Wisconsin winter weather plays as important a role as any individual in this nicely paced tale of domestic abuse and murder. Claire Watkins is still adjusting to life in little Fort St. Antoine when she notices the bruises and stiff gait of a local woman named Stephanie Klaus. Small town or big city, Claire knows the signs of abuse when she sees them.
Chủ Nhật, 15 tháng 3, 2015
Thứ Hai, 2 tháng 3, 2015
Gold and Other Precious Metals
A view of gold and other precious metal extractions from a new and wider angle, taking in both the earth and the metallurgical sciences. To name but a small number of the topics covered: – Occurrences of gold and silver minerals in their ores – Photomicrographs of refractory and amenable minerals/ores – The use of irregular gold and silver distributions for efficient planning of the extraction process – Microanalytical techniques – Descriptions of uranium and many base metals for comparison. Written with a broad audience in mind, from the manager of operations to the metallurgist, for the field geologist or other earth scientist, and for the professor and student alike.
Chủ Nhật, 1 tháng 3, 2015
US Patrol Torpedo Boats
Motor torpedo boat development began in the early 1900s and the vessels were first put into active service during World War I. However, it was not until the late 1930s that the US Navy commenced the development of their Patrol Torpedo or PT boat program. The PT boat, or the ‘mosquito boat’ as they were sometimes known, was originally envisioned for attacking larger warships with torpedoes using its ‘stealth’ ability, high-speed, and small size to launch and survive these attacks. However, they were actually employed more frequently in a wide variety of other missions, many which were unforeseen by developers and planners, including rescuing General MacArthur and his entourage from the Philippines.
Thứ Bảy, 14 tháng 2, 2015
The Small Screen
Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s.
Thứ Hai, 9 tháng 2, 2015
The Things We Do for Love
Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSarias heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her familys restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angies fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman.
Chủ Nhật, 8 tháng 2, 2015
Comma Sense
Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound.
Chủ Nhật, 1 tháng 2, 2015
Enticed
The saga continues for Rachel Dennehy, the tenacious small-town teacher caught in between two compelling, powerful brothers.
Thứ Năm, 29 tháng 1, 2015
Heartwood
Deaf Smith, Texas, a small town with small town problems until the local boy made good Earl Deitrich decides that he isn’t prepared to share his kind of good fortune with anybody else.
Glastonbury and the Grail
Glastonbury, a small town in Somerset, England, stands at the epicenter of a longstanding tradition placing the Holy Grail in Britain. Legend holds that Joseph of Arimathea traveled to Britain, bringing with him both a gathering of followers and the cup that Jesus used at the last supper. He is said to have buried the Grail at Glastonbury, where some claim he founded the first church in England. This volume chronicles one man’s personal quest to find historical evidence supporting the traditional beliefs surrounding Joseph of Arimathea and the Holy Grail in southern England. Bolstered by an ab.
Thứ Tư, 28 tháng 1, 2015
Targeted Cancer Treatment in Silico
Countless medical researchers over the past century have been occupied by the search for a cure of cancer. So far, they have developed and implemented a wide range of treatment techniques, including surgery, chemo- and radiotherapy, antiangiogenic drugs, small molecule inhibitors, and oncolytic viruses. However, patterns of these treatments’ effectiveness remain largely unclear, and a better understanding of how cancer therapies work has become a key research goal. Cancer Treatment in Silico provides the first in-depth study of approaching this understanding by modeling cancer treatments, both mathematically and through computer simulations.
Chủ Nhật, 25 tháng 1, 2015
Summer in the South
Cathy Holton, author of the popular Beach Trip, returns with an intriguing and mysterious tale of dark deeds and family secrets in a small Southern town.
Thứ Năm, 22 tháng 1, 2015
Portland, Oregon Chefs Table
Portland, Oregon Chef’s Tablecelebrates the food and culture of what theNew York Timescalls the city’s ‘golden age’ of dining and drinking. The city’s food scene–largely a celebration of the farm-to-table movement–has grown and evolved tremendously in the last five years, with an abundance of local fisheries, farms, and small beef, lamb, and pork producers providing the city’s fascinating restaurants with a wide array of locally-grown deliciousness.
Thứ Tư, 21 tháng 1, 2015
Scandalously Yours
Proper young ladies of the ton-especially ones who have very small dowries-are not encouraged to have an interest in intellectual pursuits. Indeed, the only thing they are encouraged to pursue is an eligible bachelor. So, the headstrong Sloane sisters must keep their passions a secret. Ah, but secret passions are wont to lead a lady into trouble . . .
Thứ Ba, 20 tháng 1, 2015
Exorcising Devils from the Throne
This political treatise is a passionate portrait of the nation of Sao Tome and Principe (STP) and an analysis of the specific problems of this small island cluster, a beautiful post-colonial country which is slowly but surely being sunk by a battle of politics and perks. Charting the nation’s fortunes since achieving independence from Portugal in 1975, the authors describe a leadership so corrupt and inept as to appear possessed by an evil demon.
Thứ Bảy, 10 tháng 1, 2015
The Poker Blueprint
From the man who literally CREATED the poker ebook market and its poster child, ‘Let There Be Range’ (‘a two-thousand dollar poker manual for high-stakes poker professionals’), ‘The Poker Blueprint’ provides the infrastructure for micro- and small-stakes players to build their game on. It also offer advanced strategies that are vital to crushing today’s online short-handed games up to 100NL.
Thứ Năm, 8 tháng 1, 2015
Adventure Guide Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao
By the author of our top-selling Virgin Islands Adventure Guide, here is the latest and most detailed guide to the three fascinating islands of the Dutch Caribbean. Diving, sailing, hiking, golf and horseback riding are excellent here. Enjoy gourmet cuisine, charming small inns and superb five-star resorts. Duty-free stores and unique island crafts makes the islands a shopper s delight. All of them are fully explored, with details on the history and culture that makes each one so appealing. Color photos.
Thứ Ba, 6 tháng 1, 2015
Wave Energy Conversion
Wave energy, together with other renewable energy resources is expected to provide a small but significant proportion of future energy requirements without adding to pollution and global warming.
Thứ Bảy, 3 tháng 1, 2015
Sword of Axia
The first volume of an epic new science fiction trilogy. Constantine Blas, Captain of a Federation Battlecruiser, is imprisoned when the sole surviving allied fleet is defeated by the religious fanatics of Axia. But Blas is not without friends. During the journey to the prison planet Nabucco I, a small group of rebels helps him to escape. Together with two other escaped prisoners, he begins to plan the fightback.
Post-Soviet Social
The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken–casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. In Post-Soviet Social, Stephen Collier examines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. He turns attention from the noisy battles over stabilization and privatization during the 1990s to subsequent reforms that grapple with the mundane details of pipes, wires, bureaucratic routines, and budgetary formulas that made up the Soviet social state.
Thứ Năm, 1 tháng 1, 2015
A Few Good Knots and Bends and Hitches
A small selection of honest Knots, Bends and Hitches, such that our readers may find of use in their travels and wanderings.