From the author of Sasquatch, Baby! this cozy mystery delights with twists, turns, tarot readings and MURDER. When tarot card reader Carrie Dettwiler stumbles across the mayor's dead body on a random Tuesday, town gossip reaches a fever pitch-and everyone's convinced she and her rescue raven Waggery have performed a deadly dark ritual. Carrie deals with the cards she's dealt, turning over every clue, only to be blown off course by her gale-force feelings for tattoo artist Stormy Portwood, ...

When Carrie Dettwiler brings her tarot card practice and her pet raven, Waggery, to the cold and craggy seaside town of Mariner's Cove, she finds herself neck-deep in a rising tide of suspicion over who killed a flamboyant fortune teller named Baba Caracatiță. Despite her vigorous attempts to stay out of the investigation, Carrie is forced to get involved when her priceless emerald ring is found lodged in Baba's throat, and the coroner is unwilling to return it without the correct papers. ...

This SQE2 revision guide covers the requirements of the SRA SQE2 assessment specification for written legal skills, which is examined four times a year in January, April, July and October. Designed specifically to help you prepare for the SQE2 assessment, it provides a clear, concise and highly focused overview of the subject, and demonstrates how you will be assessed at SQE2 in the legal skills of Case and Matter Analysis, Legal Research, Legal Writing and Legal Drafting.The book ...

This book focuses on descriptions of the developments in legal frameworks and policies regarding the human rights of older persons. First, it covers the policies adopted and practices developed at the universal system, particularly within the sphere of the United Nations. Second, it includes a side-by-side comparison of the work of regional human rights mechanisms, which have picked up some momentum in the past decade. Through its inclusion of law, policy, and current processes, the widest...

Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized stories of recovery that help to deepen our understanding of the disaster. Specifically, the volume examines ways in which gender and sexuality issues have been largely ignored in the e...

Although many developments surrounding the Internet campaign are now considered to be standard fare, there were a number of new developments in 2016. Drawing on original research conducted by leading experts, The Internet and the 2016 Presidential Campaign attempts to cover these developments in a comprehensive fashion. How are campaigns making use of the Internet to organize and mobilize their ground game? To communicate their message? The book also examines how citizens made use of onlin...

From the author of Dead Spread, this unputdownable creature feature has readers raving. After her posh Napa Valley friends expel her for committing an unspeakable betrayal, Tabitha Eggs retreats to the redwood forests of Del Norte County, California to drink herself to death. But when she stumbles over two decomposing corpses near her new home-among a growing list of other frightening, unexplainable experiences-she believes that walking into a raging wildfire is preferable to whatever wait...

We arrive yet again at the end of it all: the dreaded holiday season, where everything is too bright, nothing is where it should be, and you will be constantly hounded by the persistent dread of having forgotten something very important. And traffic will be totally and utterly f*cked all the way to the mall. We are doomed.But there may still be some spark in these fading minutes before the heat death of the universe, before the last tear is shed, and before the last present is unwr...

The twentieth century bequeathed us a fabulous gift: thirty more years of life on average. Supersized life spans are going to radically alter society, and present an unprecedented opportunity to change our approach not only to old age but to all of life's stages. The ramifications are just beginning to dawn on us.... yet in the meantime, we keep thinking about, and planning for, life as it used to be lived.In A Long Bright Future, longevity and aging expert Laura Carstense...

The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair.In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boasted an average of B or better. At Ballou, Cedr...

Although it is something that affects all of us, directly or indirectly, ageing can all too often be perceived negatively. Ageing and Caring is an essential, positive guide for older people, their carers and their families. It seeks to outline not only the challenges that can arise from ageing but also how active and rewarding life can continue to be in old age.From practical advice on remaining active in retirement, to guidance on coping with a loss of independence, Ageing and Car...

The "compelling" story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society ( Boston Globe).On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had fail...