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The origin of any industrial optimization study lies in the theory that some improvement can be made in a controllable system. The possibility for improvements may arise in any context, for example, in the control of a chemical plant, the organization of production to meet delivery dates, the design...

Black Men in Higher Education bridges theory to practice in order to better prepare practitioners in their efforts to increase the success of Black male students in colleges and universities. In this comprehensive but manageable text, leading researchers J. Luke Wood and Robert T. Palmer highlight...

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...

As optimization techniques have developed, a gap has arisen between the people devising the methods and the people who actually need to use them. Research into methods is necessarily long-term and located usually in academic establishments; whereas the application of an optimization technique, normally...

How is it that two broadly similar systems of competition law have reached different results across a number of significant antitrust issues? While the United States and the European Union share a commitment to maintaining competition in the marketplace and employ similar concepts and legal language...

For generations, the science fiction genre and literary fiction have been perceived as irreconcilable. Startling Sci-Fi: New Tales of the Beyond attempts to prove otherwise. These 13 stories are boldly literary while employing unmistakable characteristics of the sci-fi genre. Jhon Sanchez’s “The...

In the wee hours of a wintry night, while on patrol, Ed Gallagher, a policeman, comes upon a car, idling on a deserted Cape Cod beach; inside, slumped over the steering wheel, is Emma Sanders, a young woman. Because the tailpipe is blocked and he fears she is trying to kill herself, he shatters the...

Allen enjoys a good swim every night to exercise and unwind. Next door to the aquatic center, Liz has been watching him enter and exit by the back door. Curious, she sneaks inside and catches Allen in a compromising position. As an apology, Liz asks if she can join him one night for a swim. Allen...

Moe and Archie, two robbers, accost a jogger. When the latter willingly hands over his valuables, Archie becomes suspicious but not enough so to pass on a McDonald's gift certificate. This blunder leads to his and Moe's undoing.

From the deadly little town of Danger Cove, come 5 full-length cozy mystery novels in the Danger Cove Mysteries series by USA Today bestselling and award winning authors! This boxed set includes: Killer Closet Case (a Danger Cove B&B Mystery) by T. Sue VerSteeg Tree of Life and Death...

Gnipper Tallhat is a twelve-year-old Gnome just trying to invent something useful for the community in order to earn her gnome-hat, but things just keep going wrong. This collection includes the first three episodes:Gnit-Wit Gnipper and the Perilous PlagueGnit-Wit Gnipper and the Ferocious Fire-AntsGnit-Wit Gnipper and the Devious Dragon

The temporal exploration craft, 'Kolibri', is struck by lightning and is forced to crash land at some point in the past. With the possibility of their prime directive becoming compromised, and with time against them, both the crew of the 'Kolibri' and, and the team sent to recover them, must find...

Adult Playtime tales for both Women and Men! Very Exclusive Naughty, Dirty & Raw Forbidden Erotica Stories for Adults Only Action! Definitely for over 18+… These Red-Hot Horny short stories have plenty of Gorgeous Girls with Scorching hot FMF, MMMF, Ménage, Lesbian, Bdsm, Interracial...

Written between 1998 and 2003, most of the poems here once existed as part of a planned collection called "a measured distance." Many from that original manuscript are now lost. Those that survived are featured here, unaltered. These poems "are the little ghosts of children" that...