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Indicators and rankings are widely used by governments and international organizations to assess the effectiveness, efficiency, and success of policy decisions. The role of indicators is, however, little examined. This book closes this gap by evaluating the creation of indicators, their impact on policy decisions, and the implications of their use.

In the aftermath of 9/11, many law enforcement agencies (LEAs) shifted more resources toward developing counterterrorism (CT) and homeland security (HS) capabilities. This volume examines the effects the focus on CT and HS has had on law enforcement since 9/11, including organizational changes, funding mechanisms, how the shift has affected traditional crime-prevention efforts, and an assessment of benefits, costs, and future challenges.

This highly accessible book investigates the rankings that increasingly influence perceptions of countries' governance and civil rights.

This highly accessible book investigates the rankings that increasingly influence perceptions of countries' governance and civil rights.

The Power of Persistence is the story of Kevin Davis, a man who was afflicted with Cerebral Palsy from birth. Every person afflicted with any debilitating illness fights the desire to be "normal." Kevin knew normal, as the world uses the word, would never be. Kevin made the decision early on not to view normal as the way a person walks, talks, speaks, eats, or does anything else in life. He decided to view normal as the way he expressed his de...

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Called "the best kind of nonfiction" by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama.In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman's husband, Herbert Weinstein, soon confessed to having hit and strangled his wife after an argument, then dropping her body out of their apartment window to make it look like a...

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Award-winning journalist Davis spent a year in Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's office for this look into the American justice system. More than 300, 000 cases go through this office--some involving the death penalty--with approximately 600 public defenders to work them.

Great disparities exist between organisms with regard to the relative ease of chromosomal mutagenesis and manipulation.  In Chromosomal Mutagenesis, a team of experts provide a variety of chromosomal manipulation techniques, including insertional gene disruptions, gene knockouts, stimulated homologous recombination techniques and other novel tools, for both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, and attempt to expand the genetic toolbox beyond ...

An Action Adventure Comedy. An eccentric lounge singer leads a cast of characters on a quest to save an endangered African Pygmy tribe threatened with genocide. In the tradition of the Blues Brothers and The Ghostbusters. First in a series from animation artist Kevin Davis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuO1ypgVUZU

The biggest mistake you're making in your sales career right now is equating a faster pitch with a faster close. Believe it or not, you will actually experience greater success if you slow down.Slow Down, Sell Faster! shows you how to stop jumping the gun and work with your customers to identify and quantify their real needs, so by the time you begin your pitch in earnest, you're already halfway home. Featuring a simple yet power ful eightstep...

In our lifetimes we all will meet a lot of people. Most of these people will barely become acquaintances. Others may become buddies while still others become good friends. But still even more rare are those special people who will change our lives forever. Kevin Davis has been that kind of friend. He has been a friend, a Christian, and most of all a preacher of the gospel.I first met Kevin during my freshmen year at Christian Life College. We ...

In our lifetimes we all will meet a lot of people. Most of these people will barely become acquaintances. Others may become buddies while still others become good friends. But still even more rare are those special people who will change our lives forever. Kevin Davis has been that kind of friend. He has been a friend, a Christian, and most of all a preacher of the gospel.I first met Kevin during my freshmen year at Christian Life College. We ...