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The USA spends more than $60 billion a year on corrections, yet recidivism rates remain stubbornly high. As economic pressure compels states to do more with less, policy makers are looking for a better public safety return on their corrections dollars.Some States have plans for managing all but the most serious violators in their community.This story is about the management of the serious violators.Sensei Drew Staynton, a 7th Dan in Shotokan karate, proposes to save ...

PCQ Inc. is a giant multinational chemical and pharmaceutical company whose products are in demand globally by industry, agriculture and the medical profession.Unfortunately, toxic and nuclear waste is a byproduct in its 17 huge factories around the world.The CEO of PCQ is Mr. Linden Quartermain—LQ to his staff and friends. He is a revoltingly large, fat and ruthless man, intent on acquiring more wealth and power. He commands with fear and intimidation that his unscrupulous...

The Seventh Sense is an exciting look at the future where man has the ability to read the mind of others. It is the story of Brad Evans and his struggle to come to grips with what psychologists describe as a gift of immense potential.Brad is an outcast from the traditional learning environment and becomes a full time 'patient' at a teaching hospital attached to a large university. There he meets Jenny, an exceptionally gifted student.Brad comes to the attention of the Burea...

As a freshman at South High School in Akron, Ohio, Ray Greene overslept one August 1952 morning and was a few minutes late to football practice. Coach Gordon Larson saw this and cut him from the team. This did not diminish his desire to play football. He returned to play his sophomore year and went on to have a distinguished career in high school, college, and professional football.Greene entered coaching in the 1960s, determined to make the most of every opportunity. He became exp...

I met John on a deserted beach. He was confused, disoriented, dirty, and had lost his memory. When we made eye contact, the skin on my arms and chest froze and a lump of fear suddenly developed in my throat. Our fingers touched and I experienced a sudden wave of peace, like a golden sunset. I knew my life was to be irrevocably changed.My wife and I agreed to help John and escort him to New York where he knew he must address the United Nations Security Council. John felt compelled t...

Are Fear, Doubt, and Discord the 'new normal'? A global pandemic, social unrest, contentious elections, and prolonged isolation may make you think so. But Brave Like Esther: Faith's Answer to Fear in a World Full of Questions reminds us that no calamity can outflank the perfect plans of a sovereign, loving God—even when all seems lost. For proof, trace God's sovereign fingerprints through one of the most dramatic books in the Bible: Esther. Does God have a plan to use the world's evil to a...

Demize : a sophisticated computer virus compromises the security of the Internet and all e-commerce transactions by producing millions of fictitious Web transactions.It begins to attack all computers and financial systems, quickly closing down the world's banks, shops and offices. Demize then creates false demand across all electrical grids, causing massive power surges and widespread blackouts, resulting in the shutdown of electrical services.Third-world diseases begin to ap...

This book explores the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights for policy, urban planning and management.Drawing on the results of a four-year multidisciplinary research project, the book examines how factors such as urban households’ access to services and jobs, land use mixes and provision of public transport impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The authors analyse data from a wide range of sources including 4677 sample househo...

"With her brilliant mastery of the Chinese Five-Element System, as well as her compassionate understanding from her own experiences as a parent, Robin Ray Green is the perfect guide to show you how to read your child’s individual map. This book is a wonderfully practical and comprehensive ‘user’s manual’ for your child’s optimal health!” — Jean Haner, author of The Five Element Solution, and The Wisdom of Your Child’s Face: Discover Your Child’s True Nature with Chines...

A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most

Some 7.3 billion people currently live on the planet. Of these, 3.4 billion live in rural areas. In just a few regions—Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa—less than 50 per cent of poverty is now located in rural areas. But for the rest of the world's regions between 55 per cent and 80 per cent of the poor continue to live in the countryside. Progress is being made, but much of the knowhow needed is not disseminated outside of a small coterie of professionals who work in the are...

Celtic Wales is about the beginnings of Wales and how the period from the Iron Age to medieval times helped shape and define the modern nation of Wales. Early Wales has a spectacular archaeological, literary and mythical heritage. This book uses archaeology and early historical documents to discuss all aspects of early Welsh society, from war to farming and from drinking habits to Druids.