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COMPETITION. PERFECTION. DESTRUCTION. ‘A tight, frightening story
of friendship, rivalry and obsession, told in sparse and beautiful
prose’ Abigail Dean, author of GIRL A ‘Brilliantly observed,
beautifully written – it’s quite simply unforgettable’ Alex
Michaelides, author of THE SILENT PATIENT and THE MAIDENS A
DANGEROUS OBSESSION Martina wants to be the best gymnast in the
world. But so does everyone around her. A TOURNAMENT WITH A
DIFFERENCE During one week of intense competition, Martina and her
teammates are tested to the limit, and any sign of weakness can
quickly spell the end. A MURDER IN THE NIGHT By the end of the
week, one of the gymnasts will be dead. Every girl will do anything
to win…but at what cost? ‘Compelling, harrowing, and ultimately
devastating – it’s quite simply unforgettable.’ ALEX
MICHAELIDES, author of THE PATIENT ‘A tight, frightening story of
friendship, rivalry and obsession.’ ABIGAIL DEAN, Sunday Times
bestselling author of GIRL A ‘Brutal and brilliant – I read it
in one sitting.’ HARRIET TYCE, author of BLOOD ORANGE ‘A
glimpse into a wonderfully dangerous, screwed up world. I
couldn’t put it down.’ CESCA MAJOR, author of THE OTHER GIRL
COMPETITION. PERFECTION. DESTRUCTION. 'A tight, frightening story
of friendship, rivalry and obsession, told in sparse and beautiful
prose' Abigail Dean, author of GIRL A 'Brilliantly observed,
beautifully written - it's quite simply unforgettable' Alex
Michaelides, author of THE SILENT PATIENT and THE MAIDENS A
DANGEROUS OBSESSION Martina wants to be the best gymnast in the
world. But so does everyone around her. A TOURNAMENT WITH A
DIFFERENCE During one week of intense competition, Martina and her
teammates are tested to the limit, and any sign of weakness can
quickly spell the end. A MURDER IN THE NIGHT By the end of the
week, one of the gymnasts will be dead. Every girl will do anything
to win...but at what cost? 'Compelling, harrowing, and ultimately
devastating - it's quite simply unforgettable.' ALEX MICHAELIDES,
author of THE PATIENT 'A tight, frightening story of friendship,
rivalry and obsession.' ABIGAIL DEAN, Sunday Times bestselling
author of GIRL A 'Brutal and brilliant - I read it in one sitting.'
HARRIET TYCE, author of BLOOD ORANGE 'A glimpse into a wonderfully
dangerous, screwed up world. I couldn't put it down.' CESCA MAJOR,
author of THE OTHER GIRL
The use of language corpora as a resource in linguistics and
language-related disciplines is now well-established. One of the
many fields where the impact of corpora has been growing in recent
years is translation, both at a descriptive and a practical level.
The papers in this volume, which grew out of presentations at the
conference Cult2k (Bertinoro, Italy, 2000), the second in the
series Corpus Use and Learning to Translate, are principally
concerned with the use of corpora as resources for the translator
and as teaching and learning aids in the context of the translation
classroom. This book offers a cross-section of research by some
leading scholars in the field, who offer accounts of first-hand
experience and theoretical insights into the various ways of
building and using appropriate corpora in translation teaching, for
the benefit of teachers and learners alike. The various
contributions provide a rich source of inspiration for other
researchers and practitioners concerned with 'corpora in translator
education'. Contributors include Stig Johansson, Tony McEnery,
Kirsten Malmkjaer, Jennifer Pearson, Lynne Bowker, Krista
Varantola, Belinda Maia and a number of other scholars.
The use of language corpora as a resource in linguistics and
language-related disciplines is now well-established. One of the
many fields where the impact of corpora has been growing in recent
years is translation, both at a descriptive and a practical level.
The papers in this volume, which grew out of presentations at the
conference Cult2k (Bertinoro, Italy, 2000), the second in the
series Corpus Use and Learning to Translate, are principally
concerned with the use of corpora as resources for the translator
and as teaching and learning aids in the context of the translation
classroom. This book offers a cross-section of research by some
leading scholars in the field, who offer accounts of first-hand
experience and theoretical insights into the various ways of
building and using appropriate corpora in translation teaching, for
the benefit of teachers and learners alike. The various
contributions provide a rich source of inspiration for other
researchers and practitioners concerned with 'corpora in translator
education'. Contributors include Stig Johansson, Tony McEnery,
Kirsten Malmkjaer, Jennifer Pearson, Lynne Bowker, Krista
Varantola, Belinda Maia and a number of other scholars.
This volume explores experimental approaches used to study Duchenne
muscular dystrophy (DMD), an X-linked degenerative skeletal muscle
disease caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene. Including the
latest progress and scientific achievements, the book covers recent
discoveries achieved through in vivo gene editing which have proven
to be promising in restoring dystrophin expression, at least in
ameliorating skeletal muscle symptoms, and the contents focus on
"Omics" techniques in gene expression, protein expression, miRNAs,
and long non-coding RNA analysis, as well as experimental studies
of the structural/functional changes affecting the skeletal and
cardiac muscles and ongoing preclinical studies and clinical
trials. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular
Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their
respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents,
step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips
on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and
practical, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Methods and Protocols
serves as a guide for researchers exploring the complicated nature
of dystrophin in the hope of helping the victims of this disorder.
This book applies a behavioral point of view to individuals' fire
safety in historic buildings. It outlines theoretical and operative
issues, based on recent studies and international guidelines.
Firstly, critical issues for Building Heritage fire safety are
widely discussed, by including the modelling of human factor and
man-environment-fire interference in these architectural spaces. A
significant part of the book includes a discussion on emergency
modeling and simulation. A source code for representing the fire
evacuation process (including man-evacuation facilities
interactions) is offered to the reader. Methods for effectiveness
assessment of risk-reducing solutions are provided and tested in a
case-study. Being a structured approach to occupants-related
problems during a fire in heritage buildings, it offers an
innovative methodology and practical examples that researchers and
designers can use as a guide when proposing and testing solutions.
Evaluation indexes for effectiveness assessment (also useful for
future guidelines or handbooks) are included. Readers are
encouraged to understand these indexes within the proposed
approach, so as to extend their applications and possibilities of
how to introduce human behaviors-based solutions in other fields.
Lastly, attention is focused on the proposal and evaluation of
low-impact and not-invasive strategies, such as ones based on
wayfinding elements. From this point of view, the pros and cons of
wayfinding systems are discussed: these are important today,
especially for fire-safety designers, because of the ongoing
innovations in this field.
Taking an engineering, rather than a mathematical, approach,
Bounding uncertainty in Civil Engineering - Theoretical Background
deals with the mathematical theories that use convex sets of
probability distributions to describe the input data and/or the
final response of systems. The particular point of view of the
authors is centered on the applications to civil engineering
problems, and the theory of random sets has been adopted as a basic
and relatively simple model. However, the authors have tried to
elucidate its connections to the more general theory of imprecise
probabilities, Choquet capacities, fuzzy sets, p-boxes, convex sets
of parametric probability distributions, and approximate reasoning
both in one dimension and in several dimensions with associated
joint spaces. If choosing the theory of random sets may lead to
some loss of generality, it has, on the other hand, allowed for a
self-contained selection of the topics and a more unified
presentation of the theoretical contents and algorithms. With over
80 examples worked out step by step, the book should assist
newcomers to the subject (who may otherwise find it difficult to
navigate a vast and dispersed literature) in applying the
techniques described to their own specific problems.
Developmental biology attracts scientists from many different areas
of biology, and the amphibian Xenopus holds a special place among
the organisms studied as a model of vertebrate development. Until
now, no recently published atlas existed to aid researchers and
students coming to the Xenopus embryo for the first time.
The present book satisfies this need. With its synthesizing
approach and its generous provision of beautiful scanning,
transmission, and light microscopy images, this unique volume will
be a standard reference not only for developmental biologists but
for all students of embryology, histology, and comparative anatomy.
The research in Physics Education has to do with the search of
solutions to the complex problem of how to improve the learning and
teaching of physics. The complexity of the problem lies in the
different fields of knowledge that need to be considered in the
research. In fact, besides the disciplinary knowledge in physics
(which must be considered from the conceptual, the historical, and
the epistemological framework), one has to take into account some
basic knowledge in the context of psychology and the cognitive
sciences (for the general and contextual aspects of learning) and
some basic knowledge in education and comunication (for what
concerns teaching skills and strategies). Looking back at the
historical development of the research one may recognize that the
complexity of the endeavour was not clear at first but became clear
in its development, which shifted the focus of the research in the
course of time from physics to learning to teaching. We may say
that the research started, more than 30 years ago, with a focus on
disciplinary knowledge. Physicists in different parts of the
western world, after research work in some field of physics,
decided to concentrate on the didactical comunication of physical
knowledge.
Enrico Fermi s scientific work, noted for its originality and
breadth, has had lasting consequences throughout modern science.
Written by close colleagues as well as scientists whose fields were
profoundly influenced by Fermi, the papers collected here
constitute a tribute to him and his scientific legacy. They were
commissioned on the occasion of his 100th birthday by the Italian
Physical Society and confirm that Fermi was a rare combination of
theorist, experimentalist, teacher, and inspiring colleague. The
book is organized into three parts: three biographical overviews by
close colleagues, replete with personal insights; fourteen analyses
of Fermi's impact by specialists in their fields, spanning physics,
chemistry, mathematics, and engineering; and a year-by-year
chronology of Fermi s scientific endeavors. Written for a general
scientific audience, Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy offers a
highly readable source on the life of one of the 20th century's
most distinguished scientists and a must for everybody interested
in the history of modern science."
This book summarizes the results of an international research
project; the first Europe-wide Delphi study on future developments
in the energy sector (EurEnDel). Nearly 700 energy experts from 48
countries participated in this two-round, web-based Delphi
exercise. With a time horizon of 2030, this expert survey not only
provides a useful perspective on long-term developments of energy
technologies, but also evaluates these technologies against
different sets of social values or "visions."
Taking an engineering, rather than a mathematical, approach,
Bounding uncertainty in Civil Engineering - Theoretical Background
deals with the mathematical theories that use convex sets of
probability distributions to describe the input data and/or the
final response of systems. The particular point of view of the
authors is centered on the applications to civil engineering
problems, and the theory of random sets has been adopted as a basic
and relatively simple model. However, the authors have tried to
elucidate its connections to the more general theory of imprecise
probabilities, Choquet capacities, fuzzy sets, p-boxes, convex sets
of parametric probability distributions, and approximate reasoning
both in one dimension and in several dimensions with associated
joint spaces. If choosing the theory of random sets may lead to
some loss of generality, it has, on the other hand, allowed for a
self-contained selection of the topics and a more unified
presentation of the theoretical contents and algorithms. With over
80 examples worked out step by step, the book should assist
newcomers to the subject (who may otherwise find it difficult to
navigate a vast and dispersed literature) in applying the
techniques described to their own specific problems.
This book summarizes the results of an international research
project; the first Europe-wide Delphi study on future developments
in the energy sector (EurEnDel). Nearly 700 energy experts from 48
countries participated in this two-round, web-based Delphi
exercise. With a time horizon of 2030, this expert survey not only
provides a useful perspective on long-term developments of energy
technologies, but also evaluates these technologies against
different sets of social values or "visions."
Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the
expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the
economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They
played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and
eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone
among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial
period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they
were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that
lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their
study particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As
distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish
struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but
also against the political regimes that ruled over the various
colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the
establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own
territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish
against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the
more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European
expansion.
Raoul reunites with his childhood love, Christine, after he watches
her performance at the Opera House. However, there seems to be an
opera ghost making demands. Join Raoul as he explores with
Christine and discovers the secret of the Opera House!Taking
classic stories from Asia and the West, Pop! Lit for Kids
reimagines them into easy-to-read stories that provide the perfect
introduction to classic tales. The most well-loved stories from
around the world have been adapted into a form that will excite and
entertain children everywhere.
Raoul reunites with his childhood love, Christine, after he watches
her performance at the Opera House. However, there seems to be an
opera ghost making demands. Join Raoul as he explores with
Christine and discovers the secret of the Opera House!Taking
classic stories from Asia and the West, Pop! Lit for Kids
reimagines them into easy-to-read stories that provide the perfect
introduction to classic tales. The most well-loved stories from
around the world have been adapted into a form that will excite and
entertain children everywhere.
Christmas is the time of year when people reach for their aprons
and measuring spoons to transform butter, sugar, and flour into
delectable treats. Melissa Forti's contemporary, yet steeped in
tradition, approach to baking appeals to beginner and seasoned
bakers alike. As the author of the acclaimed book The Italian Baker
and owner of the utterly charming Melissa's Tea Room and Cakes in
her hometown of Sarzana, Italy, Forti combines a modern sensibility
with old-world tradition. A self-taught baker, Forti's artistry is
based on centuries of Italian and European baking traditions. In
this new book, she treats her readers to recipes that she has
collected and modernized, as well as those she's created herself.
There's Panettone revisited, a usually labor- intensive dish that
Forti has simplified so people can make their own at home; Bonet, a
chocolate caramel pudding, straight from the region of Piedmont;
Torta delle rose, a brioche type of cake from the Lombardia region,
shaped like a bouquet of roses, that will surely be a showstopper
on any Christmas table! Each recipe is illustrated with a
mouthwatering, full-color photograph. Forti knows that Christmas is
more than a day-it's a season for gathering with loved ones and
celebrating the past as well as the present. Her Christmas baking
book will help you make delicious treats as well as great memories
during the coziest time of the year.
This impressive volume shows that the history of minorities -
specifically that of a diaspora - can open up completely new
perspectives on the 'great' questions and developments of general
history." . Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft ..". this
magnificent and much-needed volume ... is remarkably free, factual
or interpretive." . American Jewish History "The age-old tension
between value-free history and history with a moral is implicit
throughout this fine volume." . The Jerusalem Report "A substantial
contribution to the scholarship on Indian Native-American]-European
relations ... Specialists will find new nuggets to challenge
existing interpretations, while readers new to the topic will find
useful introductions and more detailed case studies that give some
idea of the current issues under scholarly debate. All readers will
experience the benefits of looking at one topic comparatively
across vast amounts of space and time." . Itinerario Jews and
Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion
of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic,
social, and religious development of the New World. They played an
important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually
exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the
European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period,
Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were
the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived
under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study
particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As
distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish
struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but
also against the political regimes that ruled over the various
colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the
establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own
territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish
against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the
more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European
expansion. Paolo Bernardini was a Fellow of the Princeton Institute
for Advanced Study and of the Royal Historical Society. Currently
he is Resident Director of the Padova Program, Boston University.
Norman Fiering is the author of two books that were awarded the
Merle Curti Prize for Intellectual History by the Organization of
American Historians and of numerous articles. Since 1983, he has
been Director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown
University."
This book examines the four most important projects for Jewish
emancipation in eighteenth-century Europe. The essays presented in
this volume analyze the proposal advanced by the freethinker John
Toland in 1714 and three projects of the 1780s, formulated by the
state official Christian Wilhelm von Dohm in Frederick the Great's
Prussia, the economist Count D'Arco in Mantua under Habsburg rule,
and the Abbe Henri Gregoire in France on the eve of the Revolution.
Focusing on the combination of humanitarian and utilitarian
arguments and objectives in the proposals to redefine the legal and
social status of the Jews, this book is a particularly useful
resource for scholars and students interested in the history of
Jewish-Gentile relations and the Age of Enlightenment.
***From the author of The Girls Are Good*** 'A gripping story of
love, death, art and deceit' - Sofka Zinovieff, author of Putney An
internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her
life to her work and to her secret lover, Martin Acla, a prominent
businessman. When his sudden stroke makes headlines, her world
implodes; the idea of losing him is terrifying. Desperate to find a
way to be present during her lover's final days, Valeria
commissions his artist wife, Isla, to paint her portrait -
insinuating herself into Martin's family home and life. In the
grand, chaotic London mansion where the man they share - husband,
father, lover - lies in a coma, Valeria and Isla remain poised on
the brink, transfixed by one another. Day after day, the two women
talk to each other during the sittings, revealing truths,
fragilities and strengths. But does Isla know of the writer's long
involvement with Martin? Or that her husband had chosen Valeria for
the years ahead? Amidst their own private turmoil, the stories of
their lives are exchanged - and as the portrait takes shape, we
watch these complex and extraordinary women struggle while the love
of their lives departs, in an unforgettable, breathless tale of
deception and mystery that captivates until the very end. 'A
stunning "pas de deux" that is enchanting, thrilling and incredibly
moving.' Marie Claire Italia
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