These are the first and second stories of Robin Archer, the half-Fae charged by the Fairy Queen to protect human children from human predators. With snark, a gun, and a touch of magic, Robin works at the edge of human law to save kids.AND ONLY THE EYES OF CHILDREN: When a child is abducted, the police can't act fast enough to save her. Robin Archer can. (This Pushcart Prize-nominated story was originally published in FAE.)ORPHAN HEIRS & SHADES OF NIGHT: A Halloween tale! Wh...

Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics.Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations’ differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I’s impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identifica...

Into the Classroom is a series of short, practical guides that help teachers who work in the primary and secondary school setting to make sense of new teaching tools, techniques, and educational policy, with ideas for implementing them in the classroom. Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World provides teachers with strategies and practical pronunciation ideas to help students aiming for international intelligibility or a native speaker accent. Explains the importance of focusing ...

The world-renowned bestseller for women addicted to unhealthy relationships—updated and with a new introductionIf your relationships are unhappy, unfulfilling, even ego destroying… If your yearning for love is frustrated by a partner who is more interested in work, substances, or other women than in you… If being in love means being in pain…then this book was written for you.Women Who Love Too Much distills Robin Norwood’s entire career as a therap...

Femdom Erotica. In the 21st century, slavery, both voluntary and involuntary, has become legal. Needing money, sexy Sabrina Swann sells herself into indentured sexual servitude and is purchased by a millionaire, jet-setting businessman Archer Cordell, who dominates her ruthlessly. Countess Esmerelda is a Female Dominant who is equally ruthless in business. Now she plans to take control of Archer. During a business trip to her estate, Archer and Sabrina are drugged and become trapped in the...

Femdom Erotica. Early in the 21st century, slavery, both voluntary and involuntary, has become legal. It's been several years since Archer Cordell was freed from the clutches of The Countess Esmerelda by the resourceful Sabrina. The Countess is still furious at Archer's escape, and has bent all her wiles to enslave him ... this time by framing him for crimes he didn't commit. Archer comes before a corrupt judge, whose son is Esmerlda's captive. The innocent Archer is swiftly sentenced to s...

Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP), an application of Video Interaction Guidance, supports individuals or groups to reflect on and develop their professional communication, teaching or therapeutic skills with their clients through shared review of moments of attuned interaction in video clips of their day-to-day practice.This book brings together international researchers and practitioners from a range of professions to define VERP, present its theoretical basis and review t...

It remains without question the most memorable and memorized speech in American history. On November 19, 1863, in 272 words delivered among the freshly dug graves of Union dead upon the country's bloodiest battlefield, Abraham Lincoln redefined American liberty and forever altered the course of the nation.This volume aims to place the Gettysburg Address in its full context, examining both its influences and impacts, and approaching it from a number of modern perspectives. Never bef...

ALEXIS AND THE ROBIN HOOD is part of the new Steam Books Romantica line of novelettes and novellas, three to five times longer than our normal short stories, with room for more steamy romance and character development!Living a life of a con man and thief, Jack gets a tip for a job that at first he believes is a front for black market work at a lingerie store. He’s surprised, however, when the lingerie sales job turns out to be legit and his manager and co-worker believe this strapp...

Say goodnight to America's manchild-in-chief with this bestselling and wickedly funny parody.In the very classy roomThere was a golden mirrorAnd a silver spoonAnd a broadcast of --A half-baked story from a fake newsroom . . .Goodnight Trump opens in the very classy golden bedroom of the White House, where it is bedtime for the 45th President of the United States. Readers can encourage this very stable genius to bid goodnight ...

While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was without precedent anywhere in the world. The campaigns precipitated mass mobilisation, bitter argument, a split in the Labor Party, and the fall of a government. The defeat of the proposals was hailed by some as a victory of democracy over militarism, mourned by others as an expression of politi...