From the bestselling team behind classics like The Leader in Me comes a supremely practical and inspiring guide to making a profound difference in students’ positive well-being and reigniting teachers’ passions for teaching.In this inspirational guide, FranklinCovey Education’s global thought leaders Dr. David K. Hatch and Muriel Summers reveal seven leadership skill sets that enable teachers to profoundly impact students’ positive well-be...

"scientific occultism" might suggest an attempt to blend or reconcile occult practices and beliefs with scientific principles or methodologies. Some individuals and groups have explored the idea of bridging the gap between science and spirituality, seeking to understand mystical experiences, psychic phenomena, and the nature of consciousness from a scientific perspective.However, it is essential to note that the term "occultism" itself is controversial and often considered pseudoscience by...

Officer-Involved Shootings and Use of Force: Practical Investigative Techniques, Second Edition continues to provide sound and sober models, protocols, and procedures to handle the highly charged fall-out from officer involved shootings. Written by cops for cops, it is designed to address the needs of the agency, the rights of the employee, and the concerns of the public, and give law enforcement the policies and tools to properly investigate and document this high profile...

THE BEGINNING There was a cool crispness in the air that indicated winter was coming very soon. It was too soon for Keirra because Christmas would be here shortly. Keirra remembered when the Christmas season was a joyful and exciting time. She looked forward to unwrapping all those gifts and anticipated she would soon be seeing all the favorite toys she had dreamed about. Christmas for Kierra was always so wonderful. She seemed to exist in a different world back then. The kind of world lit...

A facsimile edition of the original 1978 LP of sketches and songs from the cult BBC Radio comedyStarring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie, this download edition of the 1978 LP brings you right back to the world of I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again.Who better to introduce this edition than David Hatch? From the 1978 LP case:“The programme having ceased record...

Four hilarious episodes from the cult BBC Radio comedyStep into the world of Radio Prune, described by Barry Took as "a kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrases, and innuendo, revolving at breakneck speed and with a complete disregard for logic", the sketch comedy I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again ran for 8 successful years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a devoted youth following. Live tapings of the show enjoyed very lively audiences, a tradition tha...

"War Letters from the Living Dead Man" by Elsa Barker is a profound sequel to her earlier work, "Letters From a Living Dead Man." The book presents a series of letters claimed to be communicated via automatic writing from the spirit of a deceased American judge, referred to as "X." Barker explores deep themes such as the nature of existence, the spiritual dimensions of war, and unseen forces influencing human affairs. Through her connection with "X," Barker delves into his astral experienc...

From the bestselling team behind classics like The Leader in Me comes a supremely practical and inspiring guide to making a profound difference in students’ positive well-being and reigniting teachers’ passions for teaching.In this inspirational guide, FranklinCovey Education’s global thought leaders Dr. David K. Hatch and Muriel Summers reveal seven leadership skill sets that enable teachers to profoundly impact students’ positive well-be...

One night last year in Paris I was strongly impelled to take up a pencil and write, though what I was to write about I had no idea. Yielding to the impulse, my hand was seized as if from the outside, and a remarkable message of a personal nature came, followed by the signature “X.” The purport of the message was clear, but the signature puzzled me. The following day I showed this writing to a friend, asking her if she had any idea who “X” was. “Why,” she replied, “don’t you know that that ...

War Letters from the Living Dead Man presents itself as a sequence of letters written by a soldier who, though technically dead, continues to address the living from the front. This conceit allows David Patterson Hatch to merge wartime realism with macabre fantasy, producing a work that is at once satirical, unsettling, and morally serious. The epistolary form gives the narrative immediacy and intimacy, while its grotesque premise places it within a tradition of antiwar literature that use...

Last Letters from the Living Dead Man appears to be a reflective, epistolary work built around the conceit of final communications from one who occupies the border between life and death. The title suggests a meditation on mortality, memory, estrangement, and the lingering consciousness of the self after social or spiritual death. In literary terms, it belongs to the long tradition of the letter-form narrative, where intimacy, confession, and fragmentation become formal strengths. Its like...

A fourth volume of episodes from the cult BBC Radio comedyDescribed by Barry Took as "a kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrases, and innuendo, revolving at breakneck speed and with a complete disregard for logic", the sketch comedy I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again ran for 8 successful years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a devoted youth following. Live tapings of the show enjoyed very lively audiences, a tradition that continued into the spinoff sho...