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Join me as I return to Seventh Grade for One Day... to help a Science Teacher as she tries to do the impossible: Teach 36 kids each class, all day long. I spent not even one day with this teacher and I know: There must be a special place in heaven for her. Get ready for one wild and funny ride!

This audiobook contains the following Cooper short stories: 351 - "Not What It Seems"; 352 - "Bingo"; 353 - "Way Back When"; and more....

Contains the following Cooper short stories (341-350): You're Welcome, Perfect Exposure, Without a Paddle, Spare Change, Do Not Analyze, I'm Innocent, Help Me, Oops, Grandma, And Abby Makes Three.

In this third edition of Border Games, Peter Andreas charts the rise and transformation in policing the flow of drugs and migrants across the US-Mexico border. Recent border crackdowns and wall-building campaigns, he argues, are not unprecedented. Rather, they are the outcome of an escalatory dynamic already in motion—but now played out on a far bigger stage, with higher stakes, and in new security and political contexts. Focusing on the power of symbolic politics and policy feedback effects, Andreas traces the logic behind such buildup.

Flourishing in the Age of Climate Change explores skills we need to successfully navigate the distinctive environmental, social, and economic challenges of the twenty-first century. Our inability to address increasing resource constraints, social conflict, and ecological decline lead many toward a deep pessimism that saps motivation for change. Drawing on research from environmental science, ethics, psychology, sociology and educational theory, William M. Throop shows why cultivating underdeveloped skills can enable flourishing within our context.

Travel Tales: Idiots Abroad is a very funny book. It's a collection of Michael Brein's funniest travel accounts of the nearly 2000 interviews with travelers he has met in his own travels around the world over the last four decades. Although the typical travel stories collected in the books that make up the True Travel Tales series are ordinarily oriented toward safety and security in travel...Travel Tales: Idiots Abroad is purely and simply to make you laugh.

"The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions", said the existentialist thinker Albert Camus. And no less a philosopher than Woody Allen has wondered: "How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" The essays in Movies and the Meaning of Life look at popular and cult movies, examining their assumptions and insights on meaning-of-life questions....

Street Smarts contains a series of proven principles and insights I've gathered through the years I spent living in the streets. These principles helped me go from being homeless to becoming a successful entrepreneur in the digital industry. The good news is, no matter at what point you're at in your own life, you can also make the positive changes you need to become successful.

Before Lawrence v. Texas tells the story of the long, troubled, and ultimately hopeful road to constitutional change. Wesley G. Phelps describes the achievements, setbacks, and unlikely alliances along the way. Over the course of decades, and at great risk to themselves, gay and lesbian Texans and their supporters launched political campaigns and legal challenges, laying the groundwork for Lawrence. Phelps shares the personal experiences of the people and couples who contributed to the legal strategy that ultimately overturned the states discriminatory law.

This is the fifth collection of 15 Cooper stories in audio format.

In an era when democracy is at critical risk, is it reasonable to expect the education system, already buckling under the ordeal of a global pandemic, to solve the converging problems of inequality, climate change, and erosion of trust in government and science? Will more civics instruction help? In Can Schools Save Democracy? Michael J. Feuer offers a new approach to addressing these questions with a strategy for improving the process and substance of civic education.

Ten short stories soon to be available in audio format.

Ten short stories, including: "Trick or Treat", "King For a Day", "The Butcher of Springfield", "Murphy's Law", and more.

The continuing saga of the Cooper family of private eyes from Hollywood.

Nine short stories in audio format.

Ten short stories including: "Livin' Off The Land", "The Phantom Vigilante", "Pretty Slick", and more.

Bert has been dreaming of finding his own hidden treasure for years, and now he thinks he may just know where he can find it. If he can only convince his wife of his plan, he'll be set for life.

A collection of 10 short stories, available in audio format. This collection includes: "Big Mouth", "Born To Be Wild", "Chew You Up" and more....

A collection of five short stories.

Contains the following Cooper short stories: 361 - Nowhere to Turn. 362 - Not Our Family .363 - The Hollywood Assassin. 364 - Exit Stage Left. 365 - Poor Taste in Men. 366 - The Perfect Alibi. 367 - Who the Hell Are You. 368 - Pack Your Trunk. 369 - Act Your Age. 370 - At Last.