This book is epic ... or at least filled with epic foolishness. Parents will enjoy this book, perhaps breathing a sigh of relief that someone else's kid was actually worse than theirs. Kids will enjoy it because they'll undoubtedly see something that reminds them of their friends or brother or sisters ... or God forbid, themselves.

Following on the success of Robert Pickering's first Swamp Gothic collection of short horror set in the bayous and marshlands of South Louisiana, he has produced a second collection of an additional 13 stories. Whether it's a good ol' fashioned ghost story you're looking for, or something more along the lines of a psychological thriller, this book has a little something for everyone. And always remember, if you choose to go out in the swamp at night, be careful, you never know what you mig...

Sitting at Grandma's feet on cold winter nights as you are growing up, and listening to her spin her tales of the Rougarou, the fifolet or the ghosts inhabiting the antebellum mansions along River Road it's impossible for it not to have an effect on you. The perhaps unintended consequences in this case is that it produced 13 frightening tales related to the reader from a first person point of view, just as Grandma used to tell them. If there is one common theme connecting these uncommonly ...

This book is a great foundation for exploring functional-first programming and its role in the future of application development. The best-selling introduction to F#, now thoroughly updated to version 4.0, will help you learn the language and explore its new features.F# 4.0 is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language which empowers users and organizations to tackle complex computing problems with simple, maintainable and robust code. F# is also a...

Revenge is personal. Justice is never simple.After Marlene Steele's tragic assassination, Jeremy Hall is consumed by vengeance—and suspicion. He knows The Foundation, the shadowy deep-state organization pulling strings across the globe, is behind the killing. But uncovering their motive will lead him into a conspiracy far deeper than he imagined.Rallying his old allies from the Yulin Naval base mission, Hall assembles a covert team, including CIA operative Hollis Stratton and Steele's clos...

Student engagement happens as a result of a teacher’s careful planning and execution of specific strategies. This basic premise drives The Highly Engaged Classroom, a self-study text that provides in-depth understanding of how to generate high levels of student attention and engagement. Using the suggestions in this book, every teacher can create a classroom environment where engagement is the norm, not the exception.

A forensic investigation requires a team of specialists from many different scientific fields of study along with legal and law enforcement specialists. In recent years, the range of cases on which forensic anthropologists have been consulted has expanded dramatically. The Use of Forensic Anthropology provides these professionals with guidelines fo

"The wind was a living thing. It tore at his clothes, roared in his ears, clawed at the edges of his resolve. The aluminum skin of the Boeing 727 thrummed beneath his feet, the open airstair rattling in the cold November night..." What began as one man's audacious airline hijacking, extortion and theft of 200,000 in ransom money, and subsequent escape and disappearance, transformed over the years and decades from a simple criminal act into a tale of myth and folklore--making the name, D.B....

This is a new dictionary which provides a clear and concise explanation of terms used in land, property and construction law and management. The four key areas of coverage are: planning/construction law, land law, equity/trusts and finance and administration. It will be a useful reference for property and building professionals and a personal purchase for students of property and construction law on building, construction management, estate management and law courses.Jack Rostron is...

This book is the first to apply the tools of game theory and information economics to advance our understanding of how laws work. Organized around the major solution concepts of game theory, it shows how such well known games as the prisoner’s dilemma, the battle of the sexes, beer-quiche, and the Rubinstein bargaining game can illuminate many different kinds of legal problems. Game Theory and the Law highlights the basic mechanisms at work and lays out a natural progression in th...

The summer of 1916 had come on like a furnace. June had been blistering, the kind of month that drove city dwellers out of their brick apartments in Philadelphia and New York, down toward the promise of breezes off the Atlantic Ocean, in Jersey shore towns like Beach Haven, Spring Lake, Asbury Park, and Matawan... But beneath the glittering surface, the sea held its own dark relentless man-eating secret.

Penelope the garden spider lives in Julia’s backyard. A mosquito lands in Penelope’s web and she eats it. It gives her gas. When Julia is bitten by a mosquito, she gets sick. The doctor finds that she has the Zika virus and notifies the Health Department. Traps are set up to catch mosquitoes. If Zika is present, the backyard will be sprayed to kill the mosquitos. Penelope realizes that she and all the other creatures in the backyard will be killed if this happens, so she begins a program t...