The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, the theoretical debates are vividly illustrated by an array o...

A small collection of poetry that will take you on a journey through the pain, and acceptance of falling in love with someone far away.

Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, Seventh Edition, is one of the world's leading course texts on aerodynamics. It provides concise explanations of basic concepts, combined with an excellent introduction to aerodynamic theory. This updated edition has been revised with improved pedagogy and reorganized content to facilitate student learning, and includes new or expanded coverage in several important areas, such as hypersonic flow, UAV's, and computational fluid dynamics. - Provides con...

Jake Worthington is the kind of guy who would rather spend his nights at home with his wife and kids. Unfortunately, there's been a security breach at Factory 309 on the planet Barros which he must investigate. In the coming week, he will learn more than he ever wanted to know about the trouble with drones.

Fragments of World War Two, starting with the first Communist/Russian occupation of Lithuania, June 15, 1940, then the supposed liberation and occupation by the Nazis, June 22, 1941, and then the mad dash with the retreating German army to bombed out Germany to escape the coming liberation by the Russians in 1944, finally surviving allied bombing in Germany, all seen through the eyes of a young boy. The exodus itself, the bombings, the raw survival in bombed out Germany, and finally being ...

The book contains a structured collection of complete solutions to all relevant plane contact problems. Classic profiles – such as the cylinder, the wedge, or the rectangular flat punch – are considered under centric and eccentric loading, but also a variety of other technically relevant shapes, such as the flat punch with rounded edges, the wedge with rounded tip, or wavy surfaces. With regard to the load configuration, adhesive and non-adhesive normal contacts, tangential contacts, and r...

This practical breakthrough introduces a robust framework for family and couples therapy specifically designed for working with difficult, entrenched, and court-mandated situations. Using an original model (the System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances, or SOFTA) suitable to therapists across theoretical lines, the authors detail special challenges, empirically-supported strategies, and alliance-building interventions organized around common types of ongoing couple and family conflicts...

Jake Worthington is the busy president of the largest manufacturer of smart weapons in the solar system. Frankly, he would rather be at home with his wife and kids, enjoying a more leisurely life. When someone decides to kidnap him and take him to another planet, he's put in the line of fire until he can figure out why some members of his company are suddenly losing their minds.The books in this series:FACTORY 309: THE TROUBLE WITH DRONES,THE TROUBLE WITH MINDS

In such a collection, readers can expect a diverse array of tales that reflect the rich cultural tapestry of the Eastern world. These stories may include myths, legends, fables, and fairy tales passed down through generations, each offering insights into the beliefs, values, and traditions of the cultures from which they originate.Themes explored in "Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers" could encompass love, honor, courage, wisdom, and the eternal struggle between good and evil. Readers ma...

Blog 1: A blog about my cancer journey the second time around. It speaks of feelings, fears, great and not-so-great days, too-many tests, good and bad results, frustrations, truths, embarrassing moments, happiness, sadness, anger and depression. Come take this hard, funny and sucessful journey with me! Blog 2: A blog about my dating life. It first began in my 50s, but ended up including my early dating life. It is full of funny stories, love, romance, hurt, anger, deceit and a wonderful se...

The Repair Manual for Uncle Sam and America is written to cut through the infinite mass of psycho-babble that has been thrown at the American people for decades. Thousands of books and articles have been written to analyze our problems, yet with all that verbiage we have not fixed anything. Today we are broke and in debt, we have wasted our wealth on needless wars, our drug problems have not abated, our prisons are overcrowded, illegals mooch off our system, our health care system is broke...

More than 7 billion people inhabit the earth and all of them are subject to aging. This book is aimed at persons interested in a molecular explanation of how our cells age. Human Longevity: Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Bioenergetics, Molecular Biology, and Evolution is built on the proposition that we age as our mitochondria age. It suggests a revised vers