New Releases by Paul Lee

Buffy''s emotions run high after the tragic loss of her mother, but she still fights. She struggles with blood-starved vamps from another dimension and swarms of green demon children with a penchant for nibbling on faces, and, as barriers between alternate realities erode, nightmare versions of friends and long-dead enemies must be dealt with. Then Buffy''s own death -- having sacrificed herself for Dawn -- takes a toll on the Scoobies, as they deal with demons and crazed forest creatures in a tale by Amber Benson ("Tara") and Christopher Golden. When Buffy is restored to life, she undertakes a secret mission with Angel, and all the loose ends are tied up with Buffy''s trip to hell, bringing an end to an amazing four-year run of Buffy comics. * The Buffy Omnibus books collect the earliest Buffy comics and are an excellent precursor to Joss Whedon''s Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight series. * "There''s plenty of humor and action here. Lots of strange (and strangely fun) violence. And, for Slayer fans, Omnibus is an opportunity to run down memory lane and relive those early, exciting Slayer days." -- comicbookbin.com

In Genetic Incense, Jeffrey Paul Lee breathes fresh life into the traditional sonnet. He uses a highly conventional form to express unconventional insights into the nature of reality, the philosophy of perception, and the power of relationships. Laced with humor, cheeky wordplay, and movingly emotional observations, Genetic Incense paints vivid word pictures that relate the author''s life experiences to worlds both real and imaginary that surround him. The trivial and the sublime are treated as equal dancing partners. The author offers a challenging and ultimately rewarding worldview that seeks to open new doors and to offer inspiration from, at times, the most unlikely sources. "And there you stood spellbound, eager and bright in Southwark, on a starry London night."

Our English classrooms are often only as vibrant as the literature that we teach. This book explores the writing of contemporary American author, Barbara Kingsolver, who offers readers and students engaging fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that confront the reader and the world. Here, teachers will find an introduction to the works of Kingsolver and an opportunity to explore how to bring those works into the classroom as a part of the reading and writing curriculum. This volume attempts to confront what we teach and how we teach as English teachers through the vivid texts Kingsolver offers her readers.

A collection of poetry by Leicester''s Paul Lee.

American schools are often the victims of numbers games because its education is in the hands of politicians, the populace, and pundits. How Americans view numbers, science, and research profoundly impacts the ability of politicians to manipulate our schools from pre-K through graduate education. Even in classrooms, teachers are routinely implementing flawed assessment strategies based on misguided assumptions about numbers and commonly held statistical truths. American educators need to step out from under the restrictive mandates of politicians and their growing mania for measuring students - they need to leave the numbers games behind and take control of their profession.

Vivid Language is a writing text designed with two distinct sections. The first section is a brief writing text --one that reveals to students the many open-ended nuances of language use. At the center of the text section is the Golden Rule of Writing: "No rules exist in writing; only guidelines. But writers must have control of all that they choose to apply and must make each choice with a purpose that aids in the creation of meaning for the reader. Anything a writer applies for effect and with purpose is acceptable. Even fragments." The second section is a reference section that includes approximately fifty numbered areas that teachers use while marking essays and that students refer to while rewriting their essays. The second section (the Revision Appendix) is filled with examples taken from the author''s own students; it is the heart of the text and a system that should develop students'' abilities to be their own editors. The Reference Appendix avoids grammar jargon and guides the students to be effective decision makers as they write. The text is designed for use in high school and freshman composition courses at the college level.

Study of Dartford Priory reveals the Dominican contribution to late medieval English female monastic life and English vernacular spirituality.

A man and a woman are tragically kileld in a gang-related incident, and the man seeks out and haunts those who did it.

The mechanisms of asymmetric induction involving the lithiation and substitution of N-benzyl-N-Boc-N-p-methodically amine and N-benzyl-N-Boc-N-3-chloropropyl amine were investigated and are reported here. These two substrates undergo deprotonation with butyllithium in the presence of the chiral ligand (${-}$)-sparteine to generate their benzyllithium intermediates, which are subsequently reacted with electrophiles to yield highly enantioenriched products. For N-benzyl-N-Boc-N-3-chloropropyl amine, the electrophile is a part of the substrate, so the reaction is an intramolecular cyclization. The enantioselectivity in these reactions can arise either during or after the deprotonation of the substrate. These two limiting possible mechanisms were distinguished by comparing the results of the reaction following the replacement in the substrate of one of the two prochiral, benzylic hydrogens for a deuterium. For both of these reactions, the enantioselectivity was shown to occur during the deprotonation of the substrate. The intramolecular cyclization of N-benzyl-N-Boc-N-3-chloropropyl amine was further studied by negating the possibility of asymmetric substitution. A racemic sample of the benzyllithium intermediate was generated from its racemic stannyl analog within the presence of (${-}$)-sparteine, which cyclized revealingly into racemic product. Moreover, the benzyllithium intermediate generated from lithiation of N-benzyl-N-Boc-N-p-methoxyphenyl amine was shown to be configurationally stable by evaluating the dependence of the enantioselectivity upon the extent of the substitution step. Other observations involving the $alpha$-deuterated analog were consistent with a mechanism where the lithiated intermediate accelerates the rate of the lithiation. The configurational stability of N-($alpha$-lithio-$alpha$-methyl) benzyl-N-Boc-N-p-methoxyphenyl amine, a tertiary benzyllithium derivative, was also tested by generating an enantiopure sample of this benzyllithium intermediate from its enantiopure stannyl analog. This tertiary benzyllithium derivative was determined to be configurationally stable. Additional benzyllithium species were tested for their configurational stability by reacting them with chiral electrophiles and comparing the diastereoselectivities of the reaction. The results with N,N-diisopropyl-o-$(1prime$-lithioethyl)benzamide were consistent with a configurationally labile species. The tests on N,3-dilithio-N-methyl-3-phenylpropanamide and o-ethyl-N,$alpha$-dilithio-N-pivaloylaniline led to inconclusive results.

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We present an account of the metaplectic representation in terms of the Bargmann-Segal model rather than the standard Schrödinger model; this allows us to describe explicitly the structure and pairing of vacuum states for positive polarizations. We develop a scheme for geometric spinors and, following Hess, using Mp[superscript italic]c structures in place of metaplectic structures.