On 14 August 1969, at the age of 14, Michael McCann and his family fled their home. Life changed totally for the McCanns and the entire nationalist community. Thousands of innocent people vacated their homes, driven out by the initial pogrom and then by the ongoing campaign of expulsion by loyalist violence and intimidation. The British army occupation and the continuing violence utterly devastated communities on a monumental scale.Burnt Out: How the Troubles Began, shows ...

The definitive guide to the safe handling, storage and transportation of nanomaterials. Essential health and safety reference for all those individuals or organisations who handle nanomaterials

In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign.Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research and statistics rarely make the news. William Haltom and Michael McCann here persuasivel...

This is the trusted resource for working artists and art students written by the leading authority on these health hazards. Whether you work in painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, woodworking, textiles, computer, or children’s art, this is the only reference book that covers all the dangers associated with metals, minerals, and chemicals. With illustrations throughout, this first aid book shows how to treat injuries and work with proper caution while still being creati...

"Like Curt Flood and Oscar Robertson, who paved the way for free agency in sports, Ed O'Bannon decided there was a principle at stake… O'Bannon gave the movement to reform college sports…passion and purpose, animated by righteous indignation." —Jeremy Schaap, ESPN journalist and New York Times bestselling authorIn 2009, Ed O'Bannon, once a star for the 1995 NCAA Champion UCLA Bruins and a first-round NBA draft pick, thought he'd made peace with the NCAA's e...

It was something Ontario Provincial Police Constable Terry Maynard had done a hundred times before —pull a car over for speeding on a rural side road, issue a ticket, and move on with his day.This time, however, it was different. Someone shot him dead while he sat in his cruiser writing up notes after the traffic stop. And when investigators find a second victim behind the house across the road,OPP Detective Inspector Ellie March must decide who was the intended victim and w...

The first novel in the Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel series. Would you believe a small boy who claims he was a murder victim in his previous life? Homicide Lieutenant Hank Donaghue and Detective Karen Stainer investigate a cold case in which little Taylor Chan begins to spontaneously recall memories of his previous life as Martin Liu, the victim in their case. Skeptical, Donaghue and Stainer are forced to play catch-up to the boy's Uncle Peter, a deadly Triad enforcer seeking vengeance!...

The fight over immigration reform and immigrants’ rights in the U.S. has been marked by sharp swings in both public sentiment and official enforcement. In 2006, millions of Latino immigrants joined protests for immigration reform. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a policy granting work permits and protection from deportation to undocumented immigrants who entered the country before age 16, was enacted in 2012, despite a sharp increase in deportations during the Bush and Obama admini...

It's a case private investigator Johnny Havelock normally wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. Police found a body in the back of his father's Bronco with a bullet hole in the head, and the old man is the most likely suspect. A country lawyer with a small-town practice north of Kingston, Warren Havelock has a violent temper and a problem with alcohol. He and Johnny haven't spoken in years. But when Johnny's sister asks for his help with tears in her eyes, well . . . it's game over....

The Broome Dusters played their first home game at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena on October 18, 1973. The game was symbolic of what was to come. Down 6-0, they fought back only to lose 8-7. Their fan support followed a similar pattern, lukewarm at first and then ferociously loyal. Hockey became a passion for local fans and has continued to be so to this day. When the Dusters disbanded, they were followed by the Whalers, Rangers, B.C. Iceman, and the Senators. Hockey in Broome C...

"A pioneering subaltern history of immigrant workers and their relationship to law and legal institutions in the 20th century." — The Law & Society ReviewStarting in the early 1900s, many thousands of native Filipinos were conscripted as laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violen...

As the worst storm of the winter settles in, a funeral takes place in the village of Westport for an elderly Toronto crime lord who retired several years ago to the quiet beauty of Rideau Lakes.Shortly afterward, a man is found brutally beaten to death behind the local hardware store, and Ontario Provincial Police Detective Inspector Ellie March discovers that the victim was an important employee of Dante Tassone, heir to the crime lord's vast empire.Stuck in a snowed-in vi...