In the shadow of war, trust is as fragile as glass.The Pinnacle Star, home of the royals and nobles, is a kingdom with technology Midlanders can only dream about.Technology that could give Daelia hope. A strange illness left her uncle alive, but unconscious. Accepting an opportunity to help him could send her to prison. Desperate for a cure, she attends the Prince's Ball disguised as a noble, but after one dance with Prince Marcel, he discovers her true identity. C...

They said I was defective. A null omega—no scent, no heat, no value. After twenty-three years of medical experiments and state facilities, I believed them. I was worthless. Broken. Better off dead.Then they sold me for five hundred dollars to an underground fighting pit and branded me with a Roman numeral IV. Property of four killers. Shared. Used. Disposable.Except something was wrong with me. Not the way they thought.When my body tried to respond to what they inje...

You Are the Parent. Now It's Time to Take Back the Reins. Is the relationship you have with your child slipping through your grasp? Do your child's behaviors seem out of your control? Are you unhappy with the way you behave as a parent? Have you tried every piece of parenting advice only to feel even closer to failure? Have you thought about giving up and letting others take your parenting reins? As a licensed clinical social worker in private practice, Barbara C. Murray has helped hundred...

In Personal & Authentic, Thomas C. Murray reveals the power of designing awe-inspiring experiences that are grounded in relationships and learner-centered by design. Inherently relevant and contextualized, it is this kind of learning that lasts a lifetime.

An undulating flow of multi-scalar exchanges pulsed across the surface of Aegean from the beginnings of the Bronze Age in the third millennium to the transition into the Iron Age nearly two thousand years later. Such exchanges were variable in nature. Most probably occurred within a rather circumscribed environment, involving neighboring communities operating across the many real but traversable geographical boundaries that characterize the Aegean landscape – ridges separating mountain pla...

DANCING WITH THE WHITE SQUIRRELS BY B.C. MURRAY It was springtime in 1974, and Chance Albright, a recent Harvard graduate, and his wife, Charlotte, a former Boston College cheerleader, arrive in Columbia, Mississippi. Chance will serve as the chief financial officer with Bud's Bargain Stores, a five and dime store chain based in the small South Mississippi town. During a party on their first Saturday night in town, Charlotte and Chance, along with members of the chamber of commerce and the...

GOLD medal winner of the 31st Annual Midwest Book Awards!Non-Fiction - business If you or someone you know is struggling with the daunting process of finding a new position, as well as learning what to do and not to do in order to meet people, network, and make connections who can help you learn about job openings in your field, Hired! is for you. The author experienced two job losses (both beyond his control) in three years, and what he learned to get the first new job cut his search time...

Spiral, a novel of magic realism and epic adventure in the ancient American Southwest.At the end of a culture that built structures as big as the Roman Coliseum when medieval Europe was still in the Dark Ages, on a high desert landscape of brooding wind and dark storm clouds that never drop rain, the Elders threaten to sacrifice an infant boy to placate the sun dagger and thus end the drought.Meanwhile young Willow waits by the dry, dusty Chaco riverbed for her lover. But whe...

Academia has long established itself as an institution of knowledge and ideas. Facing pressure, many academic fields and institutions have turned their attention, singularly and collectively, to the task of what to do to rectify the causes of under-representations both academic knowledge itself and who gets to be an academic producer of knowledge. Boisen and Murray argue that simply solving the contemporary symptoms of inequity in ideas, knowledge production and the academy is not enough. ...

This title was first published in 2001. Addressing a range of key theoretical and practical issues, this volume is the latest in an important series proceeding from the Annual Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health. It will be essential reading for policy makers, researchers and practitioners in the field.

What is really going on in the economy? What are you not being told? What has changed since the 2008 financial crisis? What is the real purpose of QE? How does this impact ordinary people, and what can you do?A THOUGHT-PROVOKING, MUST-READ BOOKThe Three Economies is the story of how a financial revolution, led by politicians and financial entreprenuers, is changing "the rules of the game", and making conventional economic and investment theories less relevant.It is ...

In this book, Sarah Murray provides a comprehensive treatment of textual and archaeological evidence for the long-distance trade economy of Greece across 600 years during the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age. Analyzing the finished objects that sustained this kind of trade, she also situates these artifacts within the broader context of the ancient Mediterranean economy, including evidence for the import and export of commodities as well as demographic change. Murray a...