Leave while you still can The warning had been spray-painted on Lauren Owens's walls.
"This book has all the brilliance, novel and unanticipated connections among ideas, thoughtfulness, and stylistic grace and daring that one always associates with the work of Mary Douglas."--Neil Smelser, author of Problematics of Sociology
This guide begins by describing the problem of missing persons and reviewing factors that increase its risks. It then identifies a series of questions to help you analyze your local missing-persons problem.
But as far as we know, there wasn't a motive for Mr. Brooks to have harmed Theresa, nor is there evidence he was in her neighborhood on the day she disappeared.” “What do you think happened to her?” “I think Theresa left her house and ...
And what if one then acknowledges the many artists who contributed to Brecht's other plays of this period — Kurt Weill and Caspar Neher, not to mention John Gay and Christopher Marlowe? Finally, what of the theoretical question of the ...
But the more he pokes and prods, the more he realizes that the Bible-thumping family and their television empire may be an elaborate cover for a less-than-holy enterprise. This is far more than a typical missing person case.
Introducing Buddy Steel, LAPD homicide detective whose father, Burton Steel, sheriff in the town of Freedom, a nearby privileged community falls ill with Lou Gehrig's disease.
Their book will find a wide audience among social scientists and will also interest anyone engaged in current discussions of poverty. This book is a copublication with the Russell Sage Foundation.
This is a powerful story about family, what it means to have one, to lose one, never to have made one, and what, if anything, might take its place. It’s the story of a vexed mother-daughter relationship that mellows with age.
With Missing Persons in hand you'll find the types that commonly become PIs - ex-cops, macho criminal wannabes, reporters; the easiest people to find (men, property owners and professionals) and the hardest (women, scoundrels and those with ...
The work of finding and identifying missing persons is complex and requires the expertise of many people, such as historians hunting through archives, biological anthropologists reconstructing skeletons, and psychologists preparing ...
This groundbreaking book brings together for the first time ideas and expertise across this vast subject area into one interconnected publication.
MISSING PERSONS is the first book in the new Buddy Steel mystery series by New York Times best selling author, Michael Brandman.
Missing Persons
This memoir by the late distinguished classicist tells of Dodds' travels from China to San Francisco, his encounters with literary figures including Yeats, Eliot, Auden, and MacNeice, and his conflicting educations in Belfast, Dublin, and ...
Full-color photographs, informative sidebars, and by-the-numbers fact boxes augment the compelling text, giving readers a more accurate understanding of the process of searching for missing persons than they will find on television or at ...
Organised into chapters which consider particular kinds of auto/biographical writing, such as work on the British Royal Family and auto/biographies of twentieth-century men, this book demonstrates the absences and evasions - indeed the ...
When his colleague dies under mysterious circumstances, psychologist Alan Gregory finds himself questioning the integrity of those closest to him, tracking an elusive patient, and looking for clues within the complex mind of a client.
A riveting, unforgettable story of vengeance stretched to the outer limits of sanity.
His mother's heart is full of terror and sadness instead of joy. His father's study overflows with newspaper cuttings and profiles on missing people instead of the academic texts that were there before.