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A Child's Love" is a heartwarming story evoking the unbreakable chain of love between mother and daughter. It dares the reader to hold back tears as a mother watches her daughter become a mother herself, and the daughter then tends to the mother's needs as time takes its inevitable toll. This "circle of life" process is keenly observed by the granddaughter, who will someday herself need to extend such care and compassion to her mother, thus al...

AWARDS AND HONORS 2015 San Francisco Book Festival, General Fiction (Runner-Up) 9th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards, Regional Fiction (Finalist) 2015 International Book Awards, Chick Lit/Women's Lit (Finalist) As a survivor of childhood trauma, Dana knows she has to let go of the past if she's ever going to move on. The natural landscape of Southcentral Alaska-¿far from her life with her longtime boyfriend, Mar¿k¿-calls to her as a pla...

Is it possible to approach quantum theory in a 'therapeutic' vein that sees its foundational problems as arising from mistaken conceptual presuppositions? The book explores the prospects for this project and, in doing so, discusses such fascinating issues as the nature of quantum states, explanation in quantum theory, and 'quantum non-locality'.

Aus der Gasphase hergestellte ZnO Nanopartikel können aufgrund ihrer vielfältigen Eigenschaften sowohl in LED's, photovoltaischen Zellen als auch in Katalysatoren und weiteren technischen Anwendungen eingesetzt werden. Dazu ist es jedoch nötig, den Herstellungsprozess zu verstehen und somit auch kontrollieren zu können, um gezielt Partikeleigenschaften zu erzeugen. Dieses Verständnis des Gasphasenprozesses wird in dieser Arbeit durch die Verza...

Ein wachsendes Umweltbewusstsein und damit einhergehend stetig steigende Vorgaben des Gesetzgebers für die Schadstoffemission von Kraftfahrzeugen bedingt eine kontinuierliche Weiterentwicklung von Verbrennungsmotoren sowie die Entwicklung neuer Abgasnachbehandlungssysteme, zu deren Charakterisierung die Messung unterschiedlichster Bestandteile im Abgas nötig ist. Vorgestellt wird ein optisches Messsystem basierend auf einem Fourier-Spektromete...

Sixteen year-old Ewan Mao knows one thing for certain: according to prophecy, it's his destiny to kill the evil tyrant whose dark reign has terrorized Britain for as long as he can remember. Although he's just a normal boy, deep down Ewan is confident that he has exactly what it takes to be a hero. But when Ewan's big moment comes and his best friend, the clever and talented Oliver Abrams, defeats the villain for him, Ewan's bright future crum...

Tired of working undercover narcotics, police detective Ken Goode wants a transfer to homicide. After the Camus-reading surfer finds the body of a beautiful woman in an alley, he is assigned to head a team of relief detectives with the hopes of proving he is homicide-worthy. As Goode explores the underbelly of the affluent coastal enclave of La Jolla, California, and its hipster neighbor, Pacific Beach, he clashes with the patrons and employee...

A rumor of empathy in vicarious receptivity, understanding, interpretation, narrative, and empathic intersubjectivity becomes the scandal of empathy in Lipps and Strachey. Yet when all the philosophical arguments and categories are complete and all the hermeneutic circles spun out, we are quite simply in the presence of another human being.

A lively Southern retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, featuring Lucy Crawford, who is thrown back into the path of her first love while on a quest to save her beloved family home.Lucy Crawford is part of a wealthy, well-respected Southern family with a long local history. But since Lucy's mother passed away, the family home, a gorgeous antebellum mansion, has fallen into disrepair and the depth of her father's debts is only starting to be u...

Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa take a sporty approach to saving the day in this fart-tastically funny adventure from New York Times bestselling author Jo Nesbø.When a Russian billionaire robs the Norwegian Gold Reserve and melts the last remaining gold bar into the Premier Soccer League trophy, it's up to Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa to recapture the precious prize. But after a failed break-in attempt at the billionaire's subterranean gold...

In recent years, neuroscientists have uncovered the countless ways our brain trips us up in day-to-day life, from its propensity toward irrational thought to how our intuitions deceive us. The latest research on sleep, however, points in the opposite direction. Where old wives tales have long advised to "sleep on a problem, " today scientists are discovering the truth behind these folk sayings, and how the busy brain radically improves our min...

Originally published: Boston: Brill, 2008.

Colleen Houck, New York Times bestselling author of the Tiger's Curse series said, "Timekeeper is a haunting, mysterious dream, a book you don't want to miss!"This sequel to Timeless combines breathtaking romance with a tale of complex magic in a story that will have every reader believing in the transcendent power of love.When Philip Walker appears as a new student in Michele Windsor's high school class, she is floored. He is the love she tho...

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This collection of informal counsel provides intimate glimpses into the mind of Paramahansa Yogananda, acclaimed author of Autobiography of a Yogi. In answering the questions of those who turned to him for guidance, Yogananda expressed himself with candor, spontaneity, and insight. He was able to transform philosophical truths into simple precepts for everyday living.