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Written by the author of CBBC's Scream Street TV series!
Nothing ever happens in the sleepy town of Badger's Bottom. In fact, its only claim to fame is that it's the most BORING place to live in the universe.
That's until a UFO lands in Jamie and Megan's back garden and invaders leap out to begin their conquest of Earth, under the command of Major Pain...
Tommy Donbavand's Funny Shorts is a series of 4,000-word colour illustrated, chapter-based readers, which are perfect for bridging the gap between first chapter books and independent reading.
Published by Franklin Watts EDGE, using off-white paper and a font recommended by the British Dyslexia Association.
Written by the author of CBBC's Scream Street TV series!Nothing
ever happens in the sleepy town of Badger's Bottom. In fact, its
only claim to fame is that it's the most BORING place to live in
the universe.That's until a UFO lands in Jamie and Megan's back
garden and invaders leap out to begin their conquest of Earth,
under the command of Major Pain...Tommy Donbavand's Funny Shorts is
a series of 4,000-word colour illustrated, chapter-based readers,
which are perfect for bridging the gap between first chapter books
and independent reading.Published by Franklin Watts EDGE, using
off-white paper and a font recommended by the British Dyslexia
Association.
The Transformation Book, which belongs to Pessoa's pre-heteronymic
period, contains a series of fragments written in English,
Portuguese, and French, none of which were ever published during
Pessoa's lifetime. Conceived by Pessoa in 1908, a year of great
social and cultural transformation in Portugal, The Transformation
Book was designed to reflect and advance social and cultural
transformation in Portugal and beyond. Moving between a number of
literary forms, including poetry, fiction, and satire as well as
essays on politics, philosophy, and psychiatry, The Transformation
Book marks one of the fundamental stages in Pessoa's elaboration of
a new conception of literary space, one that he came to express as
a "drama in people." Alexander Search, Pantaleao, Jean Seul de
Meluret, and Charles James Search are the four "pre-heteronyms" to
which the texts of The Transformation Book are attributed. These
four figures constitute a plural literary microcosm - a world that
Pessoa makes, but that is occupied by a multiplicity of authors -
and clearly anticipate the emergence of Pessoa's heteronyms. As the
singular result of an intersection of Pessoa's personal
intellectual trajectory with his hopes for fomenting cultural
transformation, The Transformation Book makes for a unique
contribution to Pessoa's ever-growing published oeuvre. Although
some of the texts conceived as part of the Transformation Book have
previously been published in isolation or as fragments, this is the
first complete and critical edition of The Transformation Book, and
most of the texts in this edition are published here for the first
time. Through the critical efforts of Nuno Ribeiro and Claudia
Souza, a fundamental project of Fernando Pessoa's is now brought
from the confines of the archive to the public in its most complete
and accurate fashion. The Transformation Book should contribute to
future studies on the work of one of the most distinctive geniuses
of modernist literature.
Staphylococcus epidermidis often colonizes the skin and mucous
membranes of the human body, as part of its normal microflora.
However, when a rupture of the cutaneous surface occurs,
staphylococci can enter the host and become pathogenic. Therefore,
S. epidermidis has emerged in recent years as a major nosocomial
pathogen associated with infections of implanted medical devices.
Staphylococci adhere to such devices and have the ability to
develop biofilms, which constitutes an important virulence factor
and the most relevant pathogenic mechanism of staphylococcal
infection. The work presented in this book aimed at evaluating the
adhesion and biofilm formation capabilities of S. epidermidis
clinical strains to biomaterials. This book, hence, covers
important topics such as: the surface properties that affect
initial bacterial adhesion as well as of ways to prevent it; the
properties of mature biofilms and the phenotypic differences
between sessile and planktonic cells; the assessment of cell wall
and extracellular matrix proteins profiles to evaluate their
importance on the process of biofilm formation, among others.
Global warming is a major concern nowadays. Many studies are under
way around the world in search of new forms of clean energy because
the development model based on fossil fuels is unsustainable. In
Brazil the ethanol market is already well established and the
biodiesel market is on the rise, which will guarantee a clean fuel
to replace fossil diesel and create new alternatives for farmers.
The National Program for Biodiesel Production and Use was
established in 2005 and it is already responsible for the addition
of 5% of biodiesel to fossil diesel consumed in the country. The
program also created thousands of new jobs inexistent five years
ago. All of it has happened without compromising food security for
domestic consumption and for export. This book presents the program
as a public policy which can change the reality for many small
family farmers in Brazil, seeking not only occupation and income
but also a new model of development which is sustainable.
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