Girls are vanishing. Bodies are surfacing. And all roads lead back to Mama…A killer is on the loose. The city’s on edge.And the only man who can stop it all is barely holding himself together.In Mama’s Boy, secrets don’t stay buried—they come back swinging.Junior is murdering prostitutes and Mama is making him do it.Private Investigator Sam Sharpe is hired to find one of the missing girls, another of whom works for local crime boss, Judah Hammer. The st...

I’ve been claimed–the last and they want all my firsts.The four horsemen of Sherman High have decided I’m theirs.Theirs to have in every way they want.Except I don’t want to be the toy of the rich boys.I mean, I’ve never even been kissed. I’m not special.Unnoticed. Unwanted. Untouched.I’ve lived my life in the shadows, invisible and safe.Now they’re showing me off at parties and marking me in front of everyone.But our lives ar...

50 Imaging Studies Every Doctors Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the practice of radiology. Selected using a rigorous methodology, the studies cover topics including: headache, back pain, chest pain, abdominal and pelvic pain, bone, joint, and extremity pain, cancer screening and management, and radiation exposure from medical imaging. For each study, a concise summary is presented with an emphasis on the results and limitations of the study, and its implications...

Ocellus & Chitkin© are the stories about two ants who are trying to escape from a cacao plantation where they are slaves. The stories mirror real children, today. The ants' daring and unexpected attempts to get home and find freedom are exciting and suspenceful for children and readers. The stark reality that most chocolate is produced using child-slavery is softened for listeners between six and 10 years old; older readers will hear the message that Ocellus and Chitkin are telling. Humour...

Radioactive waste management and contaminated site clean-up reviews radioactive waste management processes, technologies, and international experiences. Part one explores the fundamentals of radioactive waste including sources, characterisation, and processing strategies. International safety standards, risk assessment of radioactive wastes and remediation of contaminated sites and irradiated nuclear fuel management are also reviewed. Part two highlights the current international situation...

Archbishop Romero and Spiritual Leadership in the Modern World presents a contemporary and integrated understanding of one of the most remarkable pastoral leaders of our time. This bishop, Oscar Romero of El Salvador, experienced deeply the overwhelming sufferings of the Salvadoran people, as well as those within himself. He cried out in vain to Presidents Carter and Reagan, “no more arms to El Salvador,” but his pleas were not heard at that time. Knowing that he would soon be murdered, Ro...

Ceramics for New Nuclear Applications provides a comprehensive review on the most up-to-date technologies for advanced ceramics and composites for nuclear applications. The book's chapters cover nuclear fuel and structural materials, materials for the next generation of reactors and fusion reactors, and materials for nuclear medicine. Cutting-edge topics such as accident tolerant fuels, space applications and nuclear medicine are covered in detail. Academic and industrial researchers worki...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Life sucked, and then the apocalypse.He knew he shouldn't get involved, but he always scratched an itch, and now he had pissed off bikers, Euro-trash drug smugglers, a goth zombie girl, and a homicidal psychopath, all trying to catch him. Oh yeah, don't forget the hurricane of the century and a zombie-making alien pandemic bearing down on them.

Few academic disciplines have recorded their own origins and development in an organized way. The American Political Science Association, in cooperation with Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honor society, and the University of Kentucky, have undertaken an extensive oral history project, the aim of which is to trace and record the growth of the discipline. The program has made it possible to amass hours of interviews with women and men who have influenced the study of political scienc...

The world thinks my horsemen have gone soft.But they will do anything to protect me.Our enemies aren’t happy hiding in the shadows anymore.Our parents’ secrets come at a cost and put us all in danger.Trust is a risk none of us can take outside of our unit.Together, we’ll remind everyone who my men really are.And why they always win.This is the continuation of the Untouched series, Book 4 which follows after Their Cruel Play. The story...

Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the books and law in action, a third concept of law in the image—that is, of law as it is perceived by the public through the lens of public media.Imagining Legality argues that images of law suggested by television and film are as numerous as they are various, and that they give rise to ...

This book examines the criminal justice decisions of the Rehnquist Court era through analyses of individual justices' contributions to the development of law and policy. The Rehnquist Court era (1986-2005) produced a period of opportunity for the U.S. Supreme Court's judicial conservatives to reshape constitutional law concerning rights in the criminal justice process. It was an era in which the Court produced many hotly-debated decisions concerning such issues as capital punishment, searc...