Katy Wilkins is a prominent citizen of her home town. An original member of the Tree Leaning Pine Country Club, Women’s Auxiliary, sat on the city council, has a library named after her from her yearly donations, now on trial for murder and kidnapping. Local citizen protested demanding her freed from custody, blocking jurors and attorneys from entering the court building on a daily basis. Twist and turns occur throughout the trial, will she be freed or serve a life sentence, compelling tes...

THE Busy Butterfly is a photo journey with butterflies visiting his butterfly garden as they seek food. Many people enjoy watching , but rarely have time to watch and photograph them. Fortunately, our butterfly and vegetable gardens are very popular with the butterflies, and also provide an opportunity to observe them. Once this observation started, it was amazing to learn how many butterflies were in the area Thus was born the idea of collecting photos of them and their interaction with f...

This popular text was created for a one-year undergraduate course or beginning graduate course in partial differential equations, including the elementary theory of complex variables. It employs a framework in which the general properties of partial differential equations, such as characteristics, domains of independence, and maximum principles, can be clearly seen. The only prerequisite is a good course in calculus.Incorporating many of the techniques of applied mathematics, the bo...

Herb, a humble maintenance worker, unwittingly becomes the centerpiece of a dark saga within an ancient theater. As night falls, he's drawn into a world of vampires and myths, transforming into a legendary being. With newly-formed alliances in the theater's shadows, he must lead his nocturnal army against an encroaching threat led by a powerful adversary. This epic tale unfolds, blurring the lines between humanity and monstrosity, as Herb grapples with his new identity and the seductive lu...

This book brings together and interprets the information relating to Canada's contacts with Asiatic countries since the beginning of the Second World War. Lucidly written and freshly presented, it will be of great interest to everyone concerned with international affairs.As Canada's policies in the Far East and Southeast Asia are the result of Canadian policies in general, Dr. Angus discusses the general policies first and then their particular application. He deals with the nature...

Lester Fulbright is a homeless man living in a lien-to camp site in a wooded area adjacent to the Oregon coastline. Lester has been living in this spot for over four years, staying secluded, feeding off the land using his bow and arrow. He finds himself witnessing a group of people using the same area doing a ritual. Lester was a very successful business man, purchased items he knew what he would require to become homeless. With a pair of binoculars, he could stay a safe distance watching ...

The night shift is supposed to be dull. A quiet room. A ticking sounder. Dispatches arriving from distant cities while the world sleeps. But on this night, the wire begins carrying reports from a place no one recognizes, describing events that feel less like news and more like a warning. Each update arrives colder, closer, and harder to dismiss.As the hours pass, routine observation gives way to unease. The story unfolding on the wire refuses to stay contained on the page, pressing...

This groundbreaking work explores how certain cultures consciously and unconsciously dominate in multicultural situations and what can be done about it.

A Reluctant Journey into the Unseen.Justin Nichols spent decades trying to explain away the inexplicable. As a child, he had prophetic dreams and learned to control his nightmares. As a teenager, he found himself floating outside his own body in terrifying out-of-body experiences. As an adult, he saw ghosts, influenced the weather, and received information about events before they happened. Yet, armed with a healthy dose of scepticism and a backgro...

If you’ve ever wondered why Plato staged Timaeus as a kind of sequel to Republic, or who its unnamed missing fourth might be; or why he joined Critias to Timaeus, and whether or not that strange dialogue is unfinished; or what we should make of the written critique of writing in Phaedrus, and of that dialogue’s apparent lack of unity; or what is the purpose of the long discussion of the One in the second half of Parmenides, and how it relates to the objections made to the Theory of Forms i...

Illustrating the fascinating interplay between physics and mathematics, Groups, Representations and Physics, Second Edition provides a solid foundation in the theory of groups, particularly group representations. For this new, fully revised edition, the author has enhanced the book's usefulness and widened its appeal by adding a chapter on the Cartan-Dynkin treatment of Lie algebras. This treatment, a generalization of the method of raising and lowering operators used for the rotation grou...

US Army Sergeant First Class Randy Mosley is about to retire after twenty years of service. He expects his transition to civilian life to go smoothly but the sudden death of Private Perry Dickson, a clerk in the personnel office of the infantry unit to which Randy is assigned devastates him. The Army concludes that Perry's death is a result of a DUI but the swastika on the hood of his car, coupled with the fact that Perry did not drink alcohol because it made him sick, convinces Randy that...