Scribes Divided presents an anthology of fifty-three memorable flash fiction stories. Ranging from comedy to horror to romance and from the supernatural to the super-real, these ultra-short tales will stop you in your tracks. In this book, award-winning authors from around the world will terrorize, mesmerize, and tantalize you into forgetting for a moment your Existential Dread.

Out of Sight is both an investigative deep dive into the meat industry’s treatment of farm animals, and a story of resilience and, ultimately, professional and personal triumph.This insightful and often harrowing memoir chronicles the author’s forty-year career conducting undercover investigations and documenting animal abuse in the U.S. meat industry while simultaneously coping with a mysterious and incapacitating medical condition. Due to the isolation s...

Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years — particularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulation — have had on workers, animals, and consumers. It is also the first time ever that workers have spoken publicly about what’s really taking place behind the closed doors of America’s slaughterhouses. In this new paperback edition, author Gail A. Eisnitz brings t...

This book takes the topic of aviation crisis and emergency management and walks the reader through what aviation organisations must consider alongside legislation to respond fully to an aviation emergency or accident. It offers both theory and practical tips and ideas along with templates and checklists to help build confidence in how to run an aviation emergency operation. This includes timelines for activation, setting up and managing humanitarian centres and how a full aviation crisis o...

Speaking Skills for Teens trains students to learn effective speaking skills and also motivates students to view themselves and their classmates in an optimistic manner. Because they can find only positives in each talk given by their peers, that is the way they start viewing each presenter even before the talk begins. Through active participation, students learn how to maximize their speaking skills, their poise, and their recognition of their own skills and abilities. In addition to lear...

Kids helping kids provides growth for both the mentor and the student being mentored. The goal is to provide teens with the tools necessary to participate to their fullest in and outside the school community. Mentors learn and then teach leadership skills to their mentorees. Skills include communication skills, body language, human relation skills and much more. Their support of their mentorees opens the door for success in school and for personal self-development for these teens. The majo...

Happiness is doing what you love to do. Finding your passion is your opportunity to make a difference in the world. This book shows you how to live the life you were meant to live by guiding you through the process of self-discovery. This process will help you find your passion and apply what you have learned about yourself to a career path. You learn how to use the invaluable external and internal tools to help guide you on your exciting journey. You discover not only how to find your ide...

A complete guide and source-book brimming with advice on collecting and preparing gems and minerals .

Designed as a textbook for radiographers, this up-to-date manual provides an accessible store of information on pediatric imaging procedures, with clearly described techniques and instructions. The aim is to simplify the pediatric examination and facilitate the experience for the patient, parent, and technologist. Extensively illustrated, this work describes in detail correct positioning, radiation protection, and methods of immobilization. The major portion of the book was written by seni...

This is the story of the heart-wrenching journey of a mother and her son as they struggle to come to terms with and overcome his addiction to heroin. The facts in this story are all true and serve to map out the challenges and the heartache of the life of a mother living with an addicted child. In a very real and candid way, it is written both to identify with and to encourage mothers and other family members who are living through this same nightmarethe nightmare of dealing with an addict...

In the 1600s, a brutal massacre on an island off the coast of New England leaves only one survivor: Sarah. Wounded and alone in the carnage, she fights to stay alive as she waits for her rescuers. Each night, she returns to a group of boulders along a path to the beach and listens to scavengers feed. That path is where she finally dies, but her spirit lingers on.For more than three centuries, Sarahs ghost waits in the rocks for someone to save her. Most walk her path safely, but if...

The desire of every parent is to have a happy, confident child. This book provides a Framework for parents to follow, a Framework which encompasses every family’s ethnic, religious, and racial background. Parent mentoring guidelines are included in order to help parents maximize their child’s potential while providing him/her acceptance and motivation. Raising a child is never easy and cannot be done perfectly. Children enter this world with their own personalities, their own uniqueness. A...