A very practical and easy to use book of 3,000+ powerful questions, forming part of every coach's / manager's toolkit; it enables you to easily find key questions in some of the most distinctive areas of coaching, such as confidence, communications & leadership.

In this provocative and enlightening story collection, journey inside the world of legal prostitution. Based on true events, Prostitutes of the Caribbean takes you inside the lives and experiences of prostitutes working in the Caribbean. Read their stories and those of their clients in this intriguing collection. The practice of voluntary prostitution is accepted in many areas around the globe and is completely legal and accepted in many islands of the Caribbean. The following is based on ...

A compelling existential thriller by the Beat-era writer: "Everyone should read Young Adam" ( The Times Literary Supplement).Young Adam tells the story of Joe, a drifter who works on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As the novel opens, Joe finds the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Was it an accident, a suicide, or murder?As the police investigate and arrest a suspect...

Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes accountability. Taken together, the chapters in Part I of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds provide a sampling of what the cultivation of curious and creative minds entails. The contrib...

When Cassandra Elisabeth Devereaux, an enchantress from a long-forgotten era, made it to Toronto, she thought the hard part of her quest was over. She had a plan: get in, kill her nemesis, get out (okay, and maybe enslave a man or several dozen along the way). But there was one pesky thing she needed to accomplish before she could do away with her somewhat less than sane rival, the sorceress Selene: raise an ancient demon from the very depths of hell. And that was proving eternally more di...

On January 14, 1806, Sidney Hanson was raped by John Deskins on a rough gravel path in the woods in Tazewell County, Virginia. In the early nineteenth century, trials for rape were rare. Scanty court records typically lacked the detail needed to reconstruct the lives of those involved and evaluate the social and physical setting of the crime. Yet the events on that fateful day in 1806 would be the exception.In A Rape in the Early Republic, Randal L. Hall reproduces the com...

We can never understand the utter desolation of Christ’s disciples during the days that lay betwixt Christ’s death and His resurrection. Our faith rests on centuries. We know that that grave was not even an interruption to the progress of His work, but was the straight road to His triumph and His glory. We know that it was the completion of the work of which the raising of the widow’s son and of Lazarus were but the beginnings. But these disciples did not know that. To them the inferior mi...

Martha Belmont is a very rich and very mean old woman with a terminal cancer diagnosis. Through her Jamaican maid she learns of a Voodoo master who can give her eternal life...and decides to go for it with some interesting results...

This debate is of "transcendent importance to the Christian" in the words of Alexander Campbell.Held almost two centuries ago, this timeless controversy between two prominent religious figures is still as relevant today. It addresses subjects essential to the Christian that are "as important as the immortal interests of the soul."What's the true meaning behind baptism? Are humans inherently evil and divisive? How does the Holy Spirit manifest itself to the Christian?

In White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education, White Jesus is conceived as a socially constructed apparatus—a mythology that animates the architecture of salvation—that operates stealthily as a veneer for patriarchal White supremacist, capitalist, and imperialist sociopolitical, cultural, and economic agendas. White Jesus was constructed by combining empire, colorism, racism, education, and religion; the by-product is a distortion that reproduces violence in...

Scholars in the field of children's literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of “liminal spaces” around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together in one volume a collection of original essays on this topic by leading children's literature scholars. The contributors in this collection take a wide variety of approaches to their explorations of liminal spaces...

This book is intended to introduce concepts about music composition to band and orchestra students of all ages and engage them in actual creative composing projects. The National Core Arts Standards (2014) emphasize that students should be engaged in the “creative practices of imagination, investigation, construction, and reflection in multiple contexts.” These lesson plans attempt to accomplish that challenge in the context of large group band and orchestra ensemble classes using composit...