A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist's groundbreaking account of the crime that shocked New York City—and the worldIn the early hours of March 13, 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was stabbed to death in the middle-class neighborhood of Kew Gardens, Queens. The attack lasted for more than a half hour—enough time for Genovese's assailant to move his car and change hats before returning to rape and kill her just a few steps from her front door.

This book explores the responses of leading European avant-garde painters to the operas of Richard Wagner, the most influential composer of the late nineteenth century. The term avant-garde represents a twenty-first century evaluation of certain nineteenth-century artists working in a variety of advanced styles, rather than a phrase the artists applied to themselves.Chapters are on individual artists or groups, rather than an attempt to survey all of nineteenth-century Wagnerian vi...

What is a quantum dot chemist? What does he or she do?Meet Sandy, a kid like you and me, who grew up wanting to become a school teacher. Then she discovered she loved doing chemistry. Now, she does chemistry research and teaches chemistry to college students. Learn how Sandy discovered a quantum dot that emits white light and how she is working to use quantum dots to track the movement of medicines in brains. And learn how Sandy suffered from seasonal bipolar disorder and then, wit...

The third edition of Ethics & International Affairs provides a fresh selection of classroom resources, ideal for courses in international relations, ethics, foreign policy, and related fields. Published with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, this collection contains some of the best contemporary scholarship on international ethics, written by a group of distinguished political scientists, political theorists, philosophers, applied ethicists, and economic de...

The must-have statistics guide for students of health servicesStatistics for Health Care Management and Administration: Working with Excel introduces the uses of statistics in healthcare management and administration using the features and functions of Microsoft Excel. The book introduces students to statistics within the context of health care, focusing on the major data and analysis techniques used in the field. Step-by-step instructions in the latest ve...

A new approach to contemporary documentation and learningWhat is learning? How do we look for, capture, reflect on, and share learning to foster meaningful and active engagement? A Guide to Documenting Learning helps educators answer these questions.Documenting learning is a process that makes thinking about learning processes visible, meaningful, shareable, and amplified. It facilitates student-driven learning, helping st...

For decades, a narrative constructed centuries after the events it describes has stood as historical fact. New forensic evidence drawn from physical manuscripts, numismatic records, and contemporary non-Muslim accounts tells a different story.The Two Muhammads examines the architecture of a dilemma at the heart of Islamic origins. Who was Muhammad, and does the historical record support the authority his tradition claims for him? Drawing on manuscript evidence, classical Islamic so...

Think back to the lessons that shaped you the most. Did they come from textbooks—or from the stories that life itself told you? What if the twists and turns of your life were all part of a greater design? Through vulnerable storytelling and heartfelt reflection, Linda and Bill —the "Pair o' Docs"—invite you on a journey through life's moments of laughter, loss, insight, and personal growth. Their experiences are not just their own—it's a mirror for anyone navigating life, partnership, agin...

On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally beaten and murdered in the street near her apartment, in full view of more than three dozen friends and neighbors—and no one did a thing to stop it. More than thirty-five years after its first publication, Thirty-Eight Witnesses, the true account of what transpired that night in Queens, New York, continues to disturb us. We would like to think that we would step in and do what we could to stop the carnage. But not muc...

Disjointed (688 pages in print) is for patients with hEDS/HSD and the physicians who treat them. hEDS/HSD is an underrecognized, complex, multisystemic disorder, with the silos of healthcare’s specialties often working against effective and efficient treatment. With 21 specialist & 6 resource chapters, Disjointed brings together physician, patient, and parent perspectives to support the goal of earlier and more complete intervention. With specialist chapters by: Paldeep Atwal, M.D., Richar...

Batter up! It's another Ballpark Mysteries baseball mystery audiobook. Next up, is New York City! Why is a black cat haunting the New York Mets? Kate and Mike arrive in New York for a big game against the Chicago Cubs, but Cookie, the team’s star hitter, is rattled by a phantom feline. Without a win at that night’s game, the Mets’ season might be over. Can Mike and Kate figure out who’s bringing a black cat and bad luck to the team before the big game?Ballpark Mysteries are the all...

How can you make the most of retirement? How should you plan for retirement? What are the challenges of retirement and how can they be dealt with?This new edition of The Psychology of Retirement looks at this life stage as a journey that involves challenges, opportunities, setbacks, periods of disenchantment and, often, exciting new beginnings. Updates include a new chapter on the ‘old age’ stage of life as well as end-of-chapter tips and things to think about, case studie...