This collection from the 12th International Conference on Magnesium Alloys and Their Applications (Mg 2021)-the longest running conference dedicated to the development of magnesium alloys-covers the breadth of magnesium research and development, from primary production to applications to end-of-life management. Authors from academia, government, and industry discuss new developments in magnesium alloys and share valuable insights. Topics in this volume include but are not limited to the following: Primary production Alloy development Solidification and casting processes Forming and thermo-mechanical processing Other manufacturing process development (including joining and additive manufacturing) Corrosion and protection Modeling and simulation Structural, functional, biomedical, and energy applications Advanced characterization and fundamental theories Recycling and environmental issues

The fourth hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series as our favourite students dive into their second year… and relationships! The Holidays are coming and love is in the air at Sheffield University! While back home in Northampton visiting her six sisters and numerous niblings for the holidays, Susan reconnects with McGraw. Too bad he’s still dating Emilia…at least for now! Meanwhile, Daisy and bombastic exchange student Ingrid are also testing the waters of first love. Even insufferable Dean Thompson found virtual romance, while Ed agrees to be match-made by Daisy. As the spring semester wears on, the question looms…will Daisy, Esther, and Susan stay housemates for their third year? Or will love tear the dream-team apart, as certain folks want to give living with their paramours a try? The Giant Days Library Edition Volume 4, written by John Allison (Wicked Things, Steeple) and illustrated by Max Sarin (Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat Bang Kill Tour) and Liz Fleming (Steven Universe) collects the next eight issues of the Eisner Award-winning and Harvey Award-nominated series along with the 2016 holiday special, all in a deluxe hardcover. Collects Giant Days #25-32.

Based on the success of the original edition, The Business 2.0 continues to offer Business English students the confidence, language and fundamentals skills they need to succeed in the competitive international business environment. Based on feedback from users, research into business English studies and the ever-evolving needs of employers The Business 2.0 has been improved in a number of ways. There is a strong focus on the 'intangible' business skills - emotional intelligence and interpersonal abilities. So not only is the student prepared with the business language and knowledge but also as a well-rounded and receptive approach to dealing professionally with others. The Business eWorkbook - an integral part of the course on a personal computer or laptop. This includes extra language practice, tests and word lists, and audio and video you can download to a tablet, phone or MP3 player for on-the-go learning. This replaces the DVD-ROM from the first edition and new videos for the Advanced and Upper Intermediate level offer good/bad models for the final speaking task, including commentaries by a communications expert. This content is also available for use on a Learner Management System such as Moodle or Blackboard. This is a compact course that makes the most of new media to ensure the package is relevant for both students and teachers. Key Features / What's New - Business fundamentals - an introduction to business with language and topics including: business organization, financial control, CVs and covering letters. - Transparent business links - each module is clearly linked to either: Personal development, Service, Supply chain, Management, Sales and marketing, Enterprise, Finance, International trade - Focus on interpersonal skills - the best professionals are those with great emotional intelligence. Special speaking tasks and the case studies focus on this delicate but vital '5th skill'. - Flexible approach - the modular structure allows you to dip in and out, covering the basics or focusing on speaking or writing. This is the course you can make your own. - The Business eWorkbook - a cutting-edge self-study program to support the course with videos, extra practice and downloadables. - Builds up strength in four key areas: Language Skills: New Technologies: Business Skills: People /interpersonal skills - More communicative grammar in context

The fifth hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series as year two comes to a close! The end of the second year of university is right around the corner for best friends Daisy, Esther, and Susan at Sheffield University. Their glory days of living together are coming to an end, though, as McGraw and Susan plan to move into their own flat, and Daisy’s going against her sensible nature to live in a party warehouse with her tempestuous girlfriend, Ingrid. Adrift on her own, Esther’s stuck scrambling for somewhere to call her own, as the options dwindle down to nothing. At least the others are all squared away, until disaster strikes twice, leaving Ed with broken bones and a bruised ego, and Daisy with a broken heart… The Giant Days Library Edition Volume 5, written by John Allison (Wicked Things, Steeple) and illustrated by Max Sarin (Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat Bang Kill Tour), Liz Fleming (Steven Universe), and Julia Madrigal (Lumberjanes) collects the next eight issues of the Eisner Award-winning and Harvey Award-nominated series, along with the 2017 holiday special, all in a deluxe hardcover. Collects Giant Days #33-40.

The seventh hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series as their Uni journey comes to a close! Graduation day is so close that Esther, Daisy, and Susan can almost taste it. It’s time to think about what they want to do when they leave behind the hallowed halls of Sheffield University–or, in Susan’s case–consider where McGraw will go and what that might mean for their future together. But even when real, grown-up tragedy strikes, there are still wild oats to sow, championship cricket games to play, and prank wars to survive before it’s time to don caps and gowns to leave the giant days of university behind, once and for all. Written by John Allison (Wicked Things, Steeple) and illustrated by Max Sarin (Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill Tour), Vol. 7 collects the final six issues and the grade finale of the Eisner Award-winning and Harvey Award-nominated series, along with a special short featuring Shelley Winters, all in a deluxe hardcover! Collects Giant Days #49-54 and As Time Goes By.

It's never a quiet day at the University of Sheffield when Esther, Susan and Daisy are around - especially if that means solving a comic book caper, attending McGraw's brother's wedding and Daisy learning to drive! It's never a quiet day at the University of Sheffield as best friends Esther, Susan and Daisy try do regular things like solving comic book shop capers, attending McGraw's brother's wedding and Daisy learning to drive OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL DOOMED. Meanwhile, Ed has to have a hard conversation with his girlfriend about her behavior when she drinks and what it means for their future...if they have one. The Eisner Award nominated team of John Allison (By Night) and Max Sarin are back with new unforgettable stories about the best BFFs ever, including a special issue both written and illustrated by Allison himself. Collects Giant Days #45-48.

The second hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series as your favourite characters move into the second half of their freshmen year! Spring is in the air at Sheffield University. The flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and close friends Susan, Esther, and Daisy are all surviving their first year of university by the skin of their teeth. By the year’s second half, Susan and McGraw’s fledgling relationship is already on the rocks, and Esther is not dealing well with the pressure of academia, while Daisy is just trying to keep everyone and everything from falling apart. Combined with house-hunting for second year, indie film festivals, and online dating, can the girls make it to the end of summer term? The Giant Days Library Edition Volume 2, written by John Allison (Wicked Things, Steeple) and illustrated by Max Sarin (Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat Bang Kill Tour) and Liz Fleming (Steven Universe) collects eight more issues of the Eisner Award-winning and Harvey Award-nominated series, as well as an issue of the original webcomic in a deluxe hardcover. Collects Giant Days #9-16.

The sixth hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series as the final year of Uni begins! Besties Susan, Esther, and Daisy are the big women on campus as they start their final year at Sheffield University. Between excelling academically and personally, it seems like they’ve finally got the hang of the student life. Daisy works as a resident mentor to the new crop of first years, while Susan and McGraw work on being real adults with real adult neighbors, and Esther is working on repairing her friendship with Ed Gemmel after a drunken mishap last year left them both feeling awkward. Esther’s sure she wants to stay just friends with Ed, though. That is, unless she isn’t…? Written by John Allison (Wicked Things, Steeple) and illustrated by Max Sarin (Harley Quinn: The Animated Series The Eat. Bang! Kill Tour), volume 6 collects the next eight issues of the Eisner Award-winning and Harvey Award-nominated series, along with the 2018 holiday special–all in a deluxe hardcover! Collects Giant Days #41-48.

As Esther re-evaluates the biggest decisions in her life, she enters an essay contest that could change everything for her! LONDON CALLING! Everything going fine for Esther - she's only dealing with a past break up, facing her own mortality and the pressure of an essay contest that could change her life. Don't worry, she's got everything figured out...except for the getting everything figured out part. Otherwise she's not racing towards imminent disaster. But for McGraw, the tough realities of life hit hard as he learns about the loss of someone close to him and has to find a way to process this shocking news. The Eisner Award winning team of John Allison (By Night) and Max Sarin return to Sheffield for heartbreak, muscle aches, the very special pain of going corporate...and why the love of good friends is the secret to getting through it all. Collects Giant Days #49-52.

The first of seven sturdy hardcovers collecting the entirety of the Eisner Award-winning slice-of-life comic series! The school year is just beginning at Sheffield University, jam-packed with new classes, professors, and places to explore… not to mention new clubs, cliques, and shenanigans galore! For first years Daisy, Esther, and Susan, they’ve got new friends on lock, forming a tight bond from their first days as next-dorm neighbours. But learning to navigate life as brand new (almost) adults isn’t as easy as it looks. Between old nemeses popping up, academic struggles, and new crushes on the horizon, it’s a good thing these three have each other to help survive Hall Balls, bantering lads, and drama vortexes (vortices?)! The Giant Days Library Edition Volume 1, written by John Allison (Wicked Things, Steeple) and illustrated by Lissa Treiman (Minötar) and Max Sarin (Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat Bang Kill Tour) collects the first eight issues of the Eisner Award-winning and Harvey Award-nominated series, along with an issue of the original webcomic, all in a sturdy, deluxe hardcover. Collects Giant Days #1-8.

This work offers concise, detailed information on the toxicological properties of, and safe handling practices for, pesticides. It provides an overview of the registration process, registration procedures and supplemental registration. An alphabetic listing of over 800 chemicals, including their applications - from insecticides and growth regulators to herbicides, repellents and synergists - is provided.

This collection from the 12th International Conference on Magnesium Alloys and Their Applications (Mg 2021)-the longest running conference dedicated to the development of magnesium alloys-covers the breadth of magnesium research and development, from primary production to applications to end-of-life management. Authors from academia, government, and industry discuss new developments in magnesium alloys and share valuable insights. Topics in this volume include but are not limited to the following: Primary production Alloy development Solidification and casting processes Forming and thermo-mechanical processing Other manufacturing process development (including joining and additive manufacturing) Corrosion and protection Modeling and simulation Structural, functional, biomedical, and energy applications Advanced characterization and fundamental theories Recycling and environmental issues

Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther, Susan, and Daisy, things are about to get a little weird. Giant Days Volume 1, created and written by longtime webcomic creator John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round) and Disney artist Lissa Treiman collects the first four issues of the critically-acclaimed series from BOOM! Box.

The third hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series following your favourite Uni students summer shenanigans! School’s out for summer at Sheffield University! First years no more (well, very nearly!) Esther, Daisy, and Susan have plans to party it up at a music festival before moving in together into their very own home to begin second year. With Susan and McGraw very much on the “won’t they” side of their own relationship equation, the girls find themselves embracing spinsterhood and young adulthood, along with all that it entails: IKEA furniture, part-time jobs, dinner parties, and even a feud with their cranky next door neighbour, who’s quite put out to be living next to “youths.” Meanwhile, Ed and McGraw are stuck sharing a house with human nightmare Dean Thompson, and will be lucky to make it to Christmas break with their marbles intact. The Giant Days Library Edition Volume 3, written by John Allison (Wicked Things, Steeple) and illustrated by Max Sarin (Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat Bang Kill Tour) and Liz Fleming (Steven Universe) collects the next set of eight issues of the Eisner Award-winning and Harvey Award-nominated series, as well as an issue of the original webcomic in a deluxe hardcover. Collects Giant Days #17-24.

Daisy, Esther, and Susan's last year at university is getting a bumpy start, with everything strange after Ed's declaration of love followed by grievous injury, Daisy with nowhere to live, and McGraw and Susan at odds over their new flat! The final year of university is about to start for best mates Daisy, Esther, and Susan, and everything is going completely off the rails. From finding somewhere to live at the last minute, to broken bones, to the looming terror of the adult world, this semester is one you won't want to miss. John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round) and illustrators Max Sarin and Julia Madrigal are our "resident advisors" for this action-packed fall term, which collects Issues #37-40 of the Eisner Award-nominated series.

It's Daisy, Esther and Susan's third year at university, and with that comes new beaus, new jobs, and new adventures. The end of university is upon BFFs Daisy, Esther, and Susan! Between Halloween run-ins with Daisy's dreaded (dreadful) ex, part time gigs at a shady pop-up Christmas market, Esther dating a tech-bro, and Susan attempting to be...romantic, there's still plenty to learn and more than enough misadventure to squeeze in before it's time to don caps and gowns! Written by John Allison (Scary Go Round, By Night) and illustrated by the incredible Max Sarin, Giant Days volume 11 kicks off third year with a bang, collecting issues #41-44 of the Eisner-Nominated series.

Esther, Susan, and Daisy continue to face the rigors of young adulthood in this Eisner-nominated series. Fast friends Susan, Daisy, and Esther continue their second year at Sheffield University, and these are formative times, indeed. Education and looking ahead to the future isn't all that college holds in-store for these ladies; grocery store protests, family reunions, and even an MMORPG wedding are all on this semester's docket. John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round) and illustrators Max Sarin and Liz Fleming, take us to Sophomore year's second semester in Giant Days Volume 7, which collects Issues #25-28 of the Eisner Nominated series.

Flashback to freshman year with Esther, Susan and Daisy to see how they first met and became the best of friends, in these bonus Giant Days stories. Take a trip through the past in these early Giant Days stories, and discover the origin of Daisy, Esther and Susan's friendship as they embark on orientation, getting-to-know-you-exercises, and collisions with a secret society devoted to Black Metal. Collecting the original, self-published Giant Days comics for the first time, creator John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round) takes us back to where it all started in Giant Days: Early Registratio.

It's the end of second year, and everything is happening so fast for Esther, Susan and Daisy! It's the end of second year, and everything is happening so fast! Moving out, breaking up, breaking hearts, breaking...bones? Best-Mates-for-Life Esther, Daisy, and Susan had better hold on tight if they want to make it to their third year, never mind in one piece! John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round) and illustrators Max Sarin and Liz Fleming shepherd us through another action-packed semester in Giant Days Volume 9, which collects Issues #33-36 of the Eisner Award-nominated series.

THE END IS HERE! KINDA! Return to Sheffield one last time as Daisy and Esther are about to graduate - with Susan there to cheer them on! But it's not goodbye, because one year later Daisy and Susan must join forces to save Esther from the head girls who're making her life hell! And then it really might just be goodbye... The Eisner Award winning team of John Allison (Wicked Things) and Max Sarin conclude one of the most beloved new comics of the century with graduation, all the feels and a reminder that friendship is forever. Collects Giant Days #53-54 and Giant Days: As Time Goes By #1.

Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther, Susan, and Daisy, things are about to get a little weird. University is a time to learn for most, but for Susan, Esther, and Daisy academia seems to be throwing more at them than books and learning. House-hunting, terrible breakups, and regretful hookups pepper the girls lives this semester as they navigate their way through Freshman year. Thankfully, they have each other. This second volume of Giant Days: Not On The Test Edition, written by John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round) and illustrated by Max Sarin and Liz Fleming, collects the third and fourth story arcs of the Eisner Award and Harvey Award-nominated series, as well as additional never-before-collected Giant Days comics in a deluxe hardcover.