Two years after the reservoir gave up its dead, Callan believed he'd left this particular work behind him - the drive out to some other county's failing department, the slow, patient dismantling of a corruption nobody wanted looked at too closely. He'd built a consulting practice out of the wreckage of Marrow Falls: a training module, a reputation, a way of practicing the posture of the thing without ever again standing fully inside it.Then a letter arrives from Sheriff Corinne Tas...

Perhaps the most misunderstood of the project management disciplines, project risk management is simple to master and is one of the most powerful tools for both novice and advanced project managers.Whatever concerns your project may offer: political, technical, resource or inexperienced team, project risk management can reduce or eliminate them.You'll learn how to use risk management to:• manage stakeholder expectations• retain resources• control scope

Forensic psychologist Mara Williams has spent her career listening to other people's darkest secrets. She never expected to come home to one.Twelve years after leaving Ashford Hollow, Mara returns to the Catskills town she grew up in to help care for her mother, Celia, whose grip on her own memory has started to slip. The town looks exactly as she left it -- the same steeple over the sugar maples, the same lake, the same neighbors who have known her since she was a girl. It takes h...

Twenty-four centuries ago, a man walked the covered colonnades of the Lyceum in Athens, talking with anyone willing to keep pace, about what it means to live well. He was not interested in living long for its own sake, or in living comfortably for its own sake. He was interested in a harder question: what does it mean to live a life that is actually good? That man was Aristotle, and this book argues he may be the most overlooked resource available to anyone navigating retirement, aging, an...

The water was low the morning they pulled Ana Vance out of the Marrow Falls reservoir, and Sheriff Wade Holt called it before the fog had even lifted: an accident, a girl who'd had too much to drink and lost her footing on the dock. Case closed by Friday.Deputy Callan Reyes doesn't buy it. Not with the bruises on her forearms. Not with a sheriff who's never once rushed to judgment before deciding, on this particular morning, that speed matters more than the truth.The county...

When you hear "you have cancer," your brain doesn't process information-it shuts down.For the next minutes, maybe hours, you can't think clearly. You can't remember what the doctor said. You can't ask meaningful questions. You can't advocate for yourself or your loved one. Your mind goes into freeze-a protective neurobiological response that feels like weakness but is actually your brain's way of managing overwhelming threat.This is where most books about serious illness en...

"Go Global Without Going Broke" is a comprehensive, practical guide for small business owners, marketing directors, and consultants navigating cross-border expansion with limited budgets and resources. Through nine core chapters-covering market research, cultural adaptation, regulatory compliance, distributor relationships, e-commerce strategy, email marketing, ROI measurement, and real-world case studies-plus appendices featuring a curated 31-country resource directory, budget templates, ...

Global Perspectives on Well-Being in Immigrant Families addresses how immigrant families and their children cope with the demands of a new country in relation to psychological well-being, adjustment, and cultural maintenance. The book identifies cultural and contextual factors that contribute to well-being during a family’s migratory transition to ensure successful outcomes for children and youth. In addition, the findings presented in this book outline issues for future policy and practic...

Significant advancements in methodologies and statistical techniques in cross-cultural psychological research abound, but general practice, education, and most researchers in psychology rarely use them. This leads to misinterpretations, misrepresentations, and prejudice. The authors expertly demonstrate the importance of methodological rigor to safeguard appropriate inferences about similarities and differences, particularly when methods have not been developed in the cultural contexts whe...

A textbook/training manual for law enforcement and community leaders. Stolen vehicles and stolen lives are abound in this dark and dangerous underground that has taken over our highways and streets, all in the name of fun!...Stolen vehicles and stolen lives are abound in this dark and dangerous underground that has taken over our highways and streets, all in the name of fun!A fact filled assault on illegal street racing, drifting, stunting, and even car shows; often inundat...

In the past 20 years, energy density functional (EDF) approaches have become a powerful framework to study the structure and reactions of atomic nuclei. This book provides an updated presentation of non-relativistic and covariant energy functionals, single- and multi-reference methods, and techniques to describe small- and large-amplitude collective motion or nuclei at high excitation energy. Detailed derivations, practical approaches, examples and figures are used throughout the book to g...

GREAT IDEAS CHANGE THE WORLD, but how do you know if your idea is truly great? That is the problem Professor Sean Wise addresses in his third and best book to date. Sean Wise, former online host and business advisor to the hit reality show, Dragons' Den, has heard tens of thousands of entrepreneurs' idea pitches. Some were good, most were bad, and in this book he shows you how to tell the difference. Based on more than 20,000 hours of pitches, Wise takes us inside the minds of investors an...