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Rachel Goldman writes mysteries in which Duffy Madison, consultant to the county prosecutor’s office, helps find missing persons. Rachel is busy finishing up her next book, when a man calls out of the blue asking for help in a missing persons case. The caller's name? Duffy Madison. Is this...

Alfred Vanderhorst, archaeologist, is convinced that the Beardmore Viking relics are genuine, not pawns in a hoax. It is his personal mission to prove they once did repose on an old mining claim near Lake Nipigon. When Vanderhorst fails to report in, Kennet Forbes is enlisted to find his missing colleague....

Over 160 novel word puzzles! You are given a short quotation from a classic book, with one word missing. You know the number of letters in the word; and these letters are taken from the given title of the book. Can you deduce the missing word?

This early work by E. J. H. Jones is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Its 334 pages contain a wealth of information on jig and tool design including chapters on materials, gauges, grinding wheels, all accompanied with detailed technical drawings. This is a fascinating read for...

Managing in the public sector requires an understanding of the interaction between three distinct dimensions—administrative structures, organizational cultures, and the skills of individual managers. Public managers must produce results that citizens and their representatives expect from their government...

Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories brings scholarship in transgender studies to the forefront of the communication discipline. Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza provide a broad foundation that documents the evolution of transgender communication studies and challenges...

The study of lived religion is an enterprise which attempts to elucidate how 'ordinary' men and women in all times and places draw on religious behavior, media, and meanings to make sense of themselves and their world. Through the influence of liberation theology and postmodernism, pastoral theologians_like...

The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard...

George Washington became president of the newly formed United States just as the French Revolution erupted in 1789, a moment that would pave the way for Napoleon and his eventual empire. In this momentous year, the Americans consolidated the gains of their rebellion, and the French embarked upon a more...

Reviews latest research on zoonoses affecting poultry meat such as Salmonella and Campylobacter as well as methods for their control on the poultry farm and in the slaughterhouse Summarises advances in understanding and optimising poultry quality traits such as flavour, colour, tenderness, shelf life...

The fundamental power associated with crystals arises from the understanding that the world around us is actually a deep projection realized by the Higher Self. By suitable practice crystals can be used to foster direct identity with that from which all derives. The immediate conscious connection...

The Heart Sutra is a scripture that originates from the core of the Mahayana tradition as founded by The Buddha in his later teachings. As such it is grounded and places a particular emphasis on the inclusive world of sentient beings. It is thus somewhat different from the approach taken by the Hinayana...

This book concerns the “non-sectarian” and generic theme of “Enlightenment”. The term “Enlightenment” as used herein refers to the act of comprehension that moves one from the state of ego-separation to that of unity. This is the sense of unity and identity with the one source or Consciousness...

Shiva is the principle of dissolution, as an identified aspect of otherwise pure consciousness. In this respect Shiva is the Higher-Self in its awareness that it alone is responsible for all conditional manifestation appearing as the phenomenon of physicality along with concurrent awareness thereof....