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Rivers are alive and impulsive, shaped by history and geology. Just One Rain Away provides a starting point for cross-cultural discussions about how expert knowledge and practice should inform egalitarian decision-making about flood control and decolonize current ways of thinking, being, and becoming with rivers.

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Some are born with a perfect palate, others with perfect pitch. Lily Sparks was born with a perfect eye. As Conservator of Paintings at the Denver Art Museum, she uses her keen visual powers to restore masterpieces and detect what's authentic and what is not. When the museum's billionaire benefactor is brutally murdered and Lily is dragged into the case, the grisly tableau stuns her: it's the human embodiment of the museum's prized landscape b...

In some families, things are never what they seem.Inside his picture-perfect home, Warren Scott runs a tight ship. He demands total respect from his family. He'll accept nothing less. The Scotts are quiet, they keep to themselves--and to the neighbors, they seem like any other family. Then the Scotts' facade shatters one sun-drrenched morning in May.Sari Siegel is engaged to Tim Scott when his mother is found murdered. Sari barely knows the Sc...

What do government health policies, Central American rituals, blue- and white-collar workers, HIV, and the war on drugs have in common with mayhem, murder, and other social evils? AIDS Alibis is a fresh, astute -- in a word, hip -- analysis of that commonality.

Stephanie C. Kane is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University with affiliations in anthropology, folklore, and gender studies. She is author of The Phantom Gringo Boat: Shamanic Discourse and Development in Panama and AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas (Temple). She is coeditor of Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime.

A creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing law

IN SOME FAMILIES, THINGS ARE NEVER WHAT THEY SEEMInside his picture-perfect home, Warren Scott runs a tight ship. He demands total respect from his family. He'll accept nothing less. The Scotts are quiet, they keep to themselves -- and to the neighbors, they seem like any other family. Then the Scotts' facade shatters one sun-drenched morning in May.Sari Siegel is engaged to Tim Scott when his mother is found murdered. Sari barely knows the Sc...

Cold, hard evidence-a prosecutor's dream, a defense attorney's nightmare Criminal defense lawyer Jackie Flowers got what she wished for...a high-profile murder case. While defending entrepreneur Aaron Best in the grisly slaying of a millionaire's trophy wife, Jackie turns FBI profiling upside down and uncovers a string of killings that could either free or hang her client. But Jackie has one big secret of her own-and it might make her the kill...

High School Literary Anthology The ideal text to get high school kids writing instead of texting. There's a 17-foot-tall naked guy who lives in Florence, Italy. He spends most of his time being ogled by anyone who cares to look. He's okay with this-he isn't the least bit ashamed. He's been doing this for over five hundred years, after all. Come to think of it, maybe you've seen him before. His name is David. His picture's on the cover...

Denver defense attorney Jackie Flowers doesn't want to take the case. Convicted child killers are not her favorite clients.Thirty years ago, Rachel Boyd was just a child herself when she was found guilty of killing her little playmate, Freddie Gant. After three decades in reform school and adult prison, Rachel is finally free. Free to find a new life. Free to kill again?Has she, in fact, already killed another child? Shortly after settling in ...