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Supramolecular Polymers, Second Edition focuses on a detailed analysis of the formation and properties of linear, planar, and three-dimensional polymer assemblies stabilized by supramolecular interactions, including examples of covalently bonded polymers exhibiting novel supra-molecular effects. The book presents guidelines for synthesizing functional supramolecular polymers, points to compelling research in this new area of material science, ...

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In "Competition and Chaos, " Robert W. Crandall analyzes the impact of the 1996 Telecommunications Act on economic welfare in the United States and how the act and its antecedents affected the major telecommunications providers.

There are 80 full-colour pages containing six story-based units in each level of the Little Bugs 1 Pupil's Book with extra material for festivals. Photocopiable cut-outs encourage participation in storytelling, a picture dictionary helps with spelling and learner autonomy and the book also contains a double page of stickers for engaging activities.

The reader will be enchanted and fascinated by this phantasmagorical and vivid tale of a bunch of animals, free spirits known as the Dunes Rangers. The vivid and dynamic seascapes, forests and underground tunnels, provide the setting for a surreal quest in this amazing critter novel! This is a carnival of animals that presents an array of believable and loveable critters, including dogs, cats, jackdaws, a beaver, a leopard, a black panther, a ...

There are 80 full-colour pages containing six story-based units in each level of the Little Bugs 2 Pupil's Book with extra material for festivals. Photocopiable cut-outs encourage participation in storytelling, a picture dictionary helps with spelling and learner autonomy and the book also contains a double page of stickers for engaging activities.

Clarence Thomas, the youngest and most controversial member of the Supreme Court, could become the longest-serving justice in history, influencing American law for decades to come. Who is this enigmatic man? And what does he believe in?Judging Thomas tells the remarkable story of Clarence Thomas's improbable journey from hardscrabble beginnings in the segregated South to the loftiest court in the land. With objectivity and balance, author Ken ...

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Although the terms of public debate have changed, the same basic challenge continues to animate contemporary politics: how to reconcile inspiring and unifying nationalist ideals - honor, virtue, patriotism - with persistent social frictions rooted in class, ideology, ethnicity, or gender.

Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. It wasn't until chess became a popular pastime for European royals during the Middle Ages that the queen was born and was gradually empowered to become the king's fierce warrior and protector. "Birth of the Chess Queen" examines the five centuries between the chess queen's timid emergence in the early...

An old diary discovered in the attic of a historic Cambridge house launches caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild into a troubling and dangerous murder investigation in her 14th mystery.

On March 15, 1916, the 1st Aero Squadron arrived at Columbus, New Mexico, its train steaming into the crowded, chaotic town at 9:15 in the morning. Led by Capt. Benjamin D. Foulois, a lantern-jawed, bantam-weight former enlisted man, the squadron included eleven officers, eighty-two enlisted men, and one civilian technician. Under Foulois's direction, the men unloaded an automobile, six motorcycles, and twelve motor trucks, vehicles rare in 19...

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all conspi...

What happened to Stanislav Perfetsky-poet, provocateur, and hero of Ukrainian underground culture? Some claim suicide. Some whisper murder. Some credit the grand Eastern European tradition of coerced suicide. But no one is sure. It may have something to do with those suspicious apartments he visited in Vienna . . . or that job as a dancer in a strip club for older ladies. Or it may not. PerVerzion reconstructs Perfetsky's final days using a mi...

The tale of a poet's tragicomic last days in VeniceWhat was the fate of Stanislav Perfetsky -- poet, provocateur, and hero of Ukrainian underground culture? Certain evidence points to suicide. But some whisper murder. Some suggest the grand Eastern European tradition of coerced suicide. It may be related to the religious cult ceremony he unluckily happened upon in Munich. . . or that job as a dancer in a strip club for older women.Or, then aga...

Enlightenment in its purest form. Raw and unadulterated, we enter the world and the life--a secret life--of a Black Lesbian.

An ordinary snapshot causes a mother's world to unravel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben's shocking thriller.When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong-a photo from at least twenty years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it's him, he disappears that night, taking the photo with him. Now, to save her fam...

When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him, he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war. With the same fiercely beau...

What if, at the dawn of the American nation, Army officers plotted successfully to overthrow Congress and enthrone George Washington as King of the United States? Time has passed, and the year is 1925. Ravaged by more than a century of revolutions, the Union is falling apart. American King Augustine grovels at the feet of the British Empire, begging aid for his bankrupt kingdom. His war against the Republic of Louisiana is a resounding disaste...

What if, at the dawn of the American nation, Army officers plotted successfully to overthrow Congress and enthrone George Washington as King of the United States? Time has passed, and the year is 1925. Ravaged by more than a century of revolutions, the Union is falling apart. American King Augustine grovels at the feet of the British Empire, begging aid for his bankrupt kingdom. His war against the Republic of Louisiana is a resounding disaste...