This is a true story of 13 US airmen of two different B24 bomber crews shot down over war torn Yugoslavia in May of 1944. It details their escape, evasion and rescue after 3 months behind enemy lines being protected by Serbia's Chetnik guerrilla forces and countrymen and women. Their everyday struggles, emotional ups and downs are demonstrated in their thoughts and conversations throughout the story. My father, S/Sgt. Floyd Byfield is one of the survivors and is part the greatest air rescu...

What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic location, financial status, or ability to access conventional institutions of learning.But does open education really offer the openness, democracy and cost-effectiveness its supporters promise? Or will it lead to a two-tier system, where those who can’t afford to attend a traditional university will have to make do with online, second-r...

This book will guide you through making your own E-Liquids. Beginners and advanced users alike can benefit from the walkthrough information. Everything from safety, nicotine handling, mixing by scale, mixing by weight, flavoring notes, recipes, and so much more! When you are done, you will have a full understanding of what to do with your flavors and how they interact with each other. You will have a complete understanding of how to mix and how to have fun doing it. Recipes included that a...

The Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin: An Abridged Corpse of Axioms, Vocabulary, and Their Purported Meanings is an irreverent take on language in the modern age, based on the author's experience in Asia.  Loosely satirizing the context and structure of a pocket-sized phrase book, the Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin describes a world where most expats are called “asspats,” and suggests the best way to deal with the Chinese penchant for pushing in line is to push back.

What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that such organizations are best understood if we engage with the learning, knowledge, debates, and theorizing that goes on within them. Drawing on Marxist, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-co...

If you want to help people learn from activities, exercises or experiences, this book is for you. This book fills a gap; it is the gap between doing an activity and learning from it. Plenty of books describe activities that are good for icebreaking, for team-building, for project management or for cross-cultural understanding, etc. A few of these books do give advice about reviewing (or debriefing) the activities, and 90% of the times it reads: “Here are some questions you can ask ...”. Ho...

Are you interested in a sports writing career? This could be the most important book you buy this year.Ian Neilson started writing match reports in his bedroom; seven years later, he was a successful freelance journalist that had worked for every national newspaper in the UK.Sports Writing Secrets is packed with the insider tips and tactics that took him to some of the world's most famous stadiums, including Wembley and Old Trafford, while working for Brita...

For individuals with Down syndrome, the extent of the effect of intellectual disability depends largely on the degree of provision of appropriate support and intervention. In Educating Learners with Down Syndrome, editors Rhonda Faragher and Barbara Clarke have brought together a number of expert contributors, whose chapters review recent findings in the field of DS education, highlight promising practices, and identify areas for future research.While the emphasis is prima...

Do we buy technology in schools without questioning why?  How many times have you been amazed by a piece of technology? If you're like me, then quite often! I love technology, I love the way it has changed the way I work, how it has inspired me and how it has enabled me to publish things I never thought possible 10 years ago.  Now, let's look at the children in my class, the digital natives. The technology has always been there, they've never been in a classroo...

This interactive eBook follows a Grandpa and Grandma's road trip adventure around Australia. With striking illustrations and easy-to-read text, this can be a child's first look at Australia's major cities, landmarks, natural wonders and Aboriginal culture.

The next generation of organizational leaders are represented in this compilation. The course pertaining to this book is Group Leadership: Small Groups, Teams, and High-Performance Teams (COM 560). This is a master’s seminar from the Communication Studies Department of the College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama (UA). As a premier college for communication studies, among other fields within the broader discipline of communication, there is he...

One of the biggest challenges teachers face is also the most essential skillset to master: Classroom Management. Tons of techniques and strategies exist, but most are doomed from the start.The Child Whisperer: Classroom Management Through Calmness and Consequences shows teachers how to keep student disruption and their own stress level down to a minimum. The program uses a simple, consistent, no-nonsense approach that incentivizes kids to behave according to the teacher's expectati...