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Drawing on candid interviews with the perpetrators, Bruce Jacobs presents a narrative that explores the world of streetcorner drugs from the vantage point of those who actually commit these high-risk crimes.

Social critics and artificial intelligence experts have long prophesized that computers and robots would soon relegate humans to the dustbin of history. This work explores the increasingly intimate relationship between people and their personal communication technologies.

Presents a study of opposing American Catholic approaches to abortion, especially in terms of laws and government policies. James Hitchcock discusses the 2016 presidential campaign and how it altered an already changed political landscape. He also examines the Affordable Care Act, LGBT rights, and the questions they raise about religious liberty.

Illustrates the important interrelationship among religiousness, spirituality, forgiveness, and alcohol and drug use and abuse throughout the lifespan. This book examines the effects of religiousness and spirituality on recovery in relation to more widely recognized supports.

Climate change has become one of the most important global issues of our time, with far-reaching natural, socio- economic, and political effects. To address climate change and development issues from the perspective of evaluation, an international conference was held in Alexandria, Egypt. This book distills the essence of that conference.

This book will be an implementation guide for creating a Lean Culture from the ground up while gaining buy-in from key stakeholders and being able to sustain the results. Everyone talks about implementing a Lean Culture, but only provide Lean tools for the implementation.

A resource for forensic mental health professionals involved with conducting custody evaluations in family court proceedings. This book also looks at the relationship of sexual behaviour to sexual abuse, domestic violence, physical abuse, family sexuality, behaviour problems, reporter characteristics, and age and gender of the child.

Biology is central to our understanding of health and disease and to the development of treatments. Enhanced with illustrations, Biology for the Health Sciences is an essential companion for any student of the health sciences and for biological science students studying the causes of disease as part of a wider course.

The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asiäs largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the planning, design, construction and maintenance of roads in developing countries. It focuses largely on rural roads which provide important links from villages and farms to markets and offer the public access to health, education and other essential services.

All students enter our math classrooms with ideas worthy of discussion. Some of the most effective breakthroughs come from short, intentional conversations between students and teacher, yet planning for these moments can seem daunting.

"In this mixed narrative/reference format book, the author presents a narrative discussion of her Teacher Decision Making Framework in Part I before taking a closer look at how this model applies to readers across three guided reading text level bands - making - in Parts II, III, and IV, respectively. After applying the framework to specific learners, goals, and texts in each band, she offers a set of Decision Guides teachers can use as reference points to plan lessons and prepare for in the moment decisions around three specific instructional areas: Word Solving, Fluency and Expression, and Comprehension"--

This edition represents a complete overhaul of the original work, giving a complete, self-contained introduction to nanomaterials. The organization has been completely revamped, with inclusion of fundamental physical chemistry and physics pertaining to relevant electrical, mechanical, and optical material properties.