A tragic and riveting true story of teenage obsession, torture, and murder.From Michael Quinlan, staff member of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the only journalist to interview all the parties involved, meticulously recounts the shocking and horrific events surround the murder of twelve-year-old Shandra Sharer by a group of teenage girls.

The fatal crash of a DC-10 outside of Paris in 1974 kills all 346 on board and is the worst in aviation history. A Parisian newspaper sends a young French journalist to investigate the cause. When she uncovers the truth implicating powerful men across both sides of the Atlantic her life is suddenly in danger.

A young doctor enters the U.S. military at the quiet end of the Cold War, expecting a career of steady medicine and controlled risk—but history has other plans. From the trauma wards of Cook County Hospital to the battlefields of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and the shadow war of Operation Observant Compass, he is thrust into a world where life, death, and moral ambiguity collide daily. Rising throu...

Twenty years ago a killer with a unique and horrific signature terrorized the city. As it became clear the killer's cooling off periods between murders halved each time, the police desperately tried to catch him before he might take another innocent life. After eight murders he stopped. Because he died, or was incarcerated for another offense, or moved away, or ...? Serial killers do not stop of their own volition. Correct?

In the 35th century they sought the mind of God. Something answered.

What would you do if you heroin worth millions of dollars?Turn it in to the authorities to keep it off the street?Or sell it to try and reignite a viscious sectarian war?

What would you do if you found $50 million worth of almost pure heroin?Use it?Sell it?Turn it in?Start a war?

This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions. It highlights the contribution of convicts to worker mobilization and political descent, forcing a rethink of Australia’s foundational story. It is a book that will appeal to an international audience, as well as the many hundreds of thousands of Australians who can trace descent from convicts. It will enable the l...

Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880 provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and what shapes that organisation.The author’s 2018 Origins of Worker Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing inequality at work, and regulatory subordination of labour, drove worker resistance, initially by informal organization that slowly transitioned to formal organisation. This new volume analyses worker mobilisatio...

Now in a fully rewritten fourth edition, this is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. It has been updated and streamlined to be even more user-friendly as a practitioner guide and course text. MI originators William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick elucidate the four tasks of MI—engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning—and vividly demonstrate what they look like in action. A wealth of vignettes and interview examples...

This is a book on how and why workers come together. Almost coincident with its inception, worker organisation is a central and enduring element of capitalism. In the 19th and 20th centuries’ mobilisation by workers played a substantial role in reshaping critical elements of these societies in Europe, North America, Australasia and elsewhere including the introduction of minimum labour standards (living wage rates, maximum hours etc), workplace safety and compensation laws and the rise of ...

Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot. Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual bomb thrower, who continues to confront American empire in the most incisive, challenging ways. The kinds of insights he provides into the deeply troubled state of our democracy cannot be found anywhere else. Like many of our most important thinkers, he has been relegated to the margins because...