A short story featuring Brian Lawson from JAVA MAN, the new novel by Harris Gray. As a teenager in Davis, California, Brian falls for a girl in Davis’s legendary coffee shop – and goes way too far to win her heart. A tale of first love, and the origin of the java man.An extra shot complements a great drink. For readers of JAVA MAN, this episode from Brian’s past explains a lot. An extra shot can get you hooked. If you haven’t yet discovered JAVA MAN, this Extra Shot will leave you ...

What do you do when a nightmare threatens your dream? In the disturbingly funny new novel from the authors of Vampire Vic, Brian Lawson receives a dread diagnosis: cancer. But he won’t spare a moment from saving his struggling coffeeshop, even if success comes with his dying breath.Divorced and ostracized in the rural community, Andrea Goldine sets her sights on the charismatic java man. Brian’s doctors ravage him with chemo and radiation, yet the tumor on his shin grows. ...

The new edition of this popular book is reorganized to present pairs of contrasting views on what it means to be a man in contemporary Western culture. Addressing such issues as sex differences, fatherhood, intimacy, homosexuality, and oppression; the collection also includes new discussions of paternity, pornography, mixed-race marriage, impotence, and violence. Rethinking Masculinity is an excellent text for gender studies, ethics, and social philosophy courses.

The late insurrection in Southampton has greatly excited the public mind, and led to a thousand idle, exaggerated and mischievous reports. It is the first instance in our history of an open rebellion of the slaves, and attended with such atrocious circumstances of cruelty and destruction, as could not fail to leave a deep impression, not only upon the minds of the community where this fearful tragedy was wrought, but throughout every portion of our country, in which this population is to b...

The capabilities leaders are required to demonstrate have changed and will no doubt continue to do so. As there is no change without learning, their development experiences are critical. Too many development programmes are preoccupied with defining what leaders should learn, but 'content' is conditioned by dynamic circumstances and in the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) organizational world, it is rapidly out of date.Developing Leaders For Real: Proven approa...

Accessing up-to-date information about general and specific learning difficulties is made easy, with this indispensable reference book. Covering difficulties that relate to children, adolescents and adults, it includes:crucial legislation to keep practitioners 'in the know'useful addresses, telephone numbers and websitesIt also includes explanations of leaning difficulties including those less than well-known syndromes such as semantic pragmatic diffi...

In their day-to-day practice, social work and human services practitioners frequently find themselves in confusing ethical quandaries, trying to balance the numerous competing interests of protecting children from harm and promoting family and community capacity. This book explores the ethical issues surrounding child protection interventions and offers a process-oriented approach to ethical practice and decision making in child protection and family welfare practice. Its aim is to prepare...

What do we mean when we talk about 'queer teachers'? The authors here grapple with what it means to be sexually or gender diverse and to work as a school teacher within four national contexts: Australia, Ireland, the UK and the USA. This new volume offers academics, educators and students a provocative exploration of this pivotal topic.

First Published in 1998. This book is designed to meet the basic classroom management needs of teachers in all phases and types of educational institution. It introduces teachers to the main theoretical approaches to classroom management of learning and behaviour along with their practical applications. In addition, the book considers the needs of particular categories of pupils and other issues that impact on classroom management. It also provides a range of photocopiable forms that will ...

Page-Turning Romantic Suspense Set Against the Backdrop of a Small Mennonite TownLizzie Engel is used to running away. At eighteen, she left her Mennonite hometown, her family, and her faith with plans never to return. Five years later, Lizzie finds she'll have to run again. False accusations at her job, a stalker, and a string of anonymous threatening letters have left her with no other options. This time, however, her escape is back to Kingdom, her hometown.As Lizzie beco...

Howey Award Winner - 2014 Best Adult Book & 2014 Best Adult AuthorWinner of The Blot Writing Contest"Allred shows excellent insight into the psychological interactions of her characters in this gripping mystery of greed and redemption." - ForeWord Clarion ReviewsDr. John Sanders has given Rebecca Brownell a new chance at life. After an isolated childhood, an abused adolescence, and an institutionalized existence, Rebecca is finally free to c...

An Amish settlement in Ohio has run afoul of a law requiring their children to attend public school. Caleb Bender and his neighbors are arrested for neglect, with the state ordering the children be placed in an institution. Among them are Caleb's teenage daughter, Rachel, and the boy she has her eye on, Jake Weaver. Romance blooms between the two when Rachel helps Jake escape the children's home. Searching for a place to relocate his family where no such laws apply, Caleb learns there's in...