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Practical Guide to Evidence provides a clear and readable account of the law of evidence, acknowledging the importance of arguments about facts and principles as well as rules. This fifth edition has been revised and updated to address recent changes in the law and debates on controversial topics such as surveillance and human rights. Coverage of expert evidence has also been expanded to include forensic evidence, bringing the text right up-to...

This book examines all Latin American female presidents to date, and in doing so, answer three main questions. First, what conditions allowed for a broadening of routes for women presidents in these specific locations and at this particular point in time? Second, do female presidents use their powers to enhance women¿s representation? Third, does gender present a burden or blessing to women as they campaign for presidential office and as they ...

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This volume contains chapters dealing with a variety of issues related to terrorism and counterterrorism and the study thereof, especially in relation to crime, criminal justice, law, and social control. The book gathers chapters involving a variety of issues and multiple theoretical approaches and methodological orientations. The topics include, amongst others, lone-wolf terrorism, the policing of terrorism, radicalization, suicide terrorism,...

How do different Christian denominations in the United States approach immigration issues? In Immigrant Neighbors among Us, U.S. Hispanic scholars creatively mine the resources of their theological traditions to reflect on one of the most controversial issues of our day. Representative theologians from Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Methodist/Wesleyan, Pentecostal, and Independent Evangelical church families show how biblical narratives, ...

In the shadow of the great monuments of Glasgow Necropolis a young woman's body is found. There is no obvious cause of death but she has been laid out in a funereal pose wearing a Victorian wedding dress and holding a white rose in her hand. For Detective Inspector Alex Menzies the case represents another challenge. Not only in finding the killer but in dealing with an increasingly distant and disturbed boss. Detective Superintendent Tom Russe...

Die mehr als 200-jährige Geschichte eines Wirtschaftszweiges, des Abbaues früher »weiße Erde oder Porzellanerde« genannten Kaolins im nordwestsächsischen Kemmlitz-Börtewitzer Revier, wird in dem reich bebilderten Buch dokumentiert und anschaulich beschrieben. Die veredelten Rohstoffe stellen für feinkeramische Erzeugnisse Spitzenqualitäten dar und finden heute eine weltweite Verarbeitung. Erläutert werden die Entdeckung der Kaolinvorkommen und...

Environment and Politics is a concise introduction to this ever-expanding field, explaining the key concepts, conflicts, political systems and the practices of policy-making. This book provides a comprehensive introduction, examining a diverse range of environmental problems and policy solutions within different nations and cultures.The fourth edition has been extensively revised to include new theoretical perspectives and debates surrounding ...

Welcome to "East Hudson, " an elite private school in New York where the students are attentive, the colleagues are supportive, and the tuition would make the average person choke on its string of zeroes. You might think a teacher here would have little in common with most other teachers in America, but as this veteran educator--writing anonymously--shows in this refreshingly honest account, all teachers are bound by a common thread. Stripped ...

It's well documented that Morrissey has a handful of friends that he keeps close. He values his privacy and that is to be respected, especially by a fan. But for a fan like Julie Hamill, of thirty years, it's hard not to want to know everything about him, the truth, not the fair-weather and often blackened portrayals of him in the press. These fans want to know for themselves: Who is Morrissey? What does he really talk about? What does he eat?...

Research in the College Context provides faculty members, students, and research practitioners in the college environment with a handbook of diverse approaches and methods for researching higher education and college students.

Presenting an innovative analysis of interest group lobbying in the European Union by drawing on an unprecedented and comprehensive large-N research design, Legislative Lobbying in Context studies the effect of policy-related and institutional factors on interest group mobilization, strategies and influence. The main goal of the book is to analyse strategies, framing and influence processes for a set of 125 legislative proposals submitted by t...

Most of the world's energy still comes from fossil fuels, and there are still many strides being made in the efficiency and cost effectiveness of extracting these important and increasingly more elusive natural resources. This is only possible if the nature of the emergence, evolution, and parameter estimation of high grade reservoir rocks at great depths is known and a theory of their forecast is developed. Over 60 percent of world oil produc...

Despite being roundly cited as much harder to perform than its dramatic counterpart, comic acting is traditionally seen as a performance genre that can¿t be taught. At best it is often described as a skill that can only be learned `on the job¿ through years of practice, or given to a performer through natural talent. Acting Comedy is an effort to examine this idea more rigorously by looking at different aspects of the comic actor¿s craft.

Startled by the unexpected diagnosis of a rare and often-terminal cancer, JoAnn A. Post chronicles the course of her treatment in Songs in My Head, a journal written both for her own sake, and for friends, family, and colleagues. Each of her twelve chemotherapy treatments is presented as a verse of the songs that hummed in her heart during and at the close of treatment. Inspiration and encouragement come through simple events like the return o...

READ what has unfolded in the lives of Dennis and Evelyn Schave, pioneers and forerunners as a straight couple ministering the love of God to God's LGBT children. EXPERIENCE with them the amazing changes in their lives when Evelyn took on the Mantle and Anointing of God's love and reconciliation for the LGBT Nation. REJOICE with them in their ministry as the richness of God's grace literally rescues thou...

This third edition of the Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent theoretical and practical developments in the field of mathematics education.

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Orthognathic Surgery, An Issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Clinics of North America,

Medical treatment guidelines are written from a clinical perspective, to guide clinical care. The review criteria that will be included in this issue of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Clinics are evidence based and are developed by practicing physicians and advisors who work in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Health care providers are expected to be familiar with the guidelines and follow the recommendations. Good medical judgment is...