The development of a direct, inexpensive, and efficient method for converting solar energy into a portable, clean fuel would allow elimination of the growing problems associated with the ever increasing use of fossil fuels and the reality of their rapid depletion. As the title suggests, Light, Water, Hydrogen: The Solar Generation of Hydrogen by Water Photoelectrolysis, considers the combination of water and light with a suitable semiconductor to achieve a safe, renewable and therefore inexhaustable means for hydrogen generation via the splitting of the water molecule, or photoelectrolysis.

The authors consider the impact of recent advances in nanotechnology on the water photoelectrolysis field, providing specific examples as well as the theories and methods necessary for achieving useful water photoelectrolysis systems. Written for users in a wide range of disciplines, including materials scientists, chemists, electrical engineers, and physicists, Light, Water, Hydrogen: The Solar Generation of Hydrogen by Water Photoelectrolysis is an up-to-date, invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers.

This book covers the field of solar production of hydrogen by water photo-splitting (photoelectrolysis) using semiconductor photoanodes. The emphasis of the discussion is on the use of nanotechnology in the field. The theories behind photocatalysis and photoelectrochemical processes responsible for hydrogen production are given in detail. This provides a state-of-the-art review of the semiconductor materials and methods used for improving the efficiency of the processes. The book also gives an account of the techniques used for making the nanostructures.

This text provides an innovative approach to the pedagogy of contemporary planning processes within different cultural contexts globally. It adopts an innovative multi-disciplinary social science approach and through the inclusion of international case studies, considers the extent to which intelligent design has enabled the needs of disabled residents and visitors to have universal access to social spaces and facilities. In incorporating the consideration into the fabric of the book it will encourage the mainstreaming of universal design and accessible tourism, as keystones of planning processes within the C21st.

"Louis had a keen, intuitive understanding of the metaphysics of a knife in the back." The door-darkening and nomadic Louis sweeps into town to take Ida, his on-gain off-again, away on holiday. When the long-suffering and law-abiding Ida discovers that Louis only wants her along to help him rob a bank, she comes up with a plan of her own. She will have the money and set up Louis for the fall. But soon it is Ida who the police decide is the criminal mastermind and, after Louis's supposedly long dead brother shows up with an axe in him, she becomes a murder suspect as well. By turns bleak, fast-paced and laced with dark humour, The Aching Lust for Crime is an ingeniously plotted crime novel of exiles from the land of social and consumer success who are seduced by the lure of crime to make their dreams come true. If they will only begin to co-operate they might have a chance. The Aching Lust for Crime is reminiscent of Jim Thompson's novels with their marginalized characters, but there are also elements of the absurd, impossible coincidences, dark humour, and social satire.

No Viable Option is at once an unusual literary mystery with a noirish evocation of the inner city and a political satire of activist groups whose ideals are undermined by in-fighting. On a summer evening in 1992, two young residents of a homeless shelter break into the house of legal aid lawyer, Will Burgess. He is murdered during the act and certain items are stolen. With the stolen articles in hand, one of the perpetrators, a Native youth named Sam Weir, desperately flees from both his cronies and the police (who are convinced that Sam acted alone). Simultaneously we meet Eric Speers, an aspiring writer and worker at the charity which owns the shelter and other endeavors. It was an organization in its death throes. Eric is, as well, a mess: suffering insomnia, increasingly neurotic, confused about his course in life and broke. Together with Sandy, a niece of the murdered man, they begin to investigate the stolen items after Sandy receives a threatening phone call and the police appear uninterested. The pair are drawn into a labyrinth of secrets and crimes, and finding their way through it may be the only hope that Sam Weir has for staying alive. Set during the severe recession of the early 90's, No Viable Option is an impassioned indictment of the failure of political groups to live up to the principles they espouse. Always entertaining with striking characters, it is an ingenious pastiche. The story is told using multiple points of view, lists, narrative, dreams, journal entries, song lyrics, newspaper columns and sex as a political metaphor. Craig Grimes is a Canadian novelist. His works are built around stories of personal conflict which focus on ethical and political concerns. They are set in Canada and there is a strong sense of place. They are also characterized by shifting points of view and narrative form, and the inclusion of other sorts of writing to advance the action (poems, journal entries, lists, quotes, songs, etc.).

A story of a young girl and boy who through their adventures discover their own strengths and weaknesses. And in the end, what matters most, is the bond they share with one another. Excerpt: There once was a rabbit, whose nickname was Yabut, but really his name was Fred. His nickname was Yabut, because of his habit, of saying "Yeah, but" before most things he said. Now Yabut the Rabbit had lots of friends, but his best friend was Darla the Squirrel. A great many folk, made many a joke, because Fred's best friend was a girl.

In 1598 a young Italian noblewoman named Beatrice Cenci murdered her abusive, rapist father. Her actions found many defenders but not the Romantic poet and pacifist Percy Bysshe Shelley, who, in his verse play The Cenci, condemned Beatrice's violent response. The Romantics encapsulated the counter-culture of the Vietnam War era, but it was Shelley, in particular, who influenced the views of a young hippie, Lawrence MacQuigau, not only about pacifism and Beatrice Cenci, but about free love, atheism, and vegetarianism. But Lawrence's convictions will soon be put to the test when he reads the journal of his recently deceased mother about a time, immediately after WWII when she was the only doctor in a small isolated town and sought to help a badly abused young woman after the church, the law and the town turned their back on her. The decisions his mother made are about to intrude into Lawrence's life and threaten his young family, forcing him to act. That Recoil of Nature is a suspenseful novel that tells two stories of survival, and of the linkages between politics and gender politics. It explores the contagion and ethics of violence in the face of power under the shadow of two very different wars; and of people shaped by these experiences. There are no stock characters here. Their actions are complex and sometimes contradictory, and violence, we see, is something all of us are capable of.