WHAT IF THOUGHTS COULD KILL? The time has come for Ethan Hall, serial killer and master hypnotist, to be tried in Crown Court. And the result is far from certain. The unanswered question remains: How do you prevent a destructive master hypnotist from wreaking havoc in a Crown Court trial? For Marcus Kline, the world's leading authority on communication and influence, and his wife Anne-Marie Wells, the devastation Ethan Hall has brought into their lives is about to reach terrifying and unimaginable heights. Memories, secrets and fear will threaten to tear them apart and destroy their very lives. Meanwhile, a new wave of murders is being recorded and shared on social media, inciting ever-more extreme behaviour. Support for the violence grows and the very fabric of society seems threatened. Is Ethan Hall in any way responsible? And, if so, how can he possibly be stopped? Marcus Kline must face his nemesis in a final battle of wills....does he have the faith to succeed?

Project X Hero Academy is a fully decodable and finely levelled reading series set in a school for superheroes, designed to captivate and motivate all young readers and turn them into reading superheroes.Ice Crystal Robbery is in Orange Book Band, Oxford Level 6, and supports Letters and Sounds Phase 5. In this story, Ray Ranter, arch-enemy of Hero Academy, sends one of his robot bunnies to steal some powerful ice crystals from Hero Academy. The heroes chase after it, but will they manage to get the ice crystals back?Each book can be used for independent reading, but also contains inside cover notes that include help on developing vocabulary and prompt questions that can be used for guided reading and one-to-one sessions. Full guided reading notes are provided in the corresponding handbook. There are also a range of follow-up activities to support reading for pleasure.

Project X Hero Academy is a fully decodable and finely levelled reading series set in a school for superheroes, designed to captivate and motivate all young readers and turn them into reading superheroes.The Protecto is in Orange Book Band, Oxford Level 6, and supports Letters and Sounds Phase 5. In this story, Doctor Daze, the number 2 most wanted villain, wants to take over Hero Academy. She uses one of her mind control gadgets to send everyone out of the school. Can Evan's new invention the Protecto help him stop her?Each book can be used for independent reading, but also contains inside cover notes that include help on developing vocabulary and prompt questions that can be used for guided reading and one-to-one sessions. Full guided reading notes are provided in the corresponding handbook. There are also a range of follow-up activities to support reading for pleasure.

In this collection of engaging, emotive and thought-provoking poems Chris Parker explores the relationship between community, communication and learning. Through a series of interrelated stories he introduces a range of characters and settings, contrasting the challenges of the human search for identity, meaning and purpose with the synergy, simplicity and silence of Nature in the city.

This guide is both a Who's Who of jazz, detailing careers and developments, and a buyer's companion to the best albums on CD and vinyl. It features A-Z critical biographies of over 2100 musicians, plus concise explanations of crucial terms and ideas.

A Los Angeles Times's and Southern California Indie Bookseller Association's Bestseller! Los Angeles Stories is a collection of loosely linked, noir-ish tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America's most iconic cities. In post-World War II Los Angeles, as power was concentrating and fortunes were being made, a do-it-yourself culture of cool cats, outsiders, and oddballs populated the old downtown neighborhoods of Bunker Hill and Chavez Ravine. Ordinary working folks rubbed elbows with petty criminals, grifters, and all sorts of women at foggy end-of-the-line outposts in Venice Beach and Santa Monica. Rich with the essence and character of the times, suffused with the patois of the city's underclass, these are stories about the common people of Los Angeles, "a sunny place for shady people," and the strange things that happen to them. Musicians, gun shop owners, streetwalkers, tailors, door-to-door salesmen, drifters, housewives, dentists, pornographers, new arrivals, and hard-bitten denizens all intersect in cleverly plotted stories that center around some kind of shadowy activity.This quirky love letter to a lost way of life will appeal to fans of hard-boiled fiction and anyone interested in the city itself. "Taken as a whole, this collection offers a panoramic view of a rapidly changing Los Angeles and its immigrant communities, rich in period detail and idiomatic dialogue, sometimes based on Cooder's own memories of growing up in the same neighborhoods in which the stories are often set." --Uncut Magazine "Cooder shouldn't stop making records. He should keep writing, too." --Rolling Stones "The stories of Ry Cooder are a lot like his music: stately, precise, well constructed; they grab you by the throat, quietly, and never let go..." --Andrew J. Khaled Madigan, The Iowa Review "The strict Los Angeles setting - the city's highs and lows romanticised ceaselessly - make them like Raymond Chandler or Mickey Spillane." --Chris Johnston, Sydney Morning Herald "In Los Angeles Stories, his first published collection of stories, Cooder pays homage to the jazz, the blues and the Latin beat of a bygone era. He also honors a cast of boisterous musicians, some murdered, others spared to tell their gritty tales of life and death.A few famous musicians - John Lee Hooker and Charlie Parker among them - make cameo appearances in these pages, but most of the guitar players, drummers and lounge singers are as unknown as the repossession men, waitresses and mechanics they entertain in forgotten bars and derelict nightclubs." -- San Francisco Chronicle Ry Cooder is a world-famous guitarist, singer, and composer known for his slide guitar work, interest in roots music, and more recently for his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries, including The Buena Vista Social Club. He has composed soundtracks for more than twenty films, including Paris, Texas. Two recent albums were accompanied by stories Cooder wrote to accompany the music. This is his first published collection of stories.

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'I learned much from this book. Priya Parker has created both an art and a science to gathering in ways that can bring joy and fulfillment to any meeting.' - Deepak Chopra MD'This is a must-read!' - Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED'A fantastic book' - Forbes'Remarkable' - BustleWe spend our lives gathering - first in classrooms and then in meetings, weddings, conferences and away days. Yet so many of us spend this time in underwhelming moments that fail to engage us, inspire us, or connect us. We've all sat in meetings where people talk past each other or go through the motions and others which galvanize a team and remind everyone why they first took the job. We've been to weddings that were deeply moving and others that were run-of-the-mill and simply faded away. Why do some moments take off and others fizzle? What's the difference between the gatherings that inspire you and the ones that don't? In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker gets to the heart of these questions and reveals how to design a transformative gathering. An expert on organizing successful gatherings whether in conference centres or her living room, Parker shows us how to create moving, magical, mind-changing experiences - even in spaces where we've come to expect little.

'This book is essential reading for the "citizen planner" because it reflects on the experiences of others to demonstrate how neighbourhood planning can meaningfully harness the social capital of communities, as well as the challenges involved.' Chris Bowden, Navigus PlanningNeighbourhood Planning (NP), introduced by the Localism Actof 2011, is the right for communities to decide the future of the places wherethey live and work. This book examines the experience of neighbourhoodplanners, analysing what communities have achieved, how they have done so andwhat went well or badly. Comparing NP with other forms of community planningand highlighting the main lessons learned so far, it acts as a navigation toolfor people already involved in neighbourhood planning, as well as thosecontemplating participation.

In October of 1975 Elvis was abducted and spirited away to a cabin in the Kentucky mountains where he was made to sing for his supper. After a week in captivity a ransom was paid to ensure his release, a bizarre episode that was hushed up on orders from the White House, no less. This psychological thriller not only reveals the dramatic details of how Elvis was snatched but also delves into the innermost thoughts of the King of Rock'n'Roll. How does Elvis react when he is treated like an ordinary person, told to sweep floors and chop wood? How does he interact with his kidnappers? Will his songs grant him his freedom? And how do those close him, among them ex-wife Priscilla and manager Colonel Tom Parker, respond to the crisis? Caught in a Trap is so believable you'll be asking yourself why it has taken so long for the story to get out.

Five of Marvel's latest and greatest super sensations take to the oversized page in larger than life adventures Carol Danvers embraces a stellar legacy as Captain Marvel, Earth's Mightiest Hero She's an inspiration to young Kamala Khan, on her own path to becoming Ms. Marvel--big boots to fill, but Kamala is an Inhuman shape-shifter You won't believe Gwenpool; she was a comic book reader just like you...until she woke up in the Marvel Universe In another world, a very different Gwen, last name Stacy, was bitten by a radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker--and became Spider-Woman Plus, an all-new Wasp takes flight--but will she be friend or foe to the Avengers?

Den prisvinnende fotografen Paul Sigve Amundsen fikk ett år på å fange Bergen med kameraet sitt. Byen som er så ettertrykkelig fotografert og foreviget i bokform utallige ganger skulle nå løftes frem i et annet og overraskende lys- langt ut over de kjente turistbrosjyrenes virkelighet. Forfatter og fotograf har sammen ønsket å få frem et større og kanskje sannere Bergen enn vi er vant til å se i bøkene. Praktboken kan by på fotografier av McDonalds-skiltet som skinner gjennom et skogholt i Loddefjord, sauen som trasker over berghyllene på Ulriken med byen i bakgrunnen, den gule sportsbilen som står parkert i snøfonnene på Minde - alt like mye Bergen på sitt mangfoldige og fargerike vis. For å dra veksler på sine personlige bånd til byen ytterligere, fikk erkebergenser Chris Tvedt fritt spillerom til å fortolke bilder og stemninger etter innfallsmetoden: her får vi høre om onkelen som kræsjet med trikken, hvordan krimbokkarakteren Mikal Brenne fikk sitt navn, anekdoter om barndommen og en god dose fakta om byen han ikke klarer å legge skjul på at han elsker - på godt og vondt.

For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009) aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context.This is the first of four volumes which present the results of that campaign. It includes investigations of the monuments and landscape that pre-dated Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain as well as of excavation at Stonehenge itself. The main discovery at Stonehenge was of cremated human remains from many individuals, allowing their demography, health and dating to be established. With a revised radiocarbon-dated chronology for Stonehenge's five stages of construction, these burials can now be considered within the context of the monument's development. The different types of stone from which Stonehenge is formed - bluestones from Wales and sarsen silcretes from more local sources - are investigated both at Stonehenge and in its surroundings. These surrounding monuments include single standing stones, the Cuckoo Stone and the Tor Stone, as well as the newly discovered circle of Bluestonehenge at West Amesbury beside the River Avon. The ceremonial Stonehenge Avenue, linking Stonehenge to Bluestonehenge, is also included, based on a series of excavations along its length.The working hypothesis behind the Stonehenge Riverside Project links Stonehenge with a complex of timber monuments upstream at the great henge of Durrington Walls and neighbouring Woodhenge. Whilst these other sites are covered in a later volume (Volume 3), this volume explores the role of the River Avon and its topographic and environmental evidence.With contributions by:Umberto Albarella, Michael Allen, Olaf Bayer, Wayne Bennett, Richard Bevins, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Chris Casswell, Andrew Chamberlain, Benjamin Chan, Rosamund Cleal, Gordon Cook, Glyn Davies, David Field, Charles French, Robert Ixer, Neil Linford, Peter Marshall, Louise Martin, Claudia Minniti, Doug Mitcham, Bob Nunn, Andy Payne, Mike Pitts, Rebecca Pullen, Julian Richards, David Robinson, Clive Ruggles, Jim Rylatt, Rob Scaife, Ellen Simmons, Charlene Steele, James Sugrue, Anne Teather, Sarah Viner, Tony Waldron, Katy Whitaker and Christie Willis

The Facet Information Literacy Collection 3 contains everything librarians and educators need to know to develop and deliver effective programmes to support information literacy, web use and internet searching. The Collection includes nine books from the world's leading information literacy experts and practitioners. The books included are: A Guide to Teaching Information Literacy - Helen Blanchett, Chris Powis and Jo WebbCritical Literacy for Information Professionals - Edited by Sarah McNicol Expert Internet Searching, 5th edition - Phil Bradley Improving Students' Web Use and Information Literacy - James E Herring Information Literacy in the Workplace - Edited by Marc Forster Information Literacy Beyond Library 2.0 - Edited by Peter Godwin and Jo Parker Metaliteracy in Practice - Edited by Thomas P Mackey and Trudi E Jacobson Rethinking Information Literacy - Edited by Jane Secker and Emma Coonan Teaching Information Literacy Reframed - Joanna M. Burkhardt There is a 10% discount off the combined price of the books in the Collection.

They were the Sheridan men, ruled by passion, betrayed by love, heirs to a legacy of violence and forbidden desire. Gus, Boston's top homicide cop: he knew equally well the backroom politics of City Hall and the private passions of the very rich, a man haunted by the wanton courage and perilous obsessions he inherited from his father... Conn, the patriarch, a lawless cop who spawned a circle of vengeance and betrayal that would span half a century... and Chris, Gus's beloved son, a Harvard lawyer and criminologist, fated to risk everything to break the chain of obsession and rage... Three generations linked by crime and punishment--cops and heroes, fathers, sons, and lovers united at last by revelations that could bring a family to its knees...

Accessibly written and featuring illustrative case examples, this book provides a complete guide to curriculum-based assessment for instructional design (CBA-ID). CBA-ID comprises easy-to-implement, reliable, and valid procedures for determining a student's instructional level and individualizing instruction by developing tasks that are neither too hard nor too easy. It is a key tool for supporting K-8 students who are struggling in reading, math, or writing, and is ideally suited for intervention planning within multi-tiered systems of support. Including reproducible forms, the print book has a large-size format and lay-flat binding to facilitate photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by T. Chris Riley-Tillman.

CONCEIVED BY CHRIS GREY, THE VERY SHORT, FAIRLY INTERESTING AND REASONABLY (HEAP SERIES OFFERS AN ANTIDOTE TO CONVENTIONAL TEXTBOOKS. EACH BOOK TAKES A CORE AREA OF THE CURRICULUM AND TURNS IT ON ITS HEAD BY PROVIDING A CRITICAL AND SOPHISTICATED OVERVIEW OF THE KEY ISSUES AND DEBATES IN AN INFORMAL, CONVERSATIONAL AND OFTEN HUMOROUS WAY. IN MANAGEMENT THEORY, TODD BRIDGMAN AND STEPHEN CUMMINGS UNCOVER ENDURING MYTHS ABOUT FAMOUS THEORISTS, FROM ADAM SMITH AND MAX WEBER TO FREDERICK TAYLOR, MARY PARKER FOLLETT, ABRAHAM MASLOW AND KURT LEWIN. BY EXPLORING HOW THESE MYTHS BECAME CAST AS THE FOUNDATIONS OF MANAGEMENT, THIS ACCESSIBLE AND ENGAGING DOOK GENERATES NEW WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT WHAT MANAGEMENT COULD BE TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE. لا TODD BRIDGMAN IS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT AT VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND. STEPHEN CUMMINGS IS PROFESSOR OF STRATEGY AND INNOVATION AT VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND

Sometimes, putting yourself first is truly a sacrifice. Claire Nixon and Adam Parker each have a painful past too heavy to carry alone. Claire once tried to push Adam away but his relentless pursuit of her heart made her walls come crumbling down, and now they know they're much stronger together than apart. But now Claire's attending college a hundred miles away from Adam, and the distance is forcing a crack. To add to the strain, Adam is sent to Hawaii on business, and doubts start creeping into both their hearts. Claire's also dealing with her ex, rock star Chris Knight, being back in her life. Chris wants Claire more than anything, and he knows just how to get her: only he has the power to mend the final missing piece of Claire's broken heart. How can Claire ever choose between taking a chance on new love, or a second chance at having a family and a home? Have you read Relentless, the first book in the Shattered Heart series? You can also read Bring Me Home now, and discover the ending to Claire, Adam and Chris' story. New Adult Contemporary Romance: Due to strong language, drug reference, and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.

WHY WE LOVE IT: Here at BOOM! Studios, crime is in our blood. From our comic-turned-feature film 2 GUNS to our critically acclaimed series HIT, we've always had a passion for all things noir. DEAD LETTERS is the next step in our exploration of the genre. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: Creators Christopher Sebela (Ghost, High Crimes) and new-comer Chris Visions have combined to create a perfectly moody tale that will evoke memories of your favorite noir story-then turn it on its head. Don't miss out on a wholly unique take on crime fiction perfect for fans of Richard Stark's Parker, Criminal, and Fell. "Christopher Sebela writes this thing to damn near perfection...overall, this book looks supreme." IGN WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Waking up in a fleabag motel with bandaged arms and a revolver on his desk, Sam doesn't remember a thing-not how he got here, where here is, or who he is. But the armed men knocking on his door do and Sam will have to use every trick from his forgotten repertoire to outrun and outsmart his way through a hard-boiled wonderland of gang wars, femme fatales, and big secrets. Collects issues #1-4.