Most Popular Books by Evan Thomas

Lloyd Salt is a child prodigy in the care of a secretive branch of the C.I.A. that raises and trains child geniuses for the greater good of the country. For Lloyd, that is a family business as his mother and father are both trained agents. He now faces a test that all thirteen year olds in the system must complete before advancing further... a real life situation of emergency. His "term of stay" would consist of being sent on a mission with a supervisor to observe how he deals with a problem in a specific area and assignment. However nothing goes like Lloyd had imagined. With each situation comes further mystery as Lloyd becomes aware of the undisclosed intentions of this mission. He uncovers an ancient truth that threatens to spiral all civilization as we know it to its knees, and destroy all inhabitants of Earth.

"What good is power without the time to use it?" - His Majesty King Ernesto Vesteille, more commonly known as ''The Twelve Hour King'', moments before his execution. One final deception in a sea of mistruths and lies. One last subversion of power to secure the sanctity and the prosperity of the kingdom of Barathax, now and forever more. One final act... that will go horribly wrong! A simple betrayal or the precursor to an even more sinister event? An event which not only places Barathax''s sovereignty in jeopardy, but the lives of the entire planet and more. Are the clandestine political manoeuvrings driving the kingdoms of Trescot, Eboda and Barathax to war the key required to unravel the mystery before it is too late? Or are they just an unfortunate side show, a mere distraction from what is to come? When the moral compasses of those with the power to belay a world''s doom are attracted to opposing poles, a paradoxical choice between time and life will endanger the existence of all who inherit the realm. In a tangled maze of events and conflicting interests, only one thing is certain. The coming months will see the realm thrown into chaos, as light is slowly shed on the events of the past, the clues necessary to stop those who would see the destruction of this world and the enslavement of another. Time as Power is an action/science-fiction/fantasy novel set between different worlds and times. The manipulation of time, and its subsequent effect on power, make for a fast paced, thrilling journey through the lands of Barathax, Trescot, Eboda and more!

This thesis describes the comprehensive planning effort undertaken by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council in the Boston area. This effort engaged over 4,000 of the area''s residents between 2002 and 2009 and produced a new vision and action plan for the region entitled ''MetroFuture,'' Without formal authority to ensure compliance with the plan, the agency worked to increase the scale, transparency, and specificity of its efforts in order to build broad-based support for implementation. This study analyzes MAPC''s use of modeling, public participation, and advocacy and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the agency''s "new regionalism" approach. They were able to achieve more diverse participation, a more comprehensive plan, and actionable recommendations with input from a much broader set of actors than previous efforts. They were hampered by the lack of political endorsement from state and local leaders, as well as by financial constraints and their inability to secure stakeholder agreement on key recommendations. The concluding discussion makes recommendations to other metropolitan regions trying to re-think how best to conduct comprehensive regional planning efforts.

Sermons on St. Paul’s Epistle to Philemon.

Records of the Cambrian Society of Victoria collected by the secretary Evan Thomas (1891-1965), including letters, minutes, journals, photographs, certificates and newspapers cuttings.

"Your eye, the wanderer, sees more," said Charles Olson. Winner of Prize Americana, Strangers is the gnostic fool''s journey through the cosmos recreated in each look into the strange and forgotten in little America. And how find it? Thus this poetry collection: as much mosaic as Merle Haggard, the music of winnowing--a journey through the strangeness of being that yearns for belonging.

This dissertation is an evaluation of the impacts of assignment to and enrollment in postsecondary remedial coursework in the state of Arkansas. In this study, I evaluate the impacts of the policy on students'' academic achievement and attainment as measured by graduation rates and persistence. I include subgroup analyses of these outcomes to determine whether there are heterogeneous effects for students enrolling at two-year or four-year institutions, institutions with the highest remediation rates, and students of different races, genders, and baseline achievement. Like previous evaluations of remediation in other settings, the results here point to negative impacts of remediation on students'' persistence and earning a degree, regardless of institution type. Secondary analyses show that students who were assigned to English Language Arts remediation but tested out of the course earned higher grades in the first college-level course compared to their peers who were unable to test out of remedial courses. There was no detectable difference in course performance for math students. Similarly, there were few substantial differences in noncognitive skills for students enrolling in remedial English courses compared to their nonremedial peers. These studies contribute to the literature on college remediation policies by providing the first rigorous evaluation of the policy in Arkansas, a comparison of noncognitive skills of remedial and nonremedial students, and a descriptive analysis of course performance for students who avoided remedial courses.