A comprehensive, accessible guide to the policies and practices of risk management in higher educationStudent affairs staff at all types of colleges and universities need to be equipped to help manage risk and protect their institutions, the people they serve, and their resources from unintended consequences. Risk Management in Student Affairs: Foundations for Safety and Success helps practitioners understand the sources of risk in their work, and the prac...

Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment with the goal of identifying strategies that assist senior campus leaders as they respond to the challenges of a changing economic landscape and political climate. The contributors, experts in the field, bring to the forefront key issues relevant to advancing assessments in higher education-principles that culminate in impr...

This novel is an engaging, witty blend of comic fantasy, Irish mythology, romance and taut modern-day thriller, located mainly in Dublin, Ireland.Following the suicide of her teenage mother, baby Fiona is put into State care. Fiona doesn’t know her absent father was the disgraced God of Love. Growing up, she suffers abuse and bullying and begins to see Otherworld creatures such as trolls and faeries, and worries for her sanity. Fiona discovers she has a physical strength beyond wha...

Almost every historian has set out by regretting how little is known of the early inhabitants of Great Britain—a fact which only the lovers of hoar antiquity deplore, since from all we can with certainty glean from the pages of contemporary history, we should find but little more to interest us than if we possessed written records of the remotest origin of the Red Indians; for both would alike but be the history of an unlettered and uncivilized race. The same dim obscurity, with scarcely a...

Brendan, a quiet trainee accountant, naively agrees to carry a suitcase for Aftab, his boss, who has invited him to his wedding in India. He is plunged into the strange feudal world of a remote palace in rural India, together with, smuggled currency, man-eating tigers and arranged marriages. When he realises that Amaal and Benita are being forced into marriages, to frustrate this, he offers to marry them and take them to England where he can set them free to make their own lives. A group o...

"Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present" by Thomas Miller is a captivating exploration of the vibrant city of London, capturing its essence through vivid descriptions and engaging narratives. Miller's work delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the city, painting a rich tapestry of life in London. The book is filled with charming anecdotes and observations that bring to life the streets, landmarks, and the diverse populace that inhabit this bustling metropolis, ma...

Irish Mythology and modern Multi-universe theory meet in an action adventure.A pre-Celtic artifact transforms into a bracelet and climbs up your arm. And now you can speak any language. And you can travel ‘time-lines’. Imagine a multiuniverse with a ‘Time-line’ for every possible future and present.When Kate, the daughter of an American Professor, finds the bracelet, she and her friends are catapulted into the ‘Time-lines’.Into a Time-line of modern day sophisticate...

You are in the capital city of Ireland. Like any city, there are problems. Your job is to find Irish solutions to Irish problems.Your team includes your beautiful Russian assistant Alice and the dangerous ex-army ranger, called the PMC, who has a slightly scrambled brain. Your customers include gangsters, police, business men, politicians, and tailors each with a unique problem.Each chapter is a short story, but characters remain and develop as the book progresses.

The God of death is allowed to take a holiday, conditional on completing a task. Eamon the Handsome Ghoul deputises but grows to like the job. Mason, a violent misogynist detective agrees to let the God of Death assume his identity.As Mason, he must deal with his feelings for Pauline, Mason's submissive wife. And as a detective, he is sucked into the machinations of a Chicago gangster who is looking to expand into New Orleans and Las Vegas. He meets the Grey man and his partner, De...

Adult Irish Humor.Come in. Sit down and take your ease. Have a drink. A pint of plain is your only man.Listen to the conversation as you sit in the corner of the snug in Mulligan's pub.The Teacher, The Sergeant, and the Parish Priest, aided by the Barman, are in session, and little of what happens in this Dublin inner city parish will escape their attention.Hear of Fitzer the pervert, Kathy the Dominatrix, the Yank, the Green Man and of course the Burglar an...

The first major history of Chile’s most significant peasant rebellion and the violent repression that followedIn 1934, peasants turned to revolution to overturn Chile’s oligarchic political order and the profound social inequalities in the Chilean countryside. The brutal military counterinsurgency that followed was one of the worst acts of state terror in Chile until the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990). Using untapped archival sources, award-w...

The doorbell went at dawn. The police were there to arrest Edward. When the case is dropped due to insufficient evidence, policewoman Kelly is outraged. She decides Edward will not get away with it.Janet has decided to leave this household and comes up with a surprising solution.