"Chance, choice, change. Life is played out in that space. Start with any one of these words, and you bring in the other two."TV producer, Eoin Doherty, returns to Dublin from London in the early 2000s with his career in freefall. He has one opportunity to salvage his career: to sell his idea for a prime-time reality TV show to an unsuspecting nation.A chance encounter with showbiz psychologist Maggie Vernon leads to her becoming the co-creator of his show and, soon, his love...

Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.It boils down the huge amount of knowledge and experience generated by the Sure Start programmes and local evaluation studies, with chapters encompassing child development and healthcare, partnership working with existing local serv...

What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic location, financial status, or ability to access conventional institutions of learning.But does open education really offer the openness, democracy and cost-effectiveness its supporters promise? Or will it lead to a two-tier system, where those who can’t afford to attend a traditional university will have to make do with online, second-r...

I heard of the devil, but I was never a believer. Now, I’m ready to call 1-800-exorcist.I just got promoted! Yay, right?Not so much.Being the executive assistant to the company’s CEO blew up my life. No one can please this man—especially me. No lie: I’m sure if you look up “Bosshole” in the dictionary, you’ll find a smirking picture of Keiran Brothers, the man who’s turned my life upside down. Yesterday, I loved my job. Today, I’m contemplating murder and n...

This Research Note presents some recent advances in various important domains of partial differential equations and applied mathematics including equations and systems of elliptic and parabolic type and various applications in physics, mechanics and engineering. These topics are now part of various areas of science and have experienced tremendous development during the last decades. -------------------------------------

Case study and look at the Whole Foods market industry.

Earth year 3416. What's left of humanity? A military diaspora living aboard ships and stations. The Probe, a vessel designed to explore and exploit resources, stumbles into the orbit of Organ, a life-bearing exoplanet where a human settlement was successfully established nearly six centuries earlier.Major Strauss, a solitary young officer, is sent on a mission to the surface, where he discovers the customs, social organization and strange powers of this community.A young wo...