Without physics, modern life would not exist. Instead of electric light, we would read by the light of candles. We couldn't build skyscrapers. We could not possibly bridge rivers, much less build a jet or interplanetary craft. Computers and smartphones would be unimaginable. Physics is concerned with the most fundamental aspects of matter and energy and how they interact to make the physical universe work. In accessible language and with explanatory graphics and visual aids, this book intr...

Strengths-Based Therapy: Distinctive Features offers an introduction to what is distinctive about this innovative client-directed approach. Written by two experiencedpractitioners of strengths-based therapies, this book translates SBT principles and practices into concise, evidence-based ideas and techniques that mental health practitioners can immediately apply on the job. Using the popular Distinctive Features format, this book describes 15 theoretical features and 15 practical technique...

Plants of the Victorian High Country allows walkers with little botanical knowledge to identify plants they are likely to encounter along the popular tracks of Victoria's High Country. This Second Edition has been revised and expanded to describe 133 plants from the montane, sub-alpine and alpine zones, categorising them into five easily distinguished groups: herbs, daisy herbs, low woody shrubs, tall shrubs and trees, and eucalypts. The guide features a glossary of botanical terms, straig...

Sharing many common beliefs, deities, and rituals, the religion of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca was rooted in both the earth and the sky, the rhythms of the seasons, and the movements of the sun, moon, and stars. Readers will meet rain and sun gods, corn gods and fertility gods, earth mothers who are both creators and destroyers, and even a feathered serpent. Lavish primary-source images of arts and artifacts are paired with text that is both information-packed and enthralling. Readers who en...

How would you begin to introduce ESL/EFL students to English vowel sounds?This reflective question and many others await your discussion and analysis in this revised edition of TESOL Press's best-selling Teaching Pronunciation. This volume explores different approaches to teaching pronunciation in second language classrooms and contains updated research as well as a new, detailed lesson plan. Murphy explores how thought groups, or how speakers use clusters...

When humanity is on the brink of annihilation, Killian must find a way to save them, with no weapons, dressed in rags, and in a prison cell on an alien planet.The Carthenogens are coalescing power by appointing a sole human as Chancellor of Earth. Their chosen front-man? The ever charming and cleverly manipulative Barrett Kerrington, former US vice president. He’s brought Black Saber to their knees in exchange for ultimate power.Vaughn Killian, hig...

Light a match in a dark room and watch as the light instantly overcomes the darkness. Observe the power, energy and grace of that single, solitary fl ame dancing with life. Now light several candles or kindle a fi re and experience the added warmth and comfort extending from that fi rst, vulnerable fl ame through others. This is the heart and soul of leadership – the essence of inspiring people and awakening the spirit in work. Sage Leadership is about courageously casting off fear, doubt ...

There are a variety of ways in which we can be destructive to ourselves and the people around us. In the second book in the series “Part Of The Journey” we look at some of those issues and alternatives that you can use to overcome them.

Society beats a steady drum, "You'll never amount to anything without a college education." While we gush praise for the college-bound and college grads, a huge segment of the population is made to feel inferior, ignorant, left out, incomplete, and embarrassed for not being "good enough."If you lack a degree but not the ambition and desire to get ahead, Success Without a College Degree gives you the tools you need to overcome obstacles to your success....

“Where Is My Peace?” is the first book in the series “Part Of The Journey” that have been produced and published by ILC Japan.Each book covers different topics concerning everyday life issues and is designed for a different approach. Perhaps you will find what you are looking for.At some point in your life, you may ask, “where is my peace?” Where you find it, will greatly depend on your current life situation and the effort that it will require from you as an individual to ...

Economic torts play a key role in the development of private law more generally. Indeed, the landmark case of OBG v Allan (2008) provided one of the most important decisions in the whole of the law of torts in the last generation, as the House of Lords sought to bring order to an area of the law that has long been beset by doctrinal and theoretical puzzles. Probably the most enduring question of all in this area is whether the economic torts can be unified. This book argues that t...

This book was written to encourage children. So many children today judge themselves according to their peers or what they see on television. They struggle with who they are and often don't realize how important and special they are. This book I hope will help them learn for themselves the wonderful things they have to offer and help them become all that they can be. I also hope it will teach children to stop and think before they judge someone else.