Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing the history of this growing specialization within the social sciences. The main chapters of Innovations address policy and programmatic solutions to problems that face...

*Winner of Best New True Crime Author, CrimeCon UK True Crime Awards 2023**Shortlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger award for non-fiction, Crime Writers’ Association Awards 2023*The gripping true story of how Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay brought Melanie Road’s murderer to justice.BATH, 1984Jean Road, a 49-year-old mother of three, awakens to news that her daughter Melanie has been murdered in a nearby s...

Winner of 'Best Book' and 'Impact for Change' True Crime Awards 2025The shocking true story of one of Britain’s most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operationsBristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets…Young women are warned not to go out alone…Enter the Decoys.For several years, a prolific predator haunted Bristol. Avon and Somerset Police had tried all th...

“[E]ver until the end — he retired in 1959 — a ‘diplomat among warriors’... this was Bob Murphy’s very special role. I doubt if any other diplomat has ever had an equivalent one. A normal Ambassador is assigned to prevent war or make peace. Much of his diplomacy was the diplomacy of war itself. He was a devoted, first-class public servant, a worthy companion to the great soldiers he accompanied. His memoirs, which include a great deal of fascinating, new historical material, should be wide...

British films of the 1960s are undervalued. Their search for realism has often been dismissed as drabness and their more frivolous efforts can now appear just empty-headed. Robert Murphy's Sixties British Cinema is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the late 50s and early 60s was anything but dreary and depressing, and gave birth to a clutch of films remarkable for their confidence and vitality: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning...

*Winner of Best New True Crime Author, CrimeCon UK True Crime Awards 2023**Shortlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger award for non-fiction, Crime Writers’ Association Awards 2023*The gripping true story of how Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay brought Melanie Road’s murderer to justice.BATH, 1984Jean Road, a 49-year-old mother of three, awakens to news that her daughter Melanie has been murdered in a nearby s...

Content: YOU CAN, by George Matthew Adams AS A MAN THINKETH, by James Allen EIGHT PILLARS OF PROSPERITY, by James Allen FROM POVERTY TO POWER, by James Allen FOUNDATION STONES TO HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS, by James Allen THE SECRET OF SUCCESS, by William Walker Atkinson THE POWER OF CONCENTRATION, by William Walker Atkinson MEDITATIONS, by Marcus Aurelius HOW TO MAKE MONEY, by B.F. Austin THE ART OF MONEY GETTING, by P.T. Barnum YOUR INVISIBLE POWER, by Genevieve Behrend THE RICHEST MAN IN BAB...

"Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society" by Robert F. Murphy and Yolanda Murphy offers an in-depth exploration of the cultural practices and social structures of the Shoshone-Bannock tribes. The authors meticulously document the subsistence strategies employed by these indigenous peoples, highlighting their deep connection to the land and natural resources. Through ethnographic research, the book reveals how traditional practices, such as hunting, fishing, and gathering, are intertwined ...

Le fabuleux destin de Paul Ricard qui a fondé depuis sa Provence natale l’un des plus grands groupes de spiritueux mondiaux. Toujours sur le terrain, ce tycoon insatiable et visionnaire aura non seulement laissé son nom au pastis marseillais qu’il a créé mais aussi à des objets de merchandising collector, à des slogans cultes, à des îles, à des bateaux révolutionnaires, à un Institut océanographique et même à un circuit automobile.Ce livre est son histoire, celle d’un homme qui a fa...

Alors que, pour la première fois, Eve a la possibilité de passer les fêtes de fin d’année en compagnie de son mari Connors, elle est soudainement appelée pour élucider le meurtre d’un juge. L’assassin ? David Palmer, tueur en série et scientifique, qui testait sur ses victimes les limites psychologiques d’un être humain lorsqu’il est soumis à une souffrance extrême. Arrêté trois ans plus tôt par le lieutenant après un long chassé-croisé, il s’est évadé et espère à présent se venger de ceux...

Unlike what usually passes for economics in many classrooms, government, the media and elsewhere, Choice is an engaging and intriguing book that provides something quite unique: a genuine treatise on economics that instructs and entertains both economists and general readers.Drawing on the seminal volume by the “Austrian School” economist Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, and comparing classical and neoclassical approaches,

Immerse yourself in the world of romance with book-inspired recipes! Bestselling authors of your favorite novels teamed up with private chefs to develop original dishes. Now you can cook your way to a happily ever after...Enjoy New Orleans Gumbo from Kennedy Ryan's RITA-Award Winner Long Shot. Then bite into Texas BBQ Tacos from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde's The Wright Brother. Follow it up with Diablo Cookies from Dangerous Temptation by Wall Street Journal bestselling...