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Despite tremendous advances made in fracture mechanics of concrete in recent years, very little information has been available on the nature of fracture processes and on reliable test methods for determining parameters for the different models. Moreover, most texts on this topic discuss numerical...

Health Risk Assessment is a comprehensive reference focusing on dermal absorption, cholinesterase inhibition, adverse reproductive effects, and carcinogenicity. The book features contributions from over 40 top scientists and covers topics such as PBPK modeling, cytochrome P-450 metabolism in skin,...

Possessing a dreadful secret, young Jack Brown thinks that release from the orphanage will give him a chance for a new life. He arrives at Moon Valley as a ward of its owner, Mr Frobisher. Georgie, Mr Frobisher’s granddaughter captivates him and becomes a faithful friend, as does Molly, the only...

A voyage of the Damned. The annual blessing of the fishing fleet is more than a ceremony, it provides God’s protection from the demons of the sea. But Captain John Boston has no time for God and holy sanctions. The church has betrayed him, with the local priest refusing to protect his sister from...

When dreams turn to nightmares. It was just an old bed, bought for the spare room. Except that a hundred years earlier a witch called Rose slept in it. Now Rose’s unhappy spirit comes as part of the deal. An angry ghost comes with the bed. That's not what you'd call a bargain.Angela and Nathan are...

When someone returns from the dead, it's never going to be good - no matter who it is. No one warned Linda that something dreadful was listening, waiting for the chance, feeding off her grief, when she unwittingly wished aloud that her husband Brian was still alive. She never meant that he should...

Emerging from the winter storm, it appeared to be a sanctuary, shelter from the freezing blizzard and the ravages of a desperate, final battle. But instead, the beckoning gates of the mysterious abbey are the entrance to a different kind of hell. The frightening shadows, and maze of confusing hallways...

This book describes a holistic study of the porcelain manufactured at Nantgarw and Swansea in the first quarter of the 19th Century, using both scientific analytical data and historical provenancing. This porcelain is acclaimed as some of the finest and most translucent porcelain ever produced. These...

Possessing a dreadful secret, young Jack Brown thinks that release from the orphanage will give him a chance for a new life. He arrives at Moon Valley as a ward of its owner, Mr Frobisher. Georgie, Mr Frobisher’s granddaughter captivates him and becomes a faithful friend, as does Molly, the only...

The Brother Wolves stalk the night. A conspiracy lurks in the shadows. Earnest, a young ram, escapes Meadowbrook Farm in search of Maggie, a ewe who went to the County Fair and then on to the mythical place known as Sheepland. On his way, Earnest comes across Gabriel, the leader of the...

Sixteen years after their paths first crossed, a national crisis will bring the four together again to stop stolen explosives from being shipped to terrorist. A four-star general, a colonel and a major will need the help of a multimillionaire to sort out the clues that others missed. This time they...

Two teens; Arlia - enjoying a life of privilege as the daughter of the Caliph of Kelaneath, far removed from the lives of the people of that poverty stricken city –discovers she is not his daughter at all. Eldon - filled with hatred - on the run after the Caliph’s soldiers kill...

This book introduces the ultimate performance analysis tool (uPATO) as a new software to compute social network metrics in the scope of team sports analysis. The reader will identify the algorithms to test the general properties of the team, the co-dependencies and the centrality levels of players,...

This book describes the PREMISS system, which enables readers to overcome the limitations of state-of-the-art battery-less wireless sensors in size, cost, robustness and range, with a system concept for a 60 GHz wireless sensor system with monolithic sensors.  The authors demonstrate a system in...