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Misguided judgment -- Salty and peppered -- A slice of good fortune -- Cern's pound of flesh -- Prayers for the devil -- The breakup -- Who threw my liquor away -- When hearts attack -- The McCern method of international diplomatic relationship building -- No quarter -- The muddy Mississippi -- Collateral damage -- To live and die in New Orleans -- Child's play -- Lycan'thrope: a tale of an American hairwolf -- Anger nightmares -- The three cides: patri, fili & homi -- Unseen danger -- An ironic demise -- Mexican brown -- Attack of the elderly -- The thickness of blood -- Conclusion -- Bonus chapter: of gods and sober people -- New Orleans EMS overview

Have you heard of the famous robbers D.B. Cooper or Marm Mandelbaum? Daring Heists: Real Tales of Sensational Robberies and Robbers, introduces readers ages 9 to 12 to the mystery and suspense of fascinating crimes while fostering an interest in history, investigative practices, and sociology.

The retirement puzzle -- Capitalist crisis and pension insecurity -- Reconversion and the origin of bargained plans -- Turning labor into finance capital -- Toward the 401(k) ownership society -- Conclusions

Preface -- Early equipment management -- The EEM road map -- Design and performance management -- Specification and LCC management -- Project and risk management -- Project governance -- Implementing EEM -- Early product management

The falls / Martha La Guardia Kotite -- Superstorm: inside Hurricane Sandy / Kathryn Miles -- Saving New York Harbor / William H. Thiesen, PhD -- The worst days of a bad fall / Eric C. Hartlep -- A long good night / Gerald Hoover -- The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II / Malcolm F. Willoughby -- Ordeal in the ice / Geoffrey D. Reynolds -- Man down / Kalee Thompson -- With the U.S. Lifesavers: rescue by moonlight / Francis Rolt-Wheeler -- Figuring the variables / H. Paul Jeffers -- Storm of the century / Martha LaGuardia Kotite -- Two tankers down / Robert Frump -- Bandit / Gerald Hoover

Tales of survival are as old as humanity! In Survival: True Stories, readers discover accounts of survival that required innovation, a thirst for adventure, and even a bit of brutality. Whether it's Shackleton on the frozen landscape of Antarctica or William Bligh and his loyal followers adrift in the Pacific after mutiny on the Bounty, survival is a fascinating topic for readers ages 9 to 12! Survival is the second book in the Murder & Mayhem series, which features true tales that whet kids' appetites for history by engaging them in genres with proven track records-mystery and adventure. History is made of near misses, unexplained disappearances, unsolved mysteries, and bizarre events that are almost too weird to be true-almost! The Mystery & Mayhem series delves into the past to provide kids with a jumping-off point into a lifelong habit of appreciating history. Each of the true tales told in Survival are paired with interesting facts about the setting, the industry, and the time period. A glossary and index provide the opportunity to practice using essential academic tools. These nonfiction narratives use clear, concise language with compelling plots that both avid and reluctant readers will be drawn to.

Discover accounts of wilderness survival that required innovation, a thirst for adventure, and even a bit of brutality, including Shackleton on the frozen landscape of Antarctica and William Bligh and his loyal followers adrift in the Pacific after a mutiny on the Bounty. William Manly loses his wagon train while crossing Death Valley. Charlotte Picard and her family are shipwrecked on the way to Senegal. And then there's the Donner Party

In The Greatest Special Ops Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about Special Operations that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Marcus Luttrell (author of Lone Survivor), Mark Owen (author of No Easy Day: the Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden), William Morgan, Christian McBurney, James Otis, H. Beam Piper, Duane Schultz, Hampton Sides, Michael Haas, Ben S. Malcolm, and many others. It includes legendary tales from the French and Indian Wars up through present-day Afghanistan and Iraq.

In The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about snipers that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Chris Kyle (author of American Sniper), Joe LeBleu, Gina Cavallaro and Matt Larsen, and many others. It includes tales of legendary snipers from the Revolutionary War up through present-day Afghanistan and Iraq.

3. Lawrence O. Gostin: 'Old' and 'new' institutions for persons with mental illness: treatment, punishment, or preventive confinement?3a. Stephen Shute: Mental illness, preventive detention, prison, and human rights; Part II:Beyond the prison; 4. Loïc Wacquant: The use and abuse of the prison in the age of social insecurity; 4a. Ian Loader: Journeying into, and away from, neoliberal penality; 5. Thomas Mathiesen: Ten reasons for not building more prisons; 5a. David Downes: Comments on Mathiesen's 'Ten reasons; 6. Jack Mapanje: Creative incarceration and strategies for surviving freedom.

In The Moth Snowstorm Michael McCarthy, one of Britain's leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened, and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services. Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, The Moth Snowstorm not only presents a new way of looking at the world around us, but effortlessly blends with it a remarkable and moving memoir of childhood trauma from which love of the natural world emerged. It is a powerful, timely, and wholly original book which comes at a time when nature has never needed it more