An in-depth look at revolutionary new ways to handle sexual assaults.Every two minutes someone in the US is sexually assaulted, and each year there are nearly 300,000 victims of sexual assault. But victims are no longer silent, and new practices by police, prosecutors, nurses, and rape crisis professionals are resulting in more humane and compassionate treatment of victims and more aggressive pursuit and prosecution of perpetrators.***Shattering Silences***...

About the BookOnce upon a time, there was a town called Orkenshire. The town was inhabited by Green Giants, who all had green skin, hair, and eyes except for Pauladin, one of the sons of Chief Rawlic and Akira. Pauladin had a different appearance and personality of everyone else in the town especially his brother Rawlic Jr. who was the apple of his parents eye. Thought to be a freak and a possible danger, Pauladin was shunned and rejected by everyone in town, so running away seemed ...

This volume charts the rise of the concept of "inclusive development" and simultaneously recognizes its problematic implications as it shifts the focus of development work from efficiency to justice.In response to increasing awareness that development projects can all too often lead to the exclusion of marginalized populations, Considering Inclusive Development across Global Educational Contexts sets out to foreground trends and experiences that can inform socially just ap...

Marc Wyses father wanted him to be a lawyer. His mother wanted him to be a doctor. Instead, he became an advertising executive. In The Way I Saw It, Wyse narrates his rags-to-riches tale of the American dream come true: cofounding Wyse Advertising and working more than sixty years in the business.In this memoir he tells his story of the boy of immigrant parents who grew into an advertising icon that spawned famous theme lines like, With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good, Ask ...

Design clever algorithms that can uncover interesting structures and hidden relationships in unstructured and unlabeled dataKey FeaturesLearn how to select the most suitable Python library to solve your problemCompare k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) and non-parametric methods and decide when to use themExplore the applications of neural networks using real-world datasetsBook DescriptionUnsupervised learning is a useful and practica...

A hundred years after the Big Wet, Earth has been left a broken, infertile world of rock and sand. The town of Providens is like many others on the post-Big Wet planet—small, mostly illiterate and struggling for survival. But while most communities are like Providens, not all the cities that survived the Big Wet are. Some are like Newbegin, burgeoning metropolises that combine pieces of past societies with the new status quo. When Providens welcomes a stranger named Michael into its midst,...

The second sensational collection in Antony Johnston and Christopher Mitten’s sci-fi western epic arrives!Thrown in the slave compounds and with no scavenger man to help them, the Providence survivors are in more trouble than ever. Meanwhile, Michael and Abi find themselves arrested and sentenced to death, and the Sand-eaters plan a daring attack on New Begin!

As the hit sci-fi western epic approaches its end, this penultimate volume collects all the previously uncollected one-shot issues from the series in one trade Paperback! With guest art from Eisner award nominee Brett Weldele (SURROGATES), plus exciting newcomers Sandy Jarrell and Omar Olivera! Get the lowdown on all the remaining stories in WASTELAND, before the series' cataclysmic conclusion!

"Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy “Slash” Braddock and Melvin “Pecos Kid” Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to make an honest go of it. They’ve managed to safely deliver a church organ to a mountain parish when their sometime employer—Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. “Bleed-’m-So” Bledsoe—recruits them for a job only fools would take.Marshal Bledsoe wants them to pick up a shipment of gold in the mining town in...

Taking Teaching Seriously expands and enriches discussions about teacher preparation in the United States. Its authors describe the unique contexts for teacher preparation offered by liberal arts institutions and analyze the effects of these programs on their graduates and on K12 schools. They emphasize that the goals and conditions for teacher preparation differ from larger public institutions in several key respects including supervisor-student teacher relationships, philosophic...

The hit sci-fi western epic continues! After the Sand-Eater attack, the city of Newbegin is in turmoil as the Sunner rebellion gathers strength and Marcus seems to lose interest in the council. Follow the next six months through the eyes of Jakob, Skot, Yan, Dexus, and Golden Voice, with a chapter dedicated to each point of view in this latest collection of the series that Comics Should Be Good called a masterpiece!Collects issues #26-31

They call him Preacher. And they call him when they need help. Now, a Mexican brother and sister have asked the legendary frontiersman to accompany them into the Sangre de Cristo mountains—to find a missing family fortune of gold and silver.In a land stained by cruelty and war, the Spanish treasure has drawn the interest of a treasure hunter with ruthless paid killers as his partners. And by the time Preacher finds the bounty, bullets have begun to fly.No gunfight will ever...