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Sintering Technology
by Randall M. German Gary L. Messing Robert G. CornwallBased on the sintering conference held at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, this text presents advances in the application of sintering to the most important industrial materials. It offers results on both solid-state and microphase sintering as well as microstructure evolution, and introduces new applications, processes, materials and solutions to technical problems.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Maxnotes Literature Guides)
by Boria SaxREA's MAXnotes for The Gawain Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each section of the work is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.
Sir Harry Parkes: British Representative in Japan 1865-1883
by Gordon DanielsParkes ruled the British legation to Meiji Japan with a commitment to work and the construction of a civilian Japan which aroused profound admiration and irritation among both Westerners and Japanese. First major study of Parkes since the Dickens/Lane-Poole 'Life' of 1894.
Sister Blood
by Karen HaberEmpath Kayla John Reed's rebel forces, the War Minstrels, had struck a crucial blow at the heart of Yates Keller's empire, conquering the Alliance capital, Vardalia. It should have been Kayla's moment of triumph. But Vardalia was a shambles, and not only had Yates himself escaped, he claimed to have her friends and shipmates in his clutches. Kayla had no choice but to agree to the terms he'd left in a holographic message. Meet him on their home world, the mining colony Styx, surrender the fabled Mindstone to him, and Keller would release her friends. Yet even as she set off for the rendezvous point, trouble was brewing among the War Minstrels - trouble that could transform their successful revolution into the deadliest kind of anarchy if she didn't make it back in time. And what Kayla had no way of know foreseeing was that Styx itself hid a peril far greater than any trap Keller had planned for her...
Sister, Sister
by Eric Jerome DickeySassy, comical, and true-to-life, Sister, Sister tells the tale of three young African-American women-perky wife Valerie, scheming social worker Inda, and broken-hearted flight attendant Chiquita-and how their lives are coming together, and apart, in Los Angeles. <P><P>Fresh and in-your-face, this witty novel depicts a world where women sometimes have to alter their dreams, but never have to stop embracing the future.
Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology
by Robin MorganA powerful and essential anthology that sheds light on the status of women throughout the world Hailed by Alice Walker as &“one of the most important human documents of the century,&” this collection of groundbreaking essays examines the global status of women&’s experiences, from oppression to persecution. Originally published in 1984, the compilation features pieces written by a diverse set of powerful women—journalists, politicians, grassroots activists, and scholars—from seventy countries. Author Robin Morgan, a champion of women&’s rights herself, expertly weaves these inspiring essays into one comprehensive feminist text. These compelling &“herstories&” contain thoroughly researched statistics on the status of women throughout the world. Each chapter focuses on a different country and includes data on education, government, marriage, motherhood, prostitution, rape, sexual harassment, and sexual preference. Sisterhood Is Global transcends political systems and geographical boundaries to unite women and their experiences in a way that remains unequalled, even decades after its first publication.
Sisters
by Penny RichardsThat Special Woman! A SECRET BABY... Nineteen years ago, farmgirl Skye Herder was all chaste, forbidden temptation while her older sister was a ripe, willing female. A boy on the brink of manhood, Cash Benedict had to choose.... Now, tormented by his memories, compelled by desire, Cash was back. And Skye was a woman grown. Hunting, unforgiving, completely unforgettable, she embodied the beguiling past-and the electrifying future. For beside Skye stood a boy on the brink of manhood. A boy enough like Cash to be his...son. THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! One long-ago, quicksilver summer would always lead him back to Skye.... "Take one Bay Matthews, let her write under her own name of Penny Richards, and the result is romance at its very finest." -Melinda Helfer, Romantic Times
Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object
by Kirsten Hastrup Karen Fog OlwigCulture has been subject to critical debate in anthropology during the past decade and this is related to a shift in emphasis from the bounded local culture to transnational cultural flows. At the same time that cultural mobility is being emphasized, the people studied by anthropologists are recasting culture as a place of belonging as they construct local identities within global fields of relations.So far, much of the analysis of the role of place in culture has been carried out at a level of theoretical debate. Siting Culture argues that it is only through rich ethnographic studies that anthropologists may explore the significance of place in the global space of relations which mould the lives of people throughout the world. By examining the concept of culture through case studies from Europe, Africa, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean it probes the methodological and theoretical implications of the divergent scholarly and popular concepts of culture.
Sitting Down to Eat picture book
by Bill HarleyIn this cumulative story, a young boy agrees to share his snack with an ever-growing menagerie of animals, each insisting that there is room for one more.
Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter (Real World Ser.)
by Dan Méndez MooreThis is the graphic history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the participants. When Timothy Thomas, a 19 year old black man, was fatally shot by police, the city broke out into nonviolent civil disobedience that was met with further police violence. This was the first major uprising of the 21st Century, matched only the LA riots a decade before and the protests in Ferguson over a decade later. Author and illustrator Dan Mendez Moore was 17 at the time and participated in the six days of protests that shook the city between Thomas's death and his funeral. Mendez Moore's comics journalism account sensitively captures a fiery moment in U.S. history through interviews with protestors, community leaders, bystanders, and a frustrated looter. He portrays the tension of a city boiling over, political leaders taking advantage, and an inner-city community coming together. Six Days in Cincinnati is an all-American story of systemic racism and the power of popular movements, more relevant today than ever before.
Skills of Encouragement: Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others
by Don DinkmeyerMost of us believe that every event has a cause and effect. We often feel there is someone or something we can put the blame onto besides ourselves. We may blame everyone from our parents to our bosses. Discouragement and unhappiness are ways of life for many of us.Now there is a book that addresses these realities.Skills of Encouragement provides opportunities for readers to improve their self-esteem and personal skills through practical exercises.Learn how to achieve a positive approach to living. Dynamic power is set free when you know how to focus on the positive potential within yourself. The authors have identified the process of encouragement that can produce an exciting, fulfilling and ultimately happy life.
Skinner's Ordeal (Bob Skinner series, Book 5): An explosive Scottish crime novel
by Quintin JardineEdinburgh's hardest cop faces private crisis and public disaster... Skinner faces both the biggest case of his career and crippling personal crisis in Skinner's Ordeal, the thrilling fifth novel in Quintin Jardine's bestselling Edinburgh crime series. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.'Quintin Jardine has created the toughest Scottish cop since Taggart' - Peterborough Evening Telegraph A mid-air explosion; a plane plunges to disaster from the Scottish skies, the British and American Defence Secretaries among the victims. Out of the blue, Edinburgh's Deputy Chief Constable finds himself leading the biggest investigation of his career. The means of destruction is apparent from the start, but the investigation quickly grows more puzzling - for once they have an embarrassment of suspects with motive and opportunity. Then sudden random violence wrenches Skinner himself out of the picture. While his colleagues struggle with the mass of clues, he lies on the brink of death, trapped with the horrors from his own hidden past. As Skinner's ordeal reaches its crescendo, the police pursue their suspects one by one, until at last they are brought to a dramatic, thrilling, but tragic conclusion.Read more in State Secrets - also featuring Bob Skinner. What readers are saying about Skinner's Ordeal: 'An excellent read, and one ofthe best thrillers in ages''What a book, what a story. Magnificent''A really gripping thriller, with many twists and turns'
Skinner's Ordeal: An explosive Scottish crime novel (Bob Skinner #5)
by Quintin JardineEdinburgh's hardest cop faces private crisis and public disaster... Skinner faces both the biggest case of his career and crippling personal crisis in Skinner's Ordeal, the thrilling fifth novel in Quintin Jardine's bestselling Edinburgh crime series. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.'Quintin Jardine has created the toughest Scottish cop since Taggart' - Peterborough Evening Telegraph A mid-air explosion; a plane plunges to disaster from the Scottish skies, the British and American Defence Secretaries among the victims. Out of the blue, Edinburgh's Deputy Chief Constable finds himself leading the biggest investigation of his career. The means of destruction is apparent from the start, but the investigation quickly grows more puzzling - for once they have an embarrassment of suspects with motive and opportunity. Then sudden random violence wrenches Skinner himself out of the picture. While his colleagues struggle with the mass of clues, he lies on the brink of death, trapped with the horrors from his own hidden past. As Skinner's ordeal reaches its crescendo, the police pursue their suspects one by one, until at last they are brought to a dramatic, thrilling, but tragic conclusion.Read more in State Secrets - also featuring Bob Skinner. What readers are saying about Skinner's Ordeal: 'An excellent read, and one of the best thrillers in ages''What a book, what a story. Magnificent''A really gripping thriller, with many twists and turns'
Skinny Grilling: Over 100 Inventive Low-fat Recipes For Meats, Fish, Poultry, Vegetables And Desserts
by Barbara GrunesDecrease the fat, increase the flavor, and enjoy fun, festive barbecues with this cookbook from an author who “provides food inventions galore” (Booklist).In this creative cookbook, Barbara Grunes suggests various alternatives that keep your good health in mind while making your barbecue a meal to remember. Recipes are accompanied by nutritional breakdowns and range from appetizer to dessert, vegetarian to seafood, plus wok grilling dishes and a five-course Fourth of July feast. Learn to make:Smoked PizzaEggplant SteaksTeriyaki SalmonSteak KabobsSmoked Chicken, and much more
Skinny Pizza: Over 100 Healthy Recipes For America's Favorite Food
by Barbara GrunesCan pizza be good for you? These easy-as-pie recipes let you enjoy a slice of heaven—without sacrificing your health.With over a hundred recipes, this cookbook shows you how to enjoy a wide variety of pizzas without all the extra fat, cholesterol, and calories. Starting with simple recipes for crusts and sauces, Skinny Pizzas highlights toppings including fresh, low-fat, high-fiber vegetables, dairy products, fruits, poultry, meat, and fish. In addition, recipes are accompanied by diabetic exchanges and information on fat, cholesterol, sodium, calories, and percent of calories from fat. Learn to make:•Tomato-based pizzas: Shrimp, mushroom, chicken, spinach, peppers, artichoke, eggplant, and more•Non-tomato-based pizzas: Teriyaki, salmon, bok choy, clam, turkey, stir-fry, zucchini, and more•Pizza on the grill: Fajita, vegetarian, Thai-flavored, salsa, olive, ratatouille, mango, barbecue, and more•Specialty pizzas: Creole, Szechwan, smoked turkey, scallop, focaccia, crab cake, nacho, English muffin, and more•Dessert pizzas: Apple, cheesecake, rum-raisin, and more
Skinny Potatoes: Over 100 Delicious New Low-fat Recipes For The World's Most Versatile Vegetable
by Barbara GrunesOne potato, two potato, 100+ potato recipes that make the most of this low-fat potassium powerhouse—including one-course baked potato meals!Can the easy-to-cook, inexpensive, low-fat potato turn up with chicken and peanuts as the star of an exotic stir-fry? Can plump baked potatoes, topped with everything from shrimps and tofu to chicken and chili, win acclaim as delicious one-course meals? Yes—as these one-hundred-plus recipes prove!Barbara Grunes, nationally known for her innovative and nutritionally aware recipes, makes it easy for both novice and seasoned cooks to transform bakers, broilers, red, new, sweet, and every other kind of potato into imaginative appetizers, hearty soups, exciting stir-fries, ten different potato salads, a dozen outdoor barbecues, and delicious sides, breads—even desserts.And to “top” it off, Grunes presents no less than twenty-four luscious, low-fat toppings that recreate baked potatoes as main-course delights—Thai shrimp, eggplant Parmesan, ratatouille, Moroccan chicken, turkey chili, Cantonese stir-fry, Spanakopita, asparagus and mushrooms, tofu Veracruzana, Provencal vegetables, mushrooms and cheese, and many other ingredients. From Vichyssoise to Cuban mashed potato pudding to Bohemian dessert pancakes, this health-happy collection delivers both great taste and the incredible nutrition of the potato.
Skinny Seafood: Over 100 Delectable Low-fat Recipes For Preparing Nature's Underwater Bounty
by Barbara GrunesDive into the delights of seafood with over one hundred low-fat recipes, plus helpful shopping and preparation tips for the home cook.In this cookbook, Barbara Grunes shows how to make the most of seafood with low-fat, low-calorie recipes that allow the food’s natural flavor to be the focus of each dish. Most require minimal cooking time—and the emphasis is on herbs, spices, and fresh, natural ingredients rather than fat-laden oils and butter.Recipes are included for all types of seafood and the author offers tips on selecting, storing, and preparing it correctly. Start enjoying the bounty of the sea with fish and shellfish recipes like:Trout with Mango and Blueberry Sauce Salsa Red Snapper • Crabmeat Fu Yong • Sole and Shrimp with Tequila • Down East Grilled Lobster • Canadian Chowder • Teriyaki Bass • Mahimahi with Mint • Tuna Veracruz • Scallop Burritos • Magyar Fish Stew • Grouper with Bananas • Cajun Catfish • Jambalaya • Mongolian Seafood Hot Pot • Shrimp Pizza • Margarita Swordfish • Gumbo • and more
Skydive
by Gary PaulsenJesse Rodriguez has a pretty exciting job for a 13-year-old, working for his friend Buck at a small flight and skydiving school near Seattle. But he still can't wait to turn 16 and finally be old enough to make his first free-fall jump from a plane. Buck has been like a father to him ever since Jesse's dad died, and has made sure that Jesse picks up all he needs to know about skydiving while he does odd jobs around the airport.But Jesse and his friend Robin Waterford have also learned something very disturbing. Someone's been using the airport to smuggle members of a Central American drug cartel into the United States, and Jesse's worried that Buck is involved. Jesse and Robin find themselves in the middle of a dangerous international situation, and are forced to make their first jumps sooner than they ever expected!
Slam Dunk Sabotage (Hardy Boys Mystery Stories #140)
by Franklin W. DixonFrom the back of the book: FRANK AND JOE TAKE A SHOT AT #1...WHILE SOMEONE ELSE TAKES A SHOT AT THEM. THE HARDYS AND THEIR HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM, THE DAYPORT BOMBERS, ARE GETTING READY TO PLAY FOR THEIR CHAMPIONSHIP. ONE MORE VICTORY WILL PUT THEM ON TOP. BUT SOMEBODY'S GOT A DIFFERENT GAME PLAN! BLAST THE BOMBERS OUT OF CONTENTION BY KNOCKING FRANK AND JOE OUT OF THE WAY...FOR GOOD. BUT MORE THAN A BASKETBALL GAME IS AT STAKE. THE BOYS ARE CONVINCED THEY'RE FACING A BIG-LEAGUE SABOTEUR, A MYSTERIOUS CRIMINAL KINGPIN WILLING TO GO ALL OUT TO BLOW THEM AWAY. THE CLOCK IS RUNNING DOWN, AND IF FRANK AND JOE DON'T MAKE THE RIGHT MOVES, THEY COULD RUN OUT OF TIME...AND OUT OF LUCK! ======== From inside the book: Slam Dunk Sabotage Frank leaned over to Biff, who was sucking in deep breaths and gulping down his power drink. "It's up to you and me, big guy," he said. "If we can just hold on to the lead-" "Aaaaaghh!" Biff suddenly cried out. He clutched at his stomach, his face white as death. The plastic bottle he held slipped from his fingers, spilling the power drink on the gym floor. Lurching off the bench, Biff managed to stagger a couple of feet, his body crouched over. "Biff!" Frank yelled, jumping up to help. But before he could reach his friend, Biff folded in a spasm of pain. His legs went out from under him, and he crashed to the floor with a sickening thud!
Slam!
by Walter Dean MyersAn ALA Best Book: “A Harlem teenager learns to apply the will he has to win at hoops to other parts of his life in this vivid, fluent story.” —Kirkus ReviewsWinner of the Coretta Scott King AwardSeventeen-year-old Greg “Slam” Harris can do it all on the basketball court. He’s seen ballplayers come and go, and he knows he could be one of the lucky ones. Maybe he’ll make it to the top. Or maybe he’ll stumble along the way. Slam’s grades aren’t that hot. And when his teachers jam his troubles in his face, he blows up. Slam never doubted himself on the court—until he found himself going one-on-one with his own future, and he didn’t have the ball . . . From New York Times–bestselling author Walter Dean Myers, a National Book Award finalist in Young People’s Literature, this is an “admirably realistic coming of age novel” about the challenges of moving toward adulthood—and out of your comfort zone (Booklist, starred review).
Slaughterhouse-Five (Maxnotes Literature Guides)
by Tonnvane WiswellREA's MAXnotes for Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-Five MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each section of the work is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West
by David RieffIn a shocking and deeply disturbing tour de force, David Rieff, reporting from the Bosnia war zone and from Western capitals and United Nations headquarters, indicts the West and the United Nations for standing by and doing nothing to stop the genocide of the Bosnian Muslims. Slaughterhouse is the definitive explanation of a war that will be remembered as the greatest failure of Western diplomacy since the 1930s. Bosnia was more than a human tragedy. It was the emblem of the international community's failure and confusion in the post-Cold War era. In Bosnia, genocide and ethnic fascism reappeared in Europe for the first time in fifty years. But there was no will to confront them, either on the part of the United States, Western Europe, or the United Nations, for which the Bosnian experience was as catastrophic and demoralizing as Vietnam was for the United States. It is the failure and its implications that Rieff anatomizes in this unforgiving account of a war that might have been prevented and could have been stopped.
Slave Girls: The Shocking World of Human Bondage (St. Martin's True Crime Classics)
by Wensley Clarkson***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***Secret prisoners behind closed doors, they were real-life Cinderellas-- with no hope of rescue. Nowhere to run...nowhere to hide...nowhere to turn...Enter today's sordid world of slaves and masters, where innocent young girls are sold to the rich, and subjected to horrifying degradation.Beautiful Laxmi was the servant of two Arab princesses who regularly beat her and even yanked out her gold teeth. Bleeding and hysterical, she escaped-- only to be returned to the evil sisters.Helen was allowed two to four hours of sleep a night by the married couple who kept her. Rarely did a day pass that she wasn't slapped, kicked, punched, and beaten by this cruel doctor and his wife.Marita was sold by her husband to his best friend as a sex slave. He forced her to endure horrific beatings-- often locked in wooden stocks.Virtual captives in the mansions of the rich and famous, they risked their lives to tell their stories for the first time, in Wensley Clarkson's Slave Girls.
Slavery and the Founders: Dilemmas of Jefferson and His Contemporaries
by Paul FinkelmanThis text studies the attitudes of the founding "fathers" toward slavery. Specifically, it examines the views of Thomas Jefferson reflected in his life and writings and those of other founders as expressed in the Northwest Ordinance, the Constitutional Convention and the Constitution itself, and the fugitive slave legislation of the 1790s. The author contends: slavery fatally permeated the founding of the American republic; the original constitution was, as the abilitionists later maintained, "a covnenant with death"; and Jefferson's anti-slavery reputation is undeserved and most historians and biographers have prettified Jefferson's record on slavery.
Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons
by Ben RiggsRole-playing game historian Ben Riggs unveils the secret history of TSR— the company that unleashed imaginations with Dungeons & Dragons, was driven into ruin by disastrous management decisions, and then saved by their bitterest rival.Co-created by wargame enthusiasts Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, the original Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game released by TSR (Tactical Studies Rules) in 1974 created a radical new medium: the role-playing game. For the next two decades, TSR rocketed to success, producing multiple editions of D&D, numerous settings for the game, magazines, video games, New York Times bestselling novels by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, and R. A. Salvatore, and even a TV show! But by 1997, a series of ruinous choices and failed projects brought TSR to the edge of doom—only to be saved by their fiercest competitor, Wizards of the Coast, the company behind the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.Unearthed from Ben Riggs’s own adventurous campaign of in-depth research, interviews with major players, and acquisitions of secret documents, Slaying the Dragon reveals the true story of the rise and fall of TSR. Go behind the scenes of their Lake Geneva headquarters where innovative artists and writers redefined the sword and sorcery genre, managers and executives sabotaged their own success by alienating their top talent, ignoring their customer fanbase, accruing a mountain of debt, and agreeing to deals which, by the end, made them into a publishing company unable to publish so much as a postcard.As epic and fantastic as the adventures TSR published, Slaying the Dragon is the legendary tale of the rise and fall of the company that created the role-playing game world.