Fifty Years of Peeling Away the Lead Paint Problem: Saving Our Children's Future with Healthy Housing documents the history of childhood lead poisoning from paint between 1970 and 2022. Tracing the failure of the medical model (treatment after exposure) that marked the 1970s and 1980s and its replacement with a prevention housing-focused effort, the book documents the changes in health, housing and environmental science and policy. It is the first book to examine how the lead poisoning law...

The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments.This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book...

Agent Bauer is in the Colorado mountains to stop a terror attack on a high-power industrial summit in this original novel based on the hit Fox series 24.In less than twenty-four hours, in a palatial hideaway in the mountains of Colorado, a group of America's most powerful industrialists will be gathering for their annual summit. The bizarre disappearance of all the members of a local crackpot cult—and of two ATF agents assigned to keep an eye on them—may ha...

Jack Bauer is in Los Alamos to investigate a web of murder and espionage threatening to unleash nuclear devastation in this original thriller novel.A mole has infiltrated Ironwood National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a top-secret research center for the development of high-tech and nuclear weaponry. Someone is about to commit the foulest, most catastrophic brand of treason—and one man must prevent it: CTU agent Jack Bauer.Caught in the crossfire bet...

" Walking Among Us explains why extraterrestrial UFOs are here, who is aboard them, and what they are doing. If enough of us read and pay attention to the evidence in this book, we might be able to avoid the disaster that its evidence portends" (Don C. Donderi, PhD, associate professor (retired) of psychology, McGill University, Montreal, author of UFOs, ETs, and Alien Abductions).In his earlier book, The Threat,...

For centuries, the inlet called the Golden Horn and the city on the hills overlooking it were situated in the middle of the known world. To the south, through the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea, lay the Mediterranean, around which the Greek, Roman, Persian, and Arab worlds revolved. To the north, through the Bosporus, lay the Black Sea, with its Russian and eastern European coastline. And across the narrow Bosporus was Asia Minor, bridge to the Orient. Because of its strategic location, th...

Still reeling but rebuilding after Katrina's fury, New Orleans braces for another major hurricane heading her way. But a far greater threat is looming on the horizon—a manmade terror storm that will dwarf the destructive force of anything Mother Nature could have devised.Following a tip, agent Jack Bauer has come to the Big Easy—and watches helplessly as two prime players representing America's most dangerous Latin American adversaries fall in a surprising hail of gunfire. With win...

Here is the story of the tormented, mercurial Ludwig van Beethoven cast against the panorama of the times in which he lived. What emerges is a portrait of a man and an age that adds another dimension to the music that has become part of our heritage.

Today, the great cathedrals of Europe stand as beautiful, imposing monuments - the pride of parishioners and the wonder of tourists. It is difficult for us now, even with all our engineering and architectural skills, to imagine the extraordinary ways these medieval houses of worship were constructed. Midway through the twelfth century, the building of cathedrals became a crusade to erect awe-inspiring churches across Europe. In their zeal, bishops, monks, masons, and workmen created the ar...

The award-winning author and Medal of Honor recipient shares an insider's history of bootcamp that's "authentic, entertaining, and often funny as hell" (Corporal Brian Dennehy, Ret.).Every American fighting man and woman share one thing in common: they have all survived basic military training. Basic tells the story of that training. Col. Jack Jacobs and co-author David Fisher recount the funny, sad, dramatic, poignant, and sometimes crazy history of how Am...

BECAUSE NOT ALL KRAV MAGA IS THE SAME TMIsraeli krav maga is the official self-defense system of the Israel Defense Forces. Krav maga training shares the same principles for civilians, law enforcement, and military personnel alike to deliver them from harm's way. Goals however, are different for law enforcement and military personnel.This book is designed for security-conscious civilians, law enforcement officers, military personnel, and security profession...

**“Verdict: This is an important collection for all lovers of fantasy and literature.”—Library Journal“A marvelous mix of classics and rarely seen works, bibliophile's finds and old favorites . . . a treasury in every sense and a treasure!”-Connie Willis, author of Doomsday BookThe fantastic, the supernatural, the poetic, and the macabre entwine in this incomparable culmination of storytelling. Imaginative s...