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The sequel to the award-winning indie novel, Ever the Night Road. This is a fantasy. Of a shifting city hidden in the weeds. Of princesses turned to metal and rust. Of knights eternal and a queen of dreams. And a deep underground. The adventure continues where Ever the Night Road left off. Now eighteen, Dagny Losh must brave the mythical, labyrinthine city of Jud, where streets and buildings shift with the twilight, and each door and alley...

This is a fantasy. Of a City of water and glass. Of drowned things and lost memories lying just below its surface. Of concrete slums, and a decaying Oracle Tower. And a deep underground. It is also a fantasy of orphan children. Like Dagny Losh. She is an escape artist. Not a chosen profession but a survival tactic, thrust upon her at a young age to break free from poverty and violence, fever and flood. While others perished, Dagny emerged in...

Focuses on pollution prevention as the technologically viable environmental ethic of the 1990s. Features chapters from industry on the successful application of modern process analytical chemistry to problems of waste minimization, source reduction, and pollution prevention. Examines recent academic and U.S. Department of Energy efforts in the development and potential use of on-line analysis to monitor industrial processes. Showcases the Nati...

This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television coverage. The authors examine reporting in terms of framing, tone and the distribution of coverage.They also focus on how the economy has affected election coverage as well as media reporting of leaders and personalities, gender and the effect of the co...

This book explores differences and similarities that exist in attitudes, beliefs and opinions on a range of issues across Europe. Drawing on the extensive data of the European Social Survey, it presents insightful analyses of social attitudes, organised around the themes of religious identity, political identity, family identity and social ident

In the beginning ... there was a meeting, and the gods decided how to parcel the earth among themselves, Yahweh kept Israel for himself. Then something goes wrong: snake shows up, Adam and Eve are kicked out of Eden, and they end up in the portions of the earth reserved to the other gods. Chaos follows: Cain sacrifices Abel to Yahweh and cannibalizes him. One of the lost tribes of Israel ends up in Hell. A medieval anchorite imprisons herself ...

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This book charts the origins and evolution of federalism and other approaches to the accommodation of minority ethnic groups in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

This timely book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half-century in Ireland, by analysing reporting in terms of framing, tone, and the distribution of coverage. -- .

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This book charts the origins and evolution of federalism and other approaches to the accommodation of minority ethnic groups in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

An active area of study and debate in second language acquisition is "learner contribution" - what a learner can bring to the learning process. This text presents an account of learners' personal attributes - those that have been shown to have an impact upon language learning.

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The book describes the rationale for classroom negotiation and is accessible to practitioners.

Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. They accomplished this through three totally unexpected miracles: economic development, democratization, and the arrival of their culture to global attention.Who are the Koreans? What are they like? The New Koreans examines how they have been perceived by outsiders, the features that color their "...

An in-depth examination of political activities in early modern France that opens up new perspectives on the local workings of the French state and the experiences of those who participated in it.

Das Non Profit Law Yearbook 2013/2014 enthält folgende Beiträge: - Michael Droege: Stiftungssteuerung durch Neuausrichtung der Stiftungsaufsicht - Reinmar Wolff: Ein passendes Rechtskleid für kleinkooperative Vereinigungen? Zum Referentenentwurf eines Gesetzes zur Einführung der Kooperationsgesellschaft und zum weiteren Bürokratieabbau bei Genossenschaften - Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt / Matthias Lodemann: Die Zukunft des Arbeitsrechts in kirc...

The New Koreans...magnificent in its sweep and depth". (Bradley K. Martin, author of Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader). In the course of a couple of generations, South Koreans took themselves out of the paddy fields and into Silicon Valley, establishing themselves as a democracy alongside the advanced countries of the world. Yet for all their ambition and achievement, the new Koreans are a curiously self-deprecating people. Theirs ...

This book is timely because of the increasing popularity of minimally invasive and cost effective methods to ablate solid tumors. Medical image guided ablation using thermal energy sources such as radio-frequency, microwave, laser, high-intensity focused ultrasound, and cyrogenics have received much recent attention as minimally invasive strategies for the ablation of tumors. This text describes novel and practical image registration methods...

On the eve of the millenium, South Korea reeled and almost collapsed as a result of a weak financial system and heavily indebted conglomerates. More recently, North Korea has been named to the Axis of Evil and flaunts its nuclear weapons program, while tensions mount along the DMZ. As Korea increasingly becomes a flashpoint for international conflict, the need to understand and appreciate this unique people becomes more and more apparent. Revi...