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This book documents and reveals new information about the anthrax attacks of 2001. Decker provides first-hand perspective detailing the new science, microbial forensics, and parts of the investigation unknown to the public.

This book is for every adult who secretly wishes they were a police officer or is pursuing that dream and making it a reality. So You Want to Be a Cop looks at the daily ins and outs of the job of a police officer, from recruitment, life at the academy, patrol, and eventually promotion to either a supervisory or specialized role.

This book gives the reader a wealth of background knowledge in both theater and inquiry based education and also lays out lesson plans that are easy to follow.

This book will help educators design STEM programs and lessons that foster teamwork and thinking while getting students actively involved in their own learning.

This up-to-date, new and improved edition of Don't Gossip in the Teachers' Lounge has 200 tips to help the beginning elementary school teacher learn the inter-workings of school relationships.

The Unlearning Leader is about how today's leaders need to connect for success. The premise of this book is that we all need to unlearn.

This book provides teachers and parents with many concepts and tactics that they can use to teach children how to learn more efficiently and effectively. This book identifies and explains those skills and frames them as interacting in a mutually interacting and reinforcing cycle that I call the Learning Skills Cycle.

This book is a practical guide for K-12 educators as well as parents of students who are identified as being in the top academic percentiles of the population.

This book focuses on the boundaries which faculty of color encounter in everyday experiences on campus and presents a more complete picture of life in the academy - one that documents how faculty of color are tested, but also how they can not only overcome, but thrive in their respective educational institutions.

Managing the Digital You: Where and How to Keep and Organize Your Digital Life is the guide to managing and preserving digital items. Covering multimedia, non-digital documents, financial and legal documents, and social media archiving, this comprehensive text addresses how to get started and develop a plan for managing existing and future items.

The seventh edition of an introductory text, this book explains how theatre happens, who makes it happen, and what they do. Aimed at beginning theatre majors, minors, or non-majors, the book covers playwrights, directors, actors, set design, costumes, props, lights, sound, and new technology, as well as the roles of scholars and critics.

Dennis Gilbert provides a systematic comparative history of the rise and ultimate demise of the oligarchies that dominated Latin America for nearly a century. Focusing on five key countries, he tells the compelling story of the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, miners, and bankers who grew rich in a rapidly expanding global economy.

Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children offers students in training and professionals an array of sensitive and creative ways to help even their most challenging patients. Klorer's rich and highly accessible narrative seamlessly weaves together theory, research, and cases into an invaluable resource.

Organized around the personality systems framework, this text offers students a clear and engaging introduction to the study of personality. Integrating cutting-edge research, the second edition provides a comprehensive roadmap toward understanding personality by examining personality's different parts, organization, and development over time.

Patricia Drentea's Families and Aging examines how the changing lifestyles and diversity of families of Americans will affect aging in later life. It explores the life course transitions that occur as individuals and families age, and considers how these social trends affect lives and society as a whole.

Race and Racism examines race in society from an anthropological perspective. The second edition features updates throughout, including more discussion of critical race theory, new biophysical research on human origins, new material on media and racism, new global examples, and additional material on how racism impacts a variety of ethnic groups.

Managing Reference Today: New Models and Practices - highlights newly developed service models used by libraries and ways to handle changing reference collections. - describes new ways to provide reference services and ideas of how to select and manage reference collections. - identifies the best practices for meeting the needs of library users.

Offering a panoramic view of much of Benjamin's thought, and concentrating in particular on his early writings, this book derives from a philosophical analysis of readings and studies by Benjamin that have not heretofore been considered in detail.

This book offers a broad reconstruction of the modern notion of sovereignty, a comprehensive critique of state-inflicted violence, and a concept of non-coercive law for our contemporary world society.

Examines the Indonesian media industry in the digital era, examining contemporary 'battlefields' between media owners and ordinary citizens.

Offering an alternative outlook on contemporary (practical) philosophy, this highly original book provides a conceptual history of responsibility within philosophy, including a critical analysis of the relation between philosophy and its social and political contexts.

This highly original book sheds new light on aspects of incommensurability of values and its implications for ethics and justice. It provides original and innovative analysis of the characteristics of incommensurability in relation to values, and explores the implications of incommensurability for ethics, justice and public decision-making.

Using food-oriented case studies centred on Australian cities and media, this book argues for a processual understanding of cosmopolitanism that approaches everyday practices as a site of potentially ethical and/or reflexive inter-cultural exchanges.

This book traces this path to equal representation between women and men in elected bodies, with a special focus on candidate selection process and the implementation of special measures such as party quotas.

Introduces students to a new framework for understating the relationship between Islam and "the West", with an accessible introduction, three comprehensive and easy-to-follow parts, definitions of key terms, chronology, discussion points, and further reading.