A ‘travel guide’ to the periodic table, explaining the history, geography and the rules of behaviour in this imagined land.
The Periodic Kingdom is a journey of imagination in which Peter Atkins treats the periodic table of elements – the 109 chemical elements in the world, from which everything is made – as a country, a periodic kingdom, each region of which corresponds to an element. Arranged much like a travel guide, the book introduces the reader to the general features of the table, the history of the elements, and the underlying arrangement of the table in terms of the structure and properties of atoms.
Atkins sees elements as finely balanced living personalities, with quirks of character and certain, not always outward, dispositions, and the kingdom is thus a land of intellectual satisfaction and infinite delight.
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Author: Peter Atkins Publisher: Orion ISBN: 9781780227702 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2013 176 pages
The Real Life Story of One of America’s Most Notorious Drug Lords
A suspenseful memoir from the real life American gangster, Frank Lucas
In his own words, Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. From being taken under the wing of old time gangster Bumpy Johnson, through one of the most successful drug smuggling operations, to being sentenced to seventy years in prison, Original Gangster is a chilling look at the rise and fall of a modern legacy.
Frank Lucas realized that in order to gain the kind of success he craved he would have to break the monopoly that the Italian mafia held in New York. So Frank cut out middlemen and began smuggling heroin into the United States directly from his source in the Golden Triangle by using coffins. Making a million dollars per day selling “Blue Magic”—what was known as the purest heroin on the street—Frank Lucas became one of the most powerful crime lords of his time, while rubbing shoulders with the elite in entertainment, politics, and crime. After his arrest, Federal Judge Sterling Johnson, the special narcotics prosecutor in New York at the time of Lucas’ crimes, called Lucas and his operation “one of the most outrageous international dope-smuggling gangs ever, an innovator who got his own connections outside the U.S. and then sold the narcotics himself in the street.”
This powerful memoir reveals what really happened to the man whose career was dramatized in the 2007 feature film American Gangster, exposing a startling look at the world of organized crime.
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Author: Frank Lucas; Aliya S. King Publisher: St. Martin’s Press ISBN: 9781429923859 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
The Life And Times Of A Decorated Member Of The U.S. Navy’s Elite Seal Team Two
“Fractions of a second in time. What amazing violence can be meted out in the blink of an eye.”
In the mid-nineteen sixties, Harry Constance made a life-altering journey that led him out of Texas and into the jungles of Vietnam. As a young naval officer, he went from UDT training to the U.S. Navy’s newly formed SEAL Team Two, and then straight into furious action. By 1970, he was already the veteran of three hundred combat missions and the recipient of thirty-two military citations, including three Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart.
Good To Go is Constance’s powerful, firsthand account of his three tours of duty as a member of America’s most elite, razor-sharp stealth fighting force. It is a breathtaking memoir of harrowing missions and covert special-ops—from the floodplains of the Mekong Delta to the beaches of the South China Sea—that places the reader in the center of bloody ambushes and devastating firefights. But his extraordinary adventure goes even farther—beyond ‘Nam—as we accompany Constance and the SEALs on astonishing missions to some of the world’s most dangerous hot-spots . . . and experience close-up the courage, dedication, and unparalleled skill that made the U.S. Navy SEALs legendary.
Includes 8 Pages of SEAL Team Action Photos!
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Author: Harold Constance; Randall Fuerst Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 9780062358103 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2014 448 pages
Safety critical and high-integrity systems, such as industrial plants and economic systems can be subject to abrupt changes – for instance due to component or interconnection failure, and sudden environment changes etc.
Combining probability and operator theory, Discrete-Time Markov Jump Linear Systems provides a unified and rigorous treatment of recent results for the control theory of discrete jump linear systems, which are used in these areas of application.
The book is designed for experts in linear systems with Markov jump parameters, but is also of interest for specialists in stochastic control since it presents stochastic control problems for which an explicit solution is possible – making the book suitable for course use.
From the reviews:
“This text is very well written…it may prove valuable to those who work in the area, are at home with its mathematics, and are interested in stability of linear systems, optimal control, and filtering.” Journal of the American Statistical Association, December 2005
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Author: O.L.V. Costa; M.D. Fragoso; R.P. Marques Publisher: Springer London ISBN: 9781846280825 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2006 287 pages
“Original, funny, and romantic, this is the series that YA fans have been waiting for.” –Nocturne Reads
With power comes enemies. Lots of them.
Hunter Garrity just wants to be left alone. He’s learned the hard way that his unusual abilities come at a price. And he can’t seem to afford any allies.
He’s up to his neck in hostiles. His grandfather, spoiling for a fight. The Merrick brothers, who think he ratted them out. Calla, the scheming psycho who wants to use him as bait.
Then there’s Kate Sullivan, the new girl at school. She’s not hostile. She’s bold. Funny. Hot. But she’s got an agenda, too.
With supposedly secret powers rippling to the surface everywhere around him, Hunter knows something ugly is about to go down. But finding out what means he’ll have to find someone he can trust. . .
Praise for Brigid Kemmerer and The Elemental Series
“Magic, suspense, and enough twists to keep you reading until sunrise. An incredible start to the series!” –Award winning author Erica O’Rourke
“A refreshingly human paranormal romance. . . Read fast and keep that heart rate up.” –Kirkus Reviews on Storm
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Beatrice Cenci was executed in Rome in September 1599: she was said to be sixteen, and was hauntingly beautiful. Her crime was the murder of her father, a member of one of the greatest Roman families, but his cruel treatment of her, including incestuous rape, moved the people of the city to take her side.
Weeping crowds lined the streets, and a special mass is still said in Rome on the anniversary of her death. She was at once innocent and guilty, the victim and the perpetrator of appalling crimes. From that time since, the ambivalent image of Beatrice has attracted writers and artists, and often their obsession with her fed their own self-destruction. In this compelling study, Belinda Jack takes on the dangerous challenge of bringing Beatrice to life, and of tracing her power over those who tried to resurrect her, from the tragedy of Shelley to the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, from the sculpture of Harriet Hosmer and the photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron to the desperate drama of Antonin Artaud.
As we follow the stories of their lives and ambitions, we see how they suffered critical condemnation for their works about Beatrice, and were sometimes pushed to the brink of insanity. Her story, which is one of lust, passion and violence, contains a powerful sense of the forbidden, the taboo that drives people over the edge. Beatrice’s Spell is at once scholarly and utterly engrossing, carrying the power of her story through time.
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Author: Belinda Jack Publisher: Random House ISBN: 9781446402504 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
Alice
COULD BE ANYONE.
Alice
COULD BE SOMEONE YOU KNOW.
Alice
USES DRUGS.
With over a million copies in print, Go Ask Alice has become a classic of our time. This powerful real-life diary of a teenager’s struggle with the seductive — often fatal — world of drugs and addiction tells the truth about drugs in strong and authentic voice. Tough and uncompromising, honest and disturbing — and even more poignant today — Go Ask Alice is page-turning and provocative reading.
Author: Publisher: Simon Pulse ISBN: 9780689832499 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
Marriage has never been easy. But sometimes it takes surprisingly little to yield infinite rewards. This eye-opening book by marriage experts Nancy Cobb and Connie Grigsby contains humorous and profound true stories of turning points in marriages. From brushing her teeth at a different sink to letting her husband finish his sentences, each woman’s story expresses the staggering impact that simple actions can have on marriages everywhere. More fulfilling relationships, expanded ministry opportunities, and a more intimate walk with God await the readers of this book when they see how God’s best for their marriages may be just one small decision away.
Sometimes the smallest thing can turn a marriage around!
When Nancy Cobb and Connie Grigsby asked women about the best thing they ever did for their marriages, the responses were daringly honest.
Here are fifty eye-opening, often humorous true stories—including contributions from Cynthia Heald, Dee Brestin, Rosemary Jensen, and Donna Otto—that will inspire you with moments that build stronger marriages. Bring down walls between you and your husband Adjust to differences in your personalities Deal with the damage and heartbreak of betrayal Go on living when everything goes terribly wrong
God’s best for your marriage may be one small decision away!
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Author: Nancy Cobb; Connie Grigsby Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group ISBN: 9780307564320 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 2010 272 pages
The professional helper should be a teacher, a mentor, a motivator and a guide to assisting the helpee find solutions to her life situations. Most clients have within themselves the answers to most if not all of their life situations; quite often, what they need is someone to assist them in sifting through and evaluating the various possible responses to the situation. The objective of The Professional Helper is to provide a basic understanding of various kinds of helping relationships and characteristics that an effective helper must possess. In this book, the terms helper and counselor are used interchangeably and also refer to numerous other helpers such as social workers, case managers, and rehabilitation specialists. Although this book primarily discusses helping from the standpoint of being a formal professional process, this should not be interpreted to mean that informal helping is less important than professional helping. The fact is that it takes both types of helpers for humans to survive. While some texts attempt to classify helpers by certain professions and/or academic and license/certification, this text is more concerned with identifying the qualities, both personal and professional, that the helper should have in order to be an effective helper. Such qualities include integrity, compassion, self-confidence, patience, availability and, most relevant, being an effective listener. Readers will be given suggestions in detail for becoming an effective listener, such as asking questions, observing body language, listening for logic and the tone of one’s voice, and listening to the responses to your questions. Other topics include understanding cultural differences and disabilities, as well as understanding the differences of individual and family counseling. The Professional Helper will be a beneficial text to counseling students, as well as social work students, human resource students, psychology students, sociology students and human relations students.
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Author: Willie V. Bryan Publisher: Charles C Thomas ISBN: 9780398079888 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2009 220 pages
Development and Change of Outlook from the 19th to the 20th Century
In this year of bicentennial celebration, there will no doubt take place several cultural analyses of the American tradition. This is only as it should be, for without an extensive, broad-based inquiry into where we have come from, we shall surely not foresee where we might go. Nonetheless, most cultural analyses of the American context suffer from a common fault – the lack of a different context to use for purposes of comparison. True, American values and ideals were partly inherited from the European tradition. But that tradition is in many ways an inadequate mode of comparison. Without going too far afield, let us note two points: first, European culture was the proud inheritor of the Renaissance tradition, and, going back still further, of classical culture; second, the European countries are compact. Their land masses are such that the notion of “frontier” simply would not have arisen in the same way as it did in America. On the other side of the globe, however, there does exist a country capable of serving as a suitable mirror. We speak, of course, of Russia. That country also came relatively late onto the cultural horizon, and was not privy to the Renaissance tradition. Furthermore, her land mass is such as to be “experi mentally infmite” in character – not unlike the American frontier. It is hoped that much can be leamed about the present cultural context by com paring the two countries in their youthful stages.
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