Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bonesis the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI.Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too compelling to pass up.Soon she was documenting crime scenes, photographing charred corpses, and digitally retouching the disem...

The Covenant Father: A Biblical Guide to Leading Generations Before You Ever See Them by Andre G. Bailey is a faith based guide for men who want to lead their families with purpose, clarity, and responsibility. The book argues that fatherhood is not only about presence or provision, but about spiritual authority, discipline, and covenant obedience.Across fifteen chapters, Bailey presents the father as priest, protector, watchman, and steward of the home. He emphasi...

A book for dreamers and doers, this dreamer nurtured a lifelong vision to spend the last chapters of her life in her father’s birthplace, Tobago. She spent 50 years benchmarking Tobago against places of interest on five continents. Re-live her adventures in 1984, flying and camping through the Australian Outback with new-found friends, on a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, her visits to Indigenous communities and sites in Australia to purchase Indigenous art called Dreamings. An art collector and opera...

There are moments in life when ordinary people are asked to do extraordinary things.In the darkest days of the Second World War, courage did not always wear a uniform. Sometimes it wore patched trousers, scuffed shoes, and a school cap pulled low against the rain. Sometimes bravery lived not on battlefields, but in the hearts of young boys and girls trying to make sense of a world turned upside down.The Green Flash is a story about ...

PV has traditionally been used for electric power in space. Solar panels on spacecraft are usually the sole source of power to run the sensors, active heating and cooling, and communications. Photovoltaics for Space: Key Issues, Missions and Alternative Technologies provides an overview of the challenges to efficiently produce solar power in near-Earth space and beyond: the materials and device architectures that have been developed to surmount these environmental and mission-specific barr...

Design for Embedded Image Processing on FPGAsBridge the gap between software and hardware with this foundational design referenceField-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are integrated circuits designed so that configuration can take place. Circuits of this kind play an integral role in processing images, with FPGAs increasingly embedded in digital cameras and other devices that produce visual data outputs for subsequent realization and compr...

Life in the Open OceanLife in the Open Ocean: The Biology of Pelagic Species provides in-depth coverage of the different marine animal groups that form the communities inhabiting the ocean’s pelagic realm. This comprehensive resource explores the physical environment, foraging strategies, energetics, locomotion, sensory mechanisms, global and vertical distributions, special adaptations, and other characteristics of a wide array of marine taxa.Bring...

When an antique typewriter finds its way into their home, ten-year-old Lily's creativity flourishes—but so does something far darker.At first, the typewriter seems like a harmless curiosity, perfect for Lily's whimsical tales. But as her stories unfold, strange occurrences grip the family: shadows moving unbidden, faint whispers echoing in the night, and cryptic messages appearing on the typewriter's pages.Margaret, Lily's mother, begins to suspect the machine is no ordinar...

Philosophers and therapists have long theorised about how psychological mechanisms for love, jealousy, anxiety, depression and many other human characteristics may have evolved over millions of years. In the dawn of the new insights on evolution, provided by Darwin's theories of natural selection, Freud, Jung and Klein sought to identify and understand human motives, emotions and information processing as functions deeply-rooted in our evolved history. Despite this promising start and majo...

This book explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This apparently straightforward contrast (exemplified in the difference between rational-choice models in economics and holistic models in social anthropology) is a source of confusion. This is so, F. G. Bailey argues, because people polarize and essentialize both actors and actions and uphold one o...

Professor Kriesberg explores in this book the many myths about the poor, the welfare dependents, and the husbandless mothers. The evidence marshalled does not support the idea that people continue on welfare generation after generation, that the children of broken families have disrupted marriages themselves, that the poor seek out public housing and public assistance because they prefer such dependency, or that husbandless mothers all have lower educational goals for their children than d...

Treasons, Stratagems, and Spoils is a sequel to the author's highly regarded Stratagems and Spoils.Treason, the new word in the title, indicates a heightened attention to morality?to ideas of duty and conscience?as a foil to rational calculations of advantage. By providing sets of propositions and questions that illuminate narratives of political events, this book helps anyone interested in struggles for power understand politics and political leaders in their own and in other cultures. Th...