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The beginning of his senior year at Silver Leaf University starts off happily; one year from completing his degree and even less time before he returns to the world of his heart, the family farm in Korea. Seonghun's attention has faltered again. This time it isn't his case of incurable homesickness returning; no, his attention is captured by his new quiet, elusive roommate.Maliah is a revelation to his world. She's the opposite of him in almost every way; petite, driven, and most surprisingly of all - she's black.Smart, focused, and talented, there is more to this young woman than meets the eye and he wants to know it all. Will she trust him enough to let him in? What changes in his life will she bring? How can he fit into her life? How can she fit into his?They come from two different worlds but will they connect for longer than the Fall semester?

A geology professor takes his top students to explore a depleted oil reservoir with the goal of retrieving rock samples. What they find instead leads the researchers to a shocking revelation about their own minds and bodies, and about life on Earth and elsewhere.The team develops a submarine to enter the oil mine and finds, buried in stone that is millions of years old, evidence of an advanced civilization with technology far beyond today's science.Their discovery of strange manmade crystals leads them onto a path of discovery into humanity's lost history and the true nature of mankind.

"This book offers a much-needed appraisal of two key social change movements within higher education: civic engagement and social innovation. The authors critically explore the historical and contemporary contexts as well as democratic foundations (or absence thereof) of both approaches, concluding with a discussion of possible future directions that may make the approaches more effective in fulfilling the broader democratic mission of U.S. higher education. This is an essential resource for those in higher education who wish to promote and advance social change, as it provides an opportunity to critically examine where we are with our civic engagement and social innovation approaches and what we might do to best realize their promise through changes in our educational processes, pedagogical strategies, evaluation metrics, and outcomes"--