Building Coactive Sport Teams develops and presents an asset-focused framework to guide coaches in engaging athletes as coactors. This book provides an asset-focused, inclusive approach to involving all team members in collaborating to achieve shared goals, a process called coaction. It lays out a coaching model that cultivates athletes’ collaboration skills and increases team members’ engagement, especially among those with diverse identities, skills, and experiences in working t...

Covering the theory and practice of non-insecticidal control of insect vectors of human disease, this book provides an overview of methods including the use of botanical biocides and insect-derived semiochemicals, with an overall focus on integrated vector management strategies. While the mainstay of malaria control programmes relies on pesticides, there is a resurgence in the research and utilisation of non-insecticidal control measures due to concerns over rapid development and spread of...

It’s nice to have a hobby. Detective Sergeant Donovan likes motorcycling. Mikey Dickens enjoys armed robbery. And their chance meeting in a Castlemere petrol station leads to a hot pursuit, an horrific crash and a remarkable act of heroism as Donovan pulls the teenager from the burning wreckage.The case against the young thief seems cut and dried, but the Dickens family are professional criminals and they concoct a clever defence. The tearaway, it seems, is going to walk . . ....

***2014 RomCon Reader's Crown Finalist in Historical Romance***She grew up believing he was her knight-in-shining armor. He thought of her as his best friend's little sister, the pest that followed them around everywhere.Now time and circumstances have changed them both. By a series of unfortunate events, Gabriel has become the Duke of Hawkescliffe and sees himself resigned to a loveless marriage. Until that time arrives, he will continue to serve in the fight against Napol...

To his fellow firemen, Tommy Skyler has it all. But the golden boy of Station Five hides a private pain. He was once a star quarterback until tragedy derailed his dream. Since then, he's struggled with his choices-including his decision to become a firefighter. His one ray of light shines in beautiful nurse Shea Ford. When a dangerous rescue lands Tommy in the ER, what better opportunity to win her over? But when a conspiracy culminates in deadly arson, Tommy realizes that a ruthless enemy...

Does anyone ever see us for who we really are? Jo Knowles’s revelatory novel of interlocking stories peers behind the scrim as it follows nine teens and one teacher through a seemingly ordinary day.Thanks to a bully in gym class, unpopular Nate suffers a broken finger—the middle one, splinted to flip off the world. It won’t be the last time a middle finger is raised on this day. Dreamer Claire envisions herself sitting in an artsy café, filling a journal, but fate ...

What is Crossed Lines?In a sentence, it is a high-speed, complex, geographically wide-ranging, quite technical, sometimes brutal, sometimes sexy, sometimes funny, often violent, corruption driven, crime soaked, duplicitous, deceptive, confusing, thrilling, passionately human and rather strange love story.In Part One: No Choice, we meet the players. First, Julia Kelso, by day a respected and respectable senior police officer, by night a solo...

"In a classroom, on a football field and in a prison these were the battlegrounds for some of the most fervent clashes waged in defense of civil liberties in New Jersey since 1960. Awardwinning journalist Mary Jo Patterson provides an exclusive front-row seat to these skirmishes in the book, On the Frontlines of Freedom, a look at the first 50 years of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey. Patterson chronicles the rich and colorful history of the ACLU-NJ against the backdrop of...

The fourth novel in JO DAVIS's scorching-hot series FIREFIGHTERS OF STATION FIVE, where the tough and sexy firemen give off their own heat...To the other men of the A-shift, Tommy's a lucky guy who has it all. But deep inside, the golden boy of Station Five hides a private pain. He was once a star quarterback on the fast track, until tragedy derailed his dream. Since then, he's struggled with the choices he's made - including his decision to become a firefighter.

Never mind the Real Housewives of Orange County—Marla Jo Fisher is the woman everyone can relate to, complete with bad parenting, rotten dogs, ill health, and fashion faux pas. For nearly two decades, in the Orange County Register and many syndicated papers, readers have delighted in Marla Jo’s subversive humor, cranky intellect, and huge heart on her journey through broke, single, after-40 motherhood, when she adopted Cheetah Boy and Curly Girl, to her oddball adventures around t...

Our Friendly Local Terrorist tells the story of the fourteen-year struggle of Suleyman Goven, a Kurd accused by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service of being a terrorist. Mary Jo Leddy was “accidentally” present at Suleyman’’s first interview with CSIS. During that eight-hour ordeal he was propositioned: you work for us as a spy and you’ll get your papers; otherwise—there are no guarantees. Mary Jo continued to be a witness to this bizarre and painful process over the follow...

Les beaux jours sont là ! Adieu nuits à rallonge et efforts désespérés pour se réchauffer ! Le soleil revient, la température monte, les esprits s’échauffent en rêvant d’évasion. Besoin de partir ? Ça tombe bien, le Club des Indés vous emmènent en voyage !Amélie B, Audrey Martinez, Aurélien Grall, Daryl Delight, Elijaah Lebaron, Isabelle Morot-Sir, Larème Debbah, Line Marlin, Marie Havard, Marjorie Levasseur, Nina Jo, Sélène Derose, Sophia Laurent et Sophie Rouzier sont réunis pour...