School shootings are on the increase and it often seems like another shooting is just a matter of time. The emphasis on “encouragement groups”, as a method of preventing gun violence, is dealt with in practical terms. Students will learn to help each other before a perpetrator becomes discouraged enough to shoot other children. The reader will also experience the logic of a young person who verbalizes suicidal ideations and another who develops an eating disorder. Varying strategies to ove...

Making interactive web maps has never been easier.Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Online guides readers, step by step, through the process of creating maps that simplify location data and unlock spatial insights. In just a few clicks, you’ll publish professional web maps that use smart, data-driven mapping styles and powerful analysis tools.These bite-sized chapters demonstrate how to create layers, build web maps, and showcase your location dat...

Wonder-Streams of the Soul is a beautiful inspiring collection of poems and philosophical passages accompanied by exquisite images-all reaped from a lifetime of vast, diverse and treasured experiences and insights! Its conceptions confront life's most crucial dilemmas and are soul-liberating. They draw upon profound lessons of the past while simultaneously tapping future-oriented visions. The book unites imagination and visions of the soul with workings of logic and revelations of science....

Transform your spatial analysis capabilities with the power of GeoAI.Learn the latest geospatial AI models and tools with Exploring GeoAI: Tools and Workflows. Use comprehensive, hands-on tutorials for implementing cutting-edge deep learning models and workflows—perfect for anyone ready to apply the transformative potential of GeoAI in their organizational operations.Start by learning how to install deep learning frameworks, confirm hardware capabi...

As any fan of comics knows, EC comics still represent the best of Golden Age writing and artwork. Now, Dark Horse Books is proud to bring you the very first issues of EC’s Tales from the Crypt, featuring the amazing artistic talents of Johnny Craig, Al Feldstein, George Roussos, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Graham Ingels, and Jack Kamen! Collects The Crypt of Terror#17–#19 and Tales from the Crypt #20–#22 in full color!

This stimulating edited collection focuses on the practice of revision across all creative writing genres, providing a guide to the modes and methods of drafting, revising and editing. Offering an overview of how creative writing is generated and improved, the chapters address questions of how creative writers revise, why editing is such a crucial part of the creative process and how understanding the theories underpinning revision can enhance writers' projects.Innovative and thoug...

A dark literary cult classic about alienation, self-destruction, and not fitting in.A timeless story of isolation and inner torment, Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human follows Yozo Oba, a man who hides behind laughter while drifting toward self-destruction. Based on Dazai's own life and newly translated by award-winning translator Juliet Winters Carpenter, this modern classic explores what it means to feel disconnected from humanity. Deeply introspective, emoti...