Roderick: 284 books

The promise of online learning--flexible, learner-centered, responsive--was forward-looking and poised to revolutionize education. But too often online learning courses have little room for student engagement and their design does not reflect the potential for interactive and collaborative learning. Design...

Transition metals open up new opportunities for synthesis, because their means of bonding and their reaction mechanisms differ from those of the elements of the s and p blocks. In the last two decades the subject has mushroomed - established reactions are seeing both technical improvements and increasing...

Organic animal farming is growing rapidly but faces a range of challenges in areas such as nutrition, health and welfare. This volume surveys the wealth of research addressing these challenges. The book start with a review of organic principles and the key question of the right breeds for organic...

My book is about my life.I died for half an hour in February 2014 and was brought back to life by the skills of the lifesaving team.Since that episode my brain has activated memories from way back, so I had to put them all down in a book in case the memories fade . . . don't know if you will enjoy it but it helped me to recover . . .Love and Light . . . .

BACK COVER BLURB FOR ASTRID AND THE GOLDEN LOVESPOONS Private detective Astrid Price senses there is something wrong when a mysterious stranger hires her to deliver a package, but she needs the money, so she takes the job.  Big mistake.  Before long the bodies are piling up, each of them...

Murder and mystery on the Canadian prairies! August, 1908. One hundred years ago, under the light of a full moon, 12-year-old John Diefenbaker and his younger brother, Elmer, are nearby when their neighbour is shot to death in a field. The murder in small-town Saskatchewan ignites a desperate search...

Set in South Africa during the 60's and 70's, Night Journey is a novel about a young soldier who deserts the army and, when he is recaptured by the military, refuses to return to military service on religious grounds. For his insubordination he is placed in an extreme regime of solitary confinement...

Explore the "dark side" of spirit, ritual, symbol, psyche, and magic. This book weaves together Jungian analysis, the practical application of imagery from ancient fairy tales, and contemporary Witchcraft to help you come to grips with the darker shades of your being. Embrace all aspects of your psyche and follow the true path of the Witch, shaman, magician and mystic.

In a dreamlike setting, this surreal book explores the interaction and emotions of a man, his wife and a young woman caught in a love triangle. In this deeply moving love story, the characters travel back and forth in time, each expressing their experience and singular perception of particular events....

It was only one shoe. It fit no one. But everyone wanted it. Hap Barlo sits in a cell, wondering how it had all gone so wrong. The blue shoe was ruined, the girl he’d been trying to help was missing, and he’d been branded a thief—again! He would be banished to the far side of Mount Xexnax...

The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet its origins are much more complicated than this single-issue interpretation would have us believe, and to ignore gay liberation's multidimensional beginnings is to drastically underestimate...

Lina Sattler ist Geldeintreiberin. Im Hamburger Milieu kennt man sie, sie ist berüchtigt wegen ihrer Wutausbrüche, Gefühle wie Angst oder Mitleid sind ihr fremd. Lina hat keinerlei Erinnerung an ihre Kindheit, sie weiß nur, dass ihre Eltern brutal ums Leben kamen. Doch warum?Als sie Hinweisen...

Tief unter London irren Will, sein Bruder Cal und Chester auf der Suche nach Wills verschollenem Adoptivvater Dr. Burrows umher. So knüpft Abgrund unmittelbar an Tunnel, den erfolgreichen ersten Teil der Reihe, an. Im Fokus des Geschehens steht vorerst Wills leibliche Mutter Sarah, die den Spuren...

A deliciously quirky tale of secrets, magic, and illusions.   Everything is in place: the packed theater, the Amazing Thummel, and, center stage, the magician's mysterious assistant. Some have called her the most beautiful woman in Europe. Then, in a swirl of light, she vanishes! An...