Jose Raga is a ruthless, violent drug dealer who would do anything to make a client pay. He isnt used to being pushed around, but when he gets a little too ruthless, he gets caught. Now hes trapped, serving a lengthy prison sentence that will put a serious wrinkle in his business plan. But Jose has bigger problems than a lack of incomesomeone is out to get him.Behind bars, Jose is brutally attacked by an unknown assailant. Soon, he begins spending more time in the infirmary than in...

A double homicide in a hotel parking garage in Columbia, South Carolina, is proving to be troublesome to investigators. The female victim is found shot in her car; the male is a rent-a-cop, paid to protect the parking garage from breakins and bandits. They had nothing in common, and although the brutality of the killing points to a hit, lack of evidence points to a more random act.The Irish DuoDetectives Kevin Riley and Walter Murphyare called to the scene. The woman is soon identi...

Since the great recession began in 2007, the average American has been struggling. Costs for food, gas, insurance has risen to astronomical levels. While these costs have continued to rise, salaries have remained stagnant. The result is that paychecks continue to get squeezed, and the American dream of a life increasing wages, financial, and economic security is slipping way. The average American needs timely, easy-to-follow advice that can show them how to keep more of what they earn, pay...

This book explores key areas of educational and social psychology and considers their relevance to language learning and teaching, using activities and questions for reflection. The topics discussed in the book include: • learners’ and teachers’ beliefs about how a language should be learned and taught • learning and working in groups • relationships with others • the role of the self in teaching and learning • motivation to start and persist with tasks • the role of emotions in learning. ...

This book examines how current energy and water management processes affect Indigenous communities in North America, with a specific focus on Canada.Currently, there is no known Indigenous community-led strategic environmental assessment (ICSEA) tool for developing community-led solutions for pipeline leak management and energy resiliency. To fill this lacuna, this book draws on expertise from Indigenous Elders, Knowledge-keepers, and leaders representing communities who are highly...

A Cops Dilemma is all fictional and is both a sequel to the first book and also a stand-alone book. The first books main character picks up his life as a police Officer in the city of Asheville, N C. After a fatal car accident is investigated, the officer deals with out of state insurance men. A young auto mechanic finds money from the wrecked car and due to circumstances leaves town. Eventually, a chase begins in Asheville traveling from the mountains across the state to the coastal town ...

Anaesthesia Care for Cancer Patient addresses the unique physiological, pharmacological, and perioperative challenges posed by oncologic diseases and their treatment, providing a focused and clinically relevant overview of anaesthetic management across the cancer care continuum.Emphasis is placed on patient safety, individualised care, and optimised outcomes during surgical and procedural interventions. Chapters cover preoperative assessment, anaesthetic techniques for cancer surge...

Anaesthesia Care for Cancer Patient addresses the unique physiological, pharmacological, and perioperative challenges posed by oncologic diseases and their treatment, providing a focused and clinically relevant overview of anaesthetic management across the cancer care continuum. Emphasis is placed on patient safety, individualised care, and optimised outcomes during surgical and procedural interventions. Chapters cover preoperative assessment, anaesthetic techniques for cancer surgeries, p...

Instead of viewing different perspectives on the self as competing with each other and considering one perspective on the self as being inherently ‘better’ than another, this book takes the view that a fuller, more comprehensive picture of the self in SLA can be gained by examining and combining insights from different perspectives. This original collection of papers thus attempts to provide a thorough overview of the ways in which the self can be conceptualised in SLA contexts. The editor...

Obesity is a global public health problem of crucial importance. Obesity rates remain high in high-income countries and are rapidly increasing in low- and middle- income countries. Concurrently, the global consumption of unhealthy products, such as soft drinks and processed foods, continues to rise. The ongoing expansion of multinational food and beverage companies, or ‘Big Food’, is a key factor behind these trends.This collection provides critical insight into the global expansio...

Milton: a Poem is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero is John Milton, who returns from heaven and unites with Blake to explore the relationship between living writers and their predecessors. While on earth, Milton also unites with his feminine aspect, Ololon. The poem describes progress toward the apocalyptic union of living and dead, internal and external reality, and male and female. .

Long, long ago, there was a good saint named David, who taught the early Cymric or Welsh people better manners and many good things to eat and ways of enjoying themselves. Now the Welsh folks in speaking of their good teacher pronounced his name Tafid and affectionately Taffy, and this came to be the usual name for a person born in Wales. In our nurseries we all learned that "Taffy was a Welshman," but it was their enemies who made a bad rhyme about Taffy. Wherever there were cows or goats...