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Judge Chen thought shoring up a dam that was about to burst was his biggest concern. Flood, famine, refugees. Then, a body was found in the river. Then another. And another. And another . . . Someone had been using the river as a watery grave, all in the name of the search for something that existed...

Kids kept disappearing in a small town. All boys. Nobody cared. Until the ex-mayor’s grandson suffered the same fate. But for the police officers whose main job descriptions used to be locating missing dustbins and breaking up drunken brawls, were they up to the task?

The CEO of a multi-million yuan company was found dead in his car. Police investigation turned up more questions than answers: investors, the dead man’s wife, his secretary and maybe something more . . . Everybody was lying. Even the dead man had lied. His name was fake, his identity card expertly...

What makes a good serial killer? Nurture or nature? No one knows for sure. He killed dozens, slaughtered entire families. Retirees, college students, executives. None was exempt. Yet he didn’t think of himself as a serial killer. After all, all the killings was because someone had told him...

Inmate 5137000236 had given himself up at the police station to save his parents. He didn’t mind dying, after having avenged the deaths of the love of his life and his sister. Strapped on a gurney inside a mobile execution van, the inmate watched the executioner walk towards him with a needle filled...

Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business...

Imagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the environment. Now imagine humanity under the impact of these changes. This is the premise Brazilian editor Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro proposed, and these authors took the challenge to envision hopeful futures...

This is a book of war. No, not war as we normally think of it with armament and the machines used in what we know as war. This is a war of good and evil, not the paranormal, but the normal. I’ve given names, I did not invent these names, they are names you already know. But this war has been fought...

Dexx finally has Paige back, and just in time to bring two amazing balls of world-wrecking joy into this world. But as he and Paige settle in to prepare to finally see their unborn babes—twins, if you can believe it. Yeah. Dexx did that—their world starts to unravel around them. Two bodies...

Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution. "Scaffolding" is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common...

Fusing riveting testimony from African American veterans with the most incisive research of current military scholars, Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century America: Closing Ranks explores the intersecting characteristics of civil rights struggle and political activism that was...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of RealAge® and coauthor of You: The Owner's Manual shows you how to cook your way to a younger you. In his RealAge® books, Dr. Michael F. Roizen proved that incorporating simple changes to your lifestyle can take years off your biological age and...

The world's leading expert on vitamin D reveals the missing link to achieving optimal health Vitamin D deficiency is the most common medical condition in the world. In America alone, over 200 million people lack sufficient levels of vitamin D and may consequently suffer from chronic health...

With over 2,000 full-color illustrations, Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease, 5th Edition provides complete coverage of both general pathology and pathology of organ systems in one convenient resource. In-depth explanations cover the responses of cells, tissues, and organs to injury and infection....