500 years in the future, humanity faces extermination.Our last line of defence against the insidious alien species is a young generation of cadets, raised and trained to fight alongside genetically resurrected dinosaurs. Among them is Cadet Zayla-8311, a loner and introvert who is unexpectedly paired with the most ferocious dinosaur in the academy.This unlikely partnership catapults Zayla to the forefront of a galactic war, where she must overcome her insec...

This book has the most in depth-coverage of important MCMS development topics found anywhere. Each author of the book is a renowned expert in the areaKey FeaturesLearn directly from recognized community expertsExtensive coverage of the Publishing API (PAPI)Get Sharepoint and MCMS working togetherInfoPath, RSS and hot topics coveredBook DescriptionMicrosoft Content Management Server 2002 is a dynamic web publishing sy...

Monsters, myths, and legends exist outside our imagination. They are the echoes of a long-forgotten history.Deep beneath the Nile, a submerged tomb has been opened, revealing the remains of mythical creatures and an artefact of incredible power. Those responsible for making the discovery will stop at nothing to keep it a secret.Eight months later, teenager Sean Livingstone happens across photos of the legendary artefact. How was something this important kep...

The 28th edition of Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery is the leading surgical resource for medical students and surgeons in training. It encompasses the basic principles of careful history taking, observation, deductive reasoning, technical knowledge and post-operative patient care to ensure safe surgical practice.Key featuresRelevant - the content matches both undergraduate and post-graduate curriculaeReadable –

A Practical Guide to Teaching Computing and ICT in the Secondary School offers straightforward guidance and inspiration to support all trainee and newly qualified teachers, as well as their tutors and mentors. It will also be a source of support and ideas for qualified teachers who wish to develop their teaching of Computing as a subject, in light of recent changes to the National Curriculum.Grounded in the best research and practice available, it focuses on the key pedago...

As the number of people affected by dementia continues to rise, this is the first in-depth examination of related services dedicated to the unique demands of remote and rural settings.Contributors from the UK, Australia, North America and Europe explore the experiences and requirements of those living with dementia and those caring for them in personal and professional capacities in challenging geographical locations. For practitioners, researchers, academics and policy makers, thi...

During the twentieth century, the relationship between the Church of England and the British state was transformed. The character and dynamics of the connections shifted as politics became more democratic and society more secular,as the role of the Crown and parliament in Church government was curtailed, and as the Christian foundations of secular law were weakened. Yet the increasing formal separation of Church and state was not accompanied by ecclesiastical disengagement from politics an...

Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth’s underappreciated works, or modern video-based Islamic super-heroines energized by Mary Wollstone...

With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War m...

Betty is the sudden gust of wind that unknowingly knocks the sleepy town of Arbford to the ground in Grace O'Connell's Mike Mike Mike Mike. Set against the backdrop of vibrant Addis Ababa nightlife, The Expansiveness of My Sound by Andrew Forbes is an evocative account of the political discord in Ethiopia and the individuals caught in the tumult. In Lee Kvern's This Is a Love Crime, a human resources employee at a grocery store chain is confronted by an ethical d...

The 1960s: news of riots, war, unheard-of behavior, and rampant crime crowds the papers and the airwaves. Spurned by his wife at home and by superiors at work, Earl Summerfield hunkers down in his cramped San Francisco apartment and keeps a diary that is a scratched record of a world going to pieces. The words he overhears, the words he wants to say, swim in his head, turning into fantasies of ambition, love, and retribution. He is sorry for himself. He is angry at everyone. He takes to go...

He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary of state, five-time presidential candidate, and idol to the young Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is captured in full at last in this rich and sweeping biography.David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler present Clay in his early years as a precocious, witty, and optimistic Virginia farm boy who at ...