A painfully accurate description of the life of a combat infantryman serving in the jungles of Vietnam.For those who never served, it's an eye-opener. For those who did, it serves as a reminder of that life long ago."Cherries" presents an unvarnished account, and upon completion, readers will gain a deeper appreciation for the trials these young men faced throughout the year.It's a narrative that grips the reader throughout.In 1970, John Kowalski was among m...

Originally built in 1844 and rebuilt in 1907 after being gutted by fire during the 1903 water riots, the Red House has been the seat of Trinidad and Tobago’s parliament for over one hundred years. As a result of archaeological discoveries made in the basement of the Red House in March–April 2013, the Office of the Parliament of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago hired Basil A. Reid and his archaeological crew of local and international scholars to undertake a detailed study of the site fr...

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.We publish every other month.Issue 127 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.EDITORIALMusings from Maryland: Editorial by Lesley ConnerORIGINAL FICTION...

La terza edizione del manuale mantiene il taglio didattico e divulgativo proprio delle precedenti edizioni, nonché l'approccio integrato secondo cui vengono presentati i fattori biologici, psicologici e ambientali che caratterizzano ogni tematica. Ciò rende il testo un'opera originale e completa, particolarmente adatta agli studenti dei corsi di laurea triennali in Scienze e tecniche psicologiche, Scienze dell'educazione e della formazione, ma anche Professioni sanitarie. In questa nuova e...

On October 7, 2023, some 6,000 Gazans—Hamas terrorists and ordinary civilians—crossed into Israel, murdering and raping 1,200 people and kidnapping 250 more. This modern pogrom constituted the largest single-day loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. For Israel it was a brutal wake-up call. For the Jewish diaspora, it unleashed a different trauma: a tsunami of antisemitism—violence, harassment, vandalism, boycotts, cancellations, and social and professional targeting—that rapidly altered...

This book examines the ways in which faculty and staff at the higher education level teach and communicate with their millennial students and colleagues. The contributors address how millennials' academic and non-academic interests and everyday performances within and outside of higher education influence how faculty and staff communicate with them. This book delves into how millennials can become more adaptable in their communication with others in society especially in higher education, ...

Everyone leads projects. Learn how to manage them more effectively.If you read nothing else on leading projects large and small, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you manage initiatives that will inspire your people, tackle your biggest challenges using agile, and prepare yourself and your organization for a world driven by projects.This book will i...

Refugees, Forced Migrants, and Human Tragedies: An Interdisciplinary Critical Perspective focuses on a sustained analysis of the nature of forced displacement with an emphasis on the attendant human tragedies that come with the forced displacement of people. It explores the connections in refugee, migrant, and IDPs themes with a goal to sketching out some ways of thinking about refugees, migrants, and IDPs through the different chapters.The collection aims to answer the fol...

For too long, historical, cultural, and organizational systems have perpetuated a narrow stereotype of leadership. The result? Countless capable people disqualify themselves. Michael Dowling knows this firsthand. For years, he believed he didn't fit the mold, forcing himself to be someone he wasn't. His journey as a Hollywood talent agent, serial start-up founder, and CEO eventually revealed a deeper truth: the very qualities once dismissed as weaknesses can become a leader's greatest stre...

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible?With over 50 original essays by leadin...

“It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terrible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind us that war is always about damage, even at i...

In 1978, an obscure animated TV show produced by an upstart Toronto firm caught the eye of the world's hottest filmmaker, George Lucas.He was looking for someone to produce an animated short for a CBS Star Wars television special. The ensuing collaboration not only put Nelvana on its path to becoming the world's leading independent animation company but kickstarted Canada's most successful creative industry—children's animated entertainment.Born in Belgium,...