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He's fire and brimstone.
I'm shattered ice …
I'll gladly burn beneath him until the world comes crumbling down.
As an assassin for the rebellion, Raeve’s job is to complete orders and
never get caught. When a rival bounty hunter shatters her world, Raeve
finds herself captured by the Guild of Nobles – a group of powerful fae.
Crushed by the loss of his great love, dragon rider Kaan Vaegor took
the head of a king and donned his melted crown. Now on a tireless quest
to quell the never-ebbing ache in his chest, a clue lures him into the
capital’s high-security prison where he stumbles upon the imprisoned
Raeve …
Together, they seek truths that threaten to unravel everything they
knew about their world – and each other.
Bestselling sensation When the Moon Hatched will transport you into a
world filled with magic, dragons and a love that blazes through the
ages…
He's fire and brimstone.
I'm shattered ice …
I'll gladly burn beneath him until the world comes crumbling down.
As an assassin for the rebellion, Raeve’s job is to complete orders and
never get caught. When a rival bounty hunter shatters her world, Raeve
finds herself captured by the Guild of Nobles – a group of powerful fae.
Crushed by the loss of his great love, dragon rider Kaan Vaegor took
the head of a king and donned his melted crown. Now on a tireless quest
to quell the never-ebbing ache in his chest, a clue lures him into the
capital’s high-security prison where he stumbles upon the imprisoned
Raeve …
Together, they seek truths that threaten to unravel everything they
knew about their world – and each other.
Bestselling sensation When the Moon Hatched will transport you into a
world filled with magic, dragons and a love that blazes through the
ages…
Numeracy in Children s Nursing and Healthcare is a handy, practical
book which highlights the importance of numbers, numeracy and
calculations in children s nursing practice, instilling nursing
students and qualified nurses with confidence and competence when
working with numbers and calculating drug doses. This accessible
guide covers all aspects of numeracy from basic skills through to
complex drug administration, and provides case studies throughout
enabling the reader to apply the theory to practice. Each chapter
adopts the same accessible and easy-to-follow format, featuring
learning outcomes, a case scenario, key numeracy information, hints
and tips, activities and exercises, and a glossary of terms.
This year, the NBER Macroeconomics Annual celebrates its thirtieth
volume. The first two papers examine China's macroeconomic
development. "Trends and Cycles in China's Macroeconomy" by Chun
Chang, Kaiji Chen, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha outlines the key
characteristics of growth and business cycles in China.
"Demystifying the Chinese Housing Boom" by Hanming Fang, Quanlin
Gu, Wei Xiong, and Li-An Zhou constructs a new house price index,
showing that Chinese house prices have grown by ten percent per
year over the past decade. The third paper, "External and Public
Debt Crises" by Cristina Arellano, Andrew Atkeson, and Mark Wright,
asks why there appear to be large differences across countries and
subnational jurisdictions in the effect of rising public debts on
economic outcomes. The fourth, "Networks and the Macroeconomy: An
Empirical Exploration" by Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, and William
Kerr, explains how the network structure of the US economy
propagates the effect of gross output productivity shocks across
upstream and downstream sectors. The fifth and sixth papers
investigate the usefulness of surveys of household's beliefs for
understanding economic phenomena. "Expectations and Investment," by
Nicola Gennaioli, Yueran Ma, and Andrei Shleifer, demonstrates that
a chief financial officer's expectations of a firm's future
earnings growth is related to both the planned and actual future
investment of that firm. "Declining Desire to Work and Downward
Trends in Unemployment and Participation" by Regis Barnichon and
Andrew Figura shows that an increasing number of prime-age
Americans who are not in the labor force report no desire to work
and that this decline accelerated during the second half of the
1990s.
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Birds of Peru (Paperback)
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With over 1800 species, Peru has the second richest avifauna of any
country in the world. As a consequence it is one of the most
popular birding destinations in South America. This will be the
first comprehensive and fully illustrated field guide to the birds
of Peru. Text is arranged opposite the plates, in conventional
field guide manner. The combination of authoritative text and
superb artwork will set new standards for South American field
guides.
Reservoirs generally consist of sandstones or carbonates exhibiting
heterogeneities caused by a wide range of factors. Some of these
formed depositionally (e.g. as channels, palaeosols, clay seams or
salts), others may be diagenetic in origin (e.g. carbonate or
silica cemented zones, authigenic clays, karstic surfaces). The
severity with which diagenesis affects rock systems results from
the interplay between the diagenetic process itself and the
timescale over which it operated. The book provides a wide-ranging
overview of diagenetic processes and responses in calcareous,
argillaceous, arenaceous and carbon-rich (microbial and organic)
sedimentary systems. It introduces diagenetic concepts, reviews
existing knowledge, and shows how existing qualitative approaches
might be developed in more quantitative ways. Several chapters
consider mass balance calculations and the temporal and spatial
aspects of diagenetic processes. It is unique, as a textbook, in
providing such a breadth of diagenetic subject range and such depth
of coverage in each topic. It provides a source reference for
advanced students and professionals active in reservoir and aquifer
studies.
The essays in Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on
Resilience offer a survey of the ways that "resilience" is becoming
a key concept for understanding our world, as well as providing
deeper insight about its specific actual and proposed applications.
From climate change preparedness to mental health, resilience has
recently emerged as a central focus of a variety of disciplines
grounded in theoretical approaches as disparate as environmental
philosophy, psychology, safety engineering, political science, and
urban planning. As an emerging concept with multiple theoretical
and practical meanings, "resilience" promises considerable
explanatory power. At the same time, current uses of the concept
can be diverse and at times inconsistent. The American
philosophical tradition provides tools uniquely suited for
clarifying, extending, and applying emerging concepts in more
effective and suggestive ways. From cultural figures such as
Benjamin Franklin and Wendell Berry to philosophers such as Jane
Addams and William James, this collection explores the usefulness
of theoretical work in American philosophy and pragmatism to
practices in ecology, community, rurality, and psychology.
In this innovative and entirely original text, which has been
thoughtfully edited to ensure coherence and readability across
disciplines, scientists and practitioners from around the world
provide evidence of the opportunities for, and the challenges of,
developing collaborative approaches to bringing advanced and
emerging technology to poor communities in developing countries in
a responsible and sustainable manner. This volume will stimulate
and satisfy readers seeking to engage in a rich and challenging
discussion, integrating many strands of social thought and physical
science. For those also seeking to creatively engage in the great
challenges of our times for the benefit of struggling farmers, sick
children, and people literally living in the dark around the world,
may this volume also spark imagination, inspire commitment, and
provoke collaborative problem solving.
In this innovative and entirely original text, which has been
thoughtfully edited to ensure coherence and readability across
disciplines, scientists and practitioners from around the world
provide evidence of the opportunities for, and the challenges of,
developing collaborative approaches to bringing advanced and
emerging technology to poor communities in developing countries in
a responsible and sustainable manner. This volume will stimulate
and satisfy readers seeking to engage in a rich and challenging
discussion, integrating many strands of social thought and physical
science. For those also seeking to creatively engage in the great
challenges of our times for the benefit of struggling farmers, sick
children, and people literally living in the dark around the world,
may this volume also spark imagination, inspire commitment, and
provoke collaborative problem solving.
Reservoirs generally consist of sandstones or carbonates exhibiting
heterogeneities caused by a wide range of factors. Some of these
formed depositionally (e.g. as channels, palaeosols, clay seams or
salts), others may be diagenetic in origin (e.g. carbonate or
silica cemented zones, authigenic clays, karstic surfaces). The
severity with which diagenesis affects rock systems results from
the interplay between the diagenetic process itself and the
timescale over which it operated. The book provides a wide-ranging
overview of diagenetic processes and responses in calcareous,
argillaceous, arenaceous and carbon-rich (microbial and organic)
sedimentary systems. It introduces diagenetic concepts, reviews
existing knowledge, and shows how existing qualitative approaches
might be developed in more quantitative ways. Several chapters
consider mass balance calculations and the temporal and spatial
aspects of diagenetic processes. It is unique, as a textbook, in
providing such a breadth of diagenetic subject range and such depth
of coverage in each topic. It provides a source reference for
advanced students and professionals active in reservoir and aquifer
studies.
The topic of sediment diagenesis is of fundamental importance to
industry in the evaluation of hydrocarbon and water reservoir
rocks. Detailed knowledge of the diagenetic textures, fabrics, and
minerals, and a prediction of the regional diagenetic response,
partly controls hydrocarbon recovery programmes. In other words,
knowledge of the diagenesis can aid (or even control) conservation
policy. Similarly, facies and diagenetic trends w.ithin basins can
influence exploration policy. This volume incorporates the majority
of the principal contributions given to the NATO Advanced Study
Institute held in the University of Reading, U.K., from July
12th-25th, 1981, at which the major themes of carbonate and
terrigenous clastic sediments were treated sequentially from
deposition to deep burial. Eighty selected scientists from twelve
NATO and three other countries participated in the Institute. The
keynote addresses which acted as the touchstones for discussion are
presented here in the expectation that they will stimulate a still
wider audience. We gratefully acknowledge the award of a grant from
the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO to run the Institute, and
also the cooperation of the University of Reading. Mrs. D. M.
Powell helped in many ways with the organisation, and also retyped
the entire manuscript of this book. A. Parker B. lv. Sellwood vii
FACIES, SEQUENCES AND SAND-BODIES OF THE PRINCIPAL CLASTIC
DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS T.Elliott Department of Geology
University College of Swansea Singleton Park, Swansea SA 2 8PP
Wales, U.K.
While applications rapidly change one to the next in our
commercialized world, fundamental principles behind those
applications remain constant. So if one understands those
principles well enough and has ample experience in applying them,
he or she will be able to develop a capacity for reaching results
via conceptual thinking rather than having to always rely on models
to test various conditions. In Solid State and Quantum Theory for
Optoelectronics, Michael Parker provides a general conceptual
framework for matter that leads to the matter-light interaction
explored in the author's Physics of Optoelectronics (CRC Press).
Instead of overburdening readers with the definition-theorem- proof
format often expected in mathematics texts, this book instructs
readers through the development of conceptual pictures. Employing a
proven pedagogic approach, as rigorous as it is intuitive,
Professor Parker - Provides several lead-ins to the quantum theory
including a brief review of Lagrange and Hamilton's approach to
classical mechanics and the fundamental quantum link with Hilbert
space Demonstrates the Schroedinger wave equation from the Feynman
path integral Discusses standard topics such as the quantum well,
harmonic oscillator, representations, perturbation theory, and spin
Expands discussion from the density operator and its applications
to quantum computing and teleportation Provides the concepts for
ensembles and microstates in detail with emphasis on the derivation
of particle population distributions across energy levels
Professors Parker includes problems to help readers understand and
internalize the material. But just as important, the
working-through of these problems will help readers develop the
sort of approach that, instead of wholly relying on models, enables
them to extrapolate solutions guided by informed intuition
developed over the course of formal study and laboratory
experiment. It is the kind of conceptual thinking that will allow
readers to move with deeper understanding from optical applications
to more theoretical topics in physics.
This volume contains six studies on current topics in
macroeconomics. The first shows that while assuming rational
expectations is unrealistic, a finite-horizon forward planning
model can yield results similar to those of a rational expectations
equilibrium. The second explores the aggregate risk of the U.S.
financial sector, and in particular whether it is safer now than
before the 2008 financial crisis. The third analyzes "factorless
income," output that is not measured as capital or labor income.
Next, a study argues that the financial crisis increased the
perceived risk of a very bad economic and financial outcome, and
explores the propagation of large, rare shocks. The next paper
documents the substantial recent changes in the manufacturing
sector and the decline in employment among prime-aged Americans
since 2000. The last paper analyzes the dynamic macroeconomic
effects of border adjustment taxes.
The thirty-first edition of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual features
theoretical and empirical research on central issues in
contemporary macroeconomics. The first two papers are rigorous and
data-driven analyses of the European financial crisis. The third
paper introduces a new set of facts about economic growth and
financial ratios as well as a new macrofinancial database for the
study of historical financial booms and busts. The fourth paper
studies the historical effects of Federal Reserve efforts to
provide guidance about the future path of the funds rate. The fifth
paper explores the distinctions between models of price setting and
associated nominal frictions using data on price setting behavior.
The sixth paper considers the possibility that the economy displays
nonlinear dynamics that lead to cycles rather than long-term
convergence to a steady state. The volume also includes a short
paper on the decline in the rate of global economic growth.
Birds of Peru is the most complete and authoritative field guide to
this diverse, neotropical landscape. It features every one of
Peru's 1,817 bird species and shows the distinct plumages of each
in 307 superb, high-quality color plates. Concise descriptions and
color distribution maps are located opposite the plates, making
this book much easier to use in the field than standard neotropical
field guides. This fully revised paperback edition includes
twenty-five additional species. * A comprehensive guide to all
1,817 species found in Peru--one fifth of the world's birds--with
subspecies, sexes, age classes, and morphs fully illustrated *
Designed especially for field use, with vivid descriptive
information and helpful identification tips opposite color plates *
Detailed species accounts, including a full-color distribution map
* Includes 25 additional species not covered in the first edition *
Features 3 entirely new plates and more than 25 additional
illustrations
Empower your students as they reimagine the world around them
through mathematics Culturally relevant mathematics teaching
engages and empowers students, helping them learn and understand
math more deeply and make connections to themselves, their
communities, and the world around them. The mathematics task
provides opportunities for a direct pathway to this goal; however,
how can you find, adapt, and implement math tasks that build
powerful learners? Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Tasks helps
teachers to design and refine inspiring mathematics learning
experiences driven by the kind of high-quality and culturally
relevant mathematics tasks that connect students to their world.
With the goal of inspiring all students to see themselves as doers
of mathematics, this book provides intensive, in-the-moment
guidance and practical classroom tools that empower educators to
shape culturally relevant experiences while systematically building
tasks that are standards-based. It includes A pathway for moving
through the process of asking, imagining, planning, creating, and
improving culturally relevant math tasks. Tools and strategies for
designing culturally relevant math tasks that preservice, novice,
and veteran teachers can use to grow their practice day by day.
Research-based teaching practices seen through the lens of
culturally relevant instruction that help students develop deep
conceptual understanding, procedural knowledge, fluency, and
application in all K-5 mathematical content. Examples, milestones,
opportunities for reflection, and discussion questions guide
educators to strengthen their classroom practices, and to reimagine
math instruction in response. This book is for any educator who
wants to teach mathematics in a more authentic, inclusive, and
meaningful way, and it is especially beneficial for teachers whose
students are culturally different from them.
This is a unique collection of reviews of the significance of
geochemistry in the earth sciences, with contributions from a range
of internationally distinguished scientists. It deals with both the
historical contribution (Part 1) and the current and likely future
importance of the subject in dealing with key environmental issues
(Part 2). The book is based on contributions given to the 2008 IGC
session with same name: * Provides the most comprehensive review of
the scope and achievements of modern geochemistry in a form
accessible to and affordable by students (advanced undergraduates
and graduates) * The contributors are all world leaders in their
particular field * Co-published with the IAGC - the worlds premiere
learned society for the geochemistry community. * The only
affordable and single-volume overview of the entire subject.
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