Grieving Ground is a mystery-thriller featuring Private Investigator Mackenzie Brody, who specializes in locating missing persons. Brody is retained by Scottish best-selling author Aiden Lindsay, whose mother went missing two years earlier in Boston. Intertwined with the Lindsay investigation is Brody's personal search for a missing brother. The action takes place in several locales including Edinburgh, Boston, and Brody's yacht in Marina del Rey, California, where the detective lives.
Jake Trenton, Seattle-based CEO of Trenton Steel Industries, leads a hectic but fairly routine life. Then, on a warm summer's evening, with the click of a button and an ensuing explosion, Jake's life alters in unthinkable ways. A frightening pattern emerges as highly sophisticated bombs sweep through Trenton Steel Industries's West Coast mills, leaving death and destruction in their wake. In the midst of the troubles plaguing his company, Jake is drawn to Annie Prescott. A tragedy in Annie's life has made her wary of any serious relationships, but Jake is determined to break through her defenses. And despite Annie's resolve to remain detached, she admires Jake. A man of principle and strong character, she finds his annoying, but often charming, attention difficult to resist. When written communiqués from the bomber reveal a personal mission against Jake, he distances himself from Annie to protect her. Then the unspeakable happens, and Jake and the FBI-led task force claw through a maze of murder and lethal secrets to discover a stunning impetus of revenge. And still, Jake and Annie have yet to face the deadliest danger of all.
I don't even read the synopsis when a Julie Richman book comes out, I just click...FAST!" Vi Keeland, NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Author People think I'm a douche. And maybe I am. I use most people. It's what I know. But if I love you, I'd die for you. I just don't know that I'm worth loving. Handsome, privileged bad boy Zac Moore has always played by his own rules - at school, in business, with women. He's rewritten the rules to suit his own needs and his needs are all that matter. Serious and focused family friend Liliana Castillo has one goal. Leave the pre-Med program at Yale to help people in developing nations. As their paths cross and uncross, a tale of love, agony, betrayal and growth is woven, transforming two people who've hidden from relationships and love. This is a stand-alone novel.
For the last several decades, at the far fringes of American evangelical Christianity has stood an intellectual movement known as Christian Reconstruction. The proponents of this movement embrace a radical position: that all of life should be brought under the authority of biblical law as it is contained in both the Old and New Testaments. They challenge the legitimacy of democracy, argue that slavery is biblically justifiable, and support the death penalty for all manner of "crimes" described in the Bible including homosexuality, adultery, and Sabbath-breaking. But, as Julie Ingersoll shows in this fascinating new book, this "Biblical Worldview" shapes their views not only on political issues, but on everything from private property and economic policy to history and literature. Holding that the Bible provides a coherent, internally consistent, and all-encompassing worldview, they seek to remake the entirety of society--church, state, family, economy--along biblical lines. Tracing the movement from its mid-twentieth-century origins in the writings of theologian and philosopher R.J. Rushdoony to its present-day sites of influence, including the Christian Home School movement, advocacy for the teaching of creationism, and the development and rise of the Tea Party, Ingersoll illustrates how Reconstructionists have broadly and subtly shaped conservative American Protestantism over the course of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. Drawing on interviews with Reconstructionists themselves as well as extensive research in Reconstructionist publications, Building God's Kingdom offers the most complete and balanced portrait to date of this enigmatic segment of the Christian Right.
Fille de Berthe Morisot et d’Eugène Manet, Julie Manet (1878-1966) évolue dans l’univers artistique et intellectuel de la Belle Époque. On connaît bien son visage et sa silhouette car toute sa vie elle posa pour sa mère et pour de nombreux peintres, et notamment pour son oncle Édouard. Elle fut très liée avec Renoir, son mentor, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, et bien d’autres. À la mort de son père, son tuteur n’est autre que Stéphane Mallarmé... Empreint de sensibilité et d’humour, son Journal (1893-1899) est celui d’une jeune fille qui relate ses émotions ; mais c’est surtout une chronique captivante de la vie des Impressionnistes. À leur propos, elle nous fournit de nombreuses anecdotes collectées lors de rencontres, d’invitations, de voyages, ou dans l'intimité secrète de leur atelier. Jeune fille de son temps, Julie peint, joue du violon, découvre la musique de Wagner, lit les écrivains à la mode, rêve et évoque les affaires qui agitent l'époque – l’affaire Dreyfus ou la visite du tsar Nicolas II en 1896. C’est avec émotion qu’on la voit également se lier d’amitié avec Ernest Rouart, dont elle deviendra l’épouse en 1900...
Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia. Soon after Forten emerged as a leader in Philadelphia's black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. Especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, he served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. His family were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.
Although our era is marked by human rights rhetoric, human wrongs continue to be committed with impunity, and the idea of human rights is becoming impoverished.
Statistics for Bioinformatics: Methods for Multiple Sequence Alignment provides an in-depth introduction to the most widely used methods and software in the bioinformatics field. With the ever increasing flood of sequence information from genome sequencing projects, multiple sequence alignment has become one of the cornerstones of bioinformatics. Multiple sequence alignments are crucial for genome annotation, as well as the subsequent structural, functional, and evolutionary studies of genes and gene products. Consequently, there has been renewed interest in the development of novel multiple sequence alignment algorithms and more efficient programs. Explains the dynamics that animate health systems Explores tracks to build sustainable and equal architecture of health systems Examines the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches to care integration and the management of health information
Underscores the impossible mission that the U.S. public attempts to impose on students in schools: to contain the anger and rage that they feel toward society.
Wall Street Journal Bestseller As a fourth-generation company president/CEO, Julie Charlestein has developed a unique set of strategies for navigating the distinctive challenges and choices facing family businesses. How to Lead Your Family Business is a master class in working with and for family, reshaping generations-old company cultures, earning your colleagues’ respect, and more. Family businesses, from massive corporations like Walmart to the mom-and-pop store on your local street, have always been a vital part of the American life and economy. But as these family-owned companies evolve and grow, so too do their unique difficulties and the need for dynamic leadership. And as more women rise into leadership roles within commonly male-dominated organizations, challenges abound in already tense environments, where family members also happen to be one’s coworkers—and superiors. Julie Charlestein, the president and CEO of Premier Dental Products Company, is the fourth-generation leader of an incredibly successful family-owned enterprise, and she’s seen it all firsthand, including family drama in the workplace and the office politics that come with any corporation. In How to Lead Your Family Business, Julie gets vulnerable about her experience as an emerging leader and ultimately CEO, who has worked to earn her colleagues’ respect while navigating the succession to her father’s company. Through stories full of candor and humor, Julie shares her leadership adventure, offering actionable strategies for those leading and working within their own family businesses.
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