What You’ll Find in This BookIn "The Art of Connection: Building Meaningful Relationships" I aim to share the insights and knowledge I’ve gathered over the years. This book is not just a collection of theories but a practical guide filled with real-life examples, actionable advice, and personal anecdotes. I want you to feel like we’re having a conversation, exploring these ideas together.We’ll start by understanding the different types of relationships and ...

A revealing and intimate biography about Janis Joplin, the Queen of Classic Rock, written by her younger sister. Janis Joplin blazed across the sixties music scene, electrifying audiences with her staggering voice and the way she seems to pour her very soul into her music. By the time her life and artistry were cut tragically short by a heroin overdose, Joplin had become the stuff of rock-and-roll legend. Through the eyes of her family and closest friends, we see Janis as a young girl, alr...

Computers are not often associated with passion or culture, yet the use of information technology still has a surprisingly emotional effect on many people, including teachers and learners. This emotion may be anything from excitement and enthusiasm to anger or a sense of threat. Often, this strongly emotional response can prevent us from learning how to use IT effectively as a tool for learning. This book explores how IT can make a real difference to the quality of learning. Its approach t...

A warrior must face her nemesis. A queen must embrace her destiny. Both must ride the Blood Moon.

Practicing the ancient art of Akiun is punishable by death.When the warrior Jenna and her brother Hahn come to the city of Frethenia to flee from the price on their heads and start a new life, all goes well. But soon they discover a plot by the church to cover up damning knowledge, a Brotherhood of Evil that operates under the same church, and a growing connection to the Prophecy of the New Queen of Trefolk.Cast into a deadly maelstrom of assassination and intrigue, Jenna m...

A warrior pursues an abducted Queen; a young criminal mastermind unseats the church; a warlock of phenomenal power hunts for weapons of legend, and a city leader prepares for war.Four people. Four paths. One Prophecy.

The Ancient Prophecy decrees that three Heralds must come to pass. A wise man has performed a significant act … but has the lost sword been found? If so, then only one portent remains before the Queen ascends the throne.But who is the Queen? And will The Song of Elaria, sword and sceptre of the royal house, return to its rightful heir before the Blood Moon rises?Whilst the Elders and the Church deny the fulfilment of the Prophecy is at hand, the Akiun Warrior Jenna...

For teachers in higher education who haven’t been able to catch up with developments in teaching and learning, James Davis and Bridget Arend offer an introduction that focuses on seven coherent and proven evidence-based strategies. The underlying rationale is to provide a framework to match teaching goals to distinct ways of learning, based on well-established theories of learning. The authors present approaches that readers can readily and safely experiment with to achieve desired learnin...

For busy college faculty who want to catch up on the latest developments in teaching and learning, this book offers an accessible guide to seven key evidence-based strategies for effective instruction.As higher education embraces active learning, online and blended classrooms, and new student expectations, educators are faced with overwhelming choices in teaching methods. How do instructors sort through all the possible options and choose the most appropriate methods for their goal...

Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for ExcellenceThis blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.Janis Joplin’s first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana G...

The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could only be decommissioned by Emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the ...

When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer that she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their last recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka discovered the heart of their discussions: the creative process.In Joni Mitchell...