Root Science

Elevate your manufacturing processes with advanced Root Cause Analysis techniques that ensure precision, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Comprehensive RCA Methods: Delve into proven methodologies like Fishbone Diagrams, 5 Whys Analysis, and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). This book provides detailed explanations and practical guidance on how to apply these techniques to identify and eliminate the root causes of problems in your manufacturing processes.

Since the earliest days of Christianity, theologians expressed pervasive anxiety about Jews as equal members of society, and, with European expansion in the early modern period, that anxiety extended to people of color. This troubling legacy still haunts us today. Christian Supremacy demonstrates how theological and legal frameworks created by the church centuries ago laid the seeds of antisemitism and anti-Black racism and reveals why Christian identity lies at the heart of the world’s violent white supremacy movements.

Beauty in a Box uses an interdisciplinary framework, engaging with African American history, critical race and cultural theory, consumer culture theory, media studies, diasporic art history, Black feminism, visual culture, film studies and political economy to explore the history of Black beauty culture in both Canada and the United States.

As she is pursued deeper into the mountains, Jak must face her own inner demons. Jak is on the run. After the mysterious reappearance of her friend, Marek, she must decide whether to stay with the body of her army, or go off in search of the illusive second Pillar of Eternity. But she must decide fast. Cain is on his way, and his demons pursue her. And no one knows whether they should trust Jak's childhood friend, whom they had long presumed to be dead.

Geneva Fielding is a researcher in the Archives of the Applied History department, prepping time travelers for their destinations. She loves the smell of old paper and chocolate croissants. One day, a Traveler fails an important test and cannot go. Instead of canceling the Trip, the dean appoints Geneva and her friend Peter Donatelli, a physicist, to take his place. They have three days to prepare to Travel to 1630s New England.

Eminent scholar Peter Irons makes a powerful and persuasive case that Blacks have always been held back by systemic racism in all major institutions that can hold power over them. Based on a wide range of sources, from the painful words of former slaves to test scores that reveal how our education system has failed Black children, this searing and sobering account of legal and extra-legal violence against Blacks peels away the fictions and myths expressed by White racists.

Alek, a teenage elf charged with caring for a demanding prisoner within the confines of the Kingdom of Dredfall, witnesses his prisoner's liberation and impulsively tags along with the saviors instead of staying behind and facing punishment. It would have been wise to let the liberators know this was his plan but, like most young elves, he did not think that far in advance. The result of his impulsive action is life-altering.

Born in a boxcar on a train bound for Georgia. At least, that is what Papa Steel always told AB'Gale. But now, 15 years later, the man who adopted and raised her as his own is missing, and it's up to AB'Gale to find him. Aided only by a motley gang of friends, AB'Gale train hops her way across the United States in a desperate attempt to find her papa and put her life and family back the way it was.

As Harry and the other residents of Orchard Close struggle to survive, a new crop of problems presents itself. Unstable electricity damages equipment, days are spent scavenging for ammo, weapons, food, glass bottles, and of all things, yarn. Elsewhere, gangs carve out their territory throughout the city. Residents pay for protection through coupons, bartering, or worse. Citizens fleeing the city gangs, violence, and lack of food flock to Orchard Close, but how many can they take in?

After the harrowing events of The Acrid Sky, Anika Lawson flees from her grief, burdened by a prophecy she doesn’t yet fully understand. With no sense of belonging, her newfound powers carry her into the heart of Karrane, where the truth of her birth hides within the intricate web of a foreign kingdom’s politics. Anika must navigate a dark, winding path to uncover her true heritage. Meanwhile, her brother Gage battles the encroaching Shadow, a darkness eager to fill the void left by a brutal assassination attempt by the Light.

Joe's world is turned upside down when he discovers a shattered compass among the brambles where the Crystal Palace once stood and travels through time back to 1888.

Roslyn never wanted to be a princess, but when the King and his family die during a sickness her father is crowned king. Roslyn is the bastard daughter of the king and she was very different from the other young noblewomen: she was trained to be a warrior as well as a mage. Unsure of where she belongs, Roslyn embarks on a quest across the ocean to the lands of her mother, a continent that had been cut off from them for the last eighteen years. There she will not only discover who she truly is, but her ancestors have a plan for her as well.

Forensic Science Errors and Wrongful Convictions: Case Studies and Root Causes provides a rigorous and detailed examination of two key issues: the continuing problem of wrongful convictions and the role of forensic science in these miscarriages of justice.

Leaving my twin sister and my home grove was never in the plan. I knew where my place was. Waking up in the Feylands threw me into a spiral I wasn’t ready for. They said I was sick and had to be separated from the only life I knew. They said they gave me a cure. I just needed to give it a few days. Now I’m trapped in between the man I pushed into the arms of another and a childhood crush that is running trials for the woman who would stand at his side. I can’t wait around to experience losing them and fortunate enough for me, I won’t have to.

Quinn Robbins has just returned from spending ten days in Eirentheos, a world she had never known existed. Trying to settle back into her familiar life and establish a relationship with her new boyfriend, Zander, is more of a challenge than she ever dreamed it would be. Things are just beginning to feel normal again when Thomas shows up in her world, and invites her back to Eirentheos for a royal wedding. She's excited at the chance to reconnect with the people and places she had begun to fall in love with.

Kindra is an amateur genealogist, school psychologist, and widow under the age of forty. She has completed extensive research on her mother's side of her family, but she's never even met her father. A singing sword calls Kindra to defend her father's family from evil, even though Kindra has never even met anyone in that family and they live in a different realm.

Drayton can’t leave the Lowcountry. He once believed he was a vampire when he terrorized villages and slaughtered for blood. Now he absorbs essence from the dying’s final breath and rarely stays in one place. He has been in the Lowcountry far too long. Everything is about to change. After witnessing an elderly man’s death, Drayton vows to protect his wife. He assumes the job of her gardener in Charleston’s historic district. But when a young woman named Amber enters the garden, he soon questions who he is protecting. And from whom.

In the second installment of The Daughters of Dark Root series, Maggie Maddock and her sisters are back, training under their coven-leading mother Miss Sasha Shantay to take over as the new leaders of The Council. But life isn’t as smooth as Maggie had hoped it would be. Harvest Home’s taxes have come due, and her mother’s illness has returned, stronger than ever. Desperate, Maggie and Eve devise a scheme to make money through witchcraft. And that’s when things go terribly wrong.

When free-spirited Merisande flees into a cursed wood to avoid an unwanted marriage to Sir Avry, she finds herself in a hidden kingdom full of winged people who keep human slaves. Her betrothed follows her there, and they are both captured and enslaved.

When it all began, it all had to be much more beautiful than it is now. This is an introduction to facts about the most beautiful, precious, and wonderful planet in the galaxies. From love and happiness to war and peace. Struggle, pain, misery, torture, crimes, and hate. What will be the tremendous outcome of it all? This is the true thriller and historical fiction short story. The ultimate, intriguing, and thought-provoking point of view. A classic and rare take on the entire world and its inhabitants.