The FBI has named Identity Theft the fastest growing crime in America and approximately 70 million people have been victims of identity theft. Hackers and cyber thieves are able to penetrate security systems to steal personal information from virtually any computer system. This book explains what you need to do to prevent identity theft and the means to clear up your credit history if you become a victim.

This book is a practical guide for first time visitors to Thailand to help prepare for a journey of many surprises, much beauty and some dangers to be avoided.

This book examines how a consortium of banks perpetrated a fraudulent scheme to artificially depress LIBOR as a means to pay lower interest rates on interest-bearing financial instruments and securities that the banks sold to investors.

Epitaphs is a collection of 243 gravestone inscriptions compiled from cemeteries in New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts over the course of 7 years.Included is a A Meditation on Death by Thomas a Kempis the 15th century sage and visionary.

Since millions of people around the world consume coffee, colas or energy drinks on a daily basis there is a prevailing attitude that caffeine is a completely safe drug. However, the detrimental side effects of caffeine have long been documented and confirmed by reliable medical science. This book examines the real dangers of caffeine consumption based on that research.

Community Leisure and Recreation Planning offers an up-to-date, evidence-based approach to planning community leisure and recreation facilities, programs and services. It introduces readers to key theory and best practice in the planning of effective leisure and recreation projects.The book defines planning, leisure, recreation and other key concepts and explains why a thorough planning process is essential to achieving effective outcomes. It presents a comprehensive, inte...

This volume provides a practical guide to building and using simulation models for international trade theory and policy. Through a sequence of carefully constructed and fully documented programs, the volume illustrates how numerical simulation can be used to analyze a wide array of problems. Modern computable general equilibrium (CGE) models for trade policy are challenging in their complexity, but can be thought of as constructions of much simpler building blocks. By developing the build...

The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era’s most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were bachelors. During the 1850s, James Buchanan tried to keep the Democratic Party alive as the slavery debate divided his peers and the political system. Thaddeus Stevens, meanwhile, as Whi...

Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes—planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle class, made up of men and women devoted to the cultural and economic modernization of Dixie, worked with each other—and occasionally their northern counterparts—to bring reforms to the region.

Part how-to-garden primer, The Arrows Cookbook combines more than 150 delicious recipes with time-tested techniques for growing herbs, vegetables, and edible flowers in a book that reconnects us to the land and the seasons.Cooking food from the backyard garden or farmers' market -- or even using herbs grown in pots in a sunny window -- goes beyond a passion for freshness. On an elemental level, the process reawakens the cook to a cycle of nature that our ancestors understo...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provides a framework to apply marketing principles to inform practices and guide the sustainable management of national parks and protected areas. The main themes address the foundation principles of marketing and contextualise these principles around a series of key insights and challenges related to the delivery of sustainable tourism services in nat...

Thailand: 50 Facts You Should Know When Visiting ThailandYour heart is beating wildly and emotions tear at you. An opportunity of a lifetime is in front of you. Thailand, a magnificent place full of untold mystique and beauty is calling you. A place with a rich history and amazing culture, but also corruption, scams, and pitfalls for the uninformed. Some situations may leave you with a few dollars out of pocket, while others can drop you in a load of trouble.This book conta...