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Abbey Burning Love-Entertaining mystery, heartwarming romance. Stunning beauty and stock car racer Melissa Malone debuts as MC to raise funds for The Abbey, a historical Western Illinois nunnery with a humiliating past. A murderous explosion rocks Melissa's world and she cheats death carried by unknown captor. With multiple twists and turns, Melissa battles zoning staffer Rob Campbell and internal barriers to rebuild The Abbey and find love never certain of what the future holds. Abbey Burning Love represents the third small town murder mystery by Author Donan Berg.
It happens all the time – parents save money for retirement, and the kids call to say they can’t pay their rent. The parent doesn’t want grandchildren out on the street, so the money is “loaned.” Then, when the money runs out, the kids stop calling. There are worse things than physical elder abuse – much worse! Laura never told anyone the horrible truth about Danny’s death, but when two old friends showed up at her house unannounced, and saw the portrait on her wall, the truth was impossible to hide.
Set within the backdrop of life in small town America, Yellow Sky is the story of loyalty, humor, greed, betrayal and murder. Bull Tarkel is a factory worker and volunteer firefighter whose life becomes intertwined with all of those situations. He finds that for each blessing there always seems to be a curse. The Bible tells us that, "Where there are two or more of you gathered in God's name, there He is also." Yellow Sky illustrates that the same can be said about those gathering for evil intent.
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What are the right institutional settings and strategies for ensuring honesty and accountability in public life? How do these settings and strategies relate to one another, and how do we know what is working and what is missing from the whole complex tapestry? Taking Australia as a case study that is relevant to all countries where public integrity is an issue, this book offers some new answers to these larger questions. The collection reviews a variety of existing efforts to understand, 'map' and evaluate the effectiveness of integrity policies and institutions, not just in the government sector but across all the major institutions of modern society. It will be of interest to those in governance, politics, law and public policy.
This book demonstrates how culture matters for the understanding of cannabis use. It stems from the growing body of research on how users manoeuvre stigmatisation and celebrate the subcultural status of cannabis amid rapid transformation of the substance and its societal reception. The volume presents international studies that challenge the normalisation thesis and simplified views on patterns of use, as well as the Western bias in social research of cannabis. Chapters in this book map the variability of cannabis cultures and markets on a global scale including digital, regulated and illicit markets in transformation. They study cannabis through stigmatisation, gender, social worlds, symbol...
This book analyses the abuse of idealism with particular reference to China's Cultural Revolution. The work examines abuse at two levels: the state leaders' metaphysical vision as the interpretation of idealism at the top with state power; and the psychological state of the masses at the bottom of society. The concept of abuse itself is discussed with the author arguing that idealism is often used to justify abuse while many are all too willing to accept this as idealism itself. On the other hand, many dismiss the idealist vision because of the horrible consequences of the abuse. For these reasons, the book holds that abuse of idealism should not be confused with the original intent of idealism. It is further argued that the masses often complement dictatorship due to a basic weakness of human nature. Finally, the book proposes that the concepts of human dignity and equal access to truth are prerequisites for the effective rule of law within China.
Responding to the public concern caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of unintended harm to patients, this author draws on her experience of analysing the health care systems of over a dozen countries and examines whether greater regulation has increased patient safety and health care quality. The book adopts a new approach to mapping developments in health care systems in Europe, North America and Australia and pieces together evidence of which regulatory strategies and mechanisms work well to ensure safer patient care. It identifies the regulatory bodies, the regulatory principles and the implementation strategies adopted to improve governance in health care systems and suggests a conceptual framework for responsive regulation. The book will be of interest to government actors, health care professionals and medico-legal scholars.
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In a protracted displacement situation, refugees are sequestered in camps without right of mobility or employment; their lives remain on hold and stagnate in a state of limbo for a long period. This book reviews the situation and results of research and policies that have left refugees as a forgotten group in protracted situations. The work features case studies by experts who conducted field work examining long-term protracted refugee situations in Nepal, Thailand and Bangladesh, the protracted internally displaced (IDP) situation in Sri Lanka, and the refugee and IDP situation in Afghanistan. Also discussed is an emerging protracted refugee and IDP problem in Iraq. The volume concludes with an analysis of the lessons learned and the applications for policy, and incorporates a valuable bibliography detailing research in this hugely important area. This is a critical resource for academics and policy makers concerned with migration and governance issues.