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A world far into the future. Set among old buildings, that lean grossly to one side as a reminder to those of the past of their misgivings of war, and cruel experimentation on human beings. It is a time of an uneasy peace where Shizuku must learn a new reality in saving children from a dictator, and...

In a world molded into a veritable Utopia, life seems incapable of mismanagement. World interest in space activity has withered back into seeming indifference. But for Kronide Soter, whose family has played such prominent roles in the conquest of space, the lure of the heavens is inborn. Kronide's...

Employing gender as a unifying critical focus, Caroline Jackson-Houlston draws on the full range of Walter Scott’s novels to propose new links between Scott and Romantic-era authors such as Sophia Lee, Jane Porter, Jane Austen, Sydney Owenson, Elizabeth Hands, Thomas Love Peacock, and Robert Bage....

In the year 2020 mobile communication will offer you anything you can dream of, anywhere and anytime. Technology for mobile media and communication is developing rapidly. What are the key trends in mobile communication today and for the upcoming years? How does the iPhone, Twitter, facebook mobile or...

This book considers the modelling and analysis of the many types of ropes, linear fibre assemblies. The construction of these structures is very diverse and in the work these are considered from the modelling point of view. As well as the conventional twisted structures, braid and plaited structures...

Essays and short stories about the pleasures and pit-falls of riding a bicycle and other facets of life as we know it.

It was 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression. Montrealers, like their counterparts in other countries, were inundated with financial burdens. Uppermost in most parents minds was the task of supporting their families. Dance lessons, music lessons, drama lessons were considered in many quarters...

Beautiful, troubled, and enigmatic Imogen carries a secret. Step into her deceptively mundane world and you will soon be caught up in the desire to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding her life. A fascinating character-building novel that slowly unfolds as you sweep from the elegance of Edinburgh...

It is remarkable that until recently sonographic studies of the bowel have not reached the diagnostic level that sonography has attained for other parts of the gastrointestinal tract. Gas posed the major ob­ stacle to obtaining consistent quality results. Julien Puylaert has de­ veloped a graded-compression...

With the rise of "design and build" many more organisations are having to undertake design work; new project organisational structures are developing and many people are migrating into new roles. As a result of these changing times it is more important than ever that we understand that design...

Black Dagger's Russian Spy is about a sixteen-year-old high school student named Valric who's parents support him when he gets accepted into Black Dagger's School for Spies and Secret Agents. The school lasts five years, though even in an unusual school Valric has some unusual adventures. He has to...

The purpose of this volume is to present the whole story of our research program on alternative interventions with delinquent youth. It is our goal to describe the development of an alternative intervention model, to examine its salient processes, to provide a test of its relative effective­ ness,...

This book forms part of a unique, highly practical and time-saving three volume presentation of the Building Regulations, each book covering all the regulations relating to specific building usage. The chapters of each volume form self-contained units covering all the Regulation requirements applicable...

Drifter Hal Morrison is a young fellow without much ambition or education. The unemployment office, sends Hal to Martas’s Place, a rundown diner.Marta turns out to be something else Short and chubby with a penchant for diamond rings, but Marta has legs like a baby elephant, along with attitude,...