These handmade birdhouses and feeders, bee hotels, and butterfly and ladybird homes will bring welcome visitors to your garden. Handmade Houses and Feeders for Birds, Bees, and Butterflies features 35 beautiful havens to build to attract more wildlife into your garden. Each house is beautifully designed, with colourful details, but is also perfectly adapted for its intended inhabitants. There are birdhouses you can hang up or place on stands, and a bee house you can 'plant' in your flowerbed. There are also feeders for birds, and homes for butterflies and ladybirds. With her trademark attention to detail, Michele McKee-Orsini has designed a gorgeous collection of miniature palaces for the wildlife that we should all be encouraging into our gardens. Michele takes you through the basic woodworking and decorating skills you will need, and the step-by-step project instructions, clear artwork, and stunning photography will all inspire you to build your own havens for our flying friends.

Help Charley make her way to the State Fair of Texas, or so she hopes! Charley needs to come up with a plan to raise enough money to win tickets to the fair, but will her trouble with her CH sound get in the way? This is a book to be read for pleasure and to build confidence in children and students who are not alone in facing difficulties with speech and language impairments. It comes with 'secret tips' to tackle speech and language disorders, and most importantly, bring smiles along the way!

Come join Shelley and her grandfather, Pop, on a fun spring break adventure to Shiner, Texas. You never know who you might meet. . . . Shelley and her new furry friend could possibly teach you a trick or two to help pronounce that sometimes "sheepish" SH sound.This is a book to read for pleasure and build confidence in children and students who are not alone facing difficulties with speech and language impairments. It comes with "secret tips" to tackle speech and language disorders and, most importantly, brings smiles along the way!

Sometimes Michael gets stuck on a word. Come snuggle up with him as he discovers that music can lead him on the path to fluent speech. Following a musical note and a dream where he is visited by the extraordinary pianist Van Cliburn, Michael goes on a wonderful journey to "get the gold!" This is the sixth book in the authors' series of Hard-to-Pronounce Letters.

This book is a rare addition to the literature on reforms in banking regulation. It brings together discussion and commentary from distinguished scholars covering the key area of bank corporate governance. The volume is as much reflective as forward looking and would appeal to students, academics and practitioners who wish to keep abreast of developments in this critical field and develop a more in-depth understanding of the complex and challenging nature of bank corporate governance.' - Emilios Avgouleas, University of Edinburgh, UK'This timely and thought-provoking collection explores a number of aspects of the current system of corporate governance in banks, probes their limitations and makes suggestions for further reform. It will be of particular interest to postgraduate students and researchers, academics and policy makers in the fields of banking or corporate governance.' - Andrew Johnston, University of Sheffield, UK Corporate governance in financial institutions has come under the spotlight since the banking crisis in the UK in 2008-9. In many respects, the banking business raises unique problems for corporate governance that are not found in other corporate sectors. The Law on Corporate Governance in Banks is the first work to provide a detailed survey and practical examination of key topical issues in the corporate governance of banks and financial institutions. Combining the insight and expertise of leading corporate lawyers in the field with rigorous academic analysis, the book unpicks and clarifies the legal issues that confront corporate and banking law practitioners when advising banks and financial institutions, including; governance structure, collective board responsibility, directors liability, the role of shareholders, corruption control mechanisms, remuneration, corporate accountability, and risk management. With its practical focus and strong theoretical platform, this book will be an important resource for corporate and financial lawyers seeking to understand and advise on the changing and dynamic legal landscape. Key features of the book include: - An author team of senior practitioners and leading academic experts - Detailed treatment of all the key corporate governance issues in financial sector - Comprehensive and up-to-date legislative analysis of latest reforms.

This exhaustive reference includes new chapters and pedagogical features, as well as-for the first time-content on managing fragility factures. To facilitate fast, easy absorption of the material, this edition has been streamlined and now includes more tables, charts, and treatment algorithms than ever before. Experts in their field share their experiences and offer insights and guidance on the latest technical developments for common orthopaedic procedures, including their preferred treatment options. New chapters on caring for obese patients, preoperative planning, and pain management. Deep-dive discussion and up-to-date content on how to manage fragility fractures. Easy-to-read tables outlining nonoperative treatments, adverse outcomes, and operative techniques. Time-saving preoperative planning checklists, as well as key steps for each surgical procedure. Potential pitfalls, preventive measures, and common adverse outcomes highlighted for all procedures. Numerous diagnostic and treatment algorithms for common orthopaedic procedures.

This exhaustive reference includes new chapters and pedagogical features, as well as—for the first time—content on managing fragility factures. To facilitate fast, easy absorption of the material, this edition has been streamlined and now includes more tables, charts, and treatment algorithms than ever before. Experts in their field share their experiences and offer insights and guidance on the latest technical developments for common orthopaedic procedures, including their preferred treatment options. New videos—accessible via the eBook—offering instruction and guidance on clinical procedures. New chapters on caring for obese patients, preoperative planning, and pain management. Deep-dive discussion and up-to-date content on how to manage fragility fractures. Easy-to-read tables outlining nonoperative treatments, adverse outcomes, and operative techniques. Time-saving preoperative planning checklists, as well as key steps for each surgical procedure. Potential pitfalls, preventive measures, and common adverse outcomes highlighted for all procedures. Numerous diagnostic and treatment algorithms for common orthopaedic procedures. Enhance Your eBook Reading Experience Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone. Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.

The limited capability of conventional controllers to control complicated, dynamical, systems has motivated research into so-called intelligent control systems. In this project, a genetic algorithm is used to tune a fuzzy logic controller by finding a set of controller coefficients that minimize the tracking error and control effort. The principle assumption in this application is that traditional analysis has not been performed in the design of the controller. The control system will learn how to control the nonlinear system by learning the system's characteristics in real time. The genetic algorithm has been applied in the optimization of various aspects of these intelligent controllers. Work in the area of GAs applied to fuzzy control is broadly split into two categories: tuning of the membership functions and elicitation of the rulebase in by varying the rulebase parameters. Most of this work has been performed offline. In our system, the tuning of the fuzzy logic controller takes place on line, while the system is operating.

The book states plainly that both its speaker and the speaker's mother have suffered neardeadly head injuries ("when I woke up in the hospital thirty years after you did," "my head: / rotting pear"), resulting in loss of memory. However, rather than let a taxonomy like "family curse" sit unquestioned, Green writes toward the fugues (i.e., the condition of having one's identity questioned) by making a kind of fugue (i.e., interweaving song). Johnathan Culler writes that "the fundamental characteristic of the lyric . . . is not the description and interpretation of a past event, but the iterative and utterable performanceof an event in the lyric present, in the special `now' of lyric articulation." The lyric in Fugue Figure allows the unspeakable past to be uttered in the lyric present, and the form of diptychs and triptychs through the book place disparate lyric utterances together on the same page. While lyric addresses allow the reader to reach toward the speaker's unknowns, the triptychs and diptychs allow the reader to reach toward the unnamable place between left and right signifiers, both adding to the vital enigma of the poems. Fugue Figure comes to terms with the self as a permeable thing, already acted upon and laden with self-inflicted presuppositions of curse. And in the wake of all the phenomena acting upon the speaker's life and family, what else can one do?