It is now almost a year after the World Trade Center attacks, and New York City is still struggling with the horrible aftermath. For Captain Bill Donovan, Chief of Special Investigations for the NYPD, watching helplessly as his beloved city was torn apart was painful and heartbreaking. Therefore, when the body of notorious real estate developer James Victor is found in the basement of a Coney Island candy store, Donovan throws himself into the investigation as a way to ease the pain. Victor certainly has not been endearing himself to the local blue-collar Coney Island crowd in the recent months - he is the driving force behind a multimillion-dollar urban renewal project aimed at tearing down the old charming buildings and storefronts near the boardwalk in favor of erecting lavish condos. Soon, Donovan and his friend and associate, Brooklyn's massively muscled Brian Moskowitz, enter a world where the financial stakes are high and the emotional stakes are even higher.
Donovan was a New York detective in an uptown precinct where anything could happen and usually did. When he saw the first nude teenage girl who had been sacrificed in the park, he knew he was up against a new kind of killer.
NYPD Captain Bill Donovan stands next to the mayor to welcome presidential candidate Pete Bennett to the city, but the next morning he must tell Bennett his campaign manager has been murdered. The victim was decidedly unpopular, and there is a long list of suspects. Donovan must shuffle through them to find a cold killer who is already proving that politics can be murder. Martin's Press.
Judgment and critical faculties are central concerns of many Western educational programs. However, the promotion of critical thinking requires specifically developed and didactically coherent concepts. This book therefore attempts to provide a philosophically and empirically sound as well as application-oriented introduction to the concept and didactics of critical thinking. Especially the higher education space is defined by critically questioning knowledge and practice and thereby producing new insights. Against the background of this task horizon, the theoretical foundations of critical thinking as well as didactic practice strategies for its promotion are conveyed in a low-threshold manner within the framework of the introductory volume, which can be adapted across subjects.
The historic Knickerbocker Theatre is about to present a new musical, but murder threatens to derail the show, produced by the famous Sir John Holland. Captain Bill Donovan searches for a killer who's prepared to bring down the house. Martin's Press.
This book by Kaplan and Vekhter brings together the molecular world of the chemist with the condensed matter world of the physicist. Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, chemists in the West devoted lit to relationships between molecular electronic structure and tle attention solid-state vibronic phenomena. Treating quantum mechanical problems wherein the adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer approximation fails was done by "brute force. " With bigger and better computers available in the West, molecular orbital calculations were done on observed and conceived static structures with little concern for any cooperativity of vibrational behavior that might connect these states. While it had long been understood in the West that situations do occur in which different static structures are found for molecules that have identical or nearly identical electronic structures, little attention had been paid to understanding the vibrational states that could connect such structures. It was easier to calculate the electronic structure observed with several possible distortions than to focus on ways to couple electronic and vibrational behavior. In the former Soviet Union, computational power was not as acces sible as in the West. Much greater attention, therefore, was devoted to conserving computational time by considering fundamental ways to han dle the vibrational connectivity between degenerate or nearly degenerate electronic states.
NYPD Detective Bill Donovan investigates a murder where the son of Donovan's ornithologist friend is a suspect. The victim observed mating rituals--namely of the boy and his girlfriend, a "body poet" with her own cybernudity Website who was being stalked by the victim. Martin's Press.
Drei Science-Fiction-Geschichten einer düsteren und fremden Zukunft, in der Mensch und Maschine immer weiter verschmelzen. Inhalt: »Global Offshore« (Silke Jahn-Awe / Michael J. Awe) »Tanks« (Michael J. Awe) »Tank 142« (Silke Jahn-Awe)
This heavily revised open access edition provides a thorough overview of the technologies available to assemble, manage and assess the quality of health information systems. It details a variety of scenarios in the context of both health and heath care, including where prevention and wellness are related, such as the treatment of both acute and chronic diseases. Stakeholder requirements are also described to provide perspectives for describing the architectures and management techniques associated with health information systems, enabling the reader to develop a detailed holistic overview of the subject. Health Information Systems: Technological and Management Perspectives features a detailed overview of how information systems in health care can be managed and is a vital resource for medical informatics students seeking an up-to-date text on the topic.
The dreams, the pain, the longing, the alone, the fears, the abuse, the love, the forgiveness of the survivor. The beauty, the strength, the memories of ordinary people in our lives. A homeless woman and her friends who abandoned her. A young man who cannot leave his room for fear. A "special" friend who whispers he did not think "special" was a good thing. Poems telling a story of fear, love, hatred, abuse, mental illness, depression, homelessness, the pain of loss, and the beauty of the invisible around us.
Tie in to the electrifying new film from Universal Pictures about the all-time master of martial arts, Bruce Lee. He fought his way up from the streets of Hong Kong to become a legend--streetfighter, trainer, movie idol, and superstar. He lived a life as fast and furious as the films that made him an international sensation. Based on the screenplay by Edward Khmara, John Raffo and Rob Cohen.
From a city famous for its gritty and tough-talking detectives come three stories in one dynamic package. This anthology contains an original short story, "Clean Sweep, " by Paul and two full-length previously published stories--"Murder On Fifth Avenue" and "Libation by Death"--by Jahn and Yeager, respectively. Martin's Press.
Something is happening all over the world; something is happening to humanity. People are getting strange feelings while driving on the freeway, there are reports of people moving things with their mind, and there are increasing sightings of ... monsters. The Crack approaches. A software engineer in Seattle experiments with a secret power. The Nelsons grapple with the weird in the office and on the school bus. The elderly Bonners deal with horror and housekeeping in rural Illinois, and an inmate at Westvale Penitentiary finds that fear and power never goes out of style. Caution: This book is a work of fiction. It is not to be believed.
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