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"Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nonetheless managing...until an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young girl from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out in the Big Sky Country of Montana, twisted family...

Fully revised with the latest models and equipment, such as electronic gear shifting and internal cable routing, this manual is esssential reading for every cyclist.

The gut microbiome is known as "the forgotten organ" because it is not identified as part of the human body per se, yet it has an immense influence on many systems in the body. The Gut Microbiome: Exploring the Connection between Microbes, Diet, and Health explains what the microbiome is, the many functions it serves, how it can be either harmed or supported by our actions, and the role it may play in various diseases and in determining our overall...

This book tells the larger "story" of Latinos in the United States and describes how they represent a breadth of ethnicity. It addresses not only those in very large numbers from countries such as Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and El Salvador, but also Latino people from Peru, Argentina, Venezuela, Panama, and Costa Rica, as well as indigenous Oaxacans and Mixtecos, among others.

"Gale Business: DemographicsNow connects users with a wealth of highly detailed demographic data on more than 24 million U.S. businesses and 206 million consumers for gaining consumer and market insight. The product's reporting capability enables users to easily and rapidly produce a variety of compiled reports-- both standard and custom-- to help make informed and accurate decisions. The demographics tool leverages Census data, consumer expenditures,...

This full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. Gale OneFile: News provides access to major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. News also includes thousands of images, radio, and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.

This book explores the history of superheroes, tracing their development from their beginning in 2100 B.C.E. with the Epic of Gilgamesh to their status today in modern pop culture and the comic book and graphic novel worlds. It documents how the two modern superhero archetypes--the Costumed Avengers and the superhuman Supermen--can be traced back more than 200 years and how modern superheroes were created and influenced by biblical heroes, medieval...

This book addresses the increased risk of LGBTQ+ youth being bullied at school, which can lead to serious consequences for their mental health, academic performance, and physical safety; and the increase of public awareness of the issue with schools now expected to provide a safe learning environment for students of every sexual orientation and gender identity. It provides resources and strategies for helping LGBTQ+ students overcome bullying and...

This book begins with an introduction that addresses major threats and extinctions in history, discusses the geographical and cultural contexts in which these incidents happened, highlights other key moments along the endangered species timeline, and clearly shows why the topic of endangered species matters.