After becoming the suspect in the murder of a young prostitute, Deputy Sam Hardy is “vanished” to a temporary post as the sole police officer in Angels and Hope, an idyllic town located in the middle of the desert, miles from any other sign of life. Hardy soon learns that Angels and Hope was constructed as a company town to support a magnificent amusement park—one to rival Disneyland—known as Captain Clive’s Dreamworld. When he arrives, however, Hardy notices some strange happenings. The p...

This volume of the Open University Reader for Supporting Lifelong Learning looks at policy development in lifelong learning at local, regional, national and supra-national levels. Using an international team of contributors, it explores and examines the policy context for lifelong learning, the policies themselves, and their effects when implemented. The book focuses on the role of lifelong learning policy in relation to issues of competitiveness, technological change and social inclusion....

A sniper’s bullet strikes a target deep in the heart of Cleveland, Ohio, causing major disruption to an already disruptive city.The Secret Service, FBI, and other government agencies are deployed, and with time not on their side, two detectives are forced to collaborate with them to bring down this serial killer. Neither of them have any idea of where or when this killer will strike next.Detective Eric Morris and Detective Sonya Lee thought they had these horoscope killings...

After taking a slug to the crown, street hood Menace has been out of commission for two long years. Now fully healed, he aims to pick up where he and Speedy left off, and there’s no time like the present. With Menace on the “disabled list,” Speedy has grown the old gang into a force to be reckoned with, their influence, firepower, and manpower three times what it used to be. As Speedy and the boys help Menace regain his “underworld footing,” bringing him up to speed, an old foe resurfaces—...

From the critically acclaimed author of Motor City, Detroit comes alive in a powerful and thrilling novel set amid the chaos of the 1960s race riots and the serenity of baseball's opening day.Willie Bledsoe, once an idealistic young black activist, is now a burnt-out case. After leaving a snug berth at Tuskegee Institute to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he has become bitterly disillusioned with the civil rights movement and its leaders. He returns hom...

The streets have claimed two more victims in what seems like a typical gang shooting … or was it? Female gangster Fuzzy is heartsick over the loss of her two besties, Jr. and Hadji. But she’s even more devastated at the possibility that their deaths might’ve been an unintended consequence of her dubious behavior. As a nervous Fuzzy ponders the possibility of the next body to drop being her own, another queenpin named B.B. arrives home.Never in her wildest dreams did the Jersey nati...

Tragedy is a normal part of ‘the life.’ But when mid-level gangster Fuzzy loses her lover and partner in crime to it, the pain is far deeper than anything she’s ever felt before. But the hurt isn’t enough to take her out of the game completely. In fact, Fuzzy is determined to honor his memory by picking up right where her deceased sweetheart left off, aided by his apprentice Lil Man. As a duo, their first battle for gangland supremacy will come in the form of a powerful crime lord named B....

Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines current research and innovative practice and addresses the key questions: how does it work, what are its critical “active ingredients” and does it represent value for money? The book covers a ...

If you don't do it yourself, you certainly know someone who is forever putting a foot into his or her mouth. This person has raised the tasteless, thoughtless, tactless, or otherwise terrifically awful remark into an art form. If there is a wrong place, a wrong time, or a wrong person to whom to say anything, they're on the spot and on the ready. And though we can joke about it (at the right time, of course), careless speech is no laughing matter. Words really can hurt-not only the person ...

Dermatologic and Cosmetic Procedures in Office Practice, by Drs. Richard Usatine, John Pfenninger, Daniel Stulberg, and Rebecca Small, provides you with the clear, step-by-step guidance you need to provide these options to your patients. Full-color photographs and drawings in combination with high-definition narrated videos clearly demonstrate key procedures, including skin biopsies, cryosurgery, electrosurgery, botulinum toxin injections, and more. Access to the full text, and a downloada...

"Lou Prophet loves to keep beautiful women company. But when the invitation comes from Miss Louisa Bonaventure, the Vengeance Queen, he finds himself intimate with hot lead instead of her warm female form. Louisa’s got him riding the brutal Mexican frontier chasing outlaws led by Tony Lazzaro, a notorious thief whose deadly weapon, Sugar Delphi, is a blind and blood-hungry pistolera.While Lou and Louisa hunt for Lazzaro, they’ve got two gangs hot on their tail: vicious Mojaves hung...

Every serious student of journalism should read this book... Denis McQuail has succeeded in producing a work of scholarship that shows what journalists do and what they should do.- Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds"For a half century we have spoken earnestly of journalism′s responsibility to society instead of to business and government. Now this concept is given sophistication unmatched, by the best scholar of media theory of his generation."