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The gods will fall when the people rise. Com DeGroot is an outsider politician who tells it like it is. But as he makes his way up the power structure of the U.S. Senate, he is forced to choose between his promising career and the promise he made to defend the Constitution. Just as Com is poised to make a name for himself in the cut-throat climate of D.C. party politics, he is presented with an opportunity to save the charter city of Ur, Tex...

The Beloved and I: The Sacred Scriptures in Verse with Verse Commentary contains a verse rendering of the Holy Qur'an and hundreds of sonnet-like commentaries.

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Despite the amount of material about Arabic grammar, phonology, and morphology, the need for a book combining an independent study in morphology with theoretical discussions is more than evident. This book fills that void by proposing an in-depth analysis of various morphological issues based on the seven classes of verbs and their nine derivatives. These classical classes are the strong verb, the doubled, the hamzated, the verb with 1st radic...

When the death of Meridith's estranged father leaves her with custody of three siblings she's never met, she reluctantly goes to Nantucket to care for thembut only until their uncle returns from his trip. Will the love that grows between them be strong enough to overcome the secrets that brought them both to Driftwood Lane?

As a Man Thinketh is one of the all-time bestselling and most widely read works in the new thought movement. Read the book that inspired The Secret with powerful quotes such as: "As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient tr

It is a time of breathtaking Singularity technology. A time when most human beings spend the majority of their lives in the alternate worlds of the cyberverse, the global mesh of full-immersion virtual realities. Traditional social and political structures are breaking down under the enormous weight of absolute creative freedom and terrestrial immortality. The invention of a device for resurrecting the dead is the catalyst which catapults the ...

There is a new world number one, and his name is not Jeb Anders. Ranked eleven in the world, Jeb celebrates his twentieth birthday with his family and friends, but celebrating is hardly what he needs. By his own choice, Jeb has not played a match in months, and although he longs to be out on the court doing what he loves, Jeb lacks the zeal to train and questions his place in the ever-changing world of tennis. He eventually resumes his quest f...

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Twee adolescenten ontmoeten een klein meisje, opgesloten in een vreemde eenzaamheid. Haar zwijgende persoon beïnvloedt de levens van de jonge mannen in die mate, dat zij zich voorgoed getekend weten door het geheim dat het meisje vertegenwoordigt. De dramatische uitkomst van het samenzijn brengt voor altijd het afscheid van hun jeugdige dromen.

Victory in the French and Indian War cost the British plenty. At the war's end in 1763, King George III and his government decided to tax American colonies to recoup war costs. A series of taxes were passed against the American Colonies. And when the Crown tried to tax tea, that was the last straw for the colonists. Penelope Dyan takes a look at our history through her poetry and art and seeks to teach kids what they do not seem to be taught a...

The display of violent behaviour causes pain, loss of lives and property in families, schools and in the community. Incidents of violence have also resulted in reduced school attendance, impaired concentration, fear, a diminished ability to learn and in some cases, it has caused school closures. The fact that its consequences are grievous, justifies the action for its prevention. Since parents and the entire family setting are a major influenc...

Continuous Evaluation of Time Varying Speech Quality (CETVSQ) is a method of subjective assessment of transmitted speech quality for long speech sequences containing quality fluctuations in time. This method is modeled for continuous evaluation of long speech sequences based on two subjective tasks. First task is to assess the speech quality during the listening and second task is to assess the overall speech quality after listening to the spe...

This study analyzes the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) and efforts to prevent the proliferation of this deadly category of weapons in order to assess whether or not current initiatives are efficient in dealing with this global pandemic. The category of SALW will be defined and discussed in the second chapter of the thesis while also examining the historical trends in both SALW proliferation and in efforts to counter this ...

Advertisements are the key to the success of marketing. Multinational companies invest lots of money in advertisements. The hardest job is done by the advertising agencies that end up with a unique and attractive ad copy. Besides, Pre-Ad Launch Researches are conducted to ensure that advertisements are effective. But sometimes advertisements do not have the desired effect. This book is the outcome of an empirical research conducted on the prob...

Is the trade with developing countries unfair? Does paying a higher price make it fair? How do consumers in the North know what they actually pay for? Is it possible for fair-traders to deceive them? Are Fair Trade products of better quality, as they are advertised? The intention of the consumers is to help the southerners break free from exploitation and poverty - is this intention fulfilled? And what about public policies promoting Fair Trad...

The aim of this book is to evaluate and compare various methods for Heart Rate Variability analysis and to present the steps of the algorithm designed to perform temporal and spectral analyses of the recorded signals. The graphical representation, accompanied by the set of Heart Rate Variability parameters ready to be interpreted by the doctor, is to be helpful in identification of the cardiac ailment.

Lesbian feminist writing from the late 1960s to mid1980s framed lesbian community as crucial to lesbian survival. Since this time, contributions to the field have dwindled and the contemporary relevance of this position has been scrutinised. Lesbian community has been branded by some as restrictive and ultimately detrimental to lesbians because it silences difference. This book considers the emerging literature and explores Australian lesbians...

Service-learning and campus-community partnerships are dramatically changing the way universities educate students, use their resources, and involve their neighbors. A plethora of ethical issues arise with this new emphasis on real-world engagement, for these interactions usually involve wealthy, elite institutions of higher education operating in what are often poor, urban areas. This dynamic is rife with potential pitfalls. While these probl...