A Note To Find focuses on a newly graduated genealogical researcher out of Boston who has been invited to visit the family home of her mother in Seattle, WA. She is the only relative left in her family, or so she thinks. The story weaves in history and genealogy of the family coming to America back in the day, their life on the east coast, how the families traveled across country in covered wagons to get to Oregon and finally the main families settling in Seattle. We have a very friendly c...

Based on extensive in-depth interviews with more than thirty active duty chaplains regarding their successes, failures and conflicts, the book is about the way military chaplains handle religious diversity among the enlisted they serve and within their own corps.

This book is a comprehensive study of peripheral locations in contemporary European TV crime series. Ambitiously, it covers the complete geography of Europe, and offers a nuanced image of a changing, dynamic, and unfinished continent. The chapters include analyses of the practical, creative approach to producing crime series in European peripheries and rural areas, evaluating a continent marked by an internal crisis between urban and rural Europe. The study includes readings of crime serie...

Write powerful queries using as much of the feature-rich Oracle SQL language as possible, progressing beyond the simple queries of basic SQL as standardized in SQL-92.Both standard SQL and Oracle’s own extensions to the language have progressed far over the decades in terms of how much you can work with your data in a single, albeit sometimes complex, SQL statement. If you already know the basics of SQL, this book provides many examples of how to write even more advanced SQL to hug...

This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990’s until today. The authors introduce the history of contemporary Nordic Noir from the perspective of place, production and location studies. The chapters include readings of well-known television crime dramas such as Beck, The Killing, Trapped and The Bridge as well as a range of other important Nordic Noir cases. The authors position the development of Nordic Noir in the gl...

A Note To Find focuses on a newly graduated genealogical researcher out of Boston who has been invited to visit the family home of her mother in Seattle, WA. She is the only relative left in her family, or so she thinks. The story weaves in history and genealogy of the family coming to America back in the day, their life on the east coast, how the families traveled across country in covered wagons to get to Oregon and finally the main families settling in Seattle. We have a very friendly c...

From the founder of the popular Instagram account @bestofvegan, and author of Vegan Reset comes a versatile plant-based cookbook featuring over 100 recipes, including some of the most popular fare from the Best of Vegan community, exclusive dishes created with renowned international vegan authors and chefs, and a variety of staples for every occasion.Kim-Julie Hansen grew up eating (and loving) meat, fish, dairy, and eggs. But after doing extensive researc...

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Emergency Medicine**The Sixth Edition of this well-known and authoritative textbook provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of Adult Emergency Medicine. It is an invaluable guide for trainees and other health professionals, including nurse specialists and paramedics, offering concise and practical guidance based on the latest best practices and evidence-based guidelines. Originally published over 25 years ago this title has been regularly upda...

This book is the first to focus on the role of European television crime drama on the international market. As a genre, the television crime drama has enjoyed a long and successful career, routinely serving as a prism from which to observe the local, national and even transnational issues that are prevalent in society. This extensive volume explores a wide range of countries, from the US to European countries such as Spain, Italy, the Scandinavian countries, Germany, England and Wales, in ...

What is mental strength? How can you achieve mental strength? This coaching technique is described in this book. On the face of it, you might think that training of an elite unit in the military is a world away from ordinary everyday life but the difference is not very large when it comes to method. Most of us live under pressure. Even though our tasks rarely involve danger to life and limb we need mental strength and the everyday life wisdom that will make it work. Fundamentally, the idea...

When Fumiko emerges after one month of being locked in her dorm room, she’s already dead, leaving behind a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food. For her boyfriend, Henrik Blatand, an aspiring translator, theseremnants are clues, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile, Fumiko, or perhaps her doppelgänger, reappears—in line at the Louvre, on street corners and subway platforms, and on the dissection table of a group of medical students.

Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity’s leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new “spiritual but not religious” movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary author of A People’s History of Christianity, continues the conversation began in books like Brian D. McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity and Harvey Cox’s The Future of Faith, examining the connectio...