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Let It Shine! probes the distinctive contribution of black Catholics to the life of the American church, and to the unfolding of lived Christianity in the United States. This important book explores the powerful spiritual renaissance that has marked African American life and selfunderstanding over...

The book man and machine is a book on debates of several existing topics which questions the sign of the times . You have debates on science and war , science and fiction, man and machine , god and prayer etc the intention of the book is to make a reader after debating on the topics find question...

Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design is the essential guide to designing, building and testing fixed wing UAVs (or drones). It deals with aircraft from two to 150 kg in weight and is based on the first-hand experiences of the world renowned UAV team at the UK’s University of Southampton. The...

Judit, conocida por todos como la Guapísima por su extraordinaria belleza, aún no ha cumplido los veinticinco años cuando enviuda de Aben Ahmad al-Fiqui, un musulmán con el que su padre la casó por conveniencia. Tras su muerte, Judit, de origen judío, decide buscar nuevo marido, pero es rechazada...

Although I feel honored to write a foreword for this important book, it is a task that I approach with some trepidation. The topics covered in the book summarize the current state of the art in technical demography. However, my knowledge and expertise with respect to technical demography are limited...

This innovative book explores the nature and function of ‘sunset clauses’ and experimental legislation, or temporary legislation that expires after a determined period of time, allowing legislators to test out new rules and regulations within a set time frame and on a small-scale basis. Sofia Ranchordás...

Optimal aircraft design is impossible without a parametric representation of the geometry of the airframe. We need a mathematical model equipped with a set of controls, or design variables, which generates different candidate airframe shapes in response to changes in the values of these variables....

1568 es un año nefasto para el emperador Felipe II: fallecen su hijo Carlos y su esposa Isabel de Valois, menudean los conflictos en Flandes y las Alpujarras, las herejías protestante y calvinista avanzan en Europa y el Mediterráneo está asolado por la piratería berberisca y el resurgir otomano....

Charlotte Hayes was finally at a point in her life where things were falling into place. Career, husband, baby on the way, all things she dreamed of but never thought she’d be that lucky. When a new case is placed in her hands, it tests not only her skills as an agent, but the very foundation...

Fed up of her unsatisfactory sex life and her two-pump chump of a husband, Cynthia decides to partake in the African mating ritual that her best friend and her husband told her about. Thus, Cynthia embarks on her very first raunchy sexual adventure, journeying to a remote village somewhere in West...

Members of the Greene family keep dying while the pool of possible perpetrators keeps shrinking. Philo Vance – the independently wealthy, staggeringly brilliant, not remotely modest (and did we mention handsome?) amateur sleuth -- uses his detective skills to unravel the murders, though sadly not...

Philo Vance finds his old chum District Attorney Anthony Markham up against a bizarre series of murders inspired by children’s nursery rhymes. The first murder was apparently based on “Who Killed Cock Robin?”; it is followed by more hideous deaths referencing “Mother Goose.” Philo Vance suspects a connection to a rather more sophisticated writer.

The Warehouse is an original and contemporary novel set in Pakistan's dreaded Waziristan, a hotbed of crime, terrorism, and harsh brutality on the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Syed Quais Ali Quereshi, aka "Cash," a Karachi based insurance surveyor, is contracted by his extremely...

A boy who loves adventure. A mysterious solo journey. A remote island wilderness. Cast away in this beautiful dreamlike story and discover what surprises await. Peter S?s blends a true story from his childhood with the fictional adventure of Robinson Crusoe to create a magical picture book filled with heart and imagination that readers will want to return to again and again.