The sequel to "Deema's Dragon". The dragon is so hot he puts out his own fire - in the pool.

Collin Pathways Stage 0 Set C: Dragon at the Pool (Collins Pathways)

Stone, Michael

Lutrario, Chris

Wade, Barrie

Minns, Hilary

Stone, Sushila

Reference

HarperCollins, Publishers

Hired by a voluptuous advertising executive to find a stash of money that was hidden by her late drug-dealing boyfriend, Denver investigator Streeter finds a competitor in a corrupt attorney

The Low End of Nowhere (Streeter Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Penguin??Books

Denver, Colorado's toughest private eye, the hero of The Low End of Nowhere, Streeter reluctantly becomes the protector of his ex-fiance+a7e, a straight-talking, curvaceous attorney stalked by a disgruntled client. Reprint. Tour.

A Long Reach: A Streeter Mystery

Totally Dead: A Streeter Mystery

ExlinebackerturnedDenver P.I. Streeter battles a whole new set of lowlifes, when he represents a local restaurateur who lands in hot water with some major underworld figures and ends up in the middle of pizza war. Reprint.

Penguin Group USA

Were there groups in Ancient Judaism that cultivated esoteric knowledge and transmitted it secretly? With the discovery and burgeoning study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and particularly of the documents legislating the social structure of the Qumran group, the foremost paradigm for analysis of the group's social structure has become the "sect." This is still dominant, having replacing the monastic paradigm used by some of the earliest scholars of the Scrolls. But after studying what has been written on secret societies more generally, Michael Stone has concluded that many known ancient Jewish groups-the Qumran covenanters, Josephus's and Philo's Essenes, and Philo's Therapeutae-should be viewed as societies at the heart of whose existence were esoteric knowledge and practice. Guarding and transmitting this esoteric knowledge and practice, Stone argues, provided the dynamic that motivated the social and conceptual structure of these groups. Analyzing them as secret societies, he says, enables us to see previously latent social structural dimensions, and provides many new enriching insights into the groups, including the Dead Sea covenanters. By examining historical and literary sources, Stone uncovers evidence for the existence of other secret groups in ancient Jewish society. This line of study leads Stone not only to consider the "classical" Jewish apocalypses as pseudo-esoteric, but also to discern in them the footsteps of hidden, truly esoteric traditions cultivated in the circles that produced the apocalypses. This discovery has significant implications, especially considering the enormous growth of study of the apocalyptic in the Judaism of the Second Temple period and in nascent Christianity over the last seventy years.

Secret Groups in Ancient Judaism

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Oxford University Press

This volume contains a collection of compositions from cave 4 at Qumran written during the Second Temple period and linked to the Hebrew Bible through text, characters, themes, or genre. While some of the documents represent a reworking, rewriting, or paraphrase of biblical books, all greatly enhance our understanding of biblical interpretation during the period and the phenomenon of pseudepigraphy.

Qumran Cave 4: XIV: Parabiblical Texts, Part 2 (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert)

History

Newsom, Carol

Broshi, Magen

Strugnell, John

Larson, Erik.

Fitzmyer, Joseph

Smith,Mark

Eshel, Esther

Schiffman, Lawrence

Yardeni, Ada.

Ancient Civilizations

Clarendon Press

This volume contains a collection of Jewish works composed during the intertestamental period linked to biblical texts through characters, themes, or genre. Some of these were known previously as part of the Pseudepigrapha, while others were not previously known. They all enhance our understanding of the phenomenon of pseudepigraphy (writing in the name of a famous biblical or religious character) and of biblical interpretation during the Second Temple period.

Qumran Cave 4: XVII, Parabiblical Texts, Part 3 (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, Vol. 22)

Elgvin, Torleif

FLINT, Peter

Barrera, Julio Trebolle

COLLINS, John.

Brooke, George

Greenfield, Jonas

Puech, Émile

A good sport scientist and coach must understand both the underlying mechanisms and the practical application of training principles. Strength and Conditioning in Sports: From Science to Practice is unique in that it covers both of these areas in a comprehensive manner. This textbook connects the mechanism with practical application.Selecting the appropriate training process is paramount to success in competitive sport. A major component of this textbook is the detailed explanations of developing that process from creating an annual plan, selection of the appropriate periodization model and how to program that model.In application, connecting physiology to performance can be enhanced by using appropriate athlete monitoring techniques. Although there can be overlap, monitoring can be divided into two components, fatigue management and program efficacy. One of the features of this text is the in-depth description of how the monitoring process should take place and how monitoring data can be used in program application.This exciting new text provides a comprehensive overview of the application of science to sport and will be key reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of strength and conditioning, athletic training, exercise physiology, human performance, personal training, and other related disciplines of sport science and kinesiology.

Strength and Conditioning in Sports

Suchomel, Timothy

Hornsby, W.

Wagle, John

Sports & Outdoors

Routledge

This book provides a clear link between the application of sports science principles and theory to practice. The book allows practitioners to go off and design and defend their own evidence-based training programmes Provides the reader with an appropriate background in physiology, biomechanics and psychology to aid in the development of the training process

Strength and Conditioning in Sports: From Science to Practice

Cunanan, Aaron

In the bestselling tradition of Nicholas Pileggi, Joseph Wambaugh, and Robert Daley's Prince of the City, a thoroughly enthralling story of how the seasoned veterans of New York's elite Homicide Investigation Unit took down the city's most dangerous drug gang, and in the process rewrote the book on tackling gang crime. Gangbusters is a riveting narrative about the secretive, elite Homicide Investigation Unit and its successful investigation and prosecution of the notorious upper Manhattan Wild Cowboys, one of the bloodiest and most violent drug gangs in New York's long history. For two years, veteran reporter Michael Stone was granted exclusive access to the inner workings of HIU, its brilliant and iconoclastic chief, Walter Arsenault, and the seasoned, street-smart detectives and prosecutors who helped to put the Wild Cowboys behind bars. The book opens with the shocking and senseless execution of a Tarrytown college boy on the West Side Highway. Over time, the case leads detectives to the Wild Cowboys, a drug gang whose size and penchant for violence and intimidation have terrorized the South Bronx and upper Manhattan for years. HIU's attempts to bring down the Wild Cowboys' ruthless leader, Lenny, and feared enforcers, Platano and Pasqualito, triggermen for scores of the gang's murders, posed challenges that would test the unit's very survival. But HIU's dedicated collaboration of prosecutors and detectives and the strategies Arsenault employed in the unit's investigation have since become a model for gang enforcement in cities around the world. In the end, the Wild Cowboys and their allies were responsible for more than sixty murders. A rich roller-coaster ride of a narrative with a colorful and, at times, heroic cast of characters, Gangbusters is true crime at its page-turning best.

Gangbusters: How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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