaging introduction to statistics and the art of data analysis. The unique scope includes, but also goes beyond, classical methodology associated with the normal distribution. What if the normal model is not valid for a particular data set? This cutting-edge approach provides the alternatives. It is an introduction to the world and possibilities of statistics that uses exercises, computer analyses, and simulations throughout the core lessons. These el...