Located on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Golgotham has been the city's supernatural ghetto for centuries. Populated by countless creatures from myth and legend, the neighborhood's most prominent citizens are the Kymera, a race of witches who maintain an uneasy truce with New York City's humans... Tat[...]

One of the most enduring and influential of all human institutions, the Papacy has also been among the most controversial. From the founding of the Christian Church in the first century AD to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century, the Popes have been central playe[...]

Taking a failure prevention perspective, this book provides engineers with a balance between analysis and design. The new edition presents a more thorough treatment of stress analysis and fatigue. It integrates the use of computer tools to provide a more current view of the field. Photos or images a[...]

* This book provides a description about the various government regulations of securities, securities markets, and securities transactions. * It defines, describes, and explains U.S. securities regulation.[...]

Sudan's modern history has been consumed by revolution and civil war. The country attracted international attention in the 1990s as a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism and recently tensions between the prosperous centre and the periphery, between north and south, have exploded in Darfur. In his [...]

John J. Collins' "Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD-ROM" is a leading textbook in Old Testament studies. With this new, well- tailored abridgement of that larger work, Collins' erudition is now available to general readers and professors and students who prefer a shorter, more concise introdu[...]

Provides guidance in establishing a career path in the tour guide industry. With real-life case studies drawn from the different areas of the industry, this title tells you which jobs are most suited to your skills, how to develop those skills further, where to look for jobs and training and how to [...]

This introductory text provides a thorough overview of the private security system. This edition includes crime prevention and its zones of protection - the theoretical framework that provides the bridge between private and public sector law enforcement. From the historical development and the profe[...]