The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes

The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes
By Michael Newton | Facts on File (2009) | ISBN 0816078181
PDF | English | 5.8 MB | 436 pages

Police detectives and other law enforcement agents approach each new case carefully, knowing that not every crime - whether murder, disappearance, robbery, or other transgression of the law - can be solved. By carefully collecting and examining evidence, rigorously interrogating suspects, and following up every lead with smart sleuthing, investigators are able to solve most crimes, even some that first appear to be extremely mysterious and troubling. However, true crime readers, crime buffs, students, and readers interested in the history of law enforcement and criminal investigations know that some cases stump the experts. The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes details more than 540 of the most baffling cases of the past two centuries from around the world. This fascinating resource delves into legendary unsolved crimes as well as many disturbing cases from the 19th and 20th centuries that have continued to spark interest among crime writers, professional investigators, and amateur crime sleuths. Entries provide an overview of the crime, the parties involved, the evidence gathered, and the leading theories of law enforcement. Topics such as missing persons are also discussed. Focusing on cases involving prominent figures (Jimmy Hoffa) and mysterious scenarios (the "Zodiac" Killer) as well as those with a major social impact (the Tylenol Murders), The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes offers comprehensive and valuable coverage.

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Teaching and Learning Vocabulary: Bringing Research to Practice

Teaching and Learning Vocabulary: Bringing Research to Practice
By Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Michael L. Kamil | LEA (2005) | ISBN 0805852859
PDF | English | 13.47 MB | 288 pages

Although proficiency in vocabulary has long been recognized as basic to reading proficiency, there has been a paucity of research on vocabulary teaching and learning over the last two decades. Recognizing this, the U.S. Department of Education recently sponsored a Focus on Vocabulary conference that attracted the best-known and most active researchers in the vocabulary field. This book is the outgrowth of that conference. It presents scientific evidence from leading research programs that address persistent issues regarding the role of vocabulary in text comprehension. Part I examines how vocabulary is learned; Part II presents instructional interventions that enhance vocabulary; and Part III looks at which words to choose for vocabulary instruction.

This book is suitable for anyone (graduate students, in-service reading specialists and curriculum directors, college faculty, and researchers) who deal with vocabulary learning and instruction as a vital component of reading proficiency.

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Stockholm Eyewitness Travel Guide (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Stockholm Eyewitness Travel Guide (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, DK Travel (2007) | ISBN: 1405316950
PDF | English | 38 MB | 232 Pages

The guide that shows you what other travel books only tell you! Over 650 full-color photographs, taken especially for this guide, show you Stockholm at its best. Floor plans and 3D cutaways help you explore local buildings- no need to purchase other guides. Detailed and accurate Street Finder maps give you instant access to each district. The Survival Guide shows you, in pictures, how to use local currency, public transportation, and telephones. Hotels, restaurants, cafes, and bars in all price ranges.

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St. Petersburg (Eyewitness Travel Guides) By DK Publishing

St. Petersburg (Eyewitness Travel Guides) By DK Publishing
DK Travel (2007) | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0756624363
PDF | English | 47 MB

EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDES are organised district by district, with a systematic, thematic approach. Significant sights in each area, and star features in each major sight, as well as shopping, accommodation and dining information, are shown alongside colour 3-D maps, town maps, thematic maps, cutaways and floorplans.

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Germany (Eyewitness Travel Guides) - Revised Updated By DK Publishing

Germany (Eyewitness Travel Guides) - Revised Updated By DK Publishing
DK Travel (2007) | 600 Pages | ISBN: 0756626358
PDF | English | 82 MB

Revised and updated, this map of Germany provides a physical base, with relief clearly shown by a system of layer colouring. It extends from Luxembourg and the Netherlands in the west to Poland and Czech Republic in the east, to the north is Denmark and the Baltic, with Switzerland and Austria to the south. The map also features communication detail, with road, rail and canal networks all shown. The map key is in English, French and German, and the scale is 16 miles to one inch.

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Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture

Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture
By Robert Mills | Reaktion Books (2006) | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1861892608
PDF | English | 5.7 MB

"A provocative and insightful meditation on human pain as a shared obsession in medieval and modern culture. Mills writes as clearly as he thinks (the prose descriptions of the images that he examines are a special delight to read) and the one hundred color and halftone plates are finely reproduced. A fascinating and utterly credible protrayal of medieval culture." - A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics

Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics
By Norman L. Geisler | Baker Academic (1999) | ISBN 0801021510
PDF | English | 4.8 MB | 1501 pages

Providing Christians with a comprehensive reference volume covering every key issue, person, and concept related to Christian apologetics, this work offers extensive coverage of apologetics with articles on key individuals, philosophical systems and concepts, biblical controversies, contemporary issues, and perennial apologetic arguments. Valuable information and advice are provided for to a wide audience, including pastors and Christian leaders, students on college campuses, those involved in counter-cult ministries.

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Oxford Dictionary of Law - fifth edition

Oxford Dictionary of Law - fifth edition
Elisabeth A. Martin | Oxford University Press (2003) | ISBN 0198607563
PDF | English | 4.4 MB | 562 pages

This fully up-to-date edition takes account of recent changes in UK legislation. It is a handy desk reference for lawyers and an ideal source of legal terminology for students and secretaries in any country where the legal system is based on English law. It provides clear, jargon-free information for professionals, students, and people without a legal qualification. It contains over 4,000 entries that define and explain the major terms, concepts, processes, and the organization of the English legal system. It features authoritative and up-to-date articles which have been written by practising and academic lawyers. New entries cover the Woolf reforms, human rights law, as well as family law, central and local government, and international law. This work was described by leading university lecturers as being ' the best law dictionary at present' and 'excellent for non law students as well as Law undergraduates'.

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Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450, 3 volume set

Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450, 3 volume set
By Thomas Benjamin | Cambridge University Press (2007) | ISBN: 0028660854
PDF | English | 35.8 MB | 1248 pages

The Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 provides the most comprehensive, accessible, and international reference work about the entirety of Western colonialism from the Portuguese voyages of Prince Henry the Navigator in the fifteenth-century to the making of feature films about British colonialism in India in the twenty-first-century.The Encyclopedia presents over four hundred articles in three volumes.The Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 is not only a comprehensive reference work that embraces world history during the past five centuries, it is as well an international intellectual project.

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Encyclopedia of Historic Places

Encyclopedia of Historic Places by Courtlandt Canby, David S. Lemberg
Facts on File (2007) | ISBN: 0816053448 | 1538 pages
PDF | English | 7 MB

The three-volume "Encyclopedia of Historic Places, Revised Edition" identifies and provides fascinating background information on cities, towns, districts, territories, and nations around the world. With more than 9,000 A-to-Z entries and a full-color insert in each volume, this revised set is much more comprehensive and colorful than the previous edition. In addition to current place names, cities, and states, this encyclopedia also has a substantial listing of ancient and classical places that are no longer in existence. There have been many changes in the geography of the world over the past 25 years, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the birth of the European Union, to name a few. All of these changes, and many more, have been updated in this new edition to make the information as current as possible. The revision also includes new entries from every region of the world, with an added emphasis on how industry and technology have changed the geography of the modern world.

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Encyclopedia of World Scientists

Encyclopedia of World Scientists by Elizabeth H. Oakes
Facts on File (2007) | ISBN: 0816061580 | 960 pages
PDF | English | 10.7 MB

It is a diverse and comprehensive two-volume collection of biographies of scientists. This essential work contains fascinating stories of nearly 1,000 scientists - almost half of whom are female - who have contributed significantly to their fields. All scientific disciplines are represented, as well as all periods of history as far back as 400 BCE. With more than 100 new entries and more than 200 photographs and illustrations, this revised edition highlights how scientists have overcome formidable obstacles while in pursuit of great achievements that have forever altered our understanding of the world. While this set brings together an array of well-known and lesser known scientists, providing the basic biographical details of their lives, the focus is on their work, with their scientific achievements presented in everyday language that makes even the most complex concepts accessible. The well-known scientific "greats" of history are featured, along with contemporary scientists whose work is just verging on greatness. Among these are many minority scientists who have often been excluded from similar books. Entries are organized by field, by country of birth, by country of major scientific activity, and by year of birth.

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UXL Complete Life Science Resource, 3 Volume Set

UXL Complete Life Science Resource, 3 Volume Set
By Leonard C. Bruno | U·X·L (2001) | ISBN-10: 0787648515 | 625 Pages
PDF | English | 38 MB

Explore the fascinating world of biology with U·X·L® Complete Life Science Resource, featuring alphabetically arranged entries on theories, concepts and scientific discoveries and developments pertinent to the study of life science in schools today. Also featured is a chronology of discoveries with a timeline of world events, a general for further information section, and a research and activity section. This 3-vol. set contains illustrations, graphs and charts to help students understand life science.

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A History of Britain: The Key Events That Have Shaped Britain

A History of Britain: The Key Events That Have Shaped Britain
from Neolithic Times to the 21st Century
By Richard Dargie | Arcturus Publishing (2007) | ISBN: 0572033427 | 208 Pages
PDF | English | 21.8 MB

This highly illustrated, information-packed volume explores British history from Neolithic times right up to New Labour. Every double-page spread focuses on a different topic, making it a pleasure to dip into and easy to look up any subject that interests you, be it Boudicca's Rebellion, the wars against Napoleon or the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Timelines provide helpful chronological reference and are a handy addition to this informative text. Conveniently arranged in eight sections, each dealing with a major historical period, chapters include: Prehistoric Britain; Roman Britain; Invaders and Settlers; Medieval Britain; Early Modern Britain; Georgian Britain; Victorian Britain and The Twentieth Century. The book covers the key historical events and adds vignettes of lesser-known but interesting details like the uprisings in Dark Age Wales and the birth of tabloid newspapers in Victorian Britain. More than 150 illustrations and photographs bring the text to life.

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Longman Dictionary of American English, Special Edition

Longman Dictionary of American English, Special Edition
Pearson Education (2009) | ISBN: 0137052677 | 1200 pages
PDF | English | 29.7 MB

The 4th edition of the Longman Dictionary of American English has been researched
and revised to meet the real needs of learners of English. The up-dated text now includes
thousands of words for content areas such as Science, Economics and Social Science, as
well as word origins and updated thesaurus boxes that give extra help with vocabulary
acquisition.

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Encyclopedia of Movie Special Effects

Encyclopedia of Movie Special Effects
By Patricia D. Netzley| Publisher: Checkmark Books (2008) | ISBN: 0816044929
PDF | English | 35 MB | 291 Pages

Students, film buffs, and general readers will enjoy this books brief biographies, definitions of studio jargon, descriptions of special effects techniques, and descriptive lists of effects used in specific films. Many entries include historical notes, and an appendix lists Academy Award winners and nominees for special effects from 1939 to 1999.

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Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Freshwater Fish

Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Freshwater Fish
John Wiley & Sons (2004) | ISBN: 0471449946 | 272 pages
PDF | English | 6.2 MB

Featuring information on identification, habitat, size, diet and angling tips, this is an illustrated guide to 140 of the most common freshwater fish species found in North American rivers, lakes and streams.

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Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Saltwater Fish

Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Saltwater Fish
John Wiley & Sons (2004) | ISBN: 0471449954 | 272 pages
PDF | English | 7.7 MB

This illustrated guide to 227 of the most common saltwater fish species found off the North American coastline includes helpful information on identification, habitat, size, diet and angling tips.

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