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Liam Michaels isn't just a wealthy art dealer and photographer. He
is actually Azrael, the angel of death, an immortal sentinel
created thousands of years ago before the dawn of man for the
purpose of finding and destroying true evil.
Azrael and his Core, a group of highly trained commandos, have
just squashed attempted attacks on New York and Chicago by
terrorists wielding neutron bombs. In the process, they discovered
who was behind the threat: the Ba, an ancient warrior people
controlled by a demon-the demon Azrael has been battling for more
than three thousand years. Now the fight is about to come to a
climax as Azrael and his team pursue the demon across the United
States and Europe in a desperate effort to prevent a global nuclear
holocaust.
While this high-tech thriller rides the borders of the
imagination and tangles with the unthinkable, the futuristic
weaponry and advanced military systems employed by Azrael and his
commandos arise from technologies that actually exist today in
prototype form. In this chilling tale of terrorism, Azrael and the
Core must utilize their most daring maneuvers, ingenious
countertactics, and flat-out heroics in a brutal battle over the
fate of the world.
Never before has there ever been any other program that helped me
more as this one, and it gave me a nonsmoking life to live for my
future. Michael Oliver, author of Educated Smoker.
Price and Markup Behaviour in Manufacturing examines the role that
cost, competing domestic and foreign prices, domestic demand and
market structure play in determining the price and markup of
manufacturing firms across a range of countries and industries.
Michael Olive models imperfectly competitive behaviour at the firm
level, establishing logical relationships between these variables.
Aggregating these relationships gives predictions for price and
markup at the industry level. Empirical analysis is carried out by
estimating a pricing equation for 11 industrialised countries in
Asia, Europe and North America, and for 24 International Standard
Industrial Classification industries from 1970 to 1991. The results
exhibit a pattern of incomplete pass-through from competing foreign
price into industry price and markups that are not fixed. The
author illustrates that for higher levels of industry concentration
cost becomes less influential in determining industry price, while
the opposite is true for competing domestic and foreign prices.
This comprehensive and thorough examination of the literature on
pricing, the innovative model development and the comparative
analysis in this study will be of great interest to government
policymakers and academics wanting to keep abreast of new
developments in the area of pricing and markup.
Provides a thorough, updated guide to ungasketed bolted joints and
their design Based around the latest ASME standards for bolted
joints Covers use of the Finte Element Method for design analysis
of bolted joints, with ANSYS examples Expands coverage of threads,
internal/external thread interaction, and adjustment for design
functions Examines the materials aspects of bolted joint design and
behavior
Advancing current readings of the deconstructive work of Jacques
Derrida, Deconstructing Undecidability critically explores the
problematic nature of decision, including the inherent exclusivity
that accompanies any decision. In discourses where a pursuit of
justice or liberation from systemic oppression is a primary
concern, Michael Oliver argues for an appreciation of the
inescapability of making limited, difficult decisions for
particular forms of justice. Oliver highlights a similarly
precarious predicament in the context of philosophical and
religious negotiations of divine decision, pointing to the
impossibility of safely navigating this issue. While wholeheartedly
affirming the problem of exclusivity that inevitably accompanies
decision, this book offers a renewed sense of undecidability that
highlights a mistaken, illusory position of indecision as a
reflection of power and privilege. Ultimately, this book aims to
gain a greater appreciation for the complexity of the problem of
decision, in order to be more rigorous and transparent in our
continued engagement with it.
This title was first published in 2002: There are few students of
European economic history who will not have come across the
writings of Derek H. Aldcroft. His contributions to the field of
economic and social history are vast and distinguish him as one of
the most prolific economic historians of the 20th century. This
volume honours Derek's contribution to the literature of economic
and social history and its contents reflect his wide-ranging
interests, particularly on issues relating to transport history and
the growth and structural change in economies. From transport in
the Industrial Revolution to late 20th-century international
financial architecture, the essays in this book, contributed by
leading economic historians, are a tribute to a remarkable scholar.
This title was first published in 2002: There are few students of
European economic history who will not have come across the
writings of Derek H. Aldcroft. His contributions to the field of
economic and social history are vast and distinguish him as one of
the most prolific economic historians of the 20th century. This
volume honours Derek's contribution to the literature of economic
and social history and its contents reflect his wide-ranging
interests, particularly on issues relating to transport history and
the growth and structural change in economies. From transport in
the Industrial Revolution to late 20th-century international
financial architecture, the essays in this book, contributed by
leading economic historians, are a tribute to a remarkable scholar.
An origami crane in remembrance of Hiroshima. A father's faded old
photograph of his 1970s pre-marital sports car. Youths congregated
at a bus stop. The sounds of an empty house after the children have
flown the nest. Common phrases spoken by US tourists. Gangs
fighting to the death. Radioactive clouds raining down over Europe.
A collection of Princess Diana memorabilia. Teaching English in
Siberia. These are just a handful of the themes touched upon in
Michael Oliver-Semenov's deeply personal and introspective first
poetry collection.
In Deconstructing Undecidability, Michael Oliver explores the
problematic nature of decision, including the inherent exclusivity
that accompanies any decision, and the ways in which we attempt to
avoid recognizing this exclusivity. Advancing current readings of
the deconstructive work of Jacques Derrida, Oliver critically
examines the perennial problem of inescapable decision by focusing
on two particular scenarios. In discourses where a pursuit of
justice or liberation from systemic oppression is a primary
concern, Oliver argues for an appreciation of the inescapability of
making limited, difficult decisions for particular forms of
justice. He highlights a similarly precarious predicament in the
context of theological understandings and negotiations of divine
decision, pointing to the impossibility of safely navigating this
issue. In so doing, Oliver offers a renewed sense of undecidability
that urges continued vigilance with regard to complex, difficult
decisions. While wholeheartedly affirming the problem of
exclusivity that inevitably accompanies decision, Oliver argues for
the necessity of reckoning with difficult decisions and highlights
how one only ever mistakenly inhabits the illusory position of
"indecision," i.e. standing outside the decision point, as a
reflection of power and privilege. Ultimately, this book aims to
gain a greater appreciation for the complexity of the problem of
decision-in the contexts of justice work and theological
understandings of divine decision-in order to be more rigorous and
transparent in our continued engagement with it.
"Tales from the Toolbox" is a unique collection of
behind-the-scenes stories and anecdotes as told, in their own
words, by former Grand Prix mechanics who have worked at the top
level of the sport during the past 50 years. On the front line of
the sport, mixing with drivers and team bosses, they saw a side of
it that nobody else got to see and rarely gets to hear about - and
this book tells their story. Chapters are themed around a
particular aspect of a mechanic's life, ranging from what they
consider the highs and lows of their career, to their opinions of
drivers and team bosses, the all-nighters, letting off steam, the
'Mechanic's Gallon', nightmare journeys and customs capers. It also
reveals a tale of camaraderie between teams and individual
mechanics which is hard to imagine in today's highly competitive
Formula One environment. The stories are supplemented by
photographs from the archives and photo albums of the mechanics
themselves, many of which are previously unseen.
The Blackstone's Guide series delivers concise and accessible books
covering the latest legislative changes and amendments. Published
soon after enactment, they offer expert commentary on the scope,
extent, and effects of the legislation accompanying a full copy of
the Act itself. The Sentencing Act 2020 is the culmination of over
four years' work to identify the myriad legislative provisions
which form part of the sentencing process and produce a coherent
consolidation which would stand as a Code, capable of being treated
and developed as a single source. The purpose of the Code is to
draw together a single statement of the law that stipulates what
happens to an offender who is convicted of, or has pleaded guilty
to, a criminal offence. This includes the general principles of
sentencing law, the orders a court may or must impose as a result
of an offender's plea, conviction, or breach of an existing
sentence, and any related case management functions. It represents
a major landmark for the criminal justice system in England and
Wales. This Guide provides an essential bridge for practitioners
from the previous patchwork of sentencing procedure to the new
unified Code and includes valuable checklists and tables which map
the previous statutory basis for all key elements of the Code to
the new Act. The enhanced digital product (included) provides both
offline and online access wherever you are on OUP LawReader.
Synchronize your notes and bookmarks across all of your devices,
and take advantage of the quick and simple search function to find
what you need, whenever you need it.
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Asp (Paperback)
Michael Olive
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Discovery Miles 3 540
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North by Polaris (Paperback)
Catherine Hanley; Illustrated by Good Wives And Warriors; Michael Oliver
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After a hostile takeover attempt of his video game design company
Imaginarium that resulted in the murder of his wife, Cailan Bane
retires to the northern Maine woods to rethink his life. But his
plans go in the dumpster when he intervenes to save a young boy
being chase by mysterious assault rifle-wielding commandos. He's
forced to revive his persona as the Death Whisperer, a former Force
Recon Marine sniper who rained the wrath of God on the Taliban, in
order to get the boy to safety. But when the boy reveals that his
entire town has disappeared and is now occupied by strangers bent
on killing him as the only survivor, Cailan and his old sniper
teammate, Dan Gabriel, investigate. What they discover is a
terrorist plot that will make the 9-1-1 disaster look like a fender
bender. Cailan's intervention brings him to the attention of the
terrorist mastermind, who contracts a deadly assassin to hunt down
and kill him. Cailan is forced to fight a two-front war, trying to
preserve the lives of thousands as well as his own, knowing that in
this war, you only lose once. After that, no one keeps score.
Cailan Bane was known as the Death Whisperer when he and his
partner Dan Gabriel operated as a hunter-sniper team in
Afghanistan. The enemy never saw or heard him. They simply died.
But snipers do a lot of waiting, which gave the duo time to dream
about starting a video game design company based on their military
exploits. After returning to the States, their dream became a
reality in the form of Imaginarium, a boutique company with a
reputation for putting out military and urban street fighter games
renown for their realism. But trouble befalls Imaginarium in the
form of a two front battle. While a Boston-based investment company
attempts a hostile takeover, someone decides to use the scenarios
described in the street fighter games as a model to murder those
who escape the justice of the American legal system. When a jet
carrying one of the victims is shot down with a fifty-caliber
rifle, killing seventeen innocent passengers, the FBI enlists the
help of the former sniper team to track the killer, an action that
draws the attention of the sociopath. But the killer and investment
company make a major mistake when they attack Imaginarium, because
it raises the ire of Cailan, and they don't realize when the Death
Whisperer goes hunting, even the devil runs for cover.
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