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Short Story in the Malfunction Trilogy Up until now, Ella has managed to avoid the single most important but most dangerous aspect of her life as a biobot. The thing she was created to do: going to the ravaged surface to fend off the aliens that turned the planet into a desolate, frozen waste....

A study of the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry, this book provides an investigation of the multiple versions of early poems that exist in various Abbasid collections. It offers a corrective to the more exaggerated claims concerning this poetry and revises some hitherto fundamental attitudes by advancing an individual philologically-driven vision of the period.

A Solutions Manual to accompany Geometry of Convex Sets Geometry of Convex Sets begins with basic definitions of the concepts of vector addition and scalar multiplication and then defines the notion of convexity for subsets of n-dimensional space. Many properties of convex sets can be discovered...

Reviews key advances and best practice in cultivation techniques across the value chain of organic farming  Discusses ways of monitoring and improving the environmental impact of organic crop production  Particular focus on ways of supporting organic farming in the developing world

This manual presents the operations most often performed by surgeons at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic (Inglewood, California, 90301) in treating sports injuries. These operations constitute a complete series of basic surgical procedures for the orthopaedist. In its step-by-step drawings, the...

A gentle introduction to the geometry of convex sets in n**-dimensional space** Geometry of Convex Sets begins with basic definitions of the concepts of vector addition and scalar multiplication and then defines the notion of convexity for subsets of n-dimensional space. Many properties of...

De wereld van J.R.R. Tolkien is Midden-Aarde. Daar spelen In de ban van de Ring en De Hobbit zich af. Daar ligt de Gouw, waar Bilbo en Frodo Balings hun behaaglijke Hobbithol met goedgevulde voorraadkast verlaten om de tovenaar Gandalf in het avontuur volgen. Het epos over het bezit van die Ene Ring...

Pig meat is the most widely-consumed meat in the world. Previous growth in production has relied, in part, on more intensive systems. In meeting rising demand, these systems face challenges such as the ongoing threat of zoonotic diseases, the need to improve feed efficiency in the face of rising costs,...

Assistant D.A. Carolyn Hastings has an uncanny knack for putting away criminals. With one of the best prosecution records in recent history, her future as Manhattan’s next District Attorney looks certain. But her sixth sense for winning cases threatens to work against her when she starts seeing...

for the design of control programs; in extreme cases (as dis­ cussed below, by Fine et al. , this volume, and elsewhere) it can happen that immunization programs, although they protect vaccinated individuals, actually increase the overall incidence of a particular disease. The possibility that many...

These e-books portray London in 2025 when Great Britain and Europe have become transformed into Eurabia. It is seen through the eyes of a doomed Muslim fireman as he wanders the nightmare world of Soylent Green ravished London covered by millions and millions of starving Muslim migrants as his unconscious...

Marie-Antoine d'Autriche a connu une destinée extraordinaire en devenant reine après avoir épousé Louis XVI, alors Dauphin de la couronne de France. Mais elle a connu une fin tragique pendant la Révolution Française. Cet ouvrage vous raconte l'histoire de...

For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back-or give way under-thousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper or a kangaroo, this book will ease your anxiety and answer your questions. J....

A short story taking Steampunk out to sea. The crew of the USS Endeavor are caught in a match of wits and stragegy.