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Scott Schroeder dreams of a day when he and his father can have a home of their own. Following an accident that took his mother's life eight years before, doctors discovered Scott was suddenly deaf. Blessed with being an accomplished gymnast and skilled at signing and reading lips, Scott's biggest challenge is convincing others he is able to do all the same things as those in the hearing world. Picking up on conversations he observes along the...

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Each short story is complete within itself. The terse captivating writing presents stories in short form without the length needed in the novel format to accomplish the same result. The stories are based on truths, past memories, embellishments and fictional events all subject to the writers wide ranging creativity.Character depiction is varied as to social and economic status , race and ethnicity. It addresses their rise or fall within the sc...

Mike Watkins thinks about a question that bothers him like a pesky fly buzzing inside his head. Why would a guy who spent a good part of his life climbing around on a mountain suddenly fall off a cliff? Unfortunately, he and his cousin, William, must start their vacation by attending the funeral of his grandfather's ranch foreman. A mysterious shaman also attends and warns people to beware of the white wolf. The boys find a map in the forema...

In these days when most short fiction is so affected that it seems to move across the page like a vain actor across the stage, Watson's words give us something good and something real. In this his work is of rare value. No one who enters into it will emerge quite the same.

This book explores a wide range of topics in digital ethics. It features 11 chapters that analyze the opportunities and the ethical challenges posed by digital innovation, delineate new approaches to solve them, and offer concrete guidance to harness the potential for good of digital technologies. The contributors are all members of the Digital Ethics Lab (the DELab), a research environment that draws on a wide range of academic traditions. Th...

A father-son story that explores living with disability and the hardships that come with it

A Master's in Love & a Bachelor's in Growth is two-part adventure composed of many different experiences, as well as cultivating heart-to-heart conversation with the reader. With a collage of linked short stories, you undergo adventurous paths influenced by moments and lessons through a college-course career. While encompassing your story as the reader via the conversational questions, "my" turns into "our" in areas of romance and success. Thi...

A Master's in Love & a Bachelor's in Growth is two-part adventure composed of many different experiences, as well as cultivating heart-to-heart conversation with the reader. With a collage of linked short stories, you undergo adventurous paths influenced by moments and lessons through a college-course career. While encompassing your story as the reader via the conversational questions, "my" turns into "our" in areas of romance and success. Thi...

This book explores a wide range of topics in digital ethics. It features 11 chapters that analyze the opportunities and the ethical challenges posed by digital innovation, delineate new approaches to solve them, and offer concrete guidance to harness the potential for good of digital technologies. The contributors are all members of the Digital Ethics Lab (the DELab), a research environment that draws on a wide range of academic traditions.The...

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Based on the real memoirs of Mr. Watson's grandfather, this story follows Kid Clay through the Old West in search of a cowboy adventure. During his escapades, Kid Clay leaves his comfortable Kentucky home at the age of fifteen and sets out to discover what it's like to be a real cowboy. During this time, he encounters many colorful characters such as Indians, Buffalo Bill, and members of the Dalton Gang.Along the wagon trail, he encounters typ...

This book is a challenge to the concept of wellbeing as applied to children, suggesting that it should be understood at the level of the child, rather than a list of things that are needed in order to live well.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

This book is a challenge to the concept of wellbeing as applied to children, suggesting that it should be understood at the level of the child, rather than a list of things that are needed in order to live well.

Fiction. Carl Watson's novel THE HOTEL OF IRREVOCABLE ACTS takes place in the warped underworld of Uptown Chicago. Two petty thieves, Jack and Vince -- Dostoevskyan in their criminal use of philosophy, exalting in the stealing of art as the highest human act -- meet their target, their nemesis and their double: Madame Little-Ease, a Satanic Grandma Moses, who paints on refuse with polluted blood. "Carl Watson gets the hiphop of the mind in the...