Everyone holds a secret and most are harmless, easily forgotten. What happens when secrets lead to committing acts that can never be forgiven? People can do things at times that are horrible and try to pass them off as not very important. Sometimes they even convince themselves that they did what had to be done and after all, no one will ever find out. What happens when lies and bad deeds come to the surface? In this book, three seemingly separate stories all come together at the end, answ...

The book details the story of Lucas Fielding, who at eighteen years of age, overhears an argument between his parents. The shocking secret revealed acts as a catalyst for accidental murders, a suicide and other tragedies. The most interesting part of his story, however, is that Lucas only learned part of the actual secret. As the story unfolds in this first of two parts, Lucas narrates his own reactions to events as they happen.

Microfluidic technology is revolutionising a number of scientific fields, including chemistry, biology, diagnostics, and engineering. The ability to manipulate fluids and objects within networks of micrometre-scale channels allows reductions in processing and analysis times, reagent and sample consumption, and waste production, whilst allowing fine control and monitoring of chemical or biological processes. The integration of multiple components and processes enable “lab-on-a-chip” devices...

Interdisciplinary knowledge is becoming increasingly important to the modern scientist. This invaluable textbook covers bioanalytical chemistry (mainly the analysis of proteins and DNA) and explains everything for the non-biologist. Electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, biosensors, bioassays, DNA and protein sequencing are not necessarily all included in conventional analytical chemistry textbooks. The book describes the basic principles and the applications of instrumental and molecular met...

Embark on this captivating journey through the enchanting natural world with Chelsea Manz's debut children's book, where the incredible transformation on a dragonfly takes place right before your child's eyes. Infused with powerful themes of collaboration, friendship and discovery - this beautifully crafted tale weaves together the magic of nature and the power of believing in yourself. Through vivid storytelling and enchanting illustrations, readers will witness the dragonfly's remarkable...

Lovely Jan,With her radio, knee-high socks, and curls.In some ways she was different to other lovely girls.She had two wonky eyes that made things hard to see.If you held up two fingers, Jan most likely saw three!But Jan didn’t mind,Not one little bit,It made her ears better at listening to trumpets...

During the First World War, Britain was the epicentre of global mass internment and deportation operations. Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Turks, and Bulgarians who had settled in Britain and its overseas territories were deemed to be a potential danger to the realm through their ties with the Central Powers and were classified as 'enemy aliens'. A complex set of wartime legislation imposed limitations on their freedom of movement, expression, and property possession. Approximately 50,000 men...

The rise of German science and technology in the nineteenth century had a significant impact on food production on a global scale. The spread of scientific methods facilitated the emergence of those mass markets that determine consumption patterns up until today. This book analyses the industrialization and globalization of foodways through the prism of three commodities: sugar, rum, and beer. Themes include the global competition between continental beet sugar and colonial cane sugar, the...

With today's flood of data circulating on storage media and the Internet, compression of digital data remains an immensely important aspect of data transmission and storage. This essential explains, without theoretical superstructure and with elementary mathematical methods, the most important compression methods, such as the entropy encodings of Shannon-Fano and of Huffman, as well as the dictionary encodings of the Lempel-Ziv family. Irrelevance reduction and quantization for optical and...

The Art of CuppingFor over 5,000 years, cupping has been used across the globe to treat a broad spectrum of health disorders. It is a safe and well-tolerated therapy and requires only simple and inexpensive tools to achieve highly effective results. This comprehensive guide features all the information a practitioner needs, including step-by-step instructions for application, treatment of specific health problems, and a review of the historical background....

Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz—an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala—tells the story of the village of Santa María Tzejá, near the border with Mexico. Manz writes eloquently about Guatemala's tortured history and shows how the story of this village—its bi...