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The crime of Oku was a serious one. He had stolen a pearl of great value, according to Vaiki. A historical tale set on a pearling ship at Thursday Island in the early 20th century.

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Essen : (Germany) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.

Modeling of weakly nonlinear systems by means of Volterra series analysis is presented. Necessary conditions for representing nonlinearities by a Volterra series are developed analytically as well as heuristically. A two-condition convergence criterion for Volterra series and a method for determining...

It is 1952, in Key West, Florida, Albert Leer, a loner escaping his past is working as the groundskeeper on the Ernest Hemingway Estate. The body of a dead man found on a barrier island off the island key sparks controversy it was a Russian spy. But the dead man brings Albert Leer's past out of the dark...

A portrait of poems etched on the slate of the human heart. A journey through this short existence we call life. Wilting A wilting flower before my eyes the image of the hopeless loss of each fragile petal stings the senses as I shiver at the irony two lives lacking what they need most some nourishment, a quick fix... maybe even a small miracle - love.

Disabling Characters provides detailed analyses of selected young adult (YA) novels and short stories. It looks at the relative agency of the disabled character, the behavior of the other characters, the environment in which the character must live, the assumptions that seem to be underlying certain...

Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities lays the foundations for a theoretical framework to understand the value of crowdsourcing, an avenue that is increasingly becoming important to academia as the web transforms collaboration and communication and blurs institutional and professional boundaries....

This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced kidnappings...

Students of mathematical biology discover modern methods of taxonomy with this text, which introduces taxonomic characters, the measurement of similarity, and the analysis of principal components. Other topics include multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, identification and assignment techniques, more. A familiarity with matrix algebra and elementary statistics are the sole prerequisites.

What does it mean for nature to be sacred? Is anything supernatural or even unnatural? Nature’s Transcendence and Immanence: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Ecstatic Naturalism discusses nature’s divinizing process of unfolding and folding through East-West dialogues and interdisciplinary methodologies....

This book examines the changing nature of global inequalities and efforts that are being made to move toward a more egalitarian world society. The contributors are world historical sociologists and geographers who place the contemporary issues of unequal power, wealth and income in a global historical...

Would you curse the one you love to save her life? In 1971, a shadow looms over Bestiavir, New Mexico; a town consumed in superstition and legend and dark secrets. The townsfolk's imagination feasted on tales surrounding a monster in the woods, the infamous Beast of Bestiavir. Those...

The rich history of Egypt has provided famous examples of board games played in antiquity. Each of these games provides evidence of contact between Egypt and its neighbours. From pre-dynastic rule to Arab and Ottoman invasions, Egypt's past is visible on game boards. This volume starts by introducing...