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Things in Northern New Jersey just got a little more intense for Angela Tanner. She is a Witch who hasn't come into her powers yet, but things go full speed ahead when her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit. Enter Jody Nieves. The tall, dark, and powerful Guardian is sent to fetch...

Teenage Witch Angela Tanner is learning to control her powers, but it's not as easy as it looks. Especially when everything points to her being a FireWitch. Is her awesome power a gift or a curse? That's something she must find out. At least she's not alone. She has the help of her own personal...

Traffic drugs or stay in a Malian jail? Dr. Madison Cote has two choices. Both come at a high price. The best way out is to beg for French military intervention. But instead of rescuing her, they recruit her and her new friend Duke to be civilian double agents. Now she must work for the man...

Everyone with an internet connection, it seems, is rising and grinding. These risers and grinders use the hashtag #RiseAndGrind as a clarion call, proudly touting their daily grind, their work. Why has this rise-and-grind social media phenomenon risen to such prominence? C.D. Carter has some ideas.

An experienced contractor runs the gauntlet for a late night tech job at a financial institution in the heart of Silicon Valley, getting past the trigger-happy security guard, dealing with younger co-workers who expect to get paid fabulous money for doing nothing, and saving a desperate project manager...

CompTIA has changed the game with their 900 series A+ exams, and so have Best selling author C.V.Conner. With this brand new release for 2016/2017, get CompTIA A+ certified in just 21 Days! We developed this book to be the best Q & A study guide Exam 220-901. Apply our famous memorize techniques...

Bullying prevention starts with helping young children understand and accept diversity—the earlier the better. That's why your school team needs this ready-to-use resource, a simple, fun, and effective way to promote social acceptance in the critical early years of attitude development. Perfect...

In the first bilingual work on the reptiles and amphibians of the US–Mexico border, top herpetologists come together to describe the herpetofauna of the states of this region, which includes more than 600 species of toads, frogs, salamanders, turtles, sea turtles, alligators, lizards, snakes, and...

Socrates' moral psychology is widely thought to be 'intellectualist' in the sense that, for Socrates, every ethical failure to do what is best is exclusively the result of some cognitive failure to apprehend what is best. Until publication of this book, the view that, for Socrates, emotions and desires...

A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history Inspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline....

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was England's greatest revolutionary: no other reformer was as actively involved in events of the scale of the American and French Revolutions, and none wrote such best-selling texts with the impact of Common Sense and Rights of Man. No one else combined the roles of activist...

The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Dominicans from the United States. Following thousands of these individuals over a seven-year period, David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios use a unique combination of sociological and...

A trio of short stories about traveling to strange worlds."Silent Observers" - After a deaf person leaves behind a pen and card requesting a donation, money wasn't the only thing being collected. A team of xenobiologist students from another planet are monitoring the eating habits of humans...

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture. We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta-...