New Releases by Dan Smith

Shea Burke, a new FBI agent, is assigned to investigate eight cold cases of missing teenage girls. The local police had considered each girl a runaway, but Shea becomes convinced that one person-one monster-is responsible. She finds a seemingly harmless local man, Stanley Stonebridge, very interesting. Stanley, with a variety of devious devices including a shopping bag with a hole in it for his camera lens, videotapes attractive women in public places and sells the footage to voyeur web sites. When another girl, Tammy Ardito, disappears, Shea believes that Stanley is linked to the girl''s abduction. However, her supervisors don''t trust her instincts. She is new, after all, and they want her to focus on other suspects that have more potential than Stanley. Shea, realizing that her actions may cost her a career she loves, doggedly enters the dark world of Stanley Stonebridge determined to find Tammy.

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In this profound yet practical book, Mary Sellon and Daniel Smith make the case that the health of churches and synagogues depends on congregations learning how to live out love in "right relationships." The authors distill what they have learned from other researchers as well as their work with dozens of pastors and congregations. This how-to lays out theory, story, tools, and exercises that will help congregations and their leaders learn how to build and maintain the loving relationships that provide the medium for God’s transforming work

Depicts the causes and consequences of modern conflict.

Dan Smith presents a comprehensive and easy-to-use reference that provides a global overview of conflicts and military trends at the start of the 21st century.

Moins de deux ans après la chute du mur de Berlin, l''édifice de paix élaboré après la Seconde Guerre mondiale s''est fissuré. Les organismes non gouvernementaux ont dénoncé, impuissants, génocides et crimes de guerre. Mais leur voix n''est pas suffisamment relayée pour alerter de la réalité des conflits. Car si certaines guerres - Irak, Afghanistan, Bosnie - bénéficient d''une immense couverture médiatique, mobilisent l''opinion publique et les analystes géo-politiques, elles ne représentent pourtant qu''à peine 10 % des conflits contemporains. Aujourd''hui, la majorité des guerres se produisent au sein des Etats : guerres ethniques, partitions, guerres d''identité. Quel regard porter sur ces conflits ? Quel autre critère que l''assurance d''une existence décente pour les populations civiles permet de justifier le recours à la guerre ? Pour tenter de comprendre, L''Atlas des guerres et des conflits dans le monde analyse l''origine des guerres, leur localisation, les moyens humains et techniques qu''elles mettent en œuvre. Les problèmes clés sont abordés par le biais de cartes inédites, claires, lisibles la capacité militaire réelle des Etats, les répercussions morales et humaines des guerres, les armes de destruction massive, la réalité du marché international des armes, la menace terroriste, les acteurs de la paix. Asie, Europe, Afrique du Nord et Proche-Orient, Etats-Unis et Amérique latine, l''atlas dresse un bilan précis, chiffré, documenté de chaque région du monde, afin de mettre à jour ses dynamiques de guerre et de paix. Un ouvrage synthétique, accessible, outil de sensibilisation et de travail sans équivalent, pour tous les citoyens, en particulier, les enseignants et les étudiants.

What makes it possible for a church to reverse course from decline or stagnation into longlasting vitality? How can a church immigrate from a congealing present into a compelling future? What can a congregation do to experience continuous, deep change rather than just temporary, surface improvement? How does a person lead redevelopment? The three authors of this book address these and other questions by building on an eight-step framework for lasting change developed by John P. Kotter, noted former professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. His work on organizational change is heralded in the secular world as foundational, and Smith, Sellon, and Grossman have found that his findings hold true for congregations as well. Each chapter in this book comprises three sections: mentor, companion and coach. The mentor section discusses principles and concepts to be addressed in each of the eight steps; the companion section gives readers a sense of what leading change is actually like for a congregational leader; and the coach section provides specific ways for leaders to develop the unique change processes that will be effective in their church. Foreword by Anthony G. Pappas. "The authors offer strong spiritual grounding and wise counsel for personal and communal transformation as they lead us through a highly effective process of congregational transformation." -- Barbara B. Troxell "This book does not offer us more exhausting busyness, but focuses on the very heart of ministry in and through the congregation. If you yearn to move beyond the status quo, dive into this refreshing book and expect transformation." -- Julia Kuhn Wallace

Las guerras se hacen para conquistar territorios y poder. La mayor parte de las guerras actuales son guerras civiles que se producen para preservar la identidad étnica o religiosa, para poner fin a situaciones dramáticas de pobreza y explotación, o para tratar de corregir la historia. La mayor parte de las víctimas son civiles. El formato del Atlas de la guerra y la paz da forma y sentido a las estadísticas sobre las zonas más calientes del mundo, al tiempo que realiza una visión de conjunto sobre el terrorismo, el tráfico de armas, los campos de minas, el control del gasto militar y el papel de la ONU y la OTAN. El atlas del estado de la guerra y la paz comienza poniendo de manifiesto el trágico coste de la guerra -muertes, refugiados, colapso de naciones- y termina con una nota de esperanza, trazando el mapa de los esfuerzos diplomáticos y los procesos a favor de la paz.

"The State of War and Peace Atlas brings together a global picture of the bloody costs of war: the death tolls; the plight of refugees; lasting environmental damage; the collapse of whole states. It closes on a tentative note of hope by mapping the world of peace diplomacy and our global peacekeeping processes."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

This book gives the reader a coherent view of the issues involved in designing, developing, and implementing database systems. The book shows how straightforward techniques for logical and physical design can be used to reason about the many complex issues and tradeoffs involved in designing and implementing data-intensive systems.

A series of articles on the struggle for aboriginal government that appeared in The Toronto Star in September, 1991.

Detective Chief Inspector Harry Fathers of Scotland Yard''s Serious Crimes Squad investigates the disappearance of a top British research scientist in this tautly written thriller of police procedure.

Economic analysis of public expenditure for arms, defence and military personnel in OECD countries since the 1950s - discusses the role of interest groups in fostering international and national level militarism; explains economic implications of military spending under market economy conditions; includes industrial aspects in a feasibility study of disarmament; considers the role of USSR militarism. References, statistical tables.

Helps us to better understand the dangers of U.S. nuclear strategy, and reminds us that it is a strategy we can resist.