Most Popular Books by Paul Lee

The Boom Brothers (Rico, Willy and Dave) welcome you to high caliber weapons and adventure on this, their first novel. If you don't like to see terrorist pukes, gangstas, and traitors get their just deserts, well, I guess about right now you hear your momma callin'. For the rest of you hardcore, get cocked and locked. You're going to have some fun whether you like it or not. In We're Gonna Need Bigger Guns, the three brothers' father, Sarge, a decorated Marine war hero and police officer, is brutally murdered by a gang of drug-dealing cult-member scum. Raised learning how to use their Daddy's war trophy weapons and always do the right thing, the boys begin their first exploit by avenging their father's death. If you like guns, violence, and stories about bad guys who pay for their sins with their own blood, you'll love this book. And that's only the first chapter. More opportunities for vigilante justice ensue as the brothers find out they have a talent for killing. As their gift for dealing death to those who deserve it become recognized at the top of the government food chain, the Boom Brothers turn their hobby into a Judge, Jury and Executioner steamroller that smashes it's way through the best of the worst for the benefit of God, Country, and their Ma's apple pie. The mission of the Boom Brothers is to take out the world's trash - one bag at a time.

Take your child on a journey through the alphabet with this iconic set of animal illustration flash cards. 26 sturdy cards depict a critter for each letter of the alphabet making learning the ABCs tactile, playful and fun.

Megan Rollins is lost in the Appalachian Mountains. After witnessing a brutal bear attack on her fiancé and spending the night hiding in a tree trunk, two men discover her and carry her to their cabin, where a strange family lives. Something even stranger lurks behind the forbidden iron door...the entry to a dreary dungeon. Megan opens it, unveiling an ancient evil that will change humanity and Planet Earth forever. Megan struggles to survive, the terror intensifying as her journey progresses. She must escape the forest...but how? Sinister Mountains is a darkly crafted, adrenaline-rushing novella unique to the horror genre.

This study aims to trace the conceptual evolutionary path of theories on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and to reflect on the implications of the development. The retrospection has revealed that the trend has been a progressive rationalization of the concept with a particular focus on tighter coupling with organizations financial goals. Rationalization involves two broad shifts in the conceptualization of CSR. First, in terms of the level of analysis, researchers have moved from the discussion of the macro-social effects of CSR to organizational-level analysis of CSR''s effect on profit. Next, in terms of theoretical orientation, researchers have moved from explicitly normative and ethics-oriented arguments to implicitly normative and performance-oriented managerial studies. Based on the retrospection, the limitations of the current state of CSR research that places excessive emphasis on the business case for CSR are outlined, and it is suggested that future research needs to refocus on basic research in order to develop conceptual tools and theoretical mechanisms that explain changing organizational behavior from a broader societal perspective.

Latent fingerprints are made visible from the surface of objects using a variety of methods including physical and chemical processing, adapted illumination sources, and photographs. Unfortunately, the prints collected directly from a crime scene or from physical evidence may be incomplete or damaged, to the point of being considered unsuitable to send directly to latent fingerprint examiners for identification or to Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) for recognition. As a result, most latent fingerprint images must be preprocessed to enhance fingerprint information, at the same time suppressing interference arising from noise and otherwise unwanted image features. This preprocessing phase occurs after the latent print is collected from the crime scene and digitalized by a scanner or camera, and before the image analysis and process phase such as minutiae markup or latent print identification. The preprocessing results can be extraordinary, transforming raw images with little or no value into ones suitable for evidentiary analysis. Despite the importance of this step, there exist few databases designed especially for the scientific study of latent fingerprint image preprocessing, and even fewer standards to guide this workflow. To address this research gap, we conducted a study in which a group of trained Latent Print Examiners provided Extended Feature Set (EFS) markups of a series of latent images. This report provides a brief introduction into fingerprint preprocessing, discussion regarding the experimental design, structure, and contents of the latent fingerprint image database, and details of proposed preprocessing efficacy metrics. Additionally, we present preliminary analysis of these metrics when applied to images in our database. Previously Guan et al. [6] presented the performance metrics and analysis of the metrics as applied to a union minutiae set. In this report, we comprehensively document the contents of the records database including the latent images, the EFS markup files, metadata, markup logs, and region of interest masks. Additionally, we present the results of the performance metrics as applied to the intersection minutiae set of EFS markup data.

This study used both qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the theoretical mechanisms proposed. In order to observe specific mechanisms that gave rise to corporate behavioral changes, this study focused on one aspect of CSR, namely corporate environmental behavior. First, this study qualitatively traced the historical evolution of changing relationship between corporations and society with a focus on institutional innovations.

This study examines whether a firm's ownership form has any influence on its social performance. Conventional wisdom suggests that public (publicly traded) corporations are more susceptible to corruption and socially irresponsible behavior than privately owned corporations because of the intense short-term profit maximization pressure from shareholders and the lack of sufficient monitoring mechanisms. This study introduces an alternate perspective in thinking about the relationship between ownership form and corporate social responsibility. This study reasons that public corporations are more likely to become socially responsible because of their greater exposure to external influence and greater dependence on external actors with diverse interests. Using a panel data on the pollution management practices of 118 industrial facilities over a 13-year period, this study shows that public corporations were indeed subject to greater external pressure to reduce pollution, and the pressure led to consistently stronger environmental performance.

In this thesis, the dynamics of cold, trapped atomic gases are investigated, and the prospects for exploiting their nonlinear dynamics for inertial sensing are discussed. In the first part, the resonant and antiresonant dynamics of the atom-optical quantum delta-kicked accelerator with an initial symmetric momentum distribution are considered. The system is modelled as an ideal, non-interacting atomic gas, with a temperature-dependence governed by the width of the initial momentum distribution. The existence of resonant and antiresonant behaviour is established, and analytic expressions describing the dynamics of momentum moments of the time-evolved momentum distribution are derived. In particular, the momentum moment dynamics in both the resonant and antiresonant regimes depend strongly on the width of the initial momentum distribution. The resonant dynamics of all even-ordered momentum moments are shown to exhibit a power-law growth with an exponent given by the order of the moment in the zero-temperature regime, whereas for a broad, thermal initial momentum distribution the exponent is reduced by one. The cross-over in the intermediate regime is also examined, and a characteristic time is determined up to which the system exhibits dynamics associated with the zero-temperature regime. A similar analysis is made for the temperature-dependence of the antiresonant dynamics. This general behaviour is demonstrated explicitly by considering a Maxwell-Boltzmann and uniform momentum distribution, allowing exact expressions describing the dynamics of the second- and fourth-order momentum moments, and momentum cumulants, to be obtained. The relevance of these results to the potential of using this system in accurate determinations of the local gravitational acceleration is discussed. In the second part, the dynamics of one- and two-component Bose-Einstein Condensates prepared in a counter-rotating superposition of flows in a quasi-1D toroidal trap are studied. Particular attention is paid to the dynamical stability of the initial state in the presence of atom-atom interactions, included via a mean-field description within the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. A broad regime of dynamical stability using a two-component BEC is identified, in which a typical implementation using Rb-87 is predicted to lie. A proof-of-principle Sagnac atom-interferometer using a two-component Rb-87 BEC is then presented, and the accumulation of the Sagnac phase is shown to be possible via relative population measurement or, alternatively, through the continuous monitoring the precession of atomic density fringes. In contrast to conventional Sagnac interferometers, the accumulation of the Sagnac phase is independent of the enclosed area of the interferometer. The prospects of using this system for high-precision determinations of rotation is discussed.

The Dubai International Financial Centre (“DIFC”) has become an important component of an increasingly significant global market for Islamic finance. However, the state of academic discussion has not necessarily kept pace with its growing economic import. This paper improves the current state of literature by (1) examining the current regulatory infrastructure for securities and Islamic finance in the DIFC, (2) comparing its regulatory model with those of other important Islamic finance jurisdictions, and (3) exploring the implications of Dubai's experience for the notions of legal transplants, convergence, and competition.