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High Speed Silence

By: Alex Wade

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Being a cop isn't easy. Just ask motorcycle patrolman Adam King, who has just been suspended following a shooting incident. Worse yet, he is unable to assist in the investigation into the stabbing of his childhood pal. Luckily, his brethren in the department have got his back. Is it fate, or divine intervention that sees him through the ordeal? "Knifing through the gridlock at high speed,silently pushing his way past pedestrians, a motorcycle patrolman weaves his way to the scene. In one fluid motion he dismounts his bike ans sprints toward the center of the action..." "What's that saying about keeping your friends close..."Mundy says with a twinkle in his eye. "...and your enemies even closer?" "The others form a circle around Johnny, as the doctors unplug him from life support. "Lord," the priest begins Last Rites. "We deliver unto You...Your faithful servant..." HIGH SPEED SILENCE grips the reader tightly from the word GO, and never lets go.

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Enter the Superheroes

American Values, Culture, and the Canon of Superhero Literature

By: Alex S. Romagnoli,Gian S. Pagnucci

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Enter the Superheroes

American Values, Culture, and the Canon of Superhero Literature

By: Alex S. Romagnoli,Gian S. Pagnucci

Ever since the first appearances of Superman and Batman in comic books of the late 1930s, superheroes have been a staple of the popular culture landscape. Though initially created for younger audiences, superhero characters have evolved over the years, becoming complex figures that appeal to more sophisticated readers. While superhero stories have grown ever more popular within broader society, however, comics and graphic novels have been largely ignored by the world of academia. In Enter the Superheroes:American Values, Culture, and the Canon of Superhero Literature, Alex S. Romagnoli and Gian S. Pagnucci arguethat superheroes merit serious study, both within the academy and beyond. By examining the kinds of graphic novels that are embraced by the academy, this book explains how superhero stories are just as significant. Structured around key themes within superhero literature, the book delves into the features that make superhero stories a unique genre. The book also draws upon examples in comics and other media to illustrate the sociohistorical importance of superheroes—from the interplay of fans and creators to unique narrative elements that are brought to their richest fulfillment within the world of superheroes. A list of noteworthy superhero texts that readers can look to for future study is also provided. In addition to exploring the important roles that superheroes play in children’s learning, the book also offers an excellent starting point for discussions of how literature is evolving and why it is necessary to expand the traditional realms of literary study. Enter the Superheroes will be of particular interest to English and composition teachers but also to scholars of popular culture and fans of superhero and comic book literature.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810891727

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Evolution and Human Behaviour

An Introduction to Darwinian Anthropology

By: Alex Alland

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Evolution and Human Behaviour

An Introduction to Darwinian Anthropology

By: Alex Alland

Originally published in 1967. This reprints the second edition of 1973, revised and expanded. Evolution and Human Behaviour considers man’s biological and cultural development within the framework of Darwinian evolution. Rejecting analogue models of biological evolution common in the social sciences, the author shows how the theory of biological evolution applies to the study of contemporary human behaviour.

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The Bedford Boys

One American Town's Ultimate D-day Sacrifice

By: Alex Kershaw

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The Bedford Boys

One American Town's Ultimate D-day Sacrifice

By: Alex Kershaw

The poignant story of twenty-one boys who died on the beaches of Normandy and the small town they called home

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The Ethnographer's Method

By: Alex Stewart

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The Ethnographer's Method

By: Alex Stewart

Helping ethnographers devise a clearly articulated explanation of their methods, this book argues that norms about discussing methods in ethnographies are underdeveloped. The book considers what ought to be normative in methods discussions within ethnography - from the research design to the end product.

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The Politics Of Resource Allocation In The U.s. Department Of Defense

International Crises And Domestic Constraints

By: Alex Mintz

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The Politics Of Resource Allocation In The U.s. Department Of Defense

International Crises And Domestic Constraints

By: Alex Mintz

This book presents an overview of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) resource allocation issue, considering the period from 1948 to 1980. It describes the major characteristics of the DoD resource allocation process and discusses the potential impact of various shocks on the allocation system.

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Magnetic Domains

The Analysis of Magnetic Microstructures

By: Alex Hubert,Rudolf Schäfer

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Magnetic Domains

The Analysis of Magnetic Microstructures

By: Alex Hubert,Rudolf Schäfer

This book offers systematic and up-to-date treatment of the whole area of magnetic domains. It contains many contributions that have not been published before. The comprehensive survey of this important area gives a good introduction to students and is also interesting to researchers.

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Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #3

By: Piers Anthony,Alvaro Zinos-Amaro,Anna Yeatts,James Beamon,Alex Shvartsman

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Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #3

By: Piers Anthony,Alvaro Zinos-Amaro,Anna Yeatts,James Beamon,Alex Shvartsman

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #3 includes 13 short stories: "Descant" — Piers Anthony "The Peacemaker" — Rachel A. Brune "My Favorite Photos of Anne" — Aaron Polson "Verisimilitude" — Alan Murdock "Orc Legal" — James Beamon "Kindle My Heart" — Rebecca Birch "Burn in Me" — Carrie Martin "The Memory-Setter's Apprentice" — Alvaro Zinos-Amaro "Hither and Yon" — Anatoly Belilovsky "The Contents of the Box with the Ribbon" — David Neilsen "The First First Fire" — Alexander Monteagudo "Missing Tessa" — Anna Yeatts "The Perfect Book" — Alex Shvartsman In the non-fiction section, this issue features: -Interview With Author Piers Anthony -Interview With Author and Publisher Anna Yeatts -Interview With Editor Scott H. Andrews -Artist Spotlight: Suebsin Pulsiri -Book Review: Upgraded (edited by Neil Clarke) -Movie Review: The House That Dripped Blood (1971) (Peter Duffell) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

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The Last Soul of Witherspoon

Life in a Kentucky Mountain Settlement School

By: Alex Browning

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The Last Soul of Witherspoon

Life in a Kentucky Mountain Settlement School

By: Alex Browning

THE LAST SOUL OF WITHERSPOON takes a global approach in its history of the school. Readers will find this book to be autobiographical as well as a social history told on three levels. Herein is a story of a person from Long Shoal in Lee County, Kentucky, whose childhood innocence collides head-on with adolescence while a student in the mountain settlement school of Witherspoon. Readers will find at the end of the story a battle-scarred but still standing youth, heading off to the next stage in his life, having gained much in the way of character development, one who gave as much as he got. The second level of the story traces four generations of families from the Civil War to the 1950s, including their pedigrees, feuds, and religion. Also included is a history of Witherspoon College itself, with an emphasis on benefactors from Brooklyn, New York. The story here provides a personal contrast of old-time religion versus what one writer has termed denominational imperialism. Religion is referenced a great deal, but this is not a religious book.

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Cultural Evolution

How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences

By: Alex Mesoudi

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Cultural Evolution

How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences

By: Alex Mesoudi

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture. Covering a wide range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, Alex Mesoudi shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. This cross-disciplinary volume focuses on the ways cultural phenomena can be studied scientifically—from theoretical modeling to lab experiments, archaeological fieldwork to ethnographic studies—and shows how apparently disparate methods can complement one another to the mutual benefit of the various social science disciplines. Along the way, the book reveals how new insights arise from looking at culture from an evolutionary angle. Cultural Evolution provides a thought-provoking argument that Darwinian evolutionary theory can both unify different branches of inquiry and enhance understanding of human behavior.

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Young Chinese in Urban China

By: Alex Cockain

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Young Chinese in Urban China

By: Alex Cockain

This book examines the condition of being a young person in China and the way in which changes in various dimensions of urban life have affected Chinese youths' quests to understand themselves. The author examines social factors such as changes in the physical construction of urban neighbourhoods; changes in family life including reduced family size, increasing rates of divorce and increased physical mobility of the family unit; school life and mounting pressure to perform well in examinations and be a good student; access to foreign and domestic media as well as access to the internet. Drawing on the fields of social and cultural anthropology, Alex Cockain shows that the process of self understanding in a changing spatial, social and cultural world involves ongoing disjointed efforts to achieve a sense of security and belonging on the one hand and a degree of increased autonomy in their relationships with, for example, parents and teachers on the other. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Chinese Society, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Asian Anthropology and Youth Studies.

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The Darkest Secret

A Novel

By: Alex Marwood

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The Darkest Secret

A Novel

By: Alex Marwood

“If there has been a better mystery-suspense story written in this decade, I can’t think of it . . . transcend[s] the genre.” —Stephen King “A cruel and cunning mystery . . . Plot-twisting, mind-altering and monstrously funny.” —The New York Times Book Review The latest gripping psychological thriller from Edgar Award winner Alex Marwood When a child goes missing at an opulent house party, it makes international news. But what really happened behind those closed doors? Twelve years ago, Mila Jackson’s three-year-old half-sister Coco disappeared during their father’s fiftieth birthday celebration, leaving behind her identical twin Ruby as the only witness. The girls’ father, Sean, was wealthy and influential, as were the friends gathered at their seaside vacation home for the weekend’s debauchery. The case ignited a media frenzy and forever changed the lives of everyone involved. Now, Sean Jackson is dead, and the people who were present that terrible night must gather once more for a funeral that will reveal that the secrets of the past can never stay hidden. Perfectly paced all the way through its devastating conclusion, The Darkest Secret is one that fans of Gillian Flynn and Liane Moriarty won’t be able to put down.

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1101992689

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Optimal Control of Energy Resources for State Estimation Over Wireless Channels

By: Alex S. Leong,Daniel E. Quevedo,Subhrakanti Dey

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Optimal Control of Energy Resources for State Estimation Over Wireless Channels

By: Alex S. Leong,Daniel E. Quevedo,Subhrakanti Dey

This brief introduces wireless communications ideas and techniques into the study of networked control systems. It focuses on state estimation problems in which sensor measurements (or related quantities) are transmitted over wireless links to a central observer. Wireless communications techniques are used for energy resource management in order to improve the performance of the estimator when transmission occurs over packet dropping links, taking energy use into account explicitly in Kalman filtering and control. The brief allows a reduction in the conservatism of control designs by taking advantage of the assumed. The brief shows how energy-harvesting-based rechargeable batteries or storage devices can offer significant advantages in the deployment of large-scale wireless sensor and actuator networks by avoiding the cost-prohibitive task of battery replacement and allowing self-sustaining sensor to be operation. In contrast with research on energy harvesting largely focused on resource allocation for wireless communication systems design, this brief optimizes estimation objectives such as minimizing the expected estimation error covariance. The resulting power control problems are often stochastic control problems which take into account both system and channel dynamics. The authors show how to pose and solve such design problems using dynamic programming techniques. Researchers and graduate students studying networked control systems will find this brief a helpful source of new ideas and research approaches.

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Explorer's Guide Galveston, South Padre Island & the Texas Gulf Coast: A Great Destination

By: Alex Wukman

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Explorer's Guide Galveston, South Padre Island & the Texas Gulf Coast: A Great Destination

By: Alex Wukman

Consistently rated the best guides to the regions covered...Readable, tasteful, appealingly designed. Strong on dining, lodging, culture, and history."—National Geographic Traveler. Distinctive for their accuracy, simplicity, and conversational tone, the diverse travel guides in our Explorer's Great Destinations series meet the conflicting demands of the modern traveler. They're packed full of up-to-date information to help plan the perfect getaway. And they're compact and light enough to come along for the ride. A tool you'll turn to before, during, and after your trip, these guides include: Chapters on lodging, dining, transportation, history, shopping, recreation, and more! A section packed with practical information, such as lists of banks, hospitals, post offices, laundry mats, numbers for police, fire, and rescue, and other relevant information. Maps of regions and locales. From the sea border with Mexico to the Louisiana shore, the coast of Texas is rich in history, recreation, and natural and architectural beauty and is a major destination for both Texans and non-Texans alike.

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The Countryman Press

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1581579861

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The Splendor, Wonder, Vision and Courage of America

A Promising Future

By: Dr. Alex Huxley Westfried

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The Splendor, Wonder, Vision and Courage of America

A Promising Future

By: Dr. Alex Huxley Westfried

The purpose for writing this book is that America's role on a global scale since 2009 is being made more difficult by major changes on the global scene. However, the United States will continue to be the leading power for the next decade. China, the Middle East, Pakistan, Iran and the Al-Quida are major challenges to the America's economic and moral supremacy. Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, has created major reforms in our economy to stabilize the US and avoid a depression. He has poured 1.6 trillion dollars in the American economy plus 1.7 trillion dollars in unconventional loans in 2009, reduced the interest rate to practically zero, started seven Blue Sky Lending Programs, negotiated conditions with the major international leaders in Europe that will help to recover the American economy through a major recession and invested 700 billion dollars to help Wall Street recover from a major disaster.

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Man of Steele

By: Alex P. Berg

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Man of Steele

By: Alex P. Berg

Detective Daggers hates pomp and circumstance, so imagine his surprise when a fancy evening out turns into the perfect night on the town—at least until a pair of assassins toss him out the window of his third story apartment. The scrapes and bruises he hobbles away with are bad enough, but Daggers checks into a brand new hell when the gang responsible goes after Steele. With his friends in jeopardy, old foes thirsting for his blood, and the city on the brink of chaos, Daggers faces a brutal choice. Either succumb to his fears, or harden himself against them. To save the ones he loves, he’ll have to become a MAN OF STEELE. Don’t miss this thrilling conclusion to the Daggers and Steele series!

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1942274289

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Professional Wrestling and the Law

Legal Battles from the Ring to the Courtroom

By: Alex B. Long

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Professional Wrestling and the Law

Legal Battles from the Ring to the Courtroom

By: Alex B. Long

Written by a law professor (who also happens to be a wrestling fan), this book is an entertaining and informative exploration of legal cases involving professional wrestling. Relying upon judicial decisions and court documents, it discusses the legal theories and procedures involved in legal disputes involving professional wrestling and explores how the legal system--an institution devoted to arriving at the truth involved in any conflict--has dealt with the business of professional wrestling, a business with a long history of obscuring the truth. Topics include: the legal issues involved when a wrestler goes into the crowd and beats up a fan; Hulk Hogan's defamation lawsuit against World Championship Wrestling for statements made during a live pay-per-view event; and race and sex discrimination in professional wrestling.

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1476652007

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After the Media

Culture and Identity in the 21st Century

By: Peter Bennett,Alex Kendall,Julian McDougall

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After the Media

Culture and Identity in the 21st Century

By: Peter Bennett,Alex Kendall,Julian McDougall

This provocative text considers the state of media and cultural studies today after the demolition of the traditional media paradigm, and engages with the new, active consumer culture. Media Studies, particularly within schools, has until recently been concerned with mass media and the effects of ‘the media’ in society and on people. As new media technology has blurred the boundaries between the audience and the media, the status of this area of education is threatened. Whilst some have called for a drastic re-think (Media Studies 2.0), others have called for caution, arguing that the power dynamics of ownership and gatekeeping are left intact. This book uses cultural and technological change as a context for a more forensic exploration of the traditional dependence on the idea of ‘the media’ as one homogenous unit. It suggests that it would be liberating for students, teachers and academics to depart from such a model and shift the focus to people and how they create culture in this contemporary ‘mediascape’.

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The Beach

By: Alex Garland

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The Beach

By: Alex Garland

The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Khao San Road, Bangkok -- first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach." The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years. There, it is rumored, a carefully selected international few have settled in a communal Eden. Haunted by the figure of Mr. Duck -- the name by which the Thai police have identified the dead man -- and his own obsession with Vietnam movies, Richard sets off with a young French couple to an island hidden away in an archipelago forbidden to tourists. They discover the Beach, and it is as beautiful and idyllic as it is reputed to be. Yet over time it becomes clear that Beach culture, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even deadly, undercurrents. Spellbinding and hallucinogenic, The Beach by Alex Garland -- both a national bestseller and his debut -- is a highly accomplished and suspenseful novel that fixates on a generation in their twenties, who, burdened with the legacy of the preceding generation and saturated by popular culture, long for an unruined landscape, but find it difficult to experience the world firsthand.

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How to Justify Torture

Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario

By: Alex Adams

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How to Justify Torture

Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario

By: Alex Adams

From Batman Begins to Tom Clancy, How to Justify Torture shows how contemporary culture creates simplified narratives about good guy torturers and bad guy victims, how dangerous this is politically, and what we can do to challenge it. If there was a bomb hidden somewhere in a major city, and you had the person responsible in your custody, would you torture them to get the information needed to stop the bomb exploding, preventing a devastating terrorist attack and saving thousands of lives? This is the ticking bomb scenario -- a thought experiment designed to demonstrate that torture can be justified. In How to Justify Torture, cultural critic Alex Adams examines the ticking bomb scenario in-depth, looking at the ways it is presented in films, novels, and TV shows -- from Batman Begins and Dirty Harry to French military thrillers and home invasion narratives. By critiquing its argument step by step, this short, provocative book reminds us that, despite what the ticking bomb scenario will have us believe, torture can never be justified.

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Watkins Media Limited

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Sociologies of Food and Nutrition

By: Wm. Alex McIntosh

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Sociologies of Food and Nutrition

By: Wm. Alex McIntosh

Here, Wm. Alex McIntosh analyzes the relationship between food and nutrition and social factors, using a wide array of sociological theories. The author applies theories of social organization, culture, social stratification, social change, rural sociology, the sociology of the body, and social problems to empirical problems in food and nutrition. By doing so, he sheds light on issues such as the rise of the state; population growth; famine; obesity; eating disorders; the maldistribution of food across class, gender, and ethnic boundaries; and the changing nature of the food industry.

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Bayesian Networks for Probabilistic Inference and Decision Analysis in Forensic Science

By: Franco Taroni,Alex Biedermann,Silvia Bozza,Paolo Garbolino,Colin Aitken

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Bayesian Networks for Probabilistic Inference and Decision Analysis in Forensic Science

By: Franco Taroni,Alex Biedermann,Silvia Bozza,Paolo Garbolino,Colin Aitken

Bayesian Networks “This book should have a place on the bookshelf of every forensic scientist who cares about the science of evidence interpretation.” Dr. Ian Evett, Principal Forensic Services Ltd, London, UK Bayesian Networks for Probabilistic Inference and Decision Analysis in Forensic Science Second Edition Continuing developments in science and technology mean that the amounts of information forensic scientists are able to provide for criminal investigations is ever increasing. The commensurate increase in complexity creates diffculties for scientists and lawyers with regard to evaluation and interpretation, notably with respect to issues of inference and decision. Probability theory, implemented through graphical methods, and specifically Bayesian networks, provides powerful methods to deal with this complexity. Extensions of these methods to elements of decision theory provide further support and assistance to the judicial system. Bayesian Networks for Probabilistic Inference and Decision Analysis in Forensic Science provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the use of Bayesian decision networks for the evaluation and interpretation of scientific findings in forensic science, and for the support of decision-makers in their scientific and legal tasks. Includes self-contained introductions to probability and decision theory. Develops the characteristics of Bayesian networks, object-oriented Bayesian networks and their extension to decision models. Features implementation of the methodology with reference to commercial and academically available software. Presents standard networks and their extensions that can be easily implemented and that can assist in the reader’s own analysis of real cases. Provides a technique for structuring problems and organizing data based on methods and principles of scientific reasoning. Contains a method for the construction of coherent and defensible arguments for the analysis and evaluation of scientific findings and for decisions based on them. Is written in a lucid style, suitable for forensic scientists and lawyers with minimal mathematical background. Includes a foreword by Ian Evett. The clear and accessible style of this second edition makes this book ideal for all forensic scientists, applied statisticians and graduate students wishing to evaluate forensic findings from the perspective of probability and decision analysis. It will also appeal to lawyers and other scientists and professionals interested in the evaluation and interpretation of forensic findings, including decision making based on scientific information.

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0470979739

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Federal Appellate Procedure Manual

By: Alex Kozinski,John K. Rabiej

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Federal Appellate Procedure Manual

By: Alex Kozinski,John K. Rabiej

During the past quarter century, most of the individual rules of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (FRAP) have been amended to account for new laws, case-law development, practices, and technology. New provisions and rules were also added addressing privacy concerns arising from electronic case filings made publicly available on the internet, citation of unpublished court opinions, electronic means of service, filing of cross-appeals, computation of time periods, entry of judgment, and corporate disclosure requirements. The Federal Appellate Procedure Manual offers a convenient, up-to-date reference source for both new and experienced practitioners that provides unique insights into FRAP and appellate practice from authors who shared first-hand experience in the rulemaking process. The Manual begins with several sections on the jurisdiction of courts of appeals; focusing on the final-decision doctrine. The remaining sections concentrate on FRAP rules that deal with civil cases, excluding for the most part consideration of habeas corpus, administrative agency decisions, Tax Court rulings, and criminal cases. The Manual highlights key passages in the FRAP Committee Notes most pertinent to understanding the rules. The copious citations to very recent case law throughout the Manual account for the many amendments and new FRAP rules and evolving case-law jurisprudence.

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1578233453

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Hate Speech Law

A Philosophical Examination

By: Alex Brown

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Hate Speech Law

A Philosophical Examination

By: Alex Brown

Hate speech law can be found throughout the world. But it is also the subject of numerous principled arguments, both for and against. These principles invoke a host of morally relevant features (e.g., liberty, health, autonomy, security, non-subordination, the absence of oppression, human dignity, the discovery of truth, the acquisition of knowledge, self-realization, human excellence, civic dignity, cultural diversity and choice, recognition of cultural identity, intercultural dialogue, participation in democratic self-government, being subject only to legitimate rule) and practical considerations (e.g., efficacy, the least restrictive alternative, chilling effects). The book develops and then critically examines these various principled arguments. It also attempts to de-homogenize hate speech law into different clusters of laws/regulations/codes that constrain uses of hate speech, so as to facilitate a more nuanced examination of the principled arguments. Finally, it argues that it is morally fitting for judicial and legislative judgments about the overall warrant of hate speech law to reflect principled compromise. Principled compromise is characterized not merely by compromise over matters of principled concern but also by compromise which is itself governed by ideals of moral duty or civic virtue (e.g., reciprocity, equality, and mutual respect). The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315714899, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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1317502361

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The Making of Modern Romanian Culture

Literacy and the Development of National Identity

By: Alex Drace-Francis

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The Making of Modern Romanian Culture

Literacy and the Development of National Identity

By: Alex Drace-Francis

How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? This well-researched and readable book explores the rise of Romanian-language literary, educational and printing institutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, bringing out a story that has not been fully explored in English. In twenty concise yet scholarly chapters, Alex Drace-Francis builds on and engages with current knowledge about print culture, modernization, national identity and state formation, to make an original contribution to ongoing debates in these areas.

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0857714570

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Handbook of Social Work Practice with Vulnerable and Resilient Populations

By: Alex Gitterman

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Handbook of Social Work Practice with Vulnerable and Resilient Populations

By: Alex Gitterman

Role in forming balanced assessments.

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Columbia University Press

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023111396X

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Oliver

The True Story of a Stolen Dog and the Humans He Brought Together

By: Steven J. Carino,Alex Tresniowski

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Oliver

The True Story of a Stolen Dog and the Humans He Brought Together

By: Steven J. Carino,Alex Tresniowski

He Was Searching for a Lost Dog. He Found More Than He’d Ever Hoped For. On Valentine’s Day 2019, someone stole Steven Carino’s dog, Oliver, from his car. Having lost his mother at thirteen and grown up with an alcoholic father, he could always count on his dogs for comfort and company. But now, with his beloved Oliver missing, Steven felt utterly alone. Then, the miracle. In a series of near-impossible coincidences, people from different walks of life crossed paths with Oliver and with Steven. Hardworking immigrants, wealthy suburbanites, car mechanics, deli workers, old friends, close relatives, street cops, gang members, a TV news reporter, social media followers around the world, and one very gifted hairdresser all played a part in Steven’s desperate journey to find Oliver. In the middle of it all, Steven realized that no one is ever truly alone--and that the power of community can be life-changing. Oliver is not just a book about a stolen dog. At its core, it’s a story about kindness, friendship, and the power of faith. As Steven says, “This is more than just a dog story. This is an everybody story. This is a love story.”

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Thomas Nelson

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140022327X

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The Way of the Ship

America's Maritime History Reenvisoned, 1600-2000

By: Alex Roland,W. Jeffrey Bolster,Alexander Keyssar

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The Way of the Ship

America's Maritime History Reenvisoned, 1600-2000

By: Alex Roland,W. Jeffrey Bolster,Alexander Keyssar

The Way of the Ship offers a global perspective and considers both oceanic shipping and domestics shipping along America's coasts and inland waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of the ship. The result is an eye-opening, authoritative look at American maritime history and the ways it helped shape the nation's history."--BOOK JACKET.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470136006

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Spider-Man: Stories from the Spider-Verse

By: Alex Segura,Preeti Chhibber,Frederick Joseph,Ronald L. Smith,Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé,Steve Foxe,David Betancourt,Tui T. Sutherland,Jessica Kim,Caroline M. Yoachim

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Spider-Man: Stories from the Spider-Verse

By: Alex Segura,Preeti Chhibber,Frederick Joseph,Ronald L. Smith,Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé,Steve Foxe,David Betancourt,Tui T. Sutherland,Jessica Kim,Caroline M. Yoachim

The Spider-Man you know is one of many. Meet ten Spider-Heroes in this new short story collection from acclaimed, best-selling authors writing across the Spider-Verse. There is a Spider-Verse filled with Spider-Heroes, each on their own world: Spider-Punk, as adept at the guitar as he is at fighting crime. Spider-UK, who’s juggling Eid celebrations and a super-villain threat to her London neighborhood. And Web-Weaver, whose latest fashion event is threatened by a citywide storm of hallucinations. Some, like Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy, have already crossed from one universe to the next. Others are still discovering they’re not alone. And now ten acclaimed best-selling authors, including New York Times bestselling authors Tui Sutherland, Frederick Joseph, and Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, and many more, tell the stories of these amazing Spider-Heroes—just as a mystery villain rises to threaten the entire Spider-Verse. The full list of authors: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé David Betancourt Preeti Chhibber Steve Foxe Frederick Joseph Jessica Kim Alex Segura Ronald L. Smith Tui T. Sutherland Caroline M. Yoachim

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Disney Electronic Content

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1368106986

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Time-Resolved Photoionisation Studies of Polyatomic Molecules

Exploring the Concept of Dynamophores

By: Martin Alex Bjørnholst

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Time-Resolved Photoionisation Studies of Polyatomic Molecules

Exploring the Concept of Dynamophores

By: Martin Alex Bjørnholst

This book explores how structure impacts the dynamics of organic molecules in an extensive and impressive range of femtosecond time-resolved experiments that are combined with state-of-the-art theoretical approaches. It explores an area of molecular dynamics that remains largely uncharted and provides an extraordinary overview, along with novel insights into the concept of the dynamophore – the functional group of ultrafast science. Divided into four parts, this book outlines both experimental and computational studies on the VUV photoinduced dynamics of four cyclic ketones and one linear ketone, the ring-opening and dissociative dynamics of cyclopropane, and the potential ultrafast intersystem crossing in three methylated benzene derivatives. Model systems for the disulfide bond and the peptide bond, both of which are related to the structure of proteins, are also investigated. This highly informative and carefully presented book offers a wealth of scientific insights for all scholars with an interest in molecular dynamics.

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Springer Nature

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3030536297

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In and Around the Arena

The 100-Year History of the Fortuna Rodeo

By: Susan J.P. O’Hara,Alex Service

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In and Around the Arena

The 100-Year History of the Fortuna Rodeo

By: Susan J.P. O’Hara,Alex Service

Explore the history of the Fortuna Rodeo from its origins in 1921 up to the present day with this intriguing history packed with photographs and lore of Humboldt County, California. The rodeo continues as a mainstay of Fortuna, with the 2020 event being the first to be canceled since the end of World War II. In addition to the rodeo itself, this book paints a portrait of the history and growth of a small California town over the past century. Hundreds of photographs from the collections of community members, local museums, universities, and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum illustrate the text. Among the many never-before-published images is a photograph from the collection of the Rodoni family showing the 1961 Fortuna Rodeo’s salute to “old cowboys” who had ridden in the rodeos of the 1920s. The book also features images created by Fortuna photographer Rudy Gillard, a rodeo board member and official photographer of the Fortuna Rodeo, between 1955 and 1981. Dedicated to the Fortuna Rodeo board and to all who have participated in the Fortuna Rodeo, you’ll find In and Around the Arena a fascinating read.

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Archway Publishing

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1665708425

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A Practice of Anthropology

The Thought and Influence of Marshall Sahlins

By: Alex Golub,Daniel Rosenblatt,John D. Kelly

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A Practice of Anthropology

The Thought and Influence of Marshall Sahlins

By: Alex Golub,Daniel Rosenblatt,John D. Kelly

Marshall Sahlins (b. 1930) is an American anthropologist who played a major role in the development of anthropological theory in the second half of the twentieth century. Over a sixty-year career, he and his colleagues synthesized trends in evolutionary, Marxist, and ecological anthropology, moving them into mainstream thought. Sahlins is considered a critic of reductive theories of human nature, an exponent of culture as a key concept in anthropology, and a politically engaged intellectual opposed to militarism and imperialism. This collection brings together some of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists to explore and advance Sahlins’s legacy. All of the essays are based on original research, most dealing with cultural change - a major theme of Sahlins’s research, especially in the contexts of Fijian and Hawaiian societies. Like Sahlins’s practice of anthropology, these essays display a rigorous, humanistic study of cultural forms, refusing to accept comfort over accuracy, not shirking from the moral implications of their analyses. Contributors include the late Greg Dening, one of the most eminent historians of the Pacific, Martha Kaplan, Patrick Kirch, Webb Keane, Jonathan Friedman, and Joel Robbins, with a preface by the late Claude Levi-Strauss. A unique volume that will complement the many books and articles by Sahlins himself, A Practice of Anthropology is an exciting new addition to the history of anthropological study.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773598634

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Flight Of The Mew Gull

Record-breaking flying in the 1930s

By: Alex Henshaw

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Flight Of The Mew Gull

Record-breaking flying in the 1930s

By: Alex Henshaw

Alex Henshaw had the luck to grow up in the '20s and '30s during the golden age of flying. The Blue Riband of flying in the British Isles between the two World Wars was the King's Cup: Henshaw set his heart on it, developing a technique of racing which extracted the very maximum from his aircraft: first the Comper Swift and then the DH Leopard Moth. Parallel with his search for speed was an obsession with making accurate landfalls, and he developed this blind-flying taken deliberately in a flying partnership with his father on many carefully planned long-distance survey flights. His exciting apprenticeship in these two skills was crowned by the acquisition of the Percival Mew Gull G-AEXF in 1937. His amazing solo flight to Cape Town and back in February 1939 established several solo records that still stand today, almost 60 years later. This feat of navigation and airmanship must surely be one of man's greatest flights - 12,754 miles over desert, sea and jungle in a single-engined light aircraft.

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Crowood

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1847974082

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The SOULS of Black Faculty and Staff in the American Academy

Principles for Transformation and Retention

By: Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh

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The SOULS of Black Faculty and Staff in the American Academy

Principles for Transformation and Retention

By: Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh

This book employs a fiction-based approach to address the revolving door of Black faculty and staff in American colleges and universities as a national crisis that needs to be resolved systematically. Alex-Assensoh coins the acronym SOULS to promote the importance of safety, organizational accountability, unvarnished truth telling, love, and spirituality as the foundational ingredients for reimagining and rebuilding an Academy that harnesses the talents of Black faculty and staff. Chapters feature storytelling to illustrate common cracks in academic structures while interweaving interdisciplinary research to contextualize themes that the fiction-based method reveals. To conclude, the author provides a research-informed call to action within the context of institutional transformation, as well as reflective questions and recommendations for further reading.

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Springer Nature

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3031392299

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SQL Bible

By: Alex Kriegel,Boris M. Trukhnov

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SQL Bible

By: Alex Kriegel,Boris M. Trukhnov

Combining theory with everyday practicality, this definitive volume is packed with the up-to-date information, new features, and explanations you need to get the very most out of SQL and its latest standard. The book is unique in that every chapter highlights how the new SQL standard applies to the three major databases, Oracle 11g, IBM DB2 9.5, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The result is a comprehensive, useful, and real-world reference for all SQL users, from beginners to experienced developers.

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0470229063

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The Greatest Superpower

By: Alex Sanchez

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The Greatest Superpower

By: Alex Sanchez

It's the summer before high school, and thirteen-year-old Jorge Fuerte wants nothing more than to spend his days hanging out with his fellow comic-book-obsessed friends. But then everything changes. His parents announce they're divorcing for a reason Jorge and his twin brother, Cesar, never saw coming--their larger-than-life dad comes out as transgender. Jorge struggles to understand the father he's always admired, but Cesar refuses to have anything to do with him. As Jorge tries to find a way to stay true to the father he loves, a new girl moves into the neighborhood: cool, confident, quirky Zoey. She tames Jorge's unruly terrier and enlists the terrier and Jorge in a dance routine for the back-to-school talent show. As the date of the show draws near, Jorge must face his fears and choose between being loyal to his brother or truthful about his family's secret. Although he's no superhero, Jorge already has the world's greatest superpower--if he decides to use it.

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Capstone

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1684468175

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