Lacy: 355 books

This new book explains why the international community has responded with a sense of fatalistic passivity to climate change. It presents a distinct critique of realism through the study of this topic, commonly overlooked in international relations. The author argues that the realist view rests...

A practical and up-to-date tutorial on everything necessary to understand how to apply fiber in a communications application. covers components, system design, cable installation, and systems and fiber measurement. For technicians, associates, trainers, supervisors, or engineers that have to either design, install and/or maintain a practical fiber system in today's environment.

Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into...

A DNA report reveals who is the actual father of Desiree's baby but once the truth is exposed, emotions explode of their hidden love and affection for one another.

A young aggressive Administrative Assistant's envy and voracity to move up the corporate latter of an Advertising firm in Los Angeles was her ultimate goal.  Tiffany worked very closely with Brooke Miller, a very attractive Advertising Executive and felt competitive in her career as her desire for growth became absolutely necessary when a vengeful and cutthroat attempt emerged.

She had never seen a banyan tree, and it was far more impressive than she had imagined. In its heart she felt strangely protected by it, loved almost. It was as if the ancient tree had been expecting her Eve Hollister needs to start over. Against her father's wishes, she moves into her family's...

1968.  The University of Texas at Austin.  Five Baby Boomers with a vision of a better world come together believing they could do it all.  Breaking the rules set by the repressive Fifties and making new ones, the residents of the house at 19th and University shed the heritage...

Riveting Race against the Clock to Save a Young Woman's Life A storm the size of Texas brews when Gloria Powell and Kai Chang meet in a Dallas hotel. They have come to discuss the future of Lily, the daughter Gloria adopted from China and the sister Kai hopes to reclaim. Kai is a doctor who...

The book introduces a hot topic of novel and emerging computing paradigms and architectures -computation by travelling waves in reaction-diffusion media. A reaction-diffusion computer is a massively parallel computing device, where the micro-volumes of the chemical medium act as elementary few-bit...

Defend me in court or else, accused racketeer Adam Steele orders. The last thing defense attorney Bryce Gannon wants to do is get another criminal acquitted. And it does look like it might be the last thing he does. Somebody has already tried to kill him. Now the Feds tell him there’s a traitor...

Lies are his specialty, but sometimes the truth can be deadly. Actor turned private investigator Charlie Ziffkin has traced a stolen sculpture to the hometown that haunts him. He needs to find the statue and get out of town fast, but when he learns the police use his former sweetheart Juliana...

Threats, bullets, espionage, and murder are no match for love. When danger knocks on their door, these five heroines have their heroes' backs, and only together can they survive the treacherous twists and turns in these heart-pounding stories. Hero Needed: When Marisa's best friend is killed...

A pool—sink-hole, really—in small town Nebraska. It’s either a blessing or a curse, depending on the heart of the person who explores it. Ex-con Clarence, and germaphobic Noell, each search for the pool. Clarence finds a yellowed newspaper article about it, stuck in his old law...

Emotion caught in Eves throat as she saw her fathers face for the thousandth time, just as he had looked in the banyan tree on the night of his death. It hadnt been peace she had seen there in his expression. Not peace. Maybe there was no peace, ever, not even after this disappointing life. Maybe...