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Carly and his parents were spending their last holiday in the USA on their favourite camping site.Carly’s mother had received a promotion within her company. Which meant their family needed to relocate from Seattle WA to London UK. This holiday would be the last time that Carly and his childhood camping buddies would be able to meet.Moving to the UK implicates that Carly, after the summer break, would start his junior high in an unfamiliar country with a different culture. ...

After the mishaps at White Lake, Carly had ventured too deep into the wilderness and got lost. Without food nor water, he’d relied heavily on his survival skills to find a way back to civilisation.He had a brush with death and was rescued by a mysterious stranger, whom vanished shortly after, but his travails were far from over: He still had to trek through ominous depts before he’d found shelter at the Greenwood’s ranch.Nonetheless he would not be able to join his friends ...

The Earth has been cast into shadow. Xavier and his love, Melissa, through no fault of their own, are caught in the middle of a climactic struggle for supremacy dating back to the time of Adam. Lost and accompanied by a rag tag group of unsung heroes. Xavier desperate for answers, ventures forth to uncover a secret plot that could spell doom for us all. With an angel on his shoulder to guide him, he must brave this strange new world while battling the myths of old, as demons now roam free ...

Cassidy Cane goes by many titles -- archeologist, anthropologist, adventurer -- but none more fitting than that given to her on some strange worlds: Slipstreamer.Cassidy slips between worlds, traveling to bizarre planets and alternate Earths to find extraordinary new technologies and artifacts that might better humanity!When Cassidy enters a portal hovering over the fabled Bermuda Triangle, she finds herself on the strange ...

There are approximately 1,077,520 private security guards employed in the United States (Bureau of Labor Statistics), with approximately 700,000 sworn police officers. The training for security officers can be a little as 8 to 40 hours prior to them being employed or assigned to a work location.Security officers are on the front line of law enforcement work, and are the first responders in many cases where a citizen needs help. The advent of large Shopping or Commercial Malls acros...

Time - as they say - is money. It is not an uncommon fact that lawyers today spend unnecessary amounts of time seeking out information, and therefore unnecessary amounts of money. In well-established fields, change is often slow; perhaps none more so than in the legal world. Though progress is being made, uptake has been rather slow, much to the dismay of those in the information management business. Conversely to its cousin, case management, matter management should be thought of more in ...

Identity, Morality, and Threat offers a critical examination of the social psychological processes that generate outgroup devaluation and ingroup glorification as the source of conflict. Dr. Daniel Rothbart and Dr. Karina Korostelina bring together essays analyzing the causal relationship between escalating violence and opposing images of the Self and Other. The essays confront the practice of demonizing the Other as a justification for violent conflict and the conditions that ena...

Another pandemic is coming. We need to identify the lessons learned from our successes and failures during the COVID-19 pandemic to plan better for our future response.In Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak, David C. Pate, MD, JD, and Ted Epperly, MD, combine their decades of experience as doctors and health care leaders who have led their organizations through numerous public health challenges to create an extensive list of practical recommendations for a variety of or...

This book applies regional analysis to the challenges facing global investment agencies seeking to enhance trade in lagging regions. It shows how spatial interaction and agent-based modelling can be used as the basis for developing new plans and policies. An in-depth analysis of trade routes is presented, which can be used to develop policies for increasing efficiency and reducing costs. Landlocked Uganda and the sea-locked South Pacific Islands serve to illustrate the problems of covering...

A true-crime author gets swept up in a murder plot in a psychological thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson.**"Excellent ... perfectly executed ... genuinely suspenseful, even shocking." —**BooklistNYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West?In the tower apartment, Shaw finds two people. One of them is famous. One of them is dead. And...

Cassidy Cane goes by many titles -- archeologist, anthropologist, adventurer -- but none more fitting than that given to her on some strange worlds: Slipstreamer.Cassidy slips between worlds, traveling to bizarre planets and alternate Earths to find extraordinary new technologies and artifacts that might better humanity!Cassidy was living a normal life when she was approached by Dr. Gamgee to go on a mission to another world to recover a cu...

Cassidy Cane goes by many titles -- archeologist, anthropologist, adventurer -- but none more fitting than that given to her on some strange worlds: Slipstreamer.Cassidy slips between worlds, traveling to bizarre planets and alternate Earths to find extraordinary new technologies and artifacts that might better humanity!While trying to live her best normal life, Cassidy discovers a secret portal to stunning world of Lotus Lorea, a world pop...