In the vein of Susan Orlean's "The Orchid Thief "and""Deborah Feldman's "Unorthodox, "journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture--one that marijuana built.
Humboldt: "Life on America's Marijuana Frontier"
Say the words "Humboldt County" to a stranger and you might receive a [...]

Dr. Kate Turner is happy with her new life in Oak Falls, upstate New York. Working as a relief veterinarian at a small house-call practice, she truly enjoys helping her patients. All that changes when client Claire Birnham is found dead, an apparent suicide. A talented artist, Claire had everything [...]

Highly recommended by JASA, Technometrics, and other journals, the first edition of this bestseller showed how to easily perform complex linear mixed model (LMM) analyses via a variety of software programs. Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide Using Statistical Software, Second Edition continues t[...]

The sequel to "Rise Again," from an author who "balances kinetically choreographed scenes of zombie carnage with studies of well-drawn characters and enough political intrigue to give his tale more gravity and grounding than most zombie gorefests" ("Publishers Weekly").
Billions died and rose ag[...]

Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are perhaps the two greatest quarterbacks of all time. They are living legends who have come to embody the quarterback position and shape an entire generation of the NFL. They have also been fierce rivals every step of the way, and their many epic duels have not only ran[...]

Presenting selected histories in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, this work discusses: political and economic issues; marriage practices, motherhood and enslavement; and religious beliefs and spiritual development. Famous women, including Hatshepsut, Hortensia, Aisha, Hildegard of Bingen and S[...]

This comprehensive book examines the complicated and often controversial issues relating to instructional programming for students with autism, with particular sensitivity to the wide range and varying effects of the cognitive, behavioral, social, and academic abilities of these students. A comprehe[...]

This text is the foremost compilation of information about managing the public sector fixed assets function. No two-fixed assets management functions are alike and there is no real collective information bank for the managers to use. Not only are management principles provided, but also definitions [...]

The Emergency Drugs pocket is intended to give those professionals taking care of patients in critical or life- threatening situations, reliable, and rapid access to drug information and weight based dosing information. Highlights: o Weight based dosage calculators, interactive scores, and medical c[...]