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There is a land that's somewhere beyond the horizon. You may catch a glimpse of it, when the sun sets, or in the moments before dawn. It's the twilight flickers at the edge of imagination. Somewhere between reality and fantasy. "Its the place where monsters roam, and portals to other worlds wait in the back of a closet and in the crevices of your Mind" Welcome, to the Shadowlands...

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Provides a comprehensive introduction to the mechanical behaviour of solid polymers. Extensively revised and updated throughout, the second edition now includes new material on mechanical relaxations and anisotropy, composites modelling, non-linear viscoelasticity, yield behaviour and fracture of tough polymers. The accessible approach of the book has been retained with each chapter designed to be self contained and the theory and application...

Membrane Receptors, Channels and Transporters in Pulmonary Circulation is a proceeding of the 2008 Grover Conference (Lost Valley Ranch and Conference Center, Sedalia, Colorado, September 3-7, 2008), which provided a forum for experts in the fields of those receptors, channels and transporters that have been identified as playing key roles in the physiology and pathophysiology of the pulmonary circulation. The book rigorously addresses: i) rec...

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First full examination of the medieval livery collar, form, function, and significance.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a proposed regional free trade agreement (FTA) currently under negotiation between Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam. The negotiating partners have expressed an interest in allowing this proposed "living agreement" to cover new trade topics and to include new members that are willing to adopt the proposed agreement's high standards. This book ...

Ogni congiura ha bisogno di un killer, un braccio silenzioso che faccia il lavoro sporco lontano da occhi indiscreti. E per eliminare Wrath, l'ormai debole e quasi del tutto cieco re dei vampiri, Montrag ha scelto lui: trafficante di droga, mercenario, assassino senza scrupoli, Rehvenge è l'uomo giusto per realizzare i suoi oscuri giochi di potere e sostituirsi definitivamente alla Confraternita del Pugnale Nero all'interno della glymera, l'ar...

Qhuinn, figlio di nessuno, il ribelle senza sentimenti divorato dalla solitudine e da sempre tenuto a distanza dall'aristocrazia dei vampiri della Confraternita del Pugnale Nero, ha finalmente trovato un ruolo e un'identità come uno dei più brutali sterminatori di lesser. Blay, dal canto suo, ha deciso di voltare pagina, rinunciando all'illusione di un futuro al fianco di Qhuinn, per il quale da troppo tempo nutre un amore apparentemente senza...

Butch O'Neal è un ex poliziotto della Omicidi di Calwell e, per certi versi, anche un ex umano. Da quando la sua strada ha incrociato quella dei vampiri della Confraternita del Pugnale Nero, infatti, la sua vita è completamente cambiata: ha tagliato i ponti con la sua famiglia disastrata, si è stabilito nel quartier generale della confraternita e combatte al fianco dei guerrieri contro i lesser. Ma quando s'innamora di Marissa, bella e aristoc...

In part II, Antoine is caught in the center of a gang war brewing in and around the school. Getting use to being the center of attention Antoine sets his sights on a more ambitious plan - to be the number 1 in charge. Although getting to the top is never easy Antoine finds himself struggling to navigate through his new "family", and who he can and can't trust. All the while still struggling to cope with life, Antoine's lifestyle raises some qu...

Excerpt from Ballads of Life What! Challenge the public to read your thoughts? Yet that is really what an author does when he writes a book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original fo...

Excerpt from A Receivership for Civilization: From Biblical Church With Its Primitive World, and Jewish Legends to Aryan Science With Its Infinite Universe and Established FactsTo my neighbors, wherever in this world of haphazard advance they are longing for greater security through a more balanced progress, this work of love is offered. There is today an anxious multitude who do not see any way out of the present unparalleled and increasing m...

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Excerpt from Under the Northern Lights When John Churchill was born, his father, Alexander Churchill, held a prominent position and standing among the merchants of New York. Mr. Churchill was sufficiently affluent to own a modest, attractive home in one of the side streets of the better up-town residential section, and to live in the style becoming a gentleman of means and culture, a member of the best clubs and a substantial citizen of the m...

Excerpt from The Hand of Providence: As Shown in the History of Nations and Individuals, From the Great Apostasy to the Restoration of the GospelVery true. Some of them are mostly composed of recitals of legalized slaughter, and praise of tyrants who have climbed to power over the mangled bodies of their fellow-men, and whose names will not live in one grateful memory, while the real benefactors of the race, the unfolding of new and higher tru...

This volume in the Living with the Shore series provides practical and specific information on the status of the nation's coast and useful guidelines that enable residents, visitors, and investors to live with and enjoy the shore without costly and futile struggles against the forces of nature.

Excerpt from Cotton and WoolStates, which goes up, as shown in this book, by leaps and bounds. In a few years from now. In my opinion, we shall be face to face with a shortage Of so serious a nature, that in the general scramble for Cotton, many will be left out in the cold, operatives will be thrown out Of employment, and the present abnormally high prices Of all cotton goods will not only continue but will very possibly go still higher. It i...

Excerpt from Parables for Little People: Fifty-Two Sermonettes It is told of Abraham Lincoln that once be was asked to express bis opinion of a book of poems, and did so by saying: "These poems will be greatly liked by persons who like poems of this sort." There may have been some veiled sarcasm in that statement - but by no means necessarily so. No poems are liked by all people. It is equally true that every book makes its appeal to certain ...