Two Crime Novels by D. E. Poole.Born and bred in Oxford, David Poole (1944-2000) studied at the University of St Andrews, and thereafter lived his adult life in the town, where he raised his family and worked as a classics teacher in nearby Dundee. Better known locally in his lifetime as a poet, in the early 1980s he also wrote two short detective novels, here printed for the first time.In The Archer of Ceres, Inspector Malone and Detective Constable White of the Fife CID i...

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) began primarily as a discipline-based movement, committed to exploring the signature pedagogical and learning styles of each discipline within higher education, with little exchange across disciplines. As the field has developed, new questions have arisen concerning cross-disciplinary comparison and learning in multidisciplinary settings This volume by a stellar group of experts provides a state-of-the-field review of recent SoTL scholarship ...

Of the many comrades and collaborators of Ricardo Flores Magón, Librado Rivera was by far the closest. Their revolutionary partnership lasted twenty years, rivalling that of Durruti and Ascaso and only ended with Ricardo’s death in Leavenworth Prison murdered directly or indirectly by the U.S. authorities. Librado was a founding member of the Partido Liberal Mexicano and made fundamental and major contribution to its anarchist orientation.Despite this, though, Librado has been badl...

NASCAR racing reigns as America's most popular sport not only because of its high-speed thrills and chills but also for the colorful characters and memorable moments this unique fraternity has produced over the past half century. Below are just a handful of excerpts from the sport's greatest behind-the-scenes stories ever told, as compiled in the first-of-its-kind collection, "Then Junior Said to Jeff…": "I'd rather not elaborate on that," [Dale Earnhardt Sr.] said [when addressin...

"Práxedis G. Guerrero, anarchist, militant, propagandist, poet and secretary to the ‘Junta Organizadora del Partido Liberal Mexicano’ was the first Mexican anarchist to give his life for Land and Liberty, when he was killed, at the early age of only 28, during an attack on the town of Janos, Chihuahua, in the early months of the Mexican Revolution. Together with Ricardo Flores Magón, Práxedis was one of the main animators of the early revolutionary attempts made by the P.L.M. to rid Mexico...

NASCAR racing reigns as America's most popular sport not only because of its high-speed thrills and chills but also for the colorful characters and memorable moments this unique fraternity has produced over the past half century. Below are just a handful of excerpts from the sport's greatest behind-the-scenes stories ever told, as compiled in the first-of-its-kind collection, "Then Junior Said to Jeff…": "I'd rather not elaborate on that," [Dale Earnhardt Sr.] said [when addressin...

NASCAR racing reigns as America's most popular sport not only because of its high-speed thrills and chills but also for the colorful characters and memorable moments this unique fraternity has produced over the past half century. Below are just a handful of excerpts from the sport's greatest behind-the-scenes stories ever told, as compiled in the first-of-its-kind collection, "Then Junior Said to Jeff…": "I'd rather not elaborate on that," [Dale Earnhardt Sr.] said [when addressin...

How do you keep moving when cancer changes everything?You may have been told that exercise can help, but knowing where to start is another matter. What if you are exhausted? What feels manageable during treatment? How do you begin rebuilding afterwards?The Cancer, Exercise and Lifestyle Bible is a practical, clearly written guide for people living with and beyond cancer, and for the families, carers and professionals supporting them.Written by Cancer Exercise Specia...

A fresh understanding, sometimes a new look, of GOD, ATONEMENT IN JESUS, RITUAL, CHURCH AS CHRIST, CHRISTIAN PURPOSE, PERSONAL FULFILLMENT

Land of the RiversBy: Charles David PooleLand of the Rivers is the riveting fantasy novel of adventures and surprises. A member of Clan Luk in Athledarat, Amluk has begun to notice that the geography of his land is changing. The bay is much larger than it was when he was a boy.Little does Amluk know the cataclysmic changes taking place far to the north. Ice plates that had been there for millennia are melting away. The oceans are rising, and soon, lands will disappea...

How the Virginia Public Access Project revolutionized political transparency and won public trustIn 1997, journalist David Poole launched a one-employee nonprofit to shine light on a blind spot in Virginia’s lax campaign finance system. Over the next quarter century, the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) assumed an increasingly larger role in state politics by addressing two crises in American democracy—the decline of newspapers and the tribalization of politic...

Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) have become the darlings of neoliberal development thinking, with the received wisdom being that such enterprises hold the key to the economic transformation of low-income countries. This thinking has profoundly influenced development policy in Rwanda, but has singularly failed to deliver the much anticipated emergence of a new class of entrepreneurs and a vibrant SME sector.This book deconstructs the myths around entrepre...