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From the award-winning Gold and Fire Series — 1st Place (Tied), 28th Annual Critters Readers' Poll, Children's Books; Finalist, 2026 Imadjinn Awards, Best Middle Grade Book.Aron is a twelve-year-old shepherd's son who spends more time daydreaming about slaying dragons than watching the flock. When a coyote nearly takes one of the family's sheep while he's lost in another fantasy, his father pulls him off pasture duty and sends him to muck out the pig pens instead.Humiliated...

From the award-winning Gold and Fire Series comes the next chapter in the story of Aron and his dragon.Aron's younger brothers were taken in the night by a goblin raid. His father and his knight-master rode into the mountains after them and never came back. And Doubloon — the great golden dragon who is Aron's best friend — is trapped in a wizard's enchanted net, stripped of his fire and his magic.There's no one left but Aron.What follows is a journey across the moun...

This timely book examines how technological innovation, globalization, cyber warfare, and authoritarian impulses are transforming global power. With contributions from leading experts, the book analyses the evolution of super-states, the resurgence of industrial policy, and the economic strategies sustaining national influence, while addressing the pressures of climate change, pandemics, and demographic shifts.Russia's and China's strategies and recent actions, and America's contes...

A thriller novel is a novel that uses suspense, excitement, apprehension and exhilaration to tell a story. Thriller novels have villains, suspense, and action in settings such as espionage, medicine, crime, politics, and high tech.They often involve life and death situations and have high stakes, like the control of the world or the possibility of widespread death or destruction.Many times innocent people are victimized, stalked, or caught in situations that are beyond thei...

You have trained in aikido for at least several months and wonder what's beyond the mechanics of basic technique. You ponder why we do what we do, and what principles underlie the techniques. You are looking for an edge to accelerate your learning and deepen your understanding. This book's 'Especially for Students' section is for you.The 'Especially for Teachers' section offers tips for aikido instructors. It helps you articulate to your students some of aikido's more difficult ideas.The t...

In ‘Coaching Dad,’ readers get to reconsider the contention: “You can never go home again.” If you were given the chance to do it, even at the risk of screwing up the space-time continuum, would you go? And if you did go, or went without knowing why, would you embrace the opportunity even if it meant eventually meeting and then coaching your father on the basketball court when he was a teenager? One minute, 50-year old, San Diego divorcee, Charles B., is on the couch expostulating before t...

This book includes the reforms proposed by the various Caribbean Commissions since 1985, making it a comprehensive guide to constitutional law in the Caribbean. It outlines sources of the law and developing changes in the doctrine of sovereignty of Parliament and the Conventions of the Constitution as well as in the role of the Public Service.There is also an expanded commentary on the Caribbean judiciary in which special reference is made to the proposed Caribbean Court of Justice...

This book closely examines the concept and theory of 'future' from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the practice of forecasting, especially in its interaction with complexity. It highlights the relations between forecasting, decision-making and strategy, mixing technical arguments (but minimal mathematics) with ideas from psychology and philosophy. Rich with examples, the book highlights the role of values and attitudes in deciding how to look at the future.Written in a...

The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community welfare or a commodity to be engineered to yield maximum economic benefit, the Rio Grande has brought many advantages to those who live in its valley, but the benefits have come at a price.This study examines human interactions with t...

(Educational Piano Library). From the very first lessons in Book 1, students are making music as they explore the piano keyboard through fun improvisation pieces called My Own Song . The beginning of the book introduces finger numbers, the black-key and white-key groups, and basic rhythm patterns. Directional reading is taught first by finger number, then by note name, and then by interval (stop, skip, and repeat). Once the students are introduced to the staff, they learn reading guides Ba...

In countries outside the developed world, although writers have written commentaries on specific legal codes, very little attention has been given to legal writing which has focused specifically on the ethics of the legal profession. This book makes a special contribution in that regard providing, as it does, a comparative study of prevailing efforts to enhance ethical standards in a profession potentially in crisis and under much public scrutiny.Countries which have been examined ...

(Educational Piano Library). Provides elementary-level students with a valuable resource for basic keyboard skills, including five-finger patterns, I-V7-I chords and arpeggios in all major and minor keys. Students learn to apply these basic skills through improv exercises and reading pieces. Includes a helpful keyboard chart of the I and V7 chords in all keys. A perfect choice for students preparing for auditions!