Updated with information on the latest models of GPS and new technology such as sophisticated downloadable maps, this new edition provides all the information needed to work any GPS unit in the outdoors.

The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems to global social formations. This diverse collection is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, sociology, race studies, gender studies, food studies, Latin American studies, and A...

An interdisciplinary excavation of colonoware as a material archive of African, Indigenous, and colonial entanglements across the early American South.In Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay, Jon Bernard Marcoux, Corey A. H. Sattes, and contributors examine colonoware to explore the active roles that African Americans and Indigenous people played in constructing southern colonial culture and part of their shared history with Europeans.

In the streets of Nashville embarks a journey of a homeless veteran named John. John and his dog, Duke, navigate through the streets looking for the basic necessities of life. As the harsh realities of the daily struggle hit John, he comes across some trouble and ends up in the hospital. As his nurse, Anne helps him recover, and they start to get to know each other and grow and bond. After some time, John is released from the hospital. Anne continued to help John recover and seek revenge. ...

The book documents Recruitment and Retention in Long Term Care, in the Backdrop of Covid-19. Sustaining standards of care, cost structure and customer value are critical while recruiting and retaining talent for America’s most deserving clients.

The White Paper documents the Clinton and Obama Era drug control policies that will be discussed, debated, and challenged in the 2016 Presidential election and beyond. This work stimulates thought leadership in Americas continuing policy debate to stem the harmful effect of drug use

“For forty years Ernest King prepared himself for the supreme test. From 1901 to 1941 he moved through the grades from ensign to admiral; he saw service in battleships, destroyers, submarines, supply ships, and aircraft carriers, in Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean; he served in engineering, on the staff of the commander of the Atlantic fleet in World War I, on the General Board, in the Bureau of Navigation and as chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; he taught at the Naval Academy and studie...

Strategic Leadership is a strategy research project that addresses the strategic art of leadership, borrowing the US militarys ends, ways, and means concept framework. The application of theory to a case study helps one understand how and why the concepts are important in real-time. The study sets out the Baldrige performance excellence criteria to use as a means of assessing an organizations performance to improve national competiveness and innovation. The application and integration of b...

This book has been banned from a major platform. In response, I have decided to make it available for free on other online platforms.A quiet revolution is sweeping across the world and overturning the reigning liberal world order. Leaders across the Western world have strived at all costs to build an inclusive society that transcends race, culture, and even nationality. This vision of the world has been imposed upon the public by special interests that influence our mainst...

Discretionary Equality traces the history of the school desegregation enforcement efforts of the Education Departments Office for Civil Rights (Ed-OCR). This study begins with a discussion of the historical factors leading to the inconsistent application of the equal educational policy. Very shortly after the old Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was established in 1953, a significant court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, ordered the desegregation of the...

How can colleges stay relevant in the twenty-first century?Residential colleges are the foundation on which US higher education is based. These institutions possess storied traditions fondly cherished by students, alumni, and faculty. There is no denying, however, that all colleges today struggle with changing consumer preferences, high sticker prices, and aging infrastructure. Technological and pedagogical alternatives—not to mention growing political pressure—pre...

The introductory chapter of this book presents the concepts of the bene?ts inherent in the study of comparative approach for an effective counterterrorism response on the local law enforcement level and overviews the inception of the project. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-?rst century, especially after the events of September 11, 2001, the legitimacy of law enforcement practices has been cited as a major concern for international criminal justice. As policing pr- tit...