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Samuel awakes from a forced landing on the Rocky Mountain's harsh western slopes. The First Echelon's missiles made short work of their attempt to join the rebellion. His wife, Lisa, lies unconscious but breathing. In a cruel twist of fate, only one vial of the miraculous Everbreathe remains....

Deegan has practiced his necromantic skills during the darkest hours of the night, securely nestled in Dawnshire’s darkest corners. The Priests of the Divine Mother consider such practices comparable to murder and would happily execute Deegan as a matter of course, if they knew. Tonight,...

The day Trevian's ex-girlfriend also became his sister-in-law, he did not take the news very well. He could have painted on a fake smile and accepted the brotherly mantle of best man. Instead, Trevian retrieved his dad's antique katana, and settled things the old fashioned way. However, once...

What if you never knew your father? What if your mother’s stories about him always contradicted themselves? Isabelle, ten years old and fiercely determined, sets out to track down her father’s true identity. Her mother’s tall tales have one fact in common, one clue. Isabelle’s...

Everyone in my village is crazy. They whisper behind my back about a brother I've never had.  How can they all remember a boy who I know never existed?  Sure, my nightmares are a little too vivid. The sight of blood terrifies me, but lots of people can't stand the stuff. There's nothing wrong with...

This edited collection further expands our knowledge about what comprises a successful constitution in both theory and application. Building on the research and analysis of Vincent Ostrom, who as one of America's leading scholars on constitutions has spent a lifetime writing about constitutions in...

Scientific Bases of Acupuncture summarizes the major scientific advances from 1976 - 1988 on the mechanisms of acupuncture. Outstanding researchers from Western countries, Japan and China report their findings in the format of review articles. The individual reviews summarize each author's personal research while also referring to the overall literature in the field of acupuncture and TENS.

Many Black, Latinx, multiracial and ethnically diverse, first-generation college students turned PhDs—tie their academic success, achievements, and ability to navigate the difficult terrain of higher education back to the critical experiences and lessons learned in their home lives and through their...

EI libro pretende acercar el conocimiento de la prosocialidad y la empatía, es decir, la tendencia a ayudar cuando los demás lo necesitan y la capacidad para ponerse en el lugar de la otra persona que tiene un problema o una necesidad, y también de la agresividad y la impulsividad a familias y...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2007 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Geology, Mineralogy, Soil Science, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (School of Science), course: Geology, language: English, abstract: The upper beds of Coniacian to early Maastrichtian Fika Shales are exposed...

Since the pioneering work of Donald and his first Lancet paper in 1958, the use of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology has evolved rap­ idly. The introduction of grey scale techniques enhanced our ability to identify different tissues on the basis of their texture. However, it was the introduction...

The story of the abrupt coming-of-age of a young scientist who is faced head-on with physical and sexual rebirth, amid worldwide genetic disaster. How unfortunate, that little slip-up. He'd let mutant sea creatures loose in Earth's oceans. One bit him and now his scrawny self has mutated into the...

The sixteen essays in The Larder argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper...

50 Years of Materials Science in Singapore describes in vivid detail how a newly independent nation like Singapore developed world-class research capabilities in materials science that helped the country make rapid progress in energy, biomedical and electronics sectors. The economy mirrored this rapid...