From serial murderers to parents who kill, this volume offers a rare glimpse into the minds of predators and contains chilling details of their motives and methods. The book explores gang violence, serial and mass murderers, filicide, rape, workplace violence, school shootings, and hate crimes. It also delves into the unusual and shocking practices of vampirism and cannibalism. Steeped in research, the book contains tables with demographic data and events, discussion questions to provoke further inquiry, and numerous references for further study, making it a compelling resource for professionals and academia alike.
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Psychological Science
Forensic Science - Law
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Presenting important insight into the complexities of arid region hydrology, this book provides the key component to formulate and implement integrated management approaches in catchment systems. It covers basic and applied research, sustained water education, and training programs and considers the advantages of new techniques and instrumentations with adequate support of financial and human resources. Topics include catchment characteristics, rainfall runoff and harvesting, stream flow routing, groundwater hydrology, resource management, and the design of hydraulic structures. The book offers illustrative case studies, conversion tables, and modeling software.
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Hydrology
Hydrogeology
Ground Water
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Starting with familiar concepts and slowly building to deeper results, this text focuses on vector spaces and the maps between them that preserve their structure (linear transformations). It discusses the structure theory of an operator, various topics on inner product spaces, and the trace and determinant functions of a linear operator. The text also covers bilinear forms with a full treatment of symplectic spaces and orthogonal spaces and explains the construction of tensor, symmetric, and exterior algebras. It includes many examples, exercises, and problems, with selected solutions in the appendices. A solutions manual is available for qualifying instructors.
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Algebra
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This volume brings together international experts to explore land misuse and mismanagement that is compromising soil qualtiy across the globe. The book assesses farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa with emphasis on land degradation, examines soil management in Brazil and China, and provides a comparison of systems in India and Ohio. It also looks at how culture and spiritual beliefs contribute to the problem. Ultimately, the book helps us understand that the situation is not beyond remediation were we to act with urgency and details achievable methods for improving soil quality.
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Agriculture
Soil Science
Ecology - Environment Studies
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Since the first edition of this volume was published in 1983, it has retained its unique status of being the only book in the field of public administration that analyzes how constitutional law regulates and informs the way administrators interact with each other and the public. Examining First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights as they pertain to these encounters, it explains how public administrators must do their jobs and how administrative systems must operate in order to comply with constitutional law. Supplemented with case citations and lists of articles, books and documents, this text is designed to facilitate further study in a constantly evolving area.
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Government
Public Administration & Management
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Bioactive peptides are used to enhance the body’s antioxidant status, antisepsis capacity, immune function, anti-inflammatory capacity, mineral absorption, and appetite. They can also mitigate major metabolic derangements arising from chronic illnesses which result in unwanted weight loss. Presenting data from human studies, clinical trials, and recent research findings, this work summarizes the applications and benefits of this therapy. The book covers host response, quality factors, protein economics, and muscle loss. It includes case studies on aging, AIDS, COPD, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, kidney failure, and tuberculosis.
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Nutrition
Nutraceuticals & Functional Foods
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Although many references cover ethnoveterinary medicine in some form or another, none give it the intense and scientific scrutiny found in this book. With chapters on biological assays, efficacy testing, and phytochemistry, the book presents hard scientific information in accessible and readable language. It features a multidisciplinary approach to examining the role of herbal medicines in companion and pet animals. Tthe text also discusses access benefit sharing, the Convention of Biodiversity, intellectual property, and the skills required to navigate the minefield of bioprospecting.
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Botany
Natural History
Animal Physiology
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Professional

This timely three-volume set captures novel developments in the films and coatings area in relation to nanoscience and nanotechnology. For newcomers to the field, the books serve as introductions and stepping-stones to enter the field with little confusion. For experts, the books provide up-to-date information that can assist them in their research and help them contribute to the advancement of the technology. Figures, tables, and images are included in all three volumes. The first book concentrates on the mechanical properties of thin films and coatings, the second focuses on functional properties as well as related devices and applications, and the final volume examines organic thin films, devices, and coatings for clean energy applications.
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Ceramics & Glasses
Materials Science
Renewable & Sustainable Energy
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Professional

The first volume in the Handbook of Nanostructured Thin Films and Coatings set, this book concentrates on the mechanical properties, such as hardness, toughness, and adhesion, of thin films and coatings. It discusses processing, properties, and performance and provides a detailed analysis of theories and size effects. The book presents the fundamentals of hard and superhard nanocomposites and heterostructures, assesses fracture toughness and interfacial adhesion strength of thin films and hard nanocomposite coatings, and covers the processing and mechanical properties of hybrid sol-gel-derived nanocomposite coatings. It also uses nanomechanics to optimize coatings for cutting tools and explores various other coatings, such as diamond, metal-containing amorphous carbon nanostructured, and transition metal nitride-based nanolayered multilayer coatings.
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Ceramics & Glasses
Materials Science
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Professional

The second volume in the Handbook of Nanostructured Thin Films and Coatings set, this book focuses on functional properties, including optical, electronic, and electrical properties, as well as related devices and applications. It explores the large-scale fabrication of functional thin films with nanoarchitecture via chemical routes, the fabrication and characterization of SiC nanostructured/nanocomposite films, and low-dimensional nanocomposite fabrication and applications. The book also presents the properties of sol-gel-derived nanostructured thin films as well as silicon nanocrystals embedded in SiO 2 matrix and amorphous SiO 2 matrix. It concludes with chapters on controlled micro/nanostructured films and devices and thin film shape memory alloy for microsystem applications.
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Ceramics & Glasses
Materials Science
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Professional