Lieutenant Commander David Allen Winston’s (Win to his friends) meteoric rise through the ranks in the US Navy is nothing short of astonishing. At just thirty-two, Win is the youngest officer to be promoted to the rank of Lt. Commander. Everything changes in an instant when his only sister is murdered in a botched mob hit in her own nightclub. In his utter despair he is plunged into a dark spiral which leads him down a menacing path to vengeance. Taking unauthorized time off from the Navy ...

Soul Qualities: The Art of Becoming With Study Guide lists forty spiritual principles, tools to cultivate the fruits of the Spirit - wisdom, peace, courage, forgiveness, patience, love, kindness, humility, purpose, faith, gratitude, and mindfulness are the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Soul Qualities – the qualities of the Spirit, are cultivated in the mind and heart through practice by walking in the Spirit. Soul Qualities is a life journey toolbox that includes the book Soul Qualities: The ...

Every secret has a key.As a child worker of the December Mining Corporation, 18-year-old Jett’s plan has always been to earn a life outside the mines by selling her body—a plan she’s nearly fulfilled until she reluctantly takes on a new trainee from the outside world.The daughter of a government historian, and bartered into the slave trade by her own mother, Fiona is an outsider with a strange wealth of knowledge, and a secret worth dying—and killing—for. W...

This book describes community ophthalmology professionals in South Asia who demonstrate social entrepreneurship in global health to help the rural poor. Their innovations contested economic and scientific norms, and spread from India and Nepal outwards to other countries in Africa and Asia, as well as the United States, Australia, and Finland.This feminist postcolonial global ethnography illustrates how these innovations have resulted in dual socio-technical systems to solve the pr...

Some pursue heroism, others are thrust into it.Superheroes. They live among us, some hidden in plain sight, others as well-known celebrities. All carry a burden and a purpose: to destroy the evils of this world and keep the common man safe from harm.But evil is a strong thread that refuses to be cut. How much sacrifice will be demanded to destroy that which seeks to destroy us, and are there enough heroes to do the job?Experience a collection of sho...

Engineers designing technologies and systems produce problems when they do not account for existing biases in society. Designers have a mandate to make technologies efficiently, economically, and ethically. This textbook is written for both students and practicing designers, engineers, researchers, or artists who want to create more ethical designs; it aims to help readers understand how race is implicated in technology design. Learning from historical and contemporary case studies of engi...

**“The plot twists will give you whiplash.” –**Washington PostRead the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller Invisible, then continue the series with Unsolved.FBI researcher Emmy Dockery is obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases. All she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroo...

In a world run by machines, humans are an endangered species**—**and their only hope is a rebel warrior with nothing left to lose in this thriller by the world's #1 bestselling author.The Great War is over. The robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices: they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created, or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime just to be human. Foll...

WINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeAstra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: "The single most important book about technology you will read this year."Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read."A powerful investigati...

In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been similarly embattled for nearly two centuries. From the gent...

A woman sets off on what could be her last joyride, with a man who is killing more than just time, in this first of a five-part thriller serial.Nicki Janssen’s days are numbered, but the feisty seventeen-year-old is not going to face her future lying down. Instead of enduring another round of medical treatments, she hits the road with a pocketful of cash, a bus ticket—and a romantic fantasy of riding into the sunset with her childhood crush.Handsome, danger...

Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the Faculty examines the fallout of rampant administrative blight that now plagues the nation's univer...