As blood spilled from his body and pooled beneath him, Luther Khadafi Fuller believed that he was taking his last breath after being stabbed in the Beaumont Pen. But he was wrong. It wasn't his day to die. Over time his wounds healed, but his heart was forever scarred. The man who had made the Ultimate Sacrifice for him had tried to take his life all because he slept with the man's baby s mother. One year later and back on the streets, Khadafi...
Despite significant progress in molecular epigenetic research and its enormous potential, there are still considerable challenges to overcome before we can fully understand the role of epigenetic processes in brain function and behavior. For instance, what comprises a ‘normal’ brain epigenome and what is the degree of region- and cellular-specificity of epigenetic landscapes in the brain? How do the multiple layers of epigenetic information in...
Communities have built collections of information in collaborative ways for centuries. Most recently, Wikipedia is the most prominent example of how collaborative efforts can be powerful in building massive data storage. Other global member-built media data storage examples include Flickr and YouTube, and social networking applications such as Friendster, Facebook, and LinkedIn, which share information between members in large unstructured inf...
Olefin Upgrading Catalysis by Nitrogen-based Metal Complexes II: State of the art and Perspectives provides a critical review of the state-of-the-art developments in industrially relevant processes connected to efficient and selective olefin upgrading. Specific attention is devoted to catalysts containing imine- and amine-based ligands.All the chapters in this book have been designed to provide a systematic account of the vast amount of inform...
A volume for everybody: Being a mirror of fashion, a picture of poverty, and a startling revelation of the secret crimes of great cities." Reprint of the crime novel originally published in 1849.
Collection of narratives about children who later played an important role in English history, such as Alfred the Great, Prince Arthur and many more. Originally published in 1897.
On hearing a radio report of an accused priest Philippe is thrown back to a difficult time in his youth. He is faced with his parents' impending divorce, moves to a new city, goes to a new school, and needs to make new friends. To help him adapt to his new surroundings his mother urges him to join the "Snow Geese, " a youth group led by a nonconformist priest who challenges Philippe to rethink his values. But as Philippe becomes more acquainte...
Confounding all conventional wisdom, the fertility rate in the Islamic Republic of Iran fell from around 7.0 births per woman in the early 1980s to 1.9 births per woman in 2006. That this, the largest and fastest fall in fertility ever recorded, should have occurred in one of the world’s few Islamic Republics demands explanation. This book, based upon a decade of research is the first to attempt such an explanation. The book documents the prog...