A stray bullet could have ended it all. Dymond, Pistols, Ivy, and Marcos are back, and things have flipped. With the love of her life now out of commission, Dymond is only focused on her man getting better and the business she aspires to open. Seeing Pistols on the ground the night he got shot was enough to make a woman go crazy, but not her. She just wants him to get out of the streets and stay home, although the streets don’t, which is the reason he got shot. Lana is apologetic and trying to work through her issues, and the moment she finally comes to terms with how messed up she is just might be the end of her. Ivy and Marcos are still trying to work things out, but when Ivy comes to the realization that she actually doesn’t want to do that, will Marcos continue to fight for her or give up? Kalysha is happy in her pregnancy and a new relationship. Things are moving fast, and Chink wants them to be a family, but is she truly ready to let her guard down? All is fair in love and war, right? Will these couples get right or get left?

Dymond and Emory, aka Pistols, have been married for five years. Pistols has a secret that he has plans on taking to the grave with him, but when that same secret pops, she causes issues for him, and his marriage could be on the verge of being over. Dymond believes that he needs to handle this person the way he would handle anybody else, but he thinks otherwise, which could possibly lead to his or her demise at the end. Ivy and Marcos are an on and off again couple that never sees eye to eye, and he doesn’t know how to be faithful; whereas, Ivy never sought out to be with another man besides him. No matter all the things he did to her, or all the nights she cried, she still can never see herself without him. Is she stupid, or is she in love? But when she finds out he’s keeping a huge secret from her, she could be done for real. Both couples have some obstacles to get through in order to be happy, but will they ultimately get that happiness, or will one of these couples be stuck picking up the pieces after a deranged woman takes matters into her own hands and decides to play God?

Includes proceedings of the Association, papers read at the annual sessions, and list of current medical literature.

"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.

This book challenges what are, for many people, deep-rooted expectations regarding the routine arming of police and compares jurisdictions in which police are routinely armed (Toronto, Canada and Brisbane, Australia) and those where police are not routinely armed (Manchester, England and Auckland, New Zealand). With a focus on Western jurisdictions and by examining a range of documentary, media and data sources, this book provides an evidence-based examination of the question: Do police really need guns? This book first provides detailed insight into the armed policing tradition and perceptions/expectations with respect to police and firearms. A range of theoretical concepts regarding policing, state power and the use of force is applied to an examination of what makes the police powerful. This is set against the minimum force tradition, which is typified by policing in England and Wales. Consideration is also given to the role played by key tropes and constructs of popular culture. Drawing on Surette’s model of symbolic reality, the book considers contrasting media traditions and the positioning of firearms within narrative arcs, especially the role of heroes. The book concludes by drawing together the key themes and findings, and considering the viability of retaining and/or moving towards non-routinely armed police.