Authors:Gary B. Melton PhD, John Petrila JD LLM, PhD Norman
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: health, professionals, lawyers, mental, handbook, evaluations, courts, third, psychological
Number of Pages: 930
Published: 2007-09-18
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 1572309660
ISBN-13: 9781572309661

This is the definitive reference and text for both mental health and legal professionals. The authors offer a uniquely comprehensive discussion of the legal and clinical contexts of forensic assessment, along with best-practice guidelines for participating effectively and ethically in a wide range of criminal and civil proceedings. Presented are findings, instruments, and procedures related to criminal and civil competencies, civil commitment, sentencing, personal injury claims, antidiscrimination laws, child custody, juvenile justice, and more.

中文参考译名:美国宗教：一本图文并茂的历史
Author: J. Gordon Melton
Publisher: ABC-Clio Inc
Keywords: history, illustrated, religions, american
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1576072223
ISBN-13: 9781576072226

Features: - Written in clear, understandable language, this book traces the evolution of religion in America- Includes analysis of the emergence of the fundamentalism vs. modernism controversy- Explores the explosion of religious pluralism at the end of the millenium

中文参考译名:房地产项目规划：开发项目交付战略（项目管理工具包）
Author: Trish Melton
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: project, management, toolkit, strategy, developing, planning, real, delivery
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-01-21
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0750684720
ISBN-13: 9780750684729

Successful projects are the basis for a successful company, but many professionals lack the basic skills required to accomplish this. The IChemE Project Management Subject Group has recognized the need to provide resources to deliver these skills, and has developed a series of books to share the latest best practice - engineering essentials. This second title, though primarily written from the perspective of engineering projects within the process industries, is generic enough to support project managers in many other disciplines. It provides for those starting out in project management, is id

Author: Trish Melton
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: project, success, process, technical, industry, projects, corporate, engineering, expert, management, toolkit, basics, second, skills
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-08-31
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0750684402
ISBN-13: 9780750684408

This book provides you with the tools required to approach and manage projects. These effective skills will impact positively on the success of both the projects you are involved with and of your organization.Key features* A practical handbook for both career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career* Provides simple step-by-step tools for understanding and managing each of the project value-add stages: - Developing a business case- Robust planning- Staying in control- Delivering benefits* Focussed on the needs of engineering and other technical

Author: Henry Melton
Publisher: Wire Rim Books
Keywords: air, lighter
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0980225310
ISBN-13: 9780980225310

It could be the best prank in the history of Munising High School’s unofficial Prank Day. Working for a next door neighbor inventor had left Jon Kish with unlimited quantities of lighter-than-air foam, perfect for building...say a full-sized flying saucer! High school honor demanded it. Plus with the family stress of his mother’s surgery, he needed something to keep his mind occupied. But little sister Cherry had her own schemes in play, and events more serious than high school pranks or mother’s cancer were about to focus the world’s attention on this little northe

Author: Buckner F. Melton Jr.
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: treason, conspiracy, burr, aaron
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-10-26
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 047139209X
ISBN-13: 9780471392095

Aaron Burr remains one of the most darkly compelling figures in early United States history. Best known as the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel at Weehawken, New Jersey, Burr served as a U.S. senator and as Thomas Jefferson’s vice president from 1800 to 1804. Before that, he gained a national reputation as a brilliant attorney. In the first popular book to focus on one of the most intriguing chapters in Burr’s long life, historian Buckner F. Melton Jr. explores Aaron Burr’s part in one of the most sensational criminal conspiracies in American history. Known as the "Burr C

Author: Melton A. Mclaurin
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: slave, celia
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0380803364
ISBN-13: 9780380803361

Celia was an ordinary slave--until she struck back at her abusive master and became the defendant in a landmark trial that threatened to undermine the very foundations of the South’s "Peculiar Institution."