The Universal Council wants to get rid of Earth! The rumor is that humans do not know how to take care of life and are a big danger to the rest of the universe. Little Horn is an alien sent to Earth from outer space to investigate. He meets a young girl named Sabina who becomes his friend. Sabina shows Little Horn all the amazing things about life on Earth, but she doesn't hide the not-so-good things, either. Soon, Little Horn must go back home to Planet Horn and give his final report. It'...

Financial freedom with property investment isn't about owning 100 doors. You want a fun life, not a frantic one! You just need a few quality houses, a couple hours a week, and a comfy armchair.When you're working a 9–5 and investing in property for passive income, risky and overwhelming options can lead to big financial losses and bigger regrets. Real estate should fund your life, not run your life!In Armchair Real Estate Millionaire, investor real...

This text offers pre-service and in-service teachers pragmatic strategies for teaching middle-grades literacy in culturally proactive and sustaining ways. By demystifying big ideas and complex concepts, Domínguez and Seglem provide clear pathways and lessons for illuminating and engaging with race, ethnicity, culture, and identity in the middle-grade English Language Arts classroom. While addressing social justice, equity, diversity, and liberation can seem intimidating or unrelated to cla...

When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights from political theory with his own ethnographic fieldwork as a receptionist in an urb...

Public education, once considered a dogmatic institution in the 20th century, now finds itself challenged at almost every level in todays sociopolitical environment. New realities, as evidenced by the political complexities of the global village, widespread technological advances that undermine established educational practices, and ever mounting pressures on the curriculum to appease corporate interests have altered the face of public education forever, leaving educators seemingly strande...

"The Simple Solution to Canadian Real Estate Investing- Rules for Playing the Real Estate Game to Win" is an interesting read...From a proven formula for selecting a property to innovative ways for financing this system, when followed, will help even the most novice investor feel confident in their decision making process...John BelangerNCSO

Many of today’s books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management. This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on evidence and explains why human activities of leading and managing are simply not amenable to scientific proof and consequently, why long-term futures of organizations are unpredictable.T...

A complete curriculum for profiting in today's tough market!Opportunities abound in the real estate market. In order to find the best investments, though, you need to understand the changes brought on by the turbulence of recent years. Bringing you completely up to date on today's market, The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Real Estate Investing offers a fast-paced but thorough and well-rounded education on profiting in real estate.Revealing secrets previously reserv...

Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? explores the broad range of international experiential learning options available to Canadian students, as well as the opportunities and the ethical dilemmas that come with them. Combining practical advice with critical examinations of international experiential learning, this essay collection is designed to help the reader to move beyond photo-ops and travel opportunities and towards striving for a deeper global citizenship.Globetr...

A fully revised BusinessWeek bestseller that will help even beginning investors cash in on the 21st-century real estate boom.

Learn to make money by real estate investing with this ultimate guide for first-time investors.No matter what the market does, real estate still offers plenty of money-making opportunities. In this new edition of T he Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing, Gary W. Eldred presents the tools and knowledge new investors need to get started profitably. Packed with smart money-making strategies and real-life stories from successful investors, this edition a...

This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing employment and promotion. The explosion of published outputs, at least in social science, creates a noisy, cluttered environment which makes meaningful research difficult, as different voices compete to capture the limelight even briefly. Older, more sign...