COVID-19 and the Classroom: How Schools Navigated the Great Disruption presents social science research that explores how schools navigated the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 through the 2020-21 school year. This book also serves as a history book, documenting what this period was like for those involved in the enterprise of educating children. The book is divided into three sections, allowing for an in-depth exploration of the pandemic’s impact. The fi...

A crime story set in Glasgow.The hunt is on to find a serial killer who has already claimed the lives of several women. He works at night, carefully selecting his victims from the dark and noisy confines of Glasgow’s nightclubs.“He liked to target the shyer ones sometimes; they were so susceptible to flattery. He leaned forward to get a better look. Out of the shadows, his face glowed.”Cathy Stewart, a divorced, 40-something mother-of-two, is also a private investig...

The Kennedy killings meant trouble - trouble for the Mafia, trouble for the Cubans, and trouble for the CIA.When Grabowski hides the CIA's hypnosis experts away in a remote Northumbrian safe house, there is only one catch: the British.SIS have a problem just across the Irish Sea that needs to be dealt with, and they are determined to use their American guest's 'expertise' deveoped during Project MKULtra for their own purposes.

The Olympians and the Titans are in a power struggle. A traitor inside Larcombe Manor must be uncovered.The Phoenix needs all his skill and intelligence to keep his colleagues and loved ones safe.If the final battle is lost the Project will be taken in a darker direction with the ultimate aim of overthrowing democracy in the UK.Several story threads are woven together to produce a rich tapestry of good and evil. Who will win the day?

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature. Organized in alphabetica...

The continued quest for financial balanceThe one factor that weighs most on investor peace of mind is balance. It seems like such a simple premise—just a comfortable, equitable relationship between elements. We seek it in every area of our lives—between work and rest, between health and indulgence, between being aggressive and being passive. But balance isn’t always easy to find or choose—especially when it comes to money. Somehow a lot of people have a mu...

Over the past ten years, more than 4,000 people have died while crossing the Arizona desert to find jobs, join families, or start new lives. Other migrants tell of the corpses they pass—bodies that are never recovered or counted.Crossing With the Virgin collects stories heard from migrants about these treacherous treks—firsthand accounts told to volunteers for the Samaritans, a humanitarian group that seeks to prevent such unnecessary deaths by providing these travelers wi...

When did China make the decisive turn from tradition to modernity? For decades, the received wisdom would have pointed to the May Fourth movement, with its titanic battles between the champions of iconoclasm and the traditionalists, and its shift to more populist forms of politics. A growing body of recent research has, however, called into question how decisive the turn was, when it happened, and what relation the resulting modernity bore to the agendas of people who might have considered...

Based on real accounts, E Mess shows a different side of the Vietnam conflict. E Mess is the story of a group of young Marines begrudgingly assigned as cooks in Da Nang, Vietnam who drink, cook, and interact with one another as only Vietnam-era Marines could. The story follows the triumphs and missteps of these men and, in particular, the rise and fall of rookie Dave Woods during the tumultuous years of 1969 and 1970. Dave’s disdain for authority and rules finds him in and out of trouble, ...