Activities to encourage students to explore the diverse habitats for animals and plants in and around their school playground.

How can dogs that sniff for excrement, urine, vomit, and mucus help protect animals from extinction? In the race to save endangered animals, finding solutions now is critical. Scat-detection dogs like Wicket, Tucker, and Orbee are conservation heroes and pioneers in a cutting-edge field of science. Canine detectives use their super sense of smell to locate the scat of target animals. From loose bear dung to gooey whale poop, scat can tell scientists valuable information about an animal’s sex, age, diet, and health—all without harming the animal or endangering the researcher.

A complete training series for Private investigators, Legal Investigators, and Private Detectives. How to perform investigations, make the report and bill the client for services. Includes forms for Investigations, Contracts for starting the Investigation.

An Introduction to Epidemiology, Fourth Edition is intended for introductory courses in health-related programs at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a valuable reference for epidemiologists working in the field, industrial hygienists, infectious disease nurses, and staff epidemiologists.

Describes 250 occupations which cover approximately 107 million jobs.

Gathering accurate data probably constitutes one of the most important aspects of crime investigation and prevention. How do we put the data to use? How can we improve our methods of handling the information we collect? By describing a project for the development and implementation of a computerized crime-mapping system in the Chicago area, this book makes a significant contribution toward a more efficient and intelligent use of crime data to understand and prevent crime in a community setting.

Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century. With contributions by leading anthropologists and historians of medicine, it examines the epistemic co-constitution of the rural and of infectious diseases. Ranging from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia to Java, Tanzania, West and South Africa, and Britain, the chapters cover diverse geographies, timelines, and diseases, including plague, brucellosis, leishmaniasis, yaws, yellow fever, nagana, sleeping sickness, and Chagas disease. The book considers how human interactions with infectious diseases have impacted ways of knowing and acting on rural spaces and environments, and in turn how human interactions with rural spaces and environments have impacted ways of knowing and acting against infectious diseases. It reflects on how the rural has been configured as a space of either health or sickness over the centuries and around the globe, the role of rural landscapes in the epistemic emergence of microbiology and tropical medicine, and the interaction with global processes such as European imperialism, the emergence of capitalism, and postcolonial nation-building projects. The studies engage with current debates on decolonizing knowledge and highlight how local disease knowledge has troubled and unsettled hegemonic medical perspectives and created new ways of understanding the relationship between diseases and rural spaces and environments. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of medical anthropology, global health, and the history of medicine.

Through ethnographic research in South Africa, this book explores the lived experiences of police navigating danger and death.

The success of solving a cold case on East Bonnet Beach catapults Gwen and Mark into the limelight. Their approach, current popularity, and connections make the lure of another long forgotten Jane Doe impossible to avoid. Morristown is a small farming town in Connecticut. Friendly neighbors. Helping hands. Bright smiles. But for some reason, no one seems to care at all about finding the person who murdered a stranger and buried her in their town. The reputation of a dead man, a town hero, is more important than justice in their eyes. An odd family vacation, Gwen and Mark load up the car with the people they love and head to Oakwood Farm. Determined to break the decades old complacency of the locals, they realize quickly just how dangerous that might be. The Missing Pieces Series Book 1: The Bend in Redwood Road Book 2: The Pier at Jasmine Lake Book 3: The Bridge in Sunset Park Book 4: The Stairs to Chapel Creek Book 5: The Cabin on Autumn Peak Book 6: The Shore at East Bonnet Beach Book 7: The Field on Oakwood Farm