|
Showing 1 - 25 of
321 matches in All Departments
When she answers a call from an old friend, Dr Erin Taylor is catapulted into the drama of decades past.
In 1996, three university students united to investigate the assault of a fellow student, Rina. But Erin and ‘The Furies’, as they called themselves, unwittingly triggered a time bomb. Two decades later, at a reunion lunch, Rina does not arrive. Within hours, Erin is missing as well, fighting for her life.
Past actions and present decisions — her choices will draw blood.
When Murphy Meyer arrives at Eden State Hospital on the first of
January 2001, driven to solve a small, personal mystery, the young
doctor has no idea she’s deposited herself into something larger and
darker than she could ever have imagined; something that has a life of
its own.
Few at Eden State Hospital can claim to be single minded where
duplicity is standard operating procedure.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Limited resources and other factors pose major challenges for
engineering, technology, and science educators ability to provide
adequate laboratory experience for students. An Internet accessible
remote laboratory, which is an arrangement that allows laboratory
equipment to be controlled remotely, addresses these difficulties
and allows more efficient laboratory management. Internet
Accessible Remote Laboratories: Scalable E-Learning Tools for
Engineering and Science Disciplines collects current developments
in the multidisciplinary creation of Internet accessible remote
laboratories. This book offers perspectives on teaching with online
laboratories, pedagogical design, system architectures for remote
laboratories, future trends, and policy issues in the use of remote
laboratories. It is useful resource for graduate and undergraduate
students in electrical and computer engineering and computer
science programs, as well as researchers who are interested in
learning more about the current status of the field, as well as
various approaches to remote laboratory design.
Originally published in 1921, this book was written in an attempt
to, 'give the serious teacher and student the practical benefit of
the knowledge acquired during a lifetime's playing the violin,
including mechanical means and technical procedure as well as the
ideas and ideals of art'. Many of the earliest books, particularly
those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce
and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these
classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using
the original text and artwork. Contents Include: How I Studied the
Violin - How to Hold the Violin - How to Practise - Tone Production
- Hints on Bowing - Left hand Technique - Double Stops The Trill -
Ornaments - Harmonics - Nuance, The Soul of Interpretation - Style
- The Nerves and Violin Playing - The Violin Repertory of Yesterday
and To-Day - Practical Repertory Hints
This book explores the ways spirituality interacts with suicidal
depression. This is not a book of answers nor is it a research
study; rather, this is a book of questions that looks at suicide
with human eyes and spiritual insight. Through the experiences and
studies of the two authors, we explore the role that faith plays in
the life of a depressed person who is considering suicide, as well
as the cultural history and religious beliefs on suicide. There is
not a single way to deal with suicide and depression. However, the
unexplored areas of spirituality may provide additional insight for
understanding and coping with the disease, as well as the emotional
effect of such final act. In the end, we hope this book will
provide a better understanding of why some suicidal people are able
to utilize faith to help them overcome the lowest points of
depression, and why some people, no matter the spirituality they
have, find death the only solution.
A fabulous modern fable, this is a powerful princess tale with a
twist! When Bella Beetroot is asked to do anything she doesn't want
to, she holds her breath and goes until she goes bright red in the
face - as red as a beetroot! And then one day, right in the middle
of a tantrum, a mighty eagle comes and swoops her away, on an
incredible adventure. She defeats dragons, doesn't marry a prince
(no, thank you!), and is still home in time for tea... With
stunning illustrations by Axel Scheffler, the illustrator of The
Gruffalo this picture book for older readers is sure to become a
family favourite. Perfect for determined children who want to
strike out on their own With stunning full-colour illustrations by
Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo Translated into English
by Alison Green, author of the bestselling picture book KIND
For undergraduate database management courses. Get Students
Straight to the Point of Database Processing Database Processing:
Fundamentals, Design, and Implementation reflects a new teaching
and professional workplace environment and method that gets
students straight to the point with its thorough and modern
presentation of database processing fundamentals.
This volume presents an interactional perspective on linguistic
variability that takes into account the construction of social
identities through the formation of social communicative styles. It
shows that style is a useful category in bridging the gap between
single parameter variation and social identity. Social positioning,
i.e., finding one's place in society, is one of its motivating
forces. Various aspects of the expression of stylistic features are
focused on, from language choice and linguistic variation in a
narrow sense to practices of social categorization, pragmatics
patterns, preferences for specific communicative genres, rhetorical
practices including prosodic features, and aesthetic choices and
preferences for specific forms of taste (looks, clothes, music,
etc.). These various features of expression are connected to
multimodal stylistic indices through talk; thus, styles emerge from
discourse. Styles are adapted to changing contexts, and develop in
the course of social processes. The analytical perspective chosen
proposes an alternative to current approaches to variability under
the influence of the so-called variationist paradigm.
Why do languages allow us to say 'the same thing' in so many
different ways? One of the answers is that in saying what we want
to say, we always position ourselves in social space as well, by
speaking differently from relevant other social actors or groups.
This volume explores how variability in language is exploited (and
maintained) in order to perform this social identity work in
interaction. It shows that variable features cluster together in
socially meaningful ways when considered as social (communicative)
styles linked to social identities.
This volume investigates a number of issues needed to develop a
modular, effective, versatile, cost effective,
pedagogically-embedded, user-friendly, and sustainable online
laboratory system that can deliver its true potential in the
national and global arenas. This allows individual researchers to
develop their own modular systems with a level of creativity and
innovation while at the same time ensuring continuing growth by
separating the responsibility for creating online laboratories from
the responsibility for overseeing the students who use them. The
volume first introduces the reader to several system architectures
that have proven successful in many online laboratory settings. The
following chapters then describe real-life experiences in the area
of online laboratories from both technological and educational
points of view. The volume further collects experiences and
evidence on the effective use of online labs in the context of a
diversity of pedagogical issues. It also illustrates successful
online laboratories to highlight best practices as case studies and
describes the technological design strategies, implementation
details, and classroom activities as well as learning from these
developments. Finally the volume describes the creation and
deployment of commercial products, tools and services for online
laboratory development. It also provides an idea about the
developments that are on the horizon to support this area.
The European Union means many different things to its many peoples.
In Germany, for example, the European project was conceived mainly
as post-national, or even post-sovereign. In France, by contrast,
President Emmanuel Macron has pursued the vision of a sovereign
Europe; that is, an EU that would become a formidable geopolitical
actor. Yet, instead, Europe has struggled to ascertain its values
abroad and even domestically, facing a sovereignist rebellion from
its newer member states, such as Hungary and Poland, and the
departure of Britain. The eurozone crisis has undermined the EU's
economic credentials, the refugee crisis its societal cohesion, the
failure to stand up to Russia its sense of purpose, and the
Covid-19 pandemic its credibility as a protector of European
citizens. The key argument of this book is that the multiple crises
of the European project are caused by one underlying factor: its
bold attempt to overcome the age of nation-states. Left unchecked,
supranational institutions tend to become ever more bureaucratic,
eluding control of the people they are meant to serve. The logic of
technocracy is thus pitted against the democratic impulse, which
the European Union is supposed to embody. Democracy in Europe has
suffered as a result.
To describe the true behavior of most real-world systems with
sufficient accuracy, engineers have to overcome difficulties
arising from their lack of knowledge about certain parts of a
process or from the impossibility of characterizing it with
absolute certainty. Depending on the application at hand,
uncertainties in modeling and measurements can be represented in
different ways. For example, bounded uncertainties can be described
by intervals, affine forms or general polynomial enclosures such as
Taylor models, whereas stochastic uncertainties can be
characterized in the form of a distribution described, for example,
by the mean value, the standard deviation and higher-order
moments.
The goal of this Special Volume on "Modeling, Design, and
Simulation of Systems with Uncertainties" is to cover modern
methods for dealing with the challenges presented by imprecise or
unavailable information. All contributions tackle the topic from
the point of view of control, state and parameter estimation,
optimization and simulation.
Thematically, this volume can be divided into two parts. In the
first we present works highlighting the theoretic background and
current research on algorithmic approaches in the field of
uncertainty handling, together with their reliable software
implementation. The second part is concerned with real-life
application scenarios from various areas including but not limited
to mechatronics, robotics, and biomedical engineering.
|
You may like...
Wonka
Timothee Chalamet
Blu-ray disc
R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
|