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Cooperative Wireless Communications
by Yan Zhang Hsiao-Hwa Chen Mohsen GuizaniCooperative devices and mechanisms are increasingly important to enhance the performance of wireless communications and networks, with their ability to decrease power consumption and packet loss rate and increase system capacity, computation, and network resilience. Considering the wide range of applications, strategies, and benefits associated wit
Distributed Generation: The Power Paradigm for the New Millennium
by Jan F. Kreider Ann-Marie BorbelyAs a result of deregulation, the US electric utility industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation with far-reaching technical and social consequences. At the heart of this transformation lies Distributed Generation (DG)-the substitution of centralized electricity production with smaller-scale technologies located in or near facilities and power
Entropy And Its Physical Meaning
by J. S. DugdaleThis text gives students a clear and easily understood introduction to entropy - a central concept in thermodynamics, but one which is often regarded as the most difficult to grasp. Professor Dugdale first presents a classical and historical view of entropy, looking in detail at the scientists who developed the concept, and at how they arrived at their ideas. This is followed by a statistical treatment which provides a more physical portrait of entropy, relating it to disorder and showing how physical and chemical systems tend to states of order at low temperatures. Dugdale includes here a brief account of some of the more intriguing manifestations of order in properties such as superconductivity and superfluidity.Entropy and Its Physical Meaning also includes a number of exercises which can be used for both self- learning and class work. It is intended to provide a complete understanding of the concept of entropy, making it valuable reading for undergraduates in physics, physical sciences and engineering, and for students studying thermodynamics within other science courses such as meteorology, biology and medicine.
A Guide to the MRCP Part 2 Written Paper 2Ed
by Anthony Warrens Malcolm Persey Michael Fertleman Stephen PowisTrainees in preparation for the MRCP examination will welcome the much-anticipated new edition of this 'gold standard' revision book. Revised and updated throughout to encompass new developments in medical diagnostics and therapeutics, and restructured to reflect the recent changes in the format of the Part 2 written examination, the book continues
Transgenic Plants and Crops
by Y. H. Hui Alan McHughen Wai-Kit Nip George G. KhachatouriansWith contributions from nearly 130 internationally renowned experts in the field, this reference details advances in transgenic plant construction and explores the social, political, and legal aspects of genetic plant manipulation. It provides analyzes of the history, genetics, physiology, and cultivation of over 30 species of transgenic seeds, fruits, and vegetables. Stressing the impact of genetic engineering strategies on the nutritional and functional benefit of foods as well as on consumer health and the global market economy, the book covers methods of gene marking, transferring, and tagging public perceptions to the selective breeding, hybridization, and recombinant DNA manipulation of food.
Integrative Oncology: Principles and Practice
by Matthew P. MumberIntegrative Oncology explores a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to cancer care that addresses all individuals involved in the process, and can include the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies alongside conventional modalities such as chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy. The number of integrative care program
Alaskan Christmas Cold Case: Faith in the Face of Crime
by Sarah VarlandIt’s the season of joy and goodwill—but before two Alaska cops can celebrate, they need to stop a vicious and elusive killer . . .The Ice Maiden Killer is back. For years, the serial killer has eluded authorities—and he’s set Alaska state trooper Erynn Cooper in his sights. Erynn’s only chance at survival is to trust Moose Haven police chief Noah Dawson with her life—and the truth about her past.But with Christmas quickly approaching, Erynn and Noah are running out of time to catch the murderer . . . before Erynn becomes the next victim.
The Shocking Lord Standon (Those Scandalous Ravenhursts #3)
by Louise AllenScandal brews and sparks fly when an earl asks a governess for help in this sexy regency romance.Rumors fly that Gareth Morant, Earl of Standon, is to be wed. He cannot honorably deny them, but he won’t be forced into marriage.Encountering a respectable governess in scandalizing circumstances, Gareth demands her help—to make him entirely ineligible.He educates the buttoned-up Miss Jessica Gifford in the courtesan’s arts. But Gareth hasn’t bargained on such an ardent, clever pupil—or on his passionate response to her! He wanted to cause a stir—it seems they are about to brew a scandal!
Woman in a Sheikh's World (The\private Lives Of Public Playboys Ser. #2)
by Sarah MorganWhen the playboy crown prince’s bride runs away, he might fall for the wedding planner in this classic contemporary romance.With a client list hotter than the Zubran desert, wedding planner Avery Scott shouldn’t be surprised that her latest client is Crown Prince Malik of Zubran—the man who once lit her body on fire . . . before steamrollering over her heart.Determined to ignore Malik’s lethal charm, Avery makes a very personal not-to-do list:1. Not being Malik’s intended, our relationship must remain 100 percent professional.2. His arranged bride might have run away, but I mustn’t distract him—for the kings of Zubran, duty always comes first.3. However luxurious the Bedouin tent—and smoldering the tension—pride dictates the touch I crave stays strictly forbidden.Originally published in 2012.
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: A Lisbeth Salander Novel (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series #5)
by David LagercrantzNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series continues with this &“engrossing&” novel (USA Today) as brilliant hacker Lisbeth Salander teams up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the secrets of her childhood and take revenge. • Also known as the Millennium seriesLisbeth Salander—obstinate outsider, volatile seeker of justice for herself and others—seizes on a chance to unearth her mysterious past once and for all. And she will let nothing stop her—not the Islamists she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the prison gang leader who passes a death sentence on her; not the deadly reach of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment known only as The Registry. Once again, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are the fierce heart of a thrilling full-tilt novel that takes on some of the world's most insidious problems.Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons, coming soon!
Choke: A Novel
by Chuck PalahniukVictor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be &“saved&” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor&’s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he&’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.
China in Ten Words: Essays
by Yu HuaFrom one of China&’s most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country&’s meteoric economic and social transformation. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular—&“people,&” &“leader,&” &“reading,&” &“writing,&” &“Lu Xun&” (one of the most influential Chinese writers of the twentieth century), &“disparity,&” &“revolution,&” &“grassroots,&” &“copycat,&” and &“bamboozle&”—China in Ten Words reveals as never before the world&’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. In &“Disparity,&” for example, Yu Hua illustrates the mind-boggling economic gaps that separate citizens of the country. In &“Copycat,&” he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in &“Bamboozle,&” he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud, and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society. Characterized by Yu Hua&’s trademark wit, insight, and courage, China in Ten Words is a refreshingly candid vision of the &“Chinese miracle&” and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a writer living in China today.
A Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking): A Never-Coming-of-Age Story
by Jess H. Gutierrez&“Jess Gutierrez has a one-of-a-kind talent for showing how hilarious and absurd life can be—and, lucky reader, she is ready to share her escapades with the rest of us. I couldn&’t put this book down.&” —W. Kamau Bell, comedian and author of The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell &“Like Gutierrez, I&’m a millennial making things up as I go along, and as this book hilariously shows, our way is much more fun.&” —Sona Movsesian, New York Times bestselling author of The World&’s Worst AssistantA frank, raucous, and bawdy collection of essays about coming of age through the oddest jobs, misadventures in queer love, and endearing parenting fails This is a perfect book for a very imperfect generation. Millennials were the kids who wore slap bracelets and jeans so low rise they could see one another's colons, and they are now adults wondering, Is everyone else as messed up as I am? In her book, Jess shares relatable tales of a woman who feels like a dumpster fire even with a seemingly ideal set up with a fire-captain wife, three kids, and a mortgage. Highlights include roller-derby catastrophes, a disastrous first night on the job at a lesbian bar, narrow escapes from wild animals, and fond memories of sending printed thirst-trap photos via mail to the lover in Australia she met on the early Internet. Readers will soon cheerfully discover that Jess&’s voice is infectious, her stories are off-the-wall, and her references are deeply and delightfully millennial.
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
by Kate Winkler DawsonINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!One of Amazon&’s Best History Books of JanuaryAcclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne&’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Reverend Ephraim Avery was uncovered, more questions emerged. Was Sarah&’s death a suicide...or something much darker? Determined to uncover the real story, Victorian writer Catharine Read Arnold Williams threw herself into the investigation as the trial was unfolding and wrote what many claim to be the first American true-crime narrative, Fall River. The murder divided the country and inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne&’s The Scarlet Letter—but the reverend was not convicted, and questions linger to this day about what really led to Sarah Cornell&’s death. Until now.In The Sinners All Bow, acclaimed true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson travels back in time to nineteenth-century small-town America, emboldened to finish the work Williams started nearly two centuries before. Using modern investigative advancements—including &“forensic knot analysis&” and criminal profiling (which was invented fifty-five years later with Jack the Ripper)—Dawson fills in the gaps of Williams&’s research to find the truth and bring justice to an unsettling mystery that speaks to our past as well as our present, anchored by three women who subverted the script they were given.
Holler, Child
by LaToya WatkinsLonglisted for the National Book AwardWinner of the Reading the West Book Award in FictionWinner of the Writers' League of Texas Book Award in FictionAn extraordinary short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgiveness—from a writer whose &“spellbinding, buoyant&”* storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds. *Texas Monthly In Holler, Child&’s eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something—hope, reconciliation, freedom. In &“Cutting Horse,&” the appearance of a horse in a man&’s suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In &“Holler, Child,&” a mother is forced into an impossible position when her son gets in a kind of trouble she knows too well from the other side. And &“Time After&” shows us the unshakable bonds of family as a sister journeys to find her estranged brother—the one who saved her many times over. Throughout Holler, Child, we see love lost and gained, and grief turned to hope. This collection peers deeply into lives of women and men experiencing intimate and magnificent reckonings—exploring how race, power, and inequality map on the individual, and demonstrating the mythic proportions of everyday life.
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
by Shayla Lawson&“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.&”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to AmericaPoet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability.One of Esquire's Best Memoirs of 2024Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Elle, Them, Book Riot, LitHub, Stylecaster, and Chicago Review of Books In their new book, Shayla Lawson reveals how traveling can itself be a political act, when it can be a dangerous world to be Black, femme, nonbinary, and disabled. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and the self. Through encounters with a gorgeous gondolier in Venice, an ex-husband in the Netherlands, and a lost love on New Year&’s Eve in Mexico City, Lawson&’s travels bring unexpected wisdom about life in and out of love. They learn the strength of friendships and the dangers of beauty during a narrow escape in Egypt. They examine Blackness in post-dictatorship Zimbabwe, then take us on a secretive tour of Black freedom movements in Portugal. Through a deeply insightful journey, Lawson leads readers from a castle in France to a hula hoop competition in Jamaica to a traditional theater in Tokyo to a Prince concert in Minnesota and, finally, to finding liberation on a beach in Bermuda, exploring each location—and their deepest emotions—to the fullest. In the end, they discover how the trials of marriage, grief, and missed connections can lead to self-transformation and unimagined new freedoms.
Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again
by Reggie WattsComedian and musician Reggie Watts shares his story of growing up in Montana as a biracial oddball struggling to navigate life, girls, drugs, and his own identity in America&’s heartland—and having a blast doing it. Reggie Watts is weird. But you knew that. Anyone who&’s seen his multifaceted, entirely improvised comedy and music shows knows that. Reggie Watts is also from the town of Great Falls, MT. These two facts are not unrelated. Watts grew up in Montana in the &‘80s, half French, half American, half white, half Black, speaking a bunch of different languages and slipping between the orchestra geeks and the football jocks until he finally found a squad of fellow misfits with an affinity for trouble. It was a wide-open time and place that invited freedom and exploration—as well as car theft and the not infrequent use of recreational cough syrup. And it helped him become the uniquely strange creative voice he is today. In Great Falls, MT, Watts takes us through his story, hitting on the culture shock he experienced after moving from Europe to the heart of America, where he was called racial slurs by neighbors but wasn&’t Black enough for his father&’s extended family. Where he fought with his authoritarian dad, built a new family of antiestablishment, post-punk oddballs—and ultimately knew he had to leave. But after Watts&’s career exploded in Seattle and New York, ultimately scoring him a nightly place next to James Corden on The Late Late Show, he found himself drawn back to his hometown after the deaths of his parents. This is his love letter to the town that made him. But like love itself, it&’s messy and complicated and dirty and beautiful—and as weird and wonderful as Watts himself.
Soil and Environmental Analysis: Modern Instrumental Techniques (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)
by Keith A. Smith Malcolm S. CresserEvaluating traditional and recent analytical methods according to speed, sensitivity, and cost-efficiency, this reference supports specialists in the selection of effective analytical techniques and equipment for the study of soils, soil contaminants, and environmental samples. Updated and revised, this Third Edition illustrates the advantages, limitations, range, and challenges of the major analytical approaches utilized in modern research laboratories. It includes new chapters and expanded discussions of the measurement of organic pollutants in the environment and gas fluxes between the land surface and atmosphere, and an extensive range of environmental materials.
Microelectronic Design of Fuzzy Logic-Based Systems (International Series on Computational Intelligence)
by Iluminada Baturone Angel Barriga Carlos Jimenez-Fernandez Diego R. Lopez Santiago Sanchez-SolanoFuzzy logic has virtually exploded over the landscape of emerging technologies, becoming an integral part of myriad applications and a standard tool for engineers. Until recently, most of the attention and applications have centered on fuzzy systems implemented in software. But these systems are limited. Problems that require real-time operation, low area, or low power consumption demand hardware designed to the fuzzy paradigm - and engineers with the background and skills to design it.Microelectronic Design of Fuzzy Logic-Based Systems offers low-cost answers to issues that software cannot resolve. From the theoretical, architectural, and technological foundation to design tools and applications, it serves as your guide to effective hardware realizations of fuzzy logic.Review fuzzy logic theory and the basic issues of fuzzy sets, operators, and inference mechanisms Explore the trade-offs between efficient theoretical behavior and practical hardware realizations Discover the properties of the possible microelectronic realizations of fuzzy systems - conventional processors, fuzzy coprocessors, and fuzzy chips Investigate the design of fuzzy chips that implement the whole fuzzy inference method into silicon Analyze analog, digital, and mixed-signal techniques Reduce your design effort for fuzzy systems with CAD tools - learn the requirements they should meet and survey current environments. Put it all together - see examples and case studies illustrating how all of this is used to solve particular problems related to control and neuro-fuzzy applications
The Making of an Expert Engineer
by James TrevelyanThis book sets out the principles of engineering practice, knowledge that has come to light through more than a decade of research by the author and his students studying engineers at work. Until now, this knowledge has been almost entirely unwritten, passed on invisibly from one generation of engineers to the next, what engineers refer to asexpe
Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problem Solving: An Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
by Marilyn A. Reba Douglas R. ShierA Classroom-Tested, Alternative Approach to Teaching Math for Liberal Arts Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problem Solving: An Introduction to Mathematical Thinking uses puzzles and paradoxes to introduce basic principles of mathematical thought. The text is designed for students in liberal arts mathematics courses. Decision-making situations that progress
Tissue Engineering And Novel Delivery Systems
by Vasif Hasirci Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski Debra J. Trantolo Michael J. Yaszemski Donald L. Wise David E. AltobelliEssential to anyone working in the field, this reference focuses on latest advancements in tissue construction, repair and regeneration focusing on developments in gene and drug therapy, the evolution of tissue-engineered products, and new technologies for the design of functional tissues and organ systems.
Colorectal Cancer in Clinical Practice: Prevention, Early Detection and Management, Second Edition
by Bernard Levin Paul Rozen Graeme P Young Stephen J SpannThe rapid rate of development in the fields of prevention, early detection and management for colorectal cancer means that the successful first edition of this accessible guide has needed to be updated and revised throughout. Primary care physicians and specialists alike will continue to find this an indispensable synopsis of the issues and options
Augmented Reality: Placing Artificial Objects in Real Scenes
by Gudrun Klinker Reinhold Behringer David W. MizellThis book presents a variety of techniques that combine computer-generated images and other objects with real scenes, creating augmented reality. This work provides an excellent snapshot of the current state of augmented reality research and its latest applications to industry. Using computer vision, graphics, and signal processing, augmented reali
The Deep Mixing Method
by Masaki Kitazume Masaaki TerashiThe Deep Mixing Method (DMM), a deep in-situ soil stabilization technique using cement and/or lime as a stabilizing agent, was developed in Japan and in the Nordic countries independently in the 1970s. Numerous research efforts have been made in these areas investigating properties of treated soil, behavior of DMM improved ground under static and d