Carol Hill

Intellectual sparks fly in this Space Age chronicle of the life, loves, and intergalactic adventures of sexy astronaut/physicist Amanda Jaworski, who approaches the natural and the supernatural with the same high-spirited, informed humor.

The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer

By and large, cost-effective information technology (IT) management is more about people, personal relationships, and corporate culture than it is about the technology itself. Simply put, IT doesn’t work if you are surrounded by bad people and stupid processes in a deranged corporate culture. IT's All about the People: Technology Management That Overcomes Disaffected People, Stupid Processes, and Deranged Corporate Culturesexplains how to achieve dramatic improvements in service and agility by enhancing the people, processes, and culture within your organization. It details the various roles within the technology management process and supplies authoritative insight into the realities of human behavior-including the range of best and worst behaviors from managers, executives, and corporate culture. Industry veteran Stephen J. Andriole explains the reason behind why many business cases fail and includes helpful insights on new governance models, organic transformation, guerilla budgeting, and open source software. Providing a fresh perspective on the old basics of IT management through a twenty-first-century lens, this book arms you with the methods needed to master the soft art of IT management as well as purchasing, deployment, and technological support.

Amanda is an astronaut who roller-skates through the halls of NASA, and a subparticle physicist who can enter the mind of Mary Shelley. With her magical cat, Schrondinger, she finds herself in confrontation with the ultimate seductress, the eleven million mile high dancer.

Amanda & the Eleven Million Mile High Dancer

Frank Hill

Sam Clam helps his friend Gummer Shark find his lost teeth.

Case of the Missing Teeth

Tim Helble

-Could the Grand Canyon's rock layers have formed in a single year of Noah's flood? -Why are there no dinosaur, bird or mammal fossils in the canyon's layers? -How do we know that radiometric dating methods are reliable? -How can we tell what happened in the unobserved past? -How long did it take to carve out the canyon? -Is Young Earth Creationism really biblical? Learn the answers to these questions and more to understand how the Grand Canyon testifies to an old earth. Insights from top geologists, highlighted by stunning photographs, provide a memorable guide to these ancient wonders of creation.

Monument to an Ancient Earth

The Grand Canyon

"Henry James' Midnight Song is so exciting that I got up in the middle of the night to finish it--I couldn't sleep wondering what would happen next. Yet it is so intellectually complex that repeated readings only reveal richer meanings and more subtle shades of thought. In its virtuosity, as well as its themes and techniques, this novel puts Carol DeChellis Hill among postmodern masters such as Thomas Pynchon, E. L. Doctorow, and Umberto Eco. She may even be better." --Judith Caesar, Philadelphia Inquirer

Henry James' Midnight Song

Jane Farmer

Sarah-Anne Muñoz

Governments around the globe are promoting co-production and community social enterprise as policy strategies to address the need for local, 21st century service provision but can small communities engage spontaneously in social enterprise and what is the true potential for citizens to produce services? This book addresses a clutch of contemporary societal challenges including: aging demography and the consequent need for extended care in communities; public service provision in an era of retrenching welfare and global financial crises; service provision to rural communities that are increasingly 'hollowed out' through lack of working age people; and, how best to engender the development of community social enterprise organizations capable of providing high quality, accessible services. It is packed with information and evidence garnered from research into the environment for developing community social enterprise and co-producing services; how communities react to being asked to co-produce; what to expect in terms of the social enterprises they can produce; and, how to make them happen. This book is an antidote to the rhetoric of optimistic governments that pronounce co-production as a panacea to the challenges of providing local services and by drawing on the evidence from a 'real-life' international study will make policymakers more savvy about their aspirations for co-production, give service professionals practical strategies for working with communities, fill a gap in the academic evidence about community, as opposed to individual, social enterprise and reassure community members that they can deliver services through community social enterprise if the right partnerships and strategies are in place. Community CoProduction will appeal to students and scholars over a broad range of disciplines including development, entrepreneurship, public and social policy, economics and regional studies.

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