Full Count is about a man named Andrew Davidson who overcomes tragedy as he attempts to become a part of the Westmoreland Wildcats, his home Semi-Pro Baseball League team. Along with the help of his wife Cassidy and his son Henry, he doesn't think he will be where he is at right now.

After graduating from Oakstown High School, Trevor Van Pelt, along with his girlfriend Karen Dickson, and his friends John Crenshaw and Suzy Moore all go to the beach for beach week. Then all of a sudden, while at the beach, Trevor has a premonition of a tragic tsunami that washes away and kills everyone who was on that beach. Because of his premonition, he manages to save a bunch of people from their pending doom. Later on in the book, after the memorial, everyone that was in Trevor's premonition start to die off one by one in the order they would have died in his premonition. He tries to...

Domino Effect 3 Sink or Swim is a story about Kelly Alderson; the wife of Danny Alderson from Domino Effect 2 Grab Death by the Horns, and Kelly's son Brad Alderson. Kelly has a premonition of the Oakstown tunnel caving in as they were about to go in it. She then warns her son along with 10 other people about what will happen. One of those people include Joe Freeman; father of Bobby Freeman from Domino Effect 2. The pressure from Hurricane Irenabel, mixture of Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Isabel that both hit Richmond, Virginia, causes the tunnel to cave in, but all the people Kelly warns...

Domino Effect 4 Inferno is about an Oakstown Boy Scout Manager named Michael Heath and his son Vernon Heath going out into the forest in Oakstown Park for a hike in the woods with the other Oakstown Boy Scouts. Later on that day, Michael seems to become very weird and then panics telling everyone that there will be an inferno and they need to escape. Everyone was wondering what was wrong with him, but listened to him and they all escaped from the woods. Moments later, WOOSH, the forest went up in flames. Then, all of the boy scouts and leaders started to die off one by one in the order they...

Is Oakstown not safe anymore? That's what the Oakstown mayor thinks in Domino Effect 5 The Fallout of Oakstown. One night the Oakstown Hospital took care of many pregnant women while the mayor made an announcement on the TV that Oakstown isn't safe anymore and will be blown up and irradiated. Twenty-three years later, the mother who saw this main premonition, Maggie Ivey; her son Thomas Ivey is going on a trip to what once was Oakstown with seven of his friends. But instead of Maggie having these visions, it is her son who is having these visions. While these eight people go back to Oakstown...

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has transformed the traditional understanding of the relationship between higher education and society. This has important implications for the relations of state, as education has not only become an object of national development policy but for many states an important export. The history of the university reflects the decisive social...