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Afrocentric Books presents twelve tales that will transport you from Regency England to Post-Apocalyptic Africa. From the lofty branches of a mythical tree to the depths of the underworld, Afromyth explores fantastical worlds through the eyes of characters of indigenous African descent. Meet men who...

Fairies splat on the windscreen. A werewolf looks for sympathy in vain. Climbing the Everest can be a disturbing experience. Drabbles are miniature stories of exactly 100 words, no more, no less. Leave it to the Finnish authors of speculative fiction to weave their magic and create 33 entire...

When Lieutenant Albert Stone arrives at the homicide scene of a prominent entrepreneur who had recently been exonerated of rape, he discovers the remnants of a grizzly slaughter. The businessmans head is almost completely severed from the rest of his body, and documents strewn about the scene implicate...

What if you could really listen to someone’s thoughts?  What if you could talk mentally to someone across the room or across the state? What if you didn’t need a cell phone to communicate?  What if you just had a feeling that you knew what someone was saying?  What...

As stated in the preface to the first edition, this book is intended to be a review and not a comprehensive textbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The book covers only the highlights from the much more detailed knowledge that is usually found in textbooks and we recommend that the reader...

What if you had all the time in the world? Thirteen authors answer that question with short stories about time travel. Go back in time to right a wrong, forward to see the future. No jump is too large, no method unfeasible, no lesson beyond learning. • Visit the past to learn a family...

Neben der Erläuterung der Grundbegriffe werden die schalltechnischen Anforderungen aus bauaufsichtlicher und zivilrechtlicher Sicht dargestellt und verglichen. Die benötigten Konstruktionen sowohl für den Massivbau als auch aus dem Bereich der elementierten Bauteile werden mit ihren schalltechnischen...

The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity...

In this volume of Korean Folk Tales, you will find 53 stories from the ancient Korean kingdoms of Silla and Balhae. Herein you will find stories like Charan, The Story Of Chang To-Ryong, A Story Of The Fox, Cheung Puk-Chang, The Seer, Yun Se-Pyong, The Wizard, The Wild-Cat Woman and many, many more. These...

As John Henry Newman reflected on 'The Idea of a University' more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather...

This report provides background and guidance on the use of the structural hot spot stress approach to the fatigue design of welded components and structures. It complements the IIW recommendations for 'Fatigue Design of Welded Joints and Components' and extends the information provided in the IIW...

Fantastic Universe started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. This is our third Fantastic universe Superpack....

«É uma história que faz arrepiar os cabelos.» Assim principia Camilo Castelo Branco um dos seus romances, e, pese embora o sensacionalismo, da mesma forma poderíamos descrever os vinte e sete contos e novelas incluídos nesta antologia, onde se pretende apresentar uma amostra representativa...

Discusses research on factors affecting carcass composition and meat quality;  Reviews advances in breeding such as the use of molecular markers;  Summarises key developments in understanding and improving the health and welfare of sheep