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Nicki Carlson, the number-one player on the women's professional tennis tour, is murdered during a tournament. Suspects abound due to Nicki's obnoxious behavior on and off the court. Kimberly Brady, another member of the tennis tour, puts her criminal psychology degree to work when she finds herself a target and is pulled into the investigation with local detective David Kennedy. The murders continue as Kimberly and David race to beat the kill...

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Haiku Poetry in English language

The first complete handbook for every aspect of grouting technology The Practical Handbook of Grouting offers the most comprehensive, single-source reference covering all facets of grouting technology, including its application for control of water movement, strengthening of both soil and rock, and a wide range of structural applications. Richly illustrated with hundreds of informative photographs, graphs, and figures, this handbook provides ...

Provides story summaries for various blends, digraphs and trigraphs taught in the "Letterland Teacher's Guide". This title features picture-coded examples on each page that help children identify the spelling pattern from the outset. It has space for pupils to collect examples from their own reading, encouraging them to become 'word detectives'.

In 2004, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, yet issues of racial and ethnic integration in schools and colleges remain. The articles in this Issue explore both the processes and implications of interethnic contact in educational settings from elementary schools through universities, and suggest courses of action for educational institutions in the 21st century. outlines strategies schools and colleges can use to ...

Through a study of industry publications over much of the century, shows how the U.S. children's clothing industry produced increasingly refined categories of childhood.

A Short Reference Grammar of Iraqi Arabic is the only volume of its kind, reflecting Iraqi Arabic as spoken by educated Muslims in Baghdad. With all the Arabic transcribed, it is written for beginners as well as Arabic speakers wanting to learn the dialect. It covers the phonology, morphology (word formation of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and numerals, achieved by adding prefixes and suffixes to roots), and syntax, teaching the reader ...

Constitutionalist Ted McWhinney draws on his extensive experience in the workings of our federal system to discuss the need for modernisation and updating to meet the radically new demands of the plural, multicultural Canada of the twenty-first century. His thinking has the advantage of his personal exchanges with prime ministers from the time of John Diefenbaker, as well as his recent direct participation in governmental decision-making in Ot...

This historical novel of adventure and love is set in the 1830s on the Pacific Northwest Coast and tells the little-known story of the Hawaiians on the coast. 'When Eagles Call' offers a compelling portrait of a young Hawaiian who becomes a 'servant' of the Hudson's Bay Company and then finds his loyalties torn when he falls in love with a Kwantlen woman -- in troubled times when Europeans were upsetting the balance of power.

The fifth edition of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology builds upon the solid foundation of the previous editions, which have proven to be a mainstay for chemists, biochemists, and engineers at academic, industrial, and government institutions since publication of the first edition in 1949. The new edition includes necessary adjustments and modernization of the content to reflect changes and developments in chemical technology...

The fifth edition of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology builds upon the solid foundation of the previous editions, which have proven to be a mainstay for chemists, biochemists, and engineers at academic, industrial, and government institutions since publication of the first edition in 1949. The new edition includes necessary adjustments and modernization of the content to reflect changes and developments in chemical technology...

¿An assistant professor of African history at San Francisco State University, Trevor R. Getz has published articles on slavery and emancipation in West Africa, on the state of Akyem Abuakwa, and on the Atlantic slave trade.

In "Slavery and Reform in West Africa, " Trevor Getz demonstrates that it was largely on the anvil of this issue that French and British policy in West Africa was forged. With distant metropoles unable to intervene in daily affairs, local European administrators, striving to balance abolitionist pressures against the resistance of politically and economically powerful local slave owners, sought ways to satisfy the latter while placating or dup...

The long-awaited new book from the acclaimed short story writer, author of The Elizabeth Stories and You Never Know.Belonging is pure pleasure to read -- entertaining, beautifully written, laced with gentle humour and perceptive insights. Shifting from memoir to fiction, it focuses on the commonplace experiences underlying our lives that are the true basis for storytelling. At the book's core is Isabel Huggan's old house in rural France, from ...

As cancer research increasingly becomes an applied science, academic and biotech researchers interested in general principles must think more about how their efforts translate into the clinical arena. At the same time, researchers on the industrial side stand to gain from a better understanding of the latest strategies for target and lead drug discovery. This way the great promise of new approaches to cancer drug development-preventions and tr...

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Raised in Australia amid a crew of delightful characters, author Dorothy McCormack Graw left her homeland when she married a "Yank" and moved to America. No matter where she went, there was a story in the making. In A Heart Divided, Dorothy shares her great romance and inspiring life story of stepping over obstacles with humor and enthusiasm while making the most of each opportunity.

This book brings together the contributions of leading researchers in the field of machine intelligence, covering areas such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computation and hybrid systems. There is wide coverage of the subject -- from simple tools, through industrial applications, to applications in high-level intelligent systems which are biologically motivated, such as humanoid robots (and selected parts of these systems, like ...