Investigating the relationship between ethnic pride and prejudice in the divided community of Cyprus, this book focuses on the ethnic stereotypes that Greek and Turkish Cypriot secondary school students develop of each other and other ethnic groups in Cyprus.

Enter the world of a deadly smuggling ringWhen a small plane crashes in the backcountry of the Florida Keys, an unexpected and deadly chain of events is set in motion.While helping a friend salvage his boat, Mac Travis witnesses the crash and rushes to help. Following the rescue, Mac trusts his instincts, but is led down a path of danger and deceit—which finally lands him inside a smuggling ring.A story that highlights the beauty of the Keys while...

After working as a photographer in New York and moving home to Ohio where he purchased a newspaper and attended meetings and events across a two county area Mr. Keller has had the opportunity to travel the world and then to settle into the busy life of a landowner (caretaker) along with his wife Nina. Now retired his experiences and interpretation of them offer a look into the life of a man who considers himself greatly blessed.

An account of the 1791 battle during the Northwest Indian War in which the U.S. Army suffered heavy losses at the hands of Native Americans."In vivid and evocative prose, Locke describes the moment when one of the most talented and consequential generations of Native leadership in American history confronted the young republic's Founding Fathers with devastating results. War along the Wabash is a compelling retel...

The definitive guide on the roles and responsibilities of the business analystBusiness Analysis offers a complete description of the process of business analysis in solving business problems. Filled with tips, tricks, techniques, and guerilla tactics to help execute the process in the face of sometimes overwhelming political or social obstacles, this guide is also filled with real world stories from the author's more than thirty years of experience working...

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance. This edition examines the entire gamut of prevention, from physical design to developmental prevention to identifying high-risk individuals to situational initiatives to partnerships and beyond. Strategies include primary prevention measures designed to prevent ...

Does God notice the quiet lives lived in the shadows?In a culture captivated by fame, platforms, and applause, it's easy to wonder if faithful service carried out without recognition truly matters. Yet the pages of scripture tell a strikingly different story. Throughout both the Old and New Testaments, numerous men and women who rarely take center stage play an essential role in God's unfolding plan of redemption. Their faithfulness, often unseen by the world, quietly moves history...

Echoes of Faith brings Scripture to life through the lens of real conversations between God and His people. Delve into a new theme every week, illuminated by the witness of both familiar and unfamiliar biblical characters. Step into their stories-raw, relatable, and real-where the themes of faith, fear, perseverance, and hope take on new meaning beyond a standard Bible narrative retelling.Gain fresh insights through daily reflections that uncover universal echoes within these timel...

EnvironmentalStats for S-PLUS is an add-on module to S-PLUS and the first comprehensive software package for environmental scientists, engineers, and regulators.EnvironmentalStats for S-PLUS provides a set of powerful yet simple-to-use pull-down menus and functions for performing graphical and statistical analyses of environmental data, parameter and quantile estimation, methods for dealing with non-detects, power and sample size calculations, predi...

Every day Digger wakes up and goes for a daily walk in the bright sun to look for places to do his favorite thing: digging holes! One morning when Digger wakes up and sees dark clouds and rain instead of the sun, he decides to go on his walk anyway. After he jumps in one puddle after another, a soaking wet Digger heads to the park. Will he find a good place to dig despite the rain? In this charming children’s tale, a dog with a passion for digging sets out on a great rainy day adventure ar...

Some people seek out connections. Jack Contino does it for a living. A cop knows how to link people and events. Maria Falcone connects people and places: the city of Boston, a rural New Hampshire college town, a Boston hit man, a college professor...*Jack Contino is a veteran cop with the Metropolitan District Commission Police Department. He often works with the FBI; a gangland massacre puts him in pursuit of a killer, but the trail takes an unexpected turn.*Maria connects by leading a do...

This textbook serves as an introduction to groups, rings, fields, vector and tensor spaces, algebras, topological spaces, differentiable manifolds and Lie groups --- mathematical structures which are foundational to modern theoretical physics. It is aimed primarily at undergraduate students in physics and mathematics with no previous background in these topics. Applications to physics --- such as the metric tensor of special relativity, the symplectic structures associated with Hamilton's ...