Science Fiction Stories from the Bottom of the Ocean to the Depths of Space

This book contributes significantly to the conversation about inclusion as a critical component of school culture. Educating All recounts Christopher McMaster’s experience as a critical ethnographer in a school community, given the task of not only studying the institution’s culture, but of creating change as well. The school used a whole-school framework known as the Index for Inclusion, which addressed students identified as having «special» or learning needs. The outco...

Twenty years ago I left the British Isles. I was happy to do so at the time, always the foreigner, always the one with an accent. But returning to the US, I was again the one speaking funny or different. Words and phrases and pronunciations inhabited my tongue, moved right in without my even noticing. Now I always get the question, 'Where are you from?' no matter where I am. My answer is typically, 'California', the place where I was born. I notice that most of the time I don't even mentio...

Who will catch the killer when he is from a different reality? It takes a dreamer to stop a dreamer.Solo introduces readers to the Lucid trilogy (American Dreamer, Tomorrow's History, and Gods and Dreamers), novels by Christopher and published by Dreaming Big Publications, a publishing house based in the United States. Solo takes reader into the Lucid universe (or universes) and whets their appetites for the three novels making ...

Disability and the University: A Disabled Students’ Manifesto is a guide to what students with disabilities need to know about attending university, as well as to the essentials universities should provide for these students. Each chapter presents a benchmark for students to follow as they travel through the institution, and lays clear what they should expect. Written by former students with disabilities who have traversed the terrain and experienced higher education, this book is...

Fishing in the future takes more than a net! Three stories to whet your appetite. Stay tuned for Pirates Come Down, released February 22, 2022.

For the student: This is what you should demand.For the institution: This is what you should provide.Disability and the University: A Disabled Students’ Manifesto, 2nd edition is a guide to what students with disabilities need to know about attending university, as well as to the essential supports and rights universities should provide. Each chapter represents a benchmark for students to follow as they travel through the institution, and lays clear what they shoul...

The Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding is an edited book written for prospective and current doctoral students by a mix of doctoral students and those who have recently completed their doctorates. The premise is simple: if you could go back in time and talk with yourself when you began your studies, what advice would you give? Isn’t hindsight a bonus? If only I knew then what I know now!The Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding follows editions focused on study i...

The ways in which organizations make use of information available to them to make decisions and manage activity is an essential topic of investigation for human factors. When the information is uncertain, incomplete or subject to change, then decision making and activity management can become challenging. Under such circumstances, it has become commonplace to use the concept of sensemaking as the lens through which to view organizational behavior. This book offers a unique perspective on s...

The premise of this book is simple: if the chapter writers could go back in time and talk with themselves when they began their studies, what advice would they give? Isn’t hindsight a bonus? Each chapter offers this hindsight. The chapters are not personal stories, but useful lessons learned through experience. These lessons are offered to aspiring and current graduate students to help their studies be successful. Chapters contain contributions from a range of academics and academic-practi...

A man's dream of meeting the lights he has seen in the sky, of journeying with them, turns to nightmare when he finally gets what he wants ...An alien ethnographer collects death moments for his study. One Autumn morning he starts to show Chloe ...Fishing in the near future: New Zealand has one of the most sustainably managed fisheries in the world. What happens when those elsewhere fish their waters to depletion and start to head south?In the early days of NASA, th...

Defenseman. Devoted. Dad.Player on and off the ice, Russell Stewart's life was upended when his girlfriend got pregnant and left him holding the baby. Two years later, he's finally moved on, gotten back on track, and is balancing his life as a father, student, and hockey player like a professional juggler.His daughter Jude is his entire world. He has no time for distractions. Especially a funny, brilliant, and bubbly woman with a penchant for musicals....