Thrown together after a brutal murder at a famous London department store, Mackenzie Farrar and Hector Molina have just seven days to solve the crime. Painfully self-isolated, each hides an uncomfortable truth from their past. Molina, an international jewel thief who grew up in Brazil's squalid favelas, masquerades as a security consultant. As the story opens, he is living an active lie: to save his brother's life, Molina must steal the very jewel he's been hired by Mackenzie's st...

In the contemporary/historical suspense thriller, The Romanov Stone, Kate Gavrill embarks on a quest for the world's rarest precious gem — a huge alexandrite that once belonged to Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II.Searching across continents with the help of initially skeptical gemologist Simon Blake, Kate faces Colombian jewel thieves, the Russian Mafiyia, and a sinister cleric trained in hypnosis and mind control. At stake is her physical survival, her emotional and intellectual in...

Thinking about buying your first collector car, but don’t know where to start? This definitive resource covers everything you need to know before making your first purchase.Written by award-winning automotive journalist Robert C. Yeager, with a foreword by McKeel Hagerty, CEO of one of the world’s largest specialty auto insurance providers, The NextGen Guide to Car Collecting meets the needs and interests of Generation X and Millennial car collectors, deli...

Thinking about buying your first collector car, but don’t know where to start? This definitive resource covers everything you need to know before making your first purchase.Written by award-winning automotive journalist Robert C. Yeager, with a foreword by McKeel Hagerty, CEO of one of the world’s largest specialty auto insurance providers, The NextGen Guide to Car Collecting meets the needs and interests of Generation X and Millennial car collectors, deli...

“History, suspense, romance— The Romanov Stone has it all.”- New York Times best-selling author Antoinette MayHer mother’s deathbed revelation that she is a descendant of Nicholas II, Russia’s last tsar, launches reclusive Kate Gavrill on a bold search for a lost family fortune. But nothing is simple in the tragic history of the Romanov clan. Only by finding the rarest of precious gems—a fabulous, long-missing alexandrite—can Kate claim her treasure.

Crisis workers make split-second decisions every day that affect the mental health and well-being of individuals, families, and entire communities. They support and guide people through health diagnoses, bankruptcies, sexual assaults, deaths of loved ones, suicide attempts, and natural or man-made disasters from the front lines. While professions vary from mental health professionals, emergency responders, educators, business managers or volunteers such as suicide hotline workers, all have...

What's the solution to the world's growing energy problem?PERFECT POWERElectric usage is rising. Fuel costs are rocketing. Blackouts are happening more frequently. Why? Because our electrical power system--built on a vast network of resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, water, and coal--has become woefully outdated, increasingly expensive, and dangerously fragile. We need to change the current system, and we need to do it now.Written by bu...

For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the riveting true story of United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot Chuck Yeager.Bold, brash, and brimming with courage, Chuck Yeager burst onto the scene as a national hero in 1947, when he became the first to fly an airplane faster than the speed of sound. Yet even before his days as America’s most famous test pilot, Yeager was a young fighter ace in the US Army Air Force, flying a...

High diddle diddle,The Cat played the Fiddle,The Cow jump'd over the Moon,The little Dog laugh'd to see such Craft,And the Dish ran away with the Spoon.~Earliest recorded version of the familiar nursery rhyme, printed in London in Mother Goose's Melody around 1765Love, Death, and Nursery RhymesWhat could be more innocent than a nursery rhyme, or a grade-school, or a small farming community?Linda Ross's small rural hometown should h...

Fewer concepts in American society have received more attention recently than the need for skilled crisis intervention. Images of crises inundate internet and newspaper headlines, television screens and mobile devices. As a result of the growing amount of acute crisis events portrayed in the media that impact the lives of the general public, interest in crisis intervention, response teams, management, and stabilization has grown tremendously. Skills and methods to effectively manage acute ...

This book is essential to those working in healthcare, mental health, and as first responders. First published in 1990, this fifth edition of the classic and widely acclaimed text provides a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for individuals, organizations, and communities wishing to develop competencies in crisis management and intervention. Kenneth Yeager has again masterfully updated earlier editions, edited by the late Albert Roberts, while keeping as core content Roberts' seven-stage ...

This concise introduction to evidence-based social work practice culls the most salient chapters from the interdisciplinary Evidence-Based Practice Manual to form a student-friendly overview of the issues and interventions they will encounter throughout their BSW or MSW program. Part I defines terms and critical issues, introducing students to the language and importance of evidence-based practice and critical thinking. Chapters will explain how to search for evidence, how to eval...