This volume is for students and practitioners interested in improving their understanding and skills in the area of needs assessment. The text follows the typical sequence of an actual needs assessment process. Case studies are used to illustrate conceptualization of the task through the application of needs-based data to effective public health solutions. Examples are drawn from myriad public health efforts, recognizing that not all public health sector agencies bear direct responsibility for all activities that could be considered part of public health.

Up From Harlem is an pictorial autobiography of the life and times of Roland Alexander Brown. This book is dedicated to his family and friends who have made his life wonderful and worth living. It is a homage to the people who have influence his life over the last fifty years, and made him the person he is today. This Biography includes awards, people, education and other interesting facts pertaining to his life he wanted to share with friends, family and aquaintances.

For followers of Jesus, certain things are not optional, but necessary. Bishop Claude Alexander unpacks the Gospels' statements of what Jesus said he must do. Contrary to the life of the optional, accidental, and haphazard, the believer is called to live with a sense of divine necessity—no maybes about it.

Abstract: Potential production of ponderosa pine in the Southwest is simulated for various combinations of stand density, site index, age, and thinningschedule. Such estimates are needed to project future development of stands managed in different ways.