The story of YOU The story of ME The story of HOKIES

Let me tell you about a time when we had to stay inside and wait--it's a story to which I think you will relate. This is a tale about a virus that changed everything we know. Not nice, virus! Will you please just go?

Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world. For Chanda, globalization is a process of ever-growing interconnectedness and interdependence that began thousands of years ago and continues to this day with increasing speed and ease. In the end, globalization—from the lone adventurer carving out a new trade route to the expanding ambitions of great empires—is the product of myriad aspirations and apprehensions that define just about every aspect of our lives: what we eat, wear, ride, or possess is the product of thousands of years of human endeavor and suffering across the globe. Chanda reviews and illustrates the economic and technological forces at play in globalization today and concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of how we can and should embrace an inevitably global world.

The Virginia Tech mascot meets various people on his way to a football game at Lane Stadium.

A kind, elderly piano teacher named Mr. Mergler takes a young music student under his wing and changes her life forever.

Cooper doesn't like to visit the Vet, but his appointment goes quite well with the help of some doggies treats. Then his quiet time at home turns into a bit of chaos as he will not listen to us, calm down or rest quietly.