Gary Charles Evans: Anatomy of Serial MurderGary Charles Evans was not the serial killer America expected. Operating in New York's Capital District from 1985 to 1997, this professional antique thief killed five men not from compulsion or sexual sadism, but from cold calculation. Each murder served a purpose: eliminating witnesses, removing threats, facilitating robberies. For thirteen years, he maintained a secret relationship with a state police investigator, serv...

The four-month rampage of Joseph Christopher, which began in September 1980, claimed at least twelve lives across New York State. This meticulous account investigates how Christopher, a severely mentally ill man who walked into Buffalo Psychiatric Center seeking help and admitting he was "slipping," was denied treatment. This failure preceded a series of racially-motivated serial murders that terrorized African American communities from Buffalo to Manhattan.Drawing on court records...

A forgotten Golden Age classic, set aboard a luxury transatlantic cruise liner – the perfect holiday read!‘Unusually puzzling … highly enthralling’ – New York TimesThe lights go off aboard the luxury transatlantic cruise liner, Meganaut, as it makes its way from New York to Paris. In the darkness, a gunshot rings out. And when the light is restored, a man is found dead in the smoking room.But the situation ...

This user-friendly guide has been thoroughly revised to reflect significant changes in the way schools deliver reading instruction and intervention, especially for students at risk for reading failure. Step-by-step strategies target key areas of literacy development: phonological awareness, fluency, and comprehension. Particular emphasis is placed on scientifically based practices that do not require major curricular change and can be applied with students of varying ages and ability level...

As Franck's SUV careens toward the old New England house, he has no idea the secrets hidden within will upend his life. Racing against time and an unscrupulous real estate mogul, he must navigate a tangled history of interracial love, the Underground Railroad, and dark shadows of slavery unexpectedly linked to his unsuspecting roommate. Can Franck untangle the past before it consumes him and those he cares about? This wild ride promises laughter, heart, and a reckoning with history.

Born in Limerick in 1891, John Edward or 'Ned' Daly was the only son in a family of nine. Ned's father, Edward, an ardent Fenian, died before his son was born, but Ned's Uncle John, also a radical Fenian, was a formative influence. John Daly was prepared to use physical force to win Ireland's freedom and was imprisoned for twelve years for his activities. Ned's sister Kathleen married Tom Clarke, a key figure of the Easter Rising. Nationalism was in the Daly blood.Yet young Ned was...

The Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamTranslated by Edward FitzGeraldNarrated by Denis DalyOmar Khayyam (1048 - 1131) was a true polymath.A distinguished mathematician,astronomer and philosopher,he is best known today for his Rubaiyat, a collection of rubai, or rhyming quatrains,of which he is estimated to have composed at least 500.Together with the work of Hafiz and Rumi, Khayyam's poetry represents the high point of classical Persian literature.Edward Fitzgerald wa...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This thought-provoking introduction provides an incisive overview of dignity law, a field of law emerging in every region of the globe that touches all significa...

This book surveys and examines the history of Britain's soldiers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It focuses on the lifecycle of a soldier, including enlistment and experience, and on identity, representations and place in society. It covers the diverse military forces of the British crown - the regular army, home defence forces, part-time soldiers, auxiliaries, officers, non-commissioned officers and rank and file - across times of conflictand peace and their wider relationsh...

The three volume proceedings LNAI 11051 – 11053 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2018, held in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2018.The total of 131 regular papers presented in part I and part II was carefully reviewed and selected from 535 submissions; there are 52 papers in the applied data science, nectar and demo track.The contributions were organized in topical sections nam...

This thought-provoking Research Agenda explores cutting-edge developments in dignity law and maps out the critical areas in which further research is needed. It investigates topical issues including democracy, liberal modernity, immigration, and income inequality.A Research Agenda for Human Dignity and the Law surveys how the commitment to human dignity has become the foundation of human rights law, and examines how its fulfilment has changed the global legal landscape, in...

Gender equality has been one of the defining projects of European welfare states. It has proven an elusive goal, not just because of political opposition but also due to a lack of clarity in how to best frame equality and take account of family-related considerations. This wide-ranging book assembles the most pertinent literature and evidence to provide a critical understanding of how contemporary state policies engage with gender inequalities.Examining progress in gender equality ...