Il lavoro di un giudice non ha mai fine. La battaglia di Galen's Vale si è conclusa, ma la guerra per il futuro dell'Impero è appena cominciata. Preoccupato dalle voci secondo cui l'autorità della magistratura si sta affievolendo, Sir Konrad Vonvalt torna a Sova e trova la capitale attanagliata da intrighi e sussurri di ribellione. In senato, i patrizi si esprimono apertamente contro l'imperatore, mentre i fanatici predicano la santa vendetta per le strade. Ma per affrontare queste minacce al trono bisognerà aspettare, perché il nipote dell'imperatore è stato rapito e Vonvalt ha il compito di salvarlo. La sua missione lo condurrà - insieme agli alleati Helena, Bressinger e Sir Radomir - alla frontiera meridionale, dove dovranno affrontare ancora una volta la furia puritana di Bartolomeo Claver e dei suoi cavalieri Templari, e un potere oscuro molto più terrificante di quanto potessero immaginare.

Come giudice dell'imperatore, sir Konrad Vonvalt ha sempre l'ultima parola. Il suo dovere è quello di attuare la legge dell'Impero utilizzando qualsiasi strumento a sua disposizione: la lama, gli arcani segreti tramandati da un giudice all'altro o il patrimonio di conoscenze sulla legislazione imperiale. Ma solitamente basta la sua reputazione di giudice temuto e rispettato per portare a termine qualsiasi incarico. Solo che, durante le indagini sull'omicidio di una nobildonna, la sua autorità viene messa in discussione come mai prima. A mano a mano che il caso si complica, Vonvalt inizia a dipanare una cospirazione che ha lo scopo di sopprimere l'autorità dei giudici una volta per tutte affinché il caos e l'anarchia dilaghino nell'Impero. "La giustizia dei re" è il primo volume di una trilogia fantasy epica nella tradizione di Robin Hobb, Anthony Ryan, George R.R. Martin e Patrick Rothfuss, che segue la storia di Konrad Vonvalt, giudice dell'imperatore, detective ma anche giustiziere, tramite gli occhi attenti della sua cancelliera Helena.

Insegnare agli adulti, si sa, è molto diverso da insegnare ai bambini. Le motivazioni, le aspettative, le esperienze e le strategie dell'adulto che impara non sono infatti quelle del bambino. Eppure, un attento esame delle teorie dell'apprendimento e l'analisi dei metodi di insegnamento generalmente adottati ci fa convenire, con Malcolm Knowles, che spesso si insegna agli adulti come se fossero bambini e senza tenere conto delle loro caratteristiche. Per migliorare il processo di apprendimento dell'adulto e renderlo più significativo ed efficace sono quindi necessari nuovi metodi di insegnamento, nuovi programmi, "nuovi" insegnanti e formatori che sappiano individuare e valutare le capacità e gli obiettivi dei discenti, sintonizzando su di essi il processo di insegnamento. Quando l'adulto impara offre gli strumenti teorici e operativi necessari. L'opera classica di Malcolm Knowles è stata infatti aggiornata da Elwood Holton e Richard Swanson - due autorità nel settore della formazione e dello sviluppo delle risorse umane - e si struttura ora in tre parti: la prima presenta le radici e i principi dell'andragogia; la seconda approfondisce le dinamiche dell'apprendimento in età adulta alla luce delle ricerche più recenti; la terza offre ai professionisti della formazione strumenti operativi quali il Questionario sull'orientamento personale verso l'apprendimento degli adulti e la Guida alla diagnosi e alla pianificazione delle competenze fondamentali.

How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes?

These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’ pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centred approach to learning have been hugely influential and are still the basis of the learning practices we use today. Understanding these principles is the cornerstone of increasing motivation and enabling adult learners to achieve.

The 8^th edition of The Adult Learner has been revised and updated. Holton and Swanson have enlivened the latest edition in terms of content and style. The new supporting website and added chapter level reflection questions make this latest edition more accessible than ever.

This new edition includes:

• Updates to the book to reflect the very latest advancements in the field.

• Addition of two new chapters: on related cutting edge realms, Neuroscience & Learning and Information Technology & Learning.

• Creation of a supporting website: This website for The Adult Learner 8^th Editionwill provide basic instructor aids. For each chapter there will be a PowerPoint presentation, learning exercises, and added study questions.

• Revisions throughout to make it more readable and relevant to your practices.

If you are a researcher, practitioner or student in education, an adult learning practitioner, training manager, or involved in human resource development, this is the definitive book in adult learning you should not be without.

Here, for the first time in decades, is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. In End of Days, James Swanson reveals Lee Harvey Oswald's bizarre history of violence and follows John and Jacqueline Kennedy on their fateful Dallas motorcade ride. Swanson takes us to the sixth-floor Texas Book Depository window to look through Oswald's rifle sights, re-creates the last hours of the doomed assassin, and the day of national mourning for the president that followed, culminating in a funeral that united the country. Combining extensive research with his unparalleled storytelling abilities, Swanson turns the events of one of the darkest days of the twentieth century into a pulse-pounding thriller that will remain the definitive account of the assassination for years to come.

In Open Heart, Open Mind, Tsoknyi Rinpoche—one of the most beloved of the contemporary generation of Tibetan Buddhist meditation masters—explains that a life free of fear, pain, insecurity, and doubt is not only possible, it's our birthright. We long for peace, for the ability to love and be loved openly and freely, and for the confidence and clarity to meet the various challenges we face in our daily lives.

Within each of us resides a spark of unparalleled brilliance, an unlimited capacity for warmth, openness, and courage, which Rinpoche identifies as “essence love.” Timeless and imperishable, essence love is often layered over by patterns of behavior and belief that urge us to seek happiness in conditions or situations that never quite live up to their promise.

Drawing on rarely discussed teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, Rinpoche describes how such patterns evolve and offers a series of meditation exercises to help us unravel them and, in the process, reawaken an energy and exuberance that can not only bring lasting fulfillment to our lives but ultimately serve to enliven and inspire the entire world, as well.

With great humor, intelligence, and candor, Tsoknyi Rinpoche also details his own struggles to reconnect with essence love. Identified at an early age as the incarnation of a renowned Tibetan master and subjected to a rigorous monastic training, he ultimately renounced his vows, married, and is now the father of two daughters.
As he recounts his own efforts to strike a balance between the promptings of his heart and an obligation to preserve and protect the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, Rinpoche provides a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern life, and encourages each of us to rediscover the openness, fearlessness, and love that is the essence of our own life.

When a monster scares everyone away from the set during a television shoot, the producer calls Mystery, Inc.; Velma introduces La Velue, a French monster; and the crew investigate reports of mokele-mbembe in the Congo.

On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time?the Yankees are coming, it warned. Shortly before midnight, Davis fled the capital, setting off an intense and thrilling chase in which Union cavalry hunted the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. To the Union, Davis was no longer merely a traitor. He became a murderer, a wanted man with a one-hundred-thousand-dollar bounty on his head. Davis was hunted down and placed in captivity, the beginning of an intense and dramatic odyssey that would transform him into a martyr of the South?s Lost Cause. Meanwhile, Lincoln?s final journey began when soldiers placed his corpse aboard a special train that would carry the fallen president through the largest and most magnificent funeral pageant in American history.

The saga that began with Manhunt continues with the suspenseful and electrifying Bloody Crimes. James Swanson masterfully weaves together the stories of two fallen leaders as they made their last expeditions through the bloody landscape of a wounded nation.

Recent advances in the treatment of gynecologic malignancies led to a new worldwide consensus to introduce image guidance to gynecologic radiation therapy, particularly to brachytherapy. The book summarizes the changed practice of management: treatment planning for cervical cancer, not modified for over 60 years, has been shifted to an image-based approach, endometrial cancer management with an increase in the use of chemotherapy and vaginal brachytherapy, and vaginal cancer therapy including image guidance and high-dose delivery with IMRT.

For students, researchers, and practitioners, Swanson (human resource development, U. of Texas at Tyler) and Holton (human resource and leadership development, Louisiana State U.) provide a textbook on human resource development (HRD) that focuses on the fundamentals and foundations of practice that does not focus on best practices. Instead, it addresses models, processes, history, theoretical and philosophical foundations, learning and performance paradigms and models, the role of HRD in high-level organizational and systems-level issues, and training and development and organization development. This edition has been revised, updated, and expanded to include new chapters on component HRD theories, policy and planning, technology, and globalization. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history -- the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry troops on a wild, twelve-day chase from the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.

At the very center of this story is John Wilkes Booth, Americas notorious villain. A confederate sympathizer and member of a celebrated acting family, Booth threw away his fame, wealth, and promise for a chance to avenge the Souths defeat. For almost two weeks, he confounded the manhunters, slipping away from their every move and denying the justice they sought.

Manhunt is a fully documented work, but it is also a fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters, this is history as youve never read it before.