"The Short Constitution" by William F. Russell and Martin J. Wade is a concise and accessible guide to the United States Constitution. This book distills the essential elements of the Constitution, making it easier for readers to understand the foundational legal document that governs the nation. The authors provide clear explanations of each article and amendment, highlighting their significance and implications in contemporary society. This work serves as an invaluable resource for stude...

All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in vernal ponds or baboon troops spread across the African veldt. Others have been created as human activities fragment natural landscapes, as in stands of trees separated by roads. As landscape change has accelerated, understanding how these metapop...

"Unstoppable, breathtaking action..."The Aura Jax trilogy is perfect for fans of Divergent, Legend, and The Hunger Games.One girl. One Gift. One chance to take down a perfect dystopia.In a world where your thoughts can be tracked, manipulated, or erased, sixteen-year-old Aura Jax discovers she’s not just another number in The Society—she’s the key to tearing it apart.From the decay...

In a world where your thoughts don't belong to you, the person who controls minds will rule everything.Welcome to The Society…She was nothing. No one. Just one more starving teen scrabbling for life on the outskirts of The Society – the high-tech city where the Elites rule in luxury under the ever-watchful eye of the tyrannical President Wolfe.But when Aura's mother is arrested for crimes against the society, and Aura herse...

A revolution ignited.A deception unmasked.A world on the brink.Get ready to burn…Aura Jax thought she knew her enemy, but the truth is more terrifying than she ever imagined.The puppet strings of The Society have been pulled back, exposing the true face of evil: Trontan, an immortal AI with a vision to remake humanity in its own image.With Dr. Calvin Aldrich's sinister agenda...

A city blazing with rebellion. An evil growing in power. A girl with a gift...Aura Jax has tasted freedom, and now she's coming for those who want to take it away.Sixteen-year-old Aura Jax has always known her own mind, whether The Society she grew up in knew it or not. Now, after returning to the totalitarian city set against everything she believes in, Aura finds herself in need of an impossible escape.Betrayed by allies she thought she could trus...

A cheese puff does not grow in a field, nor is it baked in an oven. It is the violent result of High-Temperature Short-Time (HTST) extrusion. The vast majority of the world's breakfast cereals, pet foods, and crunchy snacks are manufactured by a small, highly guarded B2B oligopoly that builds massive industrial food extruders. This technical manual deconstructs the brutal thermodynamics of the extrusion process. Inside a heavy steel barrel, a massive rotating screw grinds raw cornmeal and ...

For over forty years, Latin American Politics and Development has kept instructors and students abreast of current affairs and changes in Latin America. Now in its tenth edition, this authoritative yet accessible introduction has been updated throughout. Organized on a country-by-country basis, Latin American Politics and Development offers instructors maximum flexibility in organizing courses.Revisions to the Tenth Edition include:An updated theoret...

Everyone’s favorite superhero is dead.And somehow, I'm the one accused of killing him.Now my face is plastered across every screen in the country, my friends are being hunted, and one of the most powerful organizations in the world wants us erased before we uncover the truth.The worst part?I don't even have superpowers.In a world where Supers are celebrities, weapons, and gods rolled into one, being powerless makes you expendable. And the deeper I di...

This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.

In this seventh edition, John A. Booth, Christine J. Wade, and Thomas W. Walker update a classic in the field which invites students to explore the histories, economies, and politics of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Covering the region's political and economic development from the early 1800s onward, the authors bring the Central American story up to date.New to the 7th Edition:Analysis of trends in human rights performa...

This is the first book to construct a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.