From Disability Theory to Practice pays tribute to Professor Jerome Bickenbach’s highly influential and immensely important work. Professor Bickenbach is a scholar, policy-maker, and activist, of international stature. This volume brings together ten friends, mentors, and mentees, who have penned eight chapters engaging in topics that range, as the title suggests and as Professor Bickenbach’s work has spanned, from theory to practice.This volume begins, much as Professor Bickenbach...

This book is a collection of twelve essays devoted to Michael Boylan's important work in moral philosophy,A Just Society. The collection is thematically organized to mirror Boylan's own volume, so the first half explores fundamental issues of justification in ethics while the second half focuses on issues involving ethical discourse, social justice, and the moral foundations of public policy. In their critical and engaging essays, the authors challenge many of the original and con...

A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg offers a comprehensive, detailed study of the works of Steven Spielberg. Spielberg's early productions stand as landmarks in contemporary cinema, and his involvement with film spans all cinematic genres. Today, Spielberg enjoys an immense and enduring popularity around the globe, and his productions have attracted (and continue to attract) both public and critical attention. This book investigates several distinct areas of Spielberg's works and addr...

He's used to being the hunter.Not the hunted.But when Brill Wingfield's latest mission ends in an ambush, he goes on the run from the man who taught him how to kill.It's going to take every skill the Shadowboxer has to stay alive in a cross country race to keep one step ahead of a bullet.Can the world's luckiest hitman escape?Find out in book four of the action packed series for fans of page turning thrillers.

The purpose of this volume is to discuss the concept of citizenship—in terms of its origins, its meanings, and its contemporary place and relevance in American democracy, and within a global context. The authors in this collection wrestle with the connection of citizenship to major tensions between liberty and equality, dynamism and stability, and civic disagreement and social cohesion. The essays also raise fundamental questions about the relationship between citizenship and leadership, a...

Nobody thinks the zombine apocolypse is real.But when the unthinkable happens, seventeen year old Emma just wants to reach the safety of her home.Except there are no more safe havens.Everyone and everything she knows is gone and her world is spinning out of control.Until she meets with the jock who used to bully her and the kid he tormented most.Now the three of them must run, fight and hide as they search for a way out of the infected city.C...

Back in Florida and this trip isn't a vacation.This is where the hunt started and now the trail for his lost child leads him back to the Sunshine State.She's alive.She survived.She's running.And he's going to find her and keep her safe.No matter what it takes or who stands in his way.Book 9 in the Battlefield Z series for fans of The Walking Dead and zombie thrillers.

He thought he was done.Twenty years in and nothing to do next.Until a legend shows up with a mission.And an offer.Join a ragtag crew for a one off to save the galaxy.When you say it like that, how do you refuse?They're not quite the A team.Might even have to struggle to be the B squad.But when death is on the line, can they pull their plasma rifles out of the fire?Fans of page turning sci fi adventure are going to enjo...

Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World is an eight-hour audio mini-series, based on the classic by R.L. Stevenson.The adaptation resets the story in the Bayous of Louisiana, the Port of New Orleans, and the Caribbean in 1828. This fully dramatized production stars the voices of Keith David as Long John Silver, John Goodman as Billy Bones, and Glynn Turman as the storyteller, along with members of the Firesign Theatre—David Ossman and Phil Proctor. Th...

This edited collection of 12 chapters by research workers from a wide range of disciplines resolves the confusion that currently surrounds the “hygiene hypothesis” by considering the human need for exposure to microorganisms from an evolutionary point of view. The book explains why we evolved a requirement for exposure to microbiota from our mothers, from other people, and from the natural environment. It also explains the physiological roles of these exposures, what goes wrong when the ex...