New Releases by Don Morris

What happens when we blend Greek mythology with futuristic technology? We create a witty sci-fi adventure so good it makes mighty Zeus himself tingle with delight. Guided by a revolutionary artificial intelligence, thousands of starry-eyed Brits blast themselves out of the solar system to start a colony on a new planet. Predictably, things go pear-shaped on the spaceship Olympia, forcing the would-be settlers to decelerate in the vast reaches of outer space with nothing but what the gods and innovation can provide. Awoken from hypersleep years later, Ruby Ward actively avoids gods and heroes or anything strenuous as she blithely moves from one day to another. But not everyone in the Flotilla shares her carefree view of their situation. Unrest has given rise to a group called the Titans, who turn to sabotage and deceit in service of a mysterious figure promising the pilgrims a way home. Ruby will have to abandon her carefree lifestyle if she hopes to save the remote pocket of life she calls home, but there is no telling what unfathomable forces she’ll unleash along the way.

The scope of the messianic prophecies is awesome, providing infallible proof that Jesus Christ is the Jewish Messiah. This book identifies 194 different Old Testament messianic prophecies, describing how they were fulfilled in the life of Christ. They are presented in 16 different categories, demonstrating the wonder and the scope of the prophetic witness.

Yin-based citizenship, stewardship, leadership and eldership are crucial to societal transformation.

If you have read Can We Do Better? and feel compelled to make a contribution to community and the environment, then this Companion Workbook is for you. It provides a practical, hands-on opportunity to refine your insights into us humans; and to clarify your intentions to build decency, integrity, and accountability within your spheres of influence. The book''s activities will enable you to examine our egoic ''man-made world'' of dogmas, ideologies, myths, and institutions. It urges readers to confront ''inconvenient truths'' about various problematic and harmful aspects of historical and contemporary masculinity. This companion workbook is your opportunity to embrace facts and critical thinking, especially in the face of today''s religious, political, and conspiratorial distortions of key human and environmental issues. This book can help you be better-informed; and be strategically values-based, clear-minded and purposeful in your citizenship, stewardship and leadership. Every chapter invites you to reflect deeply with the intention of becoming robustly aware, constructive, responsive, and effective. This workbook invites readers to develop a systems-awareness of the earth, its ecologies and its peoples. It encourages us to learn from and internalize yin-based, right-hemisphere, First People wisdom. It encourages women and First Peoples to step forward as educators, leaders and role models of Custodianship and care of Country. The Workbook urges us to foster strategic, holistic, and symbiotic ''Earth-Mother'' principles and priorities as a means of reducing longstanding harms to people and environments. This workbook is a timely, compelling, and practical read for those who want to make a difference.

Here is a collection of poems that ask...can we humans do better?

ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT IGNITES (AGGRESSION AND POLITICAL ISSUES) This bestselling, critical illustrated book in a bold call of political issues/ conflicts between Israeli-Palestinian on Aggression and Racism. Global Politics, Contested Histories, Social Justice of Israel and Arab-Israeli Conflicting Against all Odds The extended politics issues of Israel-Palestine. This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Israelis and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full-scale hostilities in the 1947-48 civil war. The conflict continues to the present day on various levels. The Zionist movement called for the establishment of a nation state for the Jewish people in Palestine, which would serve as a haven for the Jews of the world and in which they would have the right for self-determination. The escalating cycle of reprisal attacks comes after weeks of Palestinian protests over Israeli restrictions on daily life of Muslim residents in East Jerusalem. These are the few things you are going to find out from this book -Israel-Palestine Conflict Ignites, Prompting Rocket Fire and Airstrikes -Palestine calls for UN intervention to halt Israeli aggression on Gaza -Break the fear barrier and speak up for Palestine Saying the Palestinian issue is ''complex'' is no excuse for not speaking up against Israeli crimes. -Hamas fires rockets into Israel as tensions in Jerusalem boil over IT IS GOOD TO GET THIS BOOK FOR YOUR PERSONAL UPDATES.

Teaching Physical Activity: Change, Challenge, and Choice guides you in designing activities and games through which you can meet your objectives while engaging all the participants in your class or group. Including foundational material on teaching activities and games ; 45 ready-to-use games and activities to get you started right away numerous tips, ideas, and strategies to help you fully understand and implement this approach.

The importance of the beliefs and attitudes of teachers and building-level administrators in achieving school reform has come to be widely acknowledged. As University of Wisconsin professor Kent Peterson put it: "You can implement a good-quality improvement plan and knowledgeable, data-driven decision making, but if the [staff] doesn''t believe that things can be improved, it''s not going to implement [changes] with the same depth or energy or commitment" (Stover, 2005, p. 31). The most common way of tapping into those beliefs and attitudes has traditionally been the school climate survey. The Miami-Dade County Public School District (M-DCPS) has conducted school climate surveys of staff, parents, and students since the early 1990s. In recent years, elements of these surveys have come into extensive use by the district''s schools as a factor in their school improvement plans. The use of the survey results for purposes of school improvement has motivated this inquiry into discussing the relationship between M-DCPS staff survey results and student achievement, as measured by the percent of students, by school, making learning gains in reading on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). (Contains 2 tables and 2 notes.).

The "High School Feedback Report" prepared by the State of Florida''s Department of Education provides pre-and-post-graduation data for public high school graduates throughout Florida. These data were used for this present report which contains individual data reports for all M-DCPS regular high schools and charter high schools graduating students in 2005 and 2006. Summary data by region and for the district is also provided. These data can be used to track the success of secondary school reform efforts at the region and school levels. Several data elements presented here are already being tracked by the district and are not considered new. However, additional data are presented which can shed further light on the extent to which the district is preparing graduates for the world-of-work and for post-secondary education. The state''s format has been preserved but the data have been recomputed to show results at the region level. The district total of graduates has also been altered to reflect the removal of alternative/special education and adult vocational schools. Specifically, the data in this report are organized in the following manner. First, the region and charter school summaries are grouped together for comparison to each other and the district summary is also included. Then the individual schools are presented with data for 2005 and 2006 arranged side-by-side and grouped by region. The results for 21 indicators are presented including 13 pre-graduation indicators and eight post-graduation indicators. Data Sources and Definitions for the Indicators are appended.

Channel Islands National Park, immediately adjacent to millions of southern Californians, sees relatively few visitors because of the logistical and physical challenges involved in visiting any of the islands. This guidebook provides detailed advice on planning a trip, what essential items to bring, expected weather conditions, sketches of the natural and cultural history of the island, and detailed descriptions of possible walks on the island, ranging from strolls of a few minutes to overnight backpack trips. The author describes several routes that are not listed among the official maintained trails on the island. Routes are rated by relative difficulty and safety measures and skill levels are described for the prospective visitor.

In this humorous book about dogs, fun, lighthearted facts and quotations are perfectly paired with entertaining full color photos. Additionally, over 200 quotations about dogs and how they affect people''s lives are part of this unique, intriguing, and entertaining book.

Ray Keene, responsible for organising more world championship matches outside the USSR than any other person in the history of official contests, in 2000, after a five year gap with no world title match, persuaded Kasparov to defend his title against Kramnik.

The dramatic World Championship match in which Vladimir Kramnik surprisingly overthrew Garry Kasparov, the highest rated chess champion in the history of the game was, thanks to the internet, followed by more chess enthusiasts than any other chess championship match in chess history. For a month the eyes of the world were focused on the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith where the two grandmasters fought out their silent duel for two million dollars in prize money and the solid silver Howard Staunton trophy crafted by Asprey and Garrard, the Queen''s jewelers. Millions of viewers around the world followed the match live on the Brain Games website, www.braingames.net and this book distills the very best of the comments made by grandmasters on the spot and the players themselves. It also gives full details of how anyone can enter for the forthcoming Brain Games World Championship qualifier with the ultimate goal of competing face to face against the new world chess champion. (5 3/4 x 8 1/4, 128 pages, color photos, diagrams, charts)

This illustrated, easy-to-follow book will help anyone select, plan, modify, present, and evaluate movement games. But, most important, it will help users meet the needs, abilities, and interests of players - especially children from kindergarten to age 14.