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These authors have taken great pains to ensure the innocent are assured justice and the guilty pay for their crimes in the unique fantasy worlds they have created. Sadly, in real life, this is not always the case.This book contains scenes of graphic violence and honest depictions of child abuse. Readers...

A Second Collection of the Dark Humor Satire of R. L. Saunders Life in our dystopian near-futures has never been funnier. Sauders gets inspiration from our daily news, and these stories are therapy for us as well. Skewering what is accepted as conventional wisdom, Saunders explores concepts...

The purpose of this book is to provide the radiologist with information which is "as practical as possible" for the everyday use of computerized tomography (CT) in the field of cervical, thoracic, and musculoskeletal pathology. The approach is simple. For each region the following information...

Over recent years, much renal research has focused on the pathology of the glomerulus, where many primary renal insults occur. However, nearly thirty years have passed since Risdon's study made the apparently anomalous observation that the extent of damage to the tubulointerstitial compartment is...

Since its inception in 1991, EUROMAT has been held each year on behalf of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), and alternates between general and topical prospectives. This year's theme, Advances in Mechanical Behaviour, Plasticity and Damage, was proposed by the Societe Francaise...

The city in Exile has slept for a time longer than anyone can remember. Only now do denizens of the world once again walk it, unsure and afraid of what the future holds for them. They are put in place, and have their memories stolen from them to keep them there, all while the merciless crawl of time...

A year has passed, and Cieca enjoys a short peace after defeating the Snake God. Agni, having seen Prairie off falls into a slump and continues to see the everyday happenings of the city progress beyond his imagination. Their world has expanded, but with it, so have their problems, and looming ever...

If you are involved in a battle to survive financially, then this book is for you. Readers who have been emotionally scarred by the turmoil associated with economic failure will find this book to be a source of great practical help while they are simultaneously trying to make sense of the past and...

BnF collection ebooks - "L'importance du Maître de Pension est aussi incontestable, de nos jours, et aussi incontestée que l'utilité de l'Académie Française ; car, sans le Maître de Pension, point d'Académie possible. Il s'y rattache, non par ses talents et par ses œuvres, puisqu'il ne...

Das II. Vaticanum hat das Selbstverständnis der katholischen Kirche erneuert und eine dialogische Öffnung zur Moderne vollzogen. Das große und erfreulich positive Echo, das der vorliegende Band gefunden hat, ist Anlass für diese aktualisierte und um einige Beiträge erweiterte Neuauflage. "Hier...

La presente obra se articula en torno a la conmemoración de los sesenta años de la aparición del libro Insight de Bernard Lonergan. Insight recoge la tradición socrática del autoconocimiento, que pasa por Pascal y llega a su plenitud en Kierkegaard, pero lo hace articulándose con otras grandes...

A wealthy man named Ashton is found murdered in an alley, apparently robbed for his jewelry and pocketbook. The police believe they have the killer, a young man who the next morning tries to pawn one of the stolen rings. Viner, however, the man who discovered the body and who is friends with the accused,...

A wealthy man named Ashton is found murdered in an alley, apparently robbed for his jewelry and pocketbook. The police believe they have the killer, a young man who the next morning tries to pawn one of the stolen rings. Viner, however, the man who discovered the body and who is friends with the accused,...

Three people. Two worlds. One love. One galactic threat. On the remote border world of Dusk, the Dusk Diplomatic Corps serves their planet as diplomats and aristocrats. A bombshell lands on the Corps when Terra sends a request for negotiations to begin mining the planet’s most vital resource:...