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Her father wants her dead... just because she has magic. For generations, her family has dedicated their lives to ridding the world of the scourge of magic. So when Fee discovers she has magical powers, there's only one thing she can do - she has to run, or she'll end up dead by her own father's hands. These days, she's hiding not only her real name, but also her magic. She lives an isolated life, researching robotics in a high-tech lab. Sometimes, she wishes her magic could make her feel happy, instead of a bone-crushing fear. When she meets super-smart engineer Henry - on loan to her lab from the Jolly-Knight Carnival - sparks fly. Except Fee knows she can't risk getting too close. It's not safe for either of them. But when her family finds her unexpectedly, Henry might be the only person between her and certain death. Now Fee and Henry are desperately trying to evade an enemy who never, ever gives up - and whose only goal is to eliminate Fee. Another exciting instalment from the thrilling world of the Dark Carnival. Join Henry and Fee on a roller coaster ride of fun, romance and adventure...
Enthusiasm amongst international development agencies about harnessing the potential of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for development has generated questionning of the impact and sustainability of such interventions. By presenting the findings of research specifically designed to measure impact on livelihoods, Strengthening Rural Livelihoods offers new evidence for the development benefits of ICTs. The book asks if ICTs enabled farmers to sell beyond local markets and at better prices, and whether there have been social gains in linking geographically disparate households and social networks. The authors have provided significant new insights into how to overcome the challenges of mainstreaming ICTs into rural livelihoods and more effectively measuring its effects. This book will appeal to academics, civil society organizations, practitioners and students who are interested in what works and what doesn't work when applying ICTs to rural livelihoods.
In 1982, Argentina rashly gambled that a full-scale invasion of the Falkland Islands — ownership of which had been disputed with Great Britain for over a century — would put an end to years of political wrangling. However Britain’s response was to immediately dispatch a task force to recover the islands, by force if necessary. The ‘conflict’ which followed (a formal declaration of war was never given) lasted ten weeks from Argentine invasion to British liberation, the white heat of battle using 20th century technology contrasting with bitter hand-to-hand bayonet fighting in inhospitable conditions. Eyewitness accounts by the participants of both sides, and islanders, leave us in no...
Nanotechnology is enabling applications in materials, microelectronics, health, and agriculture, which are projected to create the next big shift in production, comparable to the industrial revolution. Such major shifts always co-evolve with social relationships. This book focuses on how nanotechnologies might affect equity/equality in global society. Nanotechnologies are likely to open gaps by gender, ethnicity, race, and ability status, as well as between developed and developing countries, unless steps are taken now to create a different outcome. Organizations need to change their practices, and cultural ideas must be broadened if currently disadvantaged groups are to have a more equal position in nano-society rather than a more disadvantaged one. Economic structures are likely to shift in the nano-revolution, requiring policymakers and participatory processes to invent new institutions for social welfare, better suited to the new economic order than those of the past.
A history of the former Padgate Training College, from its beginnings as an emergency training college for male students at the end of World War II. It covers the College's change in status to a permanent college for female students in 1949, its growth and redesignation as a college of education in the 1960s and its merger with the former Art College and Technical College in Warrington to become a constituent part of the new North Cheshire College in 1979. Also described are its change of title to the Padgate Campus (Higher Education) of the Warrington Collegiate Institute in the 1990s and its current position as the Warrington Campus of the University of Chester.
The rise of collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer systems, and not-for-profit social enterprise heralds the emergence of a new era of human collectivity. Increasingly, this consolidation stems from an understanding that big-banner issues—such as climate change—are not the root causes of our present global predicament. There is a growing and collective view that issues such as this are actually symptoms of a much more vicious, seemingly insurmountable condition: our addiction to economic, consumption, and population growth in a world of finite resources. Nanotechnology and Global Sustainability uses nanotechnology—the product of applied scientific knowledge to control and utilize matt...
Documents a project in which all parts of an ailing 170-year-old tree felled in the National Trust's Tatton Estate in Cheshire were distributed to over 70 designers, artists and makers in Great Britain to be turned into artistic products.