Author: Lynn Hagen
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1646376749
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
[Siren Publishing: The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Paranormal, Vampires, Werewolves, Romantic Suspense, MM, HEA] Three years ago, Cassius made the biggest mistake of his life. Afraid of what his father would do when he found out his only son was mated to a wolf, Cassius ran from his Knox. Right into his father’s clutches where Cassius was imprisoned. When he finally escapes, Cassius has no one else to turn to except Knox, a man he isn’t even sure will help him. If he is recaptured, his father will make him marry a woman to align houses, something Cassius can’t let happen. Knox never thought to see his mate again. His little vampire ran from him, and now Knox is barely keeping it together. On the anniversary of when they met, Knox gets wasted, unaware that Cassius is searching for him. Now he has to keep Cassius safe when Cassius’s father puts a bounty on his son’s head. But more than one secret will be revealed as Knox prepares for the fight of his life. Lynn Hagen is a Siren-exclusive author.
Deadly Secrets (Driscoll Security 3)
Author: Lynn Hagen
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1646376749
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
[Siren Publishing: The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Paranormal, Vampires, Werewolves, Romantic Suspense, MM, HEA] Three years ago, Cassius made the biggest mistake of his life. Afraid of what his father would do when he found out his only son was mated to a wolf, Cassius ran from his Knox. Right into his father’s clutches where Cassius was imprisoned. When he finally escapes, Cassius has no one else to turn to except Knox, a man he isn’t even sure will help him. If he is recaptured, his father will make him marry a woman to align houses, something Cassius can’t let happen. Knox never thought to see his mate again. His little vampire ran from him, and now Knox is barely keeping it together. On the anniversary of when they met, Knox gets wasted, unaware that Cassius is searching for him. Now he has to keep Cassius safe when Cassius’s father puts a bounty on his son’s head. But more than one secret will be revealed as Knox prepares for the fight of his life. Lynn Hagen is a Siren-exclusive author.
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1646376749
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
[Siren Publishing: The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Paranormal, Vampires, Werewolves, Romantic Suspense, MM, HEA] Three years ago, Cassius made the biggest mistake of his life. Afraid of what his father would do when he found out his only son was mated to a wolf, Cassius ran from his Knox. Right into his father’s clutches where Cassius was imprisoned. When he finally escapes, Cassius has no one else to turn to except Knox, a man he isn’t even sure will help him. If he is recaptured, his father will make him marry a woman to align houses, something Cassius can’t let happen. Knox never thought to see his mate again. His little vampire ran from him, and now Knox is barely keeping it together. On the anniversary of when they met, Knox gets wasted, unaware that Cassius is searching for him. Now he has to keep Cassius safe when Cassius’s father puts a bounty on his son’s head. But more than one secret will be revealed as Knox prepares for the fight of his life. Lynn Hagen is a Siren-exclusive author.
Fatal Grievances
Author: Gregory M. Vecchi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 042964728X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Active killer attacks frequently dominate the headlines with stories of seemingly random mass killings in school, campus, and workplace settings. Nearly all of the attacks are over before the police can respond, leaving unanswered questions as to why these attacks happen and what can be done to prevent them. Fatal Grievances: Forecasting and Preventing Active Killer Threats in School, Campus, and Workplace Settings takes a proactive view of active killer threat management and resolution to prevent the attack before it occurs. Drawing from established threat assessment, behavioral analysis, and law enforcement negotiation theory and practice, the book presents models and methods designed to forecast and prevent an active killer attack through the process of identification, assessment, and engagement. This approach begins with definitions and orientations to violence, the importance of the primacy of focusing on direct behaviors of planned lethal violence over other more indirect behaviors, understanding how to identify a fatal grievance and that only fatal grievances result in planned lethal violence, the importance of understanding the process of crisis intervention as the key to eliminating the fatal grievance and the motivation to kill, and the use of time-series predictive behavioral threat forecasting methods to prevent an active killer attack. Case studies from within the United States (US) and abroad support this unique approach to threat assessment and make the concepts and principles accessible to professionals working in the fields of education, human resources, and security.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 042964728X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Active killer attacks frequently dominate the headlines with stories of seemingly random mass killings in school, campus, and workplace settings. Nearly all of the attacks are over before the police can respond, leaving unanswered questions as to why these attacks happen and what can be done to prevent them. Fatal Grievances: Forecasting and Preventing Active Killer Threats in School, Campus, and Workplace Settings takes a proactive view of active killer threat management and resolution to prevent the attack before it occurs. Drawing from established threat assessment, behavioral analysis, and law enforcement negotiation theory and practice, the book presents models and methods designed to forecast and prevent an active killer attack through the process of identification, assessment, and engagement. This approach begins with definitions and orientations to violence, the importance of the primacy of focusing on direct behaviors of planned lethal violence over other more indirect behaviors, understanding how to identify a fatal grievance and that only fatal grievances result in planned lethal violence, the importance of understanding the process of crisis intervention as the key to eliminating the fatal grievance and the motivation to kill, and the use of time-series predictive behavioral threat forecasting methods to prevent an active killer attack. Case studies from within the United States (US) and abroad support this unique approach to threat assessment and make the concepts and principles accessible to professionals working in the fields of education, human resources, and security.
Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence
Author: Wesley K. Wark
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135186979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991. This collection of essays is an attempt to explore the history of spy fiction and spy films and investigate the significance of the ideas they contain. The volume offers new insights into the development and symbolism of British spy fiction.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135186979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991. This collection of essays is an attempt to explore the history of spy fiction and spy films and investigate the significance of the ideas they contain. The volume offers new insights into the development and symbolism of British spy fiction.
Doing Global Fieldwork
Author: Jesse Driscoll
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231551282
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
To do quality research, many social scientists must travel to far-flung parts of the world and spend long stretches of time living in places they find unfamiliar and uncomfortable. No matter how prepared researchers think they are, everyone encounters unexpected challenges in the course of their work in the field. In Doing Global Fieldwork, the political scientist Jesse Driscoll offers a how-to guide for social scientists who are considering extended mixed-methods international fieldwork. He details the major steps in fieldwork planning and execution, from creating a plan, to what happens when political conditions throw up obstacles to research, to distilling and writing up research findings upon return. Driscoll emphasizes the ability to improvise and adapt because in the field, ideas will shift, plans will change, and something will inevitably go wrong. He offers a practical overview of the types of psychological and physical preparation, professionalization, and self-presentation that social scientists conducting research abroad need to prioritize. Driscoll describes the challenges that arise when working in difficult settings, such as war zones, areas of contested sovereignty, and volatile nondemocratic states. He explores the practical and ethical considerations for data collection in these unique situations, including whether and how much to reveal about one’s research and common psychological harms associated with fieldwork. Doing Global Fieldwork is an up-to-date methodological guide for graduate students and social science researchers of all stripes who need blunt, no-nonsense advice about how to make the best of their time in the field.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231551282
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
To do quality research, many social scientists must travel to far-flung parts of the world and spend long stretches of time living in places they find unfamiliar and uncomfortable. No matter how prepared researchers think they are, everyone encounters unexpected challenges in the course of their work in the field. In Doing Global Fieldwork, the political scientist Jesse Driscoll offers a how-to guide for social scientists who are considering extended mixed-methods international fieldwork. He details the major steps in fieldwork planning and execution, from creating a plan, to what happens when political conditions throw up obstacles to research, to distilling and writing up research findings upon return. Driscoll emphasizes the ability to improvise and adapt because in the field, ideas will shift, plans will change, and something will inevitably go wrong. He offers a practical overview of the types of psychological and physical preparation, professionalization, and self-presentation that social scientists conducting research abroad need to prioritize. Driscoll describes the challenges that arise when working in difficult settings, such as war zones, areas of contested sovereignty, and volatile nondemocratic states. He explores the practical and ethical considerations for data collection in these unique situations, including whether and how much to reveal about one’s research and common psychological harms associated with fieldwork. Doing Global Fieldwork is an up-to-date methodological guide for graduate students and social science researchers of all stripes who need blunt, no-nonsense advice about how to make the best of their time in the field.
Digital State
Author: Thomas J. Misa
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816688362
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Accounts of the early events of the computing industry—the Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computer—are well-told tales, and equally well known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal computer. Yet there is an extraordinary untold middle history—with deep roots in Minnesota. From the end of World War II through the 1970s, Minnesota was home to the first computing-centered industrial district in the world. Drawing on rare archival documents, photographs, and a wealth of oral histories, Digital State unveils the remarkable story of computer development in the heartland after World War II. These decades found corporations—concentrated in large part in Minnesota—designing state-of-the-art mainframe technologies, revolutionizing new methods of magnetic data storage, and, for the first time, truly integrating software and hardware into valuable products for the American government and public. Minnesota-based companies such as Engineering Research Associates, Univac, Control Data, Cray Research, Honeywell, and IBM Rochester were major international players and together formed an unrivaled epicenter advancing digital technologies. These companies not only brought vibrant economic growth to Minnesota, they nurtured the state’s present-day medical device and software industries and possibly even tomorrow’s nanotechnology. Thomas J. Misa’s groundbreaking history shows how Minnesota recognized and embraced the coming information age through its leading-edge companies, its workforce, and its prominent institutions. Digital State reveals the inner workings of the birth of the digital age in Minnesota and what we can learn from this era of sustained innovation.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816688362
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Accounts of the early events of the computing industry—the Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computer—are well-told tales, and equally well known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal computer. Yet there is an extraordinary untold middle history—with deep roots in Minnesota. From the end of World War II through the 1970s, Minnesota was home to the first computing-centered industrial district in the world. Drawing on rare archival documents, photographs, and a wealth of oral histories, Digital State unveils the remarkable story of computer development in the heartland after World War II. These decades found corporations—concentrated in large part in Minnesota—designing state-of-the-art mainframe technologies, revolutionizing new methods of magnetic data storage, and, for the first time, truly integrating software and hardware into valuable products for the American government and public. Minnesota-based companies such as Engineering Research Associates, Univac, Control Data, Cray Research, Honeywell, and IBM Rochester were major international players and together formed an unrivaled epicenter advancing digital technologies. These companies not only brought vibrant economic growth to Minnesota, they nurtured the state’s present-day medical device and software industries and possibly even tomorrow’s nanotechnology. Thomas J. Misa’s groundbreaking history shows how Minnesota recognized and embraced the coming information age through its leading-edge companies, its workforce, and its prominent institutions. Digital State reveals the inner workings of the birth of the digital age in Minnesota and what we can learn from this era of sustained innovation.
The Criminal Justice Periodical Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States
Author: Jesse Driscoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107063353
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book presents an account of war settlement in Georgia and Tajikistan as local actors maneuvered in the shadow of a Russian-led military intervention. Combining ethnography and game theory and quantitative and qualitative methods, this book presents a revisionist account of the post-Soviet wars and their settlement.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107063353
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book presents an account of war settlement in Georgia and Tajikistan as local actors maneuvered in the shadow of a Russian-led military intervention. Combining ethnography and game theory and quantitative and qualitative methods, this book presents a revisionist account of the post-Soviet wars and their settlement.
De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare
Author: James Patton Rogers
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110742039
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
In 2010, 60 states had a military drone program. Today at least 113 countries and 65 non-state actors now have access to weaponized drone technologies. Alongside this, established ‘drone powers’ – the U.S., China, Turkey, and Iran – have expanded their own use of military drones, increasing the sale and deployment of drones around the world. In the De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare, drone expert, policy adviser, and historian, Dr James Patton Rogers, brings together 37 of the world’s leading voices on the growing issues of commercial and military drone technologies. From the origins of military drones in the early 1900s and the resurgence of drone use during the War on Terror, through to the global proliferation of drones across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, this handbook explores the moral, ethical, technological, legal, military, geopolitical, social, and strategic issues at the heart of drone warfare. The first handbook of its kind, the volume also addresses Russia’s offensive war against Ukraine, the rise of Iranian and Houthi drones, and provides a focused analysis of the future of drone warfare and the opportunities and perils of AI, autonomy, and swarming technologies in the coming Third Drone Age.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110742039
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
In 2010, 60 states had a military drone program. Today at least 113 countries and 65 non-state actors now have access to weaponized drone technologies. Alongside this, established ‘drone powers’ – the U.S., China, Turkey, and Iran – have expanded their own use of military drones, increasing the sale and deployment of drones around the world. In the De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare, drone expert, policy adviser, and historian, Dr James Patton Rogers, brings together 37 of the world’s leading voices on the growing issues of commercial and military drone technologies. From the origins of military drones in the early 1900s and the resurgence of drone use during the War on Terror, through to the global proliferation of drones across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, this handbook explores the moral, ethical, technological, legal, military, geopolitical, social, and strategic issues at the heart of drone warfare. The first handbook of its kind, the volume also addresses Russia’s offensive war against Ukraine, the rise of Iranian and Houthi drones, and provides a focused analysis of the future of drone warfare and the opportunities and perils of AI, autonomy, and swarming technologies in the coming Third Drone Age.
No-Body Homicide Cases
Author: Thomas A.(Tad) DiBiase
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1003805655
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A practical guide for police, death investigators, and prosecutors, No-Body Homicide Cases: A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting, and Winning Cases When the Victim is Missing, Second Edition takes an expansive look at both the history of no-body murder cases and the best methods to investigate, solve, and bring them to court. How do you prove someone guilty of murder when the best and primary piece of evidence—the victim’s body—is missing? Exclusively dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of no-body homicide cases, this fully updated Second Edition provides the author’s insight gained from investigating, consulting on, and trying scores of no-body cases throughout the United States. Taking readers step-by-step from the first days of a homicide investigation through the trial, the book explores the history of confessions and discloses the investigative techniques police must use to catch these cunning killers. Chapters review methods criminals have used to dispose of bodies, delving into the psychological profile of the type of defendant who murders someone, then hides the body. Since the last edition published, the number of no-body murder cases investigated has skyrocketed, with more than 50 percent of all no-body murder cases tried and prosecuted have occurred since the year 2000. New to this edition is a chapter on a full, singular high-profile case from start to finish, to illustrate the entire no-body investigative and adjudication process. A sample arrent warrant for a no-body murder case is provided in addition to Chapter 12 updating the prior edition’s nearly 400 case summaries provided to the current figure, as of this publication, of 576 no-body murder trials in U.S. history. No-Body Homicide Cases, Second Edition continues to serve as an essential resource and the "how-to" manual for investigating, prosecuting, and winning no-body murder cases.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1003805655
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A practical guide for police, death investigators, and prosecutors, No-Body Homicide Cases: A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting, and Winning Cases When the Victim is Missing, Second Edition takes an expansive look at both the history of no-body murder cases and the best methods to investigate, solve, and bring them to court. How do you prove someone guilty of murder when the best and primary piece of evidence—the victim’s body—is missing? Exclusively dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of no-body homicide cases, this fully updated Second Edition provides the author’s insight gained from investigating, consulting on, and trying scores of no-body cases throughout the United States. Taking readers step-by-step from the first days of a homicide investigation through the trial, the book explores the history of confessions and discloses the investigative techniques police must use to catch these cunning killers. Chapters review methods criminals have used to dispose of bodies, delving into the psychological profile of the type of defendant who murders someone, then hides the body. Since the last edition published, the number of no-body murder cases investigated has skyrocketed, with more than 50 percent of all no-body murder cases tried and prosecuted have occurred since the year 2000. New to this edition is a chapter on a full, singular high-profile case from start to finish, to illustrate the entire no-body investigative and adjudication process. A sample arrent warrant for a no-body murder case is provided in addition to Chapter 12 updating the prior edition’s nearly 400 case summaries provided to the current figure, as of this publication, of 576 no-body murder trials in U.S. history. No-Body Homicide Cases, Second Edition continues to serve as an essential resource and the "how-to" manual for investigating, prosecuting, and winning no-body murder cases.
Never Too Late (Fever's Edge 7)
Author: Lynn Hagen
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 164637374X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
[Siren Publishing: The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Paranormal, Werewolves, Vampires, Romantic Suspense, MM, HEA] Shane has spent his entire life trying to keep his brother out of trouble. But there is no hope for Damien, especially when Shane is caught up in one of his brother’s schemes and is nearly killed. Now Shane finds himself a prisoner of the wolf pack that took down the men who profited off the sale of preternatural beings. More specifically, he’s Alejandro’s prisoner, a sexy wolf who makes Shane’s insides come alive. Not only did Alejandro lose his parents the night of the massacre five years ago, but his brother, Rico, took off. Alejandro suspects that Rico had something to do with the massacre, but could never prove it. Now Rico is in Fever’s Edge, looking for some misguided payback, and has set his vengeful sights on Shane. It’s up to Alejandro to keep Shane out of Rico’s grip while trying to figure out whether his mate is friend or foe. Lynn Hagen is a Siren-exclusive author.
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 164637374X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
[Siren Publishing: The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Paranormal, Werewolves, Vampires, Romantic Suspense, MM, HEA] Shane has spent his entire life trying to keep his brother out of trouble. But there is no hope for Damien, especially when Shane is caught up in one of his brother’s schemes and is nearly killed. Now Shane finds himself a prisoner of the wolf pack that took down the men who profited off the sale of preternatural beings. More specifically, he’s Alejandro’s prisoner, a sexy wolf who makes Shane’s insides come alive. Not only did Alejandro lose his parents the night of the massacre five years ago, but his brother, Rico, took off. Alejandro suspects that Rico had something to do with the massacre, but could never prove it. Now Rico is in Fever’s Edge, looking for some misguided payback, and has set his vengeful sights on Shane. It’s up to Alejandro to keep Shane out of Rico’s grip while trying to figure out whether his mate is friend or foe. Lynn Hagen is a Siren-exclusive author.