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Make the leap from introductory to organic chemistry The transition from first-year chemistry to an organic chemistry course can be a challenge for many students. Not only must they recall their first-year studies of bonding, structure, and reactivity, but they must also master a whole new...

Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications...

JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE IT’S NEVER QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.   Springfield Model 1880. Trapdoor rifle with bayonet. Vengeance optional. With a handful of murderous rogues, Captain Jed Foster has run off with four wagons containing new Springfield rifles, bayonets, and ammunition meant...

THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY It’s Springtime in Wyoming. Preacher is on the move, joining a trail drive led by freewheeling adventurer Wiley Courtland. Wiley has good horses to deliver to the American Fur Company at Fort Gifford. An Indian war party, led by the cunning...

The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century It's fur trapping season and Preacher is about to discover the Rocky Mountain trail holds more than wild game--it's also infested with murderers and trail trash quick to deceive, steal, and hunt Preacher down. Among them are Jebediah Druke, his...

Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology to be published annually by ChiZine Publications, collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work produced by Canadian writers. Canadian...

This short story is approximately 2200 words/around 9 pages. Chicken farmer and arrogant were-rooster, Richard Cox, has a bit of free time on his hands and the urge to tell his tale.  He wishes to share the news of his legal victory in claiming ownership over the production and sale of eggs in the state of Iowa with you, his adoring fans.

The Dean’s Elbow begins in a calm lagoon at the harbour of Canford Cliffs. It is here that Mark Thewliss brings his fiancé, Mona, to meet his pride and joy, the nine ton cutter, Sea Flower. They are to practise for a thrilling race on the sea. This is a romantic and elegant story examining the lives and loves of young 1920s socialites.

Set in the Elizabethan era, Fire Over England is the story of Robin Aubrey, whose ambition is to both serve his queen and avenge his father who fell foul of the “The Spanish Inquisition.” He assembles a small fleet with a view to help fight off the Spanish Armada, but Elizabeth’s advisor, Walsingham,...

For centuries, presenting a comrade-in-arms with a feather was the ultimate censure and a stinging symbol of cowardice. When British soldier Harry Feversham decides to resign his post and leave the military, he is subjected to this humiliating ritual. Will his reputation ever be redeemed? Read The Four Feathers to find out.

This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more...

This book engages the problem of evil from a variety of philosophical viewpoints, traditions, methodologies, and interests. For millennia, philosophers, theologians, and people outside of the academy have thought about evil and its relation to religious belief. The Problem of Evil: New Philosophical...

The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century Cotton Pickens is the most unlikely sheriff on the frontier. And when the town of Doubtful, Wyoming, explodes, Cotton will lay down the law. . .if the law doesn't lay him down first. No Whiskey? No Women? No Peace. . . It was a law...

Animal Physiologic Surgery presents an integrated approach to the study of surgery for first-year medical students and graduate students in physiology. The primary emphasis is on the interrela­ tionships between surgical techniques and physiologic phenomena observed before, during, and after surgery....