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 Brian P. Cleary, Martin Goneau and Jennifer K. Nelson, "Run and Hike, Play and Bike: What Is Physical Activity?" English | 2010 | ISBN: 1580135935 | 31 pages | PDF | 12,3 MB What is physical activity? Moving your body in a way that uses energy-playing soccer, dancing, throwing a Frisbee, and much more. Brian P. Cleary's goofy verse and Martin Goneau's humorous illustrations give young readers a whole playground of activities and highlight some of the health benefits of exercise.  Roots and Branches of Wing Tsun by Leung Ting English | ISBN: 9627284238 | 2000 | PDF | 402 pages | 40,1 mb For 18 years of research, this book illustrates the most comprehensive detailed information, descriptions, and analysis of different stories, origins, concepts, and techniques of Wing Tsun (Wing Chun).  Risk: Living on the Edge by Michael E. Tennenbaum, Donna Beech English | August 13, 2019 | ISBN: 194812243X | EPUB | 360 pages | 149 MB Risk-taker Michael E. Tennenbaum has contributed mightily to American financial institutions, business, and society. A financier, adventurer, and philanthropist, in his debut book, RISK: Living on the Edge, he delivers intriguing insider details on how "impossible" deals are completed, along with an inspiring guide to applying risk-taking successfully to your business and personal life.  Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems: A Troubled Sense of Immensity By Robert W. Adler 2007 | 341 Pages | ISBN: 1597260576 | PDF | 2 MB Over the past century, humans have molded the Colorado River to serve their own needs, resulting in significant impacts to the river and its ecosystems. Today, many scientists, public officials, and citizens hope to restore some of the lost resources in portions of the river and its surrounding lands. Environmental restoration on the scale of the Colorado River basin is immensely challenging; in addition to an almost overwhelming array of technical difficulties, it is fraught with perplexing questions about the appropriate goals of restoration and the extent to which environmental restoration must be balanced against environmental changes designed to promote and sustain human economic development. ВRestoring Colorado River Ecosystems explores the many questions and challenges surrounding the issue of large-scale restoration of the Colorado River basin, and of large-scale restoration in general. Robert W. Adler evaluates the relationships among the laws, policies, and institutions governing use and management of the Colorado River for human benefit and those designed to protect and restore the river and its environment. He examines and critiques the often challenging interactions among law, science, economics, and politics within which restoration efforts must operate. Ultimately, he suggests that a broad concept of “restoration” is needed to navigate those uncertain waters, and to strike an appropriate balance between human and environmental needs.ВWhile the book is primarily about restoration of Colorado River ecosystems, it is also about uncertainty, conflict, competing values, and the nature, pace, and implications of environmental change. It is about our place in the natural environment, and whether there are limits to that presence we ought to respect. And it is about our responsibility to the ecosystems we live in and use.
 Regulating Water and Sanitation for the Poor: Economic Regulation for Public and Private Partnerships By Richard Franceys, Esther Gerlach 2008 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 1844076172 | PDF | 3 MB The aim of this book is to present the potential benefits as well as the challenges of introducing a more formal economic regulatory process into the urban water sector arena in lower-income countries. There is a particular focus upon the impact this may have on the poorest, the informal, slum and shanty dwellers of the rapidly growing cities. Economic regulation, usually introduced in the context of private operation of monopoly water supply, can deliver objectivity and transparency in the price-setting process for public providers also. But this is not, as is commonly assumed, primarily to protect the customer from the provider; rather it is to allow the service provider to set something approaching cost-reflective tariffs. These charges, almost certainly higher than previously, perversely can benefit the poor who have been paying far more for informal access to any piped supplies. With the addition of a regulatory duty to achieve some form of adaptive Universal Service Obligation, economic regulation could contribute significantly to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in urban areas.The book describes and analyzes these issues through a consideration of ten country case studies. As a starting point, the current situation for the provision of water and sanitation services for the poorest through non-regulated public providers in India and Uganda is reviewed. Comparative chapters are then presented on Argentina, Ghana, Philippines, Bolivia, Jordan, Zambia and Indonesia, all with varying degrees of private sector involvement and regulation. Finally, the experiences of the two richest countries, Chile and England, are considered, investigating service to the poor in these examples with the longest experience of economic regulation and the “most privatized” suppliers. In all cases there is a focus on the very necessary role of customer involvement in price-setting and service monitoring and on the role of alternative (private) service providers within the context of the need for least cost utility service provision to all.  Ray Charles: Musician By Janet Hubbard-Brown 2008 | 119 Pages | ISBN: 1604130016 | PDF | 2 MB Pioneering musician Ray Charles was one of the first performers of soul music - a combination of gospel, jazz, country, and rhythm and blues. Born into poverty to a single mother, he overcame blindness, racism, and the deaths of his bother and mother to play 10,000 concerts and win 12 Grammy Awards over a 58-year career.  Public Financial Management By Howard A. Frank 2006 | 834 Pages | ISBN: 0849395666 | PDF | 9 MB Public Financial Management covers the five major pillars of this sub-discipline of public administration: context, public finance, retirement systems, performance measurement and budgeting, and international perspectives. This text offers practitioners information valuable in their day-to-day operations, while also providing students in public administration and public management programs with a solid foundation for their own development as future professionals and researchers. Overall this volume promotes linkages between resource allocation and ''value-adds'' for citizens and stakeholders, driving innovations in operations and increased transparency in reporting.  Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time by Saul Friedländer English | December 1st, 2020 | ISBN: 1590519116 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 4.11 MB A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian revisits Marcel Proust's masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity-that of the novel's narrator and Proust's own.  Prophets and Prophecy: Predicting the Future (Man, Myth, and Magic) by Dean Miller English | August 1, 2014 | ISBN: 1627126759 | PDF | 160 pages | 23.2 MB Find a path to the future as you discover the great traditions of fortune telling of the past.  Practical Aspects of Rape Investigation: A Multidisciplinary Approach, By Robert R. Hazelwood, Ann Wolbert Burgess 2008 | 594 Pages | ISBN: 1420065041 | PDF | 15 MB U.S. Justice Department statistics indicate that only 26 percent of all rapes or attempted rapes are reported to law enforcement officials, and only slightly more than half of these result in the arrest of a suspect. Part of the problem lies in the public’s lack of faith in the criminal justice system’s ability to effectively deal with rape, victims, and the offenders. Practical Aspects of Rape Investigation: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Fourth Edition presents several new research findings and forensic techniques which enable agencies to overcome past impediments to successful intervention and prosecution. This revision of the perennial bestseller adds several new chapters and expertly advances the state of knowledge for police, health professionals, rape crisis staffs, and other criminal justice professionals. The book begins with a focus on the victim and reviews contemporary issues in the field of sexual violence, discusses the impact of sexual assault on the victim, and outlines victim care services. Then, from an investigative perspective, the book examines the relevance of fantasy, impulsive and ritualistic behavior, the personality of the offender, victim and offender interviews, geographic profiling, false allegations, and false confessions. A discussion of forensics and the court includes topics on collection of evidence, medical examinations and treatment, and trial preparation issues. Lastly, the book examines special populations with sections on pedophiles, female and juvenile offenders, drug-facilitated rape, sexual sadism, abuse of the elderly, and the timely topic of educator misconduct. This work was compiled by former FBI Agent Robert R. “Roy” Hazelwood and Ann Wolbert Burgess, Professor of Psychiatric Nursing at Boston College. The comprehensive text they have assembled is the definitive resource for those who must contend with the crimes of rape and other sexual assaults. |
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