FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE!Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine surges onward, waging wars that will decide the fate of the BattleMech-dominated future of the 31st century and beyond! Follow a quest for quick cash that yields unusual Star League relics. Commiserate with an aging MechWarrior convinced he is cursed with the devil’s luck—which is about to run out. Listen to the tale of how mercenary commander Ace Darwin obtained his iconic ’M...

This resource provides teachers with tips, suggestions, and strategies for classrooom management and maintaining a positive learning environment. This book offers creative ideas and current research-based techniques for topics like observing the physical and social classroom environment, handling classroom disruptions, keeping students engaged, communicating with families, and more.

School principals do not struggle because they lack vision, commitment, or skill. They struggle because the relentless urgency of running a school quietly crowds out the strategic leadership work required to improve it. J Roth calls this Leadership Compression, and it is the central challenge of the modern principalship.In Leadership Compression: How Intentional Principals Protect the Work That Matters Most, Roth draws on more than twenty years as a building principal, yea...

Digital Technologies are impacting society in the 21st century the same way the industrial technologies impacted society in the 20th century. They are dramatically changing consumer behavior and expectations which is resulting in traditional industries being disrupted, traditional businesses being displaced and new industries being created. Executives of traditional companies must transform their business models to survive in the digital economy. In this book author Lynda J Roth- d...

The dark reverberations of a wrong never made rightNebraska Territory, 1841. Born at the scene of an atrocity, an infant-the sole survivor of his family's slaughter-is rescued and fostered by settlers traveling west. A letter written in blood in a strange language and his mother's necklace are the only traces of his lineage carried with him.Nearly twenty years later, people throughout the West-an aging sheriff in a Nevada town, a teenaged girl in a...

How can you be true to yourself when you aren't even sure who you are?Chris is a class clown and borderline outcast who doesn't see much to look forward to in his junior year of high school. Benji abandoned his old friend group to fit in with a rich-girls clique, but he's finding out that being rich and popular isn't the key to happiness, and neither is his situationship with a hot but fickle star athlete. Jemma is an honor roll student and promising artis...

The statistics are sobering: over 200,000 men in the United States are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. With this diagnosis, men are expected to psychologically combat the worry, practical concerns, and the emotional and physical changes during an immensely trying time. How to help? In Managing Prostate Cancer: A Guide for Living Better, Dr. Andrew J. Roth, a psychiatrist specializing in psychological support for cancer patients, provides the emotional skills and strateg...

Be careful what you wish for.Janie wanted more excitement, but this was not exactly what she had in mind.Crawling along a tunnel that ran through rocks to escape from danger in her own world only to emerge into a different world full of peril; wild weather, wild animals and other-worldly happenings was unexpected.Tarron raced into the cave, emerging into a different world from his own. Unable to return he was forced to survive on his own until he saw her; oblivious to ...

Electricity and Magnetism (E&M) underlies many lifesaving medical devices, such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners, neural stimulators, and heart pacemakers. But E&M also attracts its share of bogus health claims, such as biomagnetic therapy. How do you separate the good from the bad? Sometimes it’s not easy: experiments are prone to artifacts, theories are limited by assumptions, and clinical trials can result in ambiguities. In this book, the author separates the wheat from the chaff...

Geriatric Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive handbook that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of older adults living with cancer and their families. Chapters cover a wide range of topics including screening tools and interventions, psychiatric emergencies and disorders, physical symptom management, communication issues, and issues specific to common cancer sites. A resource section is appended to provide information on...

The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once described a village as “deserted” when all the adult males had vanished. While his statement is from the first half of the twentieth century, it nonetheless illustrates an oversight that has persisted during most of the intervening decades.Now Southwestern archaeologists have begun to delve into the task of “engendering” their sites. Using a “close to the ground” approach, the contributors to this book seek to engender the prehisto...

This edited volume is both a guide for educators and a resource for everyone who wants to strengthen resistance against a major atrocity that besieges human development. Its contributors explore a crucial question: how to teach about rape in war and genocide?