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A captivating saga featuring interwoven stories across generations, cultures and continents, RED SAPPHIRE pays homage to its roots in the beloved Indian epic, The Ramayana, with an enchantingly vivid and unabashedly global tale. As key figures from the ancient Hindu pantheon join modern counterparts in present-day San Francisco and WWII India, RED SAPPHIRE brings together a delightfully complex counterpoint of thrilling arcs into an emotional ...

Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes is a veritable whirlwind of intellect and perception, tearing through the fog of intrigue and criminal activity with tremendous force. But behind the locked sitting room door at 221B Baker Street, his biographer and intimate companion, ex-army doctor John Watson, holds the reins. Elinor Gray is re-imagining the best-loved, essential classics of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through an erotic lens of domination and...

Abomination-a combination of historical fiction and fantasy-tells the tale of two very different, but equally tragic, heroes, each on their own path to damnation, but who ultimately find salvation in each other.

A radical look at the Irish austerity measures and the attempts to prop up business and the banks at the expense of ordinary citizens, left to bear the brunt of conditions they did not cause. Many of these contributors predicted Ireland's rapid cyle of boom and bust, even at the height of the Celtic Tiger boom. -- .

The is the story of a whale that lives in a rubbish dump and he needs your help to clean it up. Open the book to find out how you can help him. An engaging educational tale about plastic pollution that encourages children to make a difference and reduce plastic waste.

A story, written in verse, about how a small chicken comes to Santa's rescue on Christmas Eve when all of Santa's reindeer come down with the flu and are unable to pull Santa's sleigh. The chicken talks to Prancer, the lead deer, and Prancer reveals that the jingle bells that he wears are the power that enables the reindeer to fly on Christmas Eve. The chicken takes the bells to Santa, and after a brief discussion, grows to ten feet tall and i...

The International Handbook of Progressive Education engages contemporary debates about the purpose of education, presenting diverse ideas developed within a broadly conceived progressive education movement. It calls for a more critical and dynamic conception of education goals as a necessary element of a healthy society. The scope is global, with contributing authors and examples from around the world. The sweep includes past, present, and fut...

ESPN has grown from a start-up cable network in a small Connecticut town to a $50 billion global enterprise. For the past 35 years, ESPN - along with its sister networks - has been the preeminent source for sports for millions around the globe. Its 24-hour coverage of sports news and programming has cultivated generations of sports consumers, utilizing multiple ESPN platforms for news and entertainment. The pervasiveness of the company's brand...

Error-proofing in the production process of pharmaceuticals isn¿t just a matter of good business, it has life-and-death implications for consumers. The 2013 Drug Quality and Security Act introduces more stringent compliance factors towards this common goal, in large part requiring new mandates on tracking and tracing chain of custody in the supply chain. This book comprehensively overviews the new mandate and its implications, including implem...

Each chapter of Learn to Teach: Responsibilities of Student Teachers and Cooperating Teachers outlines a new topic pertinent to a cooperating teacher and student teacher pair. Each section is broken into the two perspectives ¿ the student teacher and the mentor teacher.

This book explores the specific nature of pricing human resources and focuses on how to manage pricing teams, pricing talent, pricing career and how to organize the pricing function for success. It is dedicated to the pricing function and is aimed at helping pricing professionals manage their career within marketing, finance, sales or IT departments.

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Legal and ethical competence is a cornerstone of professional midwifery practice and an essential part of midwifery training. This is a unique and practical resource for student midwives Written by an experienced midwifery lecturer, this text draws on a wide variety of real life case studies and focuses particularly on the core areas of accountability, autonomy and advocacy. Opening with two chapters providing overviews respectively of ethical...

Suitable for anyone wanting to improve their performance, from beginners learning the basic skills to more experienced participants working on advanced techniques, this book covers a history of darts, rules of the game, choosing the right equipment, basic skills, how to improve your throwing technique and more.

This book presents the state of the art of solid waste management toward zero waste. It discusses different countries¿ laws and regulations, source separation of waste, and conversion of organic/biological waste into compost, biogas, and biofertilizer. It considers the combustion of waste in combined heat and power plants, as well as recent developments in waste gasification and pyrolysis. It describes various glass, metal, electronic waste, t...

3rd edition. Based on the latest research into infant neurological and behavioural development.

The EU has fewer young leading innovators, especially in high R&D, intensity sectors, a key weakness in an increasingly knowledge-based economy. This volume explores the creation, origins and processes of innovation systems and institutions that can address this. Vital reading for academics, researchers and policy makers in entrepreneurship and innovation management.

Piper Hunt arrives on Wildflower Island to develop family property into an upscale resort knowing this may be her last chance to prove her worth to her father. With grandiose ideas, she soon finds herself at odds with adjoining property owner, Chase Grayson. As she begins to appreciate the simplicity of the island, she struggles to maintain balance between her father's wishes, preserving the natural beauty of the island, and her attraction for...

This unique book explores the growing practice of participatory democracy and uses comparative analysis of cases in the UK, the Netherlands and Italy to show how policy makers, practitioners, students and academics can communicate more effectively.