Proven strategies for reforming STEM education in America’s schools, colleges, and universities.One study after another shows American students ranking behind their international counterparts in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math. Businesspeople and cultural critics such as Bill Gates warn that this alarming situation puts the United States at a serious disadvantage in the high-tech global marketplace of the twenty-first century, and Preside...

This updated edition of a beloved classic explores the often unspoken nuances of life in and beyond graduate school. With new hints that give a 360-degree review of the challenges and issues in academic life, Drew, Feldman, and Gray provide a straightforward, entertaining perspective on matters that affect careers and livelihood. Topics span the dissertation process, job hunting, life in the classroom, and more—making for the perfect graduate student companion. What They Didn't Teach Y...

A fascinating history of the Maya - drawing on a wealth of recent archaeological discoveries - whose civilisation in the jungles of Central America was for almost a thousand years hidden from the world.Over the last two centuries explorers have made the most remarkable discoveries in the tropical forests of Central America. Across much of present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras dozens of cities - some with populations of well over 100,000 - have been unv...

Lotte Vennis is a survivor, but her scars go deeper than the burns on her face. After losing her family to a devastating fire, she dedicated her life to medicine, hoping to save others from the pain she endured. But her quiet life is shattered when a mysterious, glowing crystal fragment falls from the sky, merging with her soul and granting her a terrifying, ancient power.Now, Lotte is no longer a doctor—she is C-9, a high-value prisoner in a cold, gray facility where her "damned p...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In America's justice system, conviction is supposed to equal guilt. But what happens when that fundamental assumption proves devastatingly wrong? "Innocent But Imprisoned" takes listeners inside the harrowing true stories of men and women who lost years—sometimes decades—of their lives to wrongful convictions.From Anthony Ray Hinton's thirty years on death row for crimes he didn't commit, to the Central Park Five's nightmare as ...

Pirate is a lost baby kookaburra. He befriends a colourful bunch of dogs and a cat. His sense of fun turns their life upside down. But at the same time, the dogs' survival skills and the cat's wisdom take Pirate on a journey that changes his life forever. Pirate grows up. He learns to stand up for himself, to overcome fear and to care for his loved ones.

The contextual approach and form criticism are two well-established methodologies in Biblical Studies, but the natural affinities between the two have historically gone under-appreciated. Yet the substantial reconsideration of classic tenets of form-criticism that has transpired in recent memory has further separated these two like-minded methods. Through a series of case studies that carefully consider certain Old Testament texts contextually, Silhouettes of Scripture: Considering the...

David Drew was a shy English boy living in post-World War II London. Through sport, art, drama, and as a Scouter and assistant youth club leader, he matured into a young man eager for adventure. Due to a Groundhog Day moment, David found himself thrust into a world of dust, heat, snakes and mosquitos as big as helicopter gunships. He found love in Zambia, was washed downstream towards a drop over Victoria Falls, survived two bouts of malaria, charging elephants and baboons, a burning boat ...

This book explores many of the theological and religious themes present in the Game of Thrones HBO television series and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Written for academics yet accessible for the layperson, the chapters explore themes of power, religion, and sacred institutions in Westeros; Christian ecclesiology in the Night’s Watch and the religion of the Iron Islands; Augustinian notions of evil in the Night King and anthropology in the Seven; Ori...

Hidden Criticism of the Angry Tyrant in Early Judaism and the Acts of the Apostles adds to the current literature of imperial-critical New Testament readings with an examination of Luke’s hidden criticism of imperial Rome in the Acts of the Apostles and in Paul’s speech on the Areopagus in Acts 17. Focusing on discursive resistance in the Hellenistic world, Drew J. Strait examines the relationship between hidden criticism and persuasion and between subordinates and the powerful, and he exp...

Supernatural meets Buffy! Puppies and poodles and phantoms, oh my!When Ashlee's mate Will pushes for lupine breeding just as her twin Amber is exploring new magical powers, the impending Blood Moon threatens to turn a difficult situation into a total fiasco. Add in a witches' brew of mysterious out-of-towners, old and new enemies and creatures familiar and strange, and once again her life is turned upside-down. Can Will and Ashlee forge happiness out of their newfo...

About the BookThis little boy can only find single socks in his dresser drawers, so he attempts to answer the age-old question, Where Did All the Socks Go? Follow him on his quest as his mother suggests where those sneaky socks may have gotten to. With cute and funny illustrations, this story is a delight to share.About the AuthorSamuel David Drew is a healthcare professional and that allows him to serve all people in all groups. His specialty is the lungs and he has b...