Environmental Policy and NEPA is a concise study of environmental policy-where we have come from, what we are facing and where we can go in the future. An outgrowth of initiatives taken by the Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ), and edited by the current Associate Director, this publication studies the effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Divided into three main sections, part one covers the historical background and trends...

Clyde LeBouef is a tortured soul with a haunted past. Having survived the horrors of the Vietnam War, he returns home to Louisiana, desperate to reclaim some semblance of a normal life. But peace proveselusive.His wife, exhausted and heartbroken by his unraveling state, pleads with him to seek out help-real help.At her urging, Clyde agrees to undergo a hypnotherapy session unlike any other, orchestrated by a powerful Witch.Under her spell, Clyde is...

Student-led peer review can be a powerful learning experience for both giver and receiver, developing evaluative judgment, critical thinking, and collaborative skills that are highly transferable across disciplines and professions. Its success depends on purposeful planning and scaffolding to promote student ownership of the process. With intentional and consistent implementation, peer review can engage students in course content and promote deep learning, while also increasing the efficie...

Understanding Religion and Popular Culture 2nd edition provides an accessible introduction to this exciting and rapidly evolving field. Divided into two parts, Issues in Religion and Genres in Popular Culture, it encourages readers to think critically about the ways in which popular cultural practices and products, especially those considered as forms of entertainment, are laden with religious ideas, themes, and values.This edition has been thoroughly revised and includes ...

In these extraordinary poems, Ray Clark Dickson 'delivers the music of restless explorers going off for story and returning with poems,' to paraphrase Kevin Clark, Poet, Critic, English Professor, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. Ray 'insists that the world has many astonishing, sustaining beauties.' His deep understanding of our frail humanity is expressed with great humor and wit and, sometimes, immense sorrow, even anger. Never condescension, but always love. His earthy sensuality propell...

A murder with no weapon or motive. A detective on edge. A community that wants answers. IMPURITY is the first in a series of six books featuring Leeds based Detective Inspector Stewart Gardener.One fateful night, DI Stewart Gardener intervenes in a street brawl and his wife is shot dead. Finding his wife’s murderer is never far from his mind, but with no leads and a hazy recollection of events, it seems hopeless. Soon he is presented with a shocking case. A man is found dead in a g...

IMPERFECTION is the second in a series of classic murder mysteries with a twist set in Leeds, featuring DI Stewart Gardener.When theatregoers are treated to the gruesome spectacle of an actor’s lifeless body hanging on the stage, DI Stewart Gardener is immediately called in to investigate. Is the killer still in the audience? A lockdown is set in motion but it is soon apparent that the murderer is able to come and go unnoticed. How do they do it? Is the killer a theatre worker or a...

Bramfield, near Leeds, a sleepy little market town nestled on the borders of West and North Yorkshire. Detectives Stewart Gardener and Sean Reilly discover the naked corpse of Alex Wilson, nailed to the wall of a cellar in his uncle's hardware store. His lips are sewn together and his body bears only one mark, a fresh scar near his abdomen. Within forty-eight hours, their investigation results in dead ends, more victims, no suspects and very little in the way of solid evidence. Gardener an...

David Hunter and his wife are found dead in a small Yorkshire village. The apparent victims of a hit and run. They led successful and quiet lives, so police are stumped when looking for a motive.DI Stewart Gardener and DS Sean Reilly have their work cut out and soon some suspects emerge: a group of four closely connected individuals who are proving hard to trace.Convinced this was not a random killing, the Leeds detectives venture into unknown terrain, the web of lies, fake...

A burglary, a murder, and a killer who wears a maskA woman is found dead in her bed, badly beaten.Precious items are missing from the house, including a Fender Stratocaster guitar belonging to her husband.Was it just a burglary gone wrong?Perhaps it is not a motive DI Stewart Gardener should be looking for, but a pattern. And he needs to get to the bottom of the mystery fast, before someone else is hurt.The culprit is an impostor, wearing masks that D...

A series of murders threatens to side-line Yorkshire Police’s search for a missing girlSally Summerby charges into a Leeds police station, utterly distraught. Her five-year-old daughter has gone missing, presumably abducted. Yet despite mobilising all of their resources, the police can find no sign of the child.DI Stewart Gardener gets wind of the case when investigating the murder of a woman in her rented suburban house. She has been pinned to the floor with a bayonet. Yet...

In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—the most widely used measure of economic activity—is a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. The Commission was given the further task of laying out an...