This book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.S. fiction of the information age, and argues that in the last eighty years, fiction has become increasingly concerned with its representations of mathematical ideas, images, and practices. In so doing, this book provides a fuller, transnational account of the place of mathematics in understanding mathematically informed novels. Literature and science studies have acknowledged and situated historical points of cultur...

Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men?COLTON'S LAST RESORTby Amber Leigh WilliamsLaura Colton knows how to give homicide detective Noah Steele an all-access pass to her family’s luxury resort. Posing as her tattooed rock-star boyfriend, he can investigate the murder of his sister, Allison, who was a...

Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want high-stakes stories that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, brave characters in life-and-death situations?Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection!Colton's Yuletide Manhunt (A The Coltons of New York novel)By Kacy CrossDetective Isaac Donner wants to catch the notorious Landmark Kill...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the b...

Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men?COLTON'S CODE REDby Tara Taylor QuinnFollowing a string of recent arrests, Special Agent Jacob Colton is this close to exposing the human trafficking ring in Dark Canyon. But he needs Mae Copeland to close the case. The introverted, workaholic forensic scientist...

Design and Shielding of Radiotherapy Treatment Facilities provides readers with a single point of reference for all aspects of shielding design and radiation protection advice to the construction and modification of radiotherapy facilities. The book assembles a faculty of national and international experts on all modalities including megavoltage and kilovoltage photons, brachytherapy and high-energy particles, and on conventional and Monte Carlo shielding calculations. Their conse...

The Wit and Humor of America gathers ten volumes of American comic writing into a capacious archive of satire, burlesque, dialect sketch, parable, anecdote, verse, and social observation. Moving from early republican wit through nineteenth-century regionalism and the modern magazine sketch, it reveals humor as both entertainment and cultural criticism. Comic monologues, mock-heroic poems, and sharply observed tales sit beside enduring reflections on politics, manners, sentiment, class, and...

This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific background. Exploring ethical theory, environmental ethics, science and the environmental movement, Ea...

The belief that a human being is capable of assuming an animal’s form, most frequently that of a wolf, is an almost worldwide superstition. Such a transformed person is the Germanic werewolf, or man-wolf; that is, a wolf which is really a human being. So the werewolf was a man in wolf’s form or wolf’s dress, seen mostly at night, and believed generally to be harmful to man.

This is the coolest story of an unwanted little Austin 7 car called Austin...Austin is book 1 of the Austin Chronicles adventure series for children.So who is Austin?Austin is a wreck! He's overgrown with weeds and brambles and he lives at the back of Farmer Oats' old barn behind the rickety stone wall.In our story, Vole, Hedgehog and the Blackbird family shelter inside Austin and when the rickety stone wall finally collapses one day, causing a public menace, Au...

This ebook is a usefull guide on how to prepare for and survive a nuclear disaster.it includes a list of items you may need , and how to construct a shelter in your home.

In Retracing the Keowee Trail, the author tells the story of the Cherokee Path that connected the low country of colonial Carolina with the mountain homeland of the Cherokee Nation. The Keowee Trail was a busy trading route for a burgeoning deerskin trade. Along this same path, epidemic disease made its way inexorably from the colony toward Cherokee society, reducing their population by more than half. Along this path, warfare was waged in both directions, by Cherokee war parties determine...