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Fostering Innovation in Community and Institutional Corrections
Identifying High-Priority Technology and Other Needs for the U.S. Corrections Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Given the challenges posed to the U.S. corrections sector, such as tightened budgets and increasingly complex populations under its charge, it is valuable to identify opportunities where changes in tools, practices, or approaches could improve performance. In this report, RAND researchers, with the...
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers.
The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...
by Noah Willoughby, B.G. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Being rich has its advantages, but it is also rife with suffocating pressures and family telling Chandler Buckingham how to live his life. When his assistant offers to help him escape the mounting obligations of the holiday season by running away to Hawaii, Chandler jumps at the chance. Only to find...
Dreams, Wishes, and Fantasies of Common Folk
As Revealed in Old Photos, Folk Poetry and Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This creative work probes into the workings of the minds of common folk and their pets through old photos, folk poems, and art. As they hope to find happiness by reaching for the stars in wonderful jobs and relationships, they often get lost in the cloudssome light and white, others misty and darkin...
Contested Belonging
An Indigenous People's Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Deals with the modern predicament of the Rabha (or Kocha) people, one of India;s indigenous peoples, traditionally practising shifting cultivation in the jungle tracts situated where the Himalayan mountains meet the plains of Bengal. When the area came under British rule and was converted into tea...
Les aventures d'Hori
L'Intégrale des 5 tomes de la saga
Language: French
Release Date: April 11, 2018
L’Intégrale des aventures d’Hori regroupe les 5 tomes de la série, Le scarabée du cœur, La conspiration du harem, Les chats sacrés de Bubastis, La carte de l’or et Le signe de Thot.
Dans la cité de Thèbes, au bord du Nil, Hori et Ahmosé, deux jeunes scribes, commencent sans grand...
by Elizabeth Arndt, Jake Dailey, George Dibley
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of ‘seniors’ asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answers are in this unusual book.
Topics naturally include their physical self; their parents, siblings,...
by Helen Doe, John C. Appleby, John Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the...
Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?
A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Is historical accuracy an indispensable part of the Bible’s storyline, or is Scripture only concerned with theological truths? As progressive evangelicals threaten to reduce the Bible’s jurisdiction by undermining its historical claims, every Christian who cares about the integrity of Scripture...
Leading Millennial Faculty
Navigating the New Professoriate
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Leading Millennial Faculty: Navigating the New Professoriate explores how to effectively lead millennial faculty as they navigate the new professoriate. Contributors address some stereotypical millennial characteristics—being achievement oriented, connected to the world at large, relatively sheltered,...
The Assimilation of German Expellees into the West German Polity and Society Since 1945
A Case Study of Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The expulsions of German nationals from former Reich territories east of the Oder-Neisse Rivers and of German minority communities from various Eastern European nations following the collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945 constitute one of the least appreciated consequences of the Second World War. Numbering...
by B.G. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Seasons of Love: Book Two
Scott Aberdeen doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or God. Or love—at least, he knows no one will ever love him. After all, he has carried a torch for his best friend Sloan for a decade, hoping his feelings will be returned one day. But when Sloan...
by B.G. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Wade Porter spent his whole life in the shadow of a lover who doled out snippets of love and time as he saw fit—and who insisted that love stay deep in the closet. But now that man is gone, and Wade finds the oceanside cottage where they spent so many weekends together in the Florida Keys cold and...
by B.G. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Frank Sinclair believes only in the visceral, the real, what he can touch and taste. After all, his mother left him when he was five years old, so how can love exist? His next sexual conquest is what makes his world go around, not romance and happily ever after. The hot guy he sees working along the...