Dangerous Knowledge / Colton 911: in Hot Pursuit

Dangerous Knowledge / Colton 911: in Hot Pursuit
Author: JULIE ANNE. KROTOW LINDSEY (GERI.)
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780263280555

Dangerous Knowledge by Julie Anne Lindsey Her survival depends on a stranger Journalist Katlin Andrews just nailed the exposé of her career when she's run off the road--and awakens with no memory and a stranger in her hospital room. Bodyguard Jack Hale promised to protect his best friend's sister. But he's working blind to stop a killer from taking the life of the woman he has no business falling for... Colton 911: In Hot Pursuit by Geri Krotow On the run for their lives...and straight towards a killer Sergeant Flynn Cruz-Street's estranged half-brother is a threat to society. To catch him Flynn must join forces with paralegal Vikki Colton. Vikki proves to be a brilliant investigator and what starts as a reluctant partnership soon blossoms into an irresistible attraction. But they must resist the sparks between them...or risk losing their lives.

Environmental Aspects of Zoonotic Diseases

Environmental Aspects of Zoonotic Diseases
Author: Robert Armon
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2012-01-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 184339085X

Environmental Aspects of Zoonotic Diseases provides a definitive description, commentary and research needs of environmental aspects related to zoonotic diseases. There are many interrelated connections between the environment and zoonotic diseases such as: water, soil, air and agriculture. The book presents investigations of these connections, with specific reference to environmental processes such as: deforestation, floods, draughts, irrigation practices, soil transfer and their impact on bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitological spread. Environmental aspects such as climate (tropical, sub-tropical, temperate, arid and semi-arid), developed and undeveloped countries, animal (domestic and wild) traffic animal border crossing, commercial animal trade, transportation, as well geography and weather on zoonosis, are also discussed and relevant scientific data is condensed and organized in order to give a better picture of interrelationship between the environment and current spread of zoonotic diseases. Altogether, the book presents a remarkable and a vast amount of potential future research directions based on the link: environment-vectors-pathogens-humans. The most up-to-date source of information on this increasingly important cross-disciplinary subject, Environmental Aspects of Zoonotic Diseases will be invaluable for environmentalists, veterinarians, medical staff, environmental engineers, government agencies and consultants working in this field. Authors: Prof. Robert Armon, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa, Israel, Dr. Uta Cheruti, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa, Israel

The Billionaire's Colton Threat

The Billionaire's Colton Threat
Author: Geri Krotow
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1489249419

In the latest The Coltons of Shadow Creek romance, a billionaire and his expectant bride put their lives on the line! Single, pregnant and nearly bankrupt, Halle Ford makes a deal with a sexy Scottish devil. She'll marry billionaire Alastair Buchanan for the sake of their baby – conceived after one night of passion – and to save her beloved Bluewood Ranch. They plan to divorce after one year, but their blossoming love might just surprise them! But no sooner do they say 'I do' than their very livelihoods are threatened. Someone begins sabotaging Halle's ranch, while Alastair's whiskey empire comes under siege. Drawn together by passion and danger, can the newlyweds protect the family they've both come to cherish?

The Handbook of Conflict Resolution

The Handbook of Conflict Resolution
Author: Morton Deutsch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 959
Release: 2006-09-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0787986666

The Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Second Edition is written for both the seasoned professional and the student who wants to deepen their understanding of the processes involved in conflicts and their knowledge of how to manage them constructively. It provides the theoretical underpinnings that throw light on the fundamental social psychological processes involved in understanding and managing conflicts at all levels—interpersonal, intergroup, organizational, and international. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics including information on cooperation and competition, justice, trust development and repair, resolving intractable conflict, and working with culture and conflict. Comprehensive in scope, this new edition includes chapters that deal with language, emotion, gender, and personal implicit theories as they relate to conflict.

Freedom by the Sword

Freedom by the Sword
Author: William A. Dobak
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1510720227

The Civil War changed the United States in many ways—economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more important than Emancipation. Besides freeing nearly four million slaves, it brought agricultural wage labor to a reluctant South and gave a vote to black adult males in the former slave states. It also offered former slaves new opportunities in education, property ownership—and military service. From late 1862 to the spring of 1865, as the Civil War raged on, the federal government accepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never done before on such a scale. Known collectively as the United States Colored Troops and organized in segregated regiments led by white officers, some of these soldiers guarded army posts along major rivers; others fought Confederate raiders to protect Union supply trains, and still others took part in major operations like the Siege of Petersburg and the Battle of Nashville. After the war, many of the black regiments took up posts in the former Confederacy to enforce federal Reconstruction policy. Freedom by the Sword tells the story of these soldiers' recruitment, organization, and service. Thanks to its broad focus on every theater of the war and its concentration on what black soldiers actually contributed to Union victory, this volume stands alone among histories of the U.S. Colored Troops.

International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War

International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War
Author: Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231101943

This controversial set of essays evaluates and extends international relations theory in light of the revolutionary events of past years. The contributors demonstrate how theoretical constructs did not anticipate Soviet foreign policies that led to the end of the Cold War.

Discipline-Based Education Research

Discipline-Based Education Research
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309254140

The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological sciences, geosciences, and chemistry. DBER combines knowledge of teaching and learning with deep knowledge of discipline-specific science content. It describes the discipline-specific difficulties learners face and the specialized intellectual and instructional resources that can facilitate student understanding. Discipline-Based Education Research is based on a 30-month study built on two workshops held in 2008 to explore evidence on promising practices in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. This book asks questions that are essential to advancing DBER and broadening its impact on undergraduate science teaching and learning. The book provides empirical research on undergraduate teaching and learning in the sciences, explores the extent to which this research currently influences undergraduate instruction, and identifies the intellectual and material resources required to further develop DBER. Discipline-Based Education Research provides guidance for future DBER research. In addition, the findings and recommendations of this report may invite, if not assist, post-secondary institutions to increase interest and research activity in DBER and improve its quality and usefulness across all natural science disciples, as well as guide instruction and assessment across natural science courses to improve student learning. The book brings greater focus to issues of student attrition in the natural sciences that are related to the quality of instruction. Discipline-Based Education Research will be of interest to educators, policy makers, researchers, scholars, decision makers in universities, government agencies, curriculum developers, research sponsors, and education advocacy groups.

How East Asians View Democracy

How East Asians View Democracy
Author: Yun-han Chu
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0231517831

East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy. This book is the first to report the results of a large-scale survey-research project, the East Asian Barometer, in which eight research teams conducted national-sample surveys in five new democracies (Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Mongolia), one established democracy (Japan), and two nondemocracies (China and Hong Kong) in order to assess the prospects for democratic consolidation. The findings present a definitive account of the way in which East Asians understand their governments and their roles as citizens. Contributors use their expert local knowledge to analyze responses from a set of core questions, revealing both common patterns and national characteristics in citizens' views of democracy. They explore sources of divergence and convergence in attitudes within and across nations. The findings are sobering. Japanese citizens are disillusioned. The region's new democracies have yet to prove themselves, and citizens in authoritarian China assess their regime's democratic performance relatively favorably. The contributors to this volume contradict the claim that democratic governance is incompatible with East Asian cultures but counsel against complacency toward the fate of democracy in the region. While many forces affect democratic consolidation, popular attitudes are a crucial factor. This book shows how and why skepticism and frustration are the ruling sentiments among today's East Asians.