"This is the book you should be reading." —San Francisco Book ReviewOnly one obstacle stands in his way of enjoying a normal life. He remembers—every life he's lived before.Tres is about to be born... with the biggest burden any has ever had to bear. He is beginning again—as an ageless adult trapped in an infant body.He and his teenage mother face life filled with extraordinary challenges as they strive to protect, nurture, and hid...

Racial bias in the U.S. criminal justice system is much debated and discussed, but until now, no single volume has covered the full expanse of the issue. In Bias in the Law, sixteen outstanding experts address the impact of racial bias in the full roster of criminal justice actors. They examine the role of legislators crafting criminal justice legislation, community enforcers, and police, as well as prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys, judges, and jurors. Understanding when and why bia...

I'm an omega who can hear the shadows sing.Patient #495. Nyx Blackwood. Scorpio . They call me dangerous. Unstable. The Fated M.U.S.E.Mentally insane, they wrote in my file.Unsatisfactory, they marked on my tests.Scentless, they whispered in fear.Excelled beyond control, they warned the others.For six years, Ravenscroft Asylum has been my prison, its white walls keeping the world safe from me. Or maybe keeping me saf...

Poems in reaction to losing a friend to breast cancer, of having more friends go through it, and having a touch of it myself.

Monica has a theory about love: it starts electric and ends in watching Netflix in matching pyjamas. She's seen the evidence. She's lived it.So when she moves to Rome, the last thing she's looking for is a relationship. What she gets instead is Alexi: calm, confident, with an unparalleled lust for life. Their arrangement is simple — the summer, nothing more. No future. No expectations. No slow decay into domesticity.It works. Then it starts to work too well.A litera...

Freddy is like no other fork! He can walk, run, jump, see, think and imagine. Freddy dreams about the day he can have his very own. playmate and become a part of the family he lives with. Come along with Freddy on his fun- filled adventure!

A well-rounded curriculum needs to address the more formalized development of leadership abilities that will ensure that young people acquire the knowledge and skills essential to assuming leadership roles. Changing Tomorrow 3: Leadership Curriculum for High-Ability Students offers instructional activities for high-ability high school students based on the Common Core State Standards that emphasize critical and creative thinking skills and gives gifted students an opportunity to a...

This reference provides comprehensive information on the taxonomy and distribution in time and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals. After an introductory background chapter on southern Africa, mammals, sites and dating, the following chapters are presented by epoch, covering the Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene and Holocene. Individual maps provide information on where in the landscape specific taxa have been found, and a comprehensive index lists all th...

This book provides an accessible, up-to-date understanding of how to treat patients with substance and non-substance-related addiction. It covers all the typical substance and non-substance use disorders and presents evidence in a case-based format.Concise and comprehensive, opening chapters relay a preliminary assessment of addiction disorders and their neurobiology. Subsequent chapters then offer specific treatment options, challenges, and cases relating to the abuse of distinct ...

This book tackles the most common challenges that medical students experience that lead to burnout in medical school by carefully presenting guidelines for assessment, management, clinical pearls, and resources for further references. Written by national leaders in medical student wellness from around the country, this book presents the first model of care for combating one of the most serious problems in medicine. Each chapter is concise and follows a consistent format for readability. Th...

While, over the last 30 years, the global economy's center of gravity has shifted to East Asia, the region has remained surprisingly free of interstate military conflict. Yet this era of peace and growth has been punctuated by periodic reminders of enduring security problems in the region—from China's military modernization, to unresolved territorial disputes, to persistent tensions on the Korean peninsula.This volume is one of the first to treat these issues of economics and secur...

They ripped her binary-code baby out of her hands. Now, she’s the only one who can protect them all from its fatal flaw.Cassidy Delgado's anger burns with the fire of a thousand virtual suns. Forced out of her dream job, the architect of Interstellar Online resorts to sneaking into her own gaming software to find her old crewmates. But when a crucial millionaire investor at her new gig goes missing in-game, she launches after him to save her own future.Using each spare minu...