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With numerous methods available for the quantification of nitric oxide (NO), this detailed book explores their advantages and disadvantages in order to provide a foundation for further research in plant nitric oxide. After providing a useful practical guide to choosing a technique for measuring NO from plant materials, the book continues with chapters on chemiluminescence, diaminofluorescence (DAF), EPR spectroscopy, a laser-based method, as w...

In the small town of Bonnets Landing, Pennsylvania, the lives of seven people are about to change. For two couples, Michael and Helen Dempsey and Peter and Lenore Margand, the facades of their marriages will be torn away. A series of grisly murders sets the town on edge. As Reverend Noah Mathis and his wife, Esther, do their best to minister to the community, the small towns lone detective, Savile Beauteau, after twenty years with Pittsburg PD...

This book provides practical frameworks for anyone hoping to become a successful global leader, and outlines the challenges that international firms face when managing across cultures. It highlights the cognitive, affective, and behavioral actions leaders can take to understand the differences between foreign values and traditions, and how to develop a corporate environment where global leadership can thrive. Drawing on the latest research fin...

This debut novel from author Robert Jacob contrasts the perils of war with the beauty of love and passion. Set in a near-future, Jacob brings us into the heat of a world at war, divided amongst socioeconomic lines. A certain allegory for the current trend of western politics is at work here, showing the stark divide between the outspoken few who rest along the extremes of our populations, and make us feel alienated from one another. The story ...

Nach sieben Jahren im Ausland ? in ?gypten und in Amerika ? kehrt der Kraftwerksingenieur Hanns Ingold mit dem Schiff nach Antwerpen und von dort mit dem Zug ?ber Br?ssel und K?ln in die Heimat am jungen Rhein zur?ck. In Rheinau angekommen trifft er zuf?llig auf den Dr. Engelhardt, dessen Tochter Ruth er sogleich aufsuchen will?

This book asks the simple question of what if. The answer is expressed in thirteen short stories where ONeal pushes the limits of imaginationfrom a man who wakes up knowing the future date of his death, to a little girls love for her cat that uses each of its nine lives in order to protect her from danger, to an evil ghost of a six-year-old girl trying to return to life by stealing the soul and the body of another six-year-old girl. With the c...

This book is an interesting way to learn about the American transportation in the USA.

Zylan Cain has been living on the same island for 543 years, with a boy everyone believes is Peter Pan. She believes he killed her parents the night he brought her to the island, so she avoided him as much as she could. Recently though, she and the girls decided to get even with the boys. In doing so, she is forced to spend more time with Pan. The more she does, the more she starts to doubt her memories. To get to the truth, she leaves the isl...

Life after returning from Ilaeden has been uneventful, if not boring, for Cole Dralliw and her friends. However, that all changes in a single day.Due to an 'accident', Cole is forced to return to Ilaeden with her friendsand suitor, Fulcan Dar.Together they embark on what should be an easy mission, but things never go to plan, especially where Cole is concerned.Blackmail, danger and trouble await them ahead. Can they overcome it before either b...

This monograph -- written by an historian and Norwegian diplomat -- considers the past Westphalian Paradigm and present Popular Sovereign Paradigm of the international order, and discusses possible elements of a new paradigm for a global order suitable to address contemporary problems that transcend national borders.

Takeover is the story of Finley Rios, a famous record executive and club owner from Los Angeles. When the life that he left behind over a decade ago comes roaring back he must return to the place he escaped from. Having ties to the criminal underworld in New York, the notorious Joey Numbers requests that he comes and fixes his nephew's failing nightclub. Upon arriving he is greeted by former business partners and a cast of dangerous people who...

Fictitious story about the Burke castle dragon legend among Ireland's legends and folklore. A mysterious dragon hatchling appears in Lady Laurie's satchel while picking violets for her chamber during the early 1950s. How is that possible? Dragons are myths and only exist in old folklore and legends. Could it be real? The event leads the family to dive into past history of their ancestors and what they discover is a forgotten legend that casts ...

I'm just a cat, not a... whatever these weird creatures are, but thanks to my own curiosity I'm made to come to Earth. Now I think about it I'm actually glad to be here."Shero has new friends, new experiences and new discoveries.

The book of Revelation is almost certainly the most controversial book of the Bible. Some believe the prophesies contained in the book can never be understood, they are a mystery that cannot be revealed and the reading of Revelation is therefore a waste of time. Many believe that the book tells of the coming tribulations that our generation or one of the succeeding ones will face, that the rapture will yet take place and that the millenium has...

this book contains every piece of poetry I've written since i was three years old to twenty years old, it goes through different points and emotions in my life that i think other people can relate to. I hope to return later with more and i cant wait to see where else I go.

The book tells two complimentary stories about events at the end of World War II in Germany. Eva describes how her large Mennonite family flees from their farm in East Prussia, pursued by the Russian army, to settle in the west of Germany. In interesting detail, she describes the hardships and the kindness they received while trekking for two month in horse-drawn wagons through war-torn Germany, often slipping out of the Russian noose. Occasio...

What does it mean to remember? Are Memories assembled by facts and figures or the rise and fall of feelings?An old man relives his life through old poetry and stories as time ravages his mind. It's up to him and his Cat to preserve those memories without interrupting their lunch time, nap time, or anything else they would rather be doing.

This book explores the 1907 Korean Revival Movement from a self psychological perspective. The examination of the psychological processes in the movement based on Heinz Kohut's self psychology can shed light on religious experiences as selfobject experiences by identifying the sense of defeatedness and helplessness that Korean people experienced under Japanese occupation as what Kohut calls self-fragmentation of the Korean group self and expla...

This book takes a close look at how girls of color think, talk, and learn about sex and sexual ethics, how they navigate their developing sexuality through cultural stereotypes about sex and body image, and how they negotiate their sexual learning within a co-ed sex education classroom. While girls of color are often pictured as at risk or engaged in risky behavior, the analyses of focus groups and classroom discussions, show not only girls’ v...

Marking the 500th year anniversary of the birth of Queen Mary I in 1516, this book both commemorates her rule and rehabilitates and redefines her image and reign as England's first queen regnant. In this broad collection of essays, leading historians of queenship (or monarchy) explore aspects of Mary's life from birth to reign to death and cultural afterlife, giving consideration to the struggles she faced both before and after her accession, ...