Education is changing through improved technology and the widening access to it. This is a discussion of this increased accessibility to the Internet and how this has lead to a variety of resources being used for learning. Resource-based learning is flexible and can be used locally or globally and is an integral part of education. Case studies and examples show the benefits of using the Internet as part of resource-based learning.

An agnostic scientist travels to a remote land to chase down rumors of a primitive tribe said to be wrapped in silence, silent even when they speak. How can this be? His pursuit for answers takes him up a dangerous river and ultimately to Lost Mountain. There he learns the awful secret that afflicts this tribe. When the explorer finds more than he is questing for, the story takes on far deeper significance. Setting science aside, he seeks a way to alleviate their plight. In the end, a series of mysterious events takes matters out of his hands, teaching him something far beyond the realm of...

Stories in this collection, such as HERE'S MASHED, A DIFFERENT KIND OF DAY, WITH ALL HIS HEART, along with a few others, all depict contemporary lives in conflicts of one kind or another, until something interesting happens to change things. The style is in the manner of modern minimalism, where character and behavior are depicted rather than described, more like a film or show than an account. Stories like I HEARD THEIR LAUGHTER and BRIAN'S LAW are quite different. These are longer treatments of rather inordinate lives. The first depicts the state of a math freak cooped up under the roof of...