Download or read book Bad Traffic written by Simon Lewis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After receiving a frantic call from his daughter, a student at Leeds University, corrupt Chinese Inspector Jian travels to rural England to confront the activities of a dangerous gang of human traffickers.
Download or read book Bad Traffic written by Patrick Weill and published by Weill & Associates. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nayeli Sanchez is a Mexican girl on the verge of womanhood who makes a brave but foolish decision, falling prey to a gang of human traffickers who lure her into the sex trade and smuggle her into the United States. Murci, her older brother, leaps onto his motorcycle and roars over the border to rescue her. He joins forces with police detectives Park and Walker of the San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force, but an elusive traitor leaks the details of the investigation to the Hondurans running the prostitution ring. Then the Hondurans’ Mexican rivals throw their own plans into the mix, catching Park’s and Walker’s families in a treacherous crossfire. Through a series of raised stakes and sudden reversals, the action culminates in a battle royale fought in a bomb-rigged casino between multiple SWAT teams and the two warring gangs. With breathtaking international locales, a well-rounded cast of characters on both sides of the law, and a fleet of high-performance vehicles, this second installment of The Park and Walker Action Thriller Series promises and delivers a mind-blowing ride! Second Place, 2024 PSWA Writing Competition in the published thriller category WHAT READERS ARE SAYING: “Bad Traffic grabs the reader by the throat in its opening chapter and refuses to let go…Relentless action and jaw-dropping twists kept me riveted throughout the story. Weill has composed a fascinating tale ripped from today’s headlines about an unseen world of human devastation and the men and women dedicated to tearing it down.” - Jeff Kerr, award-winning thriller author “The emotional/physical pain of the trafficked victims is well done and the action is intense…Weill has a hit on his hands.” - Steve Lepper, Military Thriller Book Group “Non-stop action, incredible characters, and enough plot twists to keep you frantically turning pages to find out what happens. Park and Walker just keep getting better!” - A.K. Weller, Author of the Anna Bowman Thrillers
Download or read book Bad Traffic written by Simon Lewis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "GREASED-LIGHTNING" crime debut (Kirkus Reviews), Simon Lewis has created two unforgettable characters and a critically acclaimed novel that will stay with you long after the final page is turned. Inspector Jian is a corrupt Chinese cop who thinks he’s seen it all. But his search for his missing daughter takes him to the meanest streets he’s ever faced—in rural England. Migrant worker Ding Ming is distressed—his gang master is making demands, he owes a lot of money to the snakeheads, and no one will tell him where his wife has been taken. Maybe England isn’t the Gold Mountain he was promised. Two desperate men, lost in a baffling foreign land, are pitted against a ruthless band of human traffickers in this breath-taking thriller.
Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Download or read book Traffic written by Tom Vanderbilt and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This book will make you think about it in a whole new light. We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our attempts to engineer safety and even identifies the most common mistakes drivers make in parking lots. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the quotidian activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological and technical factors that explain how traffic works.
Download or read book Fighting Traffic written by Peter D. Norton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930. Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as “jaywalkers.” In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as “road hogs” or “speed demons” and cars as “juggernauts” or “death cars.” He considers the perspectives of all users—pedestrians, police (who had to become “traffic cops”), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for “justice.” Cities and downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of “efficiency.” Automotive interest groups, meanwhile, legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking “freedom”—a rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States. Fighting Traffic offers a new look at both the origins of the automotive city in America and how social groups shape technological change.
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Download or read book Social Change and Sustainable Transport written by William Richard Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-29 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation research has traditionally been dominated by engineering and logistics research approaches. This book integrates social, economic, and behavioral sciences into the transportation field. As its title indicates, emphasis is on socioeconomic changes, which increasingly govern the development of the transportation sector. The papers presented here originated at a conference on Social Change and Sustainable Transport held at the University of California at Berkeley in March 1999, under the auspices of the European Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The contributors, who represent a range of disciplines, including geography and regional science, economics, political science, sociology, and psychology, come from twelve different countries. Their subjects cover the consequences of environmentally sustainable transportation vs. the "business-as-usual" status quo, the new phenomenon of "edge cities," automobile dependence as a social problem, the influence of leisure or discretionary travel and of company cars, the problems of freight transport, the future of railroads in Europe, the imposition of electronic road tolls, potential transport benefits of e-commerce, and the electric car.
Download or read book Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into and Report Upon the Means of Locomotion and Transport in London written by Great Britain. Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into and Report upon the Means of Locomotion and Transport in London and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 30-54 (1932-46) issued in 2 separately paged sections: General editorial section and a Transactions section. Beginning in 1947, the Transactions section is continued as SAE quarterly transactions.
Download or read book Information Security Management written by Michael Workman and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of: Information security for managers.
Download or read book The Road More Traveled written by Sam Staley and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though often dismissed as a minor if irritating nuisance, congestion's insidious effects constrain our personal and professional lives, making it harder to find a good job, spend time with our family, and maintain profitable businesses. After centuries of building our cities into bustling centers of commerce and culture, we are beginning to slow down. The Road More Traveled shines a new light on the problem of traffic congestion in this easily accessible book. You'll learn how we can reclaim our mobility if we are willing to follow successful examples from overseas, where innovations in infrastructure and privatization have made other nations stronger and more competitive. By thoroughly debunking the myths that keep our policy makers trapped in traffic, the book argues that we can and should build our way out of congestion and into a fast-paced future.
