**"Harding fondly shares observant moments in nature, during which his love of animals is evident in his pleasant tone punctuated by moments of awe." — AudioFile MagazineThis program is read by the author.**A 7-time Teen Choice Award Winner on Freeform's most-watched series, Pretty Little Liars … A social media influencer with over 7 million followers … An avid birdwatcher? Yes, you read that correctly. Ian Harding is all of these things, and so much more....

What are lipid nanoparticles? How are they structured? How are they formed? What techniques are best to characterize them? How great is their potential as drug delivery systems? These questions and more are answered in this comprehensive and highly readable work on lipid nanoparticles. This work sets out to provide the reader with a clear and understandable understanding of the current practices in formulation, characterization and drug delivery of lipid nanoparticles. A comprehensive desc...

Falling in love, falling out of love, losing love: thankfully, these are not unique experiences. This book explores the soaring heights, the unforeseen changes and the cascading lows that love can bring. The words herein remind us of the wonders of love as well as the challenges that can beset us. As the reader turns each page, he or she shares moments of the writers own experience.

They collaborated with Nazis and Fascists. Conspired against Allies in World War II. Committed unthinkable acts of treason. And triggered a secret manhunt. The mission was part of the FBI's "European Operation." The targets were United States citizens plotting against their own country. The goal: to identify and capture these traitors hiding in the shadows of war-torn Europe. To accomplish this, a small group of federal agents assumed new identities. It is one of the most fascinating spy s...

In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, flooded her engine room, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to rescue most of Strong's surviving crewmen, scores were submerged in the ocean as the shattered warship sank beneath the waves-and a young officer's harrowing story of survival began. Based on official American and Japanese histories, perso...

"The Inn by Doomsday Falls" is a short story by regular Weird Tales contributor, Allison V. Harding (allegedly the pen name of Jean Milligan, 1919–2004), first published in the November 1947 edition of Weird Tales. The magazine offered the following synopsis: "A haunted inn, a cursed falls, and an evil being who should have been but dust in a grave centuries ago."

Allison V. Harding's grotesque Damp Man appears in three stories: "The Damp Man" (1947), "The Damp Man Returns" (1947), and "The Damp Man Again" (1949). The stories follow journalist George Pelgrim and swimmer Linda Mallory as they encounter a monstrous figure who seems to have cultivated a bizarre obsession with the latter.Allison V. Harding, a pseudonym for the mysterious figure, Jean Milligan, contributed several stories to Weird Tales throughout the 1940s, and early 50s.

Enter the unsettling and imaginative world of Allison V. Harding, one of the unsung masters of American pulp horror. "The Wonderfully Weird World of Allison V. Harding" collects her most chilling stories, originally published in Weird Tales Magazine, where her unique blend of psychological dread and cosmic horror earned her a devoted following.From sinister entities lurking just beyond perception to mind-bending twists that challenge the boundaries of reality, Harding's tales explo...

A collection of horror stories concerning figures and shapes of a particularly unnatural nature.Contents:The Underbody by Allison V. Harding (Weird Tales 1949)"A thing that was not a man, yet could not be anything else..."Mr. Sliggins by Gary Gordon (HorrorBabble 2022)"A boy has an encounter with the so-called Mr. Sliggins."The Eighth Green Man by G. G. Pendarves (Weird Tales 1928)

Thom Gunn's The Man With Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range of themes, both intimate and social. The book ends with a set of poems about the deaths of friends from AIDS. With their unflinching directness, compassion and grace, they are among the most moving statements yet to have been provoked by the disease.

The Pauson-Khand reaction is an important reaction in the field of organic chemistry. It involves the transition-metal catalysed cycloaddition of an alkyne, an alkene and carbon monoxide, to produce cyclopentenones. The importance of this reaction originates from its high value in transforming simple components into the synthetically useful cyclopentenone unit, in which a high degree of molecular complexity can be achieved in a single step, with impressive stereochemical and regiochemical ...

Drug Stability for Pharmaceutical Scientists is a clear and easy-to-follow guide on drug degradation in pharmaceutical formulation. This book features valuable content on both aqueous and solid drug solutions, the stability of proteins and peptides, acid-base catalyzed and solvent catalyzed reactions, how drug formulation can influence drug stability, the influence of external factors on reaction rates and much more. Full of examples of real-life formulation problems and step-by-step calcu...