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A psychological thriller focusing on a serial killer and the two New Jersey police officers trying to catch him. Wanting to write a best-selling novel, Richard Abbott decides to become a killer and then write about his adventures.
Robert Spurr (1611-1703) was born in England and died in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He and Anne (ca. 1624-1712), his wife, had seven children in Dorchcester. Their sixth child, Thomas (1661-1738) and his son Thomas (1687-1767) spent their lives in Massachusetts. Michael Spurr (1723-1774), son of Thomas (1687-1767) and Elizabeth Kingsley, was born in Stoughton, Mass. and died at Round Hill, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. Michael married Jane Shippee in Stoughton, Mass in 1746. In 1760, the family of eight (three boys and three girls) migrated to Annapolis County, N.S. where four more children came to the family. Michael, Jane and their descendants remained in Canada and include Spurr, Barteaux, Harris, Hennigar, Lent, Potter, Rice, Vroom and related families.
Vol. 1 includes "Organization number," published Nov. 1917.
The exercises in this unique book allow students to use spreadsheet programs such as Microsoftr Excel to create working population models. The book contains basic spreadsheet exercises that explicate the concepts of statistical distributions, hypothesis testing and power, sampling techniques, and Leslie matrices. It contains exercises for modeling such crucial factors as population growth, life histories, reproductive success, demographic stochasticity, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, metapopulation dynamics, predator-prey interactions (Lotka-Volterra models), and many others. Building models using these exercises gives students "hands-on" information about what parameters are important in each ...
This book provides the first detailed discussion of domestic violence and abuse in same-sex relationships, offering a unique comparison between same-sex and heterosexual contexts. Catherine Donovan and Marianne Hester examine how experiences of domestic violence and abuse are shaped by gender, sexuality, and age, seeking to understand what factors drive victims to seek--or not seek--help. Employing a methodology that includes both quantitative and qualitative research, they provide a new framework of analysis--what they call "practices of love"--that challenges heteronormative models of engaging domestic violence in research, policy, and practice.
Through compelling black-and-white photography and informative, engaging text, this book chronicles the work of one of the nation's most remarkable social service institutions, the New York Foundling Hospital. As this book eloquently demonstrates, the Foundling is an institution that from its very inception was committed to helping society's most vulnerable members: children.