Luis A. Rivera saw NYPD as larger-than-life while growing up in the South Bronx in the late 1960s and 1970s. From the time he was seven years old, he dream to become one of them. As a kid, he’d sneak a quick peek through the closed curtains just to see the arriving police cars—the old green, black, and white ones with a siren that seemed to go on forever. He’d notice the big Irish cops getting out of their police cars, with their hats on and nightsticks under their arms. In 1989, he was ac...

This book offers educators a comprehensive, practical guide to modernizing their teaching methods, enabling economic theory to connect directly with the demands of the digital world. The landscape of economics education is undergoing an unprecedented transformation, driven by the integration of advanced technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging digital tools. Through real-world case studies and innovative methodological frameworks, this book presents concrete...

Luis R. Rivera traces the origins, context, and transformative history of a Latinx Protestant movement from the margins that changed the landscape of American theological education in the 1970s. Rivera's careful research and comprehensive analysis identifies and defines the emergence of the Protestant Latinx Academic Movement, or PLAM, a groundswell of activism that catalyzed new ideas, programs, and ways of educating for ministry across the geographic and denominational landscape from the...

Typical pathways for modelling interatomic interactions involve the plotting of potential energy against radial displacement, but such approaches can be computationally costly. Canonical Approaches to Interatomic Interactions: Theory and Applications provides an overview of the field and presents a replicable, novel force-based approach that demonstrates accurate and quantitative interrelations between weakly bound and strong covalently bound intermolecular interactions.Beginning with an i...

A brand new mini series featuring the master of horror. My government is a kleptocracy, moderated by violence. My city is a sinking ship... all the waters of the world's corruption flowing into her, filling her belly, dragging her down into darkness and nothing. They say the law doesn't matter anymore. That it exists only to preserve the powers and the position of a lawless few.

The Gothic horror tradition of film icon Vincent Price is revived in these twisted comic book one-shots that transplant the best of the horror genre into innovative and bizarre landscapes for a new generation of Vincent Price fans. There are four stories in this gothic graphic novel featuring the mast of horror himself! Make sure to keep the lights on when you read it!

Perovskite-based ceramics are a significant class of innovative materials with fascinating physical properties, which are now receiving intensive research attention in condensed matter physics and in the area of practical device applications. Perovskite Ceramics provides a state-of-the-art review on the latest advances in perovskite-based ceramic materials, as well as the development of devices from these materials for different applications. Perovskite Ceramics: Recent Advances and Emergi...

This book reports the best practices that companies established in Latin America are implementing in their manufacturing processes in order to generate high quality products and stay in the market. It lists the technologies, production and administrative philosophies that are being implemented, presenting a collection of successful cases of studies from Latin America. The book describes how the tools and techniques are being integrated, modified and combined to create new technical resourc...

This special volume of Legendary star of the small and silver screen, ADAM WEST has his career youth-enized in this hip, whimsical, trans-dimensional epic of an adventure. When a mysterious fan delivers an exotic amulet to Mr. West’s doorstep, he is Dorothy-fied on an odyssey that will change his career, his love life, and inadvertently make him the man that saves the universe. This gallery has never before seen images featuring everyone's favorite Batman '66 character and a foreward by Ad...

The Bat, The Cat and the Spaceman. Adam West is back and off to trying to get back to the present. The television's original caped crusader has finally found his way back to Earth. The only problem is that the year is 2512! Featuring Battlestar Galactica's Dirk Benedict and Julie Newmar!

Holy Smokes! Vampires and interdimensional monsters are a threat to the new world. The Man, The Myth, The Amulet? Legendary star of the small and silver screen, ADAM WEST has his career youth-enized in this hip, whimsical, trans-dimensional epic of an adventure. The ulimate group of heroes is born with Julie Newmar, Mumy, Bill, Eartha Kitt, Vincent Price, David Yost and Dirk Benedict!

The Man, The Myth, The Amulet? Legendary star of the small and silver screen, ADAM WEST has his career youth-enized in this hip, whimsical, trans-dimensional epic of an adventure. When a mysterious fan delivers an exotic amulet to Mr. West’s doorstep, he is Dorothy-fied on an odyssey that will change his career, his love life, and inadvertently make him the man that saves the universe! The first volume of The Mis-Adventures of Adam West, the mini-series, is collected in one location in thi...