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My rules: No expectations. No complications. Friends are off limits. My exception: Evie Blair. I’ve got life all figured out. So I think. Until a few too many curveballs get thrown my way. Evie Blair is the latest hit or miss. She knocks me to my knees. I want her. So much it...

Is it possible that Elves (and for that matter Dwarves and Goblins a well) are among us today? Living and loving, fighting with us… and occasionally against us… and every now and then among themselves? What if we became romantically involved with them and they could take us with them when they...

Diagnosed during her high school years, the author decided to keep a personal diary of her confusion, fear, and challenges of being diagnosed with Lupus. Lupus, also known as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a disease that can affect many different body systems, including the joints, skin, kidneys,...

Daniel Valgraive est un roman écrit par J.-H. ROSNY aîné écrivain belge, pseudonyme de Joseph Henri Honoré Boex, publié en 1891. ***Extrait préface |..***.C'est la Fatalité du Bien que subit Daniel, et non pas la Fatalité du Mal. Si ses volontés finales sont discutables, si elles...

Les Xipéhuz est une nouvelle de J.-H. Rosny aîné publiée dans le recueil L'Immolation en 1887 et considérée a posteriori comme l'un des tout premiers récits de science-fiction. La nouvelle décrit le combat entre des peuples nomades et une forme de vie intelligente non organique appelée les...

Muitas discussões têm ocupado a mente dos cristãos. No ambiente multifacetado da fé, nem sempre a discussão do momento é a que verdadeiramente importa. O grande desafio — e que, por isso, deveria ser nosso principal foco — é tornarmo-nos semelhantes a Cristo. Nosso estilo de vida deve refletir,...

This volume in the Coulson and Richardson series in chemical engineering contains full worked solutions to the problems posed in volume 1. Whilst the main volume contains illustrative worked examples throughout the text, this book contains answers to the more challenging questions posed at the end...

Chemical Engineering Volume 2 covers the properties of particulate systems, including the character of individual particles and their behaviour in fluids. Sedimentation of particles, both singly and at high concentrations, flow in packed and fluidised beads and filtration are then examined. The...

For at least three centuries, Holland has been at the centre of research on intestinal malabsorption. In the 17th and 18th centuries, early descriptions of coeliac disease and tropical sprue were published by physicians trained in Holland, and it was in 1950 that Dicke published his painstaking and...

Carcinoma of the urinary bladder is a common (in the USA it is the fifth most common form of cancer in males and tenth most common form of cancer in females) malignan­ cy and one in which noninvasive staging by imaging plays such an important role. This book presents a complete approach to MR imaging...

Dans un lointain futur, l’ère « radio-active » a détruit la terre. Après avoir proliférés, les humains ne survivent que dans de rares oasis au milieu d’un immense désert inhabitable : « La planète laissa prospérer l’homme : son règne fut le plus féroce, le plus puissant (…) Il...

Un autre monde, comme Dans le monde des variants et Le Jardin de Mary fait partie de Les Autres Mondes (1895). Dans cette nouvelle de science-fiction, Rosny suit d’année en année, depuis sa naissance, la vie d’un Hollandais que tout le monde prend pour un monstre (des yeux qui ne devraient pas...

Business revolves around making decisions, often risky decisions, usually with incomplete information and too often in less time than we need. Executives at every level, in every industry, are confronted with information overload, less leeway for mistakes, and a business environment that changes rapidly....

John H Evans has been a commercial airline pilot and airline executive for almost 40 years. He grew up as an asthmatic child in the confines of the mining valley of the Rhondda in Wales and was drawn to flying largely by his memories of a Second World War Bomber Pilot from his own village who went...