**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SACRAMENTO BEEIn the tradition of Scott Turow, William Landay, and Nelson DeMille, Crime of Privilege is a stunning thriller about power, corruption, and the law in America—and the dangerous ways they come together.**A murder on Cape Cod. A rape in Palm Beach.All they have in common is the presence of one of America’s most beloved and influential families. But nobody is asking questions. Not the poli...

**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SACRAMENTO BEEIn the tradition of Scott Turow, William Landay, and Nelson DeMille, Crime of Privilege is a stunning thriller about power, corruption, and the law in America—and the dangerous ways they come together.**A murder on Cape Cod. A rape in Palm Beach.All they have in common is the presence of one of America’s most beloved and influential families. But nobody is asking questions. Not the poli...

An overview of jungle warfare throughout history, from ancient Rome to the 20th century with World War II and the Vietnam War.A world where little light penetrates. Of dense vegetation, tangled roots, fetid mud and swamps. Where the helicopter, sophisticated weaponry and technology have revolutionized military combat. But where survival still depends on acute observation and listening for the slightest sound. The jungle. Backdrop to one of the most gruelling forms ...

Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency."Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural system...

Easy-to-implement classroom lessons from the world’s premier educational system.Finland shocked the world when its fifteen-year-olds scored highest on the first Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a set of tests touted for evaluating critical-thinking skills in math, science, and reading. That was in 2001; but even today, this tiny Nordic nation continues to amaze. How does Finnish education-with short school days, light homework loads, and little standardized te...

Nematodes are small multicellular organisms that have been used as biological models since the 1960s. For example, Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living nematode worm, about 1mm in length, that lives in temperate soil environments. It is made up of about 1000 cells, and has a short life cycle of only two weeks. It was the first multicellular organism to have its whole genome sequenced. The book summarizes the importance of nematodes as model organisms in the fields of genetics, developme...

This book examines horror films through a critical criminological lens. Each chapter considers how the genre impacts audiences and their understanding of topics like place, crime, and identity.

Who is Israel? The Church, Not the StateA bold, biblical, and historic manifesto that reclaims the Church's true identity.For two thousand years, the Christian Church has confessed one unbreakable truth: the True Israel is the universal body of believers in Jesus Christ—Jew and Gentile united by faith, not ethnicity or geography. From the prophets to Paul, from Augustine to Calvin, the covenant people of God have always bee...

Manny Carlos serves as a bishop and the chairman of Victory in the Philippines, Dean of Spiritual Life for Every Nation Seminary, and has been a pastor for over thirty years. He holds a Doctor of Ministry degree in Preaching and Leading from Asbury Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Mini, have four children, Jeremy, Daniel, Hannah, and Samuel. Victory Church, founded in 1984, has grown from a ragtag group of 160 Filipino college students to a church of over 100,000 members with 170-wee...

In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country’s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the center of his analysis, Walker shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial and previously unacknowledged role in the battle against colonialism and in the political clashes of the early republican period. With its focus on Cuzco, the former capital of the Inca Empire, Smoldering...

There are no predators on the planet Imagine - at least that's what the Humans have found so far!Zuzianna is the oldest of the second generation to be born on the planet. Her biggest problem is deciding what kind of job she wants to do in the little mountain community, now that she has finished her schooling. She gratefully accepts the invitation from her indigenous Climber friend Summernut to journey to other parts of the planet while she figures it out. Her community knows that s...

Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who travels first to the North of England, and subsequently to the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt stolen from his father. On the way he encounters the larger-than-life title character of Rob Roy MacGregor. Though Rob Roy is not the lead character (in fact the narrative does not move to Scotland until half way through the book) his personality and actions are key to the ...