Unfälle im Bereich von Baugruben und Gräben bedeuten für Einsatzkräfte eine Vielzahl von Herausforderungen bei zugleich fehlender Routine und Erfahrung. Die Autoren erörtern Hintergründe und Besonderheiten und zeigen der Leserschaft technische und taktische Lösungsansätze zum Befreien von verschütteten Personen auf. Leicht verständlich werden Rettungskräfte auf die unterschiedlichen Szenarien eines Tiefbauunfalls vorbereitet. Zahlreiche Abbildungen sowie Tipps aus der Praxis helfen bei der...

A steamy, grumpy sunshine sports romance about a woman down on her luck, an all-star basketball player with a filthy mouth, and a connection neither of them can deny.After being dumped and losing my job the same week, the last thing my broken heart needs is a rebound.I’m escaping across the country to help my perfect sister plan her dream wedding, and to prove to both of us everything is under control.But a combination of tequila and turbulence on the fligh...

He leads the league in scoring. My heart won’t give him another shot.I swore I’d never come back to Denver.I’d never trust the wrong man again.But here I am, back in the same place as the bad boy athlete who broke my heart.Clay rules the basketball court, and now he’s gunning for redemption. But I'm not the same girl who fell for the man behind the all-star image and reputation.He made me want him like I’ve never wanted anyone.He mad...

In the heat of victory, I asked her to be mine forever.We’d both triumphed in our own way:Nova broke free from her past.I led my team to a championship and discovered life beyond the court.Our journey to "I do" was supposed to be easy.Except…The hottest resort in Aspen is only available on short notice.A new season with the Denver Kodiaks looms on the horizon.My parents are too obsessed with my career to get t...

I chose a championship over love.When Nova smashed her way into my hardened heart, she showed me there’s more to life than basketball.She taught me patience and forgiveness. With her help, my Kodiak teammates became brothers instead of rivals. For the first time, I cared about more than a game.But one mistake sent me crashing from all-star to rock bottom.Broken inside and out, there’s no one to blame but myself.I won’t let the people I love ...

Piper and Bill Robins, a retired couple, are enjoying their leisure years spent in the tranquil, leafy Washington, D.C. suburb of Beverly Park, Virginia. Bill watches “Pawn Stars” on TV and mows his lawn while Piper shops for clothes and solves crossword puzzles. One sunny June afternoon, their friend Etta Garagiola while returning home from bird watching finds a murdered homeless man in their neighborhood and calls the Robinses. They decide to investigate the murder with the help of Bill’...

A study of the larger group, focusing on the processes and dynamics whereby the group micro-culture emerges. As the initial frustrations of the group find expression in hate, this is transformed through dialogue to what the Greeks knew as ‘koinonia’, or the state of impersonal fellowship. Essentially, Koinonia concerns itself with an operational approach to dialogue, culture and the human mind through the medium of a larger group context, and adopts a direction similar in many ways to the ...

A star basketball player with a filthy mouth, the woman who gets under his skin, and a connection neither of them can deny.After being dumped and losing my job the same week, the last thing my broken heart needs is a rebound.I’m escaping across the country to help my perfect sister plan her dream wedding, and to prove to both of us everything is under control.But a combination of tequila and turbulence on the flight there leads me to word-vomiting all my tr...

In this startling group memoir, four friends—black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born—use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty. Tackling everything from first love and Soul Train to police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, the authors take up what it means to read challenging literature collaboratively and to learn in public as an act...

When a vial containing a strange liquid is sent to police headquarters, there is immediately some caution. Could this be poison? Some chemical attack? The vial is carefully packed away and sent for testing. Despite the caution, nobody guesses the vial’s true significance. Where it came from, what the liquid inside might be or how it is connected to the strange flyers that have appeared all over town, flyers bearing the image of a curious little goblin, merrily skipping along and playing on...

Love Edgar Allan Poe and want more? Explore new gothic stories and poems inspired by Poe in this haunting, award-winning anthology!Take a tour through Poe’s Baltimore home, experience “The Tell-Tale Heart” through the old man’s eyes, go corporate at Raven Corp., witness “The Fall of the House of Usher” from the perspective of a hidden Usher sibling, and much more.Don’t miss the award-nominated stories “The Heart of Alderman Kane” by Eleanor Sciolistein and ...

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is a masterful compendium of new and classic stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems from the giants of speculative fiction, including R. L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Asimov.Marking a century of uniquely peculiar storytelling, each part of this anthology features a different genre, from ...