As summer draws to a close, a Small Long Island town is plagued by a series of mysterious deaths-- and one young man, a loner taken in by a local, tries to piece together the crimes before his own time runs out.Orient is an isolated hamlet on the North Fork of Long Island--a quiet, historic village [...]

The disciplines of school effectiveness research and school improvement practice and research have been apart for too long. This book is the first major attempt, by leading writers and practitioners in these fields, to bring the areas together in a coherent way. Existing knowledge about the charact[...]

The varying types of cooperation between the military and a wide range of civilian actors are addressed in this indispensable volume. It analyses civil-military cooperation in different settings such as during emergency relief operations (tsunami, earthquakes and refugee crises) and during stability[...]

CONTENTS: Foreword The United Nations: Stuck in a Fog between Peacekeeping and Enforcement "Assertive Multilateralism": Rhetoric vs Reality Problems for U.S. Forces in Operations Beyond Peacekeeping Peace Support Operations: Implications for the U.S. Military General Discussion[...]

An upmarket thriller set in a tiny community on Long Island, shaken to the core by a series of murders.[...]

Joseph Guiteau is a working actor who moved to New York to escape a tragic family history in the Midwest. Wandering through a city transformed by the attacks of September 2001, he frequents gatherings of conspiracy groups, trying to make sense of world events and his own personal history. Looming ov[...]

Afforded the kind of access a journalist can only dream of, Andy Bollen gives fans a new story focusing on the real Kurt Cobain--not the angst-ridden, troubled rock star of folklore, the kind and humorous Kurt the world seldom sawWhen Nirvana first exploded onto the music scene in 1991, few people c[...]

Da rimsamlingen Pling i bollen - fine og ufine barnerim kom i fjor, introduserte den leseren for en enestående verden, der steiner i en ur kan havne i heftig diskusjon og en dachs uten videre kan bli venn med en laks.Suksessforfatteren Ingvild Rishøis barnerim pekte respektfullt, men ertende tilba[...]

Nioåriga Alex älskar fotboll. Tillsammans med sin bästis Limpan lirar han så fort han får chansen och självklart spelar de båda i klasslaget. Men inte så länge till. Akademilagen tar bara ut de bästa spelarna. Alex har länge drömt om att få spela i ett, men han har inte vågat tro att [...]

Drömmen har gått i uppfyllelse! Alex har blivit uttagen till Hammarbys akademilag, där bara de allra bästa får spela. Plötsligt är han omgiven av spelare som lever och andas fotboll, precis som han själv alltid gjort. Men allt ställs på sin spets när laget åker på en cup i Italien. Alex[...]