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Elias has achieved the power he has always desired. But how much farther can he go? How much farther dare he go?

After a history of funding environmentally costly megaprojects, the World Bank now claims that it is trying to become a leading force for sustainable development. For more than a decade, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and grassroots movements have formed transnational coalitions to reform the World Bank and the governments that it funds. The Struggle for Accountability assesses the efforts of these groups to make the World Bank more publ...

Sophocles' Antigone is among the greatest of all works of Greek literature, and is often the play read first by those beginning to study Greek tragedy. This edition offers the text with facing translation and commentary, and an introduction including an account of the myth, a survey of the main interpretative issues, and a bibliography.

The most practical discussion of the rehabilitation of girls and women in conflict with the law in the correctional arena What Works with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law is the leading examination of evidence-based practice in the field of gender-responsive corrections. Adopting an international and intersectional approach, the distinguished authors seek to collect the best available data and thinking on what works with girls and wome...

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¿¿¿¿¿ "A powerful and timely children's book. ...Brown is unafraid to look modern problems square in the face and produce work that challenges unfair norms. The illustrations are evocative, and the underlying message to young readers is profoundly important." - Self-Publishing ReviewJoin the movement as four Black kids travel through their various life struggles in the inner city searching to answer the question if Black Lives Matter. Destined...

¿¿¿¿¿ "A powerful and timely children's book. ...Brown is unafraid to look modern problems square in the face and produce work that challenges unfair norms. The illustrations are evocative, and the underlying message to young readers is profoundly important." - Self-Publishing Review¿¿¿Join the movement as four Black kids travel through their various life struggles in the inner city searching to answer the question if Black Lives Matter. Desti...

The goal of this book is to provide information, inspiration, and mentorship to teachers (namely foreign women, but not restricted to such) as they navigate the gendered waters of teaching English in Japanese higher education. Such a book is timely because foreign female university teachers are outnumbered by their foreign male colleagues by nearly three to one. This imbalance, however, is likely to change as reforms in hiring policies (which ...

Working systems are shown in operation based on these examples. The designs in this book include all elements, including sensors, detectors, alarms, controls, lights, video and door entry systems. Chapters cover installation, testing and maintenance, and upgrading. Better safe than sorry, and you won't be sorry if you use this book. Build your own security system. This is a practical guide to domestic security, including basic systems. It incl...

A combination of psychometric theory, history, philosophy and practice, with recent advances in analytical methods, metrology, and design. Psychometrics, Test Theory, and the Latent Factors Models began as a strong manuscript by Petr Blahus. Before his death he entrusted it to three co-authors who completed the book with in-chapter explanations. accessible mathematical appendices and computational guides. It was also expanded to include import...

What I Tell Myself About Self Protection is continuing the mission to heal and empower adults, parents, grandparents, children, caretakers, crime victims, and others inspiring readers to take an active approach to self-protection against active threats and deadly threatening situations. From declaring one's right to be free and grow to being situationally aware, this book guides readers to take strong decisive actions and empower their loved o...

This is not just a book "about governance", it tells you how to "do governance".Authors David A. H. Brown and Dr. Debra L. Brown deliver: Proven Governance Solutions: It is a single source-the ultimate guide-for solving your governance problems. Access: It includes almost 70 governance concepts and tools that are unique only to this book. Competence and Confidence: It covers the broad spectrum of governance issues from governance structure and...

This is not just a book "about governance", it tells you how to "do governance".Authors David A. H. Brown and Dr. Debra L. Brown deliver: Proven Governance Solutions: It is a single source-the ultimate guide-for solving your governance problems. Access: It includes almost 70 governance concepts and tools that are unique only to this book. Competence and Confidence: It covers the broad spectrum of governance issues from governance structure and...

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Andrew Osher was just a normal guy. He ate lunch at the deli down the street, grabbed coffee from the coffee shop by the bus stop on his way to work at the bank, and played video games with his buddy. His was an ordinary life filled with ordinary things, until he fell asleep...The world was a different place when Andrew slept.

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