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[you] Ruined It for Everyone!: 101 People Who Screwed Things Up for the Rest of Us
by Matthew VincentEnergy sources are massively depleted. The government is wasteful and incompetent. The economy is imploding, the environment is toxic, and international terrorism threatens our day-to-day lives. And gum sucks. It just sucks. Who is responsible? Who made our world so dangerous, so unlivable, so stupid?Matthew Vincent is unafraid to name names. Who's to blame for the three-ounce rule on airplanes? Who came up with the bright idea of branding every single sports stadium? Who made curling an Olympic event? Which pope made celibacy mandatory? Who invented daylight saving time? (Who doesn't hate daylight saving time?)Here's a book that'll tell you who invented every unnecessary, annoying gadget that plagues modern life and haunts your dreams. It's a book to keep in your bathroom for perusal before you end up having to drink out of your toilet bowl because there's no potable water left in your hemisphere. Here's a book that'll tell you who ruined it for everyone.
[sic]: A Memoir
by Joshua Cody"The memoir of the year . . . a book in which the sentences swing into you like small, gleaming axes."--New York Times Joshua Cody, a brilliant young composer, was about to receive his PhD when he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Facing a bone marrow transplant and full radiation, he charts his struggle: the fury, the tendency to self-destruction, and the ruthless grasping for life and sensation; the encounter with beautiful Ariel, who gives him cocaine and a blow job in a Manhattan restaurant following his first treatment; the detailed morphine fantasy complete with a bride called Valentina while, in reality, hospital staff are pinning him to his bed. Moving effortlessly between references to Don Giovanni and the Rolling Stones, Ezra Pound and Buffalo Bill, and studded with pages from his own diaries and hospital notebooks, [sic] is a mesmerizing, hallucinatory glimpse into a young man's battle against disease and a celebration of art, language, music, and life.
[riot]
by Walter Dean MyersAs the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines. During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft-a draft that would allow the wealthy to escape serving in the army by paying a $300 waiver, more than a year's income for the recent immigrant Irish. And on July 11, as the first drawing takes place in Lower Manhattan, the city of New York explodes in rage and fire. Stores are looted; buildings, including the Colored Foundling Home, are burned down; and black Americans are attacked, beaten, and murdered. The police cannot hold out against the rioters, and finally, battle-hardened soldiers are ordered back from the fields of Gettysburg to put down the insurrection, which they do-brutally. Fifteen-year-old Claire, the beloved daughter of a black father and Irish mother, finds herself torn between the two warring sides. Faced with the breakdown of the city-the home-she has loved, Claire must discover the strength and resilience to address the new world in which she finds herself, and to begin the hard journey of remaking herself and her identity. Addressing such issues as race, bigotry, and class head-on, Walter Dean Myers has written another stirring and exciting novel that will shake up assumptions, and lift the spirit.From the Hardcover edition.
[boxhead]
by Darren O'DonnellDr. Thoughtless Actions, a young geneticist, awakes one morning to find a cardboard box secured to his head. Unable to wrench it off, he attempts suicide, not only failing but also, unbeknownst to himself, cloning himself, creating Dr. Wishful Thinking. The two losers fall in love, fall in science, and fail to make a baby. Their conversation, an intricately woven semantic circus, traverses boxedness, love, and the more ridiculous areas of metaphysical speculation. Through a series of rapid exchanges, verbal games, and musical numbers, they discover that all their thoughts come from God, all their words come from the devil, and their desire for love is a habit acquired from the cinema. Sound familiar? Don't be so hard on yourself. [boxhead]: a bedtime story for your brain.
[Unawareness voor ] hypoglykemie
by Th. F. VenemanDiabetes neemt wereldwijd ongekende vormen aan. Geschat wordt dat er in 2030 350 miljoen diabetespatiënten zullen zijn. Goede metabole regulatie is van groot belang voor patiënten met diabetes mellitus. Echter het streven naar lagere plasmaglucoseconcentraties gaat onlosmakelijk gepaard met een groter risico op het ontstaan van hypoglykemie. In dit boek wordt het fenomeen 'hypoglykemie' en unawareness voor hypoglykemie uitvoerig beschreven. Er wordt aandacht besteed aan de fysiologie en de pathofysiologie van hypoglykemie en de afweer daartegen. Ook beschrijft de auteur de gevolgen van hypoglykemie in de dagelijkse praktijk. [Unawareness voor] Hypoglykemie geeft de lezer meer inzicht in de mogelijkheden en risico's van strikte metabole regulatie.
[T]axing Greenhouse Gases: An Australian Perspective
by Lex FullartonLex Fullarton takes a closer look at the three pillars of the sustainable development framework known as the “Triple Bottom Line” (TBL). The concept of the TBL is that for a project to be sustainable it must not simply be profitable in economic terms, but it must also benefit society and enhance the natural environment. In the twenty-first century, the greatest threat to Earth’s natural environment and the population of the planet is the rise of greenhouse gas emissions caused from burning fossil fuel as an energy source. The rise of GHG emissions has resulted in a rise in the ambient air temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and is resulting in a significant change in climatic conditions on Earth.Fullarton scrutinizes the problem of getting industry and governments to understand the significance of creating harmony within the TBL. One of the main problems is that partisan politics tends to fragment the factors of the TBL rather than bring them together. Fullarton takes a strong stand in suggesting that taxation systems, which have traditionally been viewed primarily as a means of raising government finance, can be effectively applied to influence industrial and consumer attitudes towards transiting away from polluting fossil-fuel energy sources towards non-polluting renewable energy use.
[Scribner's] Stories by English Authors in France
by Louise de la RaméeA LODGING FOR THE NIGHT by R. L. Stevenson A LEAF IN THE STORM by Ouida A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED by Wilkie Collins MICHEL LORIO'S CROSS by Hesba Stretton A PERILOUS AMOUR by Stanley J. Weyman
[Eureka! Student Inventor] Inventor's Notebook (Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts, Grade 4 #Unit 4)
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[Eureka! Student Inventor] Eureka! Files: Reader (Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts, Grade 4 #Unit 4)
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[...After the Media]: News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century (Univocal)
by Siegfried ZielinskiThe media are now redundant. In an overview of developments spanning the past seventy years, Siegfried Zielinski&’s [ . . . After the Media] discusses how the means of technology-based communication assumed a systemic character and how theory, art, and criticism were operative in this process. Media-explicit thinking is contrasted with media-implicit thought. Points of contact with an arts perspective include a reinterpretation of the artist Nam June Paik and an introduction to the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman. The essay ends with two appeals. In an outline of a precise philology of exact things, Zielinski suggests possibilities of how things could proceed after the media. With a vade mecum against psychopathia medialis in the form of a manifesto, the book advocates for a distinction to be made between online existence and offline being.
[ ] With Design: Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR 2021)
by Gerhard Bruyns Huaxin WeiThis collection stems from the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) congress in 2021, promoting the research of design in its many fields of application. Today's design finds itself at a critical moment where the conventional ‘modes’ of doing, thinking and application are increasingly challenged by the troubled ideology of globalisation, climate change, migration patterns and the rapid restructuring of locally driven manufacturing sectors. The volume presents a selection of papers on state-of-the-art design research work. As rapid technological development has been pushing and breaking new ground in society, the broad field of design is facing many unprecedented changes. In combination with the environmental, cultural, technological, and, crucially, pandemic transitions, design at large is called to fundamentally alter its modes of practice. Beyond the conventional models of conducting research, or developing solutions to ‘wicked’ problems, the recoupling of design with different modes should be seen as an expression to embrace other capacities of thinking, criticisms and productions. This selection of proceedings papers delivers the latest insights into design from a multitude of perspectives, as reflected in the eight thematic modes of the congress ; i.e., [social] , [making] , [business] , [critical], [historical/projective], [impact], [pandemic], and [alternative] with design modes. The book benefits design researchers from both academia and industry who are interested in the latest design research results, as well as in innovative design research methods. In presenting an interesting corpus of design case studies as well as studies of design impact, this comprehensive collection is of relevance to design theorists and students, as well as scholars in related fields seeking to understand how design plays a critical role in their respective domains.
Zöopedagogies: Creatures as Teachers in Middle English Romance
by Bonnie J. ErwinThe human protagonists of medieval romance are works in progress. They are learners, taught by an unexpected set of teachers: non-human animals including horses, hawks, lions, and the various quarry of the hunt. These "creature teachers" show humans how to be more perfectly human—how to love, fight, survive, and live according to medieval culture’s highest ideals. Zöopedagogies explores the pedagogical role of animals in medieval romance, a genre whose fantastical elements enable animal characters to behave in ways inspired by, but not limited to their real-world actions. Situated at the intersection of animal studies and medieval studies, Zöopedagogies claims medieval roots for posthumanism by telling a new story about the role of animals in constructing Western culture. Bonnie Erwin brings together a diverse array of texts, including chivalric romances like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and popular romances like Bevis of Hampton and Richard Coer de Lyon. She puts these into conversation with medieval texts on natural science, horsemanship, hawking, and hunting that inform the representation of creatures who teach. In so doing, she reveals a rich and nuanced sense of animals as participants in interspecies collaborative culture-making.
Zênite: O Projeto Intercessão: Livro Um (O Projeto Intercessão #1)
by Arshad AhsanuddinE se você pudesse mudar a história? E se alguém já tivesse? Aterrado após uma tentativa de resgate em órbita terrestre, o comandante Martin Atkins, da Marinha da Confederação, é abordado pelo Interscission Project, um consórcio de empresas civis à beira de aperfeiçoar a tecnologia para viajar para outra estrela. Apesar de suas dúvidas, a chance de voltar ao lugar do piloto é grande demais, e ele convence seu melhor amigo e colega de equipe, Charles Davenport, a deixar as forças armadas temporariamente e se juntar a ele como parte da tripulação do Zenith, a humanidade. primeira nave estelar. Edward Harlen é um jovem engenheiro brilhante e um participante importante na construção do Zenith para tirar proveito da tecnologia não testada da unidade de espaço dobrável. Mas Edward tem sua própria agenda para ingressar no projeto e uma pontuação amargamente pessoal para acertar com seu chefe, Trevor Sutton, uma vingança da qual Trevor é totalmente ignorante. Mas quando a irmã de Edward, Stella, entra em cena e consegue garantir uma posição no projeto, toda a trama cuidadosa de Edward fica perturbada, e ela pode significar a queda não apenas de seus planos de vingança, mas de toda a missão Zenith. A centelha de atração entre Edward e Martin é uma complicação que Edward não pode pagar, mas da qual ele não pode deixar de ir. Pois Edward conhece o segredo no coração do Interscission Project, o potencial oculto da tecnologia que em mãos erradas pode se tornar a arma definitiva do assassino: a capacidade de reescrever a história, não apenas uma vez, mas muitas vezes. À medida que um inimigo invisível se move para destruí-los, e a contagem de corpos se multiplica, Martin e Edward devem escolher se permitirão que a possibilidade do amor desafie seus destinos, ou então pegarão em armas em uma guerra para controlar o máximo possível. poder antigo e terrível no universo.
Zärtlich ist die Nacht (Classics To Go)
by F. FitzgeraldZärtlich ist die Nacht, englischer Originaltitel Tender is the Night, ist ein Roman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers F. Scott Fitzgerald, der zum ersten Mal 1934 veröffentlicht wurde. Der autobiographisch geprägte Roman kritisiert die Mitglieder der in Europa lebenden amerikanischen Finanzaristokratie. Der Titel ist ein Zitat aus John Keats' „Ode an eine Nachtigall“ (Ode to a Nightingale), das dem Roman auch als Motto vorangestellt ist. (Wikipedia)
Zäpfel Kerns Abenteuer (Classics To Go)
by Otto BierbaumOtto Julius Bierbaum (* 28. Juni 1865 in Grünberg in Schlesien; † 1. Februar 1910 in Dresden, auch bekannt unter den Pseudonymen Martin Möbius und Simplicissimus,war ein deutscher Journalist, Redakteur, Schriftsteller und Librettist. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)
Zählverfahren und Lastannahme in der Betriebsfestigkeit
by Kurt Pötter Michael Köhler Sven Jenne Harald ZennerDie Betriebsfestigkeitsprüfung von Bauteilen ist u. a. erforderlich, um ihre Lebensdauer zu berechnen. Dazu werden verschiedene Methoden angewendet, die jeweils Vor- und Nachteile aufweisen. Bei schwingender Beanspruchung ist die Methode der Zählverfahren geeignet. Sie wird in dem vorliegenden Buch beschrieben und bewertet. Die Autoren bieten einen kompakten Überblick über den Stand der Technik und liefern Empfehlungen für die Anwendung in der Praxis.
Zähle die Stunden
by Daniela Maizner Lorena Franco„Wer das Böse nicht bestraft, befiehlt, dass es getan werde.“ Leonardo da Vinci ZÄHLE DIE STUNDEN: Alte Geheimnisse, Angst, Schuld und Verlangen sind die Zutaten für einen aufwühlenden Psychothriller voller überraschender Wendungen. Eines Morgens wird Josh Parker, Creative Direktor, einer renommierten New Yorker Werbeagentur brutal ermordet aufgefunden. Sandra Levy, seine Assistentin, ist die letzte Person, die ihn lebend gesehen hat. Gemeinsam mit Inspector Paul Tischmann versucht sie, das mysteriöse Verbrechen aufzuklären und einen Mörder zu stellen, der scheinbar keine Fehler begangen hat. Die Perspektiven von Sandra und Paul wechseln einander ab und enthüllen Schritt für Schritt immer neue Abgründe und Rätsel, auf die auch die Protagonisten nicht gefasst sind. Ein packender Thriller ‒ fesselnd bis zur letzten Seite.
Zynga (A)
by Mikolaj Jan Piskorski David ChenIn January 2010 Mark Pincus is deciding how to double the number of Zynga games' players to 500 million without sacrificing profitability. These ambitious growth plans required changes to product, corporate strategy, and customer acquisition and retention. With regard to product Pincus needed to decide to invest in evolving the successful games or develop new games. With regard to corporate strategy, Pincus had to choose whether each game should compete on its own, or force every game to build functionalities that support other Zynga games too. Finally, to ensure customer acquisition and retention Pincus faced the choice between deepening commitment to Facebook or developing its own distribution channels.
Zynara the Striped Prowler: Series 32 Book 2 (Beast Quest #1131)
by Adam BladeNolan and the rest of the New Protectors are facing their greatest challenge yet. The wizard Daltec has been struck down by a magical curse, and the land of Tangala is in grave danger from the sorceress Zuba, who wants to destroy the kingdom forever. But when the brave young fighters and their mystical animal companions set off on their Quest to fight back against Zuba, a great storm leaves them stranded. Lost in a dense forest, can Nolan track down and defeat a fearsome monster that can hide itself in plain sight? The fate of Tangala depends on him and his friends!There are FOUR thrilling adventures to collect in the latest set of this beloved series - don't miss out! Dolrus the Spiked Destroyer; Zynara the Striped Prowler; Makroxa the Tunnelling Terror and Kyropta the Skeleton Eagle.
Zymurgy: Best Articles
by Charles PapazianSince 1978, Zymurgy magazine, official journal of the American Homebrewers Association, has served homebrewers with recipes, practical tips, debates, lore and entertainment. Now Charlie Papazian, founder of the magazine and first name in homebrewing, has combed through classic issues of Zymurgy for this unprecedented collection, packed with popular, timeless homebrewing wisdom for beginners and advanced homebrewers alike-- Award-winning homebrew recipes, and recipes that use your brew as a cook ingredient Whats in your water--and why finding out can make all the difference to your beer How to make exotic brews like stone beer, Swedish gotlandscrika or Dusseldorf Altbier Switching to gain brewing--all you need to know about malts and malt extract How to make authentic English bitters and serve it properly at home How to construct a homemade bottle filler Experimenting wit herbs, spices and different strains of yeast for new tastes in your home brew And, much, much more!
Zymography: Principles, Process, and Pitfalls, Volume 1 (Methods in Molecular Biology #2917)
by Raouf A. KhalilBack Cover Copy Volume 1 in this book describes how to determine the activity of different isozymes, allozymes, and families of proteinases to advance the fields of enzymology and molecular evolution, and provides useful biomarkers for various biological processes, pathological conditions, and clinical disorders. The chapters in Volume 1 are organized in four parts. Part I introduces gelatin zymography principle, method and precautions, and a practical view of zymography. Part II provides details on the use of zymography to assess various endopeptidases, and includes updates on protease zymography, protocols for gelatin zymography, detection of gelatinases by substrate zymography, unveiling matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) dynamics, and measuring MMPs activity by gelatin zymography. Part III includes chapters on one- and two-dimensional zymography for assessing proteases, loading-controlled zymography, and the use of gel diffusion-based gelatin zymography to analyze MMP-2 and MMP-9 activity in cell culture. Part IV focuses on the use of zymography to assess protease inhibitors and includes chapters that describe polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis as a tool to identify potential inhibitors of protein glycation and analyze glycation-induced protein cross-linking inhibition, kinetics of protease thermal inactivation, and reversible inhibition of cysteine proteases. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Cutting-edge and thorough, Zymography: Principles, Process, and Pitfalls, Volume I is a valuable resource for both experts in the field, as well as new scientists aspiring to learn and perform successful zymography techniques.
Zymography: Biological and Clinical Applications, Volume 2 (Methods in Molecular Biology #2918)
by Raouf A. KhalilVolume 2 describes how to determine the activity of different isozymes, allozymes, and families of proteinases to advance the fields of enzymology and molecular evolution, and provides useful biomarkers for various biological processes, pathological conditions, and clinical disorders. The chapters in Volume 2 are organized in three parts. Part I introduces in situ zymography and localization of bright green-fluorescent gelatinase activity in tissue sections, in situ zymography in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded and mineralized tissues, and in vivo zymography as an essential activity assay for studying the activity of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in a cell-specific manner in the brain. Part II focuses on biological applications of zymography such as fundamentals of zymography and its applications to the study of biological samples, gelatin zymography to quantify MMP-2 and MMP-9 in complex biological specimens, and detection of proteolytic enzymes in polyacrylamide gels supplemented with diverse biological substrates. Part III focuses on potential clinical applications of zymography, with chapters describing assessment of MMP-2 and MMP-9 hydrolytic activity in preclinical and clinical tissue samples, the use of zymography to assess circulating MMP-2 and MMP-9 in plasma and serum and in pathological conditions, and the use of zymography for the detection of bacterial proteases. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.Cutting-edge and thorough, Zymography: Biological and Clinical Applications, Volume II is a valuable resource for both experts in the field, as well as new scientists aspiring to learn and perform successful zymography techniques.
Zymography
by Jeff Wilkesman Liliana KurzThis detailed volume examines the latest techniques and protocols associated with zymography, the practice of detecting enzyme activity on electrophoretic gels. Sections cover subjects such as endopeptidase zymography, reverse zymography & in situ zymography, 2D zymography, as well as a variety of special cases. Written in the highly respected Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include brief introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Comprehensive and practical, Zymography: Methods and Protocols serves as an ideal aid for a broad array of researchers from the fields of biological and medicinal science, as well as scientists working in clinical and diagnostic medicine, medical genetics, agricultural entomology, genetic monitoring of environmental pollution, and forensic science.
Zyla & Kai
by Kristina ForestA fresh new YA romance novel by Kristina Forest, Zyla & Kai is an epic star-crossed love story about first love and not just the will they, won't they - but why can't they?While on a school trip to the Poconos Mountains, Zyla and Kai run away together, leaving their friends and family confused. As far as everyone knows, they've been broken up for months.And honestly? Their break-up hadn't surprised anyone. Zyla, a cynic about love, met Kai, a hopeless romantic, while working together at an amusement park the previous summer, and they couldn't have been more different.Alternating between the past and present, we see the love story unfold from Zyla and Kai's perspectives: how they first became the unlikeliest of friends over the summer, how they fell in love during the school year, and why they ultimately broke up. Or did they?
Zyla & Kai
by Kristina ForestA fresh love story about the will they, won't they—and why can't they—of first love. While on a school trip to the Poconos Mountains (in the middle of a storm) high school seniors, Zyla Matthews and Kai Johnson, run away together leaving their friends and family confused. As far as everyone knows, Zyla and Kai have been broken up for months. And honestly? Their break up hadn't surprised anyone. Zyla and Kai met while working together at an amusement park the previous summer, and they couldn't have been more different. Zyla was a cynic about love. She'd witnessed the dissolution of her parents' marriage early in life, and it left an indelible impression. Her only aim was graduating and going to fashion school abroad. Until she met Kai. Kai was a serial dater and a hopeless romantic. He'd put a temporary pause on his dating life before senior year to focus on school and getting into his dream HBCU. Until he met Zyla. Alternating between the past and present, we see the love story unfold from Zyla's and Kai's perspectives: how they first became the unlikeliest of friends over the summer, how they fell in love during the school year, and why they ultimately broke up... Or did they? Romantic, heart-stirring, and a little mysterious, Zyla & Kai will keep readers guessing until the last chapter.