Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family. His mother, is distraught. His father, is rather hoping to get his wife back. His brother, is struggling in a relationship. & his sister, is wrestling with debt & the end of a turbulent love affair. This book talks about the Boyd family & the empty nest. ...

Thriller starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Sam Keenan, an official who's just been appointed as Second in Command to the U.S. Ambassador at an American Embassy in a small, turbulent Eastern European nation. When local insurgents attempt a coup d'etat, the nation's President takes refuge inside the embassy. The embassy is then besieged by the well-armed insurgents. The U.S. Ambassador is killed in the ensuing action, & now it's up to Sam & the embassy's small detachment of U.S. Marines to fend off the attackers. ...

Presents a collection of ideas in educational change. This book offers insights into educational change that have been brought about by social change & shifting contexts of educational reform. It is suitable for people involved in various spheres of education. ...

In the age of the global village & the World Wide Web, understanding the way in which people learn languages is of ever increasing importance. This book aims to make the essentials of this expanding area of study accessible to readers encountering it for the first time. ...

An examination of how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed presentation of what has become a popular approach to identity in the social sciences (including applied linguistics. It concludes with suggestions for future research focussing on identity in second language learning. ...