Port Chicago. 1944. A blast that shook the nation - and a silence that shaped a family.Lloyd Anthony McKinney survived the explosion but carried its aftermath in his body, his posture, his quiet. For decades, his story lived in gestures and shadows, passed down without words. In The Senses of Silence, his grandson follows those traces - the tension in a photograph, the absence in a conversation, the ache that outlives the event. What emerges is a portrait ...

1 of the best writings in this field! Afghanistan is a Central Asia country with an estimated population of some thirty million people. Over fifty languages are spoken in the country, which reflects the diverse cultural backgrounds of this nation’s people and history. As a result of invasion and migration over many centuries, Afghanistan has a rich and ancient heritage which includes influences from northern India, Mongolia, Greece, Iran, Arabia and China. Afghanistan, whilst today predomi...

Process intensification uses innovations in the design of equipment and processes to create more efficient, safer, and less wasteful chemical processes. Working on principles of avoiding unnecessary extras, reducing the size of set ups and tightly controlling reactions, there are benefits both in sustainability and in the economics of the processes.Beginning with basic chemical engineering principles for chemists and those who need a refresher, this textbook aims to teach process i...

Ten strangers board a luxury cruise carrying secrets they'd kill to protect. Three days later, only nine return.One Green Bottle is a gripping psychological thriller set against the stunning backdrop of the Norwegian fjords, where every passenger has something to hide and everyone has a reason to kill.Paul and Jayne came to escape their grief. Others came to escape their pasts. As overheard conversations, hidden motives and carefully guarded secret...

In a sleepy town outside Sandy, Oregon, a van plunges off a tall bridge into a swiftly moving river resulting in the demise of nearly an entire family. Leigh Buttonwood, a local artist, witnesses the tragedy and dives into the icy waters, saving baby Silas from the sinking van.Baby Silas is turned over to his recklessly unstable and mysterious grandmother, known around town as Dolly Doubloon. But shortly thereafter, an illegal backwoods adoption lands baby Silas in the hands of Lei...

****Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle**“Devastating . . . Inspired . . . We make so many complex emotional investments in the lives of Lee’s characters that it takes a monk’s restraint not to flip to the very end of the book before you get there.” —Jennifer Senior, New York Times**In September 1984, a bomb was planted at the Grand Hotel in the seaside town of Brighton...

The Hidden Treasure of Atlantis is a Prophetic book that tells of the future of Earth. Everyone except evil people, will need to evacuate to habitable planets, by building many many spacecraft top carry all righteous people to places in space, away from the evil and atomic radiation of Earth. Friendly outer space people have been here on Earth for 20,000, guiding mankind and preparing for leaving for new habitable planets deep in outer space. All righteous people must leave a radioactive E...

This book summarizes a range of new analytic tools for multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) data. Providing an expository yet accessible approach to cutting-edge developments for MTMM analysis, a selection of quantitative researchers reveal their recent contributions to the field including non-technical summaries and empirical examples.The contributions inform quantitative social scientists of some of the most cutting-edge developments for MTMM analysis. A range of developments have emerg...

Do you suffer from anxiety and looking for a way to overcome fear?This book aims at giving you an overview of how to treat anxiety, depression, fear, worry and shyness by means of neuroscience. You will do so by analyzing the two major brain pathways that cause anxiety.Here are a few subjects that will be shrouded in this book recording:Causes, Sign And Symptoms AnxietyHow To Overcome AnxietyOvercoming Panic Attacks and Pho...

Biological Psychology offers a highly visual, in-depth guide to the basic biological functions of the brain that you will need to learn throughout the course of your psychology degree. This edition boasts a revamped learning structure with a strong applied focus. This allows you to engage with biological psychology through a range of real world applications, getting you to apply your learning to conditions such as epilepsy, PTSD and Parkinson’s, and treatments such as gene therapy...

The 'Father of Greater New York' is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903. In the hour of his death, will the truth of his life finally break free?Born to a struggling farming family in 1820, Andrew Haswell Green was a self-made man who reshaped Manhattan, built Central Park and turned New York into a modern metropolis. Now, at eighty-three, when he thought the world could hold no more surprises, he is murdered. As the detective assigned to the ca...

On the day his mother dies reclusive photographer Rob Fossick - forty-one and already in the twilight of his career - finds among her belongings an unexplained package addressed to a 'Mr Satoshi'.So begins a quest that will propel Rob, anxious and unprepared, into the urban maelstrom of Tokyo. With the help of a colourful group of new acquaintances - a vigilant octogenarian; a beautiful 'love hotel' receptionist; an ex-sumo wrestler obsessed with Dolly Parton - the scene seems set ...