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David Sulston, Keith LeClair, Sam Lindo

In the world of private security, you never know what kind of chaos is waiting around the corner. Security Confidential is a compilation of insider stories from across Canada that answers the question, “What really happens when security professionals don the uniform?” From midnight-shift foolery to celebrity encounters, macabre discoveries, and unbelievable emergencies no one saw coming, this collection dives into the wild, weird, and outrageous incidents that occur with amazing frequency ...

Ecological Dynamics Approach to Football is the first book to apply insights from research in ecological dynamics to the sport of football.Ecological dynamics is a theoretical framework that draws on ecological psychology, complexity sciences, and dynamical systems concepts in examining interactions among constraints and the emergence of movement and performance behaviours.This book shows how an ecological dynamics approach can be used to design better practices fo...

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David Bogan, Keith Davies

Avoid retirement and stay alive is the simple message behind this potentially life-changing book. the authors' basic premise is that retirement is notion to be banished from all sensible conversation and promotes the idea that no one should retire and no one should want to retire. Quite apart from the economic reality that our respective Governments can't possible afford the retirement we all expected when we started our working lives.Instead they say we should look at rearranging our live...

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David Keith

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Boston Review Books

A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming.Climate engineering—which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere—has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial technology. And for good reason: it carries unknown risks and it may undermine commitments to conserving energy. Some critics also view it as an immoral human bre...

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David H. Keith

Life on the Plains, like elsewhere, is often brutal. Predators prowl and feed with seeming impunity—but not always. This is a small tale of survival, not of the fittest nor of the quickest, but of the smartest.

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David V. Keith, Gary M. Connell, Linda C. Connell

Defiance in the Family follows the treatment of childhood and adolescent defiance through therapy, from intake to termination. The authors take a unique view of defiance as an expression of a child's worry for a family that is not working properly and as the child's means of protecting the inner self in the face of family turmoil.

Athletes are dependent upon a constant supply of accurate and reliable information from the environment whilst performing complex movements.Visual Perception and Action in Sport examines the information which is perceived by the human visual system and the way it is utilised to support actions in sport. It focuses attention on the rich diversity of sport-related studies drawn together from a number of theoretical approaches. Divided into three sections, this book covers:

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David H. Keith

In the silence of a foggy, lonely country road, strange things can happen. Was it her imagination, or…?

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David H. Keith

Herbert is a serial killer...of a different sort. He has terrorized a small town in eastern South Dakota for some three years, but the police have done nothing about it. They don't even know about his murders, but they will. They will, thanks to Sean and Inge O'Malley, who live and run a business in town. WARNING: May not be suitable for children under 18 due to graphic violence.

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David H. Keith

In this small collection of poems, arranged as an orchestral symphony, David H. Keith explores love and general observations of the human condition. He even adds a chuckle or two as a bit of respite between these two larger themes. His poems are mostly "nontraditional" in that they are unrhymed and each carries its own rhythm rather than being forced in to sonnet or lyric or ode. He does make one exception: an Italian form known as a sestina. He challenges the reader to recognize which of ...

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David H. Keith

I hereby present five tales of the macabre drawn from the files of the Reaper. If you revel in stories of horror with a twist, then this is perfect for you. Enter if you dare but be warned, here be demons in human clothing. CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE AND LANGUAGE.

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David H. Keith

On a frozen wintry day, a Hero rides into town to free the town's citizens from the iron grasp of the evil overlord. This isn't just any hero, though. This is a Hero.The story is an unconventional look at a winter tradition.