Clean drinking water is essential for life-and understanding how it works can inspire the next generation of problem-solvers.Based on real-world experience giving water treatment plant tours to elementary and middle school students, this book answers the awesome questions kids ask about where their water comes from and how it becomes safe to drink.This engaging and educational journey introduces readers ages 8-12 to the conventional...

Ripped from the headlines! Stories detailing the horrendous nocturnalactivities of sexual predators from St.Louis's infamous"Bossman "McGhee and New York's Nushawn Williams to the disturbingYou Tube viral video rantings of the self proclaimed "Trashman". Thethreat of an HIV positive individual purposely infecting scores ofunsuspecting women is unfortunately a very real and present danger inour modern society.Enter Lucien Valentino...pimp......

Darrell Schweitzer's career stretches back to the early 1970s. He has written novels, most notably The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995), which was expanded from a World Fantasy Award finalist novella, but he has probably most distinguished himself for a steady stream of short fiction which caused anthologist Mike Ashley (in The Mammoth Book of Sorcerers' Tales) to call him "today's supreme stylist" in the fantasy field. His work has appeared in a great variety of publications ranging from Amazi...

This book offers practical help and guidance to aspiring illustrators. All areas of the job are covered – creating a portfolio; approaching potential clients; preparing for meetings and negotiating contracts; setting up a studio; maintaining a flow of work and managing one’s time and cash. Self-promotion, creating websites, self-publishing and the pros and cons of agents are all explored.International illustrators are interviewed, discussing how they got their break in the industry...

The harsh projects of Fort Green, Brooklyn -- a cruel, unforgiving and treacherous environment in which two young brothers, DiAngelo and Paco Lovett, learn as tender-aged gradeschoolers how to rob, steal and hustle as efficiently as seasoned criminals many years their senior. However, an abrupt relocation to the West Coast exposes the young New Yorkers to the dark, murky depths of inner city Los Angeles. In time the teens are initiated into the circle of one of South Central's most lethal ...

A brutal serial killer is on the loose, stalking the nocturnal streets of East Baltimore, butchering lowlife scum such as drug dealers, pimps, gang members and other petty criminals, all the while surprisingly showering the ill~gotten wealth of his victims upon the numerous poverty stricken residents of the 'hood. Soon the aftermath of the tumultuous Baltimore riots brings about a new source of concern for Charm City's murderous vigilante. 'The Dog Catchers', a violent group of rogue polic...

Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region’s dominant gender and sexuality politics within the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. This book examines how people actively utilize the *carnivalesque—*spaces of festivity and places of excitement, the extraordinary, the ritualistic—to confront, negotiate, disrupt, and transgress normative tr...

"17-year old Andrew Duval is an exceptionally bright young student whose high IQ, academic achievements and nerdy persona brings him more misery than admiration from bullying classmates in his turbulent West side Chicago high school. Additionally his mother falls prey to the brutality of Chicago's unforgiving West side, which causes the young 'Poindexter', to delve into the netherworld of the internet's deeper regions... The dark web. Here, the once tormented geek reigns supreme as he uses...

"In 1931, former U.S. serviceman, Cyrus Gables returns home to his native Florida only to find that the economic scourge of the 'Great Depression' has financially ruined hundreds of poor sharecroppers including his very own parents. To add insult to injury, the heartless local bankers mercilessly repossess the farms of dozens of families unable to pay their taxes. Outragedand determined to settle the score, the ex~soldier and Kay Johnson his pregnant, southern belle girlfriend take ...

"Sultry, spunky Mexican beauty, Isabella Sanchez, finds great success and fanatical local celebrity as an amazing tattoo artist in her East Los Angeles barrio. Then fate leads the curvaceous Latina into the strong arms of Tyrone '9~Shotz' Peete, an irresistibly good looking O.G. from the dangerous streets of neighboring South Central. Their white-hot romance is undeniable in its fiery passion, unfortunately for the young lovers, their forbidden lust fuels old hostilities between feuding bl...

In 2007, several aggressive pitbull terriers escaped from the infamous, dogfighting ring known as 'Triple Double Kennels', formerly operated by disgraced NBA star Mario Mixx. Soon the badly mutilated bodies of victims begin surfacing throughout the wooded areas of Newport News' impoverished East End community. Mangled, partially eaten human remains, show signs of canine predation, causing the frightened residents of the hood to blame the bloody attacks on a brutal pack of feral dogs. With ...

When Derek Johnstone scored the winning goal for Rangers in the 1970 League Cup Final against Celtic at just sixteen years of age, he became an overnight sensation. It was an incredible start to an incredible career and the first of his 210 goals for the club. And from that moment on, DJ never looked back. In DJ - The Derek Johnstone Story, he now tells the full inside story of how it all happened. There's the 1972 Cup Winners' Cup success in Barcelona, the realities of life under Willie W...