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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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A YA anthology of horror stories centering Black girls who battle
monsters, both human and supernatural, and who survive to the end
Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one.
Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and acclaimed Black
writers, The Black Girl Survives in This One makes space for Black
girls in horror. Fifteen chilling and thought-provoking stories
place Black girls front and center as heroes and survivors who slay
monsters, battle spirits, and face down death. Prepare to be
terrified and left breathless by the pieces in this anthology. The
bestselling and acclaimed authors include Erin E. Adams, Monica
Brashears, Charlotte Nicole Davis, Desiree S. Evans, Saraciea J.
Fennell, Zakiya Dalila Harris, Daka Hermon, Justina Ireland, L. L.
McKinney, Brittney Morris, Maika & Maritza Moulite, Eden Royce,
and Vincent Tirado. The foreword is by Tananarive Due.
No antitrust case in recent history has attracted as much public
attention as U.S v. Microsoft Corp. Nor has any antitrust case in
memory raised as many complex, substantive issues of law, economics
and public policy. Microsoft, Antitrust and the New Economy:
Selected Essays constitutes an early effort to analyze some of the
central issues and to put the case in the context of the ongoing
debate over the role of government in managing markets - especially
in technology driven New Economy industries. All of these essays,
it should be noted, are written by critics of the government's
efforts to regulate Microsoft. Indeed, many are by individuals who
were closely involved in the company's legal defense and served as
consultants to Microsoft. But their work should be judged on the
merits rather than their provenance. For all represent serious
scholarship by researchers committed to advancing the debate over
government regulatory policies.
The last decades have brought a significant increase in research on
acoustic communi cation in animals. Publication of scientific
papers on both empirical and theoretical aspects of this topic has
greatly increased, and a new journal, Bioacoustics, is entirely
devoted to such articles. Coupled with this proliferation of work
is a recognition that many of the current issues are best
approached with an interdisciplinary perspective, requiring
technical and theoretical contributions from a number of areas of
inquiry that have traditionally been separated. With the notable
exception of a collection edited by Lewis (1983), there have been
fewvolumes predominatelyfocused on technical issues in comparative
bioacoustics to follow up the earlyworks edited by Lanyon and
Tavolga (1960) and Busnel (1963). It was the tremendous growth of
expertise c: ()ncerning this topic in particular that provided the
initial impetus to organize this volume, which attempts to present
fundamental information from both theoretical and applied aspects
of current bioacoustics research. While a completely comprehensive
review would be impractical, this volume offers a basic treatment
of a wide variety of topics aimed at providing a conceptual
framework within which researchers can address their own questions.
Each presentation is designed to be useful to the broadest possible
spectrum of researchers, including both those currently working in
any of the many and diverse disciplines of bioacoustics, and others
that may be new to such studies."
Not very many years ago, it was common for language researchers and
theorists to argue that language development was somehow special
and separate from other aspects of development. It was a period
when the "1 ittle 1 inguist" view of language development was
common, and much discussion was devoted to develop mental
"linguistic universals," in contrast to more broadly defined
cognitive universals. It seemed to me at the time (and still does)
that such views reflected more their promulgators' ignorance of
those aspects of cognitive development most likely to provide
illuminating parallels with language development than they did the
true developmental state of affairs. Coming from a neo-Piagetian
frame of reference, it seemed to me that there were striking
parallels be tween the development of children's language
comprehension abilities and the cognitive developmental changes
occurring contemporaneously, largely during the period Piaget
characterized as the preoperational stage. And, though more
difficult to see even now, there appeared also to be
developmentally earlier parallels during the sensory-motor stage."
Why your business isn't succeeding and what you can do about it
While business consultants are having you scour over profit and
loss statements, the real truth is businesses don't fail; people
quit. The Way You Do Anything Is the Way You Do Everything offers a
realistic, sarcastic, and fiercely honest look at how business
owners fail to commit. Business success is all about mindset, and
author Suzanne Evans helps you uncover your goals and blast away
the obstacles that are standing in your way. She offers ways to
make more money, more quickly and eliminate everything that doesn't
work. * Offers specific daily practices to make more money even
when every odd is stacked against you * Delivers the road map to
abandon a job you hate and follow your professional dreams * Author
Suzanne Evans went from a secretary to seven figure success, and
her story has helped her to mentor thousands to change their lives,
businesses, and finances forever Take complete control over your
life, build wealth faster, and create a business that not only
makes money but also makes a difference.
No antitrust case in recent history has attracted as much public
attention as U.S v. Microsoft Corp. Nor has any antitrust case in
memory raised as many complex, substantive issues of law, economics
and public policy. Microsoft, Antitrust and the New Economy:
Selected Essays constitutes an early effort to analyze some of the
central issues and to put the case in the context of the ongoing
debate over the role of government in managing markets - especially
in technology driven New Economy industries.
All of these essays, it should be noted, are written by critics of
the government's efforts to regulate Microsoft. Indeed, many are by
individuals who were closely involved in the company's legal
defense and served as consultants to Microsoft. But their work
should be judged on the merits rather than their provenance. For
all represent serious scholarship by researchers committed to
advancing the debate over government regulatory policies.
By day, every year over 40,000 visitors pour in. Across the Rio
Grande, a hundred miles away, Mexican mountaineers use the white
domes as landmarks. By night, perched almost 7,000 feet above the
sleeping, earthbound world, astronomers probe the secrets of the
night sky. This is the University of Texas McDonald Observatory,
one of the world's largest university-operated astronomical
installations.
Big and Bright: A History of the McDonald Observatory is the
story of a remarkable collaboration between two major universities,
one a prestigious private school, the other a growing southwestern
state institution. The University of Chicago had astronomers, but
its Yerkes Observatory was aging and underfunded; the University of
Texas had money for an observatory but no working astronomer to
staff it. Out of their mutual need, they formed a thirty-year
compact for a joint venture. Unusual in its day, the
Yerkes-McDonald connection presaged the future. In this
arrangement, one can see some of the beginnings of today's
consortium "big science."
Now the McDonald Observatory's early history can be put in
proper perspective. Blessed with a gifted and driving founding
director, the world's (then) second-largest telescope, and an
isolation that permitted it to be virtually the only major
astronomical observatory that continued operations throughout World
War II, the staff of McDonald Observatory helped lay the
foundations of modern astrophysics during the 1940s. For over a
decade after the war, a lonely mountaintop in West Texas was the
mecca that drew nearly all the most important astronomers from all
over the world.
Based on personal reminiscences and archival material, as well
as published historical sources, Big and Bright is one of the few
histories of a major observatory, unique in its focus on the human
side of the story.
This is a companion volume to Viral Infections of Humans:
Epidemiology and Control. The apparent success of that book in
bridging the gap between texts on basic microbiology and those on
clinical infectious diseases led to editing this one on bacterial
infections, the chapters of which are organized in exactly the same
format of 12 units: introduction, historical background,
methodology, biological characteristics of the organism,
descriptive epidemiology, mechanisms and routes of transmission,
pathogenesis and im munity, patterns of host response, control and
prevention, unresolved problems, references, and suggested reading.
The purpose of this book is to provide a description and
understanding of the pathogenesis of infection and disease both
within the community and within the individual. This is done in the
belief that a variety of factors in both the external and the
internal environment, and in the nature of the infectious agent,
influence exposure, the development of infection, and the pattern
of the host response. An understanding of the epidemiology and
pathogenesis of these processes forms the basis for approaches to
control and prevention. The first two chapters of this book deal
with general epidemiological concepts and with surveillance.
also occurs. New outbreaks of yellow fever have occurred in
Colombia and Trinidad and new outbreaks of rift valley fever have
occurred in Egypt. Chapter 6, Arenaviruses: The biochemical and
physical properties have now been clar ified, and they show a
remarkable uniformity in the various viruses constituting the
group. The possibility that prenatal infection with LCM may result
in hydrocephalus and chorioretinitis has been raised. Serologic
surveys have suggested the existence of Lassa virus infection in
Guinea, Central African Empire, Mali, Senegal, Cameroon, and Benin,
in addition to earlier identification in Nigeria, Liberia, and
Sierra Leone. Chapter 7, Coronaviruses: New studies have confirmed
the important role of these viruses in common respiratory illnesses
of children and adults. The viruses are now known to contain a
single positive strand of RNA. About 50% of corona virus infections
result in clinical illness. About 5% of common colds are caused by
strain DC 43 in winter. Chapter 8, Cytomegalovirus: Sections on
pathogenesis of CMV in relation to organ transplantation and
mononucleosis, as well as sections on the risk and features of con
genital infection and disease, have been expanded. There are
encouraging preliminary results with a live CMV vaccine, but the
questions of viral persistence and oncogenicity require further
evaluation."
First study of the Dark Age comitatus, or warband, drawing evidence
from literary and historical sources. The Lords of Battle examines
the image of the comitatus, or warband, as it is portrayed in
literary and historical sources from Britain's early medieval
period, attempting to determine the extent to which it reflectsan
historical reality. Through an extensive use of a variety of source
material, literary, historical, and archaeological, the book
investigates both the structure of the warband, and the practices
and institutions which supported it. After a review of the
historical background of Dark Age Britain, Stephen Evans explores
the practical characteristics of the comitatus: its military
organisation; its internal social structure and its place within
society as a whole; and the lord-retainer relationship, its duties
and obligations. He also examines the cultural, social, and
economic institutions which produced and supported the warband.
Overall, the study provides a numberof insights into the ideals and
practices of Britain's Celtic and Anglo-Saxon warrior-ĂŠlites
during a turbulent period. Dr STEPHEN EVANS gained his PhD from
Temple University.
Although Daniel 2:45 states that the great statue composed of four
metals and with feet of clay reveals the future, relatively few
biblical scholars have understood it as an amazingly accurate
timeline that does exactly that. Liberals have been unwilling to
consider that the statue's fourth kingdom is Rome. Most
conservatives have recognized that it is Rome, but they have gone
astray by seeking a nonexistent link between that ancient empire
and the modern world. The key to understanding the statue is to
recognize that it presents a prophecy that was fulfilled in the
first century by the Coming of Christ, which was the historical
equivalent of the rock that destroys the statue. The rock's growth
into the mountain that covers all of Earth foretells a process that
began in the first century and includes the thousand years of
Revelation 20. This process appears to have reached a historical
climax in our own time. John S. Evans is a retired professor of
economics and international finance who taught at the University of
Alabama from 1968 until 2000 after beginning his teaching career in
1959 at the University of South Dakota. His professional
accomplishments included a year in Mexico as a Fulbright Lecturer
and the writing of a textbook on international financial
management. Since 1996, when he went into partial retirement, his
primary intellectual activity has consisted of the intensive study
of the Bible, with emphasis on the Book of Daniel. In 2004, he
published with Xulon Press The Four Kingdoms of Daniel: A Defense
of the "Roman" Sequence with AD 70 Fulfillment. The present book
expands on parts of The Four Kingdoms and offers much new material.
Evans has authored over thirty articles that have been posted at
planetpreterist.com and has been a frequent guest on John
Anderson's "Voice of Reason."
Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Facebook
to Visa, and the most valuable start-ups, such as Airbnb and Uber,
are matchmakers that connect one group of customers with another
group of customers. Economists call matchmakers multisided
platforms because they provide physical or virtual platforms for
multiple groups to get together. Dating sites connect people with
potential matches, for example, and ride-sharing apps do the same
for drivers and riders. Although matchmakers have been around for
millennia, they're becoming more and more popular--and
profitable--due to dramatic advances in technology, and a lot of
companies that have managed to crack the code of this business
model have become today's power brokers. Don't let the flashy
successes fool you, though. Starting a matchmaker is one of the
toughest business challenges, and almost everyone who tries to
build one, fails. In Matchmakers, David Evans and Richard
Schmalensee, two economists who were among the first to analyze
multisided platforms and discover their principles, and who've
consulted for some of the most successful platform businesses in
the world, explain how matchmakers work best in practice, why they
do what they do, and how entrepreneurs can improve their chances
for success. Whether you're an entrepreneur, an investor, a
consumer, or an executive, your future will involve more and more
multisided platforms, and Matchmakers--rich with stories from
platform winners and losers--is the one book you'll need in order
to navigate this appealing but confusing world.
In the hills of Tennessee, Shane Carson, a gifted,
nationally-recognized horseman, is living the good life. When a
mysterious mustang shows up on his farm, Shane doesn't know how--or
why--the horse appeared, but the horse's distinctive brand
identifies her. She is one of the Spirit Horses, a rare, wild herd
that runs free on the Shoshone reservation in Wyoming. Watched over
for centuries in the tribe's ancestral valleys, these exquisite
horses, according to belief, provide a link to the afterlife. When
tragedy strikes in his life, Shane nearly loses his will to
live--but for one promise he made to his young son: to return the
mustang to her rightful home. On this bittersweet journey, Shane
finds a world where tradition reigns, and ancient beliefs transcend
modern logic. In this magnificent expanse of blue sky and wide open
spaces, love is alive, but hate, intolerance, and greed threaten to
close in. To make good on his vow, Shane must face the danger that
threatens these horses, the tribe's legacy, and his destiny.
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