Limitations are just a myth—if you have the heart to defy them.Twelve-year-old Lori Lynn is a die-hard basketball fan who dreams of the court from the seat of her wheelchair. Her world changes in seventh grade when she learns the "Story of the Bumblebee": a creature whose heavy body and tiny wings defy the laws of aviation, yet it flies anyway.Inspired by the impossible, Lori embarks on a secret, grueling journey of transformation. Guided by her fierce best friend SB and the...

The British Armys considerable contribution to The Korean War 1950 1953 was largely composed of conscripts or national servicemen. Plucked from civilian life on a lottery basis and given a short basic training, some like Jim Jacobs volunteered for overseas duty and suddenly found themselves in the thick of a war as intensive and dangerous as anything the Second World War had had to offer.As a member of 170 Independent Mortar Battery RA from March 1951 to June 1952 Jim was in the frontline ...

Medicine has always been about human judgment, compassion, and the relentless pursuit of better care. Today, a powerful new partner has entered the clinic — and it is changing everything.Intelligent Care explores how artificial intelligence is quietly transforming healthcare from the inside out — from the radiology suite reading your scans, to the algorithm monitoring your heart while you sleep, to the research lab designing tomorrow's medicines. Written in clear, accessib...

Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful — or more difficult to trust. Beyond the Black Box reveals why the most capable AI systems of the next decade will not be built on neural networks alone, but on a radical combination of machine learning and classical logic that researchers call Neuro-Symbolic AI. Through clear explanations, real-world examples from medicine, law, and autonomous vehicles, and an honest look at what the technology can and cannot yet do, this book ...

What makes this book distinctive is the unique perspective of its author. James Jacobs spent fifty years at Macomb Community College, starting as a part-time instructor in 1967 and retiring in 2017 as president. After being temporarily fired by the college in 1970 for activist activities, Jacobs not only won his job back but began a transformation that led to a national role in developing community college workforce strategies used by many institutions today.His evolution, from stu...

As a result of the AIDS epidemic, many nations around the world have faced the demands of caring for a particularly vulnerable population of children, the orphans of parents who have died of AIDS or whose caregivers are terminally ill from the disease. Overcoming AIDS: Lessons Learned from Uganda offers an in-depth exploration of this global issue and provides a broad focus on evolving a constructive response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.This collaborative resource is the fourth in the...

Strategic Transformation of Higher Education examines the broken revenue-driven business model characteristic of higher education in an environment that demands greater access, more affordable tuition, accountable leaders, and faculty who deliver a consistently high quality of relevant education. The authors demonstrate that enduring business models must support institutional academic missions and that they are integral to systemic and strategic transformation by diagnosing the case for ch...

This book considers a wide range of key developments and key areas of debate in China’s education system. Marketization, quality assurance, and issues of inequality and gender are all discussed, as are expansion in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, the impact of globalization, and the influence of education on China’s economic growth. The book, which comprises contributions from many leading authorities, will be of great interest both to comparative education specialists, and al...

Indigenous Education is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes empirical research based on a series of data collection methods. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on global trends on three issues of paramount importance with indigenous education—language, culture, and identity. It also offers a strategic comparative and international education policy statement on recent shifts in indigenous education, and new approaches to explore, develop...

This volume analyzes the dominance of STEM fields in various university rankings and the reasons why many governments in the world disproportionately give value to STEM fields. Secondly, although there is general agreement that STEM fields are important, chapter authors also examine the role of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches for a revised STEM education as well as implications for the future. The book presents examples from the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, and T...

This book examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy shifts globally, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education and policy research. It critiques the neo-liberal ideological imperatives of current higher education and policy reforms, and illustrates the way that changes in the relationship between the state and higher education policy affect current trends in higher education reforms.Using diverse comparative education ...

Motivation isn't the answer to moving forward.It isn't the fix for what's holding you back.It makes progress conditional, not personal.Motivation turns action into a negotiation.You check in with how you feel before deciding what to do.When motivation is high, you move. When it fades, you stall.Over time, this starts to feel normal.The problem isn't that motivation disappears—it's that your sense of agency goes w...