In the 27th century, Jake, the best fighter pilot in the galaxy, has a bounty on her head. After years of evading capture by agents of a ruthless emperor, she is finally cornered. The ensuing battle leaves Jake severely injured, allowing the emperor to transcend her essence – her thoughts, her memories, her being – into a small containment element and then install the unit within a sophisticated robotic body that is a perfect replica of her former self. Built into her robotics is a device ...

Long gone are the days of simply calling it quits from work and spending your remaining days on the front porch. Today’s cohort is retiring earlier and living longer. Some of these retirees have the financial resources to do what they want. They are healthy, happy and enjoying the fruits of many years of hard work and diligent saving. These folks planned for their retirement, and, as a result, are able to live out their retirement dream to the fullest of their capacities. But they tell onl...

This book explores alternative approaches to foreign language education in a context which is traditionally dominated by English-only approaches, and widely viewed as highly monolingual. It examines the grassroots classroom practices of teachers and their assistants involved in plurilingual education in the first longitudinal research of its type in the Japanese context. These practices are grounded in depictions of the practitioners’ personal and professional trajectories through explorat...

This book describes all major aspects of the Hessian involvement in the American War for Independence. It details all the major battles that the Hessians participated in and their important role in the Revolutionary War. It also describes the individual stories of many of the Hessians and what happened to them after the war. It also provides many fascinating facts about the Hessians and those associated with them. The impact of the Hessians on American culture is discussed.

Try to Block Me; You Can't Stop Me is a sweeping, soul deep journey through nearly a century of Black American resilience, faith, and unbreakable legacy. In these pages, Roy Daniels Murray Jr brings to life the extraordinary story of his father, Roy Daniels Murray Sr, a man who rose from the red clay of the Jim Crow South to become a teacher, mentor, pastor, soldier, activist, and pillar of his community.Rooted in the lineage of Phyllis Cruel, born into slavery in 1832, th...

Offering a Canadian perspective on the emotional health of servicemen and women, Military Operations and the Mind brings together researchers and practitioners from across the country to consider the impact that ethical issues have on the well-being of those who serve.Stemming from an initiative to enhance the lives of serving members by providing them with the best education and training in military ethics before and after deployments, this volume will better inform polit...

Offering a Canadian perspective on the emotional health of servicemen and women, Military Operations and the Mind brings together researchers and practitioners from across the country to consider the impact that ethical issues have on the well-being of those who serve.Stemming from an initiative to enhance the lives of serving members by providing them with the best education and training in military ethics before and after deployments, this volume will better inform polit...

Welcome to the world of N G Daniels. A blind man whose talents will teleport you to new worlds and take you to different dimensions. An anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Daniels brings you the best of both worlds with a twist at the end of each. The Novellas and short stories will leave you with a sense of wonder, excitement, and awe. Be warned, once you cross over, you might not make it back. So, be sure to mark your location before you take that step.

Let your mind be moved to a plane of existence and live the realities of a blind man's vision when you step into another dimension of Science-fiction and Fantasy. The second book in this series of anthologies, by N G Daniels, seeks to bring your mind and body to another plane of reality to experience the love, joy, hate, and despair of other lives and places.

“ In a world born out of chaos, the Dragon Riders of the Angorith Canyons hold the key to a better life. The Caves of Knowledge, sacred to the Order of Draconis, hold the knowledge for themselves, and they only parcel it out as they see fit. Or, is this what others say? The Dragon Knights hold back the destruction of an age gone by and intend to be the stewards of the world, giving out the long-hoarded knowledge of a past world that devastated itself using those instruments of destruction ...

In a world and universe of magic, life goes on. The creatures of the dark and the creatures of the light live in balance. Time of the ages pass, and that which is dark will not become light. And the hearts of men will fade at the rise of the Fey. Warlocks, werewolves, the human race, and all creatures wait with bated breath as the universe's wonders may come to an end. Will true love win, or will the light of the Fey become extinct? The bloodstone holds the answer.

For millennia, the human race has been spreading across the Galaxy in order to escape authority and tyranny, only to fall into such hands again and again. The Travistar, an alien race, who are disgruntled as subjugated slaves of a Pirate colony, finally gain control of their destiny, only to have it crash down around them. Those in power seek to keep that power, and those seeking power are intent on grabbing it, even at the cost of civil war. A coming of age for new blood seeking to help e...