After Katrina's parents died in a car accident, her loving aunt took her in and raised her. However, her aunt's days were cut short after being diagnosed with leukemia. Quick to tears in tough times, Katrina is given a cold reception by the doctor, Simon. In anger, Katrina storms out the hospital room, intolerant of his demeanor. Simon reflects on how he treated Katrina, and when he finally goes to visit her in the country, he finds that she is now living on her own, with no relatives at all. Cautious of his gentleness toward her, she slowly opens up her heart to him. While at the same time, could she be the one who finally rekindles the warmth in Simon's frigid heart?
Standing outside the office of blind novelist Saul Cresswell, Autumn silently prays for the courage to knock on his door. Four years ago, it was her young love that stole his sight. Racked with guilt, Autumn disappeared from Saul's life. However, wanting nothing more than to be his strength, she returns under the fake name Elizabeth to work as his aide. As she watches Saul gallantly overcome the obstacles that plague his life, Autumn's youthful affection swells into ardent love...
When Megan is invited by Jacques, the man of her dreams, to a luxurious vacation in the desert country of Dhahara, it seems too good to be true. Could this be an opportunity to get closer to him? Having arrived at the airport, Megan waits for Jacques, who was supposed to be waiting for her. But there is no sign of him. Shafir, a handsome man with a cold glare who claims to be Jacques’s friend, tells the concerned Megan that he’ll escort her in his place. She accompanies Shafir to his car, only to be taken to a remote castle in the dunes?the Palace of Roses.But is the man she’d taken for a ransom-seeking bandit actually…a prince?
She desperately needs this payday, but his charming smile is so distracting… Charlotte, a freelance journalist, is trying to get an interview with the mysterious writer known only as Starling. If she can't get the fifty-thousand-dollar payday for the scoop, she will have to give up her beloved home. Determined, Charlotte tries her best to cover the story, but with no success… Instead, she’s constantly distracted by charming Brett, a mysterious young man who has suddenly taken up residence in her home! She knows she needs to focus, but Brett's smile gradually burns itself into her heart…
After times get tough for Lily, her best friend, Rachel, has an idea for how to cheer her up—a weekend getaway with a handsome man! It takes some convincing, but Lily agrees to go along with it…only to find out that the man in question is Santiago Morais, a man she loved and thought she’d never see again. What a cruel coincidence! Lily curses her luck. She met Santiago in Spain the year before. One split second was all it took for them to fall in love. But after days of passionate bliss, their love shattered into a million little pieces. Santiago thought he had Lily all figured out—he thought she was a heartless woman who would say anything to seduce a man… Now she has to face him again and look him in the eye…but unlike last year, his eyes now burn with anger.
After times get tough for Lily, her best friend, Rachel, has an idea for how to cheer her up—a weekend getaway with a handsome man! It takes some convincing, but Lily agrees to go along with it…only to find out that the man in question is Santiago Morais, a man she loved and thought she’d never see again. What a cruel coincidence! Lily curses her luck. She met Santiago in Spain the year before. One split second was all it took for them to fall in love. But after days of passionate bliss, their love shattered into a million little pieces. Santiago thought he had Lily all figured out—he thought she was a heartless woman who would say anything to seduce a man… Now she has to face him again and look him in the eye…but unlike last year, his eyes now burn with anger.
Nell is looking for her missing brother, and she has taken a job serving the princess of Merklestein so she can accompany her on the long voyage to the isle of Antigua. That is where her brother went missing, and that is where she hopes to find him. Nell has to put up with many selfish demands from the princess before she can secure a place on the voyage, but a twist of fate sees the ship leave port with Nell and Olga, the princess’s sister's secretary…and without the princess. Olga then coaxes Nell to pretend to be the princess! Will Nell be able to keep up the ruse during the two-week voyage?
The love of my life has reappeared after ten years of silence…but I’m to be married to someone else! Scarlett married Liam, the son of one of her family’s servants years ago, but their marriage threw Liam’s life into chaos. Filled with regret, the scenes replay even in Scarlett’s dreams. It’s been ten years since then, and now Scarlett is engaged to the man her father approved, a man she doesn’t love. But the once-poor Liam shows up on the night of their engagement party wearing an expensive suit and brimming with confidence as he takes her into his arms. His voice is full of a sarcasm that wasn’t there ten years ago as he whisks Scarlett away for the night. She has a fianc? now…but he has a deal that might prove more compelling!
【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】After times get tough for Lily, her best friend, Rachel, has an idea for how to cheer her up?a weekend getaway with a handsome man! It takes some convincing, but Lily agrees to go along with it…only to find out that the man in question is Santiago Morais, a man she loved and thought she’d never see again. What a cruel coincidence! Lily curses her luck. She met Santiago in Spain the year before. One split second was all it took for them to fall in love. But after days of passionate bliss, their love shattered into a million little pieces. Santiago thought he had Lily all figured out?he thought she was a heartless woman who would say anything to seduce a man… Now she has to face him again and look him in the eye…but unlike last year, his eyes now burn with anger.
The love of my life has reappeared after ten years of silence…but I’m to be married to someone else! Scarlett married Liam, the son of one of her family’s servants years ago, but their marriage threw Liam’s life into chaos. Filled with regret, the scenes replay even in Scarlett’s dreams. It’s been ten years since then, and now Scarlett is engaged to the man her father approved, a man she doesn’t love. But the once-poor Liam shows up on the night of their engagement party wearing an expensive suit and brimming with confidence as he takes her into his arms. His voice is full of a sarcasm that wasn’t there ten years ago as he whisks Scarlett away for the night. She has a fianc? now…but he has a deal that might prove more compelling!
When Megan is invited by Jacques, the man of her dreams, to a luxurious vacation in the desert country of Dhahara, it seems too good to be true. Could this be an opportunity to get closer to him? Having arrived at the airport, Megan waits for Jacques, who was supposed to be waiting for her. But there is no sign of him. Shafir, a handsome man with a cold glare who claims to be Jacques’s friend, tells the concerned Megan that he’ll escort her in his place. She accompanies Shafir to his car, only to be taken to a remote castle in the dunes?the Palace of Roses.But is the man she’d taken for a ransom-seeking bandit actually…a prince?
Luccy is a professional photographer for advertising. When an executive of a magazine she works for persistently tries to seduce her, she quickly seeks help from a gorgeous man who happens to walk by. This savior asks her if she is up for a glass of brandy. She is unable to resist his charm and accepts his offer. She then happens to run into him three days later. He is the head of a giant company and it so happens that he is the owner of a cosmetic company Luccy works for. He refuses to meet her, claiming that he knows what she is after…!
The love of my life has reappeared after ten years of silence…but I’m to be married to someone else! Scarlett married Liam, the son of one of her family’s servants years ago, but their marriage threw Liam’s life into chaos. Filled with regret, the scenes replay even in Scarlett’s dreams. It’s been ten years since then, and now Scarlett is engaged to the man her father approved, a man she doesn’t love. But the once-poor Liam shows up on the night of their engagement party wearing an expensive suit and brimming with confidence as he takes her into his arms. His voice is full of a sarcasm that wasn’t there ten years ago as he whisks Scarlett away for the night. She has a fianc? now…but he has a deal that might prove more compelling!
After Katrina's parents died in a car accident, her loving aunt took her in and raised her. However, her aunt's days were cut short after being diagnosed with leukemia. Quick to tears in tough times, Katrina is given a cold reception by the doctor, Simon. In anger, Katrina storms out the hospital room, intolerant of his demeanor. Simon reflects on how he treated Katrina, and when he finally goes to visit her in the country, he finds that she is now living on her own, with no relatives at all. Cautious of his gentleness toward her, she slowly opens up her heart to him. While at the same time, could she be the one who finally rekindles the warmth in Simon's frigid heart?
Nell is looking for her missing brother, and she has taken a job serving the princess of Merklestein so she can accompany her on the long voyage to the isle of Antigua. That is where her brother went missing, and that is where she hopes to find him. Nell has to put up with many selfish demands from the princess before she can secure a place on the voyage, but a twist of fate sees the ship leave port with Nell and Olga, the princess’s sister's secretary…and without the princess. Olga then coaxes Nell to pretend to be the princess! Will Nell be able to keep up the ruse during the two-week voyage?
【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】After times get tough for Lily, her best friend, Rachel, has an idea for how to cheer her up?a weekend getaway with a handsome man! It takes some convincing, but Lily agrees to go along with it…only to find out that the man in question is Santiago Morais, a man she loved and thought she’d never see again. What a cruel coincidence! Lily curses her luck. She met Santiago in Spain the year before. One split second was all it took for them to fall in love. But after days of passionate bliss, their love shattered into a million little pieces. Santiago thought he had Lily all figured out?he thought she was a heartless woman who would say anything to seduce a man… Now she has to face him again and look him in the eye…but unlike last year, his eyes now burn with anger.
When Megan is invited by Jacques, the man of her dreams, to a luxurious vacation in the desert country of Dhahara, it seems too good to be true. Could this be an opportunity to get closer to him? Having arrived at the airport, Megan waits for Jacques, who was supposed to be waiting for her. But there is no sign of him. Shafir, a handsome man with a cold glare who claims to be Jacques’s friend, tells the concerned Megan that he’ll escort her in his place. She accompanies Shafir to his car, only to be taken to a remote castle in the dunes?the Palace of Roses.But is the man she’d taken for a ransom-seeking bandit actually…a prince?
Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction: Methods and Applications takes the reader from the fundamentals of computational fluid and solid mechanics to the state-of-the-art in computational FSI methods, special FSI techniques, and solution of real-world problems. Leading experts in the field present the material using a unique approach that combines advanced methods, special techniques, and challenging applications. This book begins with the differential equations governing the fluid and solid mechanics, coupling conditions at the fluid–solid interface, and the basics of the finite element method. It continues with the ALE and space–time FSI methods, spatial discretization and time integration strategies for the coupled FSI equations, solution techniques for the fully-discretized coupled equations, and advanced FSI and space–time methods. It ends with special FSI techniques targeting cardiovascular FSI, parachute FSI, and wind-turbine aerodynamics and FSI. Key features: First book to address the state-of-the-art in computational FSI Combines the fundamentals of computational fluid and solid mechanics, the state-of-the-art in FSI methods, and special FSI techniques targeting challenging classes of real-world problems Covers modern computational mechanics techniques, including stabilized, variational multiscale, and space–time methods, isogeometric analysis, and advanced FSI coupling methods Is in full color, with diagrams illustrating the fundamental concepts and advanced methods and with insightful visualization illustrating the complexities of the problems that can be solved with the FSI methods covered in the book. Authors are award winning, leading global experts in computational FSI, who are known for solving some of the most challenging FSI problems Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction: Methods and Applications is a comprehensive reference for researchers and practicing engineers who would like to advance their existing knowledge on these subjects. It is also an ideal text for graduate and senior-level undergraduate courses in computational fluid mechanics and computational FSI.
Personalized Computational Hemodynamics: Models, Methods, and Applications for Vascular Surgery and Antitumor Therapy offers practices and advances surrounding the multiscale modeling of hemodynamics and their personalization with conventional clinical data. Focusing on three physiological disciplines, readers will learn how to derive a suitable mathematical model and personalize its parameters to account for pathologies and diseases. Written by leading experts, this book mirrors the top trends in mathematical modeling with clinical applications. In addition, the book features the major results of the "Research group in simulation of blood flow and vascular pathologies" at the Institute of Numerical Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Two important features distinguish this book from other monographs on numerical methods for biomedical applications. First, the variety of medical disciplines targeted by the mathematical modeling and computer simulations, including cardiology, vascular neurology and oncology. Second, for all mathematical models, the authors consider extensions and parameter tuning that account for vascular pathologies. Examines a variety of medical disciplines targeted by mathematical modeling and computer simulation Discusses how the results of numerical simulations are used to support clinical decision-making Covers hemodynamics relating to various subject areas, including vascular surgery and oncological tumor treatments
This important title encompasses features of genetic processes in complexly organised population systems of salmonids, one of the most commercially valuable families of fish worldwide. Translated from the original work in Russian, the authors have taken the opportunity to update and revise the work, much of it appearing in the English language for the first time. Covering such important concepts as optimal gene diversity and the unfavourable influence of fishery and hatchery reproduction on the genetic structure of salmon populations, the authors have drawn together a huge wealth of information that will form the cornerstone of much new work in the future. The authors of Salmonid Fishes have between them many years of research experience and practical knowledge in the area and the English translation of this important work, which has been edited by Professor John Thorpe and Professor Gary Carvalho, provides vital information for all those involved in salmonid management, exploitation and conservation, including fish biologists, fisheries managers, conservation and population biologists, ecologists and geneticists.
Pushing foreign borders... In accordance with his sponsors' wishes, Arata finally makes a move against the Chinese army. Initially, things are going well, and he's able to recapture multiple villages without any casualties. But while it seems his momentum is unstoppable, Arata soon discovers this conflict is far more complicated than he originally thought...
During the 1950s, thousands of mixed race children were born to US servicemen and local Korean women in US-occupied South Korea. Assumed to be the progeny of camptown women--or military prostitutes--their presence created a major problem for the image of US democracy in the world at a time when the nation was vying for Cold War allegiances abroad. As mixed race children became a discernible population around US military encampments in South Korea, communists seized upon the image of those left behind by their GI fathers as evidence of US imperialism, irresponsibility, and immorality in the Third World. Aware of this and keen to redeem the image of America's intervention in Asia, US citizens spearheading the postwar recovery of recently war-torn South Korea embarked upon a campaign in US Congress to bring as many of these children home. By the early 1960s, American philanthropists, missionaries, and voluntary agencies had succeeded in constructing the figure of the abandoned and mistreated Amerasian orphan to lobby US Congress for the quick passage of intercountry adoption laws. They also gained the sympathies of American families, eager to welcome these racially different children into the intimate confines of their homes. Although the adoptions of Korean "Amerasian" children helped to promote an image of humanitarian rescue and Cold War racial liberalism in 1950s and 1960s America, there was one other problem: many of these children were not actually orphans, but had been living with their Korean mothers in the camptown communities surrounding US military bases prior to adoption. Their placements into American families relied upon dehumanizing constructions of these women as hardened prostitutes who did not even love their own children, South Korea as a backwards, racist society bent-up on Confucian tradition and pure bloodlines, and the United States as a welcoming home in an era of intense racial segregation. The First Amerasians tells the powerful, oftentimes heartbreaking story of how Americans created and used the concept of the Amerasian to remove thousands of mixed race children from their Korean mothers to adoptive US homes during the 1950s and 1960s. In doing so, Yuri W. Doolan reveals how the Amerasian is not simply a mixed race person fathered by a US serviceman in Asia nor a racial term used to describe individuals with one American and one Asian parent like its popular definition suggests. Rather, the Amerasian is a Cold War construct whose rescue has been utilized to repudiate accusations of US imperialism and achieve sentimental victories in the aftermath of wars not quite won by the military. From such constructions, Americans lobbied Congress twice: first, in the 1950s to establish international adoption laws that would lead to the placement of hundreds of thousands of Korean children in the United States, then, later in the 1980s, when the plight of mixed race Koreans would be invoked again to argue for Amerasian immigration laws culminating in the migrations of tens of thousands of mixed race Vietnamese and their relatives. Beyond Cold War historiography, this book also shows how in using the figure of the mistreated and abandoned Amerasian in need of rescue, Americans caused harm to actual people--mixed race Koreans and their mothers specifically--as children were placed into adoptive homes during an era where few regulations or safeguards existed to protect them from abuse, negligence, or racial hostilities in the US and many Korean mothers were coerced, both physically and monetarily, to relinquish their children to American authorities.
This ambitious work focuses on the world of Chinese thought during the Chunqiu (Springs and Autumns) period (722-451 B.C.E.), the two and a half centuries directly preceding and partly overlapping the time of Confucius, China's single most influential thinker. Ideas developed by Chunqiu statesmen and thinkers formed the intellectual milieu of Confucius and his disciples and contributed directly to the intellectual flowering of the Zhanguo (Warring States) era (453-221 B.C.E.), the formative period of the Chinese intellectual tradition. This study is the first attempt to systematically reconstruct major intellectual trends in pre-Confucian China. Foundations of Confucian Thought is based on an exploration of the Zuo zhuan, the largest pre-imperial historical text. Relying on meticulous textual and linguistic analysis, Yuri Pines argues that hundreds of the speeches of Chunqiu statesmen recorded in the Zuo zhuan were not, as has been argued, invented by the compiler of the treatise but reproduced from earlier sources, thus making it an authentic reflection of the Chunqiu intellectual tradition. By tracing changes in ideas and concepts throughout the Chunqiu period, Pines reconstructs
Physical properties and models of electronic structure are analyzed for a new class of high-TC superconductors which belong to iron-based layered compounds. Despite their variable chemical composition and differences in the crystal structure, these compounds possess similar physical characteristics, due to electron carriers in the FeAs layers and the interaction of these carriers with fluctuations of the magnetic order. A tremendous interest towards these materials is explained by the prospects of their practical use. In this monograph, a full picture of the formation of physical properties of these materials, in the context of existing theory models and electron structure studies, is given. The book is aimed at a broad circle of readers: physicists who study electronic properties of the FeAs compounds, chemists who synthesize them and specialists in the field of electronic structure calculations in solids. It is helpful not only to researchers active in the fields of superconductivity and magnetism, but also for graduate and postgraduate students and all those who would like to get acquaintained with this vivid area of the materials science.
An increasing interest to scheduling theory can be attributed to the high level of automation of all branches of human activity. The quality of modern production essentially depends on the planning decisions taken at different stages of a production process. Moreover, while the quality of these decisions is improving, the time and flexibility requirements for decision-making are becoming more important. All this stimulates scheduling research. Started as an independent discipline in the early fifties, it now has become an important branch of operations research. In the eighties, the largest Russian publishing house for scientific literature Nauka Publishers, Moscow, issued two books by a group of Byelorussian mathematicians: Scheduling Theory. Single-Stage Systems by V. S. Tanaev, V. S. Gordon and Y. M. Shafransky (1984) and Scheduling Theory. Multi-Stage Systems by V. S. Tanaev, Y. N. Sotskov and V. A. Strusevich (1989). Originally published in Russian, these two books cover two different major problem areas of scheduling theory and can be considered as a two-volume monograph that provides a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the subject. The authors are grateful to Kluwer Academic Publishers for creating the opportunity to publish the English translations of these two books. We are indebted to M. Hazewinkel, J. K. Lenstra, A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan, D. B. Shmoys and W. Szwarc for their supporting the idea of translating the books into English.
Going on the Offensive... With the Chinese Army presenting an overwhelming difference in firepower to his own forces, Arata employs guerrilla tactics to successfully take out a key refueling base. However, this enrages the Chinese Army more than expected, leading to an air strike against Camp Hakim in retaliation. With the Burmese Army still disorganized and his sponsors unwilling to lend further aid, the only person Arata can rely on to get them out of this mess is himself.
The battle in Myanmar rages on fiercer than ever before. China has deployed their helicopters and drones, while Arata’s allies, the Burmese Army, turn out to be far less reliable than he'd hoped. It will take the full extent of his considerable wit to continue winning his battles and keeping his kids alive. Fortunately, by rescuing the nearby villagers from their own government's tyranny, he may have inadvertently created the perfect strategic opportunity for himself.
This book comprises seven chapters. The first chapter addresses a phenomenological approach to the concept 'reaction rate', which views the complex reaction as a single unit whose progress if judged from measurements of the formation rates of the reaction participants; it also sets forth the main strategies by which to determine the rates of heterogeneous catalytic reactions. Another approach, a mechanistic one, relying upon the reaction mechanisms considered in the second chapter that has recourse to the Horiuti-Temkin complex reaction kinetics theory and the elementary statement of the graph method application in chemical kinetics. The third, fourth and fifth chapters consistently expound the philosophy of the steady state multiplicity, auto-oscillations, and the reciprocal effect of competitive catalytic reactions. The sixth and seventh chapters concentrate on the kinetics of some pragmatically important heterogeneous and heterogeneous-homogeneous catalytic reactions. Most results, presented in these chapters were obtained in the authors' laboratories.
An Ill-Fated Encounter... Driven insane by the loss of his daughter and the death of Hakim, Kishimoto turned on his coworker and killed him in cold blood. After this, he used Sophie to goad Arata into a final showdown at a park in Thailand. From training camp comrades to bitter adversaries, how will this confrontation end as their two paths collide?
Old Paths Intertwine... With Arata's own allies, the Burmese army, terrorizing the local population, he quickly realizes he must take care of internal affairs before focusing on the Chinese. He works to save the local villagers from their own government, with his efforts eventually leading him to Yangon. He not only meets the UN peacekeeping team being detained there, but finds himself in an unexpected reunion as well...
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