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Crime Classification Manual
A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crime
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Praise for Crime Classification Manual
"The very first book by and for criminal justice professionals in the major case fields. . . . The skills, techniques, and proactive approaches offered are creatively concrete and worthy of replication across the country. . . . Heartily recommended for...
Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 2
Safety, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Summarises current research on pathogenic risks affecting milk and ways they can be controlled on the farm;
Reviews ways of measuring and reducing the environmental impact of dairy farming such as better grassland management;
Assesses the wider role of dairy farming and how it can be improved in the developing world
Power Electronics Handbook
Devices, Circuits and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications...
Career Diplomacy
Life and Work in the US Foreign Service, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Career Diplomacy is an insider's guide to the Foreign Service as an institution, a profession, and a career. In this thoroughly revised third edition, Kopp and Naland provide an up-to-date, authoritative, and candid account of the life and work of professional US diplomats, who advance and protect...
by Carolyn J. Downey, Dr. William K. Poston, Dr. Fenwick W. English
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Clear, updated guidelines for increasing academic performance and providing educational equity for all students!
This revised guide outlines 50 strategies for developing high-performing schools. Emphasizing educational parity for all students, the book is organized around six standards:
Teach...
Creepies: Twisted Tales From Beneath the Bed
Creepies, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
- A desperate father, on the run with his daughter reveals a terrifying truth about his child...
- Who is the bogeyman, really? Hear the real story – directly
from the monster himself...
- A tiny burger joint along a desert highway – it appears to be a refreshing oasis for a traveling family......
Gauss
A Biographical Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Procreare iucundum, sed parturire molestum. (Gauss, sec. Eisenstein) The plan of this book was first conceived eight years ago. The manuscript developed slowly through several versions until it attained its present form in 1979. It would be inappropriate to list the names of all the friends and advisors...
Taking Chances
The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...
Courting Justice
Ten New Jersey Cases That Shook the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Since 1947 a modernized New Jersey Supreme Court has played an important and controversial role in the state, nation, and world. Its decisions in cutting-edge cases have confronted society’s toughest issues, reflecting changing social attitudes, modern life’s complexities, and new technologies.
Paul...
Imaginarium 2012
The Best Canadian Speculative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Orphan children destroy their nasty superintendent and create a clockwork replacement; a professor publishes a list of known vampires, but doesn’t get it quite right; a military drone achieves sentience—and an unfortunate conscience; self-replicating humanoid robots fall in love with humans; an...
by Anika Arrington, Alyson Grauer, Aaron and Belinda Sikes
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Amid a cacophony of cranking sprockets and cogs, in chuffs of steam and soot, comes the expansion of classic literature into alternative Steampunk masterpieces. Follow nine skilled authors as they lead old friends and new acquaintances through Jamaica, Singapore, Cape Town, Denmark, Paris, London,...
Creepies 2: Things That go Bump in the Closet
Creepies, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
From the masters of horror at Writers, Poets and Deviants:
Prepare for terror…
- An exterminator meets his match in a family's attic…
- A cuddly toy with a disturbing origin is all the rage…
- A boy's survival of a deadly accident turns out to be more curse than miracle…
- A man...
In Search of Humanity
Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more...
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...