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A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose world-and imagination-knows no boundaries. "I don't know what planet Judy Budnitz comes from, " said "Newsweek on the publication of her fiction debut, "Flying Leap, "but I'm happy to have her. Tremendous . . . funny, dark, adventurous, slanted, and enchanted." These twelve astonishingly inventive stories-which take us into the heart of America and around the globe, ...

The richest thing in my life has been Japan' wrote the Irish scholar Helen Waddell (1889-1965) when she was in her twenties. At the time she was still living in Belfast, and had not yet embarked on the medieval Latin scholarship which later made her famous. As a child of missionary parents, Waddell had not only been born in Japan, but had spent the important years of her childhood there. It was on this experience that she drew in her first att...

Reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2004 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering"--Cover.

Occasionally there comes to a few fortunate communities persons thoroughly dedicated to collecting and preserving stories of the past. Montezuma county in South-western Colorado is one of these few fortunate localities. It is even more fortunate than others in having a person of the caliber of Ira S. Freeman to record its history. Mr. Freeman is the only living representative of the pioneer newspapermen who helped settle this part of Colorado ...

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A young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Maria endures the hardships of isolation and climate and must choose between three suitors.

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Wealth had come easily, but had failed to placate the demons that lurked inside him. Anthony Cordoba grows up in the vastness of the Southwest in the middle 1960's with a penchant for firearms and the thrill of hunting live game. A tragic event at his grandfather's cattle ranch shapes the remainder of his life, and leads him into the snare of the violent world of drug traffickers. From the deserts of the Southwest and the jungles of Vietnam, t...

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This book presents a generic process-based crop growth model, GECROS (Genotype-by-Environment interaction on CROp growth Simulator), recently developed in Wageningen. The model uses robust yet simple algorithms to summarize the current knowledge of individual physiological processes and their interactions and feedback mechanisms. It was structured from the basics of whole-crop systems dynamics to embody the physiological causes rather than des...

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Gailia is a book about healing from the painful emotions that children and adults experience when facing the death of someone they love. Skillfully written and beautifully illustrated, it is designed for children age 7 through adult, and has been used and recommended by facilitators of bereavement groups as a valuable tool in helping those who are grieving. It has been recognized as being a useful intervention for groups and individuals alike,...

From award-winning and bestselling author Camilla Gibb comes a richly imagined narrative of one woman's search for love and belonging cast against a nuanced portrait of political upheaval. In the racially charged world of Thatcher's London, Lilly, a young, white, Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually begin to fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, she begins to share her longing f...

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