I’ve been lucky to visit six continents and work in over fifteen countries during the last twenty-five years in the film industry. From the heat and humidity of India, to the barren landscapes of central China, to the serene calm of an Italian summer and the lapping waves of the Caribbean, I’ve endeavored to take the road less traveled, eat at the cafés frequented only by locals and walked the streets without a map. I continue to believe that getting lost in a city is the best way to disco...

An invitation to slow down, experience the world, and connect with nature through mindfulness.“An inspiration and an ode to the natural world.”—MICHAELA CARTER, Peregrine Book CompanyWhat happens when we truly pay attention to the natural world? Through a series of brief, intimate stories from the Alaskan Arctic to the Amazon, Thomas Lowe Fleischner reveals how both easy and meaningful it is to deepen our connection with the Earth an...

Providing sector leading, scholarly informed critical explorations on students’ sense of belonging in higher education settings, this key text explores invaluable considerations for contemporary issues to inform institutional policy, pedagogic practice, student education support, and diversity and accessibility practices.Drawing on the research and practical expertise of an international authorship, alongside vital insights from student contributors, this book is both timely and ne...

Michael Vargas is living the life of a celebrity architect when his world collapses. He walks away from the glamorous career of the star architect and begins a quest that will take him twenty-three years back in time. The challenge his mentor presented at the time is beckoning Michael back to the South—his home, a place he loved and hated.The road back is a road forward, filled with trials and pain, but the journey eventually leads to an artistic epiphany that Michael discovers in ...

We have been led to believe that the most private and secure possession we own is our thoughts. What if that isn't true? When police call in forensic psychology professor Elizabeth Monroe to consult in a series of strange murders, for the first time in her stellar career, she's not sure where to begin. Elizabeth sifts through clues that will lead to a psychological profile of the killer. But when the murders are being committed by average people with no criminal history, she must investiga...

Winner of the 2021 Western Writers of America's Spur AwardsBefore he died, Ty McGill's grandfather left him with a skill few people have, an uncanny ability to calm and train problem horses. But after three tours of duty in the Middle East, Ty returns home to West Texas with his own deep problems. He's faced with challenges that start with his former fiancée and continue through a futile job search that leads him to Midnight, a horse with the reputation as a man ki...

When Sean O'Brien watches a girl darting through traffic to pick up money she dropped, he stops to help. The next time he sees her face it's during a TV newscast. She's vanished. As the case grows cold, Sean can't forget the touching story she shared with him. To find her, he must enter the dark web, infiltrate a global criminal ring, outwit one of the sharpest and most inhuman minds he's ever faced in a battle where the girl's life is reduced to a matter of days.

Mermaids. Mysterious, seductive, beautiful. The world has a collective fascination for the myths and illusions of mermaids.In Mermaid, the line between make-believe and murder evaporates when the body of a young woman in a mermaid tail washes ashore on a Florida beach. Police think her death is an accident, maybe connected to a big budget movie filming in the area. After another girl, this one working as a mermaid at a theme park, drowns—Sean O'Brien becomes involved becau...

Flash of Gold is the twelfth installment in the Sean O'Brien series.

Providing a selection of critical pieces on the key challenges and debates in student engagement in higher education, this edited collection of sector-leading, scholarly-informed critical reflections is designed to consider and build upon what can be done to advance student engagement.By problematising student engagement practice, this book explores how to strengthen policies, recognise the issues and create solutions to overcome barriers and tensions. It considers topics such as d...

Drawing on scholarship as well as established practice, A Handbook for Student Engagement in Higher Educationis a sector-leading volume that unpacks the concept of student engagement. It provides ideas and examples alongside compelling theory- and research-based evidence to offer a thorough and innovative exploration of how students and staff can work together to genuinely transform the higher education learning experience.Providing readers with evidence from successfully ...

A must-listen biography from the author of the bestselling Warren Buffett Speaks.