Examines today's alternatives to imprisonment, including house arrest, community service, day reporting, and boot camps.

Discusses the historical search for a cure for depression, the possible side effects of antidepressants, and the incidence of suicide and violence among people who take these drugs.

El corredor de apuestas y criador de galgos Jimmy MacFarlane dirige uno de los negocios clandestinos mas florecientes de todos los relacionados con las carreras de perros. Cuando MacFarlane aparece con la cabeza machacada, Lennox tiene una coartada muy solida: ha pasado la noche con la hija de la victima. / Glasgow bookie and greyhound breeder, Jimmy 'Small Change' MacFarlane, runs one of the biggest operations at Shawfield Stadium. When MacFarlane is found bludgeoned to death with a bronze statue of Danny Boy, his best racer, Lennox has a solid gold alibi: he had spent the night with MacFarlane's daughter. Lennox is quickly drawn into hunting MacFarlane's killer, and discovers that the business of dog racing was not the half of it. 'Small Change' was into some seriously dodgy stuff.

In the tradition of Michael Crichton and Margaret Atwood, an apocalyptic thriller that pits cutting-edge science against God and asks—who will win? A strange phenomenon is sweeping the globe. People are having visions, seeing angels, experiencing events that defy reality. Bizarre accounts pour in from distant places: a French teenager claims to have witnessed Joan of Arc being burned at the stake; a man in New York dies of malnutrition in a luxurious Central Park apartment; a fundamentalist Christian sect kidnaps and murders a geneticist. Then there is the graffiti WE ARE BECOMING that has popped up in every major city around the world, in every language. And everywhere people are starting to talk about John Astor, the mysterious author of the book that seems to be at the center of it all. After a rash of suicides around the world by individuals experiencing the time traveling hallucinations, psychiatrist John Macbeth and a team of FBI agents and scientists assemble to find out what’s going on before it’s too late. Is this a spiritual phenomenon or something more sinister?

Two women are killed in the same horrific, ritualistic manner. The murderer taunts the police with e-mails. It seems clear that a serial killer is at work, selecting victims at random and living out some twisted fantasy. But, as Jan Fabel and his murder team investigate further, nothing is as it first seems.

A girl's body lies on Hamburg beach, a message concealed in her hand. Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg murder squad, struggles to interpret the imagery of a brutal mind. Four days later, a man and a woman are found deep in woodland. It becomes clear that each crime is a reference to folk stories collected two hundred years ago by the Brothers Grimm.

Product Description: Human remains are recovered from the bottom of the River Clyde. Not an unusual occurrence, but these have been sleeping the deep, dark sleep for eighteen years. Suddenly Glasgow's underworld is buzzing with the news that the dredged up bones belong to Gentleman Joe Strachan, Glasgow's most successful and ruthless armed robber...read more

Two victims - an environmental campaigner and a geneticist researching the possibility of inherited memory - are found murdered within 24 hours of each other. Both men have been scalped. Forensic tests reveal that single red hairs left at each scene belong to neither victim, but were cut from the same head - twenty years earlier.

Product Description: Just as a major environmental summit is about to start in Hamburg, a massive storm hits the city. When the flood waters recede, a headless torso is found washed up. Initially, Jan Fabel of the Murder Commission fears it may be another victim of a serial rapist and murderer who stalks his victims through internet social network sites, then dumps their bodies in waterways around the city...read more

Product Description: 'Dazzling . . . the author achieves a tension that is almost unbearable.' - Daily Mail 'England's prose has the tough, spare elegance of steel scaffolding. His vocabulary is wide, and used with arresting precision. . . . On all levels, Figures in a Landscape is a brilliant achievement...read more

Examines prison conditions around the world, including descriptions of facilities in countries such as Kenya, China, India, Brazil, and Sweden.

Introduces Java Data Objects and its capabilities, explains how to make classes persistent, how to configure JDO, how to make queries, how to perform transactions, and its use in Web applications and J2EE environments. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Not everything is as it seems to be. Anyone can begin to remove all limitations around. What exists in life is what someone believes is necessary and always includes the judgments made. Upon deciding to change their minds and hearts, people can change their life experiences and as such, change the world around them...read more

Product Description: Glasgow in the 1950s - not somewhere you'd choose to be unless you were born to it. Yet Lennox, a private investigator, finds it oddly congenial. Lennox is a man balanced between the law and those who break it - a dangerous place where only the toughest and most ruthless survive...read more

Product Description: El detective Jan Fabel se encuentra ante el caso más sanguinario y macabro de su historia profesional. Los cadáveres de dos mujeres a las que han arrancado los pulmones y las notas desafiantes de alguien que firma como «Hijo de Sven» son las únicas pistas de un asesino cuya motivación va más allá de la ira, acercándose a una suerte de ritual donde lo sagrado y lo monstruoso se dan la mano para teñir de escarlata toda la ciudad...read more

Discusses psychostimulants, medications that are often used when antidepressants alone are not enough to relieve patients of depression, and examines their side effects, risks, and future prospects.

Product Description: El detective Jan Fabel y su equipo se enfrentan a una serie de homicidios: un politico de izquierdas y homosexual confeso y un prestigioso cientifico. Ambos fueron asesinados siguiendo el mismo metodo: a los dos les han arrancado el cuero cabelludo y han dejado un pleo rojo teñido en la escena, procedente de la misma cabeza y cortado veinte años antes...read more