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The future development of electronics, optics, and, quite probably, quantum physics is being driven by advances in epitaxial materials. Band gap engineering, wafer bonding techniques, and epitaxial regrowth technology will push transistors far beyond the present speed barriers. Oxide growth within epitaxial layer structures and new advances in tunnel structures will push the development of the next generation of high-performance laser arrays a...

As national priorities have been focused both on reducing fuel consumption and improving air quality, attention has increased on reducing emissions from many types of vehicles, including light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty diesel-powered vehicles. Meeting the recently promulgated (and proposed) emission standards and simultaneously increasing fuel economy will pose especially difficult challenges for diesel-powered vehicles and will requir...

In Genetic Dilemmas and the Child's Right to an Open Future, Davis examines perplexing medical cases as a means to discussion of ethical dilemmas raised by the availability of new reproductive technologies.

Franchise expert Robert Bond narrows his sights on 50 optimal service-based franchises. Focusing on the best options available to the general investor, he gives each one a thorough four- to five-page analysis based on historical performance, competitive advantage, franchisee satisfaction, financial stability, and a variety of other factors.

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A concentration camp survivor, Elie Wiesel has worked tirelessly so that we all will remember the atrocities committed during the Holocaust. His efforts have won him the Nobel Prize. The author of this biography, who worked with Wiesel on developing the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, illuminates his life for teen readers.

Samuel Johnson was a deeply religious man and he came to depend on his Christian faith as the principal means by which to endure the pain of existence. He sought throughout his life to render himself worthy of salvation, but the difficulties which he experienced in trying to maintain a high degree of religious discipline - as well as his doubts about God's ultimate concern for man and his fears of his own spiritual unworthiness - led him into ...

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This book is a response to Socrates' invitation to "know thyself". The journey moves from immediate experience, to the discovery of First Being with the human person as the central figure of inquiry. In order to discover the purpose of human life. This is an important work in the renewal of metaphysics called for by Pope John Paul if in fides et Rario (1998).

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An important collection of studies providing a fresh and original perspective on the nature of mind, including thoughtful and detailed arguments that explain why the prevailing paradigm - the computational conception of language and mentality - can no longer be sustained. An alternative approach is advanced, inspired by the work of Charles S. Peirce, according to which minds are sign-using (or `semiotic') systems, which in turn generates disti...

Lights Out is a murder mystery that takes place in present-day Baltimore, Maryland. The mystery unfolds as one of the corporate executives from the Baltimore Light Company is kidnapped and held for ransom. Soon the stakes are raised when it is discovered that uranium fuel rods, cocaine, and weapons' grade plutonium are all part of a huge clandestine deal. Several murders are committed, which leave clues that make the reader suspect more than o...

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