Orbs and the Attack of the Hair Spiders begins a fantastic journey full of magic, strange beasts, family and friendship.Brickabrack is a town terrified by strange disappearances and grisly murders.Could its salvage come from a chance encounter between the ancient forest gnome, Orbs and the banished Warlock, Blackmouth?The first in the series featuring the magical being, Orbs.
The central issue debated at each successive legislative session for over a decade, Louisiana's significant fiscal problems have remained unresolved despite efforts to mitigate the state's financial woes and avoid cutting key services or resorting to stop-gap solutions. Louisiana created its current tax structure in the 1970s, with some subsequent revisions in response to new economic realities. While many developments in Louisiana's fiscal pi...
Large, fast, digital computers have been widely used in engineering practice and their use has had a large impact in many fields. Polymer processing is no exception, and there is already a substantial amount of literature describing ways in which processes can be analysed, designed or controlled using the potentialities of modern computers. The emphasis given varies with the application, and most authors tend to quote the results of their calc...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Excerpt from A Manual of Agriculture for the Eighth Grade
The widespread interest in the teaching of agriculture and the requirement of the State Board of Education that pupils taking the eighth grade examinations must be examined either in agriculture, home economics or manual training, make timely the publication of this Manual of Agriculture for the Eighth Grade. It is designed to supplement the regular State Manual, and will form the basi...
Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of mechanistic sciences and engineering continue to play an important role, given people's ability to create order. But such approaches are valid only within carefully circumscribed boundaries. They become counterproductive when the same organizations disp...
Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of mechanistic sciences and engineering continue to play an important role, given people's ability to create order. But such approaches are valid only within carefully circumscribed boundaries. They become counterproductive when the same organizations disp...
While many scientific disciplines explore complexity principally through abstract mathematical models and simulations, "Emergence: Complexity & Organization" explores the emerging understanding of human systems from both the hard quantitative sciences and the soft qualitative perspectives.
This is an essential reference for nature enthusiasts, farmers and ranchers, professional botanists, and anyone interested in the plant life of Texas. Opening with a brief introduction to the region and an illustrated guide to leaf shapes and flower parts, this offers abundant photographs and short descriptions of more than eight hundred species of ferns, algae, and woody and herbaceous plants.
