A Vampire's Book of Knowledge by Hectar was meant to be a guide for the newly turned vampires that continually sought out Hectar to ask him questions. He answered these questions to the best of his knowledge... though his knowledge is flawed. Take what he says in this booklet with a grain of salt, and understand that with his great age has come great narcissism.
A Vampire's Book of Knowledge by Hectar was meant to be a guide for the newly turned vampires that continually sought out Hectar to ask him questions. He answered these questions to the best of his knowledge... though his knowledge is flawed. Take what he says in this booklet with a grain of salt, and understand that with his great age has come great narcissism.
Kibwe and Imani lead the first clan of vampires - the Vim-Pyr - on a journey from the Congo to Africa's West coast, North to the Mediterranian Sea and East to Egypt. Follow them and their tribe - the Baska - as they discover what they have become and start the legends of the Vampires.The history of the first vampires and their journey around Africa to settle in Egypt, along the mighty Nile.
Continue the saga of Kibwe and his clan of Vampires. This book follows the vampires in the Nile River valley as they live a year of their lives among the kind and accepting west bank natives. The valley faces invasion from the Berbers, domination by the east bank kingdom and the rise of new gods. Through these trials, the vampires (Vim-Pyr) try to protect the people that they call friends. Live with them as they use their abilities and their ingenuity to try and keep the lives of the villagers from drastic change in the course of the year. The Second book in the Descendants: Vampire Chronicles series the story picks up where the first book left off.
In the last fifty years, Korea has transformed itself from an agrarian, Confucian-based culture into a global and technological powerhouse, and one of the most important political and economic forces in the world. Based on previous research and face-to-face interviews, the book shows how contemporary Koreans negotiate traditional Confucian values and Western capitalistic values in their everyday encounters - particularly in business and professional contexts. This is a useful companion book for courses in international business, intercultural communication, and Asian studies.
Three relentlessly suspenseful novels from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance. Trial by Fire In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she is, let alone who would do this to her—or why. Then a savior appears. Sister Anselm is a devoted advocate for unidentified patients, but to Jane Doe’s remorseless would-be killer, she poses a serious threat. Ali Reynolds, the police department’s new media consultant, struggles to help Sister Anselm locate the missing relatives. But their efforts may be exposing the victim once more to danger. In the fearless pursuit of justice, Ali discovers a secret even darker and more twisted than she ever could have imagined. Fatal Error Ali Reynolds begins the summer thinking her most difficult challenge will be surviving a six-week-long course as the lone forty-something female at the Arizona Police Academy. However, when Brenda Riley, a former colleague, shows up in town with an alcohol problem and an unlikely story about a missing fiancé, Ali reluctantly agrees to help. But when the man posing as Brenda’s fiancé is viciously murdered and the police focus their investigation on Brenda, Ali is quickly drawn into a web of online intrigue that may lead to a real-world fatal error. Left for Dead When one of Ali’s former Arizona Police Academy classmates is gunned down and left to die, he is at first assumed to be an innocent victim of the violent drug cartels. But the crime scene investigation reveals there’s much more to the story. Summoned to his hospital bedside, Ali meets another seriously injured victim—an unidentified young woman, presumed to be an illegal border crosser, who was raped and savagely beaten. Ali is determined to seek justice in both cases. But as she zeroes in on the truth, the real killer is lining her up in the crosshairs…
Richard Lowensdale is a cyber-sociopath who has left a trail of broken hearts in his virtual wake. When he is murdered, the women he once victimized are considered suspects. Brenda Riley, a friend of Ali's from her old news broadcasting days in California, turns out to be the prime suspect. Fearing a miscarriage of justice, Ali steps away from her new gig as the Yavapai Sheriff's Department media relations officer to go to her friend's aid--an act of kindness that puts her squarely in the sights of a remorseless killer.
In this book, geologists Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams consider the deep history of oceans, how and when they may have formed on the young Earth - topics of intense current research - how they became salty, and how they evolved through Earth history.
How the ubiquitous human tendency to polarize--either or, nature nurture, body mind, yin yang--can be explained in terms of coordination dynamics, a new conception of brain function, and how such polar opposites can be reconciled.
This book is the most comprehensive introductory text on the chemistry and biochemistry of milk. It provides a comprehensive description of the principal constituents of milk (water, lipids, proteins, lactose, salts, vitamins, indigenous enzymes) and of the chemical aspects of cheese and fermented milks and of various dairy processing operations. It also covers heat-induced changes in milk, the use of exogenous enzymes in dairy processing, principal physical properties of milk, bioactive compounds in milk and comparison of milk of different species. This book is designed to meet the needs of senior students and dairy scientists in general.
عوالم المحيط كتاب يشبه المحيط في عمقه وتنوّع موضوعاته، يستعرض الكتاب طبيعة المحيطات وتاريخ نشوئها، وكيف تشكّلت على الأرض وتطوّرت إلى وضعها الحالي، ويركّز على أهمية المحيطات لأنها حاضنة الحياة التي تعتمد عليها الكائنات، ومن ثمّ يتوسّع في البحث حول نشأة الكون وتكوّن الحياة الأولى، وتاريخ تطوّرها. وعلى الرغم من أنه يختص بالمحيطات، فإنه يقدّم مرجعاً شاملاً في علم الأحياء، والأحافير، والفلك، مستعرضاً تطوّر الكائنات الحية من بدائيات الخلايا إلى الإنسان، أكثر الكائنات تعقيداً، ولا يقف عند حدود الحاضر بل يستشرف إمكانات المستقبل من خلال إستعراضه لما توصلت إليه بحوث الفضاء وإستكشافاته، فيعرض ما تم إكتشافه من الكواكب ويدرس إمكانات نشوء محيطات في الكواكب الأخرى. يحمل الكتاب رسائل مهمة حول مشكلات التلوّث البيئي، ومآلاتها، وتغيّر المناخ، والأخطار الناجمة عن ذلك، بما في ذلك أخطار جفاف المحيطات وإحتمالات إنتهاء الحياة على الأرض.
Environmental Aspects of Housing for Animal Production is concerned with environmental aspects of housing farm animals. The discussions are organized around physical and physiological principles; environmental influences on reproduction; environmental influences on the productivity of farm animals; optimal housing environments for temperate and cool climates; housing environments for hot climates; engineering and control of the house environment; and the constraints of welfare and disease. This text consists of 32 chapters divided into nine sections. The first chapter explores the physiological mechanisms whereby the food- or fiber-producing animals maintain a constant body temperature under climatic extremes and the possible impact that these physiological processes may have on productive systems. This discussion is followed by chapters on the influence of climate on the decision to house livestock; the effect of the environment on animal reproduction; thermal influences on poultry; and the importance of ventilation and temperature control. This text also considers the poultry housing problems in tropical and subtropical climates; insulation of animal houses; and the interaction between feathering and egg production in laying hens. This book will appeal to those working in the field of housing for animal production, both in research and development and at a practical level.
Contacted to investigate the gruesome murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of the woman accused of the crime, police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is simultaneously drawn into another case that could be related to hers and must stop a dangerous killer from striking again.
`In this remarkably economical, clear and informed book, Mike Howe... sets about unravelling the formidable semantic, logical and empirical knots into which IQ testers and their supporters have tied themselves.... Howe suggests that we have, for decades, been asking the wrong kinds of questions. He points to the number of alternative, theoretically richer, views of human intelligence that don′t reduce all to a single dimension... this is rendered with an easy, readable style which assumes no previous technical knowledge′ - British Journal of Educational Psychology In this provocative and accessible book, Michael Howe exposes serious flaws in our most widely accepted beliefs about intelligence. He shows that crucial assumptions are simply wrong and have had destructive social consequences. IQ is real enough, but the common idea that a quality of intelligence is the underlying cause of people′s differing abilities is based on poor science as well as faulty reasoning. Offering a powerful case for a better understanding of human intelligence, IQ in Question contradicts erroneous and destructive claims such as: IQ tests provide a measure of inherent mental capacities; intelligence and `race′ are linked; IQ measures are good predictors of a person′s success; intelligence cannot be changed; there is a `gene for intelligence′; and low IQ always means restricted capabilities.
The first real glimmerings of awareness started with Katrina, a lovely feminine name, but a crippling storm. Not the nibbling, nagging kind of awareness that the scientific community had been trying for years to raise, but a gut wrenching, "this can kill you", kind of awareness that gets quick attention. Suddenly, all the past warnings made sense and there was a sense of urgency in the CNN re-runs of previously ignored interviews. The story of three generations of the McFarland family and their epic struggle to build a lifeboat for mankind and save the earth from senseless self destruction.
Highlighted with individual contributions from eminent specialists, these multiauthored volumes combine authority, inspiration and state-of-the-art knowledge. Both informative and inspiring they are designed to appeal to scientists and interested laypeople alike. Volume 2 complements and extends the scope of the first, with the biological viewpoint being stressed. Following an introductory chapter on design as understood in biology, the various aspects of the biological information revolution are addressed. Areas discussed include molecular structure, the genome, development, and neural networks. A section on information theory provides a link with engineering, and the scope is also broadened to include the implications of motion in nature and engineering.
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE IT’S NEVER QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Springfield Model 1880. Trapdoor rifle with bayonet. Vengeance optional. With a handful of murderous rogues, Captain Jed Foster has run off with four wagons containing new Springfield rifles, bayonets, and ammunition meant to resupply the troops at Fort Bowie in Arizona Territory. Foster plans to sell the weapons to the highest bidder—whether it’s Apaches, Mexican revolutionaries, or Confederate veterans who still dream of destroying the Union. But that’s the least of Foster’s problems . . . His junior officer, Lieutenant Grat Holden, is coming after him. With the help of an ornery ex-sergeant known as “Hard Rock” Masterson and fiery guerilla fighter Soledad, the young lieutenant will face off with war chiefs, banditos, and cutthroat outlaws. That’s just for starters. Then he’s got to take down a man who has enough guns for a small army . . . Live Free. Read Hard.
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