In The Secret Lives of Teen Girls, Evelyn Resh, the mother of a teenage daughter and a certified nurse-midwife specializing in the treatment of teenage girls, explores the mysterious world of female, adolescent sexuality and how parents—especially mothers—can help their daughters through this tumultuous time. Secrets divulged by teenage girls during consultation have made Resh realize that, with rare exception, most adolescents are left to develop a sexual identity without any adult guidance and often without the most basic knowledge of what is happening to them physically and emotionally. She also realized that many girls are frequently subject to criticism and shaming about their normal, adolescent behavior. Resh believes these issues are what underlie many of the problems teens face during this crucial step into becoming a fully developed adult woman capable of making good, sound, safe, and independent decisions throughout life. Through compelling, frank, and sometimes humorous stories from both Resh and her patients, The Secret Lives of Teenage Girls explains to parents just want is going on with their teenage daughters during this essential phase of their development. She discusses many of the complicated problems she's seen in practice, including not just sexual activity but also eating disorders, substance abuse, mental illness, unplanned pregnancies, violence, and STDs. She also looks at less serious but still troubling issues like under-achievement, battles with parents, and lack of emotional and social support. In this insightful book, Resh provides parents with the tools to help their teen daughters negotiate the waters of their sexual development and emerge with their strength, their sexuality, and their self image intact.

"This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the 'living' traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their origins and the modes of production that are used. Several articles use modern literary theory on aspects of early drama, whilst others consider drama in the context of late medieval poetry. The volume also includes a rich collection of articles on English scriptural plays from surviving manuscripts"-- Provided by publisher

This book is in two volumes, and is intended as a text for introductory courses in probability and statistics at the second or third year university level. It emphasizes applications and logical principles rather than math ematical theory. A good background in freshman calculus is sufficient for most of the material presented. Several starred sections have been included as supplementary material. Nearly 900 problems and exercises of varying difficulty are given, and Appendix A contains answers to about one-third of them. The first volume (Chapters 1-8) deals with probability models and with mathematical methods for describing and manipulating them. It is similar in content and organization to the 1979 edition. Some sections have been rewritten and expanded-for example, the discussions of independent random variables and conditional probability. Many new exercises have been added. In the second volume (Chapters 9-16), probability models are used as the basis for the analysis and interpretation of data. This material has been revised extensively. Chapters 9 and 10 describe the use of the like lihood function in estimation problems, as in the 1979 edition. Chapter 11 then discusses frequency properties of estimation procedures, and in troduces coverage probability and confidence intervals. Chapter 12 de scribes tests of significance, with applications primarily to frequency data. Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2012

Enraged at not being invited to the princess's christening, a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.

<p>Based on extensive archival research, this volume examines the early growth of Barcelona in order to understand the causes of the European economic take-off. The city did not at first grow because of overseas trade but because of market-oriented agriculture and tribute from Islamic Spain. Only after a difficult adjustment did the city develop the commercial foundations that would later ensure its prosperity. Barcelona's patriciate rose to prominence during the second stage of growth, also a period dominated by a struggle for power in Catalonia. Here, the family structure of the patriciate receives close examination, and in general the volume challenges many traditional assumptions about the nature of Mediterranean towns.</p>

1. History of electrophysiology and the patch clamp / Alexei Verkhratsky and Vladimir Parpura 2. Whole-cell patch-clamp analysis of recombinant NMDA receptor pharmacology using brief glutamate applications / Nathan G. Glasgow and Jon W. Johnson 3. Patch clamp combined with voltage/concentration clamp to determine the kinetics and voltage dependency on N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor open channel blockers / Chris G. Parsons and Kate E. Gilling 4. State-of-the-art automated patch clamp: heat activation, action potentials, and high throughput in ion channel screening / Sonja Stoelzle-Feix 5. Industrializing electrophysiology: HT automated patch clamp on SyncroPatch96 using instant frozen cells / Liudmila Polonchuk 6. Planar patch clamp for neuronal networks - considerations and future perspectives / Alessandro Bosca, Marzia Martina, and Christophe Py 7. Methods for the study of synaptic receptor functional properties / Enrica Maria Petrini and Andrea Barberis 8. Single cell RT-PCR, a technique to decipher the electrical, anatomical, and genetic determinants of neuronal diversity / Maria Toledo-Rodriguez and Henry Markham 9. Whole-cell voltage clamp on skeletal muscle fibers with the silicone-clamp technique / Romain Lefebvre, Sandrine Pouvreau, Claude Collet, Bruno Allard, and Vincent Jacquemond 10. Multiphoton imaging approaches for studying striatal dendritic excitability / Joshua L. Plotkin and D. James Surmeier 11. Investigation of synaptic microcircuits using patch-clamp paired recordings in acute brain slices / Giovanni Russo and Stefano taverna 12. Outside-out "sniffer-patch" clamp technique for in situ measures of neurotransmitter release / Émilie Muller-Chrétien 13. A cost-effective method for preparing, maintaining, and transfecting neurons in organotypic slices / Cary Soares, Kevin F.H. Lee, Denise Cook and Jean-Claude Béïque 14. Acute brain slice methods for adult and aging animals: application of targeted patch clamp analysis and optogenetics / Jonathan T. Ting, Tanya L. Daigle, Qian Chen and Guoping Feng 15. Synaptic connectivity in engineered neuronal networks / Peter Molnar, Jung-Fong Kang, Neelima Bhargava, Mainak Das and James J. Hickman 16. Modeling of action potential generation in NG108-15 cells / Peter Molnar and James J. Hickman 17. Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings in freely moving animals / Albert K. Lee, Jâerãome Epsztein and Michael Brecht 18. Pressure-polished borosilicate pipettes are "universal sealer" yielding low access resistance and efficient intracellular perfusion / Marco Aquila, Mascia Benedusi, Anna Fasoli and Giorgio Rispoli 19. Current recordings at the single channel level in adult mammalian isolated cardiomyocytes / Romain Guinamard, Thomas Hof, and Laurent Sallâe 20. Dynamic clamp as a tool to study the functional effects of individual membrane currents / Géza Berecki, Arie O. Verkerk, Antoni C.G. van Ginneken and Ronald Wilders 21. Dynamic clamp in cardiac and neuronal systems using RTXI / Francis A. Ortega, Robert J. Butera, David J. Christini, John A. White and Alan D. Dorval II 22. Ion selectivity of pore-forming peptides and ion channels measured in xenopus oocytes / Thierry Cens and Pierre Charnet 23. Principles of single-channel kinetic analysis / Feng Qin.

SAILING IS MADDIE CRAMER'S ESCAPE Now she's counting on it to bring her closer to the biological father she's just met. But her chances of winning the regatta--and his approval--are in jeopardy unless she can find a new crewmate. Enter Grady Stone, a perfect fit for Maddie's crew in more ways than one. Maddie and Grady grow close as they spend time together on the water. But Maddie, wary of emotional entanglement, guards her heart closely. And Grady's here only to help Maddie win the race, then he's off to a new job. The day of the race will test their ability to sail together--and the trueness of their love.

The Stanislaskis: an unforgettable family saga by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts Frederica Kimball had been waiting all her life...waiting to grow up...waiting forever for the day when Nicholas LeBeck would fall as desperately in love with her as she had always been with him. Nick didn't know what had hit him. Sweet, adorable Freddie, whom he'd always loved like a kid sister, was suddenly all woman. And his feelings for her were anything but brotherly!

“With a varied cast of characters and an action-packed plot, Elvina's Mirror will keep the young reader's interest from beginning to end.” -- AJL Newsletter The tale of Rashi's granddaughter, a young girl who defies her community to help a friend in need; In this sequel to My Guardian Angel, Sylvie Weil continues the story of Elvina, the 14-year-old granddaughter of Rashi, the famous 11th-century French Bible and Talmud commentator. It is the spring of 1097 in the town of Troyes, in France. The Crusaders have been marauding their way through Europe, attacking Jewish communities. One evening, a mysterious family arrives in Troyes--German Jews forced by the Crusaders to submit to baptism. The townspeople shun the family, but Elvina befriends 11-year-old Columba. Columba's mad cousin, Ephraim, steals a mirror from a member of the Jewish community, believing it will let him see his family killed in the recent attacks. Elvina tries to help Ephraim rid his mind of the terrible images by bringing him her own mirror, in which she claims to see a positive future. Elvina's story brings the often-ignored world of Medieval European Jewry to life for young readers

Since its inception, patch-clamp has continued to be widely considered the gold standard method to record ion channel activity. __Patch-Clamp Methods and Protocols, Second Edition__, provides a comprehensive collection of new techniques for the development of automated, high-throughput screening systems for pharmacological evaluation, the use of various patch-clamp configurations together with novel molecular biological and imaging methodologies and enhanced stimulation protocols and perfusion systems. Divided into sections on pharmacology, physiology and biophysics, the chapters cover methods to generate more physiologically relevant conditions for drug application and screening technologies, recently developed applications such as optogenetic stimulation, advances in whole-cell recordings in freely-moving animals and novel technologies to create custom microelectrodes designed for reducing the access resistance and improving the rate of molecular diffusion. Patch-clamp is an indispensable technique for conducting pharmacological, physiological and biophysical research aimed at understanding crucial aspects of cellular and network function. Written in the 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 protocols and notes on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and easily accessible, __Patch-Clamp Methods and Protocols, Second Edition__ will provide a useful technical and methodological guide to diverse audiences of electrophysiologists, from students to experienced investigators.

This book is intended to give the reader an opportunity to master solving PDE problems. Our main goal was to have a concise text that would cover the classical tools of PDE theory that are used in today’s science and engineering, such as characteristics, the wave propagation, the Fourier method, distributions, Sobolev spaces, fundamental solutions, and Green’s functions. While introductory Fourier method – based PDE books do not give an adequate description of these areas, the more advanced PDE books are quite theoretical and require a high level of mathematical background from a reader. This book was written specifically to fill this gap, satisfying the demand of the wide range of end users who need the knowledge of how to solve the PDE problems and at the same time are not going to specialize in this area of mathematics. Arguably, this is the shortest PDE course, which stretches far beyond common, Fourier method – based PDE texts. For example, [Hab03], which is a common thorough textbook on partial differential equations, teaches a similar set of tools while being about five times longer.

<br> Frederica Kimball had been waiting all her life...waiting to grow up...waiting to become a woman...waiting for the day when Nicholas LeBeck would fall as desperately in love with her as she had always been with him... <p>Now, at last, she was ready!</p> <p>Nick didn't know what hit him. Sweet, adorable Freddie, whom he'd always loved like a kid sister, was suddenly looking and acting like a woman--and WHAT a woman! And she was making him feel things no brother ought to feel. The waiting was over...but the wanting had just begun...</p>

This book is intended to give the reader an opportunity to master solving PDE problems. Our main goal was to have a concise text that would cover the classical tools of PDE theory that are used in today’s science and engineering, such as characteristics, the wave propagation, the Fourier method, distributions, Sobolev spaces, fundamental solutions, and Green’s functions. While introductory Fourier method – based PDE books do not give an adequate description of these areas, the more advanced PDE books are quite theoretical and require a high level of mathematical background from a reader. This book was written specifically to fill this gap, satisfying the demand of the wide range of end users who need the knowledge of how to solve the PDE problems and at the same time are not going to specialize in this area of mathematics. Arguably, this is the shortest PDE course, which stretches far beyond common, Fourier method – based PDE texts. For example, [Hab03], which is a common thorough textbook on partial differential equations, teaches a similar set of tools while being about five times longer.

The Backyardigans are back in this Level 1 Ready-to-Read book with rebus icons! Lady Tasha really wants to get into the Spiffy Club. But when pests invade her house on the day Mr. Spiffy is coming to do an inspection, it's a job for the Best Pest Control! This funny story is perfect for emerging readers and is based on a favorite episode.

This richly illustrated history shows the immense challenges American women faced on the home front and in the battle zone in World War II as pilots, shipbuilders, victory gardeners, war correspondents, flight nurses, military recruits, OSS agents, and much more. The pressures of World War II on the home front and overseas thrust women into roles previously denied them by custom and law, and generated impressive new capabilities. With the men gone, 19 million women stepped up to factory, farm and office jobs of every kind to keep the nation running. They also salvaged an incredible array of needed commodities, recycling everything from nylons to bacon fat. In victory gardens and neighborhood canning centers, women joined together to preserve local foods and ensure food security. Their resilience and hard work did not end on the home front. Overseas, as front line nurses, WACs, USO and Hollywood entertainers, spies, resistance leaders, Red Cross volunteers and even prisoners of war, women risked the intensity and violence of the combat zone. When people think of women in World War II, they envision Rosie the Riveter or the kiss in Times Square. Women did that and so much more. When Our Mothers Went to War intermixes hundreds of photographs and a concise overview of the war with women's personal stories to show the courage and accomplishments of U.S. women in a dangerous time. Includes 280 photos and illustrations, bibliography, chronology and index.

In 1996 the world commemorates the 900th anniversary of the First Crusade or, more precisely, of the pogroms unleashed by the crusade upon the Jews of the Rhineland. In the Year 1096 ... presents a clear, highly readable chronicle of the events of 1096. Noted teacher and historian Robert Chazan brings readers to critical moments in Jewish history, illuminating the events themselves, their antecedents, and their far-reaching consequences. Equally important, his book assesses the significance of the events of 1096 within the larger framework of Jewish history, including both the scope of persecution and the record of Jewish resistance. He has created a dramatic portrait of the clash between three conflicting forces in medieval Europe: the German crusaders, the Rhineland burghers, and the Rhineland Jews. His book provides an extensive look at the Christian assaults and the intense Jewish responses, with much material translated directly from remarkable Hebrew narratives which are admirable for both the vividness of their description and the complexity of the portrait they provide. Chazan tells the story of 1096 in "grays," not blacks and whites; that is, he relates stories of Christian enemies, but also of Christian friends, and of Jewish martyrs, but also of Jewish negotiators and converts. The author devotes the second half of In the Year 1096 ... to tracing these events through the intervening nine centuries of Jewish history. In the second part he surveys the Jewish perception of 1096 over the ages, including both the neglect of these events in some quarters and their emphasis in others; he places 1096 within the lengthy history of anti-Jewish actions and thinking, and examines the unusual behaviors of the Rhineland Jews within the context of historic Jewish responses to persecution

This book is intended to give the reader an opportunity to master solving PDE problems. Our main goal was to have a concise text that would cover the classical tools of PDE theory that are used in today’s science and engineering, such as characteristics, the wave propagation, the Fourier method, distributions, Sobolev spaces, fundamental solutions, and Green’s functions. While introductory Fourier method – based PDE books do not give an adequate description of these areas, the more advanced PDE books are quite theoretical and require a high level of mathematical background from a reader. This book was written specifically to fill this gap, satisfying the demand of the wide range of end users who need the knowledge of how to solve the PDE problems and at the same time are not going to specialize in this area of mathematics. Arguably, this is the shortest PDE course, which stretches far beyond common, Fourier method – based PDE texts. For example, [Hab03], which is a common thorough textbook on partial differential equations, teaches a similar set of tools while being about five times longer.

This book is intended to give the reader an opportunity to master solving PDE problems. Our main goal was to have a concise text that would cover the classical tools of PDE theory that are used in today’s science and engineering, such as characteristics, the wave propagation, the Fourier method, distributions, Sobolev spaces, fundamental solutions, and Green’s functions. While introductory Fourier method – based PDE books do not give an adequate description of these areas, the more advanced PDE books are quite theoretical and require a high level of mathematical background from a reader. This book was written specifically to fill this gap, satisfying the demand of the wide range of end users who need the knowledge of how to solve the PDE problems and at the same time are not going to specialize in this area of mathematics. Arguably, this is the shortest PDE course, which stretches far beyond common, Fourier method – based PDE texts. For example, [Hab03], which is a common thorough textbook on partial differential equations, teaches a similar set of tools while being about five times longer.

Murder in the Mountains: The Muriel Baldridge Story revisits the slaying of Muriel Baldridge, the 17-year old high school cheerleader who was found beaten to death on the morning of June 28, 1949 in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. After a decades-long investigation that featured an amazing array of twists and turns, including a sensational trial and a controversial verdict, the case remains unsolved. To this day Muriel's murder is considered "the most bizarre and confusing case in the annuals of Eastern Kentucky crime."

Product DescriptionProfessional mercenary Dare Macintosh lives by one hard and fast rule: business should never be personal. If a cause appeals to him and the price is right, he'll take the mission he's offered. But then the lovely Molly Alexander asks him to help her track down the men who'd had her kidnapped—and for the first time, Dare's tempted to combine work with pleasure.Fiercely independent, Molly vows to trust no one until she's uncovered the truth. Could the enemy be her powerful estranged father? The ex-fiancé who still holds a grudge? Or the not-so-shy fan of her bestselling novels? As the danger heats up around them, the only anchor Molly has is Dare himself. But what she feels for him just might be the most frightening thing of all.... Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Midnight came and went with only the quiet buzz of meager traffic along the beach. An occasional horn blew or tires squealed. Two people exited a bar nearby, laughing too loud before piling into an SUV and steering drunkenly onto the road.In the shadows of a weed-ridden parking lot at the back of the rundown motel, no one noticed them. Avoiding the glow of the full yellow moon, they stood behind the south wall beneath a broken security lamp.A lamp Dare Macintosh had broken.Ocean breezes stirred the air and heightened his senses. While scanning the area and repeatedly peering at the black van he'd rented when first arriving in San Diego, Dare waited. His friend, Trace Rivers, embraced his younger sister with choking emotion.It had been a long two days filled with frantic preparation, little sleep, less food and loads of pumping adrenaline: the conditions in which Dare operated best.With the job done, and then some, he desperately wanted something to eat and a place to sleep. Even more than that, he wanted to check on the skinny, abused woman still out cold in the backseat of the van."Tell me," Trace said, not to Alani, whom he kept crushed close, but to Dare.After again glancing at the van, Dare nodded. He'dfound Alani and returned her to Trace as he'd sworn to, but neither man knew yet what she had suffered."She was in Tijuana, as you said. Locked in a trailer with some other women in an isolated area.""Heavily guarded?""Yes."Trace drew a strained breath, and uttered what they both had known: "Human traffickers."Dare nodded. "Not much in the way of food or drinks. Dirty, airless with the windows screwed shut. They had the women..." He hesitated, knowing how Trace would take it, but he needed to know. "They were leashed, chained to grommets in the floor, with just enough chain to reach a toilet. No sink.""Fuckers." Overcome with rage, Trace knotted his hand in his sister's hair and squeezed her tighter, protectively.She didn't complain.Trace never used coarse language in front of his sister, which meant he was on the ragged edge, barely aware of what he said or did. Dare looked away from them, understanding the lack of control.He focused on the rented van. "I had to go through several lookouts and a few armed guards to get her out of there.""Quietly." Trace made it a statement, not a question."There wasn't much fuss." Dare always worked in efficient silence; an alarm would have brought more armed guards, possibly too many for him to combat. As much as he wanted to kill them all, he hadn't.Only those most responsible.By the time the empty trailer was discovered, Dare was already heading over the border into San Diego—where Trace waited. Over the years he'd built up allianceseverywhere, and sometimes worked with the coyotes who made a living taking people back and forth over the border.Thanks to those contacts, even with the extra cargo slumped in his backseat, no one had stopped him as he went through the border checkpoint. The van had been given only a cursory inspection, his weapons ignored, and the excuse of the women being tired—never mind that one was beaten and haggard, only half-dressed—had satisfied all questions.Both men were damn good at what they did. But Trace couldn't go after his sister himself as he'd wanted, because the men holding her knew what he looked like. Before he'd have even gotten close to Tijuana, Trace would have been spotted by lookouts.So Dare had gone—and come back with more than he'd bargained for.Making a small sound, Alani tucked her face in closer to her brother's shoulder. The siblings shared blond hair and light brown eyes, but that's where the physical similarities ended. Trace was thirty, of an age with Dare, eight years older than his sister. He stood six foot three and weighed over two hundred pounds—all of it muscle.Next to him, Alani looked tiny and fragile and, presently, wounded. Even since Dare had removed her from the trailer, fresh bruises continued to show on her arms and around her narrow wrists. Because the bastards had planned to sell her, they hadn't harmed her face.Innocence was a huge commodity, and at twenty-two, having led a sheltered life, Alani gave off a definite vibe of innocence. Blond-haired, blue-eyed women brought the most profit, but he had a feeling that Alani's golden-brown eyes, in contrast to her very fair hair, would have fascinated the sick pricks.Dare prayed they hadn't raped her, knowing a woman ill-used would bring less, but he left that uncomfortable discussion for Trace.Hearing a noise like a soft moan, Dare zeroed in on the van with his senses on alert. He'd left the rear door open so he'd hear her if she moved, if she awoke.... But she did no more than readjust.Three hours had passed since he'd carried her out of that trailer. Worry gnawed at him.Why didn't she awaken?"Dare?" His eyes filled with pain, rage and relief, Trace whispered, "Thank you."Alani gave an audible swallow, and then she, too, said, "Yes, thank you. So much."Putting a hand on her shoulder, Dare replied without words. He'd known Alani for years, watched her grow up, and felt like a pseudo big brother in many ways. He'd attended her graduation, both from high school and college. He'd been there with Alani and Trace when they buried their parents.They had become part of his hodgepodge family.Two days ago human traffickers had snatched Alani outside her hotel while she vacationed near the beach. Tomorrow she would have been sold, and finding her after that might have become impossible.Right now, what the siblings needed was time alone, and Dare needed to sort things out with his remaining passenger. "I should get going."Trace followed Dare's attention toward the van, saw the slim, dirty foot that appeared out of the open rear-passenger door, and lifted one eyebrow in an expression of disbelief. "You have a passenger?""A small complication, that's all.""You're serious?"Dare shrugged. "There were six women in that small trailer, Trace. Four of them were local and scattered as soon as I got them free." He nodded his head toward the van. "That one was drugged, near starved, grimy." And in many ways, even in the cramped confines of the rusty trailer, she'd been separated from the others, kept alone.For certain, she wasn't the typical woman kidnapped for the growing sex trade.Trace grew curious in that quiet way of his. "An American.complication?""I think so." From what he'd seen of her grubby face, she didn't look foreign. "She hasn't come to yet, so I haven't been able to talk to her."Alani turned in her brother's arms, and she, too, looked toward the van. "She fought them whenever she came to. She called them names and almost...egged them on." Alani shivered in remembered fear. "It was so horrible. The men slapped her around for being mouthy, but she didn't stop. She just cursed them more."Dare frowned. The little idiot might have been killed. "Foolhardy.""I think she was really...angry." As if she couldn't fathom such boldness, Alani took a breath. "Even when they held her down to force more drugs on her, she didn't cry. She.raged.""Did she speak English?"Nodding, Alani said, "She sounded American to me. I mean, no accent or anything."Considering all that, Dare said aloud, "She wasn't there for the same purpose as the rest of you.""Probably not. Sometimes four or five of them would come in the trailer, but they'd stand around her and I couldn't see what they did. As far as I could tell, theynever really leered at her like..." She bit her lip, shivered again. "Like they did the rest of us. They never seemed to be sizing her up for anything. They just picked on her."Trace hugged her again. "It's all right. You're safe now."She nodded, shored up by the courage her brother had given her, and faced Dare. "She was there when we got there, already looking pretty bad. Once, before the men drugged her, she told me her name was Molly.""Molly what?"Alani shook her head. "We weren't supposed to talk, so I was afraid to ask her anything."Trace tucked her back in close and asked over her head, "What are you going to do with her now?""No idea." Dare thought of her insubstantial weight when she'd been over his shoulder, of that tangled, light brown hair that had concealed much of her bruised face. "Hopefully someone will pay me for bringing her home."Without releasing her brother, Alani reached out and punched Dare for the callous comment. He grinned, caught her wrist and kissed her knuckles.She'd been given a terrible fright, and two days had probably felt like a month, but Alani had spirit. She'd get through this, thank God.But the other one. How long had they had her? And why? Impatient with thoughts of her, Dare said, "I gotta run.""Hold up a sec." Trace caught his arm, then dug in his jeans pocket and pulled out a fat envelope.Pissed, Dare took a step back. "What the hell is that?""Expenses. And don't curse in front of Alani." Hell, just because he usually hired out didn't mean he'dcharge a friend—a brother. He'd have gone after Alani if he'd had to crawl the whole way. "I don't need it."Solemn, Trace held the envelope out to him. "But I need you to take it."It hit Dare anew how difficult this was for Trace, not just that his sister had been hurt, but that he hadn't been able to go after her himself.Dare took the envelope. "Thanks." He leaned in close. "And for future reference, I resolved the issue of you being recognized." There was no one left who knew Trace.Deep satisfaction glittered in Trace's eyes. He gave a sharp nod. "I should have doubled the amount.""No."...

<p>On March 17, 2011, social media channels buzzed with excitement. Fans of The Hunger Games had hotly debated which actors would bring their beloved characters to life in the upcoming movie. The movie's director, Gary Ross, had finally selected the lead character, Katniss. His pick: Jennifer Lawrence.<br><br>Jennifer started acting professionally in 2004 at age fourteen. But she quickly proved her major talent. For the 2008 movie The Burning Plain, she earned a best new young actress award at the Venice Film Festival. And for her performance in the 2010 movie Winter's Bone, Jennifer received nominations for both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.<br><br>The Hunger Games's author, Suzanne Collins, celebrated the selection of Katniss. I never thought we'd find somebody this amazing for the role, she said. And Jennifer-who is a huge fan of the books-was thrilled to play such a complex character. Did she pull it off? Fans will be the judge!</p>

This book is intended to give the reader an opportunity to master solving PDE problems. Our main goal was to have a concise text that would cover the classical tools of PDE theory that are used in today’s science and engineering, such as characteristics, the wave propagation, the Fourier method, distributions, Sobolev spaces, fundamental solutions, and Green’s functions. While introductory Fourier method – based PDE books do not give an adequate description of these areas, the more advanced PDE books are quite theoretical and require a high level of mathematical background from a reader. This book was written specifically to fill this gap, satisfying the demand of the wide range of end users who need the knowledge of how to solve the PDE problems and at the same time are not going to specialize in this area of mathematics. Arguably, this is the shortest PDE course, which stretches far beyond common, Fourier method – based PDE texts. For example, [Hab03], which is a common thorough textbook on partial differential equations, teaches a similar set of tools while being about five times longer.

Product DescriptionProfessional mercenary Dare Macintosh lives by one hard and fast rule: business should never be personal. If a cause appeals to him and the price is right, he'll take the mission he's offered. But then the lovely Molly Alexander asks him to help her track down the men who'd had her kidnapped—and for the first time, Dare's tempted to combine work with pleasure.Fiercely independent, Molly vows to trust no one until she's uncovered the truth. Could the enemy be her powerful estranged father? The ex-fiancé who still holds a grudge? Or the not-so-shy fan of her bestselling novels? As the danger heats up around them, the only anchor Molly has is Dare himself. But what she feels for him just might be the most frightening thing of all....

This book is intended to give the reader an opportunity to master solving PDE problems. Our main goal was to have a concise text that would cover the classical tools of PDE theory that are used in today’s science and engineering, such as characteristics, the wave propagation, the Fourier method, distributions, Sobolev spaces, fundamental solutions, and Green’s functions. While introductory Fourier method – based PDE books do not give an adequate description of these areas, the more advanced PDE books are quite theoretical and require a high level of mathematical background from a reader. This book was written specifically to fill this gap, satisfying the demand of the wide range of end users who need the knowledge of how to solve the PDE problems and at the same time are not going to specialize in this area of mathematics. Arguably, this is the shortest PDE course, which stretches far beyond common, Fourier method – based PDE texts. For example, [Hab03], which is a common thorough textbook on partial differential equations, teaches a similar set of tools while being about five times longer.

Cet ouvrage technique précise, détaille et donne une approche sur les principaux défauts rencontrés en traitements de surface par voie humide consécutifs à un dérèglement des solutions et/ou au non-respect des conditions opératoires. Il apporte des données utiles dans le cadre des traitements de surface hautement techniques, à dominante aéronautique et spatiale. Les dysfonctionnements et/ou pannes des bains de traitements de surface ont un impact direct sur la qualité des revêtements. L’auteur, fort de son expérience en recherche et développement dans ce domaine, transmet dans ce livre son capital de connaissances accumulées au cours de sa carrière. Toutes les questions traitées dans ce manuscrit peuvent servir de référence aux applications futures. L’ouvrage sera utile aux étudiants, professionnels des traitements de surface : du metteur aux bains à l’ingénieur, aux techniciens de laboratoire de contrôle qualité, bureaux d’études etc.

<p>In this short, hard-hitting volume, Roelf Haan critiques the assumptions that underlie our current economic system and makes the case for a truly biblical alternative. / The Economics of Honor walks through the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, but it blazes an unfamiliar path. Through careful exegesis Haan draws economic insights from surprising passages and challenges conventional interpretations of some of Jesus' parables. Haan also draws insights from a wide-ranging number of thinkers, including John Calvin, Jacques Ellul, René Girard, Germaine Greer, and several Latin American liberation theologians. / A provocative and fascinating read, The Economics of Honor challenges accepted economic wisdom and exchanges it for groundbreaking, well-reasoned arguments on how the Bible would have us live today.</p>

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HE HAD THE ONE THING SHE WANTED ... Lori Lee Guy had always longed to be someone's mommy-and she had never imagined wild and wicked Rick Warrick as anyone's daddy. But here she was, childless. And here he was, still sinfully sexy ... and single-handedly raising an adorable little girl. SHE WAS THE LAST THING HE NEEDED…. How could Rick have falled for Lori Lee-again' He'd learned the hard way that she was holding out for Mr. Perfect, and this bad boy had no intention of being tamed into becoming a model husband! But his daughter and Lori Lee had other ideas ..

This New Edition, With More Than 21,000 Entries, Provides The Most Complete Listing Available Of Generic Names Of Fungi, Their Families And Orders, Their Attributes And Descriptive Terms. For Each Genus, The Authority, The Date Of Publication, Status, Systematic Position, Number Of Accepted Species, Distribution, And Key References Are Given. Diagnoses Of Families And Details Of Orders And Higher Categories Are Included For All Groups Of Fungi. In Addition, There Are Biographic Notes, Information On Well-known Metabolites And Mycotoxins, And Concise Accounts Of Almost All Pure And Applied Aspects Of The Subject (including Citations Of Important Literature). All Information Has Been Updated As Necessary Since The Publication Of The Ninth Edition In 2001. In Addition The Tenth Edition Has The Following New Features: A Completely New Classification Of The Kingdom Fungi Based On Recent Multi-gene Phylogenetics Research; A Major Revision Of The Classification Of The Basidiomycota And Substantial Modification Of The Basal Groups; Further Integration Or Anamorphic And Teleomorphic Genera In The Classification; Enhanced Distinctions Between The True Fungi And Unrelated Groups Traditionally Studied By Mycologists; And Improved Information An References To Publications. This Is The One Essential Handbook For All Who Work With Or Are Interested In Fungi (including Lichens, Slime Moulds, Yeasts And Fungal Analogues).--book Jacket. [edited] By P.m. Kirk ... [et Al.] ; With The Assistance Of T.v. Andrianova ... [et Al.].

Product DescriptionProfessional mercenary Dare Macintosh lives by one hard and fast rule: business should never be personal. If a cause appeals to him and the price is right, he'll take the mission he's offered. But then the lovely Molly Alexander asks him to help her track down the men who'd had her kidnapped—and for the first time, Dare's tempted to combine work with pleasure.Fiercely independent, Molly vows to trust no one until she's uncovered the truth. Could the enemy be her powerful estranged father? The ex-fiancé who still holds a grudge? Or the not-so-shy fan of her bestselling novels? As the danger heats up around them, the only anchor Molly has is Dare himself. But what she feels for him just might be the most frightening thing of all.... Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Midnight came and went with only the quiet buzz of meager traffic along the beach. An occasional horn blew or tires squealed. Two people exited a bar nearby, laughing too loud before piling into an SUV and steering drunkenly onto the road.In the shadows of a weed-ridden parking lot at the back of the rundown motel, no one noticed them. Avoiding the glow of the full yellow moon, they stood behind the south wall beneath a broken security lamp.A lamp Dare Macintosh had broken.Ocean breezes stirred the air and heightened his senses. While scanning the area and repeatedly peering at the black van he'd rented when first arriving in San Diego, Dare waited. His friend, Trace Rivers, embraced his younger sister with choking emotion.It had been a long two days filled with frantic preparation, little sleep, less food and loads of pumping adrenaline: the conditions in which Dare operated best.With the job done, and then some, he desperately wanted something to eat and a place to sleep. Even more than that, he wanted to check on the skinny, abused woman still out cold in the backseat of the van."Tell me," Trace said, not to Alani, whom he kept crushed close, but to Dare.After again glancing at the van, Dare nodded. He'dfound Alani and returned her to Trace as he'd sworn to, but neither man knew yet what she had suffered."She was in Tijuana, as you said. Locked in a trailer with some other women in an isolated area.""Heavily guarded?""Yes."Trace drew a strained breath, and uttered what they both had known: "Human traffickers."Dare nodded. "Not much in the way of food or drinks. Dirty, airless with the windows screwed shut. They had the women..." He hesitated, knowing how Trace would take it, but he needed to know. "They were leashed, chained to grommets in the floor, with just enough chain to reach a toilet. No sink.""Fuckers." Overcome with rage, Trace knotted his hand in his sister's hair and squeezed her tighter, protectively.She didn't complain.Trace never used coarse language in front of his sister, which meant he was on the ragged edge, barely aware of what he said or did. Dare looked away from them, understanding the lack of control.He focused on the rented van. "I had to go through several lookouts and a few armed guards to get her out of there.""Quietly." Trace made it a statement, not a question."There wasn't much fuss." Dare always worked in efficient silence; an alarm would have brought more armed guards, possibly too many for him to combat. As much as he wanted to kill them all, he hadn't.Only those most responsible.By the time the empty trailer was discovered, Dare was already heading over the border into San Diego—where Trace waited. Over the years he'd built up allianceseverywhere, and sometimes worked with the coyotes who made a living taking people back and forth over the border.Thanks to those contacts, even with the extra cargo slumped in his backseat, no one had stopped him as he went through the border checkpoint. The van had been given only a cursory inspection, his weapons ignored, and the excuse of the women being tired—never mind that one was beaten and haggard, only half-dressed—had satisfied all questions.Both men were damn good at what they did. But Trace couldn't go after his sister himself as he'd wanted, because the men holding her knew what he looked like. Before he'd have even gotten close to Tijuana, Trace would have been spotted by lookouts.So Dare had gone—and come back with more than he'd bargained for.Making a small sound, Alani tucked her face in closer to her brother's shoulder. The siblings shared blond hair and light brown eyes, but that's where the physical similarities ended. Trace was thirty, of an age with Dare, eight years older than his sister. He stood six foot three and weighed over two hundred pounds—all of it muscle.Next to him, Alani looked tiny and fragile and, presently, wounded. Even since Dare had removed her from the trailer, fresh bruises continued to show on her arms and around her narrow wrists. Because the bastards had planned to sell her, they hadn't harmed her face.Innocence was a huge commodity, and at twenty-two, having led a sheltered life, Alani gave off a definite vibe of innocence. Blond-haired, blue-eyed women brought the most profit, but he had a feeling that Alani's golden-brown eyes, in contrast to her very fair hair, would have fascinated the sick pricks.Dare prayed they hadn't raped her, knowing a woman ill-used would bring less, but he left that uncomfortable discussion for Trace.Hearing a noise like a soft moan, Dare zeroed in on the van with his senses on alert. He'd left the rear door open so he'd hear her if she moved, if she awoke.... But she did no more than readjust.Three hours had passed since he'd carried her out of that trailer. Worry gnawed at him.Why didn't she awaken?"Dare?" His eyes filled with pain, rage and relief, Trace whispered, "Thank you."Alani gave an audible swallow, and then she, too, said, "Yes, thank you. So much."Putting a hand on her shoulder, Dare replied without words. He'd known Alani for years, watched her grow up, and felt like a pseudo big brother in many ways. He'd attended her graduation, both from high school and college. He'd been there with Alani and Trace when they buried their parents.They had become part of his hodgepodge family.Two days ago human traffickers had snatched Alani outside her hotel while she vacationed near the beach. Tomorrow she would have been sold, and finding her after that might have become impossible.Right now, what the siblings needed was time alone, and Dare needed to sort things out with his remaining passenger. "I should get going."Trace followed Dare's attention toward the van, saw the slim, dirty foot that appeared out of the open rear-passenger door, and lifted one eyebrow in an expression of disbelief. "You have a passenger?""A small complication, that's all.""You're serious?"Dare shrugged. "There were six women in that small trailer, Trace. Four of them were local and scattered as soon as I got them free." He nodded his head toward the van. "That one was drugged, near starved, grimy." And in many ways, even in the cramped confines of the rusty trailer, she'd been separated from the others, kept alone.For certain, she wasn't the typical woman kidnapped for the growing sex trade.Trace grew curious in that quiet way of his. "An American.complication?""I think so." From what he'd seen of her grubby face, she didn't look foreign. "She hasn't come to yet, so I haven't been able to talk to her."Alani turned in her brother's arms, and she, too, looked toward the van. "She fought them whenever she came to. She called them names and almost...egged them on." Alani shivered in remembered fear. "It was so horrible. The men slapped her around for being mouthy, but she didn't stop. She just cursed them more."Dare frowned. The little idiot might have been killed. "Foolhardy.""I think she was really...angry." As if she couldn't fathom such boldness, Alani took a breath. "Even when they held her down to force more drugs on her, she didn't cry. She.raged.""Did she speak English?"Nodding, Alani said, "She sounded American to me. I mean, no accent or anything."Considering all that, Dare said aloud, "She wasn't there for the same purpose as the rest of you.""Probably not. Sometimes four or five of them would come in the trailer, but they'd stand around her and I couldn't see what they did. As far as I could tell, theynever really leered at her like..." She bit her lip, shivered again. "Like they did the rest of us. They never seemed to be sizing her up for anything. They just picked on her."Trace hugged her again. "It's all right. You're safe now."She nodded, shored up by the courage her brother had given her, and faced Dare. "She was there when we got there, already looking pretty bad. Once, before the men drugged her, she told me her name was Molly.""Molly what?"Alani shook her head. "We weren't supposed to talk, so I was afraid to ask her anything."Trace tucked her back in close and asked over her head, "What are you going to do with her now?""No idea." Dare thought of her insubstantial weight when she'd been over his shoulder, of that tangled, light brown hair that had concealed much of her bruised face. "Hopefully someone will pay me for bringing her home."Without releasing her brother, Alani reached out and punched Dare for the callous comment. He grinned, caught her wrist and kissed her knuckles.She'd been given a terrible fright, and two days had probably felt like a month, but Alani had spirit. She'd get through this, thank God.But the other one. How long had they had her? And why? Impatient with thoughts of her, Dare said, "I gotta run.""Hold up a sec." Trace caught his arm, then dug in his jeans pocket and pulled out a fat envelope.Pissed, Dare took a step back. "What the hell is that?""Expenses. And don't curse in front of Alani." Hell, just because he usually hired out didn't mean he'dcharge a friend—a brother. He'd have gone after Alani if he'd had to crawl the whole way. "I don't need it."Solemn, Trace held the envelope out to him. "But I need you to take it."It hit Dare anew how difficult this was for Trace, not just that his sister had been hurt, but that he hadn't been able to go after her himself.Dare took the envelope. "Thanks." He leaned in close. "And for future reference, I resolved the issue of you being recognized." There was no one left who knew Trace.Deep satisfaction glittered in Trace's eyes. He gave a sharp nod. "I should have doubled the amount.""No."...

&#8220;With a varied cast of characters and an action-packed plot, Elvina&#8217;s Mirror will keep the young reader&#8217;s interest from beginning to end.&#8221; -- AJL Newsletter The tale of Rashi&#8217;s granddaughter, a young girl who defies her community to help a friend in need; In this sequel to My Guardian Angel, Sylvie Weil continues the story of Elvina, the 14-year-old granddaughter of Rashi, the famous 11th-century French Bible and Talmud commentator. It is the spring of 1097 in the town of Troyes, in France. The Crusaders have been marauding their way through Europe, attacking Jewish communities. One evening, a mysterious family arrives in Troyes--German Jews forced by the Crusaders to submit to baptism. The townspeople shun the family, but Elvina befriends 11-year-old Columba. Columba&#8217;s mad cousin, Ephraim, steals a mirror from a member of the Jewish community, believing it will let him see his family killed in the recent attacks. Elvina tries to help Ephraim rid his mind of the terrible images by bringing him her own mirror, in which she claims to see a positive future. Elvina&#8217;s story brings the often-ignored world of Medieval European Jewry to life for young readers

Product DescriptionProfessional mercenary Dare Macintosh lives by one hard and fast rule: business should never be personal. If a cause appeals to him and the price is right, he'll take the mission he's offered. But then the lovely Molly Alexander asks him to help her track down the men who'd had her kidnapped—and for the first time, Dare's tempted to combine work with pleasure.Fiercely independent, Molly vows to trust no one until she's uncovered the truth. Could the enemy be her powerful estranged father? The ex-fiancé who still holds a grudge? Or the not-so-shy fan of her bestselling novels? As the danger heats up around them, the only anchor Molly has is Dare himself. But what she feels for him just might be the most frightening thing of all....

Product DescriptionProfessional mercenary Dare Macintosh lives by one hard and fast rule: business should never be personal. If a cause appeals to him and the price is right, he'll take the mission he's offered. But then the lovely Molly Alexander asks him to help her track down the men who'd had her kidnapped—and for the first time, Dare's tempted to combine work with pleasure.Fiercely independent, Molly vows to trust no one until she's uncovered the truth. Could the enemy be her powerful estranged father? The ex-fiancé who still holds a grudge? Or the not-so-shy fan of her bestselling novels? As the danger heats up around them, the only anchor Molly has is Dare himself. But what she feels for him just might be the most frightening thing of all....

HE HAD THE ONE THING SHE WANTED ... Lori Lee Guy had always longed to be someone's mommy-and she had never imagined wild and wicked Rick Warrick as anyone's daddy. But here she was, childless. And here he was, still sinfully sexy ... and single-handedly raising an adorable little girl. SHE WAS THE LAST THING HE NEEDED…. How could Rick have falled for Lori Lee-again' He'd learned the hard way that she was holding out for Mr. Perfect, and this bad boy had no intention of being tamed into becoming a model husband! But his daughter and Lori Lee had other ideas ..