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The Silent Ones, Michael McMahon's sweeping debut, introduces a child dwelling in a garden of shadows that wound and sustain. "The Wish" suggests how he ties his father's sudden death to a grim jingle he mockingly directed at his napping father. The roots of his guilt are established in poems like "Quiet Time" and "Holy Writ" where the scowls of stern nuns in his Catholic grade school become internalized sources of shame. Juxtaposed to this gu...

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HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW... Life is fleeting. Things happen quickly. One moment you're at the office, or maybe sitting in your living room, more of the same old, same old. And the next...You're gone. Forever. For the brave, Dark Arts Books presents sixteen tales of those sudden moments when life goes from light to dark, laughing to screaming, bad to worse. Scary to...unspeakable. Four of horror's brightest talents light up the corners, illumi...

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On 4 December 1851, Thomas Douglas Bateson, agent to the Templetown estate near Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, was murdered as he returned on foot to Castleblayney after visiting the estates model farm at Corratanty. The murder sent shock waves from Castleblayney to Westminster. This book sets out to examine the murder in the context of landlord-tenant relations at a time of extraordinary socio-economic upheaval in the aftermath of the Great Fam...

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Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer is a powerful Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) contrast mechanism with unique features. This is the first authoritative textbook covering all aspects of CEST imaging. The rapid expansion that CEST imaging has seen over the past 16 years since the seminal Ward and Balaban paper in 2000 has created a need for a graduate-level handbook that describes the wide assortment of issues that come in to play when try...

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Young readers can take a somewhat perilous tour of the zoo with this story. Humorous illustrations and intriguing animals will make readers want to visit this zoo again and again.

A series of twenty non-fiction science readers which engages children in the world around them. What is magnetism? What is a magnetic field? What are a magnet's poles? You can find the answers to these and other questions about magnets in Why Do Magnets Attract?

A series of twenty non-fiction science readers which engages children in the world around them. Why are some clouds so dark? Why does lightning strike? What is a tornado? You can find the answers to these and other questions about weather in Why Does Thunder Clap?

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Interest in structures with nanometer-length features has significantly increased as experimental techniques for their fabrication have become possible. The study of phenomena in this area is termed nanoscience, and is a research focus of chemists, pure and applied physics, electrical engineers, and others. The reason for such a focus is the wide range of novel effects that exist at this scale, both of fundamental and practical interest, which...

Patrick the cat lives a very comfortable life until one day a new kitten arrives. Early readers can relate to the struggles of getting accustomed to a new family member in this touching story with playful illustrations and easy-to-read text.

Interest in structures with nanometer-length features has significantly increased as experimental techniques for their fabrication have become possible. The study of phenomena in this area is termed nanoscience, and is a research focus of chemists, pure and applied physics, electrical engineers, and others. The reason for such a focus is the wide range of novel effects that exist at this scale, both of fundamental and practical interest, which...