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Katie Cathcart's gruesome murder in the remote Crazy Mountains of Montana points at an eccentric modern day mountain man, Bridger Jackson, living in a hidden cave away from society. Ignoring the sheriff's warnings and bent on revenge for his sister-in-law's death, JJ Volker grabs his gun and goes tracking Jackson's trail in hopes of not only avenging Kaitie's death but of reestablishing the love of his wife. His expert tracking techniques make...

This book introduces readers to the basic concepts, classical approaches, and the newest design, development, and applications of biometrics. It also provides a glimpse of future designs and research directions in biometrics. In addition, it discusses some latest concerns and issues in this area. Suitable for a wide range of readers, the book explains professional terms in plain English. Some concepts and designs discussed are so new that comm...

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Emma Whitfield decides to start a new life, far from all things familiar, a small town Missouri girl finds herself in the midst of a quirky Arizona river town. Among strangers she learns that kindred spirits come in all ages and types, but when you find your soulmate, the shape of your life changes forever. What begins as a simple adventure, leads to an epic journey across endless horizons, vast oceans, and the landscape of her heart.

Examines how women's histories are explored and explained around the worldMaking Women's Histories showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women's history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women's and gender history has made to and within national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography has integrated this new knowledge. What are the accomplishments of...

En el medio adverso del desierto de la Trab el-Bidán (Sáhara del Oeste), la medicina y farmacia ¿tradicional` ha evolucionado de generación en generación gracias a la transmisión oral de la memoria colectiva fruto de las experiencias habidas de curación de enfermedades y de tratamiento de heridas, tanto en hombres como en animales.El texto recoge tal proceso presentando asimismo la relación existente en el ámbito ¿tradicional` entre medicina-t...

In 1958, American historian of religion Morton Smith made an astounding discovery in the Mar Saba monastery in Jerusalem. Copied into the back of a seventeenth-century book was a lost letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 CE) that contained excerpts from a longer version of the Gospel of Mark written by Mark himself and circulating in Alexandria, Egypt. More than fifty years after its discovery, the origins of this Secret Gos...

Safety and A Healthy Environment* summarizes ways that students can practice safe habits at home, school, and out of doors. Each lesson focuses on describing risk followed by safe habits. The chapter also includes information on how to respond to simple emergencies, and to understand the Hands-Free CPR process. In Green Schools and Environmental Health, students learn how pollution affects health, as well as what they can do to reduce the impa...

Perfect for AP* Human Geography! Geographers believe that the phenomena on the earth's surface and not random, but rather the result of a complex series of processes going on at the local, regional and international scale. Human Geography, 1e by Jon Malinowski and David Kaplan will introduce you to how geographers attempt to make sense of the diverse reality of human populations on Earth's surface. Human Geography, 1e uses a modular approach. ...

This beautifully illustrated book is a heart-warming celebration of love.

This text provides in-depth fundamentals, recent technical achievements, challenges and emerging trends in mobile and wireless video communications. It presents tutorials, surveys, and contributions, providing a reference for further development of research and applications in mobile and wireless video communication systems.

Providing models of exemplary use and the latest research, Educational Leadership and Technology reveals the transformational power of emerging technologies to improve student learning, and explores how leaders can bring about this technology integration.

Phosphorus compounds play a leading role in several major industries and an auxiliary role in many others. They are components of adhesives, cosmetics, detergents, foods, fertilizers, flame retardants, fluorescent lamps, matches, medicines, paints, pesticides, plastics, rust-proofing compositions, semiconductors, and many other industrial materials. This book summarizes the key features of phosphorus chemistry, biochemistry, and technology. Pr...

The imagining of disaster has intensified across a wide range of media entertainment formats and genres in recent years and themes of disaster are regularly deployed in fictional films, television drama series, drama-documentaries, comic books and video games.

Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context critically examines alcohol use across cultures and through time. This short text is a framework for students to self-consciously examine their beliefs about and use of alcohol, and a companion text for teaching some primary concepts of anthropology to first-or second year college students.

Child Health for All takes a broad approach to child health, looking at the variety of factors affecting a child's well-being in the context of a developing country, more particularly South Africa. It discusses social issues like poverty, unemployment, and violence as matters that influence the health of children. The focus is specifically on paediatrics and child health within a community health approach.

Teaching with ICT prepares pre-service teachers across the three phases of learning to understand the role technology can play in teaching and learning. It seeks to use this understanding as a basis to develop a digital pedagogy.

Explores how film analysis can take account of the presence of digital images in cinema. Not just for digital effects enthusiasts, this book is essential for anyone interested in how to approach film critically: it is a toolbox for contemporary film analysis.