Cedric is a respected monk at the Ridderzaal monastery. But before he became a man of the cloth, he traveled the land, fighting trolls alongside dwarves and giants, living among the fearsome Krigares, and studying with elves, wizards and Shenn Frith shamans. This novelette provides a back story for one of your favorite characters from The Crafter Chronicles. It is a great standalone read as an introduction to the world of Matthew B. Berg, or as a companion piece to his trilogy begun with The Crafter's Son. (And there are no spoilers in here if you haven't yet begun the series!) Framed around Cedric taking a nostalgic journey through his personal journals, this story is roughly 10,000 words. (About 1/8th the length of the first book.) And, unlike the slower unfolding of The Crafter's Son, this book gets right to the action!
Building on the intensive research of his mentor Maria Thun and the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, Berg explains how the subtle influences from the cosmos work on the plant world, describing the differences among and the significance of root, leaf, blossom, and fruit days in the working calendar. Understanding these natural processes and the practical knowledge described in this book can lead to productive, chemical-free gardening, healthy plants, and abundant harvests.
Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, captures an eclectic collection of new studies from accomplished scholars in the fields such as communication, business, geography, kinesiology, media, and sports management and administration, using a wide range of methodologies including quantitative, qualitative, and critical analyses. In the communication revolution of the twenty-first century, the study of mediated sports is critical. As fans use all media at their disposal to consume sports and carry their sports-viewing experience online, they are seizing the initiative and asserting themselves into the mediated sports-dissemination process. They are occupying traditional roles of consumers/receivers of sports, but also as sharers and sports content creators. Fans are becoming pseudo sports journalists. They are interpreting mediated sports content for other fans. They are making their voice heard by sports organizations and athletes. Mediated sports, in essence, provide a context for studying and understanding where and how the communication revolution of the twenty-first century is being waged. With their collection of studies by scholars from North America and Europe, Earnheardt, Haridakis, and Hugenberg illuminate the symbiotic relationship among and between sports organizations, the media, and their audiences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization spurs both the researcher and the interested fan to consider what the study of sports tells us about ourselves and the society in which we live.
The pace of progress toward achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) in many sub-Saharan African countries remains too slow to reach targets by 2015, despite significant progress in the late 1990s. The MDG Africa Steering Group, convened in September 2007 by the UN Secretary-General, designated 10 countries for pilot studies to investigate how existing national development plans would be impacted by scaled up development aid to Africa. This joint publication of the IMF and the United Nations Development Programme reports conclusions drawn from these pilot studies and summarizes country-specific results for Benin, the Central African Republic, Ghana, Liberia, Niger, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo, Sierra Leone, and Zambia.
Selected for consideration by not one, but three reality TV shows, Sue Pollard tells the story of her strange but true casting adventures with the reality TV serials: Survivor, Big Brother, and the Amazing Race.In this unvarnished (and unauthorized) retelling, Sue takes the reader through the entire casting process of Survivor, revealing little known secrets about the shows unconventional operation. And she does so while providing her own no-nonsense insight into the psychological fallout of the process as well.Named first alternate for SurvivorAmazon back in 2002 Sue was days away from becoming a contestant after learning that one of the finalists would not be able to take part for medical reasons. But a few days, and a handful of last minute inoculations, later Sue was informed that the other woman had been cleared by doctors to participate.Disappointed that her Survivor dream did not come true, Sue turned her sights on Big Brother and then the Amazing Race. But her heart had never truly let go of Survivor and Sue determined to write this book not just to share her story with fans who were curious about the show, but also to challenge Mark Burnett to give her another chance.Through it all, this book is the tale of Sue, a small-town girl from Maine who has always refused to take no for answer.
Breeden has been developing unusual abilities--which aren't like any type of magic he's ever heard of before. But can he master his powers in time to help thwart the plans of a vengeful god? Breeden Andehar grew up the son of a boatwright in a village far from the capital city of Arlon. At sixteen, he is given a chance to receive an education at the local monastery alongside three sons of nobility, a cloth merchant's daughter and a clever orphan. Breeden and his new friends have their education cut short when a bitter rivalry between two brother gods spawns a conflict which threatens the entire Land. The Crafter's Son is the first book in a new coming of age epic fantasy series. If you liked The Sword of Shannara, The Wheel of Time, The Dragonbone Chair, or The Stormlight Archive, then you'll love Matthew B. Berg's brand new epic fantasy! Pick up The Crafter's Son to discover this exciting new series today!
This dissertation analyzes the political economy of public higher education funding in the United States, and offers a unique conceptual framework to describe the evolution of institutions related to higher education and their distributional effects. This research develops a conceptual framework, referred to as redistribution through power, that provides guidelines to identify and evaluate of the relationship between power and the distributional effects of property rights. The framework of redistribution through power contributes to economic theory by connecting elements from various schools of economic thought to provide a methodological approach that is compatible across perspectives. This framework is used to evaluate the effects of public higher education funding policy in the United States. This dissertation identifies a self-reinforcing relationship between changing beliefs and funding policies that has contributed to the commodification of public higher education through the increased reliance on tuition as a revenue source. The shift toward tuition driven public higher education funding is then linked to income redistributions among students, tax-payers, the student loan industry, and higher education providers. This conceptual approach provides the basis for a new empirical study that contributes to the economics of education literature. This dissertation identifies previously neglected sources of endogeneity and provides new empirical evidence to explain shifts in public higher education funding policies, rising tuition, and their distributional consequences.
This report discusses the structural conditions under which organizational development (OD), as employed in the school systems of the United States and Canada, is more or less applicable to schools. The first section (chapters 1-6) reviews papers and books, concerning either OD in general or the ways in which the ideas of OD have been used in the field of education. Chapter 1 concerns OD in general, while chapter 2 consists largely of a review of the "state of the art" paper on OD in schools published by Fullan, Miles, and Taylor in 1980. In chapter 3, articles critical of OD are considered, and, in chapter 4, a selection of empirical studies of OD are examined. The activities developed by Richard Schmuck and Philip Runkel in Eugene, Oregon (the "Mecca" of school OD) are outlined in chapter 5. Chapter 6 consists of a review of the paper in which Schmuck discusses the future of school-based OD. Chapter 7 consists of commentary on the first six chapters, from which nine conclusions about school OD are derived. In chapter 8, the argument is presented that the effectiveness of OD is dependent on the control structure in which the school operates. This conclusion is the subject of a commentary in chapter 9 by Matthew Miles and Michael Fullan. A four-page bibliography concludes the report. (TE)
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