Bøger af Matt King

"Welcome to the world, Initiate." The offer seemed simple enough: a fresh start to a disappointing life so long as she pledged to fight. Atalanta is all too eager to sign up for a spot in the military's newest elite branch, but she quickly finds out that the offer only applies if she can live through the trial. Thrust into a contest of bio-engineered warriors, Atalanta is given enhanced speed and strength to battle against her fellow military experiments. The competition soon becomes an unexpected exercise in survival on all fronts. Wildfires rage through the hills of Los Angeles, unhinged soldiers lurk in the shadows, and the most dangerous threat of all descends from above. Atalanta will have to decide whether winning means saving herself or the lives of everyone in the city, including those competing to kill her.

"Your journey will be seven years. Your destination is Earth." In the pristine society of Dromini, Kyla's genetic condition is considered a crime worthy of exile. She's banished to Earth, where she hopes to find the love and acceptance she craves. Kyla soon learns, however, that fear and ignorance are inescapable forces in the universe-and her problems don't end there. Earth's atmosphere has triggered a series of changes in her cells that give her abilities she can't control, abilities the military powers on Earth want to exploit.With the help of Emmy Saria, lead scientist for the PRISM project, Kyla learns to harness her new gifts. As Emmy struggles to convince her peers that Kyla isn't dangerous, Kyla is called upon to stop an arms race that threatens to engulf the world in war. She's forced to decide not only if she's capable of fighting the battle she's asked to fight, but whether she wants to go to war for a society who so desperately wants to treat her as an outsider.

As you amble through the forest in early spring, the mist still weighing down like a wet, cold blanket, the leaves crunching like bones underfoot, you realize that this place has known pain. All winter long, it has suffered the terrible paralysis of ice and snow, only recently freed from its crystalline prison. Not too much further from where you are is a clearing, and in that clearing is a mirror. Everyone sees something different in the mirror, for the mirror reflects the vision it captures with absolute precision. When you look in the mirror, what do you see? The Mirror is a compilation of short stories and poetry by author Matt King. This is his first published work, completed in August 2017.

We cannot personally control many of the factors that challenge our current system of education, but each of us controls his or her attitude towards these challenges. It is this individual mindset which determines the approach each of us will take when we encounter difficulties in the education process. Developing a mindset that encourages personal responsibility, fosters participation and eliminates denial will best serve the cause of raising student achievement in ways that are both meaningful and lasting. With that purpose in mind, this book seeks to make explicit the concepts of ownership, leadership and management within the context of public education. Understanding the nature of these roles can better motivate and guide all stakeholders as they work to improve the performance of our schools. In the critical enterprise of creating successful life-long learners, we must all own American public education.

Dynasties Intertwined traces the turbulent relationship between the Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In doing so, it reveals the complex web of economic, political, cultural, and military connections that linked the two dynasties to each other and to other polities across the medieval Mediterranean. Furthermore, despite the contemporary interfaith holy wars happening around the Zirids and Normans, their relationship was never governed by an overarching ideology like jihad or crusade. Instead, both dynasties pursued policies that they thought would expand their power and wealth, either through collaboration or conflict. The relationship between the Zirids and Normans ultimately came to a violent end in the 1140s, when a devastating drought crippled Ifriqiya. The Normans seized this opportunity to conquer lands across the Ifriqiyan coast, bringing an end to the Zirid dynasty and forming the Norman kingdom of Africa, which persisted until the Almohad conquest of Mahdia in 1160.Previous scholarship on medieval North Africa during the reign of the Zirids has depicted the region as one of instability and political anarchy that rendered local lords powerless in the face of foreign conquest. Matt King shows that, to the contrary, the Zirids and other local lords in Ifriqiya were integral parts of the far-reaching political and economic networks across the Mediterranean. Despite the eventual collapse of the Zirid dynasty at the hands of the Normans, Dynasties Intertwined makes clear that its emirs were active and consequential Mediterranean players for much of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, with political agency independent of their Christian neighbors across the Strait of Sicily.